Douglas W. Reynolds piece?

Hi all, I have zero expertise in art but was curious about this piece I picked up in NC in 2011.
The front doesn’t seem to be signed but the back frame is written as Reynolds, Douglas W. Meredith College Art Dept.
Is there any value to this piece? How do I go about getting a valuation?
Many thanks!

 

maybe the folks at https://www.justanswer.com/sip/appr...MIrOqO08TqhAMVz0JHAR1reARLEAAYASAAEgLLGvD_BwE , could value it.

 

Found the man.

 

Given Meredith College is a women's school, likely Douglas W. Reynolds was on the faculty. Yep. Head of the Art Department. Here's his obituary. He doesn't appear to be a listed artist which means your work is worth what someone will pay for it. (I doubt that paying for an appraisal would benefit you.) Of course, to his surviving family, it may be priceless. Given Reynold's tenure at Meredith, your work dates to 1946-1957.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-obituary-for-douglas-w-reyn/48559577/

Debora

 

Its bizarre but I like that !

 

an evil jack in the box , torturing a woman.... the guy had issues...

 

Scathing! I am his granddaughter, and can confirm the original post was his work. We are secure in the pieces we preserved as a family, being his best works.

 

@Vfa, my sincere apologies if you found them so but... My comments weren't intended to be scathing. In fact, if you read the above again, you'll note that I made no comment at all about the quality of your grandfather's work. I only pointed out that, because your grandfather wasn't a listed artist (i.e. included in standard reference books), there was unlikely to be an established sales record for his work and that values would depend on a piece's appeal to potential individual buyers.

Debora

 

Well in fact we are discussing here a particular work, and I think Vfa was not referring to Debora’s remark, but to komokwa’s preceding. His granddaughter is right—it is a painting by my father; komokwa is also right, my father had issues, which artists seem to have, and of course we have lived in a world shaped by Freud as one might say. Not so scathing.

Love conquers all—rather easily I think.

Best wishes to all of you, DON’T FORGET TO VOTE IF YOU HAVEN’T!

DW REYNOLDS, JR

 

She quotes Debora's post in her response ...... not mine !!

and since both , talk about your family..... as it pertains to this and other works... I suggest she's commenting on Deboras post !

I find this work to be disturbing on many levels........

 

Goodness I have the hardest time posting replies!

This work is disturbing on many levels, but so what? When I was young my father would hang a painting on our wall when he was finished with it; he would ask me if it was straight, and if I were in a bad mood I would tell him it should be in the attic. So that was the environment he had to live in.

His younger brother died flying the Hump in Burma during WWII. So immediately he tried to enlist so he could go get himself killed too, flying a C-47 that would run out of fuel on illegal missions to provide supplies to the Nationalist Chinese.

That is when he found he had a serious problem with high blood pressure, and was not going anywhere but the doctor’s office.

Not the same as bone spurs exactly.

So he and my Mom had to live out their lives in what I believe was the most romantic marriage in history—at least, until I married Sheila 49 years ago!

Enough background. I don’t know how this painting got on the market; it might well have been given by my father to one of his friends or colleagues, if one of them found it provocative or interesting. He always felt that paintings belonged in people’s homes rather than in museums, that paintings “spoke” to those who acquired them.

As many of Dad’s friends and colleagues were college professors, and many had grown up during the Depression, many enjoyed the same salaries and wealth my father enjoyed. So many people enjoyed gifts from my father over time—and when they died, works entered the marketplace.

Love is where you find it—but it is everywhere! Keep looking!

 

It reminds me of some paintings of Asian demons. That was my first impression. He may well have been influenced by ancient Asian paintings.