Signed lower left, 'Belle Golinko' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1945. This Israeli-American woman Modernist exhibited widely and with success, including at the Dallas Art Museum's 1955 Contemporary Arts Exhibition of the American Jewish Tercentenary. Golinko also exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in 1934. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 00 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 1316; et al.