Across the Field

Edition:  2

Era: Pre-Goebel

Category: Gouache

Product Line: N/A

Series Name: N/A

Art Form: Painting

Size: 24 W x 20 H

Identifying Mark: Hand Signed

First Year of Issue: c. 1967

First Year Issue Price: N/A

Highest Known Price Paid:$125.00

Artist's Age: 22

HISTORY:   Olszewski painted Across the Field in 1967 where he was Junior at IUP.  Bob knew the next year he would be leaving for California and wanted to capture a visual memory of the Western Pennsylvania terroir he enjoyed so much.  He said that he painted two versions of the same scene using a painting technique call "Gouache."

Bob recollects selling one of the paintings at an art show in New Kensington, PA and never knew what had happened to the other one.  He further mentioned that a brother-in-law of Mike Zahorchek, his first name is Richard had purchased one.

Sue Ann Coll Crytzer contacted Bob's brother, Ray, in January 2007 telling him she had a painting by Bob.  She sent Ray the image shown which is framed and hanging in the Crytzer's living room nearly Myrtle Beach, SC today.  Ray and Sue Ann and her husband Dave Crytzer graduated from the 1957 class at Harbrack High School in Natrona Heights.  Sue's says she received the painting from Ray.

Note on the image the glare from the dining rooms lights and the flash of the camera on the glass which covers the frame.