Earl Sherm

Modern Floral

1940's

Antique American modernist still life painting. Oil and gouache on board, circa 1940. Housed in a period modernist frame. Image size, 24L x 18H.

Antique American modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 31L x 23H.

Antique American school modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 18H.

Vintage American school modernist fish still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.

Antique American modernist signed still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 12L x 9H.

Antique American modernist signed still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 21L x 18H.

The Still Life is a painting realized by Claude Deschamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions....

Sun Flower is a painting realized by Claude Decamps in the 1970s Oil painting on cardboard canvas. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. The ar...

Georgina Klitgaard Apples and Pears Still Life Signed lower right Oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists to membership in one school or another. Unfortunately for her posthumous reputation, Klitgaard defied easy characterization. She was a U.S. modernist, working in both oil and watercolors, but never abandoned figurative painting. She made her reputation in landscape but also excelled in portraits, flower studies, and even cityscapes. Yet despite Klitgaard’s ambiguous status in art history, her paintings continue to fascinate viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism. Georgina Klitgaard (née Berrian) was born in Spuyten Duyvil, New York (now part of the Bronx); the Berrians had lived in the area since at least the U.S. Revolution. After graduating from Barnard College, she studied art at the National Academy of Design. In 1919 she married Kay Klitgaard, a Danish artist and writer. The next year, her life took a decisive turn when the couple visited friends in Woodstock, NY—about 120 miles north of New York City--and fell in love with the area. In 1906, L. Birge Harrison helped found the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock and the area became a magnet for landscape painters. The Klitgaards bought a house in 1922 on a steep ledge at the end of Cricket Ridge, high above Bearsville, which provided panoramic vistas overlooking the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley. Klitgaard joined the artists’ colony in the area, which at the time included artists Ernest Fiene and Katherine Schmidt. Klitgaard exhibited widely and her career slowly developed momentum. She was a regular contributor at Whitney Museum shows from 1927 to 1944. In 1929, she exhibited a painting entitled “Carousel” in the Whitney Studio Club’s famous exhibition “Circus in Paint.” Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney acquired five paintings by Klitgaard in the early 1930s and served as a significant patron for the artist. Klitgaard s New York dealer, Frank Rehn...

Still Life is a superb original oil painting on panel, realized around 1870 by the British artist Edward Ladell (1821-1886), the best known English still-life artist. The artwork r...

John Atherton 1900-1952 American The Bass Season Saturday Evening Post cover, June 29, 1946 Signed "Atherton" (lower right) Inscribed "The Bass Season opens in the east July 1st /...

KONRAD CRAMER (1888-1963) Prickly Pears and Pomegranates, 1929 Oil on board 19 ¾ x 23 ¾ inches Signed and dated at lower right: KONRAD CRAMER / 1929 ...