Duane Albert Armstrong

"China Rocks" Landscape

1983

Early 20th Century oil painting of The First Church of Christ Scientist Boston, Massachusetts by Henrietta Dunn Mears (American,1877-1970), 1917. Presented in a giltwood frame. Sign...

Beautiful California mountain scene by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Circa 1950. Unframed. Image, 12"H x 16"W. Gleiforst was born in Crete, Nebraska but moved to Oregon where she studied at the University of Oregon. She then settled in Beverly Hills where she began to paint. Her teachers included Nicolai Fechin...

Vivid desert foothill landscape impasto painting by Michael Wright (American, 20th century). Inscribed "M. Wright" and dated "17" on the bottom center r...

Landscape of Old Sacramento by Valeriy Kagounkin (American, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Valeriy" and dated "2000" lower right. Titled "Sacramento," signed "Valeriy Kagounkin" and dated "1999" on verso. Image size, 10"H x 14"W. Valeriy is an honor member of Russian artists association and an active Academic, the highest title and an honor an artist can achieve throughout a career. Valeriy Kagounkin was awarded 2 big gold medals from Art Academy society for two major exhibitions in 2015 and 2014 in Moscow Academy exhibition halls, Krasnoyarsk Art institute exhibition galleries, and Abakan’s art schools. In addition he was awarded a silver medal #193 from United Nations and International information Academy Department of the Humanities for the substantial contribution to the culture. ​ Valeriy was born in Siberia, into a Chuvash tribe, Russian native peoples, and was growing up taking care of cattle and horses as a kid before he attended first children’s art school. It is no surprise that American country lifestyle found fertile soil in a soul of a Siberian artist. Valeriy Kagounkin now lives and works in Sacramento California telling stories and inspiring, through his works, about the people of the land. ​ In United States Valeriy was awarded: (resent) 2016 - 2nd Place, “Road to High Pasture, Phippen Museum 2016 - People’s Choice Award, Cattlemen’s Assoc Art Show and Sale 2015 - Best Acrylic “Biting the Dust” Old West Museum Western Spirit Art Show 2015 - Phippen Family Award “Outlaws” Phippen Museum Art Show 2015 - Art of the west Magazine Award at Phippen Museum “Nowhere to Hide” Valeriy’s paintings hang in the Contemporary Museum of Moscow, Russia (11 paintings) and the Historian Museum of Siberia (2 paintings) Juried Shows: (resent) 2015, 2016 - Old West Museum Western Spirit Art Show, Cheyenne, Wyoming, March 2015 and 2016 2015, 2016 - Juried Show: Phippen Museum Art Show & Sale May 2015 and 2016, Prescott, Az. 2016 - 2nd Place Acrylic “Road to High Pastures” 2016 - Rider, Pony Express was accepted and sold by the Charles Russel Museum Exhibit and Benefit Sale for their First Strike Auction in March 2016 2016 - Juried Show: Cattlemen’s Assoc. Winner of People’s Choice award 2015 - 3rd Place Phippen Family Award, art of the West Award, acrylic 2015 - Empire Elite 100, Empire Ranch Foundation held at the Tucson Desert Art museum Exhibitions in United States: (recent) 2017 - Exhibit One-man Show at Olaf Wieghorst Museum, El Cajon...

Colin Campbell Cooper is perhaps best known for his marvelous urban depictions of New York and Philadelphia, which encapsulate the vibrant modernity of these street scenes and skyscr...

A beautiful antique impressionist painting by American artist Joseph Varga

A flight of fancy, this work is a bit of a surprise for a 20th-century California painter. With its colorful dhows topped by lateen sails and attended by turbaned sailors, the artist Anthony Muscat...

Landscape by the Stream is an Impressionist landscape by an American artist from Ohio. The oil on canvas is 24 x 32 inches, in need of reframing. The canvas is signed "HJ Wamalink" i...