Sarah Alexander

"Allow", landscape, marsh grasses, blue, warm tones, watercolor painting

2014

Jill Pottle's figurative work "Odalisque" was done with a series of other works about the "Absurd". She uses historical references to guide this beautiful man...

Jill Pottle's Figurative work of "Three Helens" was a part of a series of work entitled "Absurdity". All of these works were put in this ideal landscape i...

John Baker’s portrait “Smoker” is a pencil drawing on paper with collage 22 inches by 14 ½ inches. Concentration and disorientation are both well captured in the smoker’s face, which...

“Day 3” by Frantz Lexy is a mixed media painting of a tropical landscape from a bird’s eye view perspective. Meticulously detailed green and brown mountain...

"Spirit Trees 2" by C. Clinton is 16 x 16 inch acrylic painting of abstracted trees and spaces between the branches. The acrylic painting on panel is unframed and signed on the back ...

“Impossible Blue 2” by C. Clinton is one in an ongoing series of paintings inspired by the shifting colors and changing contours of summer’s transition to autumn and autumn to winte...

David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...

David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...

David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...

Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988) Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943 Watercolor on paper Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.” Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo. After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.” In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality. A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...

Signed lower right, 'Vanessa Stafford' (American, born 1954) and dated 1982. Vanessa Stafford received her Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from San Jose State University. She ...

A finely-drawn Kano School watercolor and gouache showing figures in kimonos on a bridge and seated beside a stylized river flowing through a graceful garden. An elegantly formal com...