Cortland Butterfield

"Young Woman Washing" - Signed Framed Late 20th Century Nude Print

(Sorry for the reflections on the glass.) When I first saw this graphite-on-paper drawing I assumed it was a print of a Larry Rivers drawing (early Pop Artist and one of the great dr...

Charles Richards was an iconic New Orleans artist whose talent is lesser known only because not as many of his paintings come up for sale as do those of more prolific painters such as George Dureau, Robert Gordy...

A truly lovely nude by noted 20th-century New Orleans artist and extraordinary draftsman Charles Richards, whose work does not come up for sale often enough here in New Orleans. Sorr...

A gorgeous nude from 1969 by James Wallace, showing masterful foreshortening (very difficult to pull off this convincingly) and beautifully sensual. One tiny repair visible on back c...

Nude woman is an original etching realized after Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) in the first decades of 20th Century. In good conditions. Not signed. Image Dimensions: 16 x 11 / ...

Cleaning Nude is an Original Lithograph realized by Willette (Adolphe Léon). Good condition on a yellowed paper included a cardboard passpartout (33x25 cm). Hand signed with sangui...

Bathing is an original lithograph on paper realized by Jacques Lestrille (1904-?) Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, numbered, edition 2/12 prints. The state of preservation...

Signed lower right, 'Palmer Schoppe' (American, 1912-2001) and dated 1966. Displayed in a gilt frame with a water-gilded, silver-gilt liner. Framed dimensions: 27 H x 1.25 D x 23 W inches. Born in Utah, Palmer Schoppe moved with his family to southern California in 1920 and settled in Santa Monica. Artistically inclined and precocious, he began painting as a child. After graduating from UCLA, he spent a year in the Merchant Marines before attending Yale School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League in New York. At the ASL, he was initially drawn to the paintings of Jean Charlot and Thomas Hart Benton but grew increasingly frustrated with their insistence on rigid compositional principles. His native artistic talents prevailed over his lack of formal training, however, and he was promptly employed by both the Chouinard Institute and Walt Disney Studios as a drawing instructor. During this pre-war period, he exhibited with success including at the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939) and with the California Watercolor Society. Outside of his teaching responsibilities, he worked on his personal artistic endeavors and. like many artists of the time, focused primarily on figurative subject matter. Schoppe's early travels in the low country of South Carolina; Harlem, New York and Los Angeles informed his work as he sought to capture the regional life of manual laborers, musicians, circus performers, sun bathers and surfers. Schoppe once stated that, "It seems fairly certain that my work is not 'art about art', but art that is a reaction to a given stimulus. These are 'subject' pictures in that they are definitely in response to a certain place, type of people, cultures and customs". Following his service in World War II, Schoppe returned to teaching at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He became increasingly disillusioned by the changing focus of the art world in the 1950s, when "the' drip' , the' blot', and the' isms' had taken over". He stated that, "it was difficult for the figurative painter to exhibit and I retired from the scene." However, a new artistic outlet presented itself when Schoppe began working as a muralist and architectural sculptor for the architect Aurthur Froelich, who designed race tracks and club houses around the country. This led to a proliferation of mural projects ranging from restaurants to scores of hotels and casinos, such as the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas; Circus-Circus, Las Vegas; the Queen Mary ship...