Judith Simonds

Blaze, Original Oil Painting, 2018

2018

Artist Commentary: This painting was generated purely by imagination and imagery that I am drawn to. Keywords: Landscape & nature Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north o...

Artist Commentary: A stunning, colorful Texas sunset. Keywords: Landscape & Nature Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the ...

Artist Commentary: Halloween twilight in the Texas Hill Country. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wisconsin,...

Artist Commentary: Thanksgiving sunset in the Texas Hill Country. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in t...

Artist Commentary: A powerful storm was rolling in from west Texas when I captured this image with my camera. I painted it a few years later. The original artwork is matted and frame...

Artist Commentary: Texas hill country sunset on a warm October evening. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wis...

Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo...

Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees. Entitled “Birch,” this small-scale oil painting depicts a young birch sapling against an olive wood board. Restricting the composition to only a portion of the trunk, Surdo focuses on qualities that make the tree memorable - its narrow trunk...

Idealized landscape painting with a waterfall and mountains fading into the distance. The work is signed by the artist in the bottom corner. It is framed in a wooden frame with black...

[CHINESE SCHOOL]. Two Watercolour Scenes. Possibly Canton ca.1820]. Very impressive large scale watercolours of Chinese scenes, presumably executed for the Western market by an an...

Gustav Melcher (German, 1898-?) Segelschiffe vor Venedig - Sailing ships off Venice • India ink, water colour wash • Visible image ca. 11.5 x 18 cm • Glased Frame ca. 20 x 25 cm • Verso various inscriptions • Signed lower right Gustav Melcher was a German painter and a pioneer in film, film criticism and film theory and created this clever little picture of the skyline of Venice with various vessels. Going by the various inscriptions an the backing paper, this drawing was made in 1918 when Gustav was twenty years old and passed on three years later to Gertrud Melcher on the 1. 2. 1921. I have no reasons to doubt this information. The small drawing is still in its unopened frame, so maybe there is more information to be discovered , however this will be the privilege of the next owner. The picture also has retained its original antique frame – note that it has lost over the years various sections of the gesso decoration. The very precisely executed drawing is most enjoyable to look at and doing so, remember you are looking through the eyes of a young man, who saw this foreign sea cape over a century ago. Thank you for your interest and please note, that I offer free worldwide shipping on all my items. Gustav Melcher began his studies at the Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie under Peter Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt. Originaly he was interested in figurative and portrait painting, but after time he decided to pursue the depiction of land- and marinescapes. Durin his studies the young artist undertook trips to visit England, Scotland, Belgium and France and he joined the artist society Malkasten. It was in those days he would hold speeches to his colleges about this new invention called ‘Kintopp’ – Melcher was a great advocate of the moving pictures...

Ludovico Zambeletti (Italian, 1881 - 1966) Barche da pesca - Fishing boats • Water colour on paper, visible image ca. 9 x 13.5 cm • Glased frame ca. 18 x 25 cm • Signed bottom right Ludovico Zambeletti was born on the 19th of April, 1881 into a wealthy industrialist Milanese family. He was classically educated in the arts, enrolled into the Studio all’Academia di Brera and then studied under Cessare Tallone, Guiseppe Mentessi, Vespassiano Bignami and Camillo Rapetti...