Artist:  Susan Gertrude Schell (1891-1970 Philadelphia, PA)


Title:  The Reluctant Land


Size: 14" x 16"


Medium/Surface/Period:  Oil on canvas, c. 1937-1941


Signed: (lower right) S. Gertrude Schell


Labels:   (various, verso frame and stretchers) Click on photos                   below.


Inscriptions:  See photos below.


Condition:  Superior Estate


Restoration: None 


Frame:  A silvered gesso over wood Arts and Crafts style frame with incised geometric decoration, by Ben Badura. Note: Badura's signature is missing but compare framer's label handwriting (photo below) to that pictured on Bron Janulis' blog.




Exhibition:  The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group                           1917-1945

                  Exhibition Itinerary:

                    1998:

                   Galleries at Moore; Moore College of Art and Design- Philadelphia, PA

                           Westmoreland Museum of American Art- Greensburg, PA

                           Museum of Art- Fort Lauderdale. FL

                          1999:

                          The Old Jail Museum- Albany, TX

                          Concord Art Association- Concord, Massachusetts

                          James A. Michener Art Museum- Doylestown, PA


Illustrated:  The Philadelphia Ten: A Women's Artist Group                           1917-1945 by Page Talbot and Patricia Tanis                             Sydney, 1998, Galleries at Moore and American Art Review Press                                  plate 82 page 138 


Provenance:  Mr. Roy Wood, Jr., Pennsylvania

                    Mr. and Mrs. Robert Zeiders, New Jersey 


Price:sold



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