03-19-2020 03:28 AM
This forum has helped me before, hopefully you will come thru again 🙂 I found this oil painting rolled up and tucked away in my grandmothers closet, I know nothing about it, where it came from or anything. The signature is M Daley which brings up too many hits on google to pinpoint. If anyone knows the full name it would certainly help out. Thank you.
03-19-2020 04:23 AM
03-19-2020 06:06 AM
03-19-2020 04:38 PM
@ericodapro wrote:
Brilliant! thank you
I assume that was a tongue-in-cheek response. You did ask to ID the signature. So for an experienced board contributor, it is natural to respond that way. You'd be surprised how many people ask us to figure out what appears to be a very clear artist's signature.
Having said that, if you have gotten a lot of hits for M. Daley, you could try comparing signatures if you can find them.
Rita
03-20-2020 02:50 AM - edited 03-20-2020 02:51 AM
No, I just thought the response was facetious since I thought it was clear I knew that much of the name and was asking for the full name. I was hoping if the artist was a well known one that someone could give a full name because I already used up all my other resources hence why Im asking the community here. Im pretty sure now it was most likely someone my grandmother knew and not a hidden treasure. haha ty for the reply though.
03-20-2020 09:26 AM - edited 03-20-2020 09:27 AM
I doubt that the first answer was facetious.
Your reading of the name was buried in the middle of a paragraph, and your title seemed to indicate that you couldn't make anything of the signature. It was more likely that the responder scanned your post, saw the picture of the signature, and replied quickly to try to help you.
03-20-2020 09:35 AM
At the risk of suggesting what you've already done: Try to create bracket of dates. You know when you grandmother was born and when she died. You know at what age (and thus, year) she might have begun to accumulate and store unframed paintings and at what age (and thus, year) she would likely have stopped. Say that gives you the dates 1955 to 1980. Using that bracket will eliminate possibilities as you search the various Ms who could be M. Daley.
I can't tell much about the painting from the photo but it appears to be rather generic, and the fact that Grandmother rolled it up and tossed it into a closet may mean she thought so, too.
03-20-2020 06:42 PM
03-21-2020 12:50 AM
@melda58 wrote:
@ericodapro wrote:
Brilliant! thank youI assume that was a tongue-in-cheek response. You did ask to ID the signature. So for an experienced board contributor, it is natural to respond that way. You'd be surprised how many people ask us to figure out what appears to be a very clear artist's signature.
Having said that, if you have gotten a lot of hits for M. Daley, you could try comparing signatures if you can find them.
Rita
Wasn't trying to be smarty Rita is 100% right,"You'd be surprised how many people ask us to figure out what appears to be a very clear artist's signature'. twas early (wasn't awake) and only read title looked at photo's😤😓
03-21-2020 01:17 AM
03-21-2020 09:45 AM - edited 03-21-2020 09:46 AM
You are so welcome. That painting was our families dirty secret, lol, my parents were so proper (British) that they suffered for several years with that monstrosity on the wall because they were too polite to tell her whatever it was they needed to tell her so they could not have to display it.
I guess that makes my parents 'bad painting' martyrs? It's funny to me now, sure caused a lot of stress for my mom and dad. I could probably paint that painting from memory, it was such a problem in our house 🙂
Now I can't get the visual out of my head, took me back to my childhood, so funny.