Untitled Painting of a Stream in Winter signed Angelos [SOLD]

Betty Jean Beals, became Betty Jean Angelos when she first married, then Betty Jean Sabo when she married Dan Sabo who became her life partner.  Her earlier paintings were signed simply Angelos.  Later ones were signed Sabo.  This is one of her earlier paintings.  It is not dated but most likely dates to the mid-1950s.  Following graduation from the University of New Mexico, she became a painter and continued painting until she reached age 60, at which time she switched to sculpture. Paint fumes were causing her to be sick. 

Because of her extraordinary talent as a painter of oil paintings of New Mexico scenery and then her switch to sculpting bronze figures, most collectors have tended to retain those paintings in their collections as there are none after the 1970s when Sabo switched to bronze casting.

Sabo loved New Mexico and particularly her hometown Albuquerque.  She was an avid philanthropist and believed wholeheartedly in supporting other artists.

This painting of a stream or river flowing through a snow bank is so typical of her paintings of nature.  Many of her paintings are isolated mountain scenes featuring aspen trees, rivers and snow.  This is evident in her early works such as this painting.

Her paintings are widely collected. One hangs in the presidential library of Ronald Reagan in Southern California.

This painting is signed in lower right Angelos.  It appears to be in the original frame chosen by the artist.

Condition: the painting has just been professionally cleaned and is ready to hang and enjoy

Provenance: from a gentleman from Denver who inherited it from his father’s estate.  His father was a friend and co-worker with Betty Sabo’s father and this was a gift from Sabo’s father to the father of the current owner.