EARL HORTER (1881-1940) SOLD

Here is a very beautiful original vintage oil painting by the very famous Philadelphia, PA artist EARL HORTER (1881-1940). Painted on board measuring 7" X 8 1/4". Signed on the lower right "E. Horter". Professionaly framed in 1951. Was given personally to famous movie poster Illustrator / Artist Joe Smith from Earl Hortin. Joe Smith had known Earl well and studied art under him. Excellent condition. A very Rare find!!! Gorgeous color and style... VERY, VERY BEAUTIFUL!!!

HORTER, Earl (1881-1940) Death place: Philadelphia, PA

Addresses: Phila.

Profession: Illustrator, etcher, painter, collector

Exhibited: Pan-Pacific Expo, 1915 (med.); Salons of Am., 1923; PAFA, 1924-25, 1930-40; Etching Show, AIC, 1932 (prize); WMAA, 1926-46; Nat. Exh. of Prints, Phila. Print Club, 1933 (prize), 1938 (prize); Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1935-39

Member: SI, 1910

Comments: Speciality: etchings of urban scenes. An avid collector of Modernist art, he at times owned works by Brancusi, Picasso, Matisse, as well as works by Steeler, Stella, MacDonald-Wright and other American painters. During the Great Depression he began collecting American Indian artifacts. In 1999 the Philadelphia Museum of Art staged an exhibition of his own works together with works he had collected ("Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection").

Sources: WW40; Marlor, Salons of Am. cites 1885 birth date; Falk, Exh. Record Series; Grace Glueck,"An Eclectic Collection is Back Under One Roof," New York Times, May 1999.

This biography is drawn from the "Who Was Who in American Art" , the reference book on the cultural life in the United States.