Esther Rollick

Modernist Cityscape

1940's

Nice modernist American school painting. Oil and watercolor and gouache on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 23H.

Antique American modernist signed original oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed illegibly. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.

An original oil on canvas painting by American female artist Enid Smiley. Enid Smiley (1924-2004) American New York. Born as Enid Ginsberg and later the family name changed to Gilb...

American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30H by 24L.

This is an oil on canvas. it is unsigned. Yona Lotan (1926-1998) Engineer and Painter. Yona Lotan was born in Lithuania. The family moved to Tel-Aviv, Palestine in 1936. He served as...

Benjamin Benno was a British-born American artist, best known for his Cubist and abstract works. This artwork is signed and dated. Abstracted Cityscape Benjamin Benno, American (190...

Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906-2008) Cityscape Watercolor Signed lower right 22 x 30 inches 25.25 x 33.5 inches, framed The son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father. In the mid-1920s, he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art, or CIA) to study cartoon making, but after seeing an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art he changed his focus to ceramics. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vienna, Austria, where he began to build a reputation, not only for his art, but also as a jazz saxophonist. A year later, at the age of 25, he became the youngest faculty member at the CIA. In 1931, Schreckengost won the first of several awards for excellence in ceramics at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and his works were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and elsewhere. By the mid-1930s, Schreckengost had begun to pursue his interest in industrial design. For American Limoges...

The fame, notoriety, and monetary value of an artist's work in today's market are not based on one's talent and vision. Factors such as marketing and media momentum play a defining r...