Artwork of the Day!! Sun, Mar 6, 2022, is by Helen Bruton (1898-1985): "Three Hound Dogs", mosaic, ca. 1939. $2,500.00.
Artwork of the Day!! Sunday, March 6, 2022, is by Helen Bruton (1898-1985). Another work in a series honoring Women's History Month
"Three Hound Dogs" is a mixed media work, a mosaic on board with colored glass by California Modernist artist Helen Bruton, done around 1939. The mosaic measures 16-1/8 x 22-7/8" and is titled and signed "H Bruton" in black pigment on the verso. The work, in the modern frame, weighs about 12 pounds. Our inventory number is MJ391
This rare colored glass mosaic by Helen Bruton (1898-1985) is available from the gallery for $2,500.00. Please contact the gallery with any questions. Time payments can be arranged. Shipping costs will be discussed. California residents will have sales tax added. Out of state residents may be responsible for use tax, depending on state law.
This Modernist glass and mixed media mosaic was done by California artist Helen Bruton around 1939 depicting 3 "hound dogs" according to the title on the verso.
In 1933, Helen began working in mosaic; she and her sisters Margaret and Esther collaborated on a mosaic project for the exterior panels for the Fleishhacker Zoo Mothers Building in San Francisco. This project was under the auspices of the Federal Art Project, WPA.
In 1936. again for the WPA, created a 10 x 20 foot mosaic, "Sculpture and Dancing" for the University of California, Berkeley, located on the east exterior of the old University Art Building.
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Helen Bell Bruton (1898-1985), printmaker and mosaic muralist, was born in Alameda, California on February 7, 1898. Helen had two older sisters, Margaret and Esther. Both sisters were artists and they probably influenced Helen to follow their lead. Helen first studied art at the University of California at Berkeley. World War I interrupted studies and Helen and her sisters joined in the war effort by working at the Letterman Hospital in San Francisco.
After the war, Helen moved to New York to attend the Art Students' League where she studied with sculptors Stirling Calder and Leo Lentelli. In 1925, Helen joined her sisters in Paris to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. They all returned to work and live in California.
Helen produced a limited number of etchings and block prints in her career. She joined the California Society of Etchers and the Progressive California Painters with whom she exhibited. Her work was also included in the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939. Helen died in Monterey, California on November 16, 1985.
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