Anna Widmer

Light the Way

2020

Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right featuring a vibrant street in Paris. Henri Alexis Schaeffer (1900-1975) was born in Paris, France in e...

Oil on canvas board, signed lower left and inscribed on the reverse, as well as on the frame. This is most likely the original frame for this work made by the artist.

Oil on canvas, signed and inscribed in the lower left. This is a wonderful scene of Westminster Abbey in London with sunlight beaming down from above. Dimensions listed include the ...

Oil on artist board, signed Emily Hoffmeier lower left Most likely a scene of Nantucket harbor and presented in what could be the original frame with a slightly highlighted silver finish. Presents well overall measuring 16.5" x 20.5" including the frame. From 1929 to her death in 1952, Emily Hoffmeier (1888-1952) spent summers on Nantucket, painting in the waterfront studios—first Harborview No. 3 and later moving to the Red Anchor Studio on Washington Street. She exhibited in the Easy Street Gallery, the Candle House Studio, and later at the Kenneth Taylor Galleries. After the death of Maud Stumm in 1935, Hoffmeier took over the direction of the annual Sidewalk Art Show, which she ran for the next eighteen years “with untiring cheerfulness and unflagging interest.” She was one of the founding members of the Artists Association of Nantucket and served on its first executive committee. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachuetts, Hoffmeier taught art classes at the college for several years. From 1917 to 1951 she was a teacher at West Chester High School in Pennslyvania, where she headed the mathematics department. In addition to enrolling in the plein air classes of Frank Swift Chase...

C. Hjalmar Cappy Amundsen (1911 - 2001) was an American painter best known for his Gloucester Scenes. He painted all over the New England areas. Here we have an extraordinary paint...

BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN Artist's Statement: Big Rock Candy Mountain, a painting 60” X 40”, painted with acrylic & oil pigments on canvas, was inspired by many hiking trips to Enchan...

Grass Acrylic, canvas, oil, 40x50 cm The artist's use of a light color palette conveys a sense of freshness and brightness, emphasizing the natural beauty of the grass. The strokes...

My new series of paintings, japanese koi carps. I was impressed to see these beautiful creatures in my friend's pond. Bright colors, dynamics of forms and composition of floating fis...