20.25″ x 24.25″  oil on canvas, signed l/l “LOUIS GRELL 1953″

graphite on paper sketch 8.75″ x 11.5” unsigned

Provenance:
artist to wife in 1960 upon death;
Helen Grell Bellinger (sister) c1970 from above;
Council Bluffs (Iowa) Public Library in 1999 from above via estate transfer;
Grell family collection in 2012 from the above with agreement to exhibit one Grell painting at library for twenty years (2012 – 2032).

sold at auction 2021

Updated title comes directly from the artist found inside The Spiral Sketchbook collection #3 (Romano / Schmidt; acquired in 2025) written on top of opposite page