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Alex Peña, Untitled (Landscape #19), 2021, ink on paper Framed size: 12" x 14" Image size: 8" x 5.75"

Alex Peña, Untitled (Landscape #21), 2021, ink on paper Framed size: 12.5" x 14.5" Image size: 7.5" x 10.5"

Alex Peña, Untitled (Landscape #20), 2021, ink on paper Framed size: 12" x 14" Image size: 5.75" x 7.5"

"A Small City Park", acrylic and watercolor on paper by Denver artist Edward Marecak (1919-1993) of an abstract park broken into four quadrants, separated by brown and white striped borders with different shaped ponds. Inspired by City Park in Denver, Colorado where the artist frequented. Presented framed with all archival materials, outer dimensions measure 21 ¾ x 18 ¾ inches. Image size measures 12 x 15 inches. Painting is clean and in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Estate of Edward Marecak Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Born to immigrant parents from the Carpathian region in Slovakia, Marecak grew up with his family in the farming community of Bennett’s Corners, now part of the town of Brunswick, near Cleveland, Ohio. When he turned twelve, his family moved to a multi-ethnic neighborhood of Poles, Czechs, Slovaks and Slovenians in Cleveland. His childhood household cherished the customs and Slavic folk tales from the Old Country that later strongly influenced his work as a professional artist. During junior high he painted scenery for puppet shows of "Peter and the Wolf," awakening his interest in art. In his senior year in high school he did Cézanne-inspired watercolors of Ohio barns at seventy-five cents apiece for the National Youth Administration. They earned him a full scholarship to the Cleveland Institute of Art (1938-1942) where he studied with Henry George Keller whose work was included in the 1913 New York Armory Show. In 1940 Marecak also taught at the Museum School of the Cleveland Institute. Before being drafted into the military in 1942, he briefly attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art near Detroit, one of the nation’s leading graduate schools of art, architecture, and design. A center of innovative work in architecture, art and design with an educational approach built on a mentorship model, it has been home to some of the world’s most renowned designers and artists, including Eero Saarinen, Charles Eames, Daniel Libeskind and Harry Bertoia. Marecak’s studies at Cranbrook with painter Zoltan Sepeshy and sculptor Carl Milles were interrupted by U.S. army service in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Following his military discharge, Marecak studied on the G.I. Bill at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1946 to 1950, having previously met its director, Boardman Robinson, conducting a seminar in mural painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Although he did not work with Robinson at the Fine Arts Center, who had become quite ill - retiring in 1947 - he studied Robinson’s specialty of mural painting before leaving to briefly attend the Cranbrook Academy in 1947. That same year he returned to the Fine Arts Center, studying painting with Jean Charlot and Mary Chenoweth, and lithography with Lawrence Barrett with whom he produced some 132 images during 1948-49. At the Fine Arts Center he met his future wife, Donna Fortin, whom he married in 1947. Also a Midwesterner, she had taken night art courses at Hull House in Chicago, later studying at the Art Institute of Chicago with the encouragement of artist Edgar Britton. After World War II she studied with him from 1946 to 1949 at the Fine Arts Center. (He had moved to Colorado Springs to treat his tuberculosis.) Ed Marecak also became good friends with Britton, later collaborating with him on the design of large stained glass windows for a local church. In 1950-51 Marecak returned to the Cleveland Institute of Art to complete his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. A year later he was invited to conduct a summer class at the University of Colorado in Boulder, confirming his interest in the teaching profession. In 1955 he received his teaching certificate from the University of Denver. Vance Kirkland, the head of its art department, helped him get a teaching job with the Denver Public Schools so that he and his family could remain in the Mile High City. For the next twenty-five years he taught art at Skinner, Grove, East, George Washington and Morey Junior High Schools. Prior to coming to Colorado, Marecak did watercolors resembling those of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Charles Burchfield. However, once in Colorado Springs he decided to destroy much of his earlier ouevre, embarking on a totally new direction unlike anything he had previously done. Initially, in the 1940s he was influenced by surrealist imagery and Paul Klee, and in the West by Indian petroglyphs and Kachinas. His first one-person show at the Garrett Gallery in Colorado Springs in 1949 featured paintings and lithographs rendered in the style of Magic Realism and referential abstraction. The pieces, including an oil Witch with Pink Dish, foreshadowed the output of his entire Colorado-based career, distinguished by a dramatic use of color, intricacy of execution and attention to detail contributing to their visual impact. He once observed, "Each time I start a new painting I always fool myself by saying this time keep it simple and not get entangled with such complex patterns, color and design; but I always find myself getting more involved with richness, color and subject matter." An idiosyncratic artist proficient in oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache and casein, he did not draw upon Colorado subject matter for his work, unlike many of his fellow painters in the state. Instead he used Midwest landscape imagery, bringing to life in it witches and spirits adapted from the Slovakian folk tales he heard growing up in Ohio. A number of his paintings depict winter witches derived from the Slovak custom in the Tatra Mountains of burning an effigy of the winter witch in the early spring to banish the memory of a hard winter. The folk tale element imparts a dream-like quality to many of his paintings. A devote of Greek mythology, he placed the figures of Circe, Persephone, Sybil, Hera and others in modern settings. The goddess in Persephone Brings a Pumpkin to her Mother, attired as a Midwestern farmer’s daughter, heralds the advent of fall with the pumpkin before departing to spend the winter season in the underworld. Train to Olympus, the meeting place of the gods in ancient Greece, juxtaposes ancient mythology with modernity creating a combination of whimsy and thought-provoking consideration for the viewer. Voyage to Troy #1 alludes to the ancient city that was the site of the Trojan Wars, but has a contemporary, autobiographical component referencing the harbor of the Aleutian Islands recaptured from the Japanese during World War II. In the 1980s Marecak used the goddess Hera in his painting, Hera Contemplates Aspects of the Art Nouveau, to comment on art movements in the latter half of the twentieth century Marecak’s love of classical music and opera, which he shared with his wife and to which he often listened while painting in his Denver basement studio, is reflected in Homage of Offenbach, an abstract work translating the composer’s musical colors into colorful palette. Pace, Pace, Mio Dio, the title of his earliest surrealist painting, is a soprano aria from Verdi’s opera, La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny or Fate, a favorite Marecak subject). His Queen of the Night relates to a character from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute. In addition to paintings and works on paper, he produced hooked rugs, textiles and ceramics. He likewise produced designs for ceramics, tableware and furniture created by his wife Donna, an accomplished Colorado ceramist. Both of them generally eschewed exhibitions and galleries, preferring to quietly do their work while remaining outside of the mainstream. He initially exhibited at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in 1948 receiving a purchase award. The following year he had his first one-person show of paintings and lithographs at the Garrett Gallery in Colorado Springs. In the 1950s and early 1960s he participated in group exhibitions at the Print Club (Philadelphia); Amarillo Public Library (Texas); annual Blossom Festival Show (Canon City, Colorado); Adele Simpson’s "Art of Living" in New York; Denver Art Museum; and the Fox Rubenstein-Serkey Gallery (Denver); but he did not have another one-person show until 1966 at the Denver home of his friends, John and Gerda Scott. They arranged for his first one-person show outside of Colorado held two years later at the Martin Lowitz Gallery in Beverly Hills and Palm Springs, California. That same year his work was featured at the Zantman Galleries in Carmel, California. Thereafter he became an infrequent exhibitor after the 1970s so that his work was rarely seen outside his basement studio. In 1980 he, his wife and Mark Zamantakis exhibited at Denver’s Jewish Community Center, and four years later he had a one-person show at the Studio Gallery in Denver. In 1992 he was included in a group show at the Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery in Denver, and a year later received a large, posthumous retrospective at the Emmanuel...

