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Art Dealers Association of America

Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
Founded in 1962, the Art Dealers Association of America is a vetted community of more than 180 top-tier galleries across the United States. Working with these member galleries, ADAA appraisers offer assessment services for artworks spanning from the Renaissance to the present day. The ADAA also arranges public forums on important art-related topics and hosts The Art Show, presented each year at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, which stands out among art fairs for its acclaimed selection of curated booths — many of which are one-artist exhibitions.
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Lella, Bretagne, 1947
By Edouard Boubat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto; Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Gelatin Silver Print Image 11 x 14", Paper 12 x 16", Mat 16x20"
Category

1940s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Begonia Buds
By Beth van Hoesen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beth Van Hoesen (1926-2010) was born in Boise, Idaho. She moved with her family to California, and in 1944, enrolled at Stanford University to study fine arts, earning a Bachelor of ...
Category

1970s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil

UNTITLED (from the ARTSOUNDS Collection)
Located in New York, NY
YURA ADAMS Untitled (from the Artsounds Collection), 1986 color offset print, ed. 200 12 x 12 cm. 30.5 x 30.5 cm. Edition 49/100 signed and numbered in pencil by the artist on ver...
Category

1980s Expressionist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Offset

UNTITLED
By Jean Tinguely
Located in New York, NY
felt tip pen on paper.
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Paper, Crayon

CHAMBERED NAUTILUS
By Julio Larraz
Located in New York, NY
Etching, aquatint and sugarlift print of a Still-Life on a table. Edition of 100.
Category

1980s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Last Day of Winter
By Miles Cleveland Goodwin
Located in Dallas, TX
Miles Cleveland Goodwin says, "I don’t like to do things I don’t know." Not unlike the spirit of Southern literature and Delta blues music, there is an autobiographical nature to his...
Category

2010s Romantic Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Egg Tempera, Panel

Brigitte Bardot Prepares to Meet the Press, London
By Larry Burrows
Located in New York, NY
Image size is 15 x 19.5 inches. Printed in 1999. Larry Burrows Collection and copyright stamps on verso. Larry Burrows career as a LIFE Magazine photographer culminated in his renow...
Category

1950s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

BLIND SELF PORTRAIT
By Gregg Louis
Located in New York, NY
ink drawing on paper blind contour drawing artists self-portrait
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Paper, Ink

COPPER BIRD LITTLE "IN MEE THE FLAME"
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
copper, wire and organza on metal armature "In Mee the Flame" - John Donne
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Metal, Copper, Wire

Trees in Winter Field, Oregon , 2014, printed 2023
By Jeffrey Conley
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed & numbered in pencil on print recto; Titled, dated, & numbered in ink with artist's stamp on verso Platinum/Palladium Print Image 12x12", Mat 20x20" Edition of 10
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Untitled, Washington DC, 1963
By Bruce Davidson
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Untitled, Washington DC, 1963 Signed in pencil on verso Gelatin silver print Image: 12-1/2" x 18-3/4", Paper: 16" x 20", Matted: 20" x 24"
Category

1960s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

His Only Pet
Located in New York, NY
Charles Caleb Ward was born in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, the grandson of a New York Ward who had left for New Brunswick around the time of th...
Category

Late 19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Oil, Board

Frank Sinatra, Miami, FL, 1965
By John Dominis
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Dominis worked for Life magazine during the Vietnam war and later also went to Woodstock. In the 1970s he worked for People magazine. From 1978 to 1982 he was an editor for the Sport...
Category

1960s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"When Moments Meet"
By Joseph Lorusso
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Joseph Lorusso was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1966, and received his formal training at the American Academy of Art. He went on to receive his B.F.A. degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. While in school, Lorusso majored in watercolor and considers himself self-taught as an oil painter. He learned to paint by studying the works of master painters, often losing himself in the halls of the Chicago Art Institute during lunch hours...
Category

