F. Douglas Greenbowe

"The Orange Cart, Mazatlan, Mexico, " a Watercolor by F. Douglas Greenbowe

1994

"Parrots" is an original watercolor signed by Alicia Czechowski. The artist signed the piece lower right. This piece depicts six multi-colored parrots in a cage. 16 3/4" x 18" art ...

"Giant Hybrid Hibiscus Butterfly with Flower" is an original mixed media piece by David Barnett. The artist used ink, watercolor, iridescent oil pastels, and a collaged image of a dr...

"Tree Owl Spirit" is an original watercolor painting on birch bark by David Barnett. The artist signed the piece lower right. It features abstract marks on a found piece of birch bar...

"The Orange Cart, Mazatlan, Mexico" is an original watercolor painting signed and dated in the lower right by artist F. Douglas Greenbowe. It depicts a ...

"If You're Going to Use My Minnows for Your Fishing, Nothing but the Biggest!" is an original watercolor by Chiang Er-Shih. The artist signed the piece lower right "To John Siedel Yo...

"Catching A Fish" is an original gouache and watercolor painting on illustration board. It is signed in the lower left by the artist Tom Rost. 25" x 20 5/8" art 30 5/8" x 24 3/4" framed with museum glass Tom Rost spent most of his life in Wisconsin, graduating from the Milwaukee State Teacher's College (now the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). He began his artistic career as an illustrator for the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Works Progress Administration, and the Treasury Department. Later, he began illustrating for the Milwaukee Journal and then left to work in New York with the Field...

Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850) ‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’ Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487. Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...

Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688) Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater) On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm ​The present painting is a copy after Wagener’s painting of the anteater, Tamanduá-bandeira, which is illustrated in his “Thier Buch”, with 109 drawings of Brazilian fish, birds and mammals, published in Amsterdam c. 1641, in German. ​ Zacharias Wagener, or Wagenaer in Dutch, (Dresden 1614 – Amsterdam 1668) was a real adventurer who became Opperhoofd on Deshima and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in the service of the VOC. During the Thirty-Year War in Germany Wagener tried his luck in Amsterdam where he worked for the map-maker Willem Blaeu. In 1634 he joined the WIC and left for Dutch Brazil where he worked as writer and painter, together with Frans Post...

John Aldrich Ruthven American Painter Bison in a Snow Blizzard Watercolor and Gouache on Paper signed lower left

Walter Spies was one of the first Europeans to settle in Bali after a stay in Java. He greatly contributed to the discovery and popularization of Balinese...

Luigi Bazzani (Bologna 1836 - 1927), Roman fresco with fountain, roosters and herm Watercolor 18 x 35 cm signed lower right. Provenance: Arch. Cesare Bazzani (Rome 1873 - 1939).

Drawing in gouache, made on a sheet of paper with lithographs from the 19th century (on the back), found in antique shops in Brussels, Belgium. Bela Silva's work, so organic and col...