Unknown

Impressionist Italian Landscape

ca. 1950

Beautiful 1931 painting by American artist, Giovanni Martino (1908-1997). Oil on canvas measures 25 x 30 inches. Measures 35 x 39 inches framed. The scene depicts what is definitively the Rockport, Mass. fishing pier. Excellent condition with a few very minor areas of paint flaking. The darker areas in the sky is a result of unpainted areas. The canvas is sized with glue but not primed white: observable areas of natural linen color results. Signed wet into wet and dated lower left. No restoration or overpaint. Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art* studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street. Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River...

Francis Vendeveer Kughler (1901-1970. Manhattan Skyline from New York Harbor, ca. 1940. Oil on canvas mounted to masonite, 24 x 30 inches. Unframed. Excellent condition with no conservation. Signed lower right. 1901–1970 Born in New York City Kughler was educated in New York City public schools and art schools: De Witt Clinton High School, Cooper Union, the Mechanics' Institute and the National Academy of Design School of Art where he met Charlotte Livingston, an artist, whom he was later to marry. During this period he was the winner of a Tiffany scholarship, which provided him a summer of landscape painting at the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate at Oyster Bay, L.I.In the 1940s, Kughler became the President of the Salmagundi Club a well-known club in Washington Square in New York City that had been the singular gathering place for such great artists as Childe Hassam, William Merrit Chase...

Frances Schantz (1893-1968). Brief December Day, ca. 1950. Oil on canvas, 18 x 26 inches. Framed measurement: 24 x 32 inches. Signed lower left. Original label affixed on verso....

Nestor Fruge (1916-2012). Bayou Landscape, ca. 1970. Watercolor on paper, 11 x 15.25 inches. Unframed. Excellent condition. Signed lower right. Born in Bayou Lafourche, Louisiana i...

"Apple Feast" (2024) by Olga Karpeisky is an original, handmade oil painting on linen that depicts a branch with red and green apples on a colorful abstracted background.

The painting Autumn Tranquility depicts an autumn landscape with a wooden church drowning in golden tones. Soft autumn colors create a scenery of harmony and tranquility, and the dep...

"Italian Hillside" is a 48x60 oil painting on canvas by renowned artist Anne Packard. This expansive landscape painting leads the viewers eye through rolling hills of lush green foliage. A grouping of structures stand atop, catching the last bit of an afternoon sun. Signed to lower left. About the artist: Anne has brought to her work an instinct and skill drawn from a deep family well of American and European painters. A third generation Provincetown painter, she is a bona fide Cape Cod artist. Her grandfather, Max...

Joaquim Marsillach i Codony (1905-1986) - Landscape with characters Oil on panel - Hand signed Oil measures 27x41 cm. Frame measures 43x57 cm. Mars...