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Walter Jacobs Crescent Beach Watercolor Painting 1990
Description: Watercolor on paper, framed (no glass). Signed and dated in pen lower right corner: W. Jacobs '90". Inscribed in pen frame verso: "Crescent Beach '90 W. Jacobs". Purchased directly from the estate of Dr. Walter H. Jacobs, American 20th Century, and a Certificate of Authenticity can be issued upon buyer's request. Dimensions: Image: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2in. Frame: 17 x 13in. Weight: 10oz. (Box F) Condition: Paper laid down to backing board. Slight darkening and rippling to paper throughout. Mat burn along all four edges. Light soiling to surface. Otherwise, very good condition overall. Artist's Biography:
Purchased directly from the estate of Dr. Walter H. Jacobs, American 20th Century (d.1992). Jacobs, a New York City dentist, is best remembered for having developed individually molded rubber mouth guards for boxers.Dr. Jacobs, an amateur lightweight boxer in his youth, devised the protective devices to prevent loss of teeth and cuts in the lips, tongue and cheek. Early boxers sometimes clamped their teeth on matchsticks to cushion blows. Then they tried crude mouthpieces, but their standardized shapes often made them ill-fitting and ineffective. For 51 years Dr. Jacobs made thousands of individual mouthpieces for fighters, including Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Floyd Patterson and Larry Holmes. He rooted for boxers using his devices, Dr. Jacobs said, "but when two of my mouthpieces are fighting against each other, I must remain, of course, neutral." He also made hundreds of plaster casts of the boxers' fists, a collection he donated to the Museum of the City of New York and the Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y. Born in Manhattan, Dr. Jacobs graduated from City College in 1925 and the Columbia School of Dentistry in 1929. Dr. Jacobs was a former chairman of the First District Dental Society, a founder of the New York Shell Club and a charter member of the American Revolution Round Table. He retired in 1985. [Source: ]
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