WPA Artist Agnes Mills Heron Batik Painting

Fine Art : Batik : Agnes Mills : Herons

 

"Agnes Mills is still one of the very best of the WPA Artists", according to the members and officers of the WPA Artists Association. WPA Artist Agnes Mills (n.1917-d.2008) was appointed to the projects right out of Cooper Union and was immediately assigned to projects that are now in the Library of Congress and the Metropolitan Museum. The index of American Design, for which she made drawings, is in the Smithsonian. She painted a mural for the Brooklyn museum and later went on to paint Post Offices and other public buildings all over the US. In the fifties, while preparing for her first "one man" show at the prestigious Alfredo Valente Gallery in Manhattan, Henryk Heydenryk, whose frames adorn some of the world's greatest art treasures , was so impressed by Agnes Mills that volunteered to make the 20 very expensive frames that she required for her show in exchange for one of her bronzes. Agnes Mills credits continued with her dance series: the Nikolais Dance Group, Alvin Ailey, Martha Graham, Paul Taylor, and Murray Lewis. On the day before her death this year, at age 91, she painted a water color. This is an important batik painting - one in a series of herons painted by Agnes Mills. Measures 20" by 14". Gorgeous colors. Marked Herons, Triptych on the back, along with the size of the painting, the negative number and apparently the location in which it was to be hung. In excellent condition and signed by the artist in the lower right. CONSIGNCS.

Item ID: VIN1204