Carl Niederer

'Yerba Buena from Telegraph Hill', San Francisco, Bay Bridge, California

1965

Signed lower left, "E Hansen" for Ejnar Hansen (American, 1884-1965) and dated 1936. Ejnar Hansen studied at Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Art before moving to the United States in 1914 and settling in Pasadena in 1924. An ardent proponent of modernist color theory, Hansen became an influential teacher at the Chouinard School, the Otis Art Institute, the John Muir College, and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts. He exhibited widely and with success, including in Denmark and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the 1939 World's Fair and at the Cincinnati Museum. Ejnar was a member of the Academy of Western Painters, the Los Angeles Art Association, the California Art Club, the California Watercolor Society, Pasadena Society of Artists and the Foundation for Western Art. Ejnar Hansen's works may be found in numerous public and private collections including LACMA, the Pasadena Art Institute and the San Diego Fine Art Society. Reference: Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 484; Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 1449; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 2, p. 371; Revyen, Chicago 23.12.1916; 17.2.1917; 8.12.1917; 2.2.1918; 16.3.1918; Vore Herrer, okt. 1918; Internat. Studio, juli 1920; Ekstrabl. 14.2.1921 (G. Nygaard); Tidens Kvinder, maj 1934; Fr. Graae: Fra Sydhavsøerne, 1934, 133-45; Art Digest, aug. 1937, dec. 1944, maj 1945; Da. Tid., Chicago 3.9.1937; Arts and Arch., apr. 1938; P. Uttenreitter: Olaf Rude...

Signed lower right, 'Tom McCobb' for Thomas McCobb (American, 1930-2020); additionally inscribed verso with artist's name, title and medium. Tom McCobb began focusing on his waterc...

Signed lower left, 'Andy le Poidevin' (British, d. 2019) and dated 2001. A gentle English watercolor showing a view of a woodland scene in the English Cotswolds with distant morning...

Signed lower right, second panel, 'Isabelle Schrock' for Isabelle Schrock Barnett (American, 1903-1995) and painted circa 1975. Additionally signed, verso, on each panel and titled, 'Hillside City' on artist card. Left panel dimensions: 22 x 30 inches. Right panel dimensions: 30 x 22 inches. Total dimensions: 30 x 52 inches. Exhibited: Lodi 16th Annual Art Exhibition (1975) from partial label, verso, on right panel. An unusual, asymmetric diptych landscape showing a view of a Northern California coastal city, probably Berkeley, set in gently rolling hills and painted circa 1975. Born in Augusta, Kansas, Isabelle Schrock Barnett moved to California with her family at the age of five and graduated from the the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1923. She subsequently studied with Frederick Taubes and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Over the course of a long and successful career as an artist, Isabelle Schrock Barnett exhibited widely and with success including at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, the Oakland Art Association, the San Francisco League of Women Artists and the Central California Art...

Signed lower right, 'Burnham SWA' for Jane Burnham Crawford (American 1926-2016) and painted circa 1985. A substantial and loosely painted view of five d...

Signed lower left, 'Vernon Nye' (American, 1915-2013), inscribed 'AWS' and painted circa 1975. A key figure in California's post-war watercolor revival, Ve...

Soft watercolor accents add to the beauty of this cyanotype and watercolor landscape of forest trees, titled "Floating Shadows", by Cheryl Trotter (American, 20th century), c. 1980's...

Soft watercolor and Cyanotype of oak trees at Rancho San Carlos by Cheryl Trotter (American, 20th century). Signed lower right "Cheryl Trotter." Displayed i...

1930's watercolor figurative landscape depicting the First Church of Christ Congregational in Milford, Connecticut by J. Nolan of Providence, Rhode Island (American, 20th Century). S...

Serene watercolor by California artist Edna Lewis (nee Sutherland) (1905-1975). The viewer looks our over an inlet to a lake or bay, with mountain ranges in the distance. Two trees with bright yellow leaves sit at the shore of the water. The sky is rendered with a flowing wet-on-wet style, creating flowing, puffy clouds. Signed and dated "Edna Lewis 61" in the lower left corner. Presented in a wood frame with a blue mat. Frame size: 29"H x 23"W Paper size: 21.75"H x 15"W Edna Evelyn Sutherland Lewis (American, 1905-1975) was born in Porterville, CA on April 17, 1905. She studied art at the University of California before going on to study with Kenneth Washburn and Dr. Raymond Brose (San Jose State). Lewis was a long-time resident of Redwood City...

Gloucester Harbor Docking the Boat 1900 Gloucester Harbor circa 1900 by C. Bailey Cora was a San Francisco artist in the 19th century. (American), 19th-20th C). Image, 9.75"H x 14.5"...

Harvest Time The Hills of Mt Tamalpais near Lake Bon Tempe 1890s The Hills around San Rafael in the 19th century were a time of work and play as seen in this watercolor near Lake Bon...