"Angry Tiger", finished 1955. Gouache on paper, signed "Paul Travis" on the lower left corner and inscribed on back of paper. Framed and matted under glass. Image size approx. 19-1/2" x 25-1/2", framed overall approx. 27" x 33". Paul Travis was a leading artist in his native Ohio. He studied art at Cleveland School of Art, served in the Army in World War I, and remained in Europe for several years where he taught art at American universities. In 1920, he returned to Ohio to teach at the Cleveland School, renamed in 1940 the Cleveland Institute of Art, and remained there until 1948. In 1927, he traveled extensively in Africa and used that subject matter for many years in his painting.
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