Philip Little

"Gulls and Weir, " Philip Little, Coastal Landscape, New England Impressionism

Henry Charles Hannig (1883 - 1948) The Green Parasol Oil on canvas mounted on board 6 x 7 3/4 inches Provenance: R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois Private Collection, Lake Orion, Michigan Hannig, born in Hirschberg, Germany on 27 February 1883, came to America with his parents at the age of seven. He attended school in the southwest suburbs before the family settled in Chicago. Young Henry enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where Lawton Parker became his mentor. He made ends meet by working in industrial design and illustration. By 1908 he was a pupil in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where students followed the traditional European drawing curriculum, beginning with the copying of master engravings and drawing after plaster casts, then concentrating on the nude figure. Students worked toward the goal of winning various academic prizes. One of Hannig's fellow students was Louis Ritman...

Anthony Thieme (1888 - 1954) Spanish Mission, Florida Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed lower left; titled on the reverse Anthony Thieme was born in...

William Anderson Coffin (1855 - 1925) Springtime Landscape, circa 1910 Oil on canvas 30 x 24 inches Signed lower right Landscape and figure painter William Anderson Coffin was born...

Soren Emil Carlsen (1848 - 1932) A Man in His Garden, 1893 Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 35 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: The artist [1848-1932] Macbeth Gallery, New York Grand Central Art Galleries, New York Luella May (Ruby) Carlsen (the artist's wife), New York Dines Carlsen (the artist's son), Falls Village, Connecticut Private Collection, Miami, Florida Exhibited: New York, Macbeth Gallery, Summer Exhibition: Painting by American Artists, July - August, 1926, no. 31 (as The Man in the Garden). Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art by Members of the Grand Central Art Galleries, January 13 - 27, 1929 (as The Man in the Garden). Miami Antique...

Charles Caryl Coleman (Buffalo 1840 – Capri 1928), Peasant woman at work in the fields of Capri (1901) Oil painting on canvas 35 x 49 cm, signed, located and dated Capri 1901 lower ...

Measurements Painting 30.25 x 25.25 inches Framed 34 5/8 x 29 3/4 inches Joe Duncan Gleason (1881 - 1959) was a California Impressionist painter...

Measures Painting 20 x 16 inches Framed 27 x 23 inches This lovely early 20th century William Wendt (1865 - 1946) painting c. 1909 features a Pasadena California landscape domina...

Measures Painting 20 x 25 inches Framed 24 x 39 inches (approximately) This luminist and atmospheric evening seascape by Granville Redmond (1871 - 1935) was painted on Catalina Island off the California coast c.1920. Redmond was a very prominent California Impressionist known for his serene tranquil and mood-filled California coastal paintings bathed in moonlight with waves gently rolling onto the shore. As a deaf mute, he explained that without speech and hearing, his abilities to see things in a detailed and poetic way were much more honed and enhanced. He was renowned for his Impressionist landscapes, particularly those featuring California wildflowers, coastal scenes, and tonal moonlit settings. Despite his deafness from a young age, Redmond achieved significant acclaim for his art and even acted in silent films, becoming friends with Charlie Chaplin, who built an art studio for him on his large movie lot. Redmond lost his hearing due to scarlet fever as a child and later attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, where his artistic talents were nurtured. He studied at the California School of Design in San Francisco before continuing his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian. He became a highly respected landscape painter, shifting between vibrant Impressionist poppy...