ROGER A. FLYNN

(American, 1931-2011)

MOONLIT HARBOR, CAIRO, 1956

Gouache on Archival Paper

24 x 17½ Inches

Signed Lower Right

 

Mid-Century Modernist gouache cityscape showing an elegant moonlit harbor lined with moorish arches and seen through papyrus fronds beneath a full moon. Flynn studied art at the Cooper Union in New York and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for two years which he spent in Egypt establishing the Art Department at the American University in Cairo.