Watercolor landscape by Ohio artist Lawrence Blazey is signed in the lower left corner. Blazey attended the Cleveland Institute of Art and later returned to lecture and teach at his alma mater. Blazey was most well known for his paintings of urban areas during the 1920's through the 30's. He painted, was employed as an illustrator of advertising art, did ceramic work, enamel work, and was part of a core group of Cleveland artists who sported a bohemian existence, and later came to be the Cleveland School Artists. This painting f". tures two tall trees set against a lovely blue sky. Image size is apprx 11" x 8." Overall measures apprx 15" x 18". Verso of painting has a tag from the old Cleveland department store, The May Company, where it was most likely framed and sold as a decorative piece.
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