Penny Rumble

A River Flows Through. Contemporary English Landscape

2024

The talent of Francesca Owen really shines through in this beautiful statement piece. Her use of palette is subtle and her brushwork is able to move the paint over the canvas to crea...

Lightwell number 2” (120 X 100cm). A work of powerfully directed light of blazing intensity. Warm purples over cool evening blues build toward a focus of energy along the vertical ax...

“Quicksilver” (120 X 100cm). The palette knife in quick and curving sweeps has here discharged its thick paint in streaks echoing the low sun as it skims along the sand and spills ov...

“Falling sun” (120 X 100cm). Rich blue, rich gold. A large canvas here made hot with thick layers of glowing paint. The sand beneath the simple fishing boat has been plated, metal-li...

Drawing on her travels in India Francesca Owen has suffused this painting with luminosity and soft colour, giving the piece a mysterious, ethereal quality. Francesca is a great expon...

Early Spring Day, It has taken me a very long time to get the balance between inside and outside right with this painting. Three years in fact! I wanted there to be a conversation b...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to present this piece by Herbert Pullinger (1878 - 1961). Herbert Pullinger was born and raised in Philadelphia where he would spend his entire life....

Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Johann Berthelsen (1883 – 1972). Born in 1883 in Denmark to artistically inclined parents, Johann Berthelsen would become a widely successful singer, teacher, and painter. After his parents divorced, his mother brought Berthelsen and his siblings with her to the United States in 1890, eventually settling in Wisconsin. At eighteen, Berthelsen moved to Chicago in the hope of becoming an actor, but a friend at the Chicago Musical College convinced him to audition at his school. Berthelsen received a full scholarship and enrolled at the college, where he was awarded the Gold Medal twice. After graduating, he had an active career traveling across the United States and Canada performing in operas and concerts, before joining the voice faculty at his alma mater in 1910. In 1913, Berthelsen became the voice department director at the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music. While in Chicago, Berthelsen met the landscape painter, Svend Svendsen...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Robert Spencer (1879 - 1931) One of the rarest and most important artists among the New Hope School, Robert Spencer was bo...

Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Richard Wedderspoon (1889 - 1976). Richard Wedderspoon was an important member of the New Hope Art Colony as both an Impressionist and Modernist painter. Wedderspoon was not only a respected painter, but also a teacher who spent summers at his Bucks County home and the school year at Syracuse University where he was Professor of painting. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey and first studied art at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He continued his studies at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and at age twenty four, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts studying with Henry McCarter and Daniel Garber. While there his roommates were Charles Garner and Lloyd Ney. Wedderspoon began friendships with fellow artists, Charles Hargens, Clarence Johnson and Stanley Reckless...

Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by John Fulton Folinsbee (1892 - 1972). One of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John F...

Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by John Fulton Folinsbee (1892 - 1972). One of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John...