Eric Brown

The Quarry

A striking scene depicting construction workers in a quarry. A truck kicks up dust and it winds up a dirt track before a vast landscape. The artist captures the scene in a warm palet...

Hans Tisdall (1910-1977) signed l.l. White Cliff II , 1960 oil on canvas , 20 x 16 inches Beautiful pared down landscape of a white cliff against a dark background , British coast ...

Linda Mitchell (born Atlanta, 1960) grew up in a family that nurtured her strong, early interest in both animals and making art. As a child, she started painting, making animal figur...

the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate

Large, oil on canvas by German artist Paul von Ravenstein (1854-1938). Signed lower left corner. Framed in a hand-carved, gilt-wood frame. Ravenstein studied the changes in color c...

A charming oil study of a valley running through a mountainous landscape in an impressionist style. Unsigned. On canvas.

Work on canvas

Signed lower right: "Atherton", inscribed "John Atherton Original Tempera 7/28/50" on verso. Artwork measures 16" x 20" and framed 20" x 24" x 2 ½" About this artists: John Atherton (1900-1952) did not show an early aptitude for art; rather, his first love was nature and the activities he relished there, mainly fishing and hunting. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1900, he learned to fish with his father from the age of four. Later the family moved to Spokane, Washington, and when he was old enough, Atherton worked at a variety of jobs to help support his family. One such job, in the sorting plant of a lead and silver mine, paid $4.25 a day—a good wage, though he never had time to spend his money, since he worked seven days a week. After serving in the Navy for a year during World War I, Atherton was determined to get an education. He worked as a sign painter and played the banjo in a dance band, finally accumulating enough money to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Once there, he worked like a fiend, attending classes both during the day and at night, getting the best training available. Though he had always intended to be a fine artist, Atherton’s first jobs were for commercial art firms. In 1929, using the prize money won for a painting he entered in an art competition, Atherton and his wife moved to New York City. Though the economic situation was difficult in those years, he managed to keep going by taking commissions for magazine illustrations, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post. In 1938, an artist friend suggested that he use the same flat, decorative style as his commercial work for his gallery paintings. This was a breakthrough for Atherton; soon afterwards he held a one-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and his paintings began to be collected by museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Atherton’s reputation increased to a national scale when he designed the art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 World’s Fair that strikingly depicted Earth and its atmospheric layers in the lap of Liberty. Atherton was highly influenced by the magic realist...

Alfred Godchaux (1835-1895) An accomplished painter, he was interested in depicting multiple Venetian scenes. He was influenced by the Impressionists a...

A Place Without Time Michael Protiva (20th/21st Century) Signed Lower Left 48 x 60 inches 49.25 x 61.25 inches with frame Michael Protiva's interest i...