Maurice L. Bower

Family Escape, Biblical Illustration

Date: 1930s Medium: Watercolor and Pencil on Board Dimensions: 10.25" x 6.75" Signature: Signed Lower Right Pencil Advertisement

Date: 1950s Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Board Dimensions: 13.75" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Center Left Yankee Storekeeper Cover, Written by R.E Gould, Bantam Books

Date: 1920 Medium: Charcoal and Watercolor on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 19.00" Signature: Signed and Inscription Lower Right Corner 1920s parlor scene. ...

Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Board Sight Size 6.00" x 8.00"; Framed 13.00" x 15.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Likely done either for a magazine cover or for a postcard. Rev...

This little gem of a compact artwork was executed in the Arts and Crafts style for an interior illustration for "The Wise Book," J.M. Dent & Co, London, 1906. "You can't eat your ca...

Mid Century pencil, chalk, watercolour and gouache painting of an American cavalry officer riding his horse across the dessert. This artwork captures the dynamic energy of a lone c...

This Harry Beckhoff illustration is masterfully rendered and intricately designed in line and wash. It's as abstract as it's representational with its graphic style, clean lines, and flat patterning. Every element in the composition works in harmony without a line out of place. The flat and abstract nature of the work rivals that of the great modernist painters of the 1930s. Perhaps this was done for a major newsstand magazine like Collier's. Although he studied with Dean Cornwell and Harvey Dunn, he didn't pursue the style of painterly brushstrokes and impastos. Instead, he defined his forms with flat shapes, whose internal forms are defined by thin lines. The emphasis is more on silhouette and line than it is on texture and lighting. Beckhoff also described his work as having been influenced by illustrators like Pierre Brissaud...

Scottish artist Robert Carrick (1829-1904) is renowned for his landscape and figurative paintings in oil and watercolor. This painting features detailed drawings of figures in the foreground with wagon, and the town and scenery in the background, painted over in watercolor in rich raw umber and red-brown tones in the foreground and blue green tones in the background. Carrick showed promise at a young age, exhibiting his work at the Royal Academy age 16. He was a member of the Royal Institute. This two-toned watercolor work has detailed figures, wagon with hay in the forefront above a view of Dunoon town near Glasgow as it was long ago. Signed by the artist, lower left with an inscription that reads: 'View of Dunoon, Argyllshire drawn by Robert Carrick, Glasgow, for David Allan'. Verso includes a copy of the same inscription. Saltire Gallerie replaced the cracked and dirty plain glass with art glass and added an acid-free paper behind the work. While doing this work we found an art giclee, included with the painting. Presented in a patterned wooden frame with art glass. Dunoon was a thriving town on the river at the time of this work, and later became part of Glasgow. The view from above the town is a popular one, as Saltire Gallerie has another view of Dunoon from above by Scottish artist Patrick Downie...