Lee Gatch (American, 1902-1968) "Table Owl," oil and collage on canvas. Signed lower right. Label en verso for World House Gallery, New York, dated 1959. Sight: 25 in. H x 21 in. W. Frame: 32 1/2 in. H x 29 in. W. Biography: Lee Gatch was born outside Baltimore and studied at the Maryland Institute of Arts, and in France at the American School at Fontainebleau and the Academie Modern in Paris during the mid-1920s. He was influenced by teachers Andre Lhote, as well as by the work of Andre Derain and Pierre Bonnard, and Gatch became known for an abstract style that incorporated elements of Post Impressionism, Cubism, and Symbolism. He returned to the U.S. and had his first solo show in 1932 and exhibited in the Venice Biennials of 1950 and 1956. He was inducted into the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1966. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; the Phillips Collection; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Overall good condition. A few scattered small stains up to 1/4 in. 

The collection of Ronnie Steine, Nashville, by descent from his parents, David and Peggy Steine, who purchased it about 1961 from World House Gallery.