Thomas Brownell Eldred

"Abstraction" mid-century abstract expressionist painting noted American artist

1946

Born in Ontario, Canada, Rolph Scarlett left home at age eighteen for New York City, making that city his home for long periods during his lifetime. While beginning his career as an ...

Alice Maud Fanner was born in Surrey in 1865 and for many years lived in the Chiswick area of London. She studied at the Richmond School of Art and also taught there. She attended Slade School of Art in London. She was a pupil of Albert Julius Olsson. Like Olsson, Fanner often painted the sea and the coast, as well as yachts and sailing scenes. One of her paintings, "Riverside Landscape," was included in the book "Women Painters...

This painting uses cool earth colors and a combination of oil and wax to create a landscape focusing on brushwork, color and form. Like many of the artists paintings the landscape co...

Calvert Coggeshall Untitled, 1958 Oil on Canvas 38 H. x 36 W. inches Provenance: The artist's estate Calvert Coggeshall worked as an abstract painter and interior designer primarily in Maine and New York City. From 1951 to 1978, he exhibited regularly with the Betty Parsons Gallery, and later with its successor, the Jack Tilton Gallery. Born in Whitesboro, New York, Coggeshall started his career as an interior designer, working on commissions for clients in the New York City area. He later consulted on the interior designs for Henry Dreyfuss' line of cruise/cargo ships called American Export, popular from the 1940s through the 1960s. In the 1940s, he also worked with inventor Arthur Young to design interiors for the first full-sized scale of Bell helicopter models...