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“Pasion en Silencio 2”

2001

Mixed media painting consisting of watercolor and acrylic painting on arches paper by the American artist, Irving Marcus. Signed and dated lower right, 1973. Condition is very good....

Original, rare work by the American female artist Molla Archer Moss. A mixed media work of oil on paper of three young children with the addition of wax sticks as the secondary medium. Signed “Molla” lower left. Condition is fair to good. Circa 1958. The artwork is under glass and in its original frame. 0verall framed measurements are 29.25 by 25 inches. Provenance: Roko Gallery and Frames, 925 Madison Avenue, New York (stamped verso). Molla Archer Moss was born in 1916 Molla was a friend and contemporary to Jasper Johns. Molla’s work would often share a synergy to the constructed use of elements and materials upon which Johns is known. Moss had several New York Exhibitions at the Marian Willard Gallery, East Hampton Gallery and the Rose Fried Gallery...

Woodblock by the American artist John Little. Signed and dated in pencil lower right, 1974. Number 11/15. Inscribed "Merry Christmas to Alfred and Harold" in pencil lower right. Condition: excellent. In thin metal frame 29.25 by 33.25 inches. John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950. In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little’s textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory. In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...

A beautiful small oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Unframed and signed lower left and dated 1976. Signed and dated verso as well. Tschacbasov'...

Original oil paint and acrylic paint on canvas by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed bottom middle. Titled and dated verso, 1977/1978. The location for the painting is Midnight Pass near where the artist once lived in Sarasota, Florida. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in its original gallery frame with silver edge. Overall framed measurements are 51 by 38 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. American, 1917-2004 SYD SOLOMON BIOGRAPHY: Written by Dr. Lisa Peters/Berry Campbell Gallery “Here, in simple English, is what Syd Solomon does: He meditates. He connects his hand and paintbrush to the deeper, quieter, more mysterious parts of his mind- and he paints pictures of what he sees and feels down there.” --Kurt Vonnegut Jr. from Palm Sunday, 1981 Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd...

Original mid-century modern abstract oil on canvas painting by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right and dated 1945. Condition is very good. P...

Exceptional painting by Maryanne Pollock titled "Transmitter". Work is signed and dated 2021 on reverse. Painting measures 48" x 48" and is mixed media on canvas. Artists Robert ...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with thick acid free matting and UV plexi...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with thick 4-ply acid free matting and UV...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with thick 4-ply acid free matting and UV...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with 4" thick acid free matting and UV pl...

West Industrial, 2018, by Liberty Blake. 48 x 46 inches (wood cradle, no frame), assemblage and mixed media. Artist Statement: I would describe myself as an abstract collage artis...