W.H.McConnell

'Grand Canyon, Evening', Large Western landscape oil, United Scenic Artists

1936

Signed lower right, 'Bickerstaff' for George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893-1954) and painted circa 1950. This California landscape painter was born in Arizona and studied at t...

Signed lower left, 'Karl Yens' (American, 1868-1945) and painted circa 1920. A fine, early 20th century watercolor landscape showing the the luminous sunset serenely reflected in a still lake with elegant, calligraphic grasses. Painter, illustrator, etcher and muralist, Karl Yens was born in Germany and first studied with Max Koch in Berlin and, subsequently, with Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He was a successful active muralist in both Germany and Scotland before immigrating to the United States in 1901. After arriving in America, Yens continued to paint murals in New York City and Washington, D.C. before settling in Southern California where he lived and painted until his death in 1945. Karl Yens exhibited widely and with success, including at the 1915 Panama-California International Exposition in San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, San Diego Museum, the Orange County, California Museum, Astor Theatre in NYC and the Society of California Pioneers. He was the recipient of numerous medals and prizes and juried awards, including at the 1919 California Art Club, Laguna Beach Art...

Earl L Carpenter Born 1931 Grand Canyon Oil On Board Image size: 9x12 inches Overall:15x18 inches Circa 1970’s Framed in original frame Signed lower left Up for auction is a beauti...

South Rim, Grand Canyon. Artist sighed lower right. About artist: Richard H. Tashjian Born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. in 1926, Richard served in the U.S.N.R. World War II 1944-46 as a photographer and later graduated from the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, 1950. He studied design under Prof. Gyorgy Kepes at M.I.T. School of Visual Design Architectural Center Cambridge, MA. Richard’s talents resulted in a successful career in advertising art, where he worked as a commercial artist and art director for various distinguished ad agencies throughout the Boston area. For several years, he owned and operated an art studio and gallery in Watertown, MA. While continuing to depict nature in his harmonious style that utilizes layers of color. He brings a passion for the natural world and international perspective to his paintings. His brush has rendered scenes in the Crimea and the south of France. Having moved to Santa Fe New Mexico recently he has already made canyons, mesas and skies of the Southwest his own. EDUCATION: Museum School  of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. 1950 MILITARY: World War II, U.S. Naval Reserve 1944-46 SELECTED AWARDS: A.S.A. Ara S. Boyan Award in Humanities                        1975 for the contribution to Living Arts-Bromall, PA. Stone & Webster Arts Festival, Boston, MA.                               1978 First Prize-Watercolor Medium                                        1979 First Prize-Graphic Prints Visiting Artist Honored Medal                                                     1990 100th Anniversary of Hovhaness Aivasofski July 22, 1990, Theodosia Crimea Russia SELECTED One Man Shows: Brockton Art Fuller Memorial Museum Brockton, MA       1972 Secretary of State Office-Boston, MA State House         1975 Newton Public Library Newton, MA                                 1978 AGBU Art Gallery New York                                           1979 Armenian Library and Museum of America                      1990 Watertown, MA. Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                     1997 Grunthal Gallery, Taos, NM.                                            1999 Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                     2002 Paxton McCall Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.                           2002 Wilder Nightingale fine Art, Taos, NM.                             2002 Editions Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.                                      2006 PUBLICATIONS: Ararat Quarterly Issue No. 53 AGBU NY.                          1970 The American Review...