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Achilles and Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons, 19th Century

St Ives, early 20th Century by WILLIAM LEE HANKEY (1869-1952) Large Early 20th costal landscape view of St Ives, Cornwall, oil on canvas by William Lee Hankey. Excellent quality an...

View Of Florence At Sunset From The San Miniato Church, 19th Century by JAMES BAKER PYNE (1800-1870) Fine large 19th Century view of Florence at sunset f...

In The Twilight, dated 1912 by Alexandr Victorovich Moravov (1878-1951) Large 1912 Russian Impressionist nocturnal interior "In The Twilight" oil on canvas by Alexandr Moravov. Ex...

Figures & Cattle In A River Landscape, 17th Century School of Johann Melchior Roos (1663-1731) Fine large 17th Century German classical landscap...

Last Voyage of the Lady Elgin On Saturday, September 8, 1860 at 2:30 a.m., the sidewheel steamship was full of Milwaukee’s Union Guard and civilians returni...

William Sharp (1900 - 1961) Factory on the River Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 23 1/4 inches Initialed lower right: WS Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, New York Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178 William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...

Wolf Kahn 1927-2020 American A Spot of Grass Signed "W Kahn" (lower right) Oil on canvas A masterwork of modern American landscape painting, A Spot of Grass exemplifies Wolf Kahn...

Miles Bair was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He studied art at Edinboro University and West Virginia University, and is the director of the School of Art at Illinois Wesleyan Uni...