Ernest Scanes
American, 1909 - 1994Untitled (Portrait of a girl - study for ‘Girl in Landscape’), 1941
Not on view
Charcoal on paper
Dimensions15 × 11 3/4 in. (38.1 × 29.8 cm)
Courtesy of the Isabel Foundation, L2007.9
Born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1909, Ernest Scanes studied art at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Scanes worked as a commercial artist, producing illustrations for books and magazines. Scanes was also an accomplished painter and printmaker of Regionalist-inspired works. This drawing is a prepatory sketch for a finished work—Study for a Girl in Landscape (below)—which is also part of the FIA’s permanent collection not currently on view.
