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John Melville Kelly Original Etching, Hawaiian Subject
By John Melville Kelly
Located in Phoenix, AZ
John Melville Kelly drypoint - Hawaiian female subject circa 1930s - 1940s. Signed lower right in
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Mid-20th Century Prints

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Paper

Kanani (Hawaii)— 1940s Polynesian Portrait
By John Melville Kelly 1
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Melville Kelly, 'Kanani (Hawaii)', drypoint, 1946. Signed, titled and annotated 'No 36' in
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1940s American Modern Nude Prints

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Drypoint

'Mokihana (Hawaii)' — 1940s Polynesian Portrait
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Melville Kelly, 'Mokihana (Hawaii)', drypoint, 1946. Signed, titled, and annotated 'No 5' in
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1940s American Modern Nude Prints

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Drypoint

Australian Aboriginal Carved and Painted Spear from Melville Island
Located in Atlanta, GA
Title: A ceremonial spear with clan design paint Artist: John Martin Tipungwuti DOB: 18/01/1969
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Early 2000s Australian Tribal Wall-mounted Sculptures

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Wood

Map of Winter Harbour on Melville Island, Australia by Parry's Expedition, 1821
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique print titled 'Survey of Winter Harbour Melville Island, June 1820'. Chart of the bay or
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Antique 1820s Maps

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Paper

Homage to Heraclitus: Earth III - Black and White Landscape Photograph of a Cave
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
John Stathatos "Homage to Heraclitus: Earth III" is a black - and white 50 x 40 inch photograph. It
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Homage to Heraclitus: Earth IV - Black and White Landscape Photograph of a Cave
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
John Stathatos "Homage to Heraclitus: Earth IV" is a black - and white 50 x 40 inch photograph. It
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Homage to Heraclitus: Earth V - Black and White Landscape Photograph of a Cave
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
John Stathatos "Homage to Heraclitus: Earth V" is a black - and white 50 x 40 inch photograph. It
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Homage to Heraclitus: Earth II - Black and White Landscape Photograph of a Cave
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
John Stathatos "Homage to Heraclitus: Earth II" is a black - and white 50 x 40 inch photograph. It
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Homage to Heraclitus: Earth I - Black and White Landscape Photograph of a Cave
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
John Stathatos "Homage to Heraclitus: Earth I" is a black - and white 50 x 40 inch photograph. It
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Earth VI - Black and White Photograph, Cave, Rocks, Natural Landscape, Light
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
the choice of a black and - white medium. John Stathatos was born in Greece. He lives and works
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Earth VIII - Black and White Photograph, Stone Cave, Rocks, Natural Landscape
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
the choice of a black and - white medium. John Stathatos was born in Greece. He lives and works
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Earth VII - Black and White Photograph, Cave, Rocks, Natural Landscape, Geology
By John Stathatos
Located in New York, NY
the choice of a black and - white medium. John Stathatos was born in Greece. He lives and works
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20th Century Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Giclée

Moby Dick Illustration
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration appeared in Herman Melville's novel, Moby Dick, John C Winston, 1931. Signed
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1930s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled
By Frank Stella
Located in Fairlawn, OH
novel by Herman Melville about Ahab hunting the great white whale. Stella has devoted the better part of
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1990s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Original Illustration for Moby Dick
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
color in the John C. Winston Company 1931 first children's edition of Moby Dick and the White Whale by
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Collection of 14 Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarette Cards
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
cards, Leslie Melville Balfour 2 different cards, Horace G. Hutchinson, J.L. Low, Chas. Hutchings, The
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Antique Early 1900s British Sporting Art Sports Equipment and Memorabilia

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Paper

"Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, " Mountain Lake Landscape View
By Charles Warren Eaton
Located in New York, NY
Ranger, John Francis Murphy, and Charles Melville Dewey, fell into relative anonymity in the mid
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1920s Tonalist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Oil

