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Item Ships From: Berkshires
“Abstract, Untitled” by Nobumitsu Fukui
By Nobumitsu Fukui
Located in Sheffield, MA
Nobumitsu Fukui
Japanese/American, 1942-
Abstract, Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
60 ¼ by 48 in. W/frame 61 by 48 ¾ in.
Signed & dated 1964
Provenance: ...
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas
Louis XV Style Wing Armchair
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis XV provincial style wingback bergere in pickled oak, cabriole feet, undulating top crests; newly upholstered in linen.
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Nautical 2
Materials
Linen, Wood
Rustic Headboard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Rustic gray painted headboard.
Category
19th Century American Antique Nautical 2
Materials
Wood
19th Century Italian Renaissance Style Side Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Italian Renaissance style wrought iron end table with lyre style metal base and marble top.
Category
19th Century Italian Northern Renaissance Antique Nautical 2
Materials
Marble, Metal
"The Summer Of Our Content" By Richard Hennessy
By Richard Hennessy
Located in Sheffield, MA
RICHARD HENNESSY
AMERICAN, b. 1941
"THE SUMMER OF OUR CONTENT"
"Large" Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1980 on verso
60 by 72 ½ in.
Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969.
EDUCATION: EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963
INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY
COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO
DOW JONES
HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO
HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK
I. T. & T.
ITALIAN RELIEF FUND
J.P.MORGAN CHASE
JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA
READER'S DIGEST
SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON
SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK
THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX
THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK
AWARDS
2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION
1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY
1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL
1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN
1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO
1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK
1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK
1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO
1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK
1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK
1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD
2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION
2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES
2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND’S AMERICA
1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE
1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION)
1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW
1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN
1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S
1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION
1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART
1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...
Category
Late 20th Century American Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas
"Abstract, Untitled" by Richard Hennessy
By Richard Hennessy
Located in Sheffield, MA
RICHARD HENNESSY
AMERICAN, b. 1941
"Abstract, Untitled"
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1975 on verso
48 by 36 in.
Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969.
EDUCATION:
EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963
INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK
AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA
CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY
COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK
DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO
DOW JONES
HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO
HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK
I. T. & T.
ITALIAN RELIEF FUND
J.P.MORGAN CHASE
JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK
MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA
READER'S DIGEST
SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON
SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO
SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK
THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX
THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK
AWARDS:
2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION
1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION
1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY
1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL
1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN
1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO
1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK
1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK
1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO
1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK
1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK
1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK
1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD
2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION
2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES
2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND�S AMERICA
1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE
1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF G��N��RATION)
1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW
1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN
1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S
1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF G��N��RATION
1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART
1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...
Category
1970s American Vintage Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas
Fine Swedish Louis XV Style Painted Bench, 19th Century
Located in Sheffield, MA
With two-arm scrolls on each end on six cabriole legs ending in scrolled feet.
Category
19th Century Swedish Antique Nautical 2
“Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler" by Walter Greaves
By Walter Greaves
Located in Sheffield, MA
Walter Greaves
English, 1846-1930
“Portrait of James Abbott McNeill Whistler in front of the Thames”
Oil on canvas
Signed & dated 1874
36 by 28 in. W/f...
Category
20th Century English Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas
A Pair White Lacquered & Brass Cabinets by John Stuart
By John Stuart
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Pair White Lacquered & Brass Accents
Cabinets by John Stuart
Circa 1970’s
Height 27 ½ in. Width 24 ½ in. Depth 17 in.
Conceived by the renown furniture designer John...
Category
1970s American Vintage Nautical 2
Materials
Lacquer
Fine Louis XVI Brass Mounted Ebony & Acajou Games Table by Godefroy Dester
By Godefroy Dester
Located in Sheffield, MA
A fine Louis XVI brass-mounted
Ebony & Acajou Mouchete games table
18th century
Stamped Godefroy Dester
Godefroy Dester maitre, 1774
Measures: Height 30 in., width 43 in., d...
