Lofty Lady by George Beattie, Jr. (OH/GA, 1929-1997), oil on canvas, professsionaly cleaned with minor restoration, signed, dated 1950, framed - 18 1/4" x 32 1/2" 
 
Beattie was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended the Cleveland School of Art. During World War II, he served in the visual aids division of the Army Air Corps where he was assigned to draw maps and weather charts. For a time, he was stationed at Herbert Smart Airport in Macon, Georgia. After the war he moved to Atlanta where he taught at the High Museum School of Art until 1948, and then as an instructor at the Atlanta College of Art. Subsequently, he spent a ten year period (1957–1967) as the chair of the creative drawing program at Georgia Institute of Technology’s school of architecture before becoming an instructor at Georgia State University from 1975 until 1981. He also served as director of the Georgia Commission for the Arts (now the Georgia Council for the Arts) and on the Atlanta Arts Council. In 1956 Beattie received a Fulbright Scholarship which he used to travel to Italy, and four years later he traveled to Greece.