149: EDWARD LANING (1906-1981) EXHIBITED WORK ON PAPER

Edward Laning (1906-1981)
High Place Near Santa Fe (Second quarter of the 20th Century.)
The work in mixed media on paper is signed lower right front. A Whitney Museum of American Art exhibition label remains verso. Laning's works are held by the Whitney and others.

He was a prominent American painter and muralist trained at the Art Students League of New York under John Sloan and Kenneth Hayes Miller. Unlike this landscape, he is most known as a realist style centered on urban life and social commentary. A New Deal program artist, his major public commissions include murals at Ellis Island, the New York Public Library, and Union Station in Ogden, Utah. A respected educator, Laning taught at the Art Students League and the Kansas City Art Institute.

The exhibition, and thereby this work, predtae 1954 when the Whitney moved to West 54th Street.
Sheet measures 14H x 20W inches.
Very good condition, no damage, punctures, tears or repair.
$800 - $1,200