Alex Peña, Untitled (Oklahoma Landscape), 2020, ink drawing on paper, Framed size: 14" x 12" Image size: 8" x 5.75"

This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Industrial Street), c. 1940s, watercolor on paper mounted on illustration board, estate stamp verso (signed by Peter Corbridge, the artist’s son); 14 x 21 inches; unframed Edgar Corbridge was a Massachusetts-based precisionist painter who mainly worked in watercolor. In 1916, three years after immigrating from England, Corbridge completed a course of study in sign painting at the Fall River, Massachusetts Technical High School and obtained an apprenticeship with the Armour Sign Shop. Throughout his career, Corbridge was mainly self-taught as a fine artist. In 1918, Corbridge received his first recognition as an artist for his entry in a Fall River Women’s Club poster competition. During much of his professional life, Corbridge worked as a self-employed window trimmer and operator of the Corbridge Display Service, supplemented by income from the occasional sale of his paintings. Corbridge gleaned the subjects for his works in and around his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as Provincetown. In the 1940s, Corbridge began to exhibit frequently, including at the annual exhibitions at the Jordan Marsh Company...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Untitled (Cars), 1940, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 18 1/2 inches, ...

This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Crayon on paper, 20 x 12 (image), 22 x 14 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, Matted, but not framed Ex...

(Note: This work is part of our exhibition Connected by Creativity: WPA Era Works from the Collection of Leata and Edward Beatty Rowan) Watercolor on paper, 14 x 21 inches unframed sheet, 24 x 30 inches framed, signed and dated lower right About the Artist: Born in 1909, Tom E. Lewis studied architecture at the University of Southern California. Beyond that training, Lewis was largely self-taught as an artist. He began watercolor painting during the late 1920s and focused on scenes of California. Lewis was an active organizer of the arts and exhibitor and aided the formation of the Progressive Painters of Southern California. Prior to World War II, the Treasury Section of Fine Arts awarded two commissions to Lewis, the first completed in 1938 for the Hayward California Post Office and the second completed in 1941 for the El Dorado County California District Attorney’s Office...

This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Crayon on paper, 10 ½ x 9 inches (image), 14 x 11 inches (sheet), Signed...

Landscape is an Original Watercolour realized by Armin Guther in 1970s. Good condition, included a white cardboard passpartout (35x50 cm). Hand-signed and dated on the lower right ...

