Carl Haag

The Tambourine Player, Watercolour Painting, Dated 1853

1853

Oil on board, signed verso Image size: 40 1/4 x 29 inches (102.25 x 73.5 cm) Hand made contemporary style frame Here we see a smartly dressed woman sat on a park bench, feeding a group of pigeons that surround her. Lena Gurr had a prolific career in which she painted landscape scenes and still lifes but her most noted works are ones such as these, showing everyday city scenes that were laced with social commentary. Indeed, Gurr noted that her artwork always aimed to show "the joys and sorrows of everyday life." During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Discussing this trend, she once told an interviewer that as her work tended toward increasing abstraction she believed it nonetheless "must have some kind of human depth to it." Lena Gurr  Lena Gurr, born in Brooklyn in 1897, studied at the Brooklyn Training School for Teachers, the Educational Alliance Art School, the Arts Students League with John Sloan, and with Maurice Sterne in Paris as well as in Mentone and Nice, France. Gurr was a member of the Artists League of America, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Society of Women Artists, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, Audubon Artists and the American Artists Congress. She exhibited in numerous exhibitions held by these organizations as well as the Whitney Studio Club, National Academy of Design, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, and the 1939 World's Fair. Her work is included in the collections of the Biro-Bidjan Museum, Russia and the Library of Congress, where she has been selected as a "Curator's Choice" in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. In addition to her career as a painter, lithographer and serigrapher, she also taught art in the New York City public school system. She had three solo exhibitions at the ACA Gallery in 1935, 1939 and 1945, and a retrospective in 1963. Notable among Gurr's colleagues - many of them WPA artists - were Mary Cecil Allen...

ARTHUR CHARLES CONRADE 1863–1955 The Train Station Watercolour & pencil, signed lower left Image size: 12 x 14½ inches (30 x 37 cm) Gilt frame

Watercolour on paper, signed, titled & dated 1933 Image size: 11 ½ x 7 inches (29 x 18 cm) Mounted This work is initialled lower right 'CT' and inscribed lower left 'Bristol Savages...

Watercolour on paper, signed and dated '1913' lower right Image size: 10 x 14 1/2 inches (27 x 37 cm) Acid free mount At this time, Cirque Napoleon Rancy was one of the most prestigious and respected of French travelling shows. According to the corporate magazine Der Artist, Napoleon Rancy launched his two-masted marquee, 40 diameter, in 1910. In 1913 The Rixfords flying trapeze...

C.M. European 1946 Cibon Chocolat Gouache on paper Image size: 38 x 24 inches £400

V Ward Soldier at Rest Watercolour and pencil Signed and dated 1918, lower left Image size: 13 x 11 inches

Gerald Leslie Brockhurst (British/American, 1890-1978) In the Circle of the liberal Arts After Alessandro Botticelli's Fresco: ' A Young Man being introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts ' • Water colour on paper mounted behind old stained mount, this one then laid under a modern clean mount and presented in an antique glased...

Howard Tangye (b.1948, Australia) has been an influential force in fashion for decades. Lecturing at London’s Central Saint Martins for 35 years, including 16 years as head of BA Wom...

ALEKSANDER GRZYBEK He was born in Białystok. He studied artistic education in the studio of painting of prof. Marian Bogusz and Andrzej Kołodziejek....

ALEKSANDER GRZYBEK He was born in Białystok. He studied artistic education in the studio of painting of prof. Marian Bogusz and Andrzej Kołodziejek. He graduated in 1979. His works c...

ALEKSANDER GRZYBEK He was born in Białystok. He studied artistic education in the studio of painting of prof. Marian Bogusz and Andrzej Kołodziejek....

ALEKSANDER GRZYBEK He was born in Białystok. He studied artistic education in the studio of painting of prof. Marian Bogusz and Andrzej Kołodziejek....