AW3-005: Razel Kapustin Abstract Watercolor on Paper

Razel Kapustin Abstract Watercolor on Paper. Signed and dated 1947 lower right

Dimensions: Sight 14 5/8" x 21 1/4"; Image 14" x 20 1/4"; Frame 20 1/2" x 26 1/2"

Comments: Razel Kapustin (Born 1908 Ladizhen, Russia; Died 1968), came with her family to the United States, settling in Philadelphia. She studied at the Barnes Foundation and with artists in Mexico. A longtime instructor at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, she participated in exhibitions at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She was known for modernist still life, genre, allegory and figure painting, lithography and teaching.