2010s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Friends in Need, Juna Mahal, Dungarpur Palace, 2020
By Karen Knorr
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with non-glare UV plexiglas and a 14 day return policy. Also available for local pick up at our Los Angeles gallery. Shipping services available worldwide at a discounted rate. Friends in Need, Juna Mahal, Dungarpur Palace, 2020 48 x 60 inches (52 x 64 x 2.5 inches framed) Archival pigment print Edition 4 of 5 (last edition available) Signed on separate artist certificate Artist Biography - While Knorr’s images take some of their inspiration from the Indian tradition of personifying animals in literature and art, there is another almost subconscious strain to her work. Going back to the time of cave painting we see that these early visual artists not only recorded their lives and surroundings, but used art to express themselves. The depiction of animals in symbolic and powerful ways and the urge to create these images with the best tools at hand is a line stretching from these unnamed cave painters to Karen Knorr. Playfully combining technologies and genres, Knorr mixes digital...
Category

2010s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Interior with Figures
By Arthur Osver
Located in Dallas, TX
Arthur Osver studied at Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. Osver was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1952. He taught at the Brooklyn Museum Art School, Columbia Un...
Category

1930s American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Betty Threat, New York, Harper's Bazaar
By Lillian Bassman
Located in Santa Monica, CA
signed and number in pencil on verso
Category

Mid-20th Century Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

TRANSPARENT GREEN SQUARES
Located in New York, NY
large abstract oil painting on canvas green orange brown
Category

1980s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Rod and other Wildflowers
By John Ross Key
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): John Ross Key 1882
Category

Late 19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On the Edge of Landscape
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and drawings, whose style defies convenient labels. Abstract, surreal, cartoonish, sci-fi fantastic, metaphysical, apocalyptic-Baroque - all of these fit but also fall short of fully describing his art." (Edward M. Gomez, "Futuristic Forms Frolic Under Eerie Texan Skies...
Category

1990s Surrealist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Venice
By Jane Peterson
Located in New York, NY
Singed (at lower left): Jane Peterson
Category

Early 20th Century American Impressionist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Gouache

Peek-a-Boo
By Seymour Joseph Guy
Located in New York, NY
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world. Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...
Category

19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Crossing the Ohio near Louisville
By Danny Lyon
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Danny Lyon (born 1942), is a self-taught American photographer and filmmaker. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he is also credited as an accomplished writer to accompany his photographs. He stu...
Category

1960s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Nature's Solitude"
By Gary Ernest Smith
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Lauded by critics and collectors alike, the art of Gary Ernest Smith resonates in the mind and memory of contemporary America. Over the past years the artist’s one-man shows have attracted the attention of collectors from coast to coast. His three year exhibit, “Journey I Search of Lost Images” hung in 22 museums and institutes across the United States. In an exhibit curated by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, his work toured the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, San Jose Museum of Art, the Palm Springs Desert Museum and many more prestigious art institutions. Although he must strictly limit the number of commissions he accepts, his mural size paintings are highly prized by corporate collectors. Gary Ernest Smith was born and raised in a relatively isolated farm community 25 miles northeast of Baker City, Oregon. His interests and intensity for painting began at an early age and progressed through college degrees, numerous commissions and awards to a full time pursuit of painting. The commission work that dominated the early years eventually stifled his creativity. Dissatisfaction with this career direction forced him to reach inward and search beyond popular style and accepted artistic norms to a personal vision. Following years of artistic training and experimentation, subject matter began to emerge based on the artist’s background of a rural life-style that celebrates the values of hard work and self-reliance. These aspects of Smith’s life came together and became the catalyst for his distinctive style. Living in the west, his work is primarily of that region, but it is not western in the traditional sense. Although it defies precise classification, the artist considers his style “minimal” and seeks to express the essence and simplicity of each subject. Whatever the focus might be, his work expresses the artistic elements of bold form and color. These two components become the vehicle that melds the style and subject into a symbolic visual language, expanding the artistic appeal beyond the west...
Category

2010s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Linen, Oil

Greta Garbo
By Clarence Sinclair Bull
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Clarence Sinclair Bull was one of the great masters of the Hollywood portrait. As head of the stills department at MGM for over thirty years, he helped to pioneer the art and craft o...
Category

1930s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Cluster #17
By Beth Lipman
Located in New York, NY
BETH LIPMAN CLUSTER #17, 2020 black and clear glass, adhesive 8 x 15 x 13 in. 20.3 x 38.1 x 33 cm.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Glass, Adhesive

COSMOGONY #18
By Adriana Marmorek
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired abstract sculpture. From FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, Winter 2019. Included in Catalogue.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Porcelain

