WPA*Henry Billings*Listed American Artist Original Water Color Frame Made/Artist - $3,250 - (Laurel, MD)

WPA American Listed Artist *Henry Billings* (1901-1985) Original Water Color Surrealist WPA Era Painting. Artist Signed and Artist Made Frame! Glass Front Framed! EXCELLENT CONDITION! MEASURES: Framed- 33" x 27" - Unframed- 20" x 15". PLEASE WAIT FOR INVOICE!------------------------------------------------- BIOGRAPHY: Henry Billings was a 20th century American artist. He was a painter, illustrator, muralist, and art instructor active in New York City. He was a grandson of John Shaw Billings, a surgeon and the first director of the New York Public Library.Billings attended St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York, and was a member of the Art Colony of Woodstock, New York. His painting style shows an interest in the mechanical and machinery, as well as an attraction to surrealism. During the New Deal, Billings created a number of murals on commissions overseen by the Treasury Department’s Section of Painting and Sculpture (later, the Section of Fine Arts). In 1936-37, he created a series of five murals depicting winter sports for the Lake Placid, New York post office. He also contributed murals to post offices in Medford, Massachusetts, Wappinger Falls, New York, and Columbia, Tennessee, and a striking mural of a panther which still hangs near the ladies' powder room in Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center. In 1945, Billings created a series of paintings for LIFE magazine depicting "strafing targets as they appear to the fighter pilot through the transparent rectangle of his reflector gunsight." Billings died in Sag Harbor, New York, in October 1985. ------------RETURN POLICY DETAILS: PLEASE READ! Please pay for items within 48 hours! We sell fine art and antiques and collectibles and are described in the listing and pictures are included which are part of the description. We are not a retail store and do not accept frequent returns or returns if a customer has buyers remorse or simply changes mind…

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