Mae Alice Engron (American, 1933-2007), Four Portraits

Oil on cardboard, each signed at lower right, unframed.

Each approximately 23 x 23 in.

Mae Engron was a Black expressionist artist born in Indianapolis. After injuries ended her career at the U.S. Postal Service, she earned a degree from the Herron School of Art in 1984 at age 42. Engron developed a distinctive process-driven style using poured ink and oil paint to create dynamic, color-focused abstractions inspired by nature, as well as occasional figurative works aligned with neo-Expressionism. Her work was exhibited locally and nationally, including at Herron, Gallery Tanner in Los Angeles, and later in posthumous retrospectives, and is held in major public and private collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Indiana State Museum.

Some general wear to the cardboard.