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MOMA artist, NYC Coney Islands, Reva Urban (American, 1912-1987), "Face of the White Arrow" 1963 painting. Incredible. Measuring 69" x 66"H. Please note damage to painting in photographs. RARE opportunity. Reva was an American woman artist who achieved success in the art world in the 1950s and 1960s. Her career offers important insights into the relationship of gender to art production, form, and content. Like that of some of her contemporaries, Reva's engagement in feminist ideas augured concerns that became increasingly prominent in the art of the late 1960s and beyond. Reva Urban spent her youth in California . In 1941 she returned to New York and studied with a Carnegie Fellowship at the Art Students League of New York . In 1949 she married the German painter Albert Urban (1909-1959), after his death she married George Robert Carley (1913-1993). From 1958 she exhibited her works nationally and internationally. Ms. Urban has had the distinction of representing the United States in two festivals in Salzburg, and a selection of her paintings and graphics has toured European museum under the auspices of the United States of America Information Service. Her work is Represented in many public and private and public collections including the MOMA, NY, Univ. Art Museum, Berkeley; Chicago Art Institute; Finch College Museum of Art, Illinois University Museum; Avethorp Gallery, Jenkintown, PA, Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, CA; and Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, CA. Art Museum, Berkeley, Chicago Art Institute, Finch College Museum of Art, University Museum, Illinois; Avethorp Gallery, Jenkintown, PA, Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, CA, and Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, CA. Items from estates in Chappaqua, Pleasantville and an Upper East Side, NYC penthouse. Please refer to pictures for condition. Could be a chip, dent, scratch, crazing or damage not noted. PLEASE be on time (posted) and have the appropriate help, transportation, tools, equipment, straps, boxes, wrap etc. NONE WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SITE.