This is a signed original painting on board by noted artist Nathan Gluck (American 1918-2008). Titled "The Man Who Could Not Speak or Hear", the painting features a seemingly rock sculpture of a man against a brick and green curtain backdrop. Signed on the lower right corner and dated August 31, 1939.
Born in New Jersey, Gluck was an artist, designer and illustrator who achieved acclaim as Andy Warhol’s principle studio assistant from the early 1950s through the mid-1960s in Warhol’s pre-Pop commercial art studio. Gluck played an instrumental role in helping to shape and create many of Warhol’s most famous illustrations and designs as well as his early transitional Pop pieces. He also quietly devoted his life to exploring the art of collage, creating a number of distinct bodies of work over a period of 70 years, beginning in the late 1930s until his passing in 2008. He was the quintessential cosmopolitan New Yorker, charming and erudite, and part of the first generation of LGBT artists that rose to prominence after World War II and helped transform New York City into the gay metropolis of the late 20th century.

From the Upstate New York estate of Marshall and Kay Lee. Marshall was a well known collector of Pre-Columbian pottery and a talented and well-respected book designer in the publishing industry.
8 3/4 x 7 1/8"

Wear and losses to the wood along the edges. There is a hole to the board on the right border. Check the lower right corner extending vertically.