Joan Nelson

Building Backyard, Tempera Painting by Joan Nelson

1984

This painting by Joan Nelson depicts a sepia-toned scene placed behind the walls of a dark brown building. Potentially depicting a rooftop, the nearly black ground is flanked on the left by tall, dark, and uniform buildings. Along the right is a cement wall topped by a chain link fence. The buildings and wall are both stopped in the distance by a dark border wall and above the whole scene is a foggy white sky. Artist: Joan Nelson, American (1958 - ) Title: Roof Top View...

Woman in Hat in Honduras by Jose Antonio Velasquez, Honduran (1906–1983) Date: 1957 Oil on Masonite, signed and dated l.l. Size: 20.5 x 27 in. (...

Abstract Landscape Miriam Bromberg Date: circa 1960 Oil on Masonite Size: 7.5 x 9.25 in. (19.05 x 23.5 cm) Frame Size: 13 x 15 inches

Artist: Emil Rizek, Austrian (1901 - 1988) Title: Village Scene Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Masonite, Signed l.r. Size: 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)

Autumn Landscape, by 1958, tempera on Masonite, 24 x 36 inches, signed lower left, exhibited: 1) 133rd Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY, February 20 – March 16, 1958 (Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize); and 2) Henry Ward Ranger Centennial Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, September 25 - October 12, 1958, #133 (see Levin, Meyer, Illustrative Paintings Gathered for Ranger Show at National Academy, St. Petersburg Times, October 13, 1958 (“There’s a warm, low-keyed picture of golden fields, with distant structures, called “Autumn Landscape,” by Robert Vickrey, whose magic realism is felt in so “regular” a subject.”), literature: 1) Watson, Ernest William, Composition in Landscape and Still Life, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1959, pp. 24, 155 and 157 (illustrated); and 2) Vickrey, Robert and Cochrane, Diane, New Techniques in Egg Tempera, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1973, p. 111 (illustrated); ex collection National Academy of Design Reflecting on his art, Robert Vickery...

Wonderful rustic landscape of ghost town Bodie, California titled, "The Old Trunk, Bodie" by Darwin Musselman (American, 1916-2010). Presented in a wooden frame. Egg tempera on Masonite, painted at his studio on Sequoia Drive in Fresno in 1972 (verified and authenticated by the son and estate, letter included). Signed "Darwin Musselman" lower right. Titled "The Old Trunk, Bodie" and signed "Darwin Musselman" on verso. Image size, 12"H x 24"W. Darwin B Musselman was born in Selma, California, in 1916 and began his art education at Fresno State College, from which he graduated in 1938. He then attended the Art Center School in Los Angeles, where he studied with the portrait artist, Stanley Reckless...

"Giant At Sea" is an Asian Inspired Painting with a colorful Samurai and sailing boats in the ocean, with lots of white waves. The piece is created using ink, egg-tempera, and a gold...

Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...