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Antique Oil Painting Of Jerusalem Ascent to Old City Walls

Hildegarde Hamilton (Florida, Virginia 1898-1970) Oil on canvas painting of a docked navy ship with sailors on shore. Hand signed lower left Measures: Canvas 19"H x 23"W; Framed 23.5"H x 28"W. Hildegarde Hume Hamilton (1898 - 1970) was active/lived in Florida, Virginia. He is known for Impressionist buildings in landscape and coastal view painting, illustration. Hildegard Hume Hamilton was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1898. After her education there, and brief training at the age of six in art schools in Venice, Italy, while on a European sojourn with her father, she studied fine art at the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Grande Chaumière in Paris, France, during the 1920s and 1930s. Back in the United States, Hamilton studied for a short time at the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, the Cincinnati Art Academy and under the tutelage of the landscape and maritime painter Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) in Rockport, Massachusetts. The Ainslie Galleries on Fifth Avenue held an exhibit of Hamilton’s French Alpine Scenes to much acclaim. Hamilton exhibited in venues throughout the city and sold as many as 300 landscapes. In 1927, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes acquired one of Hamilton’s paintings following her one person exhibit at the Women’s National Party Headquarters in Washington D.C. In the autumn of 1928, an exhibition of her landscapes and cityscapes at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris was widely and positively reviewed. In 1929, she became the first American woman to exhibit at Philip Dillon’s club – L’Artistique, in Provence. She also contributed to the Salon des Artistes Independants in Paris. In 1930, Hamilton exhibited at the Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C. and in New York at the Grand Central Palace, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries on 57th Street, and the Huntington Bay and Yacht Clubs. During this period, the artist resided at 9 Gramercy Park in New York City. The picturesque neighborhood inspired Hamilton’s painting entitled 4 Gramercy Park, Mayor Harper’s House, Manhattan. C. 1930. The oil painting captures the red brick façade and intricate cast iron embellishments of 4 Gramercy Park, the former home of publisher and New York City Mayor James Harper (1795- 1869). The two lamps at the foot of the steps signify the home was a mayoral residence and remain at the site to this day. Mrs. Hamilton studied at the Art Students League, New York, New York, and the Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio. Hamilton exhibited her topographical street-scenes and landscapes widely throughout the United States with shows at the Syracuse, New York, Museum of Fine Art; the University of Kentucky; the University of Georgia, and most importantly, New York City’s Society of Independent Artists from 1929 to 1933, 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. She also illustrated books. Hamilton’s paintings are included in the collections of Wesleyan College, She was aof a generation of American artists that included Alfred Hutty, Wayne Beam Morrell, Frank Henry Shapleigh, Jane Peterson, Henry Martin Gasser, Emil Holzhauer...

German-Israeli artist ARYE LEO PEYSACK (1894-1972). Peysack was born in 1894 and trained in Germany. He immigrated to Palestine in the early 1920s, traveled extensively around the co...

Sidney Goodman (1936-2013) The Tryout Oil on Canvas Hand signed lower right Dated 1965 Provenance: bears labels verso from Terry Dintenfass Gallery (partial label) George Krevsky Ga...

Framed 24.5 x 28.5 image 19.5 x 23 inches. Franz Anton Coufal (Austrian, 1927 - 1999) Painter and sculptor known for figure painting, bronze sculpture, genre paintings and as a graphic artist. After completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith, Franz Anton Coufal attended the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna from 1947 to 1949 as a student of André Roder and from 1949 to 1953 took lessons from Ignaz Schönbrunner. From 1953 to 1959 he finally studied with Fritz Wotruba at the Academy of Fine Arts (diploma and master school award 1959). Coufal then went on study trips to Germany and Italy and then settled in Vienna as a sculptor and graphic artist. His work bears the influence of Austrian Magic Realism and the artists Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Erich Brauer and Ernst Fuchs. THis work also has Expressionist elements to it. He organized exhibitions in Vienna (from 1955), Paris (1962, 1970) and Brussels (1964) as well as in other Austrian cities. His most important works include the honorary grave for Leopold Figl in the central cemetery (1966). In 1979 he provided the design for the face of the silver 100 schilling coin "Festival and Congress House Bregenz", in 1980 he created the Lehár monument for the city park, and in 1987 he received the special prize in the "Danube Region Vienna" competition. A select list of his sculptures in public spaces "Standing youth" (19, Hameaustraße - Celtesgasse, urban residential complex; 1960) "Reclining youth" (22, Kagran [Meißnergasse - Maißauer Gasse - Anton-Sattler-Gasse]; artificial stone, 1962) "Flammender Turm" (16, Thaliastraße 159; marble) Cubist marble sculpture (11, Molitorgasse at 15) Drinking fountain (20, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße primary school; 1968) Figldenkmal (1, Minoritenplatz, 1973) Coufal created some of his later works for the "Harmonie" rest home for the blind in Unterdambach near Neulengbach (memorial for the 144 blind people who perished in concentration camps, unveiled in 2000; stone sculpture "Monument to Humanity" on the terrace; rose-thorn cross and tabernacle for the in-house Odilien- Chapel; bronze portrait sculpture by Robert Vogel in the entrance hall, unveiled July 3, 1994). Bibliography Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Vienna: Tusch 1974-1980 Who's Who in the world. Volume 2: 1974-1975. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who 1974 Who's who in the world. Volume 3: 1976-1977. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who 1976 Who is Who in Austria with South Tyrol part (Hübner's "Blue Who is Who"). Zug: Who is who, Verlag für Personalenzyklopädien 12 1995 Otto Breicha: Franz Anton Coufal In: Franz Anton Coufal. Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, December 9-22, 1964. Vienna: Staatsdruckerei 1964 The press, July 30, 1963 Of the generation of Viennese artists Alois Mosbacher, Josef Mikl, Oswald Oberhuber, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Peter Sengl, Max Weiler, Franz Ringel, Gunter Brus, Hubert Schmalix, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Paul Flora, Oscar Larsen, Hans Staudacher, Siegfried Anzinger, Ernst Huber...

Wonderful 1940s genre landscape of traditional English cottage painted in the European style by Henry T. Harvey (English/American, 1908-2000). Signed lower right corner. Presented in...

Wonderful California plein air seascape of sail boat in San Francisco harbor by California artist Elizabeth Gregory Kent (American 1901-1996), c.1...

A charming painting of a sunny day at an old farmstead with cows by California artist Ralph Edward Joosten (American, 1928-2009). Signed "R. Joosten" lower left. Presented in a rusti...

Afternoon swim, a lovely mid century figurative landscape, by California artist, Henry Milton Snyder (American, 1915-1966). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "H. Milton Snyder" l...