Sold, Choose With Your Heart Part XIII
Missouri Farm, 1970
Roger Medearis (1920 - 2001)
Tempera on board
16 x 24 inches
Signed lower left: MEDEARIS; on verso: MISSOURI FARM / 16” x 24” / PAINTED IN EGG TEMPERA / (WITH ACRYLIC POLYMER EMULSION) / PAINTED ON HARDBOARD PANEL WHICH HAS / BEEN COATED WITH ACRYLIC GESSO. / VARNISHED WITH “LIQUITEX SOLUVAR.” / 1970 Roger Medearis / MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA
16 x 24 inches
Signed lower left: MEDEARIS; on verso: MISSOURI FARM / 16” x 24” / PAINTED IN EGG TEMPERA / (WITH ACRYLIC POLYMER EMULSION) / PAINTED ON HARDBOARD PANEL WHICH HAS / BEEN COATED WITH ACRYLIC GESSO. / VARNISHED WITH “LIQUITEX SOLUVAR.” / 1970 Roger Medearis / MONTEREY PARK, CALIFORNIA
Provenance
Private collection, Massachusetts
Sale, Eldreds Auction Gallery, East Dennis, Massachusetts, April 6, 2019, lot 830
Note
After a decades-long hiatus from painting, Medearis began a new career in the late 1960s. Painted shortly afterward, this work embodies his regionalist style, shaped by his instructor Thomas Hart Benton (1889–1975).