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Frank Wallace (VT 1918-2003) Archive

Sold for $325 at Merrill's Auctioneers & Appraisers on Sep 30, 2022.

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Frank Wallace (Vermont 1918-2003) Archive collection of Frank Wallace, Vermont artist, studies, watercolors, oil pastels, pencil and pen on paper. Contains portfolio, seven sketchbooks, with Vermont landscapes, portrait, nude and abstract and architecture studies. Wallace was a political radical and was blacklisted in the mid 1950s and left the country for a number of years. He lived in Europe, studying and spending time with well known contemporary artists such as Demetrios Galanis. He sold pieces to a number of high society collectors throughout the world, including Nelson A. Rockefeller and Hazel Guggenheim McKinley. His work is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in Paris and Vienna. ex Lapine Collection

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