John Steane (b.1931)

Vintage Playground Scene Southport Common with Swings Pram and Children

Title: Dorset Beach Scene with Families Sea and Sky by British Artist John Steane by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 15.25 inches (height) x 23 inches (width) watercolor painting on paper...

Title: Osborne House Beach Scene Isle of Wight 2018 Watercolour Figures and Sea View by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 8.25 inches (height) x 11.75 inches (width) Inscribed verso: “Osbor...

Title: The Monument Southport Lord Street Lancashire Signed 1968 British Watercolour by John Steane (b.1931) Signed: Bottom left Size: 14.5 inches (height) x 22 inches (width) waterc...

French Landscape signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original biro pen drawing on artist paper size: 20 x 25.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed prov...

Jane Taylor (British, fl. 1948 – 1974) Winter games Body colour on paper Signed ‘Jane Taylor’ (lower right) 12.5/8 x 21.1/2 in. (32 x 55 cm.)

This Painting, "Besties", is a whimsical 40x40 oil painting on canvas by artist Trip Park. Featured in the painting are two children swinging side b...

George Picken Playground, Carl Schurz Park, 1938 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 28 x 36 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist A native New Yorker, George Picken was born in 1898. His father, an artist and photographer, emigrated from Scotland; his mother came from Wales. They joined other European immigrants settling in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. Picken enlisted in the army during World War I and saw action at Verdun. After the war, he stayed in France and like many Americans returning from the vibrant Paris art scene, was inspired by the radical movement known as Impressionism. Upon his return Picken decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an artist. George began his studies in 1919 at the Art Students League during Robert Henri, Max Weber, and John Sloan’s tenure. There he took classes in studio art, illustration, and etching through 1923 studying extensively with George Bridgman. The writings of French philosopher Henri Bergson were widely circulated among the artistic community and looking at Picken’s early paintings one cannot help but wonder if as a young artist he was influenced by Bergson’s ideas. Bergson said, "[There are] two profoundly different ways of knowing a thing. The first implies that we move round the object; the second that we enter into it. The first depends on the point of view at which we are placed and on the symbols by which we express ourselves. The second neither depends on a point of view nor relies on any symbol. The first kind of knowledge may be said to stop at the relative; the second, in those cases where it is possible, to attain the absolute.” Picken’s recognition came early with showings of his work while he was a student. His drawings were published in the New Masses, a significant left-wing publication. The New York Public Library honored him with one-man shows in 1924 and 1928 and his work was included in group exhibitions at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Whitney Studio Club, Montross Gallery, and the Art Students League. During this time Picken married Viola Carton, one of Reginald Marsh’s models, and they lived in Westchester. Later they moved to Yorkville in Manhattan between 82nd street and East End Avenue where they began their family. Picken’s grandson Niles Jaeger recalled that, “Grandpa’s home and studio were in a five-story walk-up apartment, heated only by a coal stove. But there were wonderful views of the East River and the Queensborough Bridge...

This summer feeling, oil landscape depicts a group of spritely children playing in the park. The families dogs can be seen running circles around the excitable children, while the tw...