Morris Graves

Bouquet for Mary Lea

1957

Nizar Sabour born in Latakia and now lives and works in Damascus and Moscow. He received his PhD in art philosophy from Strugunov Academy in Moscow, the influence of Middle Eastern c...

Presenting a charming and decorative composition painted in 1943 by Danish artist Evan Wulff. This stilleben painting unveils a rustic table adorned simply with a wine bottle and two...

effrey Long, the elder son of a commercial graphic artist at Time & Life, was born in New York City in 1948. In 1970 Long received a BFA in Illustration and Art Education from Rhode Island School of Design and had decided to be a painter. His paintings from this period were photo realistic portraits and figures set in landscapes. On graduation, he married and began teaching art in a Rhode Island public school system. From 1971 through 1973 he was a resident artist at the Rockefeller-funded Pulpit Rock Community in Woodstock, Connecticut. Works from this intensive period were representational, highly dynamic, and borrowed from the vocabulary of cartoons. In early 1974 Long moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he obtained a full scholarship at California College of Arts & Crafts (now California College of Arts). There he received an MFA in painting in 1976. He established various studios in Oakland and Emeryville, while also working as a Curatorial Assistant at The Oakland Museum. The museum brought him in touch with such California artists as Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer Bischoff, Manuel Neri, Joan Brown, Jay de Feo...

Louis Berthommé Saint-André French 1905 - 1977 Nature Morte, 1958 oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 61 x 50cm Born in Barbary, France in 1905, Modern artist Louis Berthommé Saint-André spent his early childhood in Saintes, a commune in the southwest of France. Berthommé-Saint-André entered the École des Beaux-Arts of Paris in 1921 where he studied under Fernand Cormon and Jean-Paul Laurens. ​ He began exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français in 1924, where he won a silver medal in 1928. He also exhibited at the Salon d'Automne beginning in 1928, at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1934-1936, and at the Salon des Tuileries after 1935. ​ A prolific figurative illustrator and painter, Berthommé-Saint-André created landscapes of Haute-Provence and Île-de-France, as well as erotic illustrations...

Mid Century Italian still life tablescape by Italian artist Fulvio Pendini. The painting is signed bottom right and is presented in a period gilt wood and cloth frame under glass. Th...

Sunflowers. 1999. Oil on canvas. 100x81 cm This depiction of sunflowers shows artist Laimdots Murnieks as a master of nature representation. Colors and decoratively captured flower...