Alfred Birdsey

"Bermuda Island Street Scene" c1955 Watercolour By Alfred Birdsey

1955

Stylish advertising artwork promoting Lanvin's perfume 'Spanish Geranium' featuring a flower cart in front of trellis arches Art Sz: 12 1/2"H x 19"W Frame Sz: 19 1/4"H x 25 3/4"W

Original watercolor of Grace Bay in the Turks & Caicos signed by Freddy Cushing (1934-2013) the Newport, RI scion & dated 1/20/90 Provenance: The Ishe...

Charming Dutch watercolour circa 1828 depicting two boys by a cottage in a silver gilt frame Art Sz: 10.5"H x 17.75"W Frame Sz: 18.5"H x 25.75"W

Watercolour depicting a pheasant in flight passing a barn in winter signed, Lambert (LR) Art Sz: 9 1/2"H x 14 1/2"W Frame Sz: 16 1/4"H X 21 1/2W w/ lacquer birdseye maple frame

Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973) Gondolas at the Dock, Venice, Italy, 1928 Watercolor on paper Sight 18 x 23 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower right Louis Wolchonok was an author of ar...

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939) Medieval Thoughts, circa 1890 Wash, ink, and watercolor on paper 11 x 9 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Phillips New York, 19th and 20th ce...

Joseph Yoakum Andes Mountains Peru So America, circa 1960s Colored pencil and ballpoint pen on paper 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches Provenance: Karen Lennox Gallery, Chicago Private Collection, South Dakota Yoakum began drawing in the early 1960s. Most of his work consists of radiantly colored landscapes with mountains, water, trees, and winding roads in abstract and complex configurations. his period of greatest activity — 1965 to 1970 — when he usually made one drawing a day. Yoakum maintained he had seen all the places represented in his drawings, a statement that may not be true in some instances. He traveled a great deal, beginning in his early teens when he ran away from home and became a circus handyman. Yoakum’s drawings can be considered memory images growing out of either actual or imagined experiences. All of his drawings have titles that grew longer and more specific over the years. He dated his works with a rubber stamp — an oddly impersonal, labor-saving device. Although Joseph Yoakum gave vastly different accounts of his background, he was, throughout his life, classified as an African American. Sometimes Yoakum claimed that he was a full-blooded ​“Nava-joe” Indian, one of twelve or thirteen children born to a farmer on an Indian reservation in Window Rock, Arizona. At other times he insisted that he was of African-American descent. He described his mother as a strong woman who was a doctor and knowledgeable in the use of herbal medicines. Yoakum’s family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, during his early childhood. His father was employed briefly in the railroad yards prior to settling permanently on a farm in nearby Walnut Grove...

Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964) Moraine and Snow Peaks, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, c. 1950 Watercolor on paper 19 x 24 inches 21 x 26 inches framed "My bigge...