Howard Taft Lorenz

Vintage American Modernist Painting, "Happy Birthday Gramma", 1939, Oil on Canvas

1939

Bold outlines and strong weighty forms coalesce with a compositional delicacy that forms the hallmark of Hartley's work. The work has a long and distinguished provenance and exhibit...

An original oil on canvas by listed New York female artist Enid Smiley.

Valley House Gallery is honored to present a selection of paintings from the estate of American artist, John Hartell (1902-1995). John Hartell taught two disciplines at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: freshman architecture and graduate painting. He was a much-loved professor there from 1930 until his retirement in 1967; one of his most illustrious students is the architect Richard Meier. As an artist, Hartell's first solo exhibition was in 1937 at Kleeman Gallery in New York. He exhibited at Kraushaar Galleries in New York for four decades, beginning in 1943. The Hartell Gallery at Cornell University, under the Sibley Dome, is named for him. In describing John Hartell, the artist Michael Boyd...

Artist: Paul von Ringelheim, Austrian/American (1933 - 2003) Title: Sanford Beresofsky's Bathroom Year: 1958 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 44 x...

Byron Browne (1907 - 1961) Nude by a Mirror, 1958 Oil on canvas 26 x 20 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20 Born in Yonkers,...

Arthur Osver studied at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. Osver was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1952. He taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Columbia Un...