Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas, 1969, signed and dated at lower right, framed.
Stretcher size 18 1/2 x 26 in.; Frame dimensions 24 x 31 3/4 in.
The Estate of the late Dr. Larry Southworth, Fredericksburg, Virginia Sidney Eugene King was an American painter and illustrator educated at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Vesper George School of Art, the Copley School of Art, the Federal School of Minneapolis, and the Massachusetts School of Normal Art. King was the first artist to introduce oil paintings in an outdoor environment for the National Park Service. His works can be seen in most national parks east of the Mississippi River and at the Virginia Baptist Historical Society at the University of Richmond.
Light grime, minor warping to the frame, and separations to the stretcher, needs to be re-stretched.