Charles Sovek

American Painter, Charles Sovek - Gouache "Dyer Street Vista, Provincetown"

2006

A vibrant watercolor by Sidney C. Moore. Signed lower right. In its original worm-wood frame.

Painting size w/o frame: 9"x12" Painting size with frame: 13"x16" Wayne Morrell blends sea and shore in a dazzling celebration of color and light. Sailboats dance across the calm b...

Painting size without frame 25"x30" Painting size with frame: 28"x33" A beautiful coastal scene by Gianni Cilfone. Cilfone was an Italian-American artist who studied with John Carl...

The early (pre-war) Gloucester Harbor scene by Emile A. Gruppe is richly atmospheric and captures the working waterfront in the golden glow of early evening. Gruppe’s mastery of coas...

Signed lower left, 'Richard Gabriel Chase' (American, 1919-2007) and painted circa 1960. Born in Massachusetts, Chase first studied at the Worcester Art Museum School, later earning his degree from Massachusetts College of Art. He subsequently studied privately with Ernest Major...

Beautiful colorful impressionist landscape of Bay Area rural hills of Woodside, California barn by artist C. Romero (American, 20th Century), c.1990. Signed lower right corner. Pres...

Walter Launt Palmer is best known as “the painter of the American Winter.” In Bars of Light, the cool areas of shade haphazardly crisscross and then blanket the warm sunlight on the ...

Beautiful tonalist landscape of California foothills and country road. Signed and dated "CKP" and "'69" lower right corner. Presented in rustic wood frame with eggshell mat under nonglare glass. Image size: 18.25"H x 13.25"W. Framed size: 23.5"H x 18"W. California Tonalism was art movement that existed in California from circa 1890 to 1920. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail. Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...