COSMOGONY #15
By Adriana Marmorek
Located in New York, NY
Porcelain egg inspired sculpture. From FLOWER TO BEE exhibition, Winter 2020. Included in the catalogue.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Porcelain

Le Pont de Brooklyn, New York 1982
By Edouard Boubat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Le Pont de Brooklyn (Brooklyn Bridge) New York 1982 / Printed Later Gelatin Silver print Signed in ink on recto. Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso.
Category

20th Century Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Irish Dancehall, The Bronx, 1954 (printed 2006)
By George S. Zimbel
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto; Signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Image: 7-3/4 x 12"; Paper: 10-3/4 x 13-3/4"; Mat 16 x 20"
Category

1950s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

New York from Hoboken
By William Rickarby Miller
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower left): W.R. Miller/ 1851
Category

Mid-19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
By Michael Gregory
Located in San Francisco, CA
Michael Gregory was born in 1955 in Los Angeles, CA and received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1980. Previously living and working in Bolinas, California, Gregory h...
Category

2010s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Oil, Panel

Leonard Bernstein conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, March 7, 1990
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Steve J. Sherman Leonard Bernstein conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, March 7, 1990 Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on verso Silver Halide Archival Print Image: 1...
Category

1990s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Iceland (55530)
By Luca Campigotto
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 15 (includes all sizes). Signed, titled, dated and editioned on frame label provided. Final shipping costs will depend on the size of the print ordered, and whether it is purchase framed or unframed. Luca Campigotto's photographic expeditions have taken him to disparate and exotic locations around the world – Japan, India, Thailand, Chiba, Cambodia in the Far East; many European and North American cities; as well as Cairo, Lapland, Argentina, Iceland, and Easter Island. Campigotto’s works are held in private and public collections worldwide, including Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (Rome), Museo Fortuny...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Blue Coat
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Image size: 24 x 12 inches Edition of 30 Portrait of the artist's son Vincent. Internationally recognized painter and printmaker Alex Katz was born in 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. ...
Category

1990s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Aquatint

USA Flag, Fragment
By Sharon Core
Located in New York, NY
From Sharon Core's series Oldenburgs, which playfully explores the sculptural work of Claes Oldenburg.
Category

2010s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

Saint-Malo, Brittany
By William Stanley Haseltine
Located in New York, NY
The career of William Stanley Haseltine spans the entire second half of the nineteenth century. During these years he witnessed the growth and decline of American landscape painting, the new concept of plein-air painting practiced by the Barbizon artists, and the revolutionary techniques of the French Impressionists, all of which had profound effects on the development of painting in the western world. Haseltine remained open to these new developments, selecting aspects of each and assimilating them into his work. What remained constant was his love of nature and his skill at rendering exactly what he saw. His views, at once precise and poetic, are, in effect, portraits of the many places he visited and the landscapes he loved. Haseltine was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prosperous businessman. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, he began his art studies with Paul Weber, a German artist who had settled in Philadelphia two years earlier. From Weber, Haseltine learned about Romanticism and the meticulous draftsmanship that characterized the German School. At the same time, Haseltine enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, and took sketching trips around the Pennsylvania countryside, exploring areas along the Delaware and Susquehanna rivers. Following his sophomore year, Haseltine transferred to Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard in 1854, Haseltine returned to Philadelphia and resumed his studies with Weber. Although Weber encouraged Haseltine to continue his training in Europe, the elder Haseltine was reluctant to encourage his son to pursue a career as an artist. During the next year, Haseltine took various sketching trips along the Hudson River and produced a number of pictures, some of which were exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the spring of 1855. Ultimately, having convinced his father that he should be allowed to study in Europe, Haseltine accompanied Weber to Düsseldorf. The Düsseldorf Academy was, during the 1850s, at the peak of its popularity among American artists. The Academy’s strict course of study emphasized the importance of accurate draftsmanship and a strong sense of professionalism. Landscape painting was the dominant department at the Düsseldorf Academy during this period, and the most famous landscape painter there was Andreas Achenbach, under whom Haseltine studied. Achenbach’s realistic style stressed close observation of form and detail, and reinforced much of what Haseltine had already learned. His Düsseldorf training remained an important influence on him for the rest of his life. At Düsseldorf, Haseltine became friendly with other American artists studying there, especially Emanuel Leutze, Worthington Whittredge, and Albert Bierstadt. They were constant companions, and in the spring and summer months took sketching trips together. In the summer of 1856 the group took a tour of the Rhine, Ahr, and Nahe valleys, continuing through the Swiss alps and over the Saint Gotthard Pass into northern Italy. The following summer Haseltine, Whittredge, and the painter John Irving returned to Switzerland and Italy, and this time continued on to Rome. Rome was a fertile ground for artists at mid-century. When Haseltine arrived in the fall of 1857, the American sculptors Harriet Hosmer, Chauncey B. Ives, Joseph Mozier, William Henry Rinehart...
Category

