Metropolitan Mirror And Co 1936
1936 Round Bow Mirror
Located in Charleston, SC
the back “July 1936 metropolitan mirror and glass co.”
Category
Vintage 1930s American Rococo Revival Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Wood, Mirror
Mid Century Modern Clown print, hand signed 144/250 Russian born American artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in New York, NY
graphite on the front
34 x 27.5 inches
Unframed, affixed to matting
Published by American Color Slide Co
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Pencil
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Lone Horse ( Artist Proof), 1940s American Modernist Portrait of Horse Print
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
their senior year were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1933 yearbook. At East they studied art with
Category
1940s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Dawn, Semi-Abstract Mountain Landscape, Multi-colored Watercolor Painting
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
she and Jenne contributed their art talents to the school’s and by their senior year were co-art
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
H 28.5 in W 36.5 in D 1.5 in
Distant Country (Semi-Abstract Mountain Landscape: Purple, Gold, Green, Brown)
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
and Jenne contributed their art talents to the school's and by their senior year were co-art editors
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
H 25 in W 22.75 in D 1.75 in
Mountain Lake (Abstract Colorado Landscape in Green, Gold, Red, Purple, Orange)
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
art talents to the school's and by their senior year were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1993
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
H 20.25 in W 25.5 in D 1.25 in
Two Horses, 1960s Framed Semi Abstract Tempera Painting Figural Horses Landscape
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
and by their senior year were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1933 yearbook. At East they studied
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Tempera
H 10.5 in W 20.5 in D 1 in
End of the Meadow, 1970s Abstract Colorado Mountain Landscape Tempera Painting
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
Jenne contributed their art talents to the school's and by their senior year were co-art editors of the
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera
H 30 in W 41.5 in D 2.25 in
Quiet Water (Landscape with Pond)
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
and by their senior year were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1993 yearbook. At East they studied
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera
Morning Clouds, 1970s Semi Abstract Mountain Landscape Tempera Painting
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1933 yearbook. At East they studied art with Helen Perry
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
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Category
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Materials
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Category
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Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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By Max Pechstein
Located in New York, NY
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Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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Ethel Magafan for sale on 1stDibs
Ethel Magafan Born Illinois, 1916
Died New York, 1993
Jenne and Ethel Magafan were identical twins, born in Chicago to a Greek immigrant father and a Polish mother. Due to health concerns about their father, the family moved to Colorado, living first in Colorado Springs and then in Denver. He was a proud supporter of their artistic ambitions but died suddenly 1932, a heavy blow to both of them. They attended East High School in Denver, where they found a mentor in their art teacher Helen Perry. She had studied at the Art Institute of Chicago but had later abandoned a career as an artist, making her all the more determined to help the Magafan twins succeed artistically.
While still in high school, the twins impressed artist Frank Mechau, and Helen Perry paid for their lessons with him. He subsequently invited them to apprentice with him at his Redstone studio. In 1936, Jenne won the Carter Memorial Art Scholarship and shared it with her sister so that they both could attend the Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs. Once they ran out of money, Mechau, now teaching there, hired them as assistants. Through their involvement at the Academy, the twins entered into careers as muralists, working at first with Mechau and then with Peppino Mangravite.
From 1937 to 1943, Ethel was commissioned to paint her first of seven government sponsored murals. Located in the US Post Office in Auburn, Nebraska, this commission made Ethel (at age 26) the youngest artist in America to receive such an honor. Denver Art Museum director Donald J. Bear once commented that “[Ethel and Jenne's] study of local detail makes them appear as little Bruegels of ranch genre – natural and unforced.”
As mural painting commissions diminished, Ethel began to do more easel painting for which she used a palette knife and tempera paints to great effect. After settling in California for five years, the twins permanently relocated to Woodstock, New York in 1945, where the sisters lived apart for the first time. Ethel developed an increasing focus within her work, particularly for horses and abstract landscapes. She met fellow artist Bruce Currie at an artist’s party, and the two were married in 1946.
The twins and their husbands went to Greece and Italy for a year when Jenne’s husband and Ethel were granted Fulbright Scholarships. Upon their return, Jenne died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage — a loss that Ethel would mourn deeply. With her sister gone, her landscapes became much more abstract, as she sought out the feeling of the scene rather than an exact representation. During the mid-fifties, she began to make annual trips to Colorado. Her stature within the art world was solidified in 1971 when the United States
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