Thomas Eldred  (1903-1993) 20th Century Michigan/New York Modernist best known for abstract painting and printmaking. Original signed oil painting on canvas Canvas: 30"x 24" Signed lower right--see photos Fair condition, in "as found" original condition, minor canvas buckling, large ding lower left, edges have wear and loss, craquelure, canvas needs re-stretching, stretcher bar marks, surface grime, unframed-- but overall in good condition for the age- please look at photos carefully.  Great looking composition by Thomas Eldred depicting a Cubist style profile portrait of a young black woman wearing a green dress. This is a fine example of Eldred's work with a fantastic subject and large in size. My price of $1299 is extremely reasonable and far below what one would be expected to pay for it in a gallery or at auction.   Please check out the other artwork in our store on ebay. We regularly feature newly acquired artwork, from antique and vintage to contemporary and modern. Select the "See other items" tab on our page. Biography:

Thomas Eldred was born in Climax, Michigan in 1903. He had an early interest in art and would doodle on the walls as a child. He studied Economics at Kalamazoo College because there was no art program at the time. Nevertheless, he put together an impressive portfolio and entered the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. His appetite for art increased and he hitchhiked to New York and attended the Art Student's League. 

Like many aspiring artists of the 1920's and 1930's, Thomas Eldred studied in New York at the Art Students League with the famous Thomas Hart Benton and Guy Pene DuBois. Eldred called Benton "a good teacher whom I liked personally." 

During the 1930's, Eldred's career as an artist progressed. He declined invitation to the famous artist's colony, Yaddo, for financial reasons and instead took a teaching position, funded by the WPA program, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In Brooklyn, Eldred met Werner Drewes, one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists group. 

During these years, the Guggenheims acquired his work for their new Museum of Non-Objective Art (now the Guggenheim Museum). He traveled to Paris and studied with William Stanley Hayter in his influential printmaking workshop, Atelier 17, along with Chagall, Jaques Lipchitz, Miro and Matta. In 1940, Hayter opened a school in the United States, where Eldred joined him again, along with such artists as Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson and Jackson Pollock. 

During the 1930's & 1940's, Eldred produced a skillful body of work, and much of it illustrates the complex position of modernist abstraction at this time. Eldred's art, engaging directly or flirting with abstraction, was eclectic. It reveals the impact of a myriad of major artists: Arp, Braque, Feininger, Kandinsky, Joan Miro and Pablo Picasso. His work can resemble that of the American artist associated with the American Abstract Artists group. It can have the structure of modern geometric abstraction or the fluidity of biomorphism. Frequently both elements cohabit his work.
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Born in Climax, Michigan, Thomas Eldred became a painter in abstract style, printmaker, and teacher who lived in Climax, Upper Nyack, New York, and Grove City, Pennsylvania where he died in 1993. He credited William Stanley Hayter as a major influence on his painting style.

Eldred studied at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students League with Thomas Hart Benton and Guy Pene duBois. From 1933 to 1938, he taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School in the WPA program.

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• Condition: Used
• Condition: Fair condition, in "as found" original condition, canvas buckling, large ding lower left, edges have wear and loss, craquelure, canvas needs restretching, stretcher bar marks, surface grime, unframed-- please look at photos carefully.
• Artist: Thomas Eldred
• Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
• Signed By: Thomas Eldred
• Size: 30"x 24"
• Date of Creation: 1900-1949
• Region of Origin: US
• Framing: Unframed
• Size Type/Largest Dimension: Canvas: 30"x 24"
• Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
• Year of Production: 1950
• Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
• Style: Modernism
• Painting Surface: Canvas
• Features: Signed
• Handmade: Yes
• Signed: Yes
• Color: Multi-Color
• Title: Woman in Profile
• Material: Oil, Canvas
• Certificate of Authenticity (COA): Yes
• Subject: Portrait, Women
• Type: Painting
• COA Issued By: EastCoastArt
• Theme: Portrait
• Production Technique: Oil Painting
• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

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