The Girl in the Green Hat by Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship – Charcoal and Watercolor on Paper

The Girl in the Green Hat

Artist/maker: Maxine Yalovitz, later Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship

Origin/country: USA

Medium: Charcoal and Watercolor on paper.

Style/form: Impressionist

Dimensions: 40 inches x 48 inches in frame, 39.5 inches x 31 inches sight.

Date/period: circa 1964

Item Description: Waist up portrait of a young, dark haired girl in a flowered sun hat. Matted and framed under glass

Signature/markings: Signed “Yalovitz” lower right.

Frame: Painted thin wooden frame

Condition: Good condition with no visible damage or defects.

Exhibition History: Solo Exhibition, Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, GA, 1965.   

Maxine Yalovitz Blankenship is an expressionist painter based out of Brookline, MA, originally from the small southern town of Rome GA.  She has a long and distinguished resume of awards and exhibitions spanning more than half a century. This includes a painting fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and a 1965 solo show at the Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts in Columbus, GA in which the subject of this appraisal The Girl in the Green Hat was featured. Maxine is still working today and her work has a solid following in her native Georgia and is held in many museum and corporate collections.

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