William Webster

Cedar Key Cracker Box, Painting, Watercolor on Wood Panel

2018

I am the scarlet parrot from the Amazon, Intelligent, beautiful, passionate, Trapped in a cage too small for my wings. Bored, With nothing but a pretty bell To keep me enterta...

Contemporary Impressionism This charming plein-air watercolour was painted on a blustery September afternoon and features Hardingham village sign and bus shelter...

Contemporary Impressionism Pretty tabby kitten sitting next to a basket of summer flowers. Lots of colour and fine detail in this beautiful watercolour. Signed on the front and...

This painting is about an iconic bar, restaurant, and live music venue in Tampa, Fl. Sadly, it closed in 2020 due to COVID-19. :: Painting :: Impressionist ...

Watercolor on paper sold with frame (wooden frame with glass) Total size with frame 33x43 cm

We are delighted to offer a captivating watercolor by the American artist Hugo Anton Fisher (1854–1916). This serene composition depicts cows drinking at the edge of a calm body of w...

Edward Dufner (1872 - 1957) Monhegan Island, Maine Watercolor on paper Sight 16 x 20 inches Signed lower right With a long-time career as an art teacher and painter of both 'light' and 'dark', Edward Dufner was one of the first students of the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy to earn an Albright Scholarship to study painting in New York. In Buffalo, he had exchanged odd job work for drawing lessons from architect Charles Sumner. He also earned money as an illustrator of a German-language newspaper, and in 1890 took lessons from George Bridgman at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy. In 1893, using his scholarship, Dufner moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League where he studied with Henry Siddons Mowbray, figure painter and muralist. He also did illustration work for Life, Harper's and Scribner's magazines. Five years later, in 1898, Dufner went to Paris where he studied at the Academy Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens and privately with James McNeill Whistler. Verification of this relationship, which has been debated by art scholars, comes from researcher Nancy Turk who located at the Smithsonian Institution two 1927 interviews given by Dufner. Turk wrote that Dufner "talks in detail about Whistler, about how he prepared his canvasas and about numerous pieces he painted. . . A great read, the interview puts to bed" the ongoing confusion about whether or not he studied with Whistler. During his time in France, Dufner summered in the south at Le Pouleu with artists Richard Emil Miller...

Vibrant study of sunflowers by D. Bennett (20th Century). Several sunflowers sit in a striking blue vase, rendered in a loose but skillful style. The flowers and foliage are partiall...