19.5” x 23.5” in frame

(16” x 20” paper size)

This original watercolor painting by Anstis Lundy features a stunning still life composition of pottery and leaves. 

The painting is a carefully composed watercolor with the typical touch of delicacy and grace that is common in her artwork. 

This one-of-a-kind painting is a fantastic representation of her work and comes from the estate of her husband Victor Lundy. 

There is a COA from Nick Lundy, the son of Anstis and Victor.

Anstis Lundy (1924-2009) was an American painter well known for her abstract compositions that often featured bright colors and bold, gestural brushwork. 

Born in Plainfield New Jersey, Anstis began her art training in Paris at the Cours Fenelon in 1939. In 1940, she continued her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Art and finished in 1943, at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts. 

During World War II, she worked as draftsman on top-secret projects for the U.S. Army. After the war, she settled in the San Francisco Bay Area. On a trip to Colorado in 1947, Anstis visited Aspen, beginning a lifelong love for the town, and she moved there in 1958.

She quickly became involved in the Aspen art scene and befriended many of the artists and writers who congregated there after the war. Her love for the town and her affinity for the sophisticated and free-thinking spirit of the people there continued throughout her life. 

In 1955, she met her husband, Victor Lundy, a well-known modern architect, who was a speaker at an AIA Convention in Monterey, Calif. Friends joked that “the Irresistible Object had met the Immovable Force” and they were married Sept. 19, 1960 in New York City. 

Lundy's artwork was exhibited widely during her lifetime, and she was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972. 

Today, her paintings can be found in the collections of museums and galleries around the world, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.