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PETER ATTIE BESHARO (1899-1960)
Atomic Power
titled 'Atomic Power' (upper right)
oil and graphite on coated canvas
15 x 27 in. (38.1 x 68.6 cm.)
Provenance
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1992.
Exhibited
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia, High Museum of Art; Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery; Columbus, Ohio, Wexner Center for the Arts; New York, Museum of American Folk Art, Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology, March 10, 1998-December 11, 1999, p. 106, illustrated.
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Peter Attie Besharo (1898/9-1960) immigrated to America from Syria around 1912 and settled in Leechburg, Pennsylvania. He worked first as a peddler selling sundries in nearby mining camps, and later as a housepainter. After his death, Besharo’s landlord discovered 69 visionary paintings inside a garage that the artist had rented. The works, which conflate history and religion with time and space travel, are rendered in rich jewel-like colors and articulated with writings.

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