J. Philip Richards

Maine Morning

1974

Francis Vendeveer Kughler (1901-1970. Manhattan Skyline from New York Harbor, ca. 1940. Oil on canvas mounted to masonite, 24 x 30 inches. Unframed. Excellent condition with no conservation. Signed lower right. 1901–1970 Born in New York City Kughler was educated in New York City public schools and art schools: De Witt Clinton High School, Cooper Union, the Mechanics' Institute and the National Academy of Design School of Art where he met Charlotte Livingston, an artist, whom he was later to marry. During this period he was the winner of a Tiffany scholarship, which provided him a summer of landscape painting at the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate at Oyster Bay, L.I.In the 1940s, Kughler became the President of the Salmagundi Club a well-known club in Washington Square in New York City that had been the singular gathering place for such great artists as Childe Hassam, William Merrit Chase...

Tod Lindenmuth (1885-1976). St. Augustine, c.1935. Oil on primed panel, 12 x 14 inches. Signed en verso. Excellent condition. Unframed. Biography: Birth place: Allentown, PA Death place: St. Augustine, FL Addresses: St. Augustine, FL/Rockport, MA Profession: Painter, graphic artist, block printer Studied: Chase Sch. A.; & with Robert Henri, Ambrose Webster, George Elmer Browne, W.H.W. Bicknell. Exhibited: AIC; S. Indp. A., 1917-19, 1922-28; PAFA Ann., 1917-18, 1923, 1927-33; Salons of Am., 1922-24; Rockport AA; PAFA (prize); Corcoran Gal. biennial, 1930. Member: SC; A. Gld., St. Augustine, Fla.; Rockport AA; Provincetown AA. Work: PAFA; NYPL; MFA, Houston; Newark Mus.; Pa. State Col.; Allentown Mus. FA; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Springfield Mus. A.; Kansas City AI; LACMA; TMA; Rochester Mem. Gal. A founder of the Provincetown Art Association and one of the original Provincetown Printers, Tod Lindenmuth was a semi-abstract painter and graphic artist who did much to promote modernist styles. Although he was much influenced by Abstract Expressionism, his subject matter was realistic enough to be recognizable. He did linoleum cuts and was one of the first to work with that medium, and towards the end of his life, he experimented with collage. In the 1930s, he had commissions for the Public Works of Art Project and the Works Progress Administration. Lindenmuth was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art in Manhattan, and in Provincetown with E. Ambrose Webster and George Elmer Browne. He first exhibited in Provincetown in 1915, and between 1917 and 1928 served on the jury for the Provincetown Art Association’s ‘First Modernistic Exhibition”. He exhibited regularly with the Society of Independent Artists in New York. He married artist and illustrator Elizabeth Boardman Warren...

Harry Leith-Ross (1886-1973). Boat Yards, ca.1960's. Watercolor on paper measures 9 x 17 inches; 18 x 26 inches in original matting. Signed lower left. Ori...

Beautiful ca. 1965-70 painting of a horse carriage at night. 13 x 18 inches; 19 x 24 inches framed. Signed indistinctly lower left. Excellent condition.

Nestor Fruge (1916-2012). Bayou Landscape, ca. 1970. Watercolor on paper, 11 x 15.25 inches. Unframed. Excellent condition. Signed lower right. Born in Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana i...

Nestor Fruge (1916-2012). Courtyard, French Quarter, New Orleans, ca. 1970. Watercolor on paper, 12 x 16.5 inches. Unframed. Excellent condition. Signed lower right. Unframed. Born...

Maryn Hunzeker "Explorers" Original Casein Painting c.1960 Fantastic mid modern painting by noted artist Maryn Hunzeker. Created with casein on panel. Dimensions 26" x 18 1/4". The...

The latest painting from Alan Bray is a rare and exotic sighting, indeed. He’s shifted his focus away from the human realm and up to the skies, capturing an empty bird’s nest camoufl...

The latest painting from Alan Bray is a rare and exotic sighting, indeed. He’s shifted his focus away from the human realm and up to the skies, capturing an empty bird’s nest camoufl...

Bray has explored a smaller, more demure 8.5 x 11 inch format for two of these casein on panel paintings. When coupled with his rich palette and tightly hatched bed of brushstrokes, ...

A narrative from the artist: "It belonged to a Hermit Thrush, which has one of the most beautiful songs in all of nature. Give it a listen on Audubon. A...

Alan Bray’s landscape paintings of his native, central Maine explore the ever-ebbing dynamic between nature and humanity. His paintings capture an asymmetrical pas de deux. Painted with uncompromising precision by his quick-drying casein tempera paint, Bray’s trailheads, shorelines, and vast horizons show evidence of previous human presence as it succumbs to natural growth. Bray’s stylized scenes center on these afterimages of human interference as well as other natural phenomena. Inundated with detail, nature reclaims swaths of scarred land, fallen trees, and dilapidated structures, returning them to their wild form. Natural phenomena such as wild overgrowth, animal tracks, mysterious forms, bogs, and mist are resplendently captured as homage to the rugged and uninhabited corners of secluded Maine. Alan Bray builds his landscapes with numerous layers of quick-drying casein tempera. Often used in Italian Renaissance painting...