Helen Talvacchio

The Man Who Has Everything

1940

LUCIEN BOULIER "NUDE WITH RED HAIR" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1930 26 X 20 INCHES Lucien Boulier 1882-1963 Lucian Boulier was born Verdun...

Beautiful young lady in a Paris Park, signed, Original Frame, listed size includes the frame.

ANNA WALENSKA "THE PATRIARCH" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED ON VERSO AMERICAN, DATED 1950-51 29.5 X 25.5 INCHES FRAMED 38.75 X 33.75 INCHES ANNA WALINSKA 1906 – 1997 A painter, illustrator and teacher at the Master Institute of Arts in New York City, Anna Walinska was born in London, England and settled in New York in 1914. Showing obvious art talent as a youngster, she first enrolled in the Art Students League in 1918 when she was age 12. Walinska lived on and off in Paris from 1928-1930, and studied there with Andre Lhote. She founded the Guild Art Gallery on West 57th Street in 1935, where she gave Arshile Gorky his first New York one-man show. In 1939, she served as the Assistant Creative Director of the Contemporary Art Pavilion at the New York World's Fair in 1939. She traveled around the world in 1955, including a four month sojourn in Burma, and she taught at the Riverside Museum from 1957-1971. Major exhibitions included: solo retrospective at the Jewish Museum, 1957; solo retrospective at the Museum of Religious Art, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1979; posthumous solo exhibition at the Ghetto Museum, Theresienstadt, Czech Republic, 2000. Group exhibitions included: Salon des Independents, Paris, c. 1926-30; first annual exhibition of the American Artists' Congress in 1937; Artists for Victory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1942; Paintings of the Year, National Academy of Design, 1946; Recent Drawings USA, MOMA, 1956; Baltimore Museum of Art, 1957; numerous exhbit ions with the National Association of Women Artists and the Federation of Modern Painters & Sculptors. Walinska's are included in numerous museum collections both here and abroad, including: The National Portrait Gallery, National Museum of American Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Herbert Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Jewish Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Yad Vashem. Walinska's scrapbooks of the Guild Art Gallery (see below), along with sketchbooks and journals on world travel are included in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Asia Society, NYC Portrait of U Nu, 1955: oil on canvas, 41 x 50 Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester Massachusetts Victims, 1956, oil on paper, 30-3/4 x 24-1/2 Victims, 1959, oil on paper mounted on masonite, 72 x 36 Victims in Madhouse, oil & chalk on paper, 42-1/2 x 30-1/2 Elegy, 1978, charcoal & oil on masonite board, 25-1/2 x 38 Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Portrait of Arshile Gorky, 1975, oil on canvas, 61 x 35-1/2 Survivors: Exile in Landscape, 1957, oil on paper, 26 x 38-1/4 Victim: Buddha Figure, 1956, ink on paper, 58 x 34 Hyde Park Library, Long Island NY Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, charcoal on canvas, 23-1/2 x 25-1/2 Jewish Museum, NYC Moses, 1962: charcoal on heavy paper, 23 x 43 Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley CA Victims: Ghetto Figures in Landscape, 1957, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 (Holocaust series #24) Victims: Figures in Ghetto, 1957, oil on canvas board, 20 x 16 (Holocaust series #25) Victims: Women & Girls on Way to Gas Chamber, 1978, charcoal on paper, 42-1/2 x 30-1/2 (Holocaust series #44) Survivors: Figures Behind Barbed Wire, 1973, oil on paper, 42-12/ x 30-1/2 (Holocaust series#46) Portrait of Mark Rothko, ink on paper, 42 x 30 Portrait of Louise Nevelson, 1978, ink on paper, 42 x 30 Portrait of Moshe...

UMBERTO ROMANO "HORSE TRAINERS" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED AMERICAN, DATED 1952 23.74 X 35.75 INCHES Born: 1905 - Naples, Italy Died: 1984 - New York C...

ALFRED MCNAMARA "INTERIOR " OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED TITLED AMERICAN, DATED 1978 30 X 36 INCHES Alfred McNamara (1911 - 1994) Alfred McNamara was born in Tompkinsville, Staten Island and lived most of his life in Staten Island. He was heavily influenced by John Sloane...

IRVING GEORGE LEHMAN "CUBIST FIURES' OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED RUSSIAN-AMERICAN, C.1960 23.5 X 25.5 INCHES FRAMED 29.5 X 32.5 INCHES Irving George Lehman 1900-1983 Born in Kiev, R...

Riot, Revolution, Police figures on Horseback in City Streets. Hand signed lower right. Painting measures 6 x 12, framed 9 x 15 inches. Arthur Smith is a...

Mark Swanson (b. 1958) “Mountain Springtime" Oil on Panel 18 x 22 inches/ 25 x 29 Framed Mark Swanson was born in 1958 in South Dakota and raised in California. Although his uncles, Ray and Gary...

"Navajo Camp" is an oil on panel painting by Gerard Curtis Delano. The painting is signed lower left "Delano". The framed piece measures 31 x 36 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches. Delano was a pai...

An oil painting created from direct observation. A bound branch of birch leaves, secured with a length of twine and hung upon a white wall for observation. A soft shadow is cast by t...

Painted from life, the artist standing on a street corner looking across to three buildings lit by ambient street lights. Rising up behind the city is a dark mass, a hill silhouetted against the comparatively brighter blue night sky. Signed "Personett" lower right corner. Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim. Framed dimensions: 17 x 15 inches Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenged of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes. Artist Statement My mother had studied advertising in college, so she knew a lot about arts and good craftsmanship. She did talks at my elementary school each week and on a different artist. I remember being very moved by the images of Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth. At the Florence Academy I really liked Sargent, Sorolla, Willard Metcalf, Henri Fantin-Latour and Velazquez. At Odd Nerdrums I gained new respect for Rembrandt and was introduced to other Scandinavian painters...

Nanci France-Vaz's "Majestic Arabian, Thoroughbred Golden Brown" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a regal horse with a dark coat and wearing a leather bridle.