MID-CENTURY MODERN GOUACHE SKETCH
By Elizabeth Erlanger

THIS IS A CUSTOM-FRAMED GOUACHE SKETCH BY THE AMERICAN PAINTER ELIZABETH ERLANGER (1901-1975.)  IT WAS DRAWN BETWEEN 1950 AND 1954 ON APPROXIMATELY 4×6″ HEAVY PAPER STOCK.
This is a 5 1/2″ x 8 3/8″ original, custom-framed gouache sketch by Elizabeth Erlanger ,an accomplished American painter, printmaker, and art lecturer. The sketch is representative of her work in the early to mid-1950s.  Itis in excellent condition, mounted and framed.  Erlanger was a graduate of the Academy of Music in Baltimore, attended the Students League in New York and studied with Ralph M. Pearson, Umberto Romano, Jean Liberte, and Hans Hofmann. From 1963 to 1965 she was president of the American Society of Contemporary Arts and as the liaison officer between the United States Commission of the International Art Association to the United States National Commission for UNESCO between 1964 and 1968..

Erlanger was a member of and exhibited with the Audubon Artists; the American Society of Contemporary Artists (president from, 1963 to 1965); the Society of American Graphic Artists; the National Society of Painters in Casein (executive board member from 1960 to 1969). and served on the executive board of the National Association of Women Artists). She had twelve solo exhibitions and her work was included in the National Association of Women Artists juried exhibits in Greece, Japan, Argentina, Scotland, and France. She. received the first special citation awarded to a woman for outstanding civic achievement in the arts from Governor Rockefeller of New York State in 1966. Her work is represented in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Society of Painters in Casein awards an annual prize in her name.  This gouache is a fantastic example of her work.

CONDITION” EXCELLENT