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Three (3) small drawings by Meyer Wolfe (Tennessee/New York, 1897-1985). Includes 1 drawing of three row houses, with several figures engaged in leisure activities along the stoops and sidewalk, signed and dated 1940 lower left (Sight: 5 1/2 in. W x 3 in. H, Frame 10 in. x 8 in); 1 street scene depicting crowded tenement houses in the shadow of a church steeple (Unsigned, Sight 4 1/2 in. H x 4 in. W, Frame 8 in. H x 7 1/2 in. W); and 1 sketch or study of a nude, standing couple, signed lower right and dated 1942. (Sight: 4 1/2 in. H x 2 3/4 in. W, Frame: 9 in. H x 7 in. W.). All items matted and framed under glass. Note: Meyer (“Mike”) Wolfe was born into a Jewish Lithuanian immigrant family and raised in a low-income, racially diverse neighborhood in Nashville just north of the Tennessee State Capitol. (The neighborhood was cleared in the 1950s under a series of Urban Renewal projects). In 1918, Wolfe moved to New York and met Ashcan School painter John Sloan, whose influence is reflected in several of Wolfe’s scenes of working-class neighborhoods such as these.
PROVENANCE: The estate of the artist’s nephew, Dr. Lawrence Wolfe, Nashville, Tennessee.
CONDITION: All with degrees of toning to paper and to mats, slight wear to frame, overall good condition.
