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Naturalistic Pastoral Figurative Farm Painting of a Man Sowing Seeds in a Field

Late 19th Century

Naturalistic landscape painting of a field of trees painted with egg tempera. The piece is signed by the artist in the bottom corner and framed in a dark wooden frame with black acce...

Gouache painting by William Hoey featuring a small fisherman walking to the coast. Circa 1970s. Dimensions of painting without frame: H 6.5 in. x W 8.5 in. x D .25 in. Artist Biogr...

Modern geometric figurative painting featuring Pablo Picasso inspired faces nestled amongst heavily abstracted harvest imagery. Reminiscent of a Cubist style of abstraction, the work...

Modern realist green and brown toned landscape painting by Haitian artist Felix Deournoy. The work features a group of children playing a stick and hoop game set against a rural village...

Monogrammed work Work on wood Brown wooden frame 33 x 48 x 4 cm

Provenance: The Artist. Menikoff collection (friends of the artist) About this artist: Born in Little Italy in 1907, Gregorio Prestopino first set out to become a sign painter as the son of New York City immigrants. Instead, his talent provided a life-changing scholarship to the National Academy of Design, and for five years he studied drawing under C. W. Hawthorne. He spent the summer of 1934 at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His deep involvement with the colony led him to later serve as its director in 1954. Much of Prestopino’s work was in the vein of social realism. During the 1940s and 1950s he became deeply invested in portraying everyday Manhattan and Harlem scenes. He first became interested in the Ashcan school at the National Academy of Design, and remained committed to an interest in working with urban scenes. His lively treatment of people and events revealed his affinity for sixteenth-century artist Pieter Breughel. Later in his career, he focused on producing images of nudes and picturesque New Hampshire landscapes, and investigated the relationship between color and form. Prestopino exhibited at several biennials at the Corcoran Gallery, at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art. His work was frequently shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was awarded the Temple Gold Medal in 1946 and an additional prize in 1952. He was awarded a National Institute of Arts and Letter Grant in 1961, and in 1972 the National Academy of Design awarded him the Altman Figure Painting Award. Prestopino’s artistic cache skyrocketed when Life magazine published his images from New York’s maximum security institution Green Haven as part of its “Prison Series” in 1957. That same year his paintings and sketches of urban life were featured in the short film Harlem Wednesday. Directed by John and Faith Hubley...

Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953) Title: Impressionist oil painting Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed dated 1941 Size: painting: 13...

3910B Antique oil landscape people working in a beau colic field . Set in a 19th C gilt frame Image size 16x20"