Oil Paint, Canvas

Yellow, blue, and light green toned abstract sunset painting by Houston, TX artist Lamar Briggs. Landscape oil painting depicting abstracted gestural strokes with a rendered white full moon in the middle of the canvas. Signed by artist in the bottom left. Framed in a thin gold frame.

Lamar Briggs (1935-2015) was born in Lafayette, Louisiana and attended the University of Southern Louisiana, the University of Houston and graduated from the Colorado Institute of Art, where he was inducted into their Hall of Fame in 2005. Lamar’s work is internationally acclaimed and he was listed in “Who’s Who in American Art” since 1962. Among the many honors he received was the “Ford Foundation” award in 1963, juried by Alexander Calder, James Brooks and James Johnson Sweeney. Briggs was given the award at the Annual Houston Artists Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas.

H 48.75 in. x W 36.75 in. x D 1.31 in.

H 47.75 in. x W 35.63 in.