Stephen Motyka

Watching The Sunset at Martha’s Vineyard

This splendid coastal marine landscape painting was done by American artist Reynolds Beal (1866-1951). Beal was born in New York City, studied painting at Merritt Chase’s Shinnecock Summer School, and went on to become a prominent East Coast marine and landscape painter, eventually settling in Rockport, MA. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, titled “Low Tide” on front plaque, as well as on verso Clark Point Gallery, Southwest Harbor...

A fine impressionist oil painting of a woman sitting near a fence by American artist John Rutherford Boyd (1884-1951). Boyd was born in Philadelphia, PA, and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under American painter Thomas Anshutz...

A rare figurative for this well-listed California artist of a Nevada mining town landscape with prospector and burro by George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893 - 1954), circa 1920. Signed lower right corner. Presented in patinated gilt-toned wood frame. Image size: 24"H x 30.5"W. Frame size: 32.5"H x 38"W. Bickerstaff was active/lived in California, Arkansas. George Bickerstaff is known for Landscape, coastal views, still life, western painting. Landscape painter. Born in Marianna, Arkansas on April 12, 1893. Bickerstaff was a self-taught artist except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. He led a peripatetic existence before moving to California in 1922. His early years were spent in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Van Nuys. He exhibited often in the latter with Paul Lauritz. A prolific oil painter of mountain and desert scenes, his landscapes often include eucalypti as well as rolling hills of California wildflowers...

Roy Andersen (b. 1930) "Old High Country Woman" Oil on Canvas 12 x 16 inches 21.5 x 25 inches framed Known as a western painter, Roy Andersen did paintings of Crow, Cheyenne, and Apache Indians. He began his career living in Chicago and New York and working as an illustrator. He did numerous covers for Time Magazine including portraits of Albert Einstein and Prince Fahd. He also did illustrations for National Geographic magazine, and did a stamp series on Dogs and American Horses, and in 1984 and 1985, won Stamp of the Year Award. As a muralist, he has filled commissions for the National Park Service, the Royal Saudi Naval Headquarters, and the E.E. Fogelson Vistor Center at Pecos National Monument in New Mexico. To pursue his talent for painting, Roy Anderson went West, living in Arizona and settling in Cave Creek. In 1990, he was voted official artist for Scottsdale's Parada del Sol, the "world's largest" horse-drawn parade commemorating the Old West. Andersen grew up on an apple farm in New Hampshire and learned about Indian customs from his many hours spent at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. He is meticulous about being historically accurate in his paintings. Of him it was written: "There are no 'happy accidents' in an Andersen painting. He has a knowledge of his subject that is attained only through extensive research. You will not find an Apache medicine bag...