Rare Original Art Deco Lithograph “Girl in Spring” Numbered 14/16

By Maxwell Stewart Simpson (USA 1896-1984)

$1,450.00

MATERIALS:

Lithograph on Paper

DIMENSIONS:

Ibv b mage size 33cm x 41cm frame size 50cm x 67cm x 3cm

INSCRIPTIONS:

Hand Signed ‘Maxwell Stewart Simpson Girl in Spring 1936’

“A New Jersey painter etcher and lithographer Maxwell Stewart Simpson studied art at the National Academy of Design New York, today Maxwell Simpson is housed in many major American public collections including Rutgers University the New York Public Library the Art Institute of Detroit the Newark Museum and the New Jersey State Museum”

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Bio

Maxwell Stewart Simpson (USA 1896-1984) Bio

A New Jersey painter etcher and lithographer Maxwell Stewart Simpson studied art at the National Academy of Design New York He began exhibiting his art around 1920 and shortly thereafter became a member of the Chicago Society of Etchers and the Society of Independent Artists, in 1934 at the age of 37 he was included in the prestigious exhibit “a survey of American painting” at the Baltimore museum of art Simpson also had become one of New Jersey’s foremost modernist painters and in 1959 was honoured as “New Jersey Artist of the Year.” During his career Maxwell Stewart Simpson was known for his fine landscapes marines still life’s and portraits both as a painter and original printmaker Today the art of Maxwell Simpson is housed in many major American public collections including Rutgers University the New York Public Library the Art Institute of Detroit the Newark Museum and the New Jersey State Museum