Mystery painting

[Bottle]

I have some old paintings I found in a building I purchased. Any ideas on who made this or date?

 

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[nhbenz]

I presume it’s a print. By Maud Tousey Fangel:

 

[Red-Coat]

@nhbenz is correct. It’s a print from one of Maud Tousey Fangel’s commercial illustrations, circa 1940s-1950s. She was born in 1881 and died in 1968.

From the 1930s through to the 1950s, if you saw sketch or portrait of a small child on the cover of a women’s magazine or inside it advertising things like Colgate's Talc Powder, Cream of Wheat, or Squibb's Cod Liver Oil, she was almost invariably the artist. She worked mainly in pastels and lithograph prints from her work were sold in the thousands during her heyday and so have very little value. She also did commission portraits of children, notably for wealthy patrons.

 

[Bottle]

Could it be original? Given to me by a relative years ago from an auction. Nails in back of frame and back of painting is brown?

 

[Bottle]

What about this one? Has a stamp on it

 

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[Red-Coat]

Could it be original? Given to me by a relative years ago from an auction. Nails in back of frame and back of painting is brown?

You said "I have some old paintings I found in a building I purchased" ?

It's possible that it could be an original, but the odds aren't good, given how many of these were churned out. It's also very badly framed, with the frame obscuring part of the signature. Not at all what I would expect to see. It's not possible to determine whether the image is ink or paint/pastel from a photograph, but when I zoom in it doesn't appear to be on quality art paper. I can't discern any texture to the paper.

 

[Bottle]

Yes I have some others I found as well. This was given to me.