Don Miles

Don Miles "Oak Creek No. 2" Landscape Oil on Board

1975

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "City Beyond the Bluffs" is a colorful dynamic example of Maccoy's Mid-20th century paintings. Considered Mid-Century Modern it also has Cubist style in the bluffs. Unframed the piece measures 25 x 42. Guy Crittington McKay was born to Clifford McKay and Clara Angeline Young who was the granddaughter of Brigham Young. Clifford McKay later changed the family name to McCoy. Later on Guy changed his name to Maccoy. Guy Maccoy...

This landscape painting by Don Miles is titled "Oak Creek No. 1" and depicts what appears to be a part of Oak Creek Canyon, a part of Coconino National Forest in northern Arizona. The piece is in a large rectangular frame that gives it the appearance and feel of looking out the window and seeing the wilderness just outside your door. The painting itself is 11.5 x 5.5 inches. Don Miles was a 20th century American artist who focused on nature and landscape paintings, especially desert landscapes. He was born in 1912 in Lincoln, Nebraska, though he would grow up in Long Beach, California and California would become the subject of most of his paintings. He began painting in 1932 and studied landscape painting under Henry Richter...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY Impressionist Landscape" is an exquisitely peaceful late summer scene along the banks of a quiet river. The dappling yellow and green leaves and the spots of blue sky give the perfect impressionistic feel to the scene. Impressionism was a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color. Methven captured this impression perfectly. It is as fresh today as when it was painted in 1902 so much so that you can almost hear the rustle of the leaves and see the shifting light. The gold gilt frame is original to the piece. Without the frame the piece measures 20 h x 16 w. It is signed by the artist. Methven was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1930's he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he painted with other area Chicago artists and showed at The Art Institute of Chicago. He spent his summers in Benton Harbor, Michigan, along Lake Michigan. He is known for his landscapes and water scenes. Michigan has numerous rivers, creeks and small lakes and Methven would have had a wealth of scenes to draw upon for his numerous oil paintings. He studied under Henry Fenton Spread who taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later founded Spread's Art Academy. In 1902, this academy became the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Spread was named the first president of the Chicago Society of Artists in 1889. Known primarily as a portraitist, Spread also painted landscape and genre scenes. Although a skilled artist, he did not exhibit widely; his primary legacy being fostering a love of art in Chicago. Fellow artist (and former student of Spread), Ralph Clarkson, the noted Chicago society portrait painter, stated that Spread' s "fine and advice formed the careers of the men who were not only to achieve prominence as artists, but to occupy leading places as art teachers". Harry Wallace Methven...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Study of Mt. Vesuvius" is a small intimate painting of an active volcano that has at times wrecked great destruction. As seen from a distance, it is a calm blue ...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY The untitled oil painting of a quiet country winter scene is a typical subject matter for T. M. Nicholas who is considered by many to be among the most prominent painter of his generation and specifically of the Rockport School of Art. Painting is signed in the lower right front corner. He grew up admiring the rugged beauty of the U.S. northeast coastline especially the landscapes of coastal New England. His father, esteemed painter, Tom Nicholas...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Springtown Reflections No. I” depicts the moment of change in the weather moving from harsh winter to the first warming days of spring melting the snow. The title suggests a moment to pause in farm life before the coming spring planting and also suggests a time of mental reflection on life and work. The puddles of melting snow reflect the buildings in the scene. The muted colors and slightly off kilter structures cause the buildings to appear worn but sturdy, a soft idyllic scene of rural life. Helmut Gransow...

Painting, oil on panel, measuring 20 x 15 without frame and 35 x 30 with frame, depicting a landscape with a beautiful perspective and houses arranged on a mountain of the Flemish sc...

Ljuba Petrović (Serbian, 1928) Busy Winter Landscape • Oil on artist board / thick card • Alluminium frame ca. 35 x 77 cm • Visible image ca. 20.5 x 62.5 cm • Signed and dated lower right (19)73 • Good, untouched original condition Ljuba Petrović is a Serbian painter born in 1928 in Nis, ex Yugoslavia / now Serbia. Originally an agricultural worker, he later worked as a painter decorator and served as a town hall official in his native Nis. He went on to create frescos, wall paintings and small paintings, which after joining local exhibitions, he exhibited in 1973 in Geneva, Switzerland and in the eighties successfully in Paris, at the Salon International d'Art Naïf. Petrović is a typical representative of the Yugoslave naïve school of painting...

Pieter Fraterman (Dutch, * 12th April 1910, Den Haag – † 18th March 1969, Den Haag) In the Orchard Garden • Oil on Fibre board ca. 50 x 60 cm • Frame ca. 64 x 73 cm • Signed lower right Pieter Fraterman begann his studies by attending the evening classes held by H. Meijer and J. Giessen at the Royal Academy of Art in Den Haag from 1930 to 1936. In a second period during the war Pieter continued his studies at the Royal Academy from 1941 to 1944 under H. Meijer, H. van Dam and W. Schrofer. Pieter received plenty of recognition during his career. In 1937 he received a Royal grant, the Jacob Maris...

Rudolf Johann Weiss (Swiss, * 3.9.1846 Basel, † 17.4.1933 Biel) Die Twannbachgrotte/Twannbachschlucht bei Twann, Biel, Schweiz (= The Twannbach Cave/Twannbach Canyon by Douanne, Bie...

Ralph Reuben/Ruben Stubbs (English, 1824-1879) Low Tide at Sunset • 19thC Oil on artist board (card) ca. 21 x 36.5 cm • Signed bottom right and verso Biografie: Stubbs Ralph Reu...

Dmitry Alexandrovich Kustanovich (Belarusian, 29.3.1970) Lively Urbane Landscape on a rainy day in Minsk , Belarus • Oils on canvas, mounted on to fiberboard, ca. 27 x 35 cm • Fram...