Arthur Segal

Still Life and Fruits

1911

BELA CZOBEL 1883-1976 1883 - Budapest-1976 (Hungarian) Title: Still Life with Flowers and Two Apples Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on canvas size: 79 x 64 cm / x 31.1...

SEWERYN SZRAJER 1899-1947 Chelm 1899 - 1947 Paris (Polish/French) Title: The Flowers Technique: Original Signed Oil on Canvas size: 65 x 54 cm / 25.6 x 21.2 in Addition...

HENRI HAYDEN 1883-1970 Warsaw 1883-1970 Paris (Polish/French) Title: Still Life with Flowers Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Canvas size: 3...

JOSEPH FLOCH 1894-1977 Vienna 1894 – 1977 New York (Austrian) Title: Still Life at the Window, 1960 Technique: Oil Painting on Canvas Size: 94 x 66 cm. / 37 x 26 in. Additional ...

Albert Swinden (1901 - 1961) Still Life of Fruit, 1937 Oil on canvas 18 x 30 inches Provenance: Graham Gallery, New York Albert Swinden (1901–1961) was an English-born American abstract painter. He was one of the founders of the American Abstract Artists, and he created significant murals as part of the Federal Art Project. Albert Swinden was born in Birmingham, England in 1901. When he was seven, he moved with his family to Canada, and in 1919 he immigrated to the United States. He lived in Chicago, where he studied for about a year and a half at the Art Institute. He then relocated to New York City, where his art education continued briefly at the National Academy of Design. He soon changed schools again, to the Art Students League, which he attended from 1930 to 1934. He studied with Hans Hofmann and gained an appreciation for Synthetic Cubism and Neoplasticism. According to painter and printmaker George McNeil, Swinden "could have influenced Hofmann ... He was working with very, very simple planes, not in this sort of Cubistic manner. Swinden was working synthetically at this time." While still a student, Swinden began teaching at the Art Students League, in 1932. Swinden married Rebecca Palter (1912–1998), from New York. Their daughter, Alice Swinden Carter, also became an artist. Carter, who attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, received an award from the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston for her large sculptures. Swinden was hired for the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and he is best known for the murals which he painted as part of that project. In 1935, New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia attended the opening of the inaugural exhibit at the Federal Art Project Gallery, accompanied by Audrey McMahon, New York regional director for the Works Progress Administration/Federal Art Project. Among the works on display was Abstraction, a sketch by Swinden; it was the design for a mural planned for the College of the City of New York. A newspaper account described it as consisting of "brightly colored T-squares, triangles and rulers in horizontal, vertical and diagonal positions". La Guardia asked what it was, and upon being told it was a mural design, he said he didn't know what it depicted. Someone joked that it could be a map of Manhattan. The displeased mayor stated that "if that's art, I belong to Tammany Hall." (Tammany Hall, which the Republican mayor referenced, was the New York Democratic Party political society.) Fearing that the mayor's negative attitude could jeopardize the future of abstract art within the Federal Art Project, McMahon dispatched an assistant to summon an artist who could speak to the mayor in defense of abstraction. The assistant returned with Arshile Gorky. Swinden played an important role in the founding of the American Abstract Artists. In 1935, he met with three friends, Rosalind Bengelsdorf, her future husband Byron Browne, and Ibram Lassaw, with the goal of exhibiting together. The group grew and started meeting in Swinden's studio, which adjoined those of Balcomb and Gertrude Greene...

Paul Feiler (British 1918 - 2013) Still Life with Fruit Oil on canvas 1949 Size: 43cm high, 51cm wide - 17 ins high, 20 ins wide Frame: 59.5cm high, 66.5cm deep - 23½ ins high, ...

Still life by Gustav Likan 16" x 20" Acrylic on Canvas signature located on lower right side and dated '64

Illegible signature Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 56.2 x 74.5 x 3.5 cm