Goldsborough Cowan Robinson

Antique Impressionist Landscape, Louisville, KY artist Goldsborough C. Robinson

ca. 1910

Born in New York City in 1906, Bertram George was the son of beloved Lyme, Connecticut artist George Bruestle. The younger Bruestle’s earliest works w...

John Thomas Nolf was born in Allentown, Pa. in 1872. He had his academic studies in Chicago at the Art Institute. He exhibited often at the Institute,...

This colorful late spring scene is most likely around Erie, Pennsylvania. Artist and teacher Joseph M. Plavcan generally painted around the area in which he lived for over 50 years. Joseph Michael Plavcan was born near Pittsburg, in Braddock. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy in 1926, studying with renowned New Hope artist Daniel Garber. Through a scholarship, he went to Europe to study. He returned to Erie in 1932 and became an art instructor, teaching for the next 38 years. Plavcan went far beyond teaching trade school requirements and instilled a true sense of sophisticated artistry in his students. During his artistic career, he exhibited often in Philadelphia, Washington, New York and Chicago. This painting, oil on canvas, demonstrates Plavcan’s style, utilizing figurative abstraction with a modernist color palette. The paint is not over applied and areas are treated with smooth broad brush strokes. The hint of late blooming leaves are dashes of paint applied in a fast yet confident manner. Plavcan’s sense of light, demonstrated in the distant church tower is spot on. While not signed, there are two official estate stamps on the reverse that attest to the authenticity of Plavcan’s work. The piece measures 16” x 20” and appears to be canvas applied to a back board. This was likely done by the former retailer, Hudson House Galleries in Hagerstown, Maryland. That shop was a fine regional art gallery and antiques shop for decades until its closure about five years ago. The painting is nicely framed in a modernist gold wood frame with a subtle pink liner. The overall framed dimensions are about 20” x 24”. The painting is in very good condition, bright and crisp. There is a very minor vertical crease above the peak of the house that is truly barely noticeable from any distance. Other than that, all is fine with the work and its frame. This strong, colorful work by Joseph Plavcan...

Born in Connecticut near the end of the Civil War, Josephine Granger Cochrane went abroad and studied in Paris at The Academie Julian. She toured Europe, painting mainly in France an...

Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed in monogram. Image size, 12H by 16L.

The painting signed Ernest Albert is 10.5 x 15.5 unframed, 14.13 x 19.13 framed could benefit from a cleaning and better frame unless you like this look. This painting has the tell ...

Antique American impressionist oil painting of a fall landscape by George A. Renouard (American, 1884-1954). Oil on board. Signed. Framed.

A landscape mountain hillside oil painting on panel by artist Roy Henry Brown possible western scene. Painting is under glass signed lower right. The image measures sight size 10 x 1...