Charles Culver

"Untitled (Red Flower)" Watercolor on Paper, Abstract Flower, Signed & Dated

1950

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "The Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Cumpston" a silhouette cut by August Edouart is in very good condition and cut by the artist sometime between 1839 - 1849. On the lower f...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Song of Songs Illustration" renders an important bibilical story that is celebrated during Jewish Passover. Song of Solomon, also called Canticle of Canticles, or Song of Songs, an Old Testament...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Song of Songs Watercolor" renders an important bibilical story that is celebrated during Jewish Passover. Song of Solomon, also called Canticle of Canticles, or Song of Songs, an Old Testament...

"McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan" is a delightfully inventive comic self-portrait by the creative genius Masami Teraoka. He has presented himself dressed in the traditional kimono robe and the artwork is in the famous Ukiyo-e style. Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art which flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries. Its artists produced woodblock prints and paintings of such subjects as female beauties; kabuki actors and sumo wrestlers; scenes from history and folk tales; travel scenes and landscapes; flora and fauna; and erotica and sometimes humorous characters. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as "picture[s] of the floating world". This delightful watercolor self-portrait, comments on the problematic relationship between the United States and Japan and the Americanization of his country in the work, utilizing subtle pun humor that is the hallmark of Japanese culture. As Teraoka explains, "the character 'maku; means spread, 'donald; means screaming, 'do' and 'han' mean often, and 'Han' also means obnoxious or annoying. 'Burger' sounds like 'Baka' which means stupidity." This work was originally purchased by filmmaker Eric Saarinen...

The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...

"Man with Bicycle" is an extraordinarily complex painting by Artis Lane. The figure is in a Classical Greek pose balancing the body's weight on the left leg while the right is slight...

Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing of Frederiksborg Castle by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed to the back of the paper where there is another drawin...

Fine Watercolour Drawing by Alexandre Jules Monthelier. He was a French Artist who worked in France and created many drawings of famous landscape and sceneries (e.g. the cathedral of...

'White Irises' is a sophisticated subdued, ivory-cream with warm brown to bronze still life flower composition. The botanical watercolor created b...

Mid 19th Century watercolour drawing and watercolour study of a tree by noted Danish artist Thorald Læssøe. The work is monogram signed bottom left and there is an annotation in the ...

A Pair of Drawings, Framed Signed and dated 1855 Chalk in black, brown wash, heightened with white, on paper each sheet, 46 x 31 cm . Framed. Two Landscape and Sea View Old Master Drawings, Paris, 18th Century, by Mozin Charles Louis Mozin (* 12 March 1806 in Paris; † 7 November 1862 in Trouville-sur-Mer) was a French painter. He is the grandfather of the Post-Impressionist Fernand Piet. The brother of the composer Théodore Mozin was a pupil of Xavier Leprince. He is considered the "discoverer" of Trouville-sur-Mer, which developed into a popular seaside resort at the end of the 19th century. At the age of nineteen, he first came to the fishing village on the coast...

Guignet was born in Annecy and grew up in the city of Autun. He was a friend of Hippolyte Michaud. He was a rather popular orientalist painter in h...