Arab country is a watercolor realized by Jean Chapin in the 1950s. 42x33 cm, no frame. Signature stamp on the yellowed paper. Good condition, except for slight folding. Jean ...

Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Jerusalem Street Scene

Russell Shoemaker Title: Untitled Year: 2018 Medium: Gouache on Yupo Paper Size: 12 x 9 inches Signed, dated and inscribed by the artist Russell Shoemaker received his BFA from the ...

Silver Plume, Colorado - near Georgetown, mountain landscape with fall colors, Aspen and Pine trees, river, houses and mountains by early 20th century Co...

Dear art lover, I have worked on a new series of small oil paintings. This is the one of them. This series is dedicated to the scenes of everyday life. This oil landscape painting ...

Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...

"Palm Trees" is an original painting acrylic on deckle edge paper by Wyland. Hand signed by the artist, the piece comes custom framed and with a letter of authenticity. Measures appr...

Unsigned Watercolour in a gilt frame under glass. Keywords: Family, picnic, watercolor, kids, food, park, animal, dog, trees, eating, feast, basket, blanket, green.

Detailed and vibrant mid century mountain village landscape by an unknown artist. Signed ("Dosa" or "Josa") and dated ("47") in the lower ri...

Outside the Deck by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joseph Yeager" lower right. No frame. Estate of Joseph Yeager on verso. Image, 22.75"H x 30.25"W Signed, lower right "Joe Yeager" Provenance; from the Joseph Yeager estate. Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...

Blue Landscape Pastels 2023 8.5 x 8.5

Cry Me a River (a fleuve) 2017 cca. Acrylic, graphite, pen, gesso and gel medium on paper 22 x 30 inches

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

William Tombleson Thames River Scenic (4) 1838 Color engraving 7 x 8.75 inches, 11 x 13 (framed)

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

Benjamin Cameron spent 48 years teaching students in Columbia across three different colleges. His own works still hang on the walls around the community and tell a greater story of ...

Navier Hillside Oil pastel 6.5 x 9.25 inches, 17.25 x 20 (framed) Signed lower right

A.W. Wells Chicago 1937 Pastel 14.5 x 11 inches, 22.5 x 18 (framed) Signed lower left

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

William Tombleson Thames River Scenic (2) 1838 Color engraving 7 x 8.75 inches, 11 x 13 (framed)

William Tombleson Thames River Scenic (1) 1838 Color engraving 7 x 8.75 inches, 11 x 13 (framed)

Carri Currier Study for Nicoise Farm 2003 Chalk pastel 7.25 x 10 inches, 16.75 x 19 (framed)

Green Landscape Pastels 2023 8.5 x 8.5

Navier Fields Oil pastel 6.5 x 9.25 inches, 17.25 x 20 (framed) Signed lower right

Pink Landscape Pastels 2023 8.5 x 8.5

William Tombleson Thames River Scenic (3) 1838 Color engraving 7 x 8.75 inches, 11 x 13 (framed)

Tiber is an original Contemporary artwork realized by Nazareno Gattamelata in 1980s. Original oil pastels on paper. Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin: Gattamelata. Th...

Art Critics and Tourists, Original Watercolor Illustration for The New Yorker An original watercolor illustration for The New Yorker...

Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island b...

Boris Akopian "Autumn"

Boris Akopian "Mountain range"

Boris Akopian "On the slopes"

Graphite drawing of a house surrounded by nature.

Stunning late 19th century landscape watercolor painting of a farm scene by an unknown artist. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size, 16"H x 20"L.

Double-sided mid century watercolor of Pleasure Point Cove, Monterey Bay by listed artist Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). On verso is a beautiful botanical watercolor study....

Detailed figurative watercolor landscape the Monterey Wharf with figures and boats by Stephen John Skerce (American, 1926-2010). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Skerce" lower le...

Lovely early 20th century colored pencil landscape sketch of Shoreham Downs by an unknown artist (United Kingdom, 20th Century). Signature i...

"Fringed Gentians" is an original watercolor by Alicia Czechowski. The artist signed the piece in the lower right. This artwork depicts purple flowers in a lush green garden. 12 1/...

"The Rose Farm" is an original pastel drawing by Alicia Czechowski. It depicts a variety of plants and flowers in lush greens and blues. The artist signed the piece in the lower righ...

Susan Brown " Late Night Arrivals, St Pancras, London" is a framed watercolour and mixed media art work. Susan Brown depicts a snowy night, with St Pancras in the background glowing ...

JOSEPH ARTHUR POWELL (1876-1961) Oast Houses and Windmill, Rye Signed l.l. Watercolour Unframed 38 by 55 cm., 15 by 21 ¾ in. (mount size 54 by 70 cm., 21 ¼ by 27 ½ in.) Born in L...

Landscape B/W mineral oxide on canvas 40 cm original art Ready to hang Marilina Marchica (Agrigento, 1984) Marilina Marchica, born in Agrigento, where she works and lives, she gr...

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 58 x 72 x 3.5 cm

Artworks of art that are part of the exhibition "The Fragile Space" Landscape b/w 70x100 cm mineral oxide on papers ( Canson Paper 300gr) Original drawing , one of a kind , framing...