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Thomas Brownell Eldred (New York, Michigan, 1903 - 1993) Oil on Canvas. Appears to be unsigned but has not been examined outside of framing. Provenance: current owner purchased artwork from estate of Thomas Eldred's son Sight Size: 30.5 x 24.5 in. Overall Framed Size: 31.25 x 25.25 in. During the 1930's, Eldred's career as an artist progressed. He declined an invitation to the famous artist's colony, Yaddo, for financial reasons, and instead took a teaching position, funded by the WPA program, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. In Brooklyn, Eldred met Werner Drewes, one of the founding members of the American Abstract Artists group. During these years, the Guggenheims acquired his work for their new Museum of Non-Objective Art (now the Guggenheim Museum). He traveled to Paris and studied with William Stanley Hayter in his influential printmaking workshop, Atelier 17, along with Chagall, Jaques Lipchitz, Miro and Matta. In 1940, Hayter opened a school in the United States, where Eldred joined him again, along with such artists as Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson and Jackson Pollock.