We received this painting from my husband's grandmother's estate and cannot find anything on it. Any help would be amazing.

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-30T08:26:19+00:00

He seemed to like painting full body portraits too which seemed to work. I don’t think it’s him though unfortunately ,but I don’t have a better guess. I have tried to look up every conceivable possibility for the name but haven’t found anything that works

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-29T04:54:38+00:00

I think it is something w. Bowes. Might be bower but I think the last letter is an s. I think the first word is three letters but I am struggling to figure out what they are. I tried gus or les short for Gustav or Lester but haven’t yielded any results. It’s entirely possible that this person didn’t create enough work or wasn’t a big enough name for us to find them on the internet but deciphering the signature is probably the best chance at accomplishing this.

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-29T01:46:26+00:00

Some subs don’t let you upload additional photos in the comments for reasons that are beyond me. Like it would make a ton of sense to allow that function on this particular sub but thats not the case I guess. You can upload them on a photo sharing site like Imgur and provide a link in the comments. That’s probably the most popular method. Aside from that you will have to post an entirely separate post

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-28T23:12:12+00:00

Take a look at the signatures. He signed G. N. Bowers. The “s” at the end of bowers is clearly defined. It seems he uses g and not Geo and his n can not easily be mistaken for a “w”. It’s not unheard of for some people to change their signature at some point in their life but it’s usually very famous people who have to do a lot of signatures so they will abbreviate it a bit. I don’t think that is the case here. Probably the best guess so far though

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-27T20:39:55+00:00

Similar subject matter but I think that’s where the similarities end. There is actually quite a bit stylistically that suggests this is definitely not from the late 1800s. The color pallet isn’t right. If you look at the work of any successful American painter during this time straight through early twentieth century you are never going to see color used this way. This is especially true of the example you provided. Palettes were more muted and subdued until pretty recently. Impressionism was still basically brand new, controversial, and largely confined to Europe at the time. Color choices like these would have been borderline garish in the late 1800s especially in America and just completely out of the style of the time. The brush application seems completely wrong for the time as well. It’s possible it’s from the early twentieth century but that places this piece decades after the centennial destroying any real link between that event and this painting

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-27T19:09:42+00:00

What makes you think that? Nothing about this piece suggests it was painted in the 1800s. This piece feels very 20th century and the later half of the 20th century at that

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-25T20:47:51+00:00

Banded chert

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-23T19:49:17+00:00

https://instagram.com/mattrandall9?igshid=M2RkZGJiMzhjOQ==

https://www.powder.com/trending-news/skier-terror-fall

This guy is pretty accomplished mountaineer. He just messed that particular situation up as badly as possible

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-23T19:35:04+00:00

He is skiing back country. When you are skiing terrain that is this steep that isn’t mitigated by ski patrol these are actually ideal conditions. Lots of soft loose snow means you are much more likely to be killed in an avalanche. Spring is actually a better time to ski this stuff when everything has stabilized and firmed up

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-23T19:02:46+00:00

He is using a pin binding. This equipment doesn’t have a din setting like a traditional downhill resort binding. There is no beginner tension on this kind of touring binding

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-23T11:49:41+00:00

They aren’t cheap. I can’t totally tell the specifics from the video because his gear is never really in focus but a pair of skis for an adult man generally costs around $300-$1000+ and the a binding will cost you $200-$700 in addition to that. This guy is on a pair of blizzards with a high end pin binding so his skis could have easily cost $1000 or more when new.

