'80sUS Watercolor Painting Vermont Hunter Charles Ross Kinghan (1895-1984)(KiA)

Up for sale from a recent estate in Honolulu Hawaii, this original circa 1980s US Vermont framed watercolor painting that is titled "Vermont Hunter" showing a lone figure with a rifle and a hunting dog in a snow covered landscape by the well known artist Charles Ross Kinghan (1895-1984). The painting is from the artists family. The condition is described above for more information please check the photos. Free local pick up possible!!!


Measurements:

Painting (by sight) 20 inches x 27.5 inches

Frame 32 inches x 38.5 inches


More about the artist:

Charles Ross Kinghan was born in Anthony, KS on January 18, 1895. A teacher, he moved to Wichita as a teenager and did sign painting for the Western Sign Works. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art in 1916, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Audubon School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a pupil of Carl Scheffler, J. Wellington Reynolds, and H.A. Oberteuffer.


He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was an illustrator for McCalls, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and many other
magaznes. including American Artist magazine.


He was author and illustrator of Rendering Techniques for Commercial Art and Advertising (1956) and of Ted Kautzky-Master of Pencil and Watercolor (1959). Head of the art department at BBDO Advertising Agency in New Rochelle, NY in 1962. One of the founders of the Huguenot School of Art in New Rochelle, NY. Retired in 1962 and moved to Laguna Beach, CA in 1973.


Member: Assoc. of the National Academy of Design; American Watercolor Society; Salmagundi Club; Philadelphia Water Color Club; Hudson Valley Art Assoc.; New Rochelle Art
Assoc.; Allied Artists of America.


Exhibitions: American Watercolor Society, 1949-56, 1959; Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA, 1955; one-man: Fort Worth, 1963; Dallas, 1964; Wichita Art Assoc., 1967, 1978.


Awards: New Rochelle Art Assoc., 1945, 1946, 1948, 1969; Hudson Valley Art Assoc., 1951, 1964; Salmagundi Club, 1953, 1957; and many more.


Collections: Mural at the New Rochelle, NY YMCA; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Academy of Design; Smithsonian Institution; Emprise Bank Collection.

Condition: 

The painting is overall in good pre-owned condition, with wear to the finish in places, the photos were taken through the glass and with varying strengths of flash, the painting looks better in person, the back of the painting is inscribed Vermont Hunter, painting comes from the artists family