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"Hospital, Welfare Island, NY" George Picken, Roosevelt Island, Urban Scene
"Hospital, Welfare Island, NY" George Picken, Roosevelt Island, Urban Scene

"Hospital, Welfare Island, NY" George Picken, Roosevelt Island, Urban Scene

By George Picken

Located in New York, NY

George Picken Hospital, Welfare Island, NY, 1935 Signed and dated lower right Graphite on paper 5 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches 20 x 16 with mat A native New Yorker, George Picken was born in...

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1930s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Circus Acrobats  - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo )
Circus Acrobats  - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo )

Circus Acrobats - ( Friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo )

Located in Miami, FL

Lucile Blanch completed the painting a year after she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1933 and a few years before she worked with artist Philip Evergood and George Pic...

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1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

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Sea Shells – Blue & Gold

Sea Shells – Blue & Gold

By Zama Vanessa Helder

Located in Los Angeles, CA

She was born in Lynden, Washington and studied at the University of Washington and later, as a scholarship winner, at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Brackman, George...

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1940s American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Spring Snowfall Seattle

Spring Snowfall Seattle

By Zama Vanessa Helder

Located in Los Angeles, CA

She was born in Lynden, Washington and studied at the University of Washington and later, as a scholarship winner, at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Brackman, George...

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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

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"Playground, Carl Schurz Park" George Picken, New York City, East River, UES WPA
"Playground, Carl Schurz Park" George Picken, New York City, East River, UES WPA

"Playground, Carl Schurz Park" George Picken, New York City, East River, UES WPA

By George Picken

Located in New York, NY

George Picken Playground, Carl Schurz Park, 1938 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 28 x 36 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist A native New Yorker, George Picken was bo...

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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

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Untitled  (Abstract)
Untitled  (Abstract)

Beatrice MandelmanUntitled (Abstract)

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Untitled (Abstract)

By Beatrice Mandelman

Located in Denver, CO

After college at Rutgers University, she continued her formal training at the Art Student's League in New York, working with the lithographer George Pickens. Through another teacher...

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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

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Summer

Summer

By Beatrice Mandelman

Located in Denver, CO

After college at Rutgers University, she continued her formal training at the Art Student's League in New York, working with the lithographer George Pickens. Through another teach...

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20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Brazil #3, 1980s Abstract Acrylic Painting, New Mexico Female Artist. 48 x 36 in
Brazil #3, 1980s Abstract Acrylic Painting, New Mexico Female Artist. 48 x 36 in

Brazil #3, 1980s Abstract Acrylic Painting, New Mexico Female Artist. 48 x 36 in

By Beatrice Mandelman

Located in Denver, CO

After college at Rutgers University, she continued her formal training at the Art Student’s League in New York, working with the lithographer George Pickens. Through another teacher...

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1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Gashouse District (New York City)
Gashouse District (New York City)

Gashouse District (New York City)

By George Picken

Located in New York, NY

George Picken was a native New Yorker who attended the Art Students League and went on to teach there and at Columbia University and Copper Union.

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1930s Ashcan School Landscape Prints

Materials

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Flight #3, 1980s Framed Modernist Abstract Acrylic Painting, White Black & Red
Flight #3, 1980s Framed Modernist Abstract Acrylic Painting, White Black & Red

Flight #3, 1980s Framed Modernist Abstract Acrylic Painting, White Black & Red

By Beatrice Mandelman

Located in Denver, CO

After college at Rutgers University, she continued her formal training at the Art Student's League in New York, working with the lithographer George Pickens. Through another teacher...

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1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Rural Factory

Zama Vanessa HelderRural Factory

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H 12.75 in W 15.25 in D 1 in

Rural Factory

By Zama Vanessa Helder

Located in Los Angeles, CA

She was born in Lynden, Washington and studied at the University of Washington and later, as a scholarship winner, at the Art Students League in New York with Robert Brackman, George...

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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Large New York School Abstract Expressionist MIxed Media Oil Painting Collage
Large New York School Abstract Expressionist MIxed Media Oil Painting Collage

Large New York School Abstract Expressionist MIxed Media Oil Painting Collage

By Sidney Gross

Located in Surfside, FL

At the League, he studied under Jon Corbino, Arnold Blanch, Morris Kantor, and George Picken. Other teachers at the school whose art he would have become familiar with include Will B...

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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Alkyd

Mount Baker, Washington
Mount Baker, Washington

Mount Baker, Washington

By Zama Vanessa Helder

Located in New York, NY

At the League, she studied with Frank Vincent DuMond, George Picken, and Robert Brackman. Helder’s course of study at the Art Students League proved to be enormously influential.

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20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Important WPA Oil Painting by George Picken "Waterfront"
Important WPA Oil Painting by George Picken "Waterfront"

Important WPA Oil Painting by George Picken "Waterfront"

Located in Los Angeles, CA

George Picken 1898 -1971. From the 1940's until his death, George Picken was among a very select stable of painters including Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield and Reginald Marsh han...

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20th Century American Paintings

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