Category
18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Nautical 2
Materials
Wood
Three Baroque Style Inlaid Side Chair, Sold Singly
Located in Sheffield, MA
Three Baroque style inlaid Mahogany Veneered beechwood side chairs, Dutch, 19th century.
Sold singly @ $1500 each.
Category
19th Century Dutch Baroque Antique Nautical 2
Materials
Mahogany
Louis XV Style Wing Armchair
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis XV style wing armchair in pickled oak, cabriole feet, undulating top crests; newly upholstered in linen.
Great frame and a very co...
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Nautical 2
Materials
Linen, Wood
A George II Mahogany Card Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
The oblong hinged top with outset rounded corners opening to a baize lined playing surface inset with counter wells, above a conforming frieze fitted with a small drawer, raised on s...
Category
18th Century and Earlier English Antique Nautical 2
Pair of French Carved Fruitwood Armchairs
Located in Great Barrington, MA
Pair of beautiful and very comfortable French armchairs with original cotton velvet upholstery. The well constructed frame is made of hardw...
Category
Early 20th Century French Nautical 2
French Barrel Slipper Chairs
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pair of elegant French Empire style barrel slipper chairs recovered in leopard velvet and satin French wreath symbol design on back. Extremely comfortabl...
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Nautical 2
Materials
Mahogany
Rustic Headboard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Rustic grey painted Headboard.
Keywords: Bed
Category
19th Century American Antique Nautical 2
Materials
Wood
A Fine Kingwood & Marquetry Ormolu Mounted Bombe Commode
Located in Sheffield, MA
The shaped marble top above a bombe case with ormolu mounts, highly decorated throughout with marquetry with three drawers, on short cabriole legs.
Provenance: Private collection...
Category
18th Century and Earlier European Antique Nautical 2
Vintage Neoclassical Dressing Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
The vintage neoclassical dressing table, vanity, desk or night table has gilt detailing, fluted legs, brass pulls and curved stretchers. Dr...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Neoclassical Nautical 2
Materials
Wood
Industrial Lamp
Located in Sheffield, MA
Stylish mid-century chrome industrial floor lamp on casters.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Chrome, Metal
Sunny Hedge
By Frank Vincent Dumond
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Vincent Dumond
American, 1865-1931
Sunny Hedge
Oil on canvas
Signed "F.V. DuMond," lower right
24.5 in. by 29 in. W/frame 32.5 by 37 in.
Born in Rochester, New York in 1865, Frank DuMond left his work as an illustrator at age 23 to study in the rigorous classical atelier tradition of the Academie Julian Paris in 1888. Upon his return to New York in 1892, DuMond embarked on a painting and teaching term at the Art Students League spanning nearly six decades until his death.
A painter of diverse talents, he was an accomplished landscape, portrait and still life painter, muralist, and leader of the Tonalist then Impressionist art colonies of Lyme, Connecticut. In particular, DuMond was noted for his use of landscape green. American Impressionist expert William H. Gerdts wrote of DuMond, "As one might speak of Velazquez's blacks, one must speak of DuMond's greens." Scholars have described him as a deft painter of the American Impressionist landscape and the figure, but he will perhaps be remembered as among the most outstanding educators in American art history. Though an accomplished painter, he is said to have considered himself more of an educator than an artist.
By all accounts, DuMond is described by his students as a man whose art and teaching methods were based on deeply held religious and philosophical beliefs. One student recalls, "There were occasions when DuMond revealed a clear intent to educate us on a deeper level than might casually be associated with painting." His students remember him fondly as "a genial, generous, and perceptive instructor…whose warmth and kindness pervaded everything he did." Under his tutelage, many prominent American artists were brought to recognition, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, and John Marin. Still other protégés of DuMond renown became influential teachers, such as Baroque-style painter Frank Mason, whose influence emerged in New York at the Art Students League; and Arthur Maynard...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
A Day at the Beach
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leonce De Joncieres
French, 1871-1947
A Day at the Beach
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 'L. de Joncieres/ 1903' (lower right)
46 1/2 by 65¼ in. W/f...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Vase de Fleurs
By Leon Herbo
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Herbo
Belgian, 1850-1907
Vase de Fleurs
Oil on canvas
22 ½ by 18 in. W/frame 34 ½ by 30 in.
