Geno Pettit

Geno Pettit, Seated Figure

1945

No matter the seriousness of the subject, everything is always beautifully drawn on the lithographic stone by Bendiner, but in this instance the negative space is exploited amazingly. This courtroom...

William P. Hicks has drawn everything about the circus that will fit in the plate. The main figure is an aerial act with a woman balancing on rope held by a figure on the floor. Ther...

An American painter, printmaker, and illustrator. His work was featured in "The Masses" and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This wood en...

This is such an interesting image. Are there 'Four women'? Is the head on the upper right from a hat store or is she another person in the scene. And what a...

This artwork titled "II Cup of Joe" c.1990, is an original color serigraph by American artist Rickey Jewell Hohimer, 1946-2021. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 250/300 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 19.5 x 23.5 inches, framed size is 26.75 x 30 inches. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is slightly damaged at the top, and will be replaced by a new similar black frame when sold. This will bring the over all condition to excellent. About the artist: Although formally trained with a MFA in painting, Rickey Jewell Hohimer has used the styles of Van Gogh and Gaughin to reach for the spontaneity and simplicity of today's folk art. Hohimer creates figures which are not photos of reality; they are romantically stylized to encourage straightforward emotional responses both to the colorful images and to the situations in which they find themselves. Each of Hohimer's paintings lays out a basic story line to which viewers add their own details. "I want the viewer to become personally involved. My paintings offer a change from those which encourage extensive intellectualizing about what the artist is trying to convey. I want viewers to smile -- to enjoy the whimsical nature of what they are experiencing -- to feel it, not to analyze it!. His jazz paintings are stories on canvas of inspired musicians spontaneously making music of the moment. Life in the jazz age is clubs and nightlife beckoning to musicians to produce jazz art...

"Balcony" 1938 WPA Print Mid 20th Century American Broadway Theatre Modernism. Silk screen on paper, 15” x 20". Numbered 15/20 lower left. Pencil si...

A nice rare woodcut by the noted American Artist Will Barnet. This woodcut is from 1939 and is titled and pencil signed on the base "Early Morning", Will...

"Early Morning Departure" by James Hendershot is published in an edition of 40, This impression is #32 This exhibition celebrates J. L. Hendershot’s fifty-one years of teaching art: forty-eight at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University. Hendershot’s independent studio work along with selected student works enrolled in his courses comprise the exhibition in addition to various retrospective and current explorative works, printmaking disciplines, graphite and charcoal drawings...