Doreen Tighe

Inn on the Lake, original impressionist marine landscape

Even the incomparable Venice hangs it's laundry out to dry, just as have generations before them! The air fluffs them out offering the ladies of the house a chance to check on the children's current goings on as well as the upcoming party or charity event! In classic impressionist style popular Italian American artist and teacher captures the charm age and waterways that define Venice with impasto paint, impressionist brush strokes and ancient colors. This Italian landscape depicts how Venitian life is wound together by vaporiti, gondolas, water taxis...

Along the Maine coast, the surf can be turbulent, the tide ferocious, the skies exquisite, the rocks unyielding. In this original marine landscape you can feel the roll of the waves, hear them pounding upon the rock wall, and actually see the changing colors of the shadows as the sun begins it's dramatic descent. The white of the waves contrasts with the purple sky in fantastic contrast to the multi-tonal stone that both catches the sun and it's prisms and the mossy green penetration of the unrelenting wave action. James McGinley...

To summer in Cap Ferrat, in the south of France, just across the border from Monte Carlo, is comparable to living in a Faberge egg, with all of the intricate detailing and elegance one might dream of! Jutting out into the turquoise Mediterranean Sea, the peace and privacy of the best and the brightest is discreetly protected whether of the royal family or the international jet set and intelligentsia! Master artist Jim Rodgers has been painting for more than 35 years, having studied at both the highly respected Art Students League of NYC as well as the Ridgewood Art Institute of New Jersey. His work has been acknowledged by numerous publications including American Art Collector. His work is represented in the collections of Pfizer Corporation, The Rockefeller Trust and many other noteworthy corporate and private collections. This French impressionist marine landscape is framed in an antique gold wood...

Mother Nature is surely at her most brilliant when the sun is setting or rising. To see and feel the magnitude of beauty and glory when the colors of marigold, goldenrod, peach, and...

A superb example of a Barbizon inspired landscape painted by the "Catford Corot" from the late 19th Century. This very striking image shows the artist at the absolute peak of his abi...

A superb example of a Barbizon inspired landscape painted by the "Catford Corot" from the late 19th Century. This very striking image shows the artist at the absolute peak of his abi...

This is an Original Large signed Oil painting on canvas depicting two ships battling for glory. It is an unusual maritime scene that makes this painting very spectacular. Bright ...

This artwork "Landscape III" c.1970 is a oil painting on canvas by Russian artist Irina Belotelkin Roublon 1913-2009. It is signed on the back by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 20 inches. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus. Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements. After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States. Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties. From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia. In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff. Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija poppy...