Portrait of a Boy - British Art Deco interior painting seated male female artist
By Anna Airy
Located in London, GB
and Augustus John, and under Fred Brown, Henry Tonks and Philip Wilson Steer. Airy won prizes at the
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Sir Richard Sutton's Most Famous Hunter Hotspur
By Claude-Lorraine Ferneley
Located in London, GB
framed A genuinely famous hunter! Even mention in Whyte-Melville's riding recollections (1878). Hotspur
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1840s Animal Paintings

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Oil

'Women Gathering Garlands', Paris, Cooper Union, Metropolitan Museum, NAD, NG
By Frederick Ballard Williams
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
subsequently worked for a time in the drafting room of John Williams. He later studied at the New York
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Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mother and Child, expressionist painting
By Victor Thall
Located in San Francisco, CA
, George Luks, and John Sloan. Further studies were at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He left for
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Couple Holding a Baby" Colorful expressionist painting
By Victor Thall
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Sloan. Further studies were at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He left for Paris in 1924
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

'Madman's Drum (Plate 41)' — 1930s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

'Abstract in Coral and Ivory', New York School, Whitney Museum, WPA, Action Oil
By Victor Thall
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
studied under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, John Sloan and Robert Henri. He furthered his studies at
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Paper, Oil, Cardboard

'Abstract in Lilac and Blue', Whitney Museum, New York School, WPA
By Victor Thall
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
where he studied under Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, John Sloan and Robert Henri. He furthered his
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Cardboard, Paper, Oil

'Priests' from 'In Praise of Folly' — 1940s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

'Pope' from 'In Praise of Folly' — 1940s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

'Judges' from 'In Praise of Folly' — 1940s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
compelling dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

'Dogs of War' from 'In Praise of Folly' — 1940s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

'Doctor' from 'In Praise of Folly' — 1940s Graphic Modernism
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
dramatic content, finds resonance in the literature of Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Mezzotint

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
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Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings

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Oil, Board

His Only Pet
His Only Pet
H 5.7 in W 7.9 in D 1.5 in
Art Deco Fortune Magazine Cover October 1938
Located in Dallas, TX
Mansions, Herman Melville‘s Typee, and Pearl Buck‘s All Men Are Brothers. Heritage Press, the sister
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Early 20th Century American Art Deco Prints

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Paper

Wild Pilgrimage, No. 26
By Lynd Ward
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Poe, Melville, and Hawthorne. Like these classic American writers, Ward was concerned with the themes
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1930s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

Hawaii by John Melville Kelly, Hawaiian Fine Nostalgia Aquatint
By John Melville Kelly
Located in Honolulu, HI
is illustrated in the book, "John Melville Kelly: Hawaiian Idyll" on page 92-93. Its description
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Early 20th Century Hawaiian Art Deco Prints

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Paper

Original Charcoal Drawing, "Marion, Hawaii" by John Melville Kelly
By John Melville Kelly
Located in Honolulu, HI
Kelly (1878 - 1962) John Melville Kelly arrived in Honolulu in 1923 to take up a position with Town
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Early 20th Century Hawaiian Drawings

Leilani & Mokihana by John Melville Kelly, 1943
By John Melville Kelly
Located in Kenilworth, IL
the plate: John Kelly American, 1943.
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Vintage 1940s Prints

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Paper

The Acrobats
By John Melville
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Cubist bronze inscribed on the base edition 1/8 circa 1935, excellent patina. John Melville is
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1930s Cubist Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

The Acrobats
The Acrobats
H 18 in W 6 in D 6 in
Henry Melville
By John Kay
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
An original copper plate engraving by Scottish artist John Kay (1742-1826) titled "Henry Melville
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1790s Victorian Figurative Prints

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Copper

Charles William Bartlett “Hawaiian Fisherman”, 1919
By Charles Bartlett
Located in Dallas, TX
, Bartlett helped to found the Honolulu Printmakers along with local artists Alexander Samuel MacLeod, John
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Vintage 1910s American Art Nouveau Prints

