Donald Stanley Vogel (Texas / Wisconsin, 1917-2004), interior scene with woman in a blue striped dress with a plant and bowl of fruit, oil on panel, signed lower right, and on verso

sight: 36 x 24 in., frame: 43 x 31 in.

Provenance: Property from an estate in Carlsbad, California, originally purchased in Kerrville, Texas

Donald Stanley Vogel was a painter, set designer, lecturer, teacher and gallery owner. He was born in Milwaukee in 1917, and moved to San Antonio in the mid 1930s to study at the Witte Memorial Museum school of art under Eleanor Onderdonk. During this time, Vogel also attended classes at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. From 1936 to 1940, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and started painting full time after joining a Works Progress Administration easel project. After moving to Dallas in 1942, Vogel met Betty McLean, and together they established a gallery north of Dallas specializing in 19th- and 20th-century paintings. As a lecturer, Vogel spoke about methods and history of etching. He also wrote books about other artists including Hugh Breckenridge, Georges Rouault and Valton Tyler. Over his career, he exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago; the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh; the Cincinnati Art Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Art.