STUYVESANT van VEEN (American, 1910-1988), "Evins Shoes", 1953, factory original ithograph.

Image size: 12 X 8.7 inches. Signed with the initials monogram in the plate, printed on pinkish-gray faux-laid paper, without margins. Published in "Improvisations", the annual, fundraising publication for the Artist Equity Association consisting of original lithographs advertising for New York based corporations. Published in conjunction with the annual masquerade ball held at the Hotel Astor in New York City, edition 2000. Fine condition. Free shipping to US address.
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The last photo is the text on the justification page of the compendium.

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Stuyvesant Van Veen, a painter who created allegorical and other social realist-style murals in courthouses and other public buildings around the United States, died Saturday, May 28, 1988 at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan. He was 77 years old.

Mr. Van Veen emerged on the art scene in 1929, at the age of 19, when he became the youngest contributor to an international exhibition of modern paintings at the Carnegie Institute, in Pittsburgh.

A native of New York, Mr. Van Veen studied at several art schools, including the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League, where he worked with the muralist Thomas Hart Benton.

Among Mr. Van Veen's best-known works is a series of seven murals in celebration of the Brooklyn Dodgers, a series that still exists in the lobbies of the Ebbets Field apartment complex in Brooklyn. He also painted works at the New York World's Fair in 1938, and at the Wright-Patterson air base in Fairborn, Ohio, in 1945.

From 1949 to 1975, Mr. Van Veen also taught painting and drawing at City College of New York. In 1972, he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.

He is survived by his wife, Felicia, of Manhattan, and by a stepdaughter, Eloise Segal, of Manhattan.
(source: NY Times Obituaries, June 3, 1988)

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Stuyvesant Van Veen was born in 1910 in New York City. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Design from 1927-28, the National Academy of Design (1929), the New York School of Industrial Art, City College of New York (graduated in 1931) and the Arts Students League with Thomas Benton (1933-34). His art career was varied and included positions as stage designer, research associate in anthropology at Columbia University (1935-38), book illustrator and muralist. He taught private classes from 1930 to 1941 and was appointed by the faculties of the Cincinnati Art Academy (1946-49) and the City College of New York (1949-75).

His commissions include mural for the Pittsburgh Post Office, the New York World's Fair (1939), the factory Philadelphia Municipal Court Building and the Ebbets Field Apartments, Brooklyn (1963). During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army Air Force and designed a mural for the world headquarters of the Air Service Command at Wright Patterson Air Base in Fairfield, Ohio.

His work is represented in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the New York Historical Society; the New York Public Library; Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts, NY; the Columbia University of Anthropology Archives; the Syracuse Museum of Art; the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences; Ohio University; Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ; Newark Museum, NJ; New Jersey State Museum; and others. He died in 1988. (source: ExceptionalArt.com)