WALTER EMERSON BAUM (AMERICAN 1884-1956) Beach View 1942 oil on masonite 58.5 x 81.3 cm (23 x 32 in.) framed dimensions: 64 x 86.5 cm (25 1/8 x 34 in.) signed lower left, signed dated titled on verso PROVENANCE Collection of the artist's wife, Flora Baum (nee Barndt) Acquired from Flora Baum in 1960 by David Baum LOT NOTES The present painting is an expansive and colorful composition by one of the most important members of the New Hope school, Walter Baum. It combines the influence of Cezanne and post-modernist abstraction, with Baum's mastery of landscape, and delicate approach to figuration.