Lawrence Rothbort

Studio Interior Still Life with Carved Wood Sculpture

Regina Mundlak was born in a village near Lomza (NE Poland), into a poor Jewish family. In 1901 she went to Berlin to find work, together with her mother and sister, a highly talented violinist. Her extraordinary talent rapidly brought her to the attention of the Jewish artistic milieu. Her work so impressed Max Liebermann (1847–1935) that he decided to finance her education. However, even with his help, she had difficulty in making a living. Efraim Moses Lilien (1874–1925), who did not conceal his fascination with her talent, tried to help by publishing an open letter in Ost und West in 1902, appealing for support for her, but because of financial problems she finally had to give up her studies and return to her homeland. At the age of fifteen she was already very skilled in drawing. At first she primarily created realistic portrait studies. The works she published in 1902 showed her rare power of observation. Her pen-and-ink drawings were also greatly admired. As her subjects she most often chose characteristic Jewish types from Eastern Europe. She exhibited her works in Warsaw at the (Society for Promotion of Fine Arts) in 1902 and in 1903 and at the Aleksander Krywult Salon in 1903. In 1906, once again in Berlin, she exhibited her works at the Cassirer Salon. A review of this exhibition by Hermann Struck appeared in Ost und West. Like Lilien before him, he too wrote about her “phenomenal talent.” On the occasion of her exhibition, some of her drawings were reproduced in Ost und West. The development of her creative abilities in the years between Lilien’s letter and Struck’s review is noticeable. Drawings published in 1901 were portraits; compared to later works they evidence a skilful but still somewhat uncertain hand. The works created a few years later were characterized by a stronger and surer line. These works are also more developed: while the subject of her works remained the same, she now extended her interest in portraiture to the shape of the entire human body, presenting the figures in more elaborate environments. Looking at the reproductions, one might conclude that she was interested in nothing but Jewish life in the Diaspora. There is a propensity to show the faces of older people...

Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964.) Still life with Tin Cup, 1996 17.5 X 16.5 inches. Framed it measures 18.25 X 17.25 Betsy Podlach graduated from Harvard, cum laude, (she studied at Harvard with Alfred Decreido and William Reimann as well as Carlos Fuentes continuing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Ms. Podlach was awarded an art fellowship and residency at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Betsy Podlach is an American painter who considers the Italian Venetians and the american abstract expressionist painters her mentors. The two painters she is most inspired by are Titian and Jackson Pollock, Both use the picture plane and abstraction and space, light, movement and form to communicate a physicality built entirely on the principals of painting, in the “classical” sense of a flat plane and lines, color, shape, space and light applied to that flat surface to create magic – light, space, form, emotion, force, movement, the physical and the spiritual. She describes her work as a figurative version of abstract expressionism. She was influenced by many of the abstract expressionists from the NY school...

William Meyerowitz (1887 - 1981) Oil painting on canvas Depicting a still life scene with fruit bowl, bananas, flowers and quilt. Post Impressionist oil painting. Hand signed low...

Wade Hoefer was born in 1948 in Long Beach, CA. In 1972 he earned an M.F.A. at California College of Art and Craft in Oakland, CA. SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1997 "Trio of Landscape Artists: Katherine Bowling, April Gornik, Wade Hoefer," David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO 1996 "American Landscape Painting in the 90's." Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL 1995 Monique Knowlton Gallery, NY, NY California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido Beach, CA Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Olga Dollar Gallery, San Francisco, CA Thomas Babeor & Co., La Jolla, CA 1994 Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA 1993 Edith Caldwell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA 1992 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA 1991 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Little Rock Museum of Contemporary Art, Little Rock, AK 1989 Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane, WA University of New Mexico, Las Cruces, NM Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA 1987 Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1986 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA 1985 Gabriella Cardazza, Venice, Italy 1981 Tom Luttrell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1978 Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1975 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1973 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA SELECTED COLLECTIONS The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc. Microsoft Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Bank of America, World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA J.P. Morgan, Los Angeles, CA Twigg-Smith Foundation, Honolulu, HI Thurston Twigg-Smith, Honolulu, HI Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA University Art Museum Berkeley, CA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA San Francisco Arts Commission, S.F. International Airport, CA Philip Morris Companies, Inc., New York, NY General Electric Company, New York, NY General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT University Art Museum at Berkeley, CA Fidelity Investors, Boston, MA Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Mason Phelps, La Jolla, CA Frederick Weisman, Los Angeles, CA Edgar Bronfman Sr., Sun Valley, ID Budd Bishop, Director, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL Stephanie French and Amory Houghton III, New York, NY Jim Hedges, H.H.L. Global Investments, Naples, FL Goldie Hawn, Los Angeles, CA Nicolas Cage...

George Weissbort (Belgian / British, 1928 – 2013) A glass of wine in a classical study Signed ‘G Weissbort 62’ (lower right) Oil on board 13 x 21 in. (33 x 53.4 cm.) George Weissbort painted in a figurative classical style going against the grain of the modern abstract living and painting in the Wye...

Studio Interior Scene Mid 20th Century American Modern WPA Still Life Realism The painting measures 10 x 12 inches. Framed, the work is 13 1/4 x 15 1/...

A delightful still life study capturing an assortment of indigenous objects placed on a windowsill. The artist captures the scene in bright colours and an expressive style, paying pa...

Still life, oil on board. Signed to the lower right and dated 1979.