Jeffrey Long

Under the Fig Tree

2022

Brooks Anderson’s eloquent oil on canvas and panel landscapes are an exploration into the power of Contemporary Landscape painting. Known for his gifted handling of composition, deta...

Scott Yeskel was raised in the suburbs of Orange County, California after his parents moved from New Jersey when he was a child. The mild weather and suburban sprawl fueled Scott’s interest in the landscape. 

After graduating from high school, he moved to San Francisco to pursue an education in the arts. Yeskel graduated from the Academy of Art College in 2002 where he won first place in the Landscape category at the Academy’s Annual Spring Show. He was quickly picked up by galleries in Philadelphia, Laguna Beach and San Francisco. Since that time, Scott has been the subject of over a dozen solo shows, countless group exhibitions and has been featured in over 20 magazine and newspaper editorials. 

His work speaks to those who identify with the California lifestyle – often romantic but sometimes plagued with frustration. His love/hate relationship with Los Angeles’ freeways, boxy apartments and urban sprawl feed Yeskel’s desire to paint his environment as he sees – a jumble of mixed emotions. Recently, Scott’s work was purchased by prestigious corporate collections including Microsoft and NBC/ Universal. Scott currently teaches an Abstract Workshop at the Kline Academy in West LA and resides with his wife and daughter in Los Angeles. Resume Born, 1977, Montclair, New Jersey 2002 – Graduated Academy of Art College, San Francisco, BFA SOLO SHOWS 2020- Vacant LA, online exhibition. 2016-Summer Days, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. Valley Scenes, Valley Performing Arts Center, Cal State Northridge, Ca. 2015- Modern Escape, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 2013- Hotel Pools, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2012- Stop & Go, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2011 – Wanderlust, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. Mapping California, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco Ca. 2009 – L.A. To Ventura and In Between, Vita Art Center, Ventura, Ca 2008 – Disconnections, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca L.A. to S.F. with Love, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, Ca 2007 – Mass Transit, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2006 – Maps, Sue Greenwood Fine Art, Laguna Beach, Ca. 2005 – Trouble in Paradise, Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. 2004 – Moving On, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 2003 – Two Roads, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. SELECTED GROUP SHOWS 2021-Summer Salon, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, Ca 2019- Group Cityscape IX, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca Ashes of Hope, Sky Studios, Los Angeles, Ca 2018-Cityscape VIII, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca Celebration Art, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, Wa 2016-House and Home, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, Ca 2105-Venice Art Walk Auction, Google Headquarters, Venice, Ca 2013-Ryman Arts, ‘An Affair of the Arts’, Los Angeles, Ca. 2012-Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, Ca. artMRKT San Francisco, SFDC Concourse Exhibition Center, S.F., Ca 2011 – L.A. Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, L.A. Ca. Palette to Palate, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca. artMRKT San Francisco, SFDC Concourse Exhibition Center, S.F. Ca 2010 – Art San Diego, Hilton San Diego Bayfront, San Diego, Ca. 2009 & 2010 – L.A Art Show, Los Angeles Convention Center, L.A., CA 2008 – Auction 100, Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca. Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, Fla Red Dot Fair, Park South Hotel-New York City, New York 2006 – Venice Art Walk Juried Auction, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, Ca. Fin, Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. 2005 – Create-Fixate, Spring Arts Tower, Los Angeles,Ca. 2004 – Meet the Artists IV, The Pacific Club, Newport Beach, Ca. Group Cityscapes, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, Laguna Beach, Ca. Getting to Know You, Backstreet Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca Scott Yeskel / Brandon Smith, Hotel Biron Gallery, San Francisco, Ca. 2003 – Around Town, Pringle Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. 2002 – Academy Spring Annual, Academy of Art, San Francisco, Ca. 1998 – Juried Luggage Show, Luggage Store...

Brooks Anderson’s eloquent oil on canvas and panel landscapes are an exploration into the power of Contemporary Landscape painting. Known for his gifted handling of composition, deta...

Brooks Anderson’s eloquent oil on canvas and panel landscapes are an exploration into the power of Contemporary Landscape painting. Known for his gifted handling of composition, deta...

Brooks Anderson’s eloquent oil on canvas and panel landscapes are an exploration into the power of Contemporary Landscape painting. Known for his gifted handling of composition, deta...

Scott Yeskel was raised in the suburbs of Orange County, California after his parents moved from New Jersey when he was a child. The mild weather and suburban sprawl fueled Scott’s i...

Signed Lower Left Poskas was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, a small industrial city set on the banks of the Naugatuck River. He was interested in art as a child, but on entering ...

William Mason Brown was born in Troy, New York, where he studied for several years with local artists, including the leading portraitist there, Abel Buel Moore. In 1850, he moved to ...

Signed (at lower right): DJ [monogram]; (on back): David Johnson 1865

Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, trees are sharp, and saturated color permeates the scene. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for the rare appearance of figure and the occasional black cat scurrying across pavement. Instead, humanity is implied. Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s viewpoint. First applied to American art in the 1943 MoMA exhibition “American Realists and Magic Realists...

Signed (at lower left): W.R. Miller/ 1851

The career of William Stanley Haseltine spans the entire second half of the nineteenth century. During these years he witnessed the growth and decline of American landscape painting, the new concept of plein-air painting practiced by the Barbizon artists, and the revolutionary techniques of the French Impressionists, all of which had profound effects on the development of painting in the western world. Haseltine remained open to these new developments, selecting aspects of each and assimilating them into his work. What remained constant was his love of nature and his skill at rendering exactly what he saw. His views, at once precise and poetic, are, in effect, portraits of the many places he visited and the landscapes he loved. Haseltine was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prosperous businessman. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, he began his art studies with Paul Weber, a German artist who had settled in Philadelphia two years earlier. From Weber, Haseltine learned about Romanticism and the meticulous draftsmanship that characterized the German School. At the same time, Haseltine enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, and took sketching trips around the Pennsylvania countryside, exploring areas along the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. Following his sophomore year, Haseltine transferred to Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, Haseltine returned to Philadelphia and resumed his studies with Weber. Although Weber encouraged Haseltine to continue his training in Europe, the elder Haseltine was reluctant to encourage his son to pursue a career as an artist. During the next year, Haseltine took various sketching trips along the Hudson River and produced a number of pictures, some of which were exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the spring of 1855. Ultimately, having convinced his father that he should be allowed to study in Europe, Haseltine accompanied Weber to Düsseldorf. The Düsseldorf Academy was, during the 1850s, at the peak of its popularity among American artists. The Academy’s strict course of study emphasized the importance of accurate draftsmanship and a strong sense of professionalism. Landscape painting was the dominant department at the Düsseldorf Academy during this period, and the most famous landscape painter there was Andreas Achenbach, under whom Haseltine studied. Achenbach’s realistic style stressed close observation of form and detail, and reinforced much of what Haseltine had already learned. His Düsseldorf training remained an important influence on him for the rest of his life. At Düsseldorf, Haseltine became friendly with other American artists studying there, especially Emanuel Leutze, Worthington Whittredge, and Albert Bierstadt. They were constant companions, and in the spring and summer months took sketching trips together. In the summer of 1856 the group took a tour of the Rhine, Ahr, and Nahe valleys, continuing through the Swiss alps and over the Saint Gotthard Pass into northern Italy. The following summer Haseltine, Whittredge, and the painter John Irving returned to Switzerland and Italy, and this time continued on to Rome. Rome was a fertile ground for artists at mid-century. When Haseltine arrived in the fall of 1857, the American sculptors Harriet Hosmer, Chauncey B. Ives, Joseph Mozier, William Henry Rinehart...