Margaret Griebenow Bode

'Evening on the Coast', California Watercolor Society

1975

Signed lower left, 'Byron' for Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999), dated 1947 and titled, 'Aus'. A dramatic, Post-Impressionist view of the Western Australian port of Fremantle wit...

Signed lower left, 'Bonnaure' for Alain Bonnaure (French, born 1941) and painted circa 1995. When he was a young artist, Alain Bonnaure's work was purchased by the renowned French p...

Signed lower left "Vigny" for Sylvain Vigny (French, 1903-1970) and painted, circa 1935, on artists board prepared by Maison Franco, 19 Rue Pastorelli, Nice. Born in Vienna, Sylvain...

'Any Day in America' by Ron Croci. Social Realist, Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg ----- Signed lower right, "Croci" for Ron Croci (American, born 1945), and painted circa 1970. A ...

Early Watercolor of West Palm Beach by Southern Woman Artist Grace Martin (Frame) Taylor. The work is in excellent condition and nicely framed under glass. Painting measures 11"h x 14"w. The frame is 19 5/8"h and 22"w. The watercolor is signed and dated lower left and also titled and dated in graphite as well. Grace Martin Frame Taylor (1903-1995), a native of Morgantown, West Virginia, launched a nearly forty-year affiliation with the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts, now part of the University of Charleston in West Virginia. In 1921, Taylor enrolled at the University of West Virginia in her hometown; disappointed by the art curriculum, however, she left after just one year to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She returned to the University of West Virginia in 1924 to finish her bachelor’s degree, selecting English as her major, with an emphasis on journalism; she eventually earned a master’s degree there in 1929. Following her graduation, Taylor went to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and renewed her interest in art under the guidance of her distant cousin Blanche Lazzell. Both Provincetown and Lazzell had gained a significant reputation for a particular kind of color woodblock printmaking known as the white line method. Grace Taylor embraced this approach wholeheartedly; for twenty-eight summers she returned to Provincetown to advance her printmaking skills with Lazzell and Heinrich Pfeiffer. In the ensuing decades, she also studied under Hans Hofmann whom she called her “very favorite modern master.” Taylor traveled to other destinations to further her education. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she spent time at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh; closer to home, she studied at the Old White Art Colony in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and took lessons in portraiture in the capital city of Charleston...

"Under the Overpass" is a beautiful original impressionist depicting an urban scene contrasted by nature. Judd Mercer (b. 1982) creates landscape paintings that capture fleeting, ...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "025 - Plein Air-Eldorado Canyon, CO" is a gouache painting depicting mountainside with lush wilderness. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a contemporary ...

Judd Mercer's (US based) "093 - Plein Air-Boulder Falls, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a rocky landscape covered in snow during sunrise. Artist bio/statement Judd Mercer is a...