Bror Alexander Utter (Texas, 1913-1993), seated male in harlequin garb with table and fruit behind, oil on masonite, signed lower right

sight: 22 x 17 in., frame: 28 x 22.5 in.

Provenance: Property from a collection in Fort Worth, Texas

Bror Utter was a Fort Worth artist who studied under Sallie Gillespie and Clinton Blair King and later attended the Fort Worth School of Fine Arts, where he studied with Wade Jolly. In 1940 he earned a scholarship to study at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and became a full-time painter around 1951. He created a notable series of architectural landmark paintings for the First National Bank of Fort Worth and taught at Texas Wesleyan College and the Fort Worth Art Center. Utter exhibited widely across Texas and nationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute, and the Brooklyn Museum, and he had numerous one-man shows. He won many awards, including prizes at the Texas General Exhibition, the Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition, the Texas Watercolor Society, the Dallas Print Exhibition (purchase prize), and the State Fair of Texas. His work is held in major collections such as the Dallas Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.