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Submitted by: Brooke
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PLEASE HELP
I have a very strange piece of artwork that I cannot find anything about. It is by Ele McDonald and has 8 strange looking owls on it. The paint is raised so it has lots of texture to it. Measures 67"wide x 22" tall. Any ideas about it??
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I believe the Ele McDonald who painted this may have been an art teacher at Montera Middle School in Oakland, California in the late sixties or early seventies. I have a similar painting titled "4 On a High Wire".
Yours should be titled on the back, along with the words "Pure Acrylic" and it's likely painted on wood.
As for the value, it's extremely hard to say until more is known about the artist. Your painting and mine are the only examples of this artist's work that I've ever seen.
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Hello. The artist that created this artwork of these owls is my late mother Ele McDonald. She created many of these paintings and showed them in carmel, Red bug gallery north of SF and all around the bay area. She started painting these owls in the late 60's and this appears to be one of the first of them. I suppose it is worth several hundred dollars. They sold for about 500.00 for a 3"x4" size and up. She painted up until she developed altzheimers in the early 2000's and passed this year in Danvill,Ca. several months ago. I have a house full of her art work but only 1 of these special owl paintings. I hope you will cherish your painting for a good long time. I hope she is always remembered by these cute. whimsical owl paintings she is known for. Just to add. It is raised by white glue and then colored by acrylic paints. She was allergic to oils.
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