Jeanne Billfaldt

"Elizabeth Anne" Abstract Portrait Painting, 1945

SOLD

Material

Oil

About`

Impressionist portrait painting of a woman. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. The painting is framed in a dark wooden frame.

Artist Biography

Jeanne Billfaldt was born in 1920 and grew up in Houston, Texas, and studied art at the Houston Museum, the University of Houston, the University of Tulsa and the Art Students League in New York City. Billfaldt was a painter of still life and figural subjects; she was particularly interested in the ballet. She also produced monoprints pulled from glass and white-line woodblock prints. Billfaldt exhibited early in her career, in the 1940's-50's, at the Houston Museum, the Texas General, the Southern States Art League and the Texas Fine Arts Association. She supplemented her income with a painting conservation business. In 1992 Billfaldt moved to Asheville, North Carolina, where she lived out her life, continuing to paint and restore art. She passed away in 2002.

Dimensions

H 27.25 in. x W 21.5 in. x D 1 in.

Dimensions without Frame

H 24 in x W 18 in. x D 1 in.
Jeanne Billfaldt "Elizabeth Anne" Abstract Portrait Painting 1945