AW435: John William Kennedy - Abstract Nude - Oil on Board

John William Kennedy (American, 1903-1996) - Abstract Nude - Oil on Masonite Board. Signed and dated 1987 lower right.  Dimensions: Sight 21 1/2" x 36"; Frame 27" x 41 1/2" Provenance: With Clars Auction Gallery COMMENTS: J. William Kennedy (b. 1903, Cincinnati, Ohio-d.1996, Clearwater, Florida) was a graduate of the Cincinnati Art Academy and Carnegie Tech, a Fellow of the Tiffany Foundation in New York and received his Masters Degree from The University of Illinois.  J. William Kennedy had a long and prolific painting and teaching career.  His early years were spent painting at the artist meccas of the Nineteen Twenties.  In those times of challenging travel, he had studios in Provincetown, Cape Cod, Paris and Concarneau, France, Taormina, Sicily, Taos, New Mexico and Manitou Springs, Colorado.  For work in the US, he carried canvasses and supplies cross country in his early Chevy.  Europe was reached by steamship and traveled by train.  He crossed France by bicycle.  Canvasses were