Earle T. Merchant

Portraits of Judy Hasch, Laura Gehest, Sam Burgess (Gunsmith), & Steve O'Brien

1967,1968,1961, & 1963

A set of four naive portraits by self-taught American artist Earle T. Merchant (1903-1997). Merchant was born in Gloucester, and started his law education at Boston University Law School, earning a law degree during the late 1920s. By 1928 he had joined a law practice with offices on Main Street in Gloucester. By the early 1960s, Earle Merchant...

A wonderful large self portrait of the artist with a Russian model by American artist Pauline Lennards Palmer (1867-1938). Born in McHenry, Illinois, Palmer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago between 1893 and 1898, including a one-month session with William Merritt Chase in 1897, and further temporary instruction with Frank Duveneck. She became one of Chicago's early twentieth-century portrait and landscape painters and one of the Midwest's most active and energetic exponents of impressionism. After her career was well established, she moved to Provincetown and studied with Charles Hawthorne...

A wonderful three quarter portrait of a boy in a straw hat peeling a piece of fruit, probably an orange, by Italian artist Eugene Von Blaas (1843-1942). Von Blaas was born to Austria...

A finely detailed portrait of a beautiful young woman with a fan by Franco-German artist Carl Ernst Von Stetten (1857-1942). Stetten was a Franco-German portrait and genre painter who worked in France. He came from the wealthy Stetten banking family. He began his studies on October 16, 1876 in the class of antiquities at the Royal Academy of Arts in Munich. He then left for Paris in the 1880s to study under Jean-Léon Gérôme. He attended the Académie Julian with Gustave Boulanger, Gustave Courtois...

A fine pair of 19th century Prior-Hamblin School oil on paperboard portraits, identified as John & Sally Eaton, parents of AH Harris, unsigned, and housed in wooden frames with a mar...

A fine pair of oil portraits of a lady & gentleman, probably husband & wife, attributed to Zedekiah Belknap (1781-1858). Belknap was born in Auburn, MA and graduated from Dartmouth College...

Genre: Modern Subject: Fiddler on the roof, Shtetl matchmaker Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...

Swing Jazz Quartet. Satchmo, Louis Armstrong! Oil Painting on board. Hand signed and dated 1974 Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; 1931) is an American folk art painter. She is ...

Mid century pulp art portrait of a somber clown with a yellow shirt, red hair and a red nose, holding a scepter in a dramatized space with a candle and green ...

These new paintings illuminate individuals of the American Suffrage Movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B Wells and Alice Paul, each one intelligent, brave and incredibly relentless in the struggle to attain voting rights for American women. This series of paintings portrays the ardent women involved in the American Suffrage Movement which led up to the 19th Amendment...

*ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are...

The artist of this painting is unknown, but it is a direct derivation of "The Stagecoach of the Grand Duke" by Raffaello Sorbi, now held in a private collection in Milan, as we can s...