Jim Watt

Renanthera I

2023

Avery Rock, 2016 Oil, acrylic, mixed media on canvas 53 x 35” Framed in a white floater frame overall dimensions: 54 x 36" with frame

Renanthera IV, 2024 Oil on canvas 72 x 60 inches

Untitled #1978, 2020 Oil on linen 8 x 8 x 1 1/2”

Untitled 2016.201 Oil, graphite, pigment on gessoed panel 12 x 12 x 1/2”

There is a certain archeology to these paintings that I am really interested in. Specifically, it is the walls of Rome, the plaster, the color, the light, the layers, and the history of those walls, which is visually stunning. You feel the history in the layers in those walls. The wonderful imperfection of them. -Jim Watt

Cakes, 2023 Acrylic on wood 11 x 10’’

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Norman Mills Price never fully received the popular recognition that his work deserved. Because he was so intently interested in h...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Date: 1918 Signature: Unsigned Dimensions: 26.00" x 14.00" Fashion Illustration, Fall: 1918

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right

Pirates Boarding Ship Signed lower left. Making his first illustrations for the "Saturday Evening Post" before he was age 20, Edmund Ward ha...

Date: 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover for Turf and Sport Digest, probably late 1930s

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 20.75" x 40.00", Framed 30.75" x 50.00" During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever illustrations were eagerly anticipated by enthusiastic readership across the country, and none more so than his holiday designs. One of Leyendecker's most celebrated creations was his groundbreaking idea of the New Year's Baby. Originally portrayed as a fleshy sweet-faced child complete with tiny angel wings, the New Year's Baby gradually morphed into a worldly tot acutely aware of the social and political issues facing the nation at the time. In fact, Leyendecker's final Post cover illustration was the 1943 New Year's Baby. Following the success of these Post covers, the artist was hired to create advertisements for the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Throughout the 1940s and through the final years of his life, Leyendecker produced ads incorporating his famed New Year's Baby into AMOCO advertisements, as in the present work, Happy Landing...