Cesare Ricciardi

Wissahickon Philadelphia Landscape (PA Impressionist painting)

1957

Frances Schantz (1893-1968). Brief December Day, ca. 1950. Oil on canvas, 18 x 26 inches. Framed measurement: 24 x 32 inches. Signed lower left. Original label affixed on verso....

Continental landscape oil painting depicts olive grove in Italy. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. ca. 1950. 12.5 x 15.75 inches. Unframed.

Beautiful 1931 painting by American artist, Giovanni Martino (1908-1997). Oil on canvas measures 25 x 30 inches. Measures 35 x 39 inches framed. The scene depicts what is definitively the Rockport, Mass. fishing pier. Excellent condition with a few very minor areas of paint flaking. The darker areas in the sky is a result of unpainted areas. The canvas is sized with glue but not primed white: observable areas of natural linen color results. Signed wet into wet and dated lower left. No restoration or overpaint. Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art* studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street. Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River...

Edwin B. Kelley Jr. (American). Monterey Bay Cyprus tree Landscape. Oil on panel measuring 12 x 16 inches. Unframed. Signed lower left.

Title: Impressionist Market Street Scene with Figures and Arches in a Historic City by Fanch Lel Size: 10.75 inches (height) x 8.75 inches (width) Medium: Oil on board, unframed Cond...

Title: Coastal Gathering Scene with Figures and Mont-Saint-Michel in the Distance by Fanch Lel Signed: yes Size: 8.75 inches (height) x 10.75 inches (width) Medium: Oil on board, unf...

Title: Street Scene with Figures and Church Spire in a Brittany Village by Fanch Lel Signed: yes Size: 10.75 inches (height) x 8.75 inches (width) Medium: Oil on board, unframed Cond...

Title: Impressionist Fleet of Sailboats with Reflections in a Blue and Pink Palette by Fanch Lel Signed: yes Size: 8.5 inches (height) x 10.75 inches (width) Medium: Oil on board, u...