Important Original Painting New York City Felix Bar by Harry McCormick

Signed lower right. A festive composition of figures in a restaurant and bar enjoying a Fado performance with the female dancers in red gowns. The artist is known for photo-real renderings and often depicts restaurant and bar life. 30 x 42 1/2" in a fine black and gilt J. Pocker frame 36...

Wonderful painterly, thickly impastoed oil painting of a New York street with Paint store fascade and black parked car. A riot of color and noise packed into a medium sized canvas. By renowned plein air painter Ken McIndoe.

Final costume design drawing by Jose Varona for the New York City Opera's 1967 production of Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel). This design is for the title character. The drawing is ink, watercolor and gouache. Two other designs for this opera are in the collection of the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX. Sight measurement is 19 1/4 x 14 1/8 inches. Jose Varona American was born 1930 in Argentina. He began his art career in the 1950's and later became a renowned international costume designer mostly with opera and dance productions. He moved the the United States in 1962. He designed costumes for Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland...

Striking oil painting of New York City storefronts in the 1980s. Full of movement and grit, the painting's color palette is black, white...

Wonderful very painterly plein air painting of a New York City street with a prominent graphic laundromat sign. Yummy rich impasto and incredible lively brushstrokes in this painting by renowned artist Ken McIndoe.

Politically charged oil on canvas by Depression Era New York artist William Gropper. Painting measures: 20" H x 16" W. Frame measures: 24" H x 20" W. Signed lower right and in excellent condition. Created circa 1930s. Titled on the verso “Mug-Wump”. Provenance: Two Gallery Labels seen on the verso; Heritage Gallery, L.A. & Rowe Gallery, San Francisco. A mugwump was known as a person who remained independent (as in politics), one who remained undecided or neutral, not taking a definitive side. One whose “mug” was on one side of the fence and whose “wump” was on the other, so to speak. New-York born artist William Gropper (1897-1977) was a painter and cartoonist who, with caricature style, focused on social concerns. During the 1930s, working as a part of the Federal Arts Project, he produced some of the most gripping social protest works of the Great Depression. Subjects included industrial strikes, especially in the coal mining and steel-production centers. He did much illustration-cartoon work for the New York Tribune newspaper, Vanity Fair magazine and the politically 'left-wing' publication, "New Masses." Some of his other pieces focused on the hypocrisy of government figures, especially members of the United States Senate...