September 2005 Fine Art and Antiques Auction
Lot 79. Ohio landscape. Oil on canvas, signed and Dated "May Ames 1930" on the lower right corner, framed in wood gilt frame. Image size approx. 11-1/4" x 17-1/2", framed overall approx. 16-1/4" x 22-1/2". Born in Cleveland, May Ames was an accomplished painter. She studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence as well as abroad. She was a member of the Cleveland Womans Art Club and the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors. She worked as a teacher and a lecturer as well an a painter. Examples of her art are preserved at Mt. Pleasant School in Cleveland, and in murals at the Childrens Tuberculosis Hospital in Cleveland.
600.00/900.00 Sold $3,766.25