TED SETH JACOBS (American, 1927 - 2019). Four works: "Woman Reading a Book," "Central Pak, NY," "Folded Hans," and "the Violinist Alexander Schneider, 1950", Selection of four hand drawings including figure studies, a landscape, and a portrait. The two figure drawings; one of clasped hands , rendered in warm, reddish-brown sanguine on tinted paper, focusing on the anatomy and the interplay of light and shadow; and a relaxed figure study of a person reclining with an open book, executed with expressive charcoal and white chalk highlights on a brown paper. A landscape sketch with subtle touches of color to depict an arched bridge and surrounding foliage, with a distant building in the background. Lastly, the vibrant portrait of a violinist rendered in a looser style with gouache. All are framed individually. None were examined out of frame.
ARTIST PROFILE: TED SETH JACOBS studied under F. V. DuMond from 1943 to 1947, and has won numerous awards since that time. He has exhibited at the Springfield Massachusetts Museum, Fairleigh Dickinson College, Randolph Macon College, The Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis, The Westmoreland County Museum, Pennsylvania, and has had one-man shows at The Wickersham Gallery in New York, St. Vincent's College, Latrobe Pennsylvania, Rolling Rock Estates, Ligonier Pennsylvania, and the Fisher Galleries, Washington, D.C. His second drawing show "Portraits in the Theatre" is currently at The Drawing Shop. Six still-life subjects were recently selected by Mrs. Nancy Kefauver to be exhibited abroad under the Art in the Embassies Program of the State Department. His work is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, The Finch College Museum, and in leading collections throughout America. . Estimate $200-300
