Ralph Pallen Coleman

Living Room Gathering

Illustration on the subject of popularity for the advice column “Father Meets Son” by J. P. McEvoy for The Saturday Evening Post, published October 30, 1937, page 136. The full capti...

Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Mixed Media Illustration

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Portrait of woman is painted on the backside of this piece

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 32.00" x 32.00" Signature: Unsigned

Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Jan Stussy(1921-1990) Jan Stussy was a prolific artist and educator heading the art department at UCAL for more than thirty y...

Interiors I: Family Reunion 1984 Resist ground etching and engraving on BFK Rives wove paper, 20 x 36 inches (501 x 913 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 49/175 in pencil, lower margin. In excellent condition with minor mat tone. A luminous, rich, and well-inked impression of this haunting image, with astonishing detail and depth. Framed handsomely under museum grade glass with archival materials in a solid wood frame with silver finish. [Milton 107] Intended to be a stand alone image in its inception, Family Reunion ended up spawning seven additional images, and became a sort of Primo Pensiero in the sprawling, masterpiece suite now known as Interiors. The suite took eight years to complete, and consists of works of varying format, psychological intensity, and subject matter. The thematic darkness in the eight images waxes and wanes, and Milton intentionally included several interlude works to lighten the tension he felt while composing several of the darker images. The first two in the series, Family Reunion, and Hotel Paradise Café, were meant to be companion pieces. The equilibrium of each composition is anchored on a central brooding figure; a man (perhaps based on a Thomas Eakins portrait of the American anthropologist Frank Hamilton...

Clyde Frederick Kelley (1886-1965) lived and worked in New York as an illustrator before settling in San Diego in 1924. Throughout his career he specialized in figurative, genre subjects that depicted American life in the 1930s-1950??™s; his paintings mirrored the paintings of the American...

"God Bless Our Home" is an interior and figurative scene of a woman sitting on her couch in serious and proper expression. The Americana style paint...