Robert Dash

“Sagg Pond, Sagaponack”

Circa 1995

Original mixed media composed of oil pastel and watercolor of the Maine coast by the Sarasota artist, Julee Docking. Circa 1970. Signed lower right. Titled verso. Condition is excellent; no issues. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida estate. Julee Docking biography: Painter, Oil, Watercolor, Acrylic, Collage, Woodcuts, Charcoal, Mixedmedia, Sculptor, Clay, Mixed media. Born: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Maryland Studied: Corcoran Art School-Washington DC High Museum,Atlanta ,GA and Private Lessons Taught: Painting and Sculpture in Atlanta and Sarasota Membership: National League of American Pen Women, Women's Caucus ofArt, Florida Artists Group member 1973 Petticoat Painters member 1975 Art Center Sarasota member 1972 Manatee Art Center Venice Art Center Artist Statement: I enjoy painting in all media, relying on "Chance" to help create the First Ecstatic Impression of either abstract or Realism Genres. A long time resident of Sarasota, Julee Docking has been listed in "A History of Visual Art in Sarasota" And was part of the fine Arts Society "Artist and Collectors Tour" in 1973 and again in 1988 AWARDS: Gold Medallion, Cornell Museum FL Hilton Leach...

Oil on canvas painting by the well known American artist, Larry Horowitz. This painting exemplifies his early apprenticeship with Wolf Kahn. Executed in 1983. Signed lower left. Titled and dated verso. Housed in a contemporary rock maple frame. Overall 24.25 by 44.25 inches. LARRY HOROWITZ Born in 1956 in New York City, Horowitz is an American landscape paper with a focus on vanishing landscapes. After graduating from SUNY Purchase, he served as apprentice to Wolf Kahn. He has been selected to participate in the Arts-In-Embassies in Finland and Russia. He strives to capture the beauty of the American landscape with an expert use of texture and color that invites imagination and discovery. EDUCATION: 1971-76 Private study with Maxim Bugzester, New York, NY 1974 Art Students League, New York, NY 1974-78 B.F.A., State University of New York, Purchase, NY ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS: 2013 Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco, CA 2013 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2013 Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX 2012 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, NY 2012 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2011 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2011 Munson Gallery, Chatham, MA 2011 Franklin Bowles Galleries, New York, NY 2010 Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco, CA 2010 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2010 Aerie Art Gallery, Rehoboth Beach...

Original oil on canvas painting of a seaside vista by the American artist, Robert Waltsak. Signed lower left. Condition is excellent. Overall framed in a grey wash frame with gold h...

