Lot 950: Sterling Strauser Narrow Blue Floral Painting plus Self Portrait

1st Item: Sterling Boyd Strauser (American, 1907 – 1995), oil on board, slender vertical still life painting depicting a dark green vase of flowers set against a blue-gray background. Signed “Strauser ’90” upper right. Housed in a gilt shadowbox style frame with painted black interior edges, with gilt fillet and ivory linen mat. Sight: 24 in. H x 8 in. W. Framed: 31 3/4 in. H x 15 1/8 in. W. 2nd Item: Self-Portrait drawing, marker on textured paper, housed under plexiglass in a gilt wooden frame with black mat. Sight: 11 in. x 8 1/2 in. W. Framed: 19 3/4 in. H x 17 1/4 in. W.

CONDITION: Painting with slight mat spotting. Drawing: some creasing to paper. Not examined out of frame.