Claire Paye-Gililland

"Catamaran Launch, Twin Lakes Beach" - Santa Cruz, CA Figurative Seascape

Beautiful midcentury impasto landscape in warm autumnal tones of small figures walking through the fall woods by Harold Landaker (American, 1892-1966)....

Painting of a Carmel Valley Gardener by Ray Barton (American, 1918-1988). Ray Barton specialized in plein air paintings of Carmel Valley and Pacific Grov...

Henry Thomas Clark (American, 1929-2000) Untitled, 20th Century Oil on canvas 16 x 18 1/8 in. Framed: 21 x 23 x 1 3/8 in. Signed lower left: Clark

Henry Charles Hannig (1883 - 1948) The Green Parasol Oil on canvas mounted on board 6 x 7 3/4 inches Provenance: R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois Private Collection, Lake Orion, Michigan Hannig, born in Hirschberg, Germany on 27 February 1883, came to America with his parents at the age of seven. He attended school in the southwest suburbs before the family settled in Chicago. Young Henry enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where Lawton Parker became his mentor. He made ends meet by working in industrial design and illustration. By 1908 he was a pupil in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where students followed the traditional European drawing curriculum, beginning with the copying of master engravings and drawing after plaster casts, then concentrating on the nude figure. Students worked toward the goal of winning various academic prizes. One of Hannig's fellow students was Louis Ritman...