Signed and dated 1906
Leon exhibited in Brussels, Munich, Gand, Cologne and Paris....
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Frost
America, 1843–1907
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Oil on Canvas
20 by 30 in. W/frame 28 by 38 in.
Signed lower l...
Category
1880s Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Segovie
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marie Antoinette Boullard-Deve
French, 1890-1970
Segovie
Oil on canvas
29 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 39 by 31 ½ in.
Signed lower left and titled and dated 1951 on the back
Marie was born...
Category
1950s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
White Angora Cats
By Arthur Heyer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Arthur Heyer
German, 1872 – 1931
White Angora Cats
Oil on canvas
22 by 27 in. w/frame 30 by 35 in.
Arthur Heyer was born in Haarhausen. He studied at...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
At The Seaside
By Gaston Sebire
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gaston Sebire
French, 1920-2002
At The Seaside
Oil on canvas
25 by 31 in. W/frame 33 ½ by 39 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris.
The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.”
The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris.
Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage. As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.”
Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Woman and Child
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Woman and Child
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
La Place de la Concorde, Paris
By Charles Cobelle
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Cobelle
French, 1902-1998
La Place de la Concorde, Paris
Oil on canvas
20 by 24 in. W/frame 28 by 32 in.
Signed lower right
Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and becoming a U.S. citizen in the late 1920s, Charles Cobelle, whose birth name was Carl Edelman, began his career in Paris after earning Bachelor and Master's Degrees at the University of Munich. Later he studied at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and with Marc Chagall. At Menton on the Riviera, he apprenticed with Raoul Dufy.
In the United States where he lived in Brookfield and Fairfield, Connecticut, he continued to create mixed-media paintings, and also did mural work for commercial establishments such as Neiman Marcus Company in Dallas, Texas; The Desert Inn...
Category
1950s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Mother & Child in a Landscape, framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame
By André Gisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Gisson
American, 1921-2003
Mother & Child in a Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in. W/frame 32 by 44 in.
Signed lower left
Framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Moonlight Over the Promenade
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
Swedish, 1844-1920
Moonlight Over the Promenade
Oil on canvas
27 by 45 in. W/frame 39 by 57 in.
Signed lower right
Wilh...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Djeuner Champtre
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
Djeuner Champtre
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ½ by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower left
Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October 7,...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Chester Weinberg 1970s Black Jersey and Velvet Dress
By Chester Weinberg
Located in Alford, MA
Like his contemporaries Bill Blass, Geoffrey Beene, and Oscar de la Renta, Chester Weinberg was a star NY designer during the 1960s and '70s, as well as a respected teacher at Parsons School of Design, where Donna Karan was one of his protegées. After his untimely death from AIDS in 1985, his name and work were largely forgotten, save for those in the know. This dress is an example of his work, c.1970, composed of a black matte jersey bodice with long sleeves and mock turleneck and a velvet wrap-style skirt. The high waist, zippered wrists, and skirt slit edge are ornamented with gold and velvet...
Category
1970s American Nautical 2
Red Beaded Evening Bag, France
Located in Alford, MA
One of the most interesting designs I've seen of the high-style and beautifully crafted French beaded bags from the 1950s-'60s. This example has a red backgr...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Nautical 2
Revillon Black Fox Shawl
By Revillon
Located in Alford, MA
Sumptuous, full skins define this glamorous black fox shawl. Crafted of three skins that are wide and long, the shawl has rounded ends ornamented by a single...
Category
Late 20th Century American Nautical 2
Thierry Mugler Brown Suit
By Thierry Mugler
Located in Alford, MA
Thierry Mugler 1980s suit in brown wool gabardine features a belted jacket with silver metal stars dangling from the patch pockets and interesting inverted V detail near armhole. Dro...
Category
1980s French Nautical 2
Ivory Ribbon Jacket with Mink Collar
Located in Alford, MA
Ivory ribbon knit jacket features a matching mink collar and three-quarter sleeves. Rounded edges at hem and side slits. Hook closure at neck. Lined in emb...
