Jean Lurssen

Breaking Storm, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

2016

I overlook Richardson Bay from my house and when the tide is out you can see the mud flats. This is my interpretation of this scene. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes ...

I love to paint atmospheric watercolors and wintertime provides a good source for atmospheric scenes. I paint from imagination but I am also influenced by nature and my experiences a...

I love to paint atmospheric scenes. This scene is from a photo taken in England. I used artistic license to change the colors for a more atmospheric watercolor. :: Painting :: Impres...

I love to paint atmospheric watercolors. I paint mostly from imagination but I am very influence by the landscape around me. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an ...

Mood. 1999., paper, watercolor, 28x40 cm Oskars Berzins (1940)

Beautiful mid-1930's watercolor landscape of a vast valley with a rainstorm far in the distance by California artist Leslie Bruner Wulff (American, 1890-1968). The atmosphere and fee...

After the storm. Watercolor, paper, 70 x 96 cm Sea after the storm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collec...

Signed and dated "Allen Tucker 1930" lower left. Artwork measures 14" x 11 ¾" and framed 19" x 16 ½" x 2 ¼". Provenance: Gift from the artist to his friend Una Brage, USA/Switzerland, in the 1930s Estate of Ms. Brage to her friend Jean Corbett Peck, daughter of architect Harvey Wiley Corbett By descent About this artist: Allen Tucker, was an architect and painter so influenced by Vincent Van Gogh that he was called "Vincent in America". (Gerdts 291) Robert Henri and Maurice Prendergast were also credited as having an influence on Tucker's brushwork and compositions, the latter decisively. However, as his painting evolved, he did not fit into any tidy slot for description and was known as an individualist not easily categorized in American art history. Tucker was born in Brooklyn in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University with a degree in architecture and took a job as an architectural draftsman in the architectural firm of McIvaine and Tucker, his fathers business. During that time, he studied painting at the Art Students League with Impressionist John H. Twachtman, but it was not until around 1904, when he was 38, that Tucker became a full-time painter, leaving architecture behind. Many of his early canvases were classically Impressionistic with poplar trees resembling those of Van Gogh and haystacks and corn shocks...