Description
Painter and lithographer, Theodore Polos (1901 in Mytilene, Greece – 1976 in Oakland, California). Polos studied with Constance Macky at the San Francisco Institute of Art and with Xavier Martinez at Oakland’s College of Arts and Crafts and he was a member of San Francisco Art Association. During the 1940s and 1950s he taught at both schools as well as the San Francisco Academy of Advertising Art.
Polos worked on and off for the San Francisco Federal Art Project between January 1937 and October 1940, working mainly on the Easel Project. While working for the FAP he spent three to four months on the Lithography Project where he worked on about a dozen stones. He abandoned lithography in the late 1930s. He is most well known for Modernist-leaning landscape. His works are often semi-abstract.
Polos’ works were included in the San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural, the 1939 New York World’s Fair, the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition, Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), Art Institute of Chicago, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Riverside Museum in New York, Phillips Memorial Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Carnegie Institute Invitationals.
This work flows masterfully with color and texture and is signed on the back.
