Donna McGinnis

Out of the Blue

2017

"Evening Walk" in early evening light with figure and dog walking gently upon a winding pathway between the Bay and a Northern California lagoon. This peaceful painting...

'Atmos' is appropriately titled light atmospheric quality. The oil paint is layered thinly in most places on the canvas. There is also linseed dipped charcoal drawn on and painted o...

Imagined landscape bridging realism with dreamscape. Soft rolling green hills with billowing clouds cascade across McGinnis' oil paintings that shine with the light and warmth of nat...

'Lagunitas Road' is a highly contemporary landscape with a jolt of urbana by way of metal swirling reflections around a lone tree. Simple, elegant palette of greens and rich browns w...

'The Migrator' is a contemporary landscape with a jolt of urbana by way of tire tracks that abruptly end where the mountains meet the sea, in this classic Western highway scene featu...

'Skyline Road' is Thiebaud and Diebenkorn-esq with its broad, steep street inspired by the unique light and hills of Northern California. Highly contemporary landscape with a jolt of...

Signed lower right: Irving R. Wiles

A fine impressionist sporting painting with salmon fisherman in a canoe by American artist John Whorf (1903-1959). Whorf was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts and by the age of sixteen...

Serene winter landscape of a snow covered hills with a frozen creek and far off house in the distance by Frederick Wagner (American, 1864-1940), c.1930's. Signed "F. W." lower right....

Gorgeous seascape by Cecil F. Chamberlin (American, 1899-1963) Signed "C. F. Chamberlin" lower right. Displayed in wood frame. Image, 24"H x 30"W. Cecil F. Chamberlin was born in Santa Rosa, CA on May 5, 1899. Chamberlin was educated at Stanford University and then studied art at the CSFA. He then taught art in San Francisco for many years. During the later part of his life he lived down the coast in Santa Cruz where he operated an art gallery, lectured, and had many students. He was a nephew of artist Winnie Chamberlin...

"Oak in Spring" is a 1930 American Impressionist oil painting of an oak tree landscape. Painted en plein-air, in an almost pointillist style, H.C. White depicts a classic Connecticut landscape. A Tall wiry tree stands as the focal point, having just bloomed its first leaves; foliage still thin enough to outline every single branch. Reds and browns scattered throughout the foreground connote autumn leaves that had yet to be cleared. Henry Cooke White (b. 1861) in Hartford Connecticut. His career in art was founded at the age of 14, when he met the famous American Tonalist painter, Dwight William Tyron. The two became lifelong friends, and White even wrote Tyron’s major biography, The Life and Art of Dwight William Tyron (pub. 1930). In the late 1880’s, Tyron pushed White to move to New York City to further his artistic training at the Art Students League. During this time, White studied under many talented artist’s; Kenyon Cox, John H. Twatchman, and William Merritt Chase. From 1896-1897, White spent time travelling in Europe. Upon his return to the states, he began to spend most of his time in Connecticut, following his favorite painting seasons. Spring in Hartford was followed a week later by spring in Old Lyme, and then finally at Waterford. He’d experience his favorite seasons three times over each year. Once immersed into Connecticut’s community, White was encouraged to paint habitually in Old Lyme; where an art colony was developing, beginning in the spring of 1903. Inspired by European artists, including Claude Monet, and Pierre Auguste-Renoir, the Old Lyme Art Colony defined American Impressionism by memorializing the serene qualities of rural New England life through use of vibrant palettes and broken strokes on wood and canvas. The Colony comprised upwards of 200 artists during its three decades of creating nature-based scenes in oils and pastels; Frederick Childe Hassam...

Stunning multi-color landscape of a red barn nestled among vibrant snow capped mountaintops by unknown artist M. Ciraulo (American, 20th century), c.1970's. A vivid palette including...