Joseph W. Santore (American/New York, b. 1945), expressionist oil-on-canvas painting, The Red House. An abstracted figure wears pink pants and stands in a surreal domestic setting, all rendered in vivid colors with gestural brushwork. Unsigned. With Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York label affixed to backing. Housed in an ebonized and silvered wooden frame. Sight: 41 in. H x 41 1/2 in. W. Framed: 42 1/2 in. H x 43 in. W. 1983-84. Note: The present painting is listed and illustrated on the artist's website under "Paintings 1983-90." Biographical Note: "Artist Joseph Santore is originally from Philadelphia, PA. He attended the Philadelphia College of Art, where he received his B.F.A. in 1969. He also attended the University of Arizona from 1970-1971, eventually receiving his M.F.A. from Yale University in 1973. Santore has won numerous awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fund Fellowship Grant, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in Painting, the New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and the Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship from Yale University. (Source: National Academy of Design).

Excellent condition. Not examined out of frame. 

Deaccessioned by the Hunter Museum of American Art; Edward Thorpe Gallery, New York.