Oil on plywood, signed at lower left, retaining two exhibition labels on the verso, presented in a later ebonized and gilt frame.

SS 35.5 x 31.5 in.; DOA 39.5 x 35.5 in.

From the Collection of Mr. Jonathan P. Alcott, Raleigh, NC

Exhibited:
Scent of the Pine, You Know How I Feel: North Carolina Art from the Jonathan P. Alcott Collection, Longwood Center for the Visual Arts, Farmville, Virginia, June 20 - October 18, 2014 (illustrated in the accompanying catalogue). This exhibition traveled to the North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh, NC, September 10 - December 4, 2016.

Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, New York World's Fair, 1939.

Born in Michigan, Kenneth Ness studied in Detroit and Chicago. The present painting was completed after finishing his studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. By 1941 he was the Carnegie Resident Artist at UNC-Chapel Hill. Despite a military post during WWII, Ness remained in Chapel Hill, retiring from the university in 1973.

Professional conservation treatment report by Colin Post of Asheville, NC affixed to the verso.

$500 - 1,000