artist signature help for Cheskin painting

[Overloaded]

I thought I had the right artist Louis Cheskin... until I saw an Ebay auction and saw the signature on that auction "trees"  as it was not the same signature... is there another Louis Cheskin ? or was I using the wrong first name?

The ebay auction had the signature spelling out his entire first name but this painting only has L on it.


The painting which I'm trying to get more info for:

[waywardangler]

Looks pretty amateurish so I do not think it is a known artist but rather a hobby artist.  I could be totally wrong.

[gingertomantiques]

have had a look at painting on ebay, & the evidence says it is the same person. Its right
The painting style is the same,
His name is unusual, 2 painters with the same name & style ? very unlikley
the L in the sig are the same &  letter similarities occur in cheskin
The buy it now $200 not alot of profit after canvas, oils frame time & fees
Original sold auction --- estimate $100 - $200 not sure what it made but i suspect more towards the lower estimate

[waywardangler]

I disagree that it is the same painter.  Louis Cheskin on eBay and Hindman's auction used watercolor for a medium and the signatures do not match.  Quality is totally different.  IMO.

[gingertomantiques]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Louis-Cheskin-1907-listed-artist-Trees-/190396103270
link to pic on ebay

I stand by my comments many artists painted in diferent mediums just because one is a watercolour & the other oil does not mean it is not by the same hand, the style is the same
A sig in oil will be different to a watercolour sig look at the individual letters especialy the L, h, & n bearing this in mind & the fact one is small case joined up & the other is capitals

[D&b antiques]

I do see a difference in paint used. oil versus water. I believe the painting in question was painted by a pallete knife or brush. I do believe it's L. Cheskin a w.p.a. artist. registered in illinois.

[fancypants]

Searched for awhile on this one , with no definitive hold-up-in-court results .

Similar painting effects (used by many artists) between yours & the only other representative work (by Louis Cheskin) I could find .
One small exception (possibly) is U.S. Patent # 2,760,302 , a toy patent granted to Louis Cheskin which was filed for on Oct.26,1953 (from Chicago,Ill) .
Within the patent , it's stated that 'I illustrated' - although that's common verbage in patents ....

I'd go along with D&b about Cheskin (the artist , not the administrator) and the WPA link ; was also associated with the 'Illinois Art Project' around the same time .

One sig (watercolor) cursive , the other not (mostly) .
This does not give creedance that the sigs either do , or do not match ; one sig done with a brush , the other in ink (or pencil - I could not find out which , so far) .

Yours could be an earlier work from the same semi-obscure artst .

Perhaps contacting folks in Illinois might hunt up another example of his sig , which I was unable to positively identify .

I think it would be worth trying , so you'd know what you do (or do not) have !