Category
1960s American Nautical 2
Navy Suede Suit with Braid Trim a la Chanel
Located in Alford, MA
1960s navy suede suit in the style of a classic Chanel, it features a red and gold zigzag braid around the edges of the jacket and the top of the bodice poc...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Nautical 2
Black Beaded 1960s Fitted Gown
Located in Alford, MA
Fabulous long sheath of black crepe with allover beading in a squiggle design of black bugle beads. Narrow body hugging design with straight neckline front and back and cut-in armhol...
Category
1960s Nautical 2
Pastel Beaded Bag
Located in Alford, MA
Unusual beaded evening bag from the 1950s/'60s having a white background decorated with repeating egg-shaped designs in pastel colors. The white beaded frame is embellished with 2 oval porcelain plaques. Gold chain handle, white satin interior. Not marked, but these intricate beaded bags...
Category
1950s Unknown Nautical 2
Oscar de la Renta Fuschsia Silk Jacket with Tucking
By Oscar De La Renta
Located in Alford, MA
Oscar de la Renta jacket executed in fuschsia silk that has been tucked and pleated in vertical rows and accented with strands of the tinies pearls. The simple style of the jacket, w...
Category
Early 2000s American Nautical 2
Missoni Beige Knit Skirt
By Missoni
Located in Alford, MA
Missoni 1970s beige openwork knit skirt falls softly to mid calf and has a matching knit belt with wooden buckle. The knit runs horizontally across the h...
Category
1970s Italian Nautical 2
1960s Off-White Wool Coat w/Mink Collar
Located in Alford, MA
A lightweight coat from the 1960s composed of a nubby off-white wool and featuring a straight cut with dolman sleeves, a small mink collar, and a single-breasted closure system with ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Nautical 2
Eisenberg Rihinestone Earrings
Located in Alford, MA
Rhinestone vintage drop earrings by Eisenberg composed of various-sized round and marquise stones in an intricate setting. Comfortable clip-on backings.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Retro Nautical 2
Jonné Bib Necklace with Black Beads
Located in Alford, MA
Goldtone and black bead necklace by Jonné, a short-lived division of Schrager, sits gracefully at the nape of the neck. A double row of various face...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Retro Nautical 2
White Sequin Cardigan
Located in Alford, MA
A white knit cardigan adorned allover with iridescent white sequins. Hook and eye closures, lined in white, shallow slits on sides. Size M.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Nautical 2
Hidy Misawa Fuchsia Sparkle Print Ensemble
Located in Alford, MA
1980s evening ensemble by Hidy Misawa of London, the floral print of large fuchsia bursts on a white ground, all embellished with clusters of sparkles. The...
Category
1980s English Nautical 2
Missoni Raspberry Sundress
By Missoni
Located in Alford, MA
Missoni sundress, c.1970s-'80s, with spaghetti straps and interior elastic band that gathers the fabric in at the waist. Predominantly raspberry zigzag stripe knit. Light, packable a...
Category
1970s Italian Nautical 2
Original by Robert Pearl and Rhinestone Brooch/Pendant
By Original by Robert
Located in Alford, MA
Wreath-shaped brooch of various pearls, rhinestones, crystals, and micro gold beads by Robert, c.1960. Hook in addition to pin, so can be worn as pendant. Some of the Original by Robert...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Retro Nautical 2
Materials
Crystal, Pearl
Bill Blass Pastel Cocktail Dress with Embroidered Cage
By Bill Blass
Located in Alford, MA
Beautifully crafted Bill Blass two-layer dress, the main body a strapless sheath of repeating ribbon stripes in aqua, mint, beige and gray. Skimming over this is a sheer net sleevele...
Category
Early 2000s American Nautical 2
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Georges Georoy
Belgium, 1906–1983
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Oil on canvas
23 ¾ in. by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ¾ in. by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower right
In a period Heydenryk frame
...
Category
1960s Contemporary Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Mountain Landscape, Springtime, New Mexico
By Russell Cowles
Located in Sheffield, MA
Russell Cowles
American, 1887-1979
Mountain Landscape, Springtime, New Mexico
Oil on board
24 by 30 in. W/frame 30 ¼ by 36 ¼ in.
