Red-Tailed Hawk in pursuit of a mouse, a painting of the hawk in flight, wings spread and talons poised to strike at the mouse as it flees toward a refuge in a haystack, all in the foreground of a blue sky and farm scene, signed by the artist in the lower left corner beneath the haystack.
[Montgomery, PA?]: nd [ca. 1945]. Gouache on board, 13 x 17 inches. Abbott (1895-1950) was a popular American illustrator of wildlife. A native of Brookline, Massachusetts, he studied at Harvard and was thereafter engaged in business in New York City. He moved to Altadena, California in the early 1930s and..... More