Jack Henderson

Jack Henderson, The Winners

1961-62

Henry Schnakenberg is mostly known for New York City scenes. This is clearly a departure. It is signed at the lower left and dated '4-53' on the r...

This subject was published by Associated American Artists in an edition of 162. In the AAA catalogue raisonné of publications, by Gail Windisch, Art for Every Home, it serves as the...

John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks for handles. Fletcher 284. Ed...

The dimensions are for the image. There are large margins. Signed in pencil. A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970), recorded the urban scene while on the Works Progress Admini...

John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks ...

The dimensions are for the image; there are large margins. This lithograph is signed in pencil. A native New Yorker, Ann Nooney (1900-1970) recorded the urban scene while on the Wo...

The Menthol Mood, 2009, Nancy Lamb, Oil on canvas, 48 x 85" Nancy Lamb (American, born 1956), sculptor and painter. Formally trained at Texas Christian Un...

Untitled, Scissione , oil Thinner and ink on canvas Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the ag...

This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed verso a) “Army Poker / Mervin Honig / 421 W 42 St. N.Y.C.,” b) “Mervin Honig / US Army Air Force – Seymour Johnson Field – Goldsboro, NC / Circa 1943,” and c) “(This painting was done before men was (sic) shipped off to the Mariana Islands (Saipan) The Second World War.” Note: four pencil sketches for this work included Mervin Honig was a New York-based painter and illustrator who is best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life and sports themes. Honig was raised in Brooklyn and recalled almost never being without a paintbox in hand from the time he started elementary school. Honig had a deep reverence for the Old Master painters, Vermeer and Bellini, as well as the Americans Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. He initially studied art from 1939 through 1941 with Francis Criss. At the outbreak of World War II, Honig worked as a mechanic for Republic Aviation, but in August 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and was stationed at Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the war, Honig began to exhibit nationally, including as part of the Portrait of America exhibitions which originated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveled around the country, as well as at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He painted Army Poker in 1943 while stationed at Johnson Field. In this work, Honig draws inspiration from Paul Cezanne's The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art), with a similar placement of the four figures, but Cezanne's table is replaced with an Army cot, the pipe rack with a soldier's mess kit and the drapery in the right background with a heap of discarded uniforms. Unlike the vibrancy of Cezanne's composition, the limited palette of Honig's work suggests the drabness and monotony of stateside Army life. After being discharged from military service, Honig furthered his studies with Amadee Ozenfant in 1946 and Hans Hoffman from 1947 through 1950. Additional exhibitions included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Provincetown Art Association, and the National Academies Galleries of the Allied Artists Association. He was represented by the venerable Frank Rehn...

A scene of a plantation in the mid 20th century by Charles Shaw. Charles William Shaw was a multifaceted American Postwar & Contemporary artist from Austin, Texas. Primarily known f...

Judd Mercer's "Summer Falls" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a stream cutting through a forest as a log creates a natural bridge over it...

Judd Mercer's "Winter Veil" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a winter landscape dotted with trees and yellow grass peeking out from beneath the snow.