Jean Jansem

Jean Jansem Figurative French Ink Wash

circa 1970

Anne Diggory (b. 1951) Five at the Rail, Saratoga Springs Racecourse, New York, circa 1978 Watercolor on paper 4 3/4 x 6 inches Initialed lower right: Dig...

Chiura Obata Dahlias, 1940 Signed, dated and stamped lower right Watercolor on paper 15 x 9 5/8 inches Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto. In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism. He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928. Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...

Joseph Stella Flowers Signed lower center Crayon and pencil on paper 13 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches Stella was born June 13, 1877 at Muro Lucano, Italy, a mountain village not far from Nap...

Leon Dolice Chrysler Building Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 19 x 12 inches The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the yo...

Philip Byrne 20th Century Tettenhall Church Yard Ink on paper, signed and titled bottom left Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm) Hand made frame Philip Byrne, an artist...

Philip Byrne 20th Century The Abattoir Ink on paper, signed bottom left Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm) Hand made frame Philip Byrne, an artist who studied at the W...

Philip Byrne 20th Century The Quarry Ink on paper, signed and dated bottom left Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm) Hand made frame Philip Byr...

Philip Byrne 20th Century Excavators at the Local Sand Quarry Ink on paper, signed, titled and dated bottom left Image size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29.5 x 21 cm) Hand made frame Phi...