"Confirmation". Oil on thick pebbleboard, signed in the lower right corner, dated '50, approx. 14" x 10", not framed. The pretty young girl, the picture of innocence, carrying a bouquet of flowers and wearing the traditional white dress and veil stands in front of a stone archway. She wears a crucifix suspended from her right wrist.
Born in Malvern, Ohio, Clyde Singer has become known as a regionalist painter. He was fascinated by the unending variety of people he saw every day; people at carnivals, relaxing in bars, shopping on urban streets, celebrating holidays, or looking at artwork in a gallery. In 1933, he was awarded a scholarship to the Art Students League in New York. His mentors included John Steuert Curry, Thomas Hart Benton, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Ivan Olinsky. In the Social Realist style of the Depression, he painted in some of the same locations as George Bellows and John Sloan. In fact, he painted many scenes of the interior of McSorley's famous saloon as a backdrop that Sloan had depicted. His work is often compared to that of Reginald Marsh. Some of his figures almost appear to be a "snapshot" of the "man on the street". In 1940, he accepted a job from Joseph Butler III, director of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. Singer there continued his career as a painter, teacher and a permanent resident artist for over 50 years.
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