By Lumen Martin Winter
Located in Hanover, MA
Two monumental framed reverse paintings on plexiglas sheet by American muralist, Lumen Martin Winter, of fantasy medieval/renaissance jousting tournament.
"Queen of the Tournament" and "Ramparts of Mont St. Michel".
Priced individually.
Each is over 8 feet tall by 5 feet wide.
Lumen Martin Winter (American, 1908-1982) "The Tournament," 1960, triptych of oils on plexi-glass. Each framed panel is: 98" x 63", one panel signed.
The one titled "The Tournement" with the jousting knights has been sold. Two panels are remaining.
Lumen Martin Winter, America's most reknowned muralist, spent his childhood in western Kansas, on his father's ranch, which stood along the Santa Fe Trail. Listed in "Who's Who in America," and "Who's Who in American Art, "the celebrated artist still remembers noticing the ruts from the wagons in the ground and asking his father about them. His father said, "That is the Santa Fe Trail!"
The place stayed in young Winter's mind. After attending the Cleveland School of Art, the National Academy of Design in New York City, serving as an artist with the U.S. Signal Corps in the Air Force in WW II, working as a cartoonist and designer, Lumen Winter went to Santa Fe to settle in 1939.
The next 39 years were to catapult Lumen Winter into the forefront as America's most renowned muralist and artist.
His work, described by Paris art critic in The Paris Moderne...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Plexiglass Paintings
