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  Gianni L. Cilfone “After the Rain” Oil on canvas 1928

  GIANNI L. CILFONE (1908-1990) USA

  “After the Rain” 1928

  Oil on canvas, contemporary quarter sawn oak pegged frame with yellow gold filet.

  Signed: Cilfone, 1928 (lower left corner)

  Marks: Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Second Annual Exhibition 1928, Gianni L. Clifone, 905 South Ashland Boulevard, “After the Rain,” $500 (paper label).

  Exhibited: Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Second Annual Exhibition 1928, Art Institute of Chicago 1928

  For more information see: Who Was Who in American Art (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985) p. 115.

  Canvas: H: 30” x W: 40”

  Framed: H: 38” x W: 48”

  Gianni Cilfone emigrated with his family from San Marco, Italy to Chicago at the age of five. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cilfone took lessons from Hugh Breckenridge and John F. Carlson. His consistently won many prizes from the Chicago Gallery Association throughout the 1930s and 40s. He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon between 1949 and 1958, at the North Shore Arts Association, at the Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1919 and 1928.

   

   

   

   

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  Gertrude Burgess Murphy American Modern Post-War Reclining nude sculpture c. 1950

  GERTRUDE BURGESS MURPHY (b. 1899) USA

  Reclining nude sculpture c. 1950

  Fired and glazed earthenware on a wooden base

  Marks: original paper exhibition label (San Francisco Museum of Art, Rental Gallery); tape with the name of the artist

  For more information on Murphy see: Who Was Who in American Art, ed. Peter Hastings Falk (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 439.

  H: 5 7/8” x L: 10 5/8” x D: 5”

  Price: $11,500