Featured landscape oil painting artist?

Purchased this landscape at an estate sale. It's well done. about 30" by 22". I can't figure out the signature. any ideas? Thanks

 

I see C. A. Lukingbeal.

 

It sure would be nice if the pictures were (or could be made) bigger.

 

i think that's it. Thank you!!

 

Dayton Daily News
Dayton, Ohio
23 Oct 1955

 

Agree!

 

Dayton Daily News
Dayton, Ohio
19 Apr 1989

 

Wow. Just wow.

Debora

 

Makes you wonder what happened that he ended up back on the farm when he was obviously talented and had studied in major cities? beautiful painting.

 

Great job Jivvy. I find it amazing that he did this from memory. No photographs, no sketches.

 

'[T]hen for a season in his teens he studied cartooning at the Cleveland art institute.' And 'had shows in Chicago and New York City.' Appears largely self taught, all the more impressive.

Clarence Lukingbeal, you're not going to find too many with that name.

 

It's fun to have an easy one tossed in with all the rest (occasionally).

 

I expect Luckinbill is really the same name.

 

Johnny, I can probably answer that for you. C A Lukingbeal was my grandfather. He raised five children on the farm and put them all through college. He was actually a very good farmer whose primary obligation was putting food on the table for the family through the lean years of the Great Depression. Many of us aspire to be great artists, novelists, actors, rock musicians, and professional athletes, but only a very small percentage of even the most talented of us are able to make even a part time living at it. Steve Lukingbeal.

 

A truly admirable gentleman of the old school . I hope yall have lots of his stunning art to enjoy . he was very talented ,who knows where life might have taken him in a different time .