Can Anyone help ID Artist ?

Here's a small Oil,can anyone ID this painter ? Back label says-'Camera Shop of New Mexico/Albuquerque (NM). Thanks all for the help !

 

I SWEAR, some artists are just DYING to remain anonymous!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Too modest.

Debora

 

Many good artists-fame's fleeting & mercurial.Even Shakespeare, El Greco and others were minimalized at times.

 

Don't get me wrong-this guy aint' Vermeer.

 

Back label on the canvas or back label on the framing materials?

Debora

 

Frice? Price?

 

This info may not help, but this camera shop/framer went out of business in the mid 1990s. Hubby had camera repairs done there.

 

A Brad-H. Rice poss ?
Debora-Back label on framing material (cardboard). Painting surface-canvas mounted on thick paper board.Tack hole in each corner of the canvas,possibly tacked to a portable easel or drawing board and done quick as a quick study/oil sketch-onsite.

 

Stracci- Thanks for the tip,will try to find out how long they were in business,so many painters went thru (or lived) in Albuquerque,Santa Fe & Taos.

 

Found an ad in the 1941 Issue of the New Mexico Lobo (Student Newspaper) .

 

That's a serious-looking logo! Bet the shop didn't mess around with would-be shoplifters.

Aquitaine, at least this is signed! Seems like so many highish-skill artists sadly never sign their works.

 

Good sleuthing!

 

Yes, it kind of looks like "F rice"....sort of..........

 

AquaLady-Lks like F Rice to me,perhaps-Fried Rice,is he famous ?