Sarah MUIRHEAD

Jealous, 2009

Graciela Genovés was born on October 24th, 1962. She graduated from the University of La Plata (Argentina) as a Professor and Licentiate in Fine Arts and subsequently worked at the U...

Harry Holland is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest figurative artists. Using classical techniques to realise his contemporary figurative paintin...

Harry Holland is widely regarded as one of Britain’s finest figurative artists. Using classical techniques to realise his contemporary figurative paintin...

Graciela Genovés was born on October 24th, 1962. She graduated from the University of La Plata (Argentina) as a Professor and Licentiate in Fine Arts and subsequently worked at the U...

Graciela Genovés was born on October 24th, 1962. She graduated from the University of La Plata (Argentina) as a Professor and Licentiate in Fine Arts and subsequently worked at the U...

Franco Giletta was born in Saluzzo (Cn) in 1967, he lives and works in Saluzzo with a studio in the Round Tower of the Envie Castle. During his universi...

the medium for this small painting is oil on Masonite. The painting shows a silhouette of a woman surrounded by diamonds fleur-de-lis's, a guitar and a bottle. on the reverse it reads: ACADIAN GIRL WITH DIAMONDS, © FRANCIS X PAVY...

This small word depicts two women with different hairstyles. The heads of the women are painted black with a yellow outline and blue spots in the interior. The background has red triangles with white centers and a block in the middle. The background is gold with green stripes around the triangles. On the reverse it reads:© Francis Pavy 2002, all rights reserved, #16102, 2 girl...

This large green field overlooking the Long Island Sound Beach depicts a parent without definition, mother or father, observing their child in the gr...

Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA About the Painting Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.” About the Artist Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...

This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Fallen Comrades/Interlude, 1949, oil on masonite, signed lower left, 35 x 56 inches; Gallery Z la...

Nude with Drape, c. 1937, oil on board, 24 x 17 (oval), signed lower right, provenance: Frances Lee Kent Falcone Family Trust About the Painting Fletcher Martin’s Nude with Drape ...