George John Illian

Art Deco Female Nude By George J. Illian

1925

Joseph Mario Korbel (Czech/American, 1882-1954). Period fine example bronze, dark brown patina, modeled as a nude female kneeling and tying her sandal, raised on a stepped black marb...

"Forest Eyes" By Jon Carsman. Acrylic on canvas, 1974. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Maintaining original gallery label from Graham Gallery, Madison Ave. New York Biography: Jon...

Maud Florance Gatewood (1934-2004) American. Fine example of her work, "Night at the Lake" is polymer on cut board, having the artist original identification card from the 20th Irene Leache MemorialBiennial Exhibition, 1970. Signed and dated lower Right MFG 69. Gatewood was arguably the most important living North Carolina painter and considered by art historians, curators, museum directors and collectors as one of the most important painters in North Carolina history. Maud Gatewood's artwork is familiar to museum-goers throughout the South. She has been a prominent figure throughout the southeastern United States during her 55-year career. An astute student, her interest in art began as a youngster in her hometown of Yanceyville, NC, studying then in 1945 at Averett College in nearby Danville, VA. At the age of 16, after having skipped two grades of school, she entered what is now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where she received her B.A. in fine arts in 1954. One year later, she received her M.A. in painting from Ohio State University. She continued her education as an instructor beginning in 1956 at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, AL, and then at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX. She then received a Fullbright Grant to study art history and painting at the Akademie Fur Angewandte Kunst and an extended Fullbright to study with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg, Austria. Her educational years were interspersed with traveling the world, that was the beginning of a life-long penchant, even at her death she was planning her next trip. In 1964, she returned to the U.S. where she joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and served as founding head of the university art department. She then went on to teach at Central Piedmont Community College before returning to her home, Caswell County, where she was a professor for many years at Averett University. During her academic career, she also served as a visiting professor and artist at the University of Cincinnati, Davidson College, and the State University of New York, Oswego. Ms. Gatewood was honored by her alma mater, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, with an honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts in 1999. On her life's path of discovery in painting, Ms. Gatewood was awarded the North Carolina Federation of Women's Club Scholarship in 1953; a painting award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972; the North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship in 1980; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art NEAA Grant 1981; the prestigious North Carolina Award in Fine Arts (Governor's Award) in 1984; the North Carolina Poster Award Commission for the U.S. Olympic Festival in 1987 and in 1993 she represented North Carolina in the Absolute statehood campaign featured in USA Today and Newsweek. She exhibited widely in the Southeastern United States and was honored with a retrospective exhibition covering 40 years of painting, organized by the Weatherspoon Gallery of Art at UNC-G in Greensboro, NC. The exhibition toured from 1994-95 in what is now the Cameron Museum of Art in Wilmington, NC as well as the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, NC; Albany Museum of Art in Albany, GA and the Gallery of Art and Design at NC State University in Raleigh, NC. She represented the State of North Carolina in the exhibition Nine from North Carolina the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC in 1989. She was also featured in the 1988 Biannual at the Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte, NC; the Southern Arts Federation exhibition tour, Three Approaches to the Figurative, 1986; a drawing exhibition at the Knight Gallery at Spirit Square in Charlotte in 1989; an exhibition at the Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville, SC in 1984 featuring Ten Years - Ten Artists; Greenhill Center for North Carolina Arts in Greensboro, NC in 1984; Painting in the South the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA 1983-85 and a touring exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 1983. One of North Carolina's most collected and sought after artists, Maud Gatewood's public collections include BB&T, Charlotte, NC; Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Baltimore, MD; Burroughs-Wellcome Fund, RTP, NC; Coca-Cola, Atlanta, GA; Nasher Art Museum at Duke University, Durham, NC; Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, NC; First Union Bank, Charlotte, NC; Smith-Kline Glaxo, RTP, NC; Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN; IBM Corporation, Charlotte, NC; Miller Brewing Company, Eden, NC; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC; National Gallery for Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Nations Bank, N.A., Charlotte, Raleigh and Winston-Salem, NC; Philip Morris Company, New York, NY; RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, NC; Sprint, Wake Forest, NC; Kenan-Flagler School of Business, UNC-Chapel Hill, NC; Breakers Hotel...

Joseph Stella (1877-1946, American, Italian) "Flower Study". Crayon and pencil on paper. Signed lower left. Image 6 7/8” x 4 /34”. Framed 12 1/2” x 10”. Gallery label Beadleston Gallery N.Y. N.Y. Joseph Stella (American, June 13, 1877–November 5, 1946) was a Futurist painter known for his association with the American Precisionism movement and his works depicting industrial America. Stella was born in Lucano, Italy. In 1896, he relocated to New York, NY, to study medicine. After becoming interested in art, Stella left his medical studies and began to study art at the Art Students League of New York. While there, he studied under William Merritt Chase. During this time, Stella's early works featured a Rembrandt style...

A family of lions having green patination depicting a male lion feeding two cubs; mounted on a naturalistic base - signed and applied entitled plaque "Lion 1st Gibier" Paul Edouard Delabrierre...

Polished stainless steel abstract sculpture, "Two Forms" by Roy Gussow (American, 1918-2011), marked and dated with coin seal inlaid to marble base. Similar...

Oil on canvas by Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898-1929), France, 1920s. Naked woman lying in front of her mirror. With frame: 95x61.5 cm - 37.4x24.2 inches - without frame: 73x40cm ...

Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...

A beautiful art deco portrait by well listed American Ashcan School artist Alexander Oscar Levy. This piece was featured in the American Art Review article about the Levy retrospect...

"The Judgement of Paris", an allegorical oil painting by German artist Hans Otto Orlowski. Painted in a quintesential style that incorporates elem...

CHARLES KVAPIL "NU" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED, TITLED BELGIAN, DATED 1932 46 X 32 INCHES FRAMED 55.5 X 41 INCHES Charles Kvapil 1884-1957 Charles Kvapil was born in 1884 in Anvers...

Marcel von Herrfeld, born in 1889, was a son of Alice Herrfeldt and the Spanish painter of nudes Luis Ricardo Falero (1851-1896) who worked in Pari...