I did a post on my Phoenix Daily Photo site about this painting last year after I saw it at the University of Arizona Art Museum in Tucson. I immediately fell in love with the painting. The artist is Minda Hess who was born in 1906 and that is pretty much all that I've been able to discover about her. A search found three other paintings attributed to her that appear on auction sites but I can find no biography of the artist herself. Even her date of death is unknown. It's like she simply disappeared.
The painting is called "Le Grande Place" and it was painted in 1958. The highest recorded price ever paid for one of her paintings was $1,000. This particular painting was a gift to University Museum.
I simply love the painting and feel it deserves another appearance. I just wish I knew more about the artist.

 


