Hassel Smith, Bird Lover, 1957. Oil on canvas.
Collection of San Jose Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds contributed by the Museum’s Collections Committee with additional funds donated by the Starbird Family, in memory of Carolyn Starbird and her amazing service to the San Jose Museum of Art.
Hassel Smith is one of the most under-appreciated American painters of the post-war era. A nice Ana Davis story recounts how the San Jose Museum of Art is remembering Smith’s life and work. (He died late last year at age 91.) The SJMA has installed a memorial show and it has just acquired Bird Lover (1957). [Read more…]
