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Controlled Power

Artist:Tyrone Comfort
Date:1935
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 23" x 27 1/2" Framed 28" x 32 1/2"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Art Supplement for The L.A. Herald & Express; Oct. 19, 1936
Price: S O L D
Above: Full view of oil on stretched canvas painting
Above: The artists signature and date lower left

A strongly rendered, machine age/industrial revolution inspired modernist 1935 oil painting by Thomas Tyrone Comfort, used as the cover for The Los Angeles Herald-Express; Oct.19, 1936. Comfort worked as an art deco-era muralist and illustrator. His work evokes the spirit of the WPA movement, his brilliant career was cut short in 1939 when the artist passed away at the young age of 30.

Above: Full view of oil painting in fine gallery frame
Above: Verso label
Above: Frame profile detail

Born in Port Huron, Michigan, Thomas Tyrone Comfort (1909-1939) studied art with Walter Barron Currier and Leo Katz. His work hangs in the White House and the work pictured below is part of The Smithsonian Institutes permanent collection. He also did a mural for the State Board of Business Education in San Diego.

Above: “Gold Is Where You Find It” C. 1936 In The Smithsonian Collection

Controlled Power

Artist: Tyrone Comfort
Price:  S O L D

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1930s, american, art deco, Los Angeles Herald-Express, machine age, modernist, pulp, science fiction, streamline, The Golden Gallery, Tyrone Comfort, WPA
Added to Gallery: September 10, 2008

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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