Emilio Sanchez

New York Sunset.

circa 1980's

Emilio Sanchez returned to the urban skyline time and again. His passion for the everchanging sky took hold during the 1980's working the ruled lines of the skyscraper in just enough...

"New York Sunset, Pink and Blue" is a mixed media painting on paper (oil paint and water-based paint). Emilio Sanchez returned to the urban skyline time and again. His passion for ...

Dory Fishermen Frederick Schiller Cozzens created this watercolor entitled “Dory Fishermen” in 1888. This piece is signed in brush, lower left “Fred S. Cozzen...

Long Island City Contemporary artist Frederick Mershimer created this oil painting on a wooden panel in 2005. The painting (wood panel) is 10.25 x 21.25 inches (26 x 54 cm). This ...

Robert Kipniss created the oil painting entitled "Window w/Curtain & Hill" in 2013. The canvas size for this piece is 36 x 25 inches – the framed size is slightly larger. This paint...

Inspired by the geometric landscape of his hometown Thomas Roese has created a photorealist series using acrylic, graphite and colored pencil. Since graduating from the Cleveland ...

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

Born in 1922 and dying in 2003, the work of Ohaly-Ruckhaus became popular in Israel after his first exhibit in 1957. HaAretz spoke of some of his oil paintings being reminiscent of Dutch masters. His landscapes were known for their excellent composition, structure, and color, and their overall balance, despite the drama of the subject matter depicted. Ohaly Shaul, Teacher and Painter. born in 1922. Studies in "Gimnasia Herzlia" School in Tel Aviv; and the American University in Beirut. From 1972 art...

WEINSTOCK, Saul [Painter] mid 20th c. NYC. Exhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1952. New York artist Saul Weinstock carried the twin banners of American Regionalism and the Ashcan School proudly across the twentieth century. This particular painting is very reminiscent of the Ash Can School of painting which continued to influence much of the art produced in the United States during the 1930's through the 1940's (many times referred to as New Deal, or WPA art...

In this painting the artist depicts the verdant hillsides outside Jerusalem, the use of complementary colors next to each other makes them appear more vibrant and and allows for the perspective to be slightly exaggerated. Signed and titled in hebrew Zvi Miklos Adler, woodcuts and painter, born 1909, Hungary. Education 1934 Art Academy Teaching 1934-1944 Budapest, Hungary, art in High Schools 1948 Head of the Art Faculty. Cvi Adler lived from 1909 until 1965. He lived in Israel subsequent to World War II. He was an Art Teacher in Debrecen, Hungary. Sometime in 1944, Zvi Adler and his family were loaded onto a transport for Auschwitz. Their train was diverted to Lager 15 in Vienna, and then to Theresienstadt, where they were liberated by the Soviet Army on May 8, 1945. He exhibited many times at the Tel Aviv Museum He Exhibited at First Decade Exhibition for Painting, Ramat Gan 1958 Artists: Mordechai Avnieli, Adler, Zvi Miklosm Jacob Eisenberg, Bak, Aliza Ludwig Blum, Aharon Giladi, Yehoshua Grossbard, Samuel Tepler, Yohanan Simon, Israel Paldi...

Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image, 20"L x...

Antique American modernist street scene painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Image size, 24L x 20H. Housed in a period modern frame.