Ralph Hulett

Funeral Range, Watercolor by Ralph Hulett

Artist: Allen Tucker, American (1866 - 1939) Title: Western Landscape Year: 1931 Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed and dated Size: 14 in. x 20 in. (35.56 cm x 50.8 cm)

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Roslyn (P1.11), Year: 1959, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.88 cm), Description: Tinted in a soft purple hu...

A delightful watercolour study heightened with gouache depicting Langdale Pikes in the Lake District. The artist captures a hamlet of small cottages to the bottom of the valley empha...

“Late Afternoon Landscape” is set in the golden light of evening painted in the mid-west town of Utica, Michigan. It has the atmosphere of when work is done and peace and quiet blanket the countryside. The The farm machinery has ceased its racket as has the family dog wandering about for one last sniff. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and conservative glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...