Ronald Shap | untitled figure painting
Original gouache and ink nude figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Torso of man with arm raised in moody washes of brown, red, dull yellow and burgundy. 18x12 inches on paper. Signed. Unframed.
Original gouache and ink nude figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Torso of man with arm raised in moody washes of brown, red, dull yellow and burgundy. 18x12 inches on paper. Signed. Unframed.
Original gouache and ink nude figure painting by celebrated, twentieth-century California impressionist landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Torso of man with arm raised in moody washes of brown, red, dull yellow and burgundy. 18x12 inches on paper. Signed. Unframed.
About the artist
Ronald Shap was born in Toledo, OH and lived most of his life in California. The brother of acclaimed portrait artist Sylvia Shap, he was a scholarship award graduate at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1964 and completed graduate study in painting at the University of Nebraska and Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1967. He was a visiting artist and instructor at BGSU in 1973-74 and worked out of his Los Angeles studio and taught drawing and anatomy at Citrus College until his retirement in 2005.
Condition:
Item comes directly from artist's estate. No prior owners, but has been sitting in storage. No flaws to note
