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Sheafer + King Modern is pleased to present our Spring Art + Design auction. The auction features paintings by important Indiana artists Will Henry Stevens, Eugene Savage, and Bruce McKain as well as works by Charles Cajori, Gaston Lachaise, and Tod Lindenmuth. Design objects include rare F.A. Porsche Artemide pendant lights & a Martz table. The auction also includes Asian ceramics, carvings, art glass, etc.
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Lot 108

Edmund Brucker "Arch N. Bobbitt" Oil on Canvas Portrait Painting

Estimate: $100 - $500
Current Bid
$50

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1960s oil on canvas portrait painting by Indiana artist Edmund Brucker (American; 1912-1999). Portrait depicts Arch Newton Bobbitt, who served as a justice on the Indiana Supreme Court from 1951 to 1963. Signed lower left. 1961 exhibition stamp from the Indiana State Fair verso. 

 

Measurements: 40" W x 48" H x 2" D (frame); 32" W x 40" H (canvas).

 

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From AskArt:

Edmund Brucker was active as a portrait painter in Indianapolis from 1938 until his death, and he recorded the likenesses of many prominent people around the state, including Dr. and Mrs. Norris Shreve, Mrs. Otis R. Bowen, and Colonel A. Weir Cook. In 1967, the artist retired from his post of almost thirty years as a professor at the Herron School of Art. Brucker represented a dwindling group of Indiana artists whose rigorous artistic training prepared them for the exactitude of portrait painter.


He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1912. He studied art at the Cleveland School of Art and graduated in 1934. His teachers included Henry Keller, Rolf Stoll, and Paul Travis. In 1938, Brucker joined the faculty of the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he taught until his retirement in the early 1980s.

Scratch in painting above signature. Light abrasion with small paint flecks missing near face. 

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