Paintings

Alfred LAVERGNE Nontron (Dordogne), 1892 - Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), 1969 Oil on canvas Signed lower right “Alfred Lavergne” Located on the verso “Santeuil” 38 x 47 cm (57 x 65 cm w...

Alfred S. Wall (American, 1825-1896) Untitled (Building the Railroad), 1859 Oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower left For Christmas, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured Alfred Wall's painting, Old Saw Mill from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. It was painted in 1851 in the town of Lilly, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains. The newspaper description stated that "though the saw mill is long gone, it still conveys all the warmth and coziness of this time of year. The article, written by Patricia Lowry, continued: At first glance, Alfred S. Wall's painting of a saw mill in snowy woods triggers nostalgia for the coziness of a log cabin, the smell of a wood-burning fire and the warming of chilled hands and feet beside it. But as sentimental as it seems on the surface, Mr. Wall's painting has a deeper and unexpected context. This is more than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest. Intended or not, this is a painting about conquering the great divide of the Allegheny Mountains. For the third consecutive year, the Post-Gazette features a winter-scene painting on the cover of the Christmas Day newspaper. This year's painting, Old Saw Mill, was selected by co-publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block and executive editor David Shribman during a visit to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Mr. Wall, listed as a portrait painter in the 1850 census, was about 26 when he painted Old Saw Mill in 1851. The self-taught artist was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, to William and Lucy Wall, who'd emigrated from England around 1820. An artistic sensibility ran in the family: William was a sculptor who carved ornate tombstones here; Alfred's children, A. Bryan and Bessie, were landscape painters, as was Alfred's older brother, William Coventry Wall. For more than a century the Walls formed a prominent art dynasty in Pittsburgh, and Alfred, eventually a partner in the city's most prestigious art gallery, was well known as a painter, dealer and restorer. In Old Saw Mill, two wood cutters, each holding an axe, meet outside the mill; one points in the direction of the forest. On the other side of the stream, one child pulls another down the hillside on a sled. Just behind the hill's slope, the roof of a building appears, perhaps the home of the sawyer. The luminous, late afternoon light comes from the northwest, casting lengthening shadows on the snow under a darkening sky. The saw mill in "Old Saw Mill" likely would have been impossible to track down had Mr. Wall, presumably, not written on the back of the painting: "old saw mill near Jct. 4, Portage RR, Pa." "There was no Junction 4," said Mike Garcia, park ranger at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh near Gallitzen, Cambria County. "But there was an Inclined Plane No. 4 at Lilly, and there was a saw mill there." In fact, there were at least six saw mills at Lilly over the years, said longtime resident Jim Salony, president of the Lilly-Washington Historical Society. But when he saw an image of the painting, Mr. Salony had no trouble coming up with a location. While there are no known photographs of the saw mill, he believes it stood near the intersection of Portage and Washington streets, next to Bear Rock Run. Mr. Salony, retired academic dean at Mount Aloysius College, didn't know exactly when the mill was torn down, but it's been gone since at least the late 1800s. He was pleased to learn of the painting, even though that knowledge came too late for inclusion in a new book about Lilly, The Spirit of a Community, for which he served as primary author and editor. It runs to more than 700 pages. For a little town -- population 869 last year -- Lilly has a lot of history. Nestled in a bowl on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains about 3 miles south of Cresson, Lilly was first settled in 1806 by Joseph Meyer and his family, who named their 332-acre land patent Dundee. Although the Meyers had left by 1811, other settlers followed, but the community didn't flourish until the 1830s, when the Allegheny Portage Railroad began its 23-year-run through the town. For 200 years the Alleghenies had stood as an impediment to trade and travel between Pittsburgh and the east. A canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would change that and compete with New York's Erie Canal. But a portage railroad would have to be built, on which teams of horses would lead the canal boats over the mountains. Engineer Sylvester Welch began his surveying from the small settlement at Lilly. The railroad would require 10 inclined planes, some quite steep, between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown. To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built. William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear Rock Run, built at least one of the engine houses at Inclined Plane No. 4; an 1834 contract also included fencing the dwelling lots at the head and foot of the plane. Lilly is located at what was the foot of Inclined Plane No. 4., giving the community one of its early informal names, Foot of Four. Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped from the trees at the saw mill. Because there isn't another Allegheny Portage Railroad location like it, where a cut in the mountains opens into a bowl, Mr. Salony thinks it was Lilly that Charles Dickens wrote about following his trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Canal in late March 1842, describing what he saw after emerging from "the bottom of the cut": "It was very pretty while traveling, to look down into a valley full of light and softness, catching glimpses through the tree-tops of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting out to bark, who we could see without hearing; terrified pigs scampering homeward; families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind." To get to Lilly, Mr. Wall may have taken the Pennsylvania Canal from his home in Allegheny City, now the North Side. He'd married young, at 21, to Sarah Carr in 1846, the same year he began his career as an artist. By 1880 they were living in a brick townhouse at 104 (later 814) Arch St., now demolished. Across the river in Pittsburgh he shared a studio at 67 Fourth Ave. with his brother William; they later moved to Burke's Building, today the city's oldest office building at 209-211 Fourth. But often they worked outdoors, sometimes as part of the colony of artists that grew up around painter George Hetzel beginning in the late 1860s at Scalp Level...