Original oil on canvas painting titled “Multishore” by the well known American artist, Syd Solomon. Signed Syd Solomon lower right. Signed and dated Syd Solomon 1971 on the stretcher, inscribed as titled on the reverse 30 × 26 inches. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in its original wood with silver reveal floating frame. Overall framed measurements are 32.75 by 28.75 inches. Provenance: A private collector. Syd Solomon was born near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, in 1917. He began painting in high school in Wilkes-Barre, where he was also a star football player. After high school, he worked in advertising and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, he joined the war effort and was assigned to the First Camouflage Battalion, the 924th Engineer Aviation Regiment of the US Army. He used his artistic skills to create camouflage instruction manuals utilized throughout the Army. He married Ann Francine Cohen in late 1941. Soon thereafter, in early 1942, the couple moved to Fort Ord in California where he was sent to camouflage the coast to protect it from possible aerial bombings. Sent overseas in 1943, Solomon did aerial reconnaissance over Holland. Solomon was sent to Normandy early in the invasion where his camouflage designs provided protective concealment for the transport of supplies for men who had broken through the enemy line. Solomon was considered one of the best camoufleurs in the Army, receiving among other commendations, five bronze stars. Solomon often remarked that his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of the War, he attended the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Because Solomon suffered frostbite during the Battle of the Bulge, he could not live in cold climates, so he and Annie chose to settle in Sarasota, Florida, after the War. Sarasota was home to the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and soon Solomon became friends with Arthur Everett “Chick” Austin, Jr., the museum’s first Director. In the late 1940s, Solomon experimented with new synthetic media, the precursors to acrylic paints provided to him by chemist Guy Pascal, who was developing them. Victor D’Amico, the first Director of Education for the Museum of Modern Art, recognized Solomon as the first artist to use acrylic paint. His early experimentation with this medium as well as other media put him at the forefront of technical innovations in his generation. He was also one of the first artists to use aerosol sprays and combined them with resists, an innovation influenced by his camouflage experience. Solomon’s work began to be acknowledged nationally in 1952. He was included in American Watercolors, Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. From 1952–1962, Solomon’s work was discovered by the cognoscenti of the art world, including the Museum of Modern Art Curators, Dorothy C. Miller and Peter Selz, and the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Director, John I. H. Baur. He had his first solo show in New York at the Associated American Artists Gallery in 1955 with “Chick” Austin, Jr. writing the essay for the exhibition. In the summer of 1955, the Solomons visited East Hampton, New York, for the first time at the invitation of fellow artist David Budd. There, Solomon met and befriended many of the artists of the New York School, including Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, James Brooks, Alfonso Ossorio, and Conrad Marca-Relli. By 1959, and for the next thirty-five years, the Solomons split the year between Sarasota (in the winter and spring) and the Hamptons (in the summer and fall). In 1959, Solomon began showing regularly in New York City at the Saidenberg Gallery with collector Joseph Hirshhorn buying three paintings from Solomon’s first show. At the same time, his works entered the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, among others. Solomon also began showing at Signa Gallery in East Hampton and at the James David Gallery in Miami run by the renowned art dealer, Dorothy Blau. In 1961, the Guggenheim Museum’s H. H. Arnason bestowed to him the Silvermine Award at the 13th New England Annual. Additionally, Thomas Hess of ARTnews magazine chose Solomon as one of the ten outstanding painters of the year. At the suggestion of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the Museum of Modern Art’s Director, the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota began its contemporary collection by purchasing Solomon’s painting, Silent World, 1961. Solomon became influential in the Hamptons and in Florida during the 1960s. In late 1964, he created the Institute of Fine Art at the New College in Sarasota. He is credited with bringing many nationally known artists to Florida to teach, including Larry Rivers, Philip Guston, James Brooks, and Conrad Marca-Relli. Later Jimmy Ernst, John Chamberlain, James Rosenquist, and Robert Rauschenberg settled near Solomon in Florida. In East Hampton, the Solomon home was the epicenter of artists and writers who spent time in the Hamptons, including Alfred Leslie, Jim Dine, Ibram Lassaw, Saul Bellow, Barney Rosset, Arthur Kopit, and Harold Rosenberg. In 1970, Solomon, along with architect Gene Leedy, one of the founders of the Sarasota School of Architecture, built an award-winning precast concrete and glass house and studio on the Gulf of Mexico near Midnight Pass in Sarasota. Because of its siting, it functioned much like Monet’s home in Giverny, France. Open to the sky, sea, and shore with inside and outside studios, Solomon was able to fully solicit all the environmental forces that influenced his work. His friend, the art critic Harold Rosenberg, said Solomon’s best work was produced in the period he lived on the beach. During 1974 and 1975, a retrospective exhibition of Solomon’s work was held at the New York Cultural Center and traveled to the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. Writer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. conducted an important interview with Solomon for the exhibition catalogue. The artist was close to many writers, including Harold Rosenberg, Joy Williams, John D. McDonald, Budd Schulberg, Elia Kazan, Betty Friedan...

Marilyn Turtz is a former student of Lois Dodd. Her intimate paintings, evoked from observation of the Maine landscape, translate to serence glimpses of light and color. "Ms. Turtz h...

As summer colors begin to change, you allow yourself a tranquil moment to comprehend and feel the depth of that change. This rare Bart DeCeglie original 32x36 abstract expressionist...

View of Pumpkin Pond, Nantucket

A plein air painting of a misty day on a pond. Reminiscent of Monet's waterlilies. Artist Bio: Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, California. Even in his earliest years...