Constantin Ernest Adolphe Hyacinthe Guys

Carriage Ride in the Park

c. 1860s

Olaf Wieghorst (American, 1899-1988) "Season's Greetings" (Brave on Horseback) 1960 Watercolor/Gouache on Paper Initialed and Monogramed and Dated Dedicated: "To Rosalie & Jack, Season's Greetings, Mae & Olaf Xmas 1960" Site Size: 12 x 9 inches Framed Size: approx. 22.5 x 18.5 inches Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa...

William Robinson Leigh "The Noble Bull" Watercolor on Paper Signed Lower Left Site Size: 20 x 15 inches Framed Size: approx. 33.5 inches x 27 inches Born near Falling Waters, West Virginia on a plantation a year after the Civil War, and raised in Baltimore, William Leigh became one of the foremost painters of the American West with a career of seventy-five years. Some people referred to him as the "Sagebrush Rembrandt". He was the son of impoverished Southern aristocrats and took his first art training at age 14 from Hugh Newell (1830-1915) at the Maryland Institute where he was regarded as one of the best students in his class. From 1883 to 1895, he studied in Europe, mainly at the Royal Academy in Munich with Ludwig Loefftz. From 1891 to 1896, he painted six cycloramas or murals in the round, a giant German panorama. In 1896, he began working as a magazine illustrator in New York City for Scribner's and Collier's Weekly Magazine, and he also painted portraits, landscapes, and genre scenes. However, he was not a very successful artist in those years in New York. Trips to the Southwest began in 1906 when he made an agreement with William Simpson, Santa Fe Railway advertising manager, to paint the Grand Canyon in exchange for free transportation West. In 1907, he completed his Grand Canyon painting...

Artist : Lindsey Meyers Carroll Title : Goliathus Rorschachi 3 Materials : Charcoal, ink, chalk and gouache on paper. Date : 2017 Dimensions : 16 x 18 in. Lindsey Meyers Carroll is a contemporary artist working in magic realism through large-scale charcoal drawings. She received her BA in Fine Arts and Spanish Literature from the University of Montana in Missoula in 2008. Exhibitions include the Art Spirit in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Brink Gallery in Missoula, Montana and Turman Larison Contemporary in Helena, Montana. Carroll is a recipient of the Grants to Artist Award from the Myrna Loy Center. Figurative, Animal Drawings, Animal Paintings, Insect Drawings...

Fishermen. Paper, watercolor, 20x29.5 cm