George John Illian

Art Deco Female Nude By George J. Illian

1925

Joseph Mario Korbel (Czech/American, 1882-1954). Period fine example bronze, dark brown patina, modeled as a nude female kneeling and tying her sandal, raised on a stepped black marb...

"Forest Eyes" By Jon Carsman. Acrylic on canvas, 1974. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Maintaining original gallery label from Graham Gallery, Madison Ave. New York Biography: Jon...

Maud Florance Gatewood (1934-2004) American. Fine example of her work, "Night at the Lake" is polymer on cut board, having the artist original identification card from the 20th Irene Leache MemorialBiennial Exhibition, 1970. Signed and dated lower Right MFG 69. Gatewood was arguably the most important living North Carolina painter and considered by art historians, curators, museum directors and collectors as one of the most important painters in North Carolina history. Maud Gatewood's artwork is familiar to museum-goers throughout the South. She has been a prominent figure throughout the southeastern United States during her 55-year career. An astute student, her interest in art began as a youngster in her hometown of Yanceyville, NC, studying then in 1945 at Averett College in nearby Danville, VA. At the age of 16, after having skipped two grades of school, she entered what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her B.A. in fine arts in 1954. One year later, she received her M.A. in painting from Ohio State University. She continued her education as an instructor beginning in 1956 at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL, and then at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. She then received a Fullbright Grant to study art history and painting at the Akademie Fur Angewandte Kunst and an extended Fullbright to study with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg, Austria. Her educational years were interspersed with traveling the world, that was the beginning of a life-long penchant, even at her death she was planning her next trip. In 1964, she returned to the U.S. where she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and served as founding head of the university art department. She then went on to teach at Central Piedmont Community College before returning to her home, Caswell County, where she was a professor for many years at Averett University. During her academic career, she also served as a visiting professor and artist at the University of Cincinnati, Davidson College, and the State University of New York, Oswego. Ms. Gatewood was honored by her alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts in 1999. On her life's path of discovery in painting, Ms. Gatewood was awarded the North Carolina Federation of Women's Club Scholarship in 1953; a painting award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972; the North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 1980; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art NEAA Grant 1981; the prestigious North Carolina Award in Fine Arts (Governor's Award) in 1984; the North Carolina Poster Award Commission for the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1987 and in 1993 she represented North Carolina in the Absolute statehood campaign featured in USA Today and Newsweek. She exhibited widely in the Southeastern United States and was honored with a retrospective exhibition covering 40 years of painting, organized by the Weatherspoon Gallery of Art at UNC-G in Greensboro, NC. The exhibition toured from 1994-95 in what is now the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, NC as well as the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC; Albany Museum of Art in Albany, GA and the Gallery of Art and Design at NC State University in Raleigh, NC. She represented the State of North Carolina in the exhibition Nine from North Carolina the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC in 1989. She was also featured in the 1988 Biannual at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC; the Southern Arts Federation exhibition tour, Three Approaches to the Figurative, 1986; a drawing exhibition at the Knight Gallery at Spirit Square in Charlotte in 1989; an exhibition at the Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, SC in 1984 featuring Ten Years - Ten Artists; Greenhill Center for North Carolina Arts in Greensboro, NC in 1984; Painting in the South the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA 1983-85 and a touring exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 1983. One of North Carolina's most collected and sought after artists, Maud Gatewood's public collections include BB&T, Charlotte, NC; Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Baltimore, MD; Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, RTP, NC; Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA; Nasher Art Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC; Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC; First Union Bank, Charlotte, NC; Smith-Kline Glaxo, RTP, NC; Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN; IBM Corporation, Charlotte, NC; Miller Brewing Company, Eden, NC; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; National Gallery for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Nations Bank, N.A., Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC; Philip Morris Company, New York, NY; RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC; Sprint, Wake Forest, NC; Kenan-Flagler School of Business, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC; Breakers Hotel...

Joseph Stella (1877-1946, American, Italian) "Flower Study". Crayon and pencil on paper. Signed lower left. Image 6 7/8” x 4 /34”. Framed 12 1/2” x 10”. Gallery label Beadleston Gallery N.Y. N.Y. Joseph Stella (American, June 13, 1877–November 5, 1946) was a Futurist painter known for his association with the American Precisionism movement and his works depicting industrial America. Stella was born in Lucano, Italy. In 1896, he relocated to New York, NY, to study medicine. After becoming interested in art, Stella left his medical studies and began to study art at the Art Students League of New York. While there, he studied under William Merritt Chase. During this time, Stella's early works featured a Rembrandt style...

Polished stainless steel abstract sculpture, "Two Forms" by Roy Gussow (American, 1918-2011), marked and dated with coin seal inlaid to marble base. Similar...

Native American on horseback. Signed and numbered 24/30, artists cypher. Daro Flood (1954 - 2017) was active/lived in Arizona. Daro Flood is known for Portrait bust Indian and cowboy sculpture...

FRANZ VON MONTFORT "NU ASSIS" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED BELGIUM, DATED 1928 39.5 X 32.5 INCHES Franz Von Montfort 1889 –1980 Von Montfort was a Belgian...

"The Judgement of Paris", an allegorical oil painting by German artist Hans Otto Orlowski. Painted in a quintesential style that incorporates elem...

An intriguing 1930's Art Deco Slade School oil on canvas painting. The work depicts a mother and child bathing, surrounded by other bathers. It possibly has religious overtones. This...

Presenting a just discovered original oil painting, "Love Letters", by Belgian artist Jessica Rice (1942-2016.) This painting was just discovered wrapped...

"Backstage", is a large theatrical Art Deco painting by French artist Paul Alex Deschmacker. The painting depicts two theater performers, one se...

Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the French artist Raymond Moritz and dates from 1927. The painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic contemporary frame (which is shown in these photographs), mounted with new fixtures. The canvas and the painted surface have benefitted from cleaning and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval. This vintage painting is now in very good condition. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display. The painting is signed lower left. A later dedication to “Louise” dated April 1942 in the artist’s hand is set around the earlier signing. Raymond Moritz was a French impressionist artist and illustrator. He was born in Paris on 8 July 1891. His family came from the Alsace region and were poor and Catholic. On his mother’s side, the Staubs were from Wihr-au-Val where they had been coopers for several generations. His uncle, Marie Clement Staub, was the founder in Canada of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc. Moritz fought during the Great War in the Picardy region of the Somme with the 2nd machine gunner company. He won the French 1914-1918 War medal with bronze palm attachment, which signifies that the awardee was mentioned in dispatches at army level. Moritz obviously created some art during the war because during the inauguration of the new town hall in the town of Albert he was congratulated by the French President, Albert Lebrun, and the British press for the paintings he had produced. Albert was the main town behind the lines for the Allies on the Somme battle fields...