Dancing Drunk, Skid Row

 

Harvey Wilder Bentley

  1900 - 1990 (biography)

1949  

sumi ink drawing with blur ink spatter 

6 3/4 x 5 1/8"  

ink, running vertically down left side of image; artist's chop lr 

1 of 1 unique 

dated 1949 & titled 

 

cream wove 

 

 

15148 

$350.00 

Harvey Wilder Bentley, known as Wilder Bentley, studied art under Porter Garnett in San Francisco, California. He started Atchetypal Press in San Francisco, around 1935. Bentley stopped printing in WWII and taught English at San Francisco State College. Bentley was a close friend of artist Chiura Obata, who taught him the art of Sumi painting with ink.