Jim Lagasse

Winter Birches, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

2021

-Painted on artist quality acid-free 140 lb. watercolor paper. -Professional quality artists watercolor paints. (Daniel Smith) -Acid-Free paper. -Size: 11" x 14" -Signature on th...

-Painted on artist-quality acid-free 140 lb. watercolor paper. -Professional quality artists with watercolor paints. (Sennelier) -Acid-Free paper. -Size: 11" x 14" -Signature on ...

-Painted on artist quality acid-free 140 lb. watercolour paper. -Professional quality artists watercolour paints. (Sennelier) -Acid-Free paper. -Size: 12" x 14" -Signature on th...

-Painted on artist quality acid-free 140 lb. watercolor paper. -Professional quality artists watercolor paints. (Daniel Smith) -Acid-Free paper. -Size: 11" x 14" -Signature on th...

Original watercolor and gouache on archival paper of birch trees in winter along a fenced roadway with a quaint home in the background. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1960. The watercolor is in a solid mahogany frame under UV glass in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 14 by 11 inches. Provenance: A East Hampton, Long Island, New York collector. Born in Queens, Long Island, NY, Impressionist landscape and seascape painter Francis Dixon studied at the Art Students League in New York City under Impressionists Frank Vincent DuMond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts artist, Charles W. Hawthorne, and modernist Robert Henri. Having a good singing voice Dixon was an Army and Navy Song Leader for the War Department during World War I. From 1915 to 1917 was living and painting in Los Angeles, Carmel and Point Lobos, California. Dixon exhibited his California paintings at Folson Galleries New York City in 1917. Dixon continued to travel and paint, visiting Bermuda in 1923 and 1925, and Europe in the mid-1920s. In the 1930s he was living on West 55th Street in Manhattan with a number of other artists. He was a member of the Allied Artists of America (NY); Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; and the Salmagundi Club, NY. He exhibited at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1916); Folson Gallery (NY, 1917, solo); Society of Independent Artists (NYC, 1917-18, 1920-22, 1924); Salmagundi Club (NYC, 1917-1940, 1943, 1945); National Academy of Design (NYC, 1925); Studio Guild Galleries (NYC, 1937); Barbizon-Plaza Galleries NYC, 1939); Allied Artists of America (NYC, 1940); and Salons of America (NYC). Dixon’s solo exhibitions included Babcock Galleries (NYC, 1926 and 1927); Women's University Club...

Exquisite ink and watercolor landscape of a birch grove rich in autumn colored foliage by J. Rottin, circa 1960. Signed lower right. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displa...

Spring in Maine 16.0 x 20.0 x 1.0, 3.0 lbs Watercolor on wood Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "My paintings are the expression of an appreciation of nature in an in...

This oil painting captures the quiet elegance of a birch forest in winter. The vertical rhythm of slender white trunks, accented with delicate shades of blue and violet, creates a ca...