19th Century American Realist Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Beguinage de Bruges, Belgique, 1954
By Edouard Boubat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled and dated in pencil on verso Paper 12" x 16", Matted 16" x 20"
Category

1950s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Georgia O'Keeffe, Profile, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico
By Dan Budnik
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Born in Long Island, Budnik studied painting at the Art Students’ League of New York. After being drafted, he started photographing the New York school of Abstracts Expressionist and Pop Artists in the mid-fifties, making it a primary focus for several decades. He completed major photo-essays on Willem de Kooning and David Smith, among many other artists. It was his teacher Charles Alston...
Category

1970s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sunset Grip
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

JULIE HEDRICK RA (Egypt) Sun God
By Julie Hedrick
Located in New York, NY
JULIE HEDRICK RA (Egypt) Sun God, 2021 oil on canvas (diptych) 60 x 120 in. 152.4 x 304.8 cm.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Self-Portrait as Throne
By Julie Heffernan
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New Year's Eve
By Alex Katz
Located in New York, NY
Catalogue raisonné 00594 edition 16/43 Published by Simmelink-Sukimoto Editions Although best known for his portraits, Katz has depicted landscapes both inside the studio and out o...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Aquatint

Alberta, Canada, 1978
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Alberta, Canada, 1978 Signed in pencil on mount recto Gelatin Silver Print Image: 9 x 12.5 in. Paper: 11 x 14 in
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1970s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Jardin du Luxembourg (Premiere neige Luxembourg), 1955
By Edouard Boubat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jardin du Luxembourg (Premiere neige Luxembourg), 1955 Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso Gelatin silver print Image 10" x 15", Paper 12" x 16", Matted...
Category

1950s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Four White Apples, circa 1970
By Jed Devine
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in pencil on recto Platinum Print on Japanese Rice Paper Image Size: 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; Paper Size: 8 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches
Category

