Siyuan Ma

Watercolor Impressions of Chinese Architecture 2, Original Painting

2022

Intimate still-life of firewood and tools by the hearth by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work directly ...

Delicate floral still life in the style of a botanical drawing of magnolia flowers in a glass vase with a figurine of a duck by Alexina Chamberlain (American, 20th Century). Presente...

Watercolor by Elisabeth Spalding (1868-1954) titled "Little Garden Flowers (Still Life)" in colors of green, orange, and pink. Presented in a custom gold frame with archival materials, outer dimensions measure 28 ¼ x 25 ⅜ x 1 ⅛ inches. Image size is 16 ⅛ x 13 ¼ inches. Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report. Provenance: Private collection, Denver Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: In 1874, at the age of six, Elizabeth Spalding and her family settled in Denver where her father, the Reverend John F. Spalding, became an early-day bishop in the Colorado Diocese of the Episcopal Church. After graduating from Wolfe Hall, a female academy in Denver where she later taught, she went to New York in 1890 to study drawing at a private school and painting at Cooper Union with J. Alden Weir. Later in the decade, she returned to New York to study at the Art Students League with Childe Hassam, Kenyon Cox and John Twachtman, and did outdoor sketching with Leonard Ochtman. She also spent summers working with a number of eminent American artists: Arthur Wesley Dow at Ipswich, Massachusetts; John F. Carlson at Woodstock, New York (later the first landscape painting instructor at the newly-founded Broadmoor Art Academy in Colorado Springs,1920-22); Charles H. Woodbury at Ogunquit, Maine; and Henry McCarter at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts classes in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. She also studied in France and England and lived briefly in Washington, DC. Spending the major portion of her career In Denver, she became a founding member of several local important art organizations. The first was the Le Brun Art Club, the city’s initial all-female artist group formed in 1890 and named after the renowned eighteenth-century French artist, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun. In 1893, Spalding and several other Le Brun Club members (Henrietta Bromwell, Emma Richardson Cherry...

Watercolor painting with lush white irises, made on watercolor paper 100% cotton. The multifaceted shades of blue in the background and exquisite whites in the inflorescences of thes...

A watercolor painting with golden foil in the interior. A watercolor painting for the interior with bright tropical flowers of Eritrea, decorated with golden foil. Saturated, contras...

The painting for interior Royal Orchid is a delicate, refined watercolor made on cotton paper with multifaceted granulating shades. Beautiful orchid flowers on a platter surrounded b...