Gustave Durand

Reclining Nude, Impressionist, Early 20th Century, Figure, Interior

Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1921, artist Norman Rubington studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he participated in a number of group exhibitions and his first solo show at the Salon d'Automne in 1948, which received high acclaim. Following his studies, he returned to the States and exhibited in a series of shows in Boston, New York and San Francisco. Rubington was awarded a grant from the Tiffany Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome prize and was a fellow of the McDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire. Rubington exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, City Center, New York, Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, Berman Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, American Academy, Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., Art Institute of Chicago, American Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Rome Art Club, and Museo Berera, Milan. Rubington's work is held in numerous private and public collections including permanent collections of the J.H. Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Obelisk Gallery, London, Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Grace Cathedral...

Leon Kroll was a painter, lithographer, art critic and teacher who was born in 1884 in New York City. Living his professional life in New York City and Chicago, he summered in Rockpo...

Odilon Roche was born in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire in 1868. He was a professional wine taster who traveled around Europe attending wine fairs. In 1902 he opened a shop selling artists'...

Painter and teacher, Thomas Fogarty, Jr., taught at the Art Students League in Manhattan for many years and exhibited his oil and pastel landscapes and still lifes at the Whitney Museum of American Art and many New York galleries. Fogarty began his teaching career at the Pratt Institute and Rutgers University, before joining the faculty at the Art Students League, where he taught painting, composition and life drawing. Fogarty was a member of the Society of Independent Artists. Both the artist and his father, Thomas Fogarty, Sr., were beloved teachers at the Art Students League and influenced generations of American painters, including Norman Rockwell. In “Draped Nude,” Fogarty’s vibrant use of color and soft, sensitive brushwork reminds the viewer of Pierre Bonnard’s interiors or early Picasso...

Nude reclining figure in candlelight

Clyde Steadman's "Annunciation" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model in an interior bathroom setting.

Clyde Steadman's "Bathsheba" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of a nude female model in an interior setting.

A German painter from Baden, he was a student of J W Schirmer in Dusseldorf and Baden Court. Oil on Panel Signed and Dated 1865 Provenance: Private Collection, Austria