Samuel Edmund Oppenheim

Portrait of a Woman with Flowers

Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1891, John Gilmore Wolcott graduated from Harvard in 1914 and continued studies in art with Charles Woodbury. He was active in the Boston art scen...

Oil on board Provenance Estate of Marjorie MacMonnies Wysong (the artist's granddaughter); Hap Moore Auctions; Martin Ferrick Antiques Exhibitions Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, American Women Artists: 1860–1960, October 13–November 10, 2017. Description During her expatriate career, between the mid-1880s and return to the United States in 1920, painter and muralist Mary Fairchild MacMonnies (later Low) was one of the most successful American women artists of her generation. Mary Fairchild was born in Connecticut, but was raised largely in St. Louis, Missouri. Inspired by her mother's work as a painter of miniatures and dissatisfied as a school teacher, she enrolled in the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, where she led a movement for women to be permitted to draw model posed in the nude, an important component of artistic training then considered improper for well-bred young women. Impressed by her talent and drive, the school's director, Halsey Ives...

Richard Hayley Lever (1876-1958) Original portrait done on paper and mounted on cardboard. Signed on back of the cardboard by artist. Lever was born in Australia studied art in bo...

"Jane Fonda" is an Original Oil Painting on Canvas that is signed by the artist. This painting of Jane Fonda is one of the few figurative paintings that Howard Behrens made during hi...