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Paper

Moby Dick, Or The Whale by Herman Melville, Easton Press Collector's Ed., 1977
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Melville, Herman. Moby Dick, Or The Whale. Norwalk: Easton Press, 1977. The 100 Greatest Books Ever
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Vintage 1970s American Books

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Leather, Silk, Paper

Portrait of a Seated Gentleman in Brown Robes, Antique Oil Painting
By John Closterman
Located in London, GB
Rococo rooms in England. We are grateful to Dr. Malcolm Rogers who has attributed the work to John
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Lady Katherine Anne Erskine
By John Baptist De Medina
Located in Bath, Somerset
Circle of John Baptist de Medina (1659-1710). Portrait of Lady Katherine Anne Erskine (1697-1733
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18th Century and Earlier Portrait Paintings

AU CAFE PARISIAN
By Victor Thall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Arthur B. Davies, George Bellows, George Luks, and John Sloan. Further studies were at the Pennsylvania
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1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Theseus and the Minotaur, 1969 (Mythological black male nude painting)
By Michael Leonard
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
1979 Figurative Approach 4, Fischer Fine Art, London 1978 John Moores’ 11, Walker Art Gallery
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1960s Realist Nude Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Portrait of a Gentleman Holding a Book c.1780, Antique Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
remained in the family until 1909, when Sir George John Egerton Dashwood, 6th baronet, sold the house to
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18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of William, Baron Craven wearing a green jacket in an interior
By Thomas Beach
Located in Bath, Somerset
was an English nobleman. He was the son of Reverand John Craven of Staunton Lacy, Shropshire and
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Shards II (From Shards)
By Frank Stella
Located in Missouri, MO
while at Princeton. In January 1958, Stella saw an exhibition of Jasper Johns "target" and "flag
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1980s American Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph, Screen

Battering Ram (from Moby Dick Deckle Edges)
By Frank Stella
Located in Missouri, MO
, Stella saw an exhibition of Jasper Johns "target" and "flag" paintings at Leo
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1990s American Modern Abstract Prints

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Mixed Media

"The Acrobats" by John Melville Cubist Bronze, circa 1935
By John Melville
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Cubist bronze inscribed on the base edition 1/8 circa 1935, excellent patina. John Melville is
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Vintage 1930s English Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

California Redwoods
By John Melville Kelly 1
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
John Melville Kelly , 'California Redwoods', etching, c. 1920. Signed, titled and annotated 'NO 17
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1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Etching

Red Wax Intaglio Seal Collection with Scottish Coats of Arms
Located in Stamford, CT
Grange Rev. Thomas W. Gage 2 John Whyte Melville of Bennochy George Drummond of Blair Drummond James
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Antique Early 19th Century Scottish Early Victorian Decorative Art

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Other

Golf Rules 1928 Royal and Ancient Golf Club, St Andrews
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
Macfie, Horace G. Hutchinson, John E. Laidlay, Leslie Balfour Melville, F.G. Tait, Charles Hutchings
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Vintage 1920s Scottish Sports Equipment and Memorabilia

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Paper

American Impressionist Edith Morehouse Still Life Painting, Titled "Imperial"
Located in Larchmont, NY
); Mrs. W. W. Whipple (Garden City, NY); Mrs. John E. Woodward (Stewart Manor, NY). As an art instructor
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20th Century American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Board

Hand Signed Ltd Edition Serigraph "MOMA 1870-1970 Centennial" by Frank Stella
By Frank Stella
Located in San Diego, CA
entertain the idea of a career in the arts. With constant visits to New York however, a Jasper John
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Prints

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Paper

Wolfeboro
By Frank Stella
Located in Missouri, MO
exhibition of Jasper Johns "target" and "flag" paintings at Leo Castelli's Gallery New York and was
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1970s American Modern Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Wolfeboro
Wolfeboro
H 33 in W 27 in D 2 in
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