Alfonso Toran

Orientalist Still Life with Flowers

1937

A fine impressionist still life of a samovar amongst flowers on a table by American artist Dorothy Ochtman (1892-1971). Ochtman was born in Riverside, Connecticut, and became a renow...

A fine still life collaboration by Russian American artists Evgeny & Lydia Baranov (b. 1961/1964). Both Evgeny & Lydia were born in Moscow, Russia, and each received their master’s degrees in Architecture from Moscow Architectural Institute, and worked together at the Institute of Special Projects in Restoration, Moscow. Lydia was chosen to participate in the first USSR/USA ICOMOS Exchange Program for Young Professionals in Architectural Preservation, which brought her and Evgeny to Alaska to work with the National Park Service, Alaska Regional Office, on the Russian Orthodox Churches in Alaska Survey Project, 1989. They were married in 1990 and have collaborated in joint art endeavors since 1992.Their realist art, portraiture, genre, landscape, and still life works have appeared in many publications, such as Art of the West, The Artist's Magazine, and Southwest Art. Their paintings are included in many public and private collections including those The Royal Family of the United Kingdom, the Hearst Family, the Clint Eastwood Family, and the Russian Patriarchy, among others treasure the Baranov's unique works. Oil on canvas, signed and dated 01(?) lower left, inscribed on verso stretcher Evgeny Baranov, Russian Roses...

"Zinnias and Cosmos" is an impressionistic still life oil painting of bright glowing flowers by British born, but Florence-based painter Amy Florence. Signed at bottom right in red ...

The painting Woman Spring is painted on canvas stretched on a frame with oil paints using texture paste. The green background of the painting reminds of spring, and the white relief ...