Authentic Frank Whipple Surreal Two Limes Oil on Wood Board Painting

Frank Whipple
SKU:
701081
$395.00
Width:
5.00 (in)
Height:
5.00 (in)
Depth:
0.13 (in)
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Authentic Frank Whipple Surreal Two Limes Oil on Wood Board Painting

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Artist: Frank Whipple

Painting: Two Limes

Age: Mid 20th Century 

Medium: Oil on Wood Board

Size: 5" x 5"

Condition: Only minor wear near edges. Overall great condition!

 

About the Artist:

Frank Whipple (1923-2016) was an American Still Life and Surreal artist from California.

In the early 1960s, after turning his amateur enthusiasm for painting into a vocation, he began producing the small-scale works he called “Whipple’s Wimples.” Executed in oil on board, on a miniature scale of 5 inches by 5 inches, they depicted groups of nuns, always seen from behind, in comic situations: playing tick-tack-toe on a wall, smoking cigarettes furtively behind a barn, wandering into a bar with a “Spirits” sign over the entrance.

Over more than half a century he turned out thousands of nun paintings, attracting the patronage of Hollywood luminaries like Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Henry Fonda and John Wayne.

 

Sold as is. Great for collectors!

 

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