Late 20th Century Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

San Pedro Harbor
By Paul Sample
Located in New York, NY
It is infrequent, to say the least, that a diagnosis of tuberculosis proves fortuitous, but that was the event, in 1921, that set Paul Starrett Sample on the road to becoming a professional artist. (The best source for an overview of Sample’s life and oeuvre remains Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, exhib. cat., [Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1988] with a detailed and definitive chronology by Sample scholar, Paula F. Glick, and an essay by Robert L. McGrath. It is the source for this essay unless otherwise indicated.) Sample, born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1896 to a construction engineer and his wife, spent his childhood moving with his family to the various locations that his father’s work took them. By 1911, the family had landed in Glencoe, Illinois, settling long enough for Paul to graduate from New Trier High School in 1916. Sample enrolled at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, where his interests were anything but academic. His enthusiasms included the football and basketball teams, boxing, pledging at a fraternity, and learning to play the saxophone. After the United States entered World War I, Sample, to his family’s dismay, signed on for the Naval Reserve, leading directly to a hiatus from Dartmouth. In 1918 and 1919, Sample served in the U.S. Merchant Marine where he earned a third mate’s license and seriously contemplated life as a sailor. Acceding to parental pressure, he returned to Dartmouth, graduating in 1921. Sample’s undergraduate life revolved around sports and a jazz band he formed with his brother, Donald, two years younger and also a Dartmouth student. In November 1933, Sample summarized his life in a letter he wrote introducing himself to Frederick Newlin Price, founder of Ferargil Galleries, who would become his New York art dealer. The artist characterized his undergraduate years as spent “wasting my time intensively.” He told Price that that “I took an art appreciation course and slept thru it every day” (Ferargil Galleries Records, circa 1900–63, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, available on line). In 1920, Donald Sample contracted tuberculosis. He went for treatment to the world-famous Trudeau Sanitorium at Saranac Lake, in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains for the prescribed regimen of rest, healthful food, and fresh air. Visiting his brother in 1921, Paul also contracted the disease. Tuberculosis is highly contagious, and had no certain cure before the development of streptomycin in 1946. Even for patients who appeared to have recovered, there was a significant rate of recurrence. Thus, in his letter to Price, Sample avoided the stigma conjured by naming the disease, but wrote “I had a relapse with a bad lung and spent the next four years hospitalized in Saranac Lake.” The stringent physical restrictions imposed by adherence to “the cure” required Sample to cultivate an alternate set of interests. He read voraciously and, at the suggestion of his physician, contacted the husband of a fellow patient for instruction in art. That artist, then living in Saranac, was Jonas Lie (1880–1940), a prominent Norwegian-American painter and an associate academician at the National Academy of Design. Lie had gained renown for his dramatic 1913 series of paintings documenting the construction of the Panama Canal (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; United States Military Academy, West Point, New York). Primarily a landscape artist, Lie had a particular affinity for scenes with water. His paintings, impressionistic, atmospheric, and brushy, never strayed from a realistic rendering of his subject. Sample regarded Lie as a mentor and retained a lifelong reverence for his teacher. Sample’s early paintings very much reflect Lie’s influence. ` In 1925, “cured,” Sample left Saranac Lake for what proved to be a brief stay in New York City, where his veteran’s benefits financed a commercial art course. The family, however, had moved to California, in the futile hope that the climate would benefit Donald. Sample joined them and after Donald’s death, remained in California, taking classes at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. In Sample’s account to Price, “I couldn’t stomach the practice of painting a lot of High Sierras and desert flowers which seemed to be the only kind of pictures that were sold here so I got a job teaching drawing and painting at the art school of the University of Southern California.” Initially hired as a part-time instructor, Sample progressed to full-time status and ultimately, by the mid-1930s, to the post of Chairman of the Fine Art Department. Sample, however, did not want to wind up as a professor. “Teaching is all right in small doses,” he wrote, “but I have a horror of drifting into being a college professor and nothing more.” At the same time as he taught, Sample began to exhibit his work in a variety of venues at first locally, then nationally. Though he confessed himself “a terrible salesman,” and though occupied with continued learning and teaching, Sample was nonetheless, ambitious. In 1927, he wrote in his diary, “I am eventually going to be a painter and a damned good one. And what is more, I am going to make money at it” (as quoted by Glick, p. 15). In 1928, Sample felt sufficiently solvent to marry his long-time love, Sylvia Howland, who had also been a patient at Saranac Lake. The Howland family were rooted New Englanders and in summertime the Samples regularly traveled East for family reunion vacations. While the 1930s brought serious hardship to many artists, for Paul Sample it was a decade of success. Buttressed by the financial safety net of his teacher’s salary, he painted realist depictions of the American scene. While his work addressed depression-era conditions with a sympathetic eye, Sample avoided the anger and tinge of bitterness that characterized much contemporary realist art. Beginning in 1930, Sample began to exhibit regularly in juried exhibitions at important national venues, garnering prizes along the way. In 1930, Inner Harbor won an honorable mention in the Annual Exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago. That same year Sample was also represented in a show at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo and at the Biennial Exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1931, Dairy Ranch won the second Hallgarten Prize at the Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, in New York. Sample also made his first appearances at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. In 1936, Miner’s Resting won the Temple Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Always interested in watercolor, in 1936, Sample began to send works on paper to exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York. While participating in juried exhibitions, Sample also cultivated commercial possibilities. His first New York art dealer was the prestigious Macbeth Gallery in New York, which included his work in a November 1931 exhibition. In 1934, Sample joined the Ferargil Galleries in New York, after Fred Price arranged the sale of Sample’s Church Supper to the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1937, The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased Sample’s Janitor’s Holiday from the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design, a notable honor. As prestigious as this exhibition schedule may have been, by far Sample’s most visible presence in the 1930s and 1940s was the result of his relationship with Henry Luce’s burgeoning publishing empire, Time, Inc. Sample’s first contribution to a Luce publication appears to have been another San Pedro...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, 1963
By Rowland Scherman
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on verso Gelatin silver print Image: 12-5/8" x 19", Paper: 13-5/8" x 20", Matted: 20" x 24" AP 1/3
Category

