Hello,

Can someone please help me identify this artist?

http://www.raysreef.ca/IMG_2044.JPG

http://www.raysreef.ca/IMG_2044.JPG

Thank you

Don't have a clue did you steal that picture

Did I steal it? LOL

Actually my neighbor threw it out!

This looks like something made in the late 1960s or 1970s for a mass market. The brushstrokes are rough and quick in the background, and the shading of the body is uninspired, but carefully done. There is an attempt to ensure an accurate portrait of a person in the detailing in the face, but the facial characteristics are not rendered in an adventurous manner. I would guess that this is something one could have gotten quite readily at an artist's market or something of the sort, instead of a "high art" piece, since there are no obvious references to art historical trends or any obvious nods to any particularly definitive painting styles. The artist's first name looks like it could be "Jenny"? Or something like that?

If you got it from your neighbour, I suggest you ask him/her first about it -- chances are you'll get all your questions answered.

You are correct, it is late 60's early 70's. I spoke to my neighbor and he told me that his mother in-law had given it to his late wife about 40 years ago. I asked him why he would throw out something that has been in the family for such a long time, he said that he was fed up of seeing it.

Could be Jenny, very hard to make out.

Thanks for the reply!

Hilarious answer from your neighbour! I guess one man's meat is another's poison... It looks like something a serious amateur could have painted; pure speculation, but it might even have been something his mother-in-law had completed. Maybe that's why he got fed up of it? ;-) The way the sitter is posed suggests a live study, like the kind you would complete in an art class.