Vintage American Oil on Board Tree Study | Elva Levy Mid-Century Texas Modernist Listed Artist

Signed lower left Elva Levy — the documented Waco, Texas painter (1910–1994), listed on askART and best known for mid-century abstract work. A member of the Texas Fine Arts Association, Texas Water Color Society, and Southwestern Watercolor Society, with exhibitions at the McNay Art Museum, the Witte Museum, and Laguna Gloria, and multiple purchase prizes from the Texas Watercolor Society annual exhibitions.

A single tree, rendered in thick impasto in warm golds and olive greens against a luminous ochre ground. Levy spent most of her career on abstraction; here she stopped and painted a tree. The result is quietly compelling — a figurative subject treated with the same structural conviction she brought to her abstracts. Unframed, on board.