This is an original painting of a bride on her wedding day. I painted this in a contemporary Art Nouveau style, with flowing lines and organic shapes. The painting is built up with t...

This beautiful British Art Deco floral oil painting is by noted Cornish artist Philip Rashleigh, who used the name Frank for exhibition purposes. The Rashleighs were an old and disti...

Paul Emmerson original artwork abstract ….impressionist…. pattern Painting with acrylic on board with collage using Venilia, Flock and Newsprint Paul Emmerson is available online and in our gallery with Wychwood Art...

Long-necked , elegant slender fingers and spellbinding eyes define a quintessential Latin beauty. The painting is has a simple, architectonic composition of vertical and horizontal e...

The Jungle have intrigued people for decades, offering a dream of escape from humdrum reality to a savage and yet enchanting realm. Art-Deco style, Nature inspired Tropical Feelings....

James Brade Sword (1839 - 1915) Couple in the Field Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Signed lower left After a childhood in Macao, China, James Brade Sword started out in life, after hi...

This is a masterfully rendered and brilliantly designed scene from the Arabian Nights. page 33 from Random House. We are not sure if this is by Gustaf Tenggren. ( Gustaf Tenggren At...

We are pleased to offer several works by this artist.

Lawrence G. Low (American, 1912 - 1992) Signed: L. G. Low (Lower, Center, Right) " My Wife Myrtle on a Palette with Brushes ", 1939 Oil on Canvas 26" x 20 1/8" Housed in a...

Artist: Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940-) Title: Pulcinella Year: 1975 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 48 in. x 32 in. (121.92 cm x 81.28 cm)

The Jungle have intrigued people for decades, offering a dream of escape from humdrum reality to a savage and yet enchanting realm. Art-Deco style, Nature inspired Tropical Feelin...

James McDougal Hart (1828-1901) was a prominent American landscape painter and a key figure in the Hudson River School. His landscapes are characterized by their serene and idyllic q...

This painting by Howard Russell Butler captures the serene, almost mystical presence of a Yellowstone geyser in a moment of stillness. Known for his ability to portray the grandeur o...

This captivating artwork, titled "Children Feeding the Horse", is masterfully executed in rich tones. It depicts two children tenderly feeding a gentle white horse against a familiar...

This piece is an original Oil Painting on canvas after Tamara's De Lempicka's "Blue Woman with Guitar". That classic piece is emulate here by an artist clearly in love with the stun...

Portraits of a man and Woman Circa 1850-1860 Original Oil on Paper Early American portraits in the style of and possibly by Henry Bryan Hall (English/American, 1808-1861) Later in hi...

From the series “Please do not kill butterfliesâ€

This is a highly stylized circus acrobat scene. Done “en grissille” or shades of grey, it portrays an acrobat on a trapeze high above the crowd, abstractly shown lower right. The stark composition, enhanced by the theatrical lighting...

Art deco movie theater in College Station Texas, 1985 :: Painting :: Art Deco/Art Nouveau :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authentici...

Artist Commentary: I love Art Deco, so I thought I'd do some and here is the first of maybe a 1/2 dozen. More to come.... Keywords: City, Emerald, Search lights Artist Biography: Robert Crooker...

Blue Ridge Valley 2. Original landscape painting. Mixed Media on board (Gesso, acrylic and acrylic inks). Image Size. 47cm x 16cm. Framed size. 72cm x 40cm x 4cm. Sold framed – Beaut...

Original contemporary figurative Art Deco painting on canvas, painted edges and ready to hang. Frame is recommended. Multi-coloured painting using oils and acrylics with gold acryli...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...

Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...

Lacquer painting on silver foil representing a woman resting in the wood. Art deco painting from Italian painter Cavenago. Signed low in the center. On wood panel.

Gerard Tunney Midsummer Ballet Suite. Dancer and Sun Dial Original Figurative Painting Acrylic Paint on Canvas Canvas Size: H 30cm x W 40cm x D 2cm Sold Unframed Please note that ins...

"Reading After School," attributed to Edward Lamson Henry, offers a glimpse into the everyday moments of 19th-century American life. Known for his meticulous detail and his ability t...

Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (1831 - 1915) A Quiet Afternoon, 1876 Oil on canvas 15 1/4 x 21 inches Signed and dated lower right Born in 1831 in Boston, Enoch Wood Perry, Jr, is internati...

Static series is inspired by color and pattern found in nature, Each color stands alone in the painting, layering of pure color creates the visual blending that I achieve. Each s...

This beautiful oil on canvas painting of two sisters playing by the famous American Artist John G Brown has been lined. There is a slight touch up, and i...

A frieze of figures who resemble warriors appears in a pool of red., a color which symbolizes the fierce nature of this encounter, which may have possibly occurred during a volcanic ...

Artwork is done on cardboard, signed lower left. A certificate of authenticity is available.

"Wonderland" large oil painting 48"x60" on canvas. Due to large size canvas will be removed from stretcher bars, gently rolled and shipped in a tu...

JAMES MCDOUGAL HART (1828–1901) View of Lake Champlain, c. 1857 Oil on canvas 26 3/16 x 36 1⁄4 inches Signed lower center Exhibition History: National ...

A wonderful landscape by American artist Thomas Mickell Burnham (1818-1866). Burnham was born in Boston, MA and received informal art training early on, traveling abroad before relo...

Thomas Ralph Spence’s "A Thunder Shower on Lago Maggiore, North Italy" captures a dramatic moment of nature’s power over the serene landscape of Lago Maggiore. Known for his architec...

Painting as limited edition high quality print on canvas at the original size, signed and numbered on the back, with limited edition certificate of authenticity. :: Painting :: Art...

Painted by Hudson River School artist Mary Josephine Walters (1837-1883), "Autumn River with Punt in the Reeds" is oil on canvas and measures 13.25 x 23.75 inches. It is inscribed in...

A traditional view of water lilies in a pond, with a contemporary "dots" decoration. Other features: MEDIUM AND MATERIALS: oil on thick paper (cardboard) - FINISHING: protective varn...

Leading Hudson River School Painter Famous for New England Views.

A feeling of the Hungarian composers Bartok and Kodaly underlies the mood, color and atmosphere of this work. Signed and dated on the back and wired for hanging. Shipped in a crate w...

Signed and dated lower left: W.R. Miller. 1877.

The landscape in the garden (series of pictures in a semicircle) will give you a different perspective of the paintings. Hope you enjoy the pictures and collect them for your beautif...

The flowing cascades of this waterfall reveal little mechanisms coming out of the water to provoke the imagination. This large, signature piece needs a feature wall to do justice to ...

- Gouache on paper. - Circa 1920. Dimensions H: 49 cm W: 50 cm/H: 19.29 in W: 19.69 in (unframed H: 71 cm W: 71 cm/H: 27.95 in W: 27.95 in (framed)

Afternoon sun on ancient architecture, a glorious past of feudal dynasties existed in Vietnam. :: Painting :: Art Deco/Art Nouveau :: This piece comes...

The bamboo basket on the shoulder of a girl in the Central Highlands The image of a woman with a basket on her back has become a typical symbol of highland women. There is no short...

Original contemporary figurative Art Deco painting on canvas, painted edges and ready to hang. Frame is recommended. Multi-coloured painting using oils and acrylics with gold acryli...

Author's technique When creating a picture, I am guided by emotions and energy. :: Painting :: Art Deco/Art Nouveau :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity...

Do you remember going to the Drive-In theater? The waitresses would bring piping hot popcorn, hot dogs and drinks to your car window while you and your friends or family enjoyed the ...

A shimmering wall of water creates auroras which like those in the sky, can create a euphoric sense of weightlessness. This large, signature piece needs a feature wall to do justice ...

Oil painting is done by smearing colors on the canvas using a combination of brush and knife to create a deeply textured rough raw unfinished look. The color scheme is very light g...

"Young Ladies Sewing" by Francis Blackwell Mayer is a charming portrayal of domestic life in the 19th century. Painted by the American artist known for his genre scenes and historica...

Artist Commentary: An Art Deco rendition of a trip I took in 2010, the train from London to Paris... Keywords: symmetry, London, Paris, Train, europe, travel, night and day, night, ...

Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped t...

Artist Commentary: Another attempt at Art Deco.... Keywords: Glider, Clouds, Deco, Sky Artist Biography: Robert Crooker was born in Massachusetts in 1951. A life long Red Sox fan, he saw the likes of Frank Malzone, Yaz, George Scott, Rico, Jim Lonborg all play in years gone by. He has been married for over 27 years with 4 children, and 2 grandchildren. In the Mid-1970’s, Robert started collecting Vintage Disney Collectibles...