Beth Rundquist

Asian Pears

2017

An oil painting, a still life of glassware, tea cups, and greenery, set for service on a white tablecloth against a wooden backdrop. Artist's studio can be seen in the reflections i...

A painting of carefully wrapped packages against a vibrant background. Each package is wrapped in a differently patterned paper. There is an air of anticipation, the edges close are sharply painted as if with bated breath and the edges along the horizon softly blurring out like a sigh thats been held, finally released. The vibrancy between magenta ground and the phthalo blue green background hum. The painting brings to mind the excitement of a child's birthday party, a wonderful sense of joy and nostalgia. Painting dimensions: 24 x 24 inches Frame dimensions: 28 x 28 inches Framed in a wide silver frame Artist Bio Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights. Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness. For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint. Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...

A trompe l'oeil painting of a toy gun hung upside down by a nail through the trigger.

An oil painting of a poppies in front of a rock wall. The setting sun shines through the petals making them glow golden orange against the darker foliage. The sun cuts shadows into t...

Framed dimensions: 36.5" h x 28.5' w x 5.75' d Sight size: 25.5' h x 17.5' w Signature: bottom right Early 20th century still life, original gilt frame, original stretcher. The following excerpt was written and submitted by Gary R. Libby from an essay in his book Reflections: Paintings of Florida 1835-2000. Very little is currently known about the still-life painter, George W. Seavey. Maybelle Mann’s Art in Florida, 1999, suggests that Seavey came to St. Augustine in 1883, the year of financier and hotel magnate “Henry Flagler...

Superior quality 22K gold gilt frame.

PAUL GORKA – UNTITLED [STUDIES IN FRAGILITY] Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed Lower Right ⚜ Custom Conservation Frame A COMPLEX, SYMBOLIC STILL LIFE OF MIDCENTURY AMERICAN INTROSPECTION Untit...

A finely executed late 19th-century still life by Walter Brackett (1823-1919) of a rainbow trout with rod and reel in the foreground, along with the fly that captured the trout. Fin...