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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jivvy, post: 569729, member: 8184&quot;]Actually, that is one of three states that could convince me I&#039;m on to something.</p><p><br /></p><p>And it is the most convincing of the three (because it is the least likely of the three to be a coincidence).</p><p><br /></p><p>I was never 100% convinced that the German W Kohl mentioned was a match, but when someone said they had a print that matched, I didn&#039;t think about it again.&nbsp; Until it got bumped.</p><p><br /></p><p>So. First I found this painting by an &quot;unknown&quot; W Kohl</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.bukowskis.com/en/lots/851846-unidentified-artist-oil-on-board-undistinct-signature-w-kohl" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bukowskis.com/en/lots/851846-unidentified-artist-oil-on-board-undistinct-signature-w-kohl" rel="nofollow">https://www.bukowskis.com/en/lots/851846-unidentified-artist-oil-on-board-undistinct-signature-w-kohl</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]172930[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the signature is not an obvious match, but if you dink around with the image and look at the strokes of the &quot;w&quot; and compare it to the strokes of your &quot;w&quot;... well, there&#039;s a significant similarity and it&#039;s not the standard way to stroke a &quot;w&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>(edit SIDEBAR: I&#039;m not convinced that the above painting is by the same artist as yours... its existence is what sent me down the research road. )</p><p><br /></p><p>So, then I started doing some research and found William Richard Kohl (who sometimes went by Richard William). William was born Jan 1901 in Maryland. William died in 1980 in Maryland.</p><p><br /></p><p>William worked all his life (or at least as far as I can track him) as an artist. He traveled to England in 1928. To France in 1932. He served in the Army from 1942-1945. I have not yet found his military records, so I&#039;m not sure where he was stationed.</p><p><br /></p><p>When he wasn&#039;t traveling or in the service, he was in Maryland.</p><p><br /></p><p>William never married, never had children. No direct heirs. He did have two brothers and a foster sister. His foster sister had no children. One of his brothers had no children.</p><p><br /></p><p>That leaves the one remaining brother, Philip Gilbert Kohl (named after his father). PG had one son, also Philip Gilbert, and one daughter, Jane Kohl.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure what happened to Jane, but the youngest Philip Gilbert died in 2004. In Tucson, Arizona.</p><p><br /></p><p>So. I think this &quot;W. Kohl&quot; from Maryland, is your W. Kohl. I have no other art to look at, no other proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I believe. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie51" alt=":hilarious:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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