Olin Travis

"Token Trees" Circa 1930 Dallas Artist / Arkansas /Colorado Artist

Circa Late 1920 early 1930s

Carl Hoppe 1897-1981 San Antonio Artist Image Size: 28 x 28 Frame Size: 33.5 x 33.5 Medium: Oil "Lost Maples" Texas Biography Carl Hoppe 1897-1981 Carl Thomas Hoppe, born 22 August 1897 in San Antonio, TX, son of German immigrants August and Teresa Hoppe, died 15 January 1981 in San Antonio at age 83 [San Antonio Express-News, 16 January 1981]. A resident of the Alamo Heights district, his primary employment was salesman at Joske's Department Store in San Antonio [San Antonio City Directory]. In the 1920s, he married Frances Rose, but they apparently had no surviving children. He was active as an artist in the mid 1900s through at least the 1960s. He is best known for landscapes in an impressionistic style. He signed his works with a simple "C. Hoppe" and sometimes included a brief descriptive phrase on the back of the painting or in pen & ink on a paper label with an inscription about the painting or the person to whom it was presented. Some of his original frames appear to be home-crafted. He is reported to have studied under several more-notable Texas artists who worked in the San Antonio area, including Porfirio Salinas, Robert Wood, Jose Arpa, and Julian Onderdonk. Upon opening an exhibit of his works at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas in 1997, the museum curator stated "Hoppe's high place in the Hill Country art...

Leona Turner (1929 - 2004) West Texas / Albuquerque Artist Image Size: 14 x 18 Frame Size: 21 x 25 Medium: Oil "Cottonwoods at Peralta" Biography Leona Turner (1929 - 2004) Leona Marie Turner was born and raised in West Texas, where she is well-known and her paintings are sought after. In Albuquerque, she taught classes to most every aspiring artist in New Mexico and many from Arizona, including Curt Walters. She was proficient with oil paints, watercolor and pastels, and her works hang in numerous important places in the Southwest. Many portraits were commissioned from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, to Amarillo, Dallas and El Paso, Texas. Internationally known artist Curt Walters commissioned a 40x60 oil portrait in 1990. Ms. Turner was a member of many art societies, including the National Portrait Society, National Water Color Society, New Mexico Watercolor...

E.G. Edward Eisenlohr (1872 - 1961) Dallas Artist Image Size: 11 x 14 Frame Size: 14 x 18 Medium: Oil "Old Path Home" Biography E.G. Edward Eisenlohr (1872 - 1961) Edward Gustav Eise...

Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) San Antonio Artist Size: 12 x 16 Frame: 16 x 20 Medium: Oil "Autumn Path" Biography Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) A painter of realistic landsca...

1940's Carmel Landscape, Sycamore Grove by Nell Walker Warner Beautiful, substantial and period painting of Sycamore Grove, Carmel Valley by Nell Walker Warner (American, 1891-1970...

Framed 19.5" x 25.5" The Trees at the George Ranch is an American impressionist landscape painting that was painted near Richmond TX which is about 30 miles from Houston. The Tree...

John Fabian Carlson (May 5, 1875 – May 19, 1947) was a Swedish-born American Impressionist painter. Woodstock Landscape oil/board 5 x 7 unframed, 10.25 x 12.25 framed Inscribed verso with his name, Woodstock and what looks like a date around 1908 which matches the date listed for teaching in Woodstock. Original frame in poor condition will need to be replaced. In as purchased condition. I have marked the condition as fair only due to the frame. The painting is in good condition with no visible flaws. Bio: Background John Fabian Carlson was born in Kolsebo in Västervik Municipality, Kalmar County, in Småland, Sweden. The Carlson family immigrated to the United States in 1884, making their home in Buffalo, New York. Carlson attended evening art classes at the Art Students League of Buffalo, New York. There Carlson received instruction from Lucius Wolcott Hitchcock, a former pupil at the Académie Colarossi in Paris and the Art Students League of New York. Carlson won a scholarship in 1903 or 1904 to study with Lovell Birge Harrison...

Bold landscape of the Maple lined lane by California artist Eleanor Perry (American, 1903-1996). Signed and dated "Eleanor Perry / August 1972 / Acrylic" on verso. Presented in a sim...