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8z006 ROBERT TAYLOR 16x20 color display 1940s wonderful portrait by Ernest Schuessler!

Date Sold 9/12/2019
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A Color Display (measures 16" x 20" [41 x 51 cm]) (Learn More)

Robert Taylor (born Spangler Arlington Brugh) was a handsome leading man from the 1930s to the 1960s, who barely seemed to age! He was born in 1911 in Nebraska, and in high school he was a star athlete, a cello player, and a debate champion. He intended to become a musician, but in college he joined a theater group and he was given lead roles. In 1934, he was signed by MGM to a contract, and the next year he had his big break in the first version of "Magnificent Obsession", opposite Irene Dunne. The following year, he starred opposite Greta Garbo in "Camille", and he was a great favorite with female moviegoers. He remained with MGM for 24 years, interrupted by a 4 year stint in the U.S. Naval Air Corps during World War II. In the 1930s, he raised and bred race horses! From 1939 to 1952, he was married to Barbara Stanwyck, and from 1954 until he passed away he was married to Ursula Theiss. Because he aged really well, he was able to play leading roles until the end of his career, when he switched to TV. Taylor passed away in 1969 at the age of 57.
Artist: Ernest Schuessler
Important Added Info: Note that Ernest Schuessler was a Milwaukee painter who was hired by a theater in his area to do 16" x 20" color displays on canvas of famous stars, which they displayed in the entrance to the theater when they showed movies with those stars. He worked from at least the mid-1930s to the mid-1960s, and we don't know how many of his works survive. We have been consigned seven of his color displays, which we are auctioning in seven separate auctions. All seven were originally mounted to stretchers, but five of them were removed from the stretchers at a later time, no doubt due to space limitations when they were being transported. Any of those five could easily be re-mounted to a stretcher, if the new owner desired. Two of the color displays have the artist's signature and the others do not, but they are all the work of the same man. We were unable to find additional information about this fine artist! This is one of the two color display that is still on the original stretcher (see our images).

UPDATED 09/09/2019: Note that since we listed this "oil painting" (and other similar ones), we were contacted by several people who point out that these "oil paintings" look different than regular oil paintings. The biggest difference is that there appears to be some sort of paper that was attached to the canvas that the artist then painted on. Some people have suggested that the "artist" may simply have taken color photos and glued them to canvas and then performed paint enhancements to those photos, and perhaps put varnish over the entire image to give it the appearance of an oil painting (and two people told us that this was done by a number of artists in the time period in which these were created). We can't say for certain about the above, but these are definitely not "oil paintings", but they ARE definitely vintage from the years that we say, but beyond that we don't know more, so please consider all of this when bidding. They will display well on the new owners wall in spite of not being oil paintings!


Condition: very good. As noted above, the color display is still attached to the stretcher. See our image to get a good sense of exactly the condition the color display is in.
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