1960s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Chrysanthemum (Senjogataki), c. 1880's
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Inscribed "Chrysanthemum (Senjogataki)" on recto Vintage Hand Colored Albumen Print Paper is 11 5/8 x 9 1/4 inches, Matted to 20 x 16 inches
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1880s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Photographic Paper

"First day in Office" President John F. Kennedy, The Oval Office, Washington D.C
By Jacques Lowe
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Jacques Lowe, (born Jan. 24, 1930, Cologne, Ger.—died May 12, 2001, New York, N.Y.) (born Jan. 24, 1930, Cologne, Ger.—died May 12, 2001, New York, N.Y.) German-born American photogr...
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20th Century Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Muhammad Ali looking in the mirror while training at 5th Street Gym. Miami Beach
By Neil Leifer
Located in Santa Monica, CA
NEIL LEIFER’s photography career has spanned over 50 years since becoming a professional while still in his teens. Beginning in 1960, his pictures regularly appeared in every major national magazine, including the Saturday Evening Post, Look, LIFE, Newsweek, Time and, most often, Sports Illustrated. Leifer eventually became a staff photographer for Sports Illustrated before leaving in 1978 to become a staffer for Time magazine. In 1988 he was made a contributing photographer at LIFE magazine and spent the next two years dividing his time between Time and LIFE. When Leifer left Time Inc. in 1990, his photographs had appeared on over 200 Sports Illustrated, Time, and People covers—at that point, the most ever published of one photographer’s work in Time Inc. history. Neil Leifer is the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Lucie Award for Achievement in Sports Photography. In 2008 he was honored for his outstanding contribution to Time Inc. journalism with The Britton Hadden Lifetime Achievement Award. Leifer has published 16 books, 9 of which have been collections of his sports photographs. Sports, his 1978 Abrams book, is considered by many to be the quintessential sports photography book. His two most recent, Ballet in the Dirt and Guts and Glory—both published by TASCHEN, showcase the very best of Leifer’s professional baseball and football photographs...
Category

1960s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Chesapeake
By Randall Exon
Located in New York, NY
Oil on Canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 319.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 319. Heaving 75-lb. rock. 14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 (image size 5.25 x 15.125 inches) Inventor, photographer, entre...
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1880s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Photographic Paper

FOLDING SCREEN
Located in New York, NY
4 panels hinged together of bronze metalic textured paper over wood.
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Wood

Tuscany, Italy, 1956/Printed Later
By Edouard Boubat
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in ink on recto; signed, titled & dated in pencil on verso Image 13-3/4" x 9-1/4", Paper 16" x 12", Matted 20" x 16"
Category

1950s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 769.
By Eadweard Muybridge
Located in New York, NY
Human and Animal Locomotion. Plate 769. American eagle; flying. 14 x 20 inch original vintage collotype print from 1887 Image size 6 5/8 x 17 1/4 inches Muybridge copyright imprint ...
Category

1880s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Photographic Paper

Long Time River Woman (Blackfoot Maiden)
By Winold Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Winold Reiss (1886-1953), who scholars increasingly recognize as a pivotal figure in early 20th-century American art, is known for his evocative portraits that capture the spirit and...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

BREAK IN THE HORIZON
By Valerie B Hird
Located in New York, NY
VALERIE HIRD BREAK IN THE HORIZON, 2019 oil, monotypes, gesso, Arches paper, silver leaf, silver amulet 23 1/2 x 22 in. 59.7 x 55.9 cm. mythology
Category

2010s Contemporary Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Silver

Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
By Joseph Stella
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals. Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp. Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation. Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133). Two Wood Ducks...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Color Pencil

North Shore Aquatics Club
By Neal Slavin
Located in New York, NY
Neal Slavin began photographing group portraits of organizations of people in the early 1970s, and it became a career-long passion. Synchronized swimmers are no doubt among one of th...
Category

1980s Art Dealers Association of America

Materials

Archival Pigment

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