Ben Messick
(1891-1981)
"Vortex II"
Mixed media including gouache, pastel, and pencil on paper
Signed with the estate stamp in red pigment at lower right: Ben Messick; blind embossed (twice) in the lower image/sheet corners: "Estate of / Ben Messick / 1891-1981;" titled on a gallery label affixed to the frame's backing paper
Image/Sheet: 30" H x 22" W

Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Velma Hay-Messick, the artist's widow
Sullivan Goss An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA, no. 107352
Jeff Olsen Collection, Newport Beach, CA

Other Notes:
Velma Hay-Messick (1902-2001) was an artist who specialized in oil painting and married Ben Messick in 1949.

Overall good appearance. Slight remnants of old tape residue in five places, as well as three old linen hinges, at the verso of the upper sheet edge. Inscribed in ballpoint pen along the verso of the upper sheet edge: "Property of Velma Hay Messick." Minor surface soiling, verso. The sheet is loose, not matted, within its frame.

Framed under glass: 37" H x 29.625" W x 1" D
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