Signed lower right
Russell Cowles was born in Algona, Iowa in 1887. His father was a well-known newspaperman, who became publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. His mother studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and encouraged his interest. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1909 and studied in Paris as well as New York at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students' League with Douglas Volk...
Category
1930s American Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Outside a Deli
By Jack Levine
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jack Levine
American, 1915-2010
The Deli
Oil on board
28 ¼ by 34 in. W/frame 36 ¼ by 42 in.
Signed Lower Right
Born and raised in the south end of Boston, Jack Levine created soc...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Mona Lisa
By Pal Fried
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pal Fried,
Hungarian/American, 1893-1976
Mona Lisa
Oil on canvas
30 by 24 in.W/frame 38 by 32 in.
Signed lower left
Pal was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Abstract Composition
By John von Wicht
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Von Wicht
American, 1888-1970
Abstract Composition
Oil & mix media on Paper
19 by 25 in. W/frame 30 ½ by 36 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Johannes Von Wicht was born in Malente, ...
Category
1960s Abstract Nautical 2
Materials
Mixed Media
A Travers Bois
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Richard Goubie
French, 1842-1899
A Travers Bois
Oil on canvas
25 ½ by 39 ¾ in. W/frame 30 ½ by 45 in.
Circa 1892
Jean Richard Goubie was bo...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Homage to Picasso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Morris Solotaroff
Russian, 1891-1970
Homage to Picasso
Oil on canvas
34 ¾ by 28 ½ in. W/frame 41¾ by 35 ½ in.
Born in Russia on Oct. 1, 1891. Sol...
Category
1930s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
A Still Life
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alvin Hollingsworth
American, 1928-2000
A Still Life
Oil on canvas
36 by 24 in. W/frame 42 by 30 in.
Alvin was a member of the prominent Spiral group. Spiral was formed in 1963 in the New York studio of Romare Bearden. Spiral members aimed to address civil and human rights concerns and show support for the Civil Rights Movement. They did not, however, want to adhere to strict aesthetic criteria or compromise their artistic individuality. Spiral also included Norman Lewis, Hale Woodruff, Charles Alston, Emma Amos...
Category
1960s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Le Gouter
By Gabriel Godard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gabriel Godard
French, Born 1933
Le Gouter
Oil on canvas
36 by 29 in. W/frame 38 by 31 in.
Signed lower right & dated 62
Gabriel Godard was born on April 28, 1933 in Delouze in Lo...
Category
1960s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Thunderous
Located in Sheffield, MA
Emory Ladanyi
Hungarian, 1902-1986
Thunderous
Mixed Media on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
Inscribed & titled on Verso
40 by 48 in. W/frame 42 by 50 in.
Born November 8, 1902 in Kecskemet, Hungary, the child of Mihaly and Maria Ladanyi, Emory Ladanyi moved with his family to Eger, a town famous for its good wine. He studied at the High School of Science and Art.
At fifteen, he discovered anatomy in a textbook and began to consider a career in medicine, and was accepted into the Medical School of The University of Budapest to become a medical student. He received his doctoral degree in 1927 and did his residency in dermatology in the largest hospital in Berlin, then one of the most prominent dematology centers of Europe.
In Berlin, he was especially impressed by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism, who exerted a lasting influence on his work. Following medical residency in Vienna, he was also impressed by the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Kokoschka.
In 1928 he returned to Budapest to continue postgraduate studies, also advancing his art education. His many friends were among the avant-garde poets and writers of that time.
In March 1929, he arrived in New York. June of that year, he passed the medical boards, and in September received his license to practice medice in the State of New York.
Outside of the medical profession which enabled him the livelihood to continue to paint, he moved exclusively in avant-garde circles of New York City. He was a close friend of the composer Edgar Varese. Others of his circle were poet Kenneth Patchen...
Category
1960s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Still Life in a Vase
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alfred Zwiebel
German, 1914-2005
Still Life in a Vase
Oil / Board
21 ¼ by 29 in. W/frame 30 ¼ by 38 in.
Signed lower right
Alfred Zwiebel was an esta...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Nautical 2
Materials
Oil