Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Paintings It is important to note

It is important to note that Jean was now "Juan"

Charles Roger Grooms left Peabody College there to enroll in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a year

The table skirts have a whimsical feature

This lovely painting depicts snow covered Colorado mountains to the background and a scrub & tree-lined creek to the foreground

To the center is a door inlaid and mounted with gilt bronze and to the center is a large oval Sevres porcelain plaque

Large Charcoal Portrait Girl Writing Letter La Pensadora The Thinker Puerto Rico by Juan De Prey, 1930 Paintings It is important to noteA large portrait by the celebrated Puerto Rican American muralist artist Juan De'Prey (1904 1962), signed & titled "La Pensadora" (The Thinker), circa 1930. This painting is by one of Puerto Rico's most collected artists, De'Prey was an outsider artist and also considered a modernist, aside from being a muralist he painted works in oils and acrylics. This picture is finely rendered in charcoal and mixed media on paper, it depicts a young woman