Pol Presson

French sunny South of France France Provence farmhouse painting gardening scene

circa 1950

I liked the title "After the storm" for this painting, which the artist had noted on the back of the painting, although he later changed it to "Day of the storm". It's the juxtaposi...

The 1903 painting by Henri Louis Ottmann (1877-1927) which is in the Musée d'Orsay depicts vast train station with all its dynamism. Our painting, created three years earlier, shows ...

Haystacks, ca 1910, by Manuel Barthold (1874- 1947) This charming and peaceful rural scene was painted probably in Brittany,. With its pure colour and feel of immediacy, it is styli...

“He dipped his brush in light and air” – wrote the artist Sir John Lavery RA about Alexander Jamieson's art. See the evidence of this in this wonderful view of the Paris with dapple...

"Autumn Forest" (2024) By Susie Hyer is an original handmade oil painting on Masonite that depicts a shady forest full of birch trees with bright yellow and orange leaves. There is a...

Delos Palmer Jr. Tree in Winter Signed lower left Oil on Masonite 10 x 8 inches Delos Palmer, Jr. was born January 26, 1890 in New York City. His father was Dr. Delos Palmer, a socially prominent Park Avenue dentist. His mother was Jennifer Emma Banta. His parents were both born in NYC, where they married in 1880 and had five children. There had three sons and two daughters. He was the fourth born. They lived in a private townhouse at 48 West 50th Street, with a cook, a waitress, and a nurse to assist in his father's dental practice on the ground floor. They lived a privileged life and the children all went to the best private schools. He graduated high school in June of 1908. He studied at The Art Students League from 1911 to 1915 with the renowned American Impressionist, George Bellows. According to the artist, "Bellows was a good influence on me. He taught me how to paint what I see and what I feel!" In 1916 Palmer moved to the historic Holbein Studios at 139 West 55th Street. He worked there until 1920, when he moved to the more fashionable Greenwich Village, where he became a successful society portraitist. He was 27 years old during the Great War, so he was not selected for military service. In 1923 Palmer began to sell interior story illustrations to Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Liberty. In 1924 he married Helen Smith Romme and moved to Stamford, CT, where they raised a daughter and two step-sons. The fateful market crash of 1929 ended Palmer's high society portrait business, but he soon found work through his contacts at Liberty magazine's MacFadden Publishing, which also produced several crime and detective magazines such as Master Detective and True Detective. He then began to paint pulp covers for Dime Mystery, Clues, Frontier Stories, Action Stories, Western Trails, All Star Adventure, Complete Western Book...

Andrew Rosane (American, b. 20th century) Uncle Robert's Shed, 1989 Oil on masonite 10 x 15 in. Framed: 13 3/4 x 19 x 1 1/2 in. Artist insignia and date lower left, inscribed verso ...

Substantial and period oil painting of a vividly colored estate by listed artist Eloisa Schwab (American, 1894-1990). Signed "Eloisa Schwab" lower left, circa 1940. Unframed. Image, 20"H x 24"W. Born in Havana, Cuba. Schwab studied at the Academy Julian in Paris and the Art Students League in New York with George Bridgman and Kenneth Hayes Miller and exhibited extensively from the mid 1920s to 1960s at venues including the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the Pennsylvania Art...