Bidspirit auction | Gene Mandrick, Colonial Street Scene,

Gene Mandrick, Colonial Street Scene, Oil on Canvas (Signed) - An oil painting on canvas by Gene Mandrick depicting an impressionistic street scene with historic, colonial-style buildings. The composition features a light-colored building with a hanging sign, a brick-lined sidewalk, a black lamppost, and a tree. The foreground shrubbery is executed with thick pigment application, utilizing visible brushwork and palette knife techniques. The artwork is signed in the lower left E. MANDRICK. The piece is housed in a large, ornate gilt composition frame decorated with elaborate scrollwork, shell motifs, and corner cartouches. The verso reveals a stretched canvas with a central vertical support and hanging wire hardware. An accompanying informational pamphlet identifies the artist as a painter based in Norfolk, Virginia.