Arthur Clifton Goodwin

The Old Mill

1900

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...

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 ...

Beautiful pastel print master of California mountains and valley by Michael Swinnie (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated bottom right corner "MP Swinnie '96". Label on verso st...

Kim Lordier's "Evening Comes" (2023), a beautiful pastel painting on archival board, depicts a winter scene in a mountain valley, with snow capping the hills of granite. Artist Stat...