Ira Barkoff

After the Rain

21st Century

Oil on artist board, signed Emily Hoffmeier lower left Most likely a scene of Nantucket harbor and presented in what could be the original frame with a slightly highlighted silver finish. Presents well overall measuring 16.5" x 20.5" including the frame. From 1929 to her death in 1952, Emily Hoffmeier (1888-1952) spent summers on Nantucket, painting in the waterfront studios—first Harborview No. 3 and later moving to the Red Anchor Studio on Washington Street. She exhibited in the Easy Street Gallery, the Candle House Studio, and later at the Kenneth Taylor Galleries. After the death of Maud Stumm in 1935, Hoffmeier took over the direction of the annual Sidewalk Art Show, which she ran for the next eighteen years “with untiring cheerfulness and unflagging interest.” She was one of the founding members of the Artists Association of Nantucket and served on its first executive committee. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachuetts, Hoffmeier taught art classes at the college for several years. From 1917 to 1951 she was a teacher at West Chester High School in Pennslyvania, where she headed the mathematics department. In addition to enrolling in the plein air classes of Frank Swift Chase...

A monumental 59" x 82" with frame oil on canvas painting of a rocky mountain vista by John Terelak. Signed and dated lower left and inscribed verso. It...

Oil on canvas signed in the upper right. Measurements listed include the frame at 38.5" x 48". The canvas measures 30" x 40". It is in excellent condition and ready to hang. Born in...

Oil on canvas, 33" x 43" including the frame, 25" x 35" canvas only. Signed lower right and signed and inscribed in verso. Henry Robertson Craig R.H.A., R.U.A. Scottish, 1916-1984...

Provenance Bonhams Skinner - Malborough, March 8, 1991, lot 226; Private collection, Pennsylvania, until 2022 A painter especially known for street and waterfront scenes of Boston, ...

Kenneth Nunamaker (1890-1957) House in Center Bridge Oil on canvas on board, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Signed lower left: K. Nunamaker Inscribed on verso: K. Nunamaker / New Hop...

Provenance Private collection; Christie's, Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, New York, March 9, 2007, lot 120 A fine example of Jonas Lie's mature artistic style, Wi...

Measures Painting 20 x 25 inches Framed 24 x 39 inches (approximately) This luminist and atmospheric evening seascape by Granville Redmond (1871 - 1935) was painted on Catalina Island off the California coast c.1920. Redmond was a very prominent California Impressionist known for his serene tranquil and mood-filled California coastal paintings bathed in moonlight with waves gently rolling onto the shore. As a deaf mute, he explained that without speech and hearing, his abilities to see things in a detailed and poetic way were much more honed and enhanced. He was renowned for his Impressionist landscapes, particularly those featuring California wildflowers, coastal scenes, and tonal moonlit settings. Despite his deafness from a young age, Redmond achieved significant acclaim for his art and even acted in silent films, becoming friends with Charlie Chaplin, who built an art studio for him on his large movie lot. Redmond lost his hearing due to scarlet fever as a child and later attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, where his artistic talents were nurtured. He studied at the California School of Design in San Francisco before continuing his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian. He became a highly respected landscape painter, shifting between vibrant Impressionist poppy...