John Morfis

Rusty Snapper Lure

2017

John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetica...

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 c...

A half-husked corn on the cob rests upon a wooden surface. Painted from life, this still-life painting is academically proportionate, colorfully correct, and would make a great addit...

Painted from life in the artist's studio, a rustic, wooden basket overflows with bright colored flowers. Four apples scattered in the foreground, cast shadows, and reflect on the gro...

Painted from life in his connecticut studio, John Moris paints two metal oar locks. These tools are normally attached to the sides of a row-boat, and lock in the oars with which a sailor would row. Hanging fro a tiny metal nail, dangling from a small white thread, before an off-white, monochromatic backdrop. Framed in a simple black frame, as pictured. Frame dimensions are 24 x 20 inches. Painting dimensions are 19 x 15 inches. John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical. With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown. John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. ARTIST STATEMENT Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...

John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical. With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown. John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. ARTIST STATEMENT Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...

Anne Lyman Powers, American (b.1922), Still Life with Grapes, Pears, and Walnuts, 1961. Signed and dated upper right: "Powers '61". Anne Lyman Powers was born in 1922, and raised in...

A rare and very early oil and wax medium painting from American artist, Kim Frohisn, who is generally associated with the West Coast's Bay Area Figurative movement, started by Elmer ...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- This most recent body of work is inspired by Tom Gregg's fascination with objects and the powerful resonanc...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- I paint the reality of the Southern California environment: how structures once revered for their groundbreaking ideas in design and...

Oil on board Signed lower left Provenance: Everett Oehlschlaeger Galleries, Chicago, IL Exhibited: Everett Oehlschlaeger Galleries, Chicago, IL Ten portraits of plastic toys attach...

Hans Weingaertner (1896-1970). Oil on canvas measures 8 x 10 inches; 14 x 16 inches in a frame of the period. Signed lower right. Excellent, clean condition with no damage or restoration. Signed with monogram and dated 1966 en verso. Biography: Birth place: Krailburg, Germany Addresses: Lynhurst, NJ; Belleville, NJ Profession: Painter Studied: Royal Acad., Munich, Germany, and with Ludwig Klein, Moritz Hyman, A. Jank. Exhibited: Soc. Indep. Artists, 1929-40; BM, 1932; New Haven PCC, 1934-39; AIC, 1936; traveling exhib., 1936-37; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1939; Montclair AM, 1938, 1939; New Jersey State Mus., Trenton, 1939; Newark Mus., 1940, 1944; Carnegie Inst., 1941; VMFA, 1946; Penn. State Teachers College, 1944, 1946; PAFA Ann., 1951; WMAA; NAD; CAFA; Salons of Am. Awards: prizes, Montclair AM, 1949, 1950; New Haven PCC, 1950; Newark Art Club, 1951; Bamberger purchase, 1964 Member: Mod. Artists, New Jersey; Soc. Indep. Artists; New Haven PCC; New Jersey AA; Audubon Artists; New Jersey WCS Work: Newark Mus.; Rutgers Univ.; Jefferson H...