Jonathan Hayes

Ogunquit

2017

William Sharp (1900 - 1961) Factory on the River Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches Initialed lower right: WS Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, New York Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178 William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...

Henry L. Richter (1870-1960), Charity, Oil on Canvas, 19th century, depicting a woman giving change to an invalid inside a church, signed lower right, unframed. 32.5" H x 19.75" W.

Artist: Ben Turner Medium: Oil on Canvas Canvas Size: 26 x 36 in. Framed Size: 34 x 44 in. A dramatic scene depicting the wild beauty of the American West...

Charles B. Russ (American, 1825 - 1920) Signed: C. B. Russ 1878 (Lower, Right) " Mt. Washington Seen from the Ellis River ", 1878 Oil on Canvas 12" x 20" Housed in a 2 3/4" Or...