Karl Philip Huf (American / Pennsylvania, 1887-1924) antique impressionistic oil on board painting of a Pennsylvania small town general store. Signed lower left, and on the reverse. Artwork in contemporary gold wood frame measures 17" x 19". Artwork and frame in very good condition.
A painter and illustrator. Karl Philip Huf was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1887. He lived in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) and was a student of William Merritt Chase, Hugh Breckenridge, Thomas Anshultz, J. Alden Weir and Henry McCarter.
He illustrated for the Ladies Homes Journal and a number of newspapers and magazines. He was an assistant director of the F. Wallis Armstrong Co., Philadelphia There is a family story that he did the design of the RCA logo "His Master Voice" and that the dog Nipper was his own dog, which he used as the model.
