“This painting of a park in Mexico City is oil on canvas by noted artist Hela Klipstein (who I knew personally).  Hela was born in Mexico City and held solo exhibitions in major galleries in New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Mexico City and Havana.  A good friend of the famed Spanish poet Leon Felipe and political rebel Victor Trapote, she was also a contemporary of many of the Spanish Civil War’s revolutionary voices.  Her works are held mostly in private collections.  Hela is primarily know as a landscape painter but she was also an accomplished portrait painter.  This work was likely done during the period of Hela’s lighter, more colorful palate, sometime in the late 1940s to mid-1950s.”

Steve A.

For this piece Frame Works worked with Steve to create a similar framing he had seen.  This is a stacked frame using moulding from the Olmsted Biltmore collection and Black Reflections as the main frame with Olmsted gold fillet both on the frame, all from Larson Juhl, and on the Bainbridge Suede mat.