Rare Clifton Hadfield II Original Painting "The Crush II"

It's a rare thing to find a Clif Hadfield painting come up for sale. His work is widely reproduced in print, but an opportunity to acquire an original work - a true rareity. The original purchase price - $14K. "The Crush II" is from a series of Wine and Winery inspired subject matter which is prevalent throughout his body of work. MEDIUM: Acrylic on stretched canvas, nicely framed in heavy gilt wood. SIZE: (this painting is BIG) Image: 36x48", Frame: 48x57". SIGNED: Lower left and verso. Clifton E Hadfield II (1935 - 2008) was born in Somerset, MA, and educated in Boston. He served his apprenticeship in New York City as an art director, designer and illustrator. His clients included Pan-Am, Gillette, Polaroid, Georgia-Pacific and Intel. His work has been published in Business Week, Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, and Field and Stream. In 1970 he relocated to an eighty-acre ranch near Portland, Oregon, where he raised cattle and horses while pursuing a fine-art direction. As an oil painter, he specialized in Tuscany, California mission and landscape subjects. As a watercolorist he was best known for the series of iris paintings he created for the famous Cooley's Iris Gardens catalogue. Hadfield's work is represented by leading California and Arizona collections and is in private and public collections around the world. He resided in Oregon until his passing in 2008 leaving an amazing collection of fine art. A modest reserve has been placed.