Kate Montague Hall

Fishing Boat on the Dock

Early 20th Century

Oil on artist board, signed Emily Hoffmeier lower left Most likely a scene of Nantucket harbor and presented in what could be the original frame with a slightly highlighted silver finish. Presents well overall measuring 16.5" x 20.5" including the frame. From 1929 to her death in 1952, Emily Hoffmeier (1888-1952) spent summers on Nantucket, painting in the waterfront studios—first Harborview No. 3 and later moving to the Red Anchor Studio on Washington Street. She exhibited in the Easy Street Gallery, the Candle House Studio, and later at the Kenneth Taylor Galleries. After the death of Maud Stumm in 1935, Hoffmeier took over the direction of the annual Sidewalk Art Show, which she ran for the next eighteen years “with untiring cheerfulness and unflagging interest.” She was one of the founding members of the Artists Association of Nantucket and served on its first executive committee. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachuetts, Hoffmeier taught art classes at the college for several years. From 1917 to 1951 she was a teacher at West Chester High School in Pennslyvania, where she headed the mathematics department. In addition to enrolling in the plein air classes of Frank Swift Chase...

Oil on canvas board, signed lower left and inscribed on the reverse, as well as on the frame. This is most likely the original frame for this work made by the artist.

A monumental 59" x 82" with frame oil on canvas painting of a rocky mountain vista by John Terelak. Signed and dated lower left and inscribed verso. It...

his is a well painted scene of a sunny day along the river Seine in Paris and presented in a lovely gilt frame. It is in excellent condition and signed in the lower right. Gustave Ma...

Oil on canvas, 33" x 43" including the frame, 25" x 35" canvas only. Signed lower right and signed and inscribed in verso. Henry Robertson Craig R.H.A., R.U.A. Scottish, 1916-1984...

Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right featuring a vibrant street in Paris. Henri Alexis Schaeffer (1900-1975) was born in Paris, France in e...

A small scale, horizontally oriented oil painting on panel by American Impressionist Nelson Holbrook White. Every winter, White travels to The Bahamas to paint the bright warm scener...

Painted en plein-air on a beach in the Bahamas. Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and artists from the time he was born. ...

Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connecticut in 1932. White has been surrounded by art and artists from the time he was born. He received his earliest art instruction from his...

Painted en plein air on a beach in Italy. Sheets are strung up and stretched with driftwood, and create a shaded area for beach-goers to sit beneath. The rigid driftwood poles arrang...

An oil painting of a rose bush with bright pink dots of paint to depict the roses. This is his fourth in his series of rose bush paintings 2017. N...

Painted en plein-air in Chianti, Italy, a colorful sky cascades above a distant hillside, and the near foliage in the foreground. Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnesot...