James Henry Daugherty (American, 1889 - 1974), Untitled oil on canvas painting depicting a still life. Signed, J. Daugherty, lower left. Inscribed, Still Life / painted by my father / James H. Daugherty, and signed, Charles M. Daugherty, on verso. Provenance: Swann Galleries, New York. Note: Among the early American modernists, James Daugherty was one of the first exponents of abstract color painting. Throughout his career, whether he was working in an abstract or a representational mode, Daugherty felt pure color to be the most effective means of creating powerful and evocative works of art. James Daugherty was associated with and inspired by the Synchromist work of Morgan Russell and Stanton MacDonald-Wright early in the twentieth century. From 1905 to 1907 Daugherty traveled in Europe where he studied mural painting with Frank Brangwyn at the London School of Art. Daugherty devoted the balance of his career to mural painting, often on a grand scale. His murals and their related studies are complex compositions of writhing figures in fragmented industrial or rural landscapes. Dimensions: 20 x 30 in., (51 x 76 1/2 cm.) Perfect.