Maud Lewis

Sleigh

This abstracted landscape by James Lahey features a stream pushing through a grassy field in what appears to be a spring thaw. The image is built up with many fine layers and finishe...

A saw mill is viewed from across a rapid river in this delightful scene near Woodbridge, Ontario, by Bernice Martin. Title, date on verso. This painting is unframed. Woodbridge, Ontario, is a settlement named in 1855 after a wooden bridge that crossed the Humber River as an entry point into the town. Martin's work is rooted in the post-Impressionist, atmospheric landscape style made well known by J.W. Beatty a forerunner to the Group of Seven. “I look back on my life and my painting hours were the happiest. I’d spend long hours and forget time…my time was always measured by the passage of light.” —Bernice Fenwick Martin Born in Shelburne, Ontario, Bernice Martin studied at the Ontario College of Art under noted Canadian artists J.W. Beatty and Franklin Carmichael. After the death of Beatty in 1941, she found friendship in Peter Clapham Sheppard with whom she studied and worked with until his death in 1965. Working in oil, watercolor and woodcut, Martin focused on local scenes such as the Toronto harbor, small towns in Ontario and Northern landscapes including Muskoka, Haliburton, and Algonquin Park regions of Ontario. Martin’s works were showcased at the Royal Canadian Academy from 1945-1947 and displayed in solo exhibitions in Toronto galleries throughout her career at T. Eaton Co...

Canadian artist Peter Hoffer’s stunning landscape of trees, hills and sky recalls a classically romantic form. Panoramic No 02 (the second of two large paintings) is painted on panel...

Peter Hoffer’s landscapes have one foot in classic realism and the other in deconstruction. Hoffer uses mixed media on wood with high gloss resin – the imagery is rendered in realism...

An iconic young cedar is set against the epic backdrop of a sweeping landscape with distant hills. Peter Hoffer's paintings evoke nostalgia for classical, romantic forms and periods....

A single grouping of trees displayed on a colorful sky backdrop boasting hues of soft pink, lavender and blues. The painting has a liveliness that is enhanced by the resin on the sur...

Fantasy landscape naive art oil painting, signed, S. Smith, left side of painting.

Signed with initials lower right "H.H." for Hyacinthe Hill (American, 1920-1989) and painted circa 1955 A substantial mid-century figural oil of a young woman seated naked in an ope...

English 19th century folk art portrait of an English spaniel dog in a landscape. Painted with a great deal of skill and care this is a charming 19th-century piece. With the origin...

Girl with Sheep and Car is a oil on board landscape painting depicting figures and animals in a Folk Art style painted in the mid-twentieth century by Martin Saldana (1874-1965). Presented in a custom frame measuring 29 3⁄4 x 33 1⁄2 x 1 inches; image size is 19 1⁄2 x 23 1⁄2 inches. Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Born Mexico 1874 Died 1965 Born in 1874, Saldaña grew up at Rancho Neuvo in Mexico. In 1950, at the age of 76, he began attending children's art classes at the Denver Art Museum. For the next fitfteen years, Saldaña Imaginatively documented whimsical memories from his childhood in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, portraying ranch life, landscapes, and his great love of animals. The prolific artist painted every day, completing a new piece about every three days and amassing an impressive body of work for the former cook at the Denver landmark, the Brown Palace Hotel. Saldaña’s vibrant palette and geometric figures are reminiscent of the tapestries of his Mexican heritage and the paintings, primarily in oil, are innocent and endearing. Saldaña is considered to be a outsider artist, a folk artist who is self-taught, whose work is simple, direct, and high personal. Works Held: Denver Art Museum, University of Wyoming Art Museum, The Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, International Folk Art Museum, Neuss In Aberthor Museum, Stedelijk Museum ©David Cook Galleries...

Trucks in the City by African American, Folk, Self-Taught, Florida, Outsider Art Purvis Young Urban Young was an American artist from Miami....

Well painted and very unique oil on a card of an English town landscape with figures, soldier, monument, and a boy on his way to a school with a hoop and stick. Possible painted for...