Doris Rosenthal (1889-1971) American, Lithograph. 1946 lithograph titled 'Night Train' and numbered 32/73. Pencil signed in the lower right, titled and numbered in the lower left. Doris Rosenthal is known for Mod genre, landscape, still life painting. Few American painters have as an adventurous spirit as Doris Rosenthal. Fearlessly and alone she has traveled to the remotest Indian corners of Mexico in search of material, not merely for her paints, but to feed that spirit of freedom and exaltation out of which good art has always been distilled. For many the more direct story of her personal adventures, both physical and spiritual, would quite likely be fully as exciting as her canvasses, into which she has poured the essence of her experience. Most American painters who have felt the "Mexican urge" have been trapped into sterile limitation of such native masters as Diego Rivera or Clemente Orozco, or they have been too easily duped by picturesque or the bizarre. But Doris Rosenthal's paintings has remained wholly original and more basic, and though the setting, when she is not concerned with American themes, may be unusual, she has remained so close to the warm realities of simple everyday life, wherever she has found herself, be it in New York or the jungles, that she immediately bridges, without losing the essential quality of alien incidents, the gulf of geography, race and culture that separates us from our southern neighbors. The deepest enjoyment of her paintings comes not so much from the novel scene as from the human warmth, the universality of the emotions and acts she portrays, plus her shrewd organization of theme, her rhythmic design, her strong but subdued colors, and her skillful brushwork. Her sincerity, honesty and knowledge are well fused in nearly every canvas. Overall Size: 17 1/8 x 13 1/8 in. #5221 Location BOX 11