This colorful midcentury modern painting might be the artist’s conception of a golf course layout but that is just a guess on my part. I acquired this painting with a frame which the seller had together with the painting. Although the seller had them together the painting on its wood stretcher was not inserted in the frame at that time. Also, writing which is present on the rear of the frame may have referred to some prior work which was once held by the frame rather than to this midcentury modern painting. The writing on the frame reads “To Round Lake (near Alderwood Golf Links) by Clyde Leon Keller.  I did a cursory look on the internet for the location of Alderwood, but I am not sure where it is or what golf links that writing was referencing. There is a road in the San Francisco Bay Area named Golf Links Road, but this frame writing may not have concerned the name of a road but instead just another manner of mentioning a gold course near or named Alderwood.  The writing on the rear of the frame also indicates that the frame once held a work by Clyde Leon Keller, who was a listed artist who died in 1962.  Although the lifespan of that person extending into 1962 could work for this piece, images of works by that listed artist which I looked at on the internet all were traditional landscapes with nothing similar to this painting, so I tend to believe that the frame was previously used by a work by Keller and that work was removed with the frame then utilized for this piece by some other artist. Whether this piece nonetheless could be interpreted as a golf course scene in some abstract manner, there is one blue area which could represent a lake or water feature of a course and something else which looks similar to a large swimming fish. There are some small printed letters in a few places on the front as shown in a few listing photographs which conceivably are the name of the actual artist but I am not sure about who that is and do not attribute this work to or represent that it is a painting by any specific artist. Also, I have not yet located a date on this painting indicating when it was made but in my opinion it may have been executed in the 1960s-1970s or perhaps somewhat more recent than that, but it has a certain amount of age to it. I don’t have any further information about the artist or concerning the history of the painting.

The painting is completed in oil on canvas attached with staples to a wood stretcher. The dimensions of the stretcher are 18 inches high by 24 inches wide. The painting and stretcher are inserted in a wood frame with outside edges which measure about 20 1/4 inches high by 26 3/8 inches wide.

The condition of the painting is good with no scratch marks, chips, holes or torn areas. There are some fingernail size areas in the yellow outer edges both on the top and bottom sides near the near the center where it looks like some diluted liquid got on the canvas. I am not certain but the light brown dots do look as if they were caused by drops or splashing of some brown color liquid. The light green areas almost directly opposite on the other side of the painting look less like they were caused by some drops from a paint brush or otherwise, and instead more apt to be original to the creation of the painting. I have not attempted to clean or wipe off any of those various brown or green areas and do not know if they are flaws which can easily be removed or not. The painting and stretcher are in a wood frame which has a brushed on surface which is a mix of light brown tending a bit in the direction of teak and other areas which are more of a mustard or lighter tan. The frame is in generally good  condition except that a couple abrasions resulting in some small lighter spots in the surface finish at the bottom middle on the raised outer edge of the frame, a triangle notch gouge about 3/16 inch deep and 3/8 inch to 1/2 inch wide in that same bottom raised outer frame edge a bit to the left of the two abrasion spots, and two small places in the lower left frame corner where white paint got on the brown/tan surface of the frame. If a purchaser is inclined to continue to use this same frame, the purchaser might elect just to touch up the triangle shaped notch in the frame wood by using a small dab of wood putty to level it with the frame edge surface and then cover that filled notch with a wipe or two using a cloth dipped in a restore type product to bring the wood putty color more in line with the rest of the frame.   

This painting with its vibrant use of shapes and colors has an appealing appearance with one can interpret in many ways including the golf course layout I indicate it suggests to me.

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