Here is an outstanding 1952 pastel by the listed Maine modernist artist, Arthur A. Thompson (1907-1988).

It is an unique work of art, signed with initials on the front A. T. 52

An abstract work of pastels depicting leaves etc. on what looks like a brown paper bag

Here is a brief biography of Arthur Thompson from the litchfieldgallery.com: Arthur Thompson, one of Maine’s great 20th century modernist was first educated in architecture at Harvard University, and MIT during a time when large building and school complexes were changing the face of Bangor Maine he worked as a designer for Eaton W Tarbell Association, planning and supervising public buildings, such as the recreation center and Bangor high school. Free hours were devoted to experimentation in the visual arts working out of doors, where the changing aspects of nature required the accuracy of a quick media. Thompson was influenced by John Marin. A fellow architect/artist who captured the coast of Maine in watercolor. Thompson moved on to his mature full-blown color art work in oil pastels in the 60s creating scenes in his home in Sorrento Maine and the nearby shoreline of. Schoodic Point and Mount Desert Island. Four exhibitions of his work, arranged by the university of Maine in Orono have made his name, synonymous with the expansion of crayon and pastel strokes into heroic size drawings. Although he often returned to his favorite site to draw each piece captures the energy of that particular moment in time. His architecturally trained eye, translated life into line and color, with an awareness of geometry of planes, and the two dimensional surface of the paper, taking a cue from the father of modernism, Cezanne.

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23” x 21”

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