AW248 - Francis de Erdely - Resting Workers - Oil on Board

TITLE:  Resting Workers 

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 COMMENTS:  Francis de Erdely  (Hungarian/American 1904-1959). Signed (lower right) de Erdely.  This painting dates to 1935.

     Francis de Erdely was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1904 and grew up during the first World War.  Prior to immigrating to the United States in 1939  de Erely studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Budapest, The Academy of San Fernando in Madrid, and at the Sorbonne and at the Louvre in Paris.  Through the next decades he exhibited at the Corcoran, the Carnegie Institute, the de Young Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

     De Erdely taught at the Netherlands Art Academy in The Hague, at the Pasadena Museum School, and from 1945 until he died, at the University of Southern California.  He was a principal figure in the West Coast Modernist school.
     De Ederly is represented in every major museum in California, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His works are in the collections of the de Young Museum, the Cranbrook Academy the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.