Oil on linen, signed at lower right, retaining the artist's label and gallery label to verso, presented in an ebonized and gilt edge floater frame.

Stretcher size 18 x 24 in.; Frame dimensions 20 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.

Scottsdale Fine Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
From the Collection of the late Mary Ellen Dryden, Chapel Hill and Pittsboro, North Carolina
Private Collection, North Carolina

After a long career as secondary school teacher, Lee Alban studied painting at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. His work has garnered numerous awards in every genre, including the prestigious Gold Medal Award from Allied Artists of America and the Excellence in Still Life Award from Oil Painters of America. He has attained signature memberships in the Oil Painters of America and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society. He is also an elected member of the Allied Artists of America and American Artists Professional League. He is designated as an Associate Living Master by the Art Renewal Society.

Best known for his contemporary realist paintings, he has exhibited frequently with the International Guild of Realism as well as the Salmagundi Club and the Allied Artists of America in New York.

Good estate condition.