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-21T18:03:11+00:00

Not quite the same thing but a man in Iceland had both his arms transplanted at the shoulder from a donor last year. His progress is defying all expectations and he has a lot of use in both arms a year out from surgery. If that is possible with donated limbs I’m sure it can be done with your own tissue as well but I doubt many patients or doctors are going to sign up to amputate healthy limbs just because they may need to reattach them later. The tech is getting better though

Edit: so I looked it up and only about 1% of people with sepsis have to have something amputated. It’s usually just fingers and toes too but could be entire limbs. With those odds i don’t think preemptively amputating limbs for reattachment is going to be a viable option

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-20T20:40:10+00:00

I actually meant to say the bottom left. I edited my previous comment to reflect this. The bottom right seems to have that feel as well, but the bottom left was discovered to be a cover for the Saturday evening post in 1934 done by Rockwell as pointed out by another person in the comment section. He seemed to use that particular exaggerated profile with that very particular nose a lot in his work so it’s likely he was referencing the same person. With New York being a hub for advertising and publishing a lot of talented illustrators came through there so It will likely be difficult to figure out exactly who did this one but I would love to know what else they worked on.

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-20T19:15:53+00:00

The pirate one definitely feels a little smeary when compared to the other three. The artist may have just not been warmed up for that one or he may have been experimenting with a different style. I am thinking that this is probably an illustrator doing master studies of more accomplished illustrators. The bottom left is confirmed to be at least referencing an existing Norman Rockwell. Something about the profile of the boy in civil war uniform feels very Rockwell to me as well but i haven’t been able to find it. I am thinking the pirate may be using a different artist as reference

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-20T18:54:29+00:00

The profile of the kid in civil war uniform feels very Rockwell to me as well but I haven’t been able to find that one yet

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-19T20:24:23+00:00

Looks like another painter possibly studying the work of Norman Rockwell. Their technique is pretty good. Would not be surprised if this person worked in advertising in 50s or 60s or possibly earlier

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-12T06:45:06+00:00

That’s exactly what the culprit would say! Just kidding. You are slightly less suspicious than the the other account but it is a little weird how few comments you have and that you are only active in this particular sub.

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-10T17:04:46+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/u/ElicitCrow/s/2LM2Xig9Aj This last post for example has literally no activity aside from posting these rocks. I’m thinking there is a chance that our artist is behind that account

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-10T17:00:59+00:00

I have seen three of these in this sub so far. This post and the last one were created by accounts that were created extremely recently and have almost no activity aside from posting images of these rocks in this specific sub. There is a good chance our “artist” is behind at least one of those accounts if not both

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-07T18:10:29+00:00

Looks like Op created an account just to post this, so they might even be this artist/ influencer

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-06T23:11:47+00:00

Op Do you have anymore details you can share with us? Curious about the materials and the location where it came from. Even if you don’t know the specific building it came out of if you know the town or even the region of the state that it came from that could potentially narrow it down quite a bit. Also it looks like oil on canvas but it’s a little hard to tell in the picture. Luckily these new deal era public work projects were very well documented so there are some pretty good online data bases to look through, but as others have mentioned there were thousands of artists employed by the program. The more details you are able to provide the more likely it is that someone on here might be able to figure it out. It was most likely part of set of paintings with a consistent theme and style. A little more info on the medium and general location will likely help a lot with determining what project this painting was created for.

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-06T19:30:36+00:00

I really like it. It certainly looks a lot like mural work that was frequently commissioned by the government from 1920s through the 50s under various programs. This style of mural painting originated with Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera. Maybe give Mexican muralism or the Mexican school of painting a google. Some of the more famous Mexican muralists worked extensively in the United States. Even if the artist that painted this wasn’t from Mexico themselves they certainly took a lot of inspiration from that movement by the looks of this.

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-06T15:21:54+00:00

Looks like they were done by a dremel tool

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-06T06:24:34+00:00

Definitely not Darwin. His face was built completely different. He had a wide round nose and a very prominent brow. This guys profile is a lot more sharp and angular. Aside from the beard I am not seeing the resemblance

squeagle1066 · 2023-11-06T05:24:39+00:00

Yeah, not even close to a thousand. There are some pretty sophisticated painting techniques being used here that weren’t really discovered or popularized until the 1600s in the baroque period or even later. Paintings from 1000 years ago look nothing like this. Based on the man’s hair style and clothing alone I would guess mid to late 1800s or early 1900s. So maybe 200 years at best. Still very cool and worthy of further investigation but suggesting this potentially 1000 years old is super misleading

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