Alexander R. Richardson Art

NIGHTIE NIGHT 1 - In this original artwork, focus is placed on the blending of delicate detail and expressive brush work. A subtle tone on tone texture is built up in the background ...

Edgar A. (Ted) Batzell (1915=1996) Cubist Tabletop Still Life Composition, ca. 1960. Oil on artist board measuring 16 x 20 inches. Measuring 24 x 28 inches in a wide white frame. Signed by the artist lower right. Ted Batzell, was listed in Who's Who in American Art in 1957, and is now listed in Who Was Who in American Art. First in his class in the Master's of Fine Art program at Syracuse University he was awarded the highest honor along with the Augusta Hazard scholarship to study abroad. In high school he entered a nationwide poster contest and won a four year scholarship to Syracuse, where today for one year's tuition the cost is $45,000. But he never got to use the Augusta Hazard award because World War II broke out and he went to New York City where he studied at the Art Students League and with artist Walt Kuhn as well as others. Hired by the General Electric company art department in Schenectady, N.Y. , he progressed over the 35 years he was there (the only job he had until retirement), to an art director. At General Electric he was a "Madison Avenue Ad Man" for many years, like those in the series "Mad Men", spending every week at General Electric headquarters in New York City. He was known to his fellow artists, many also renowned, as "the Renaissance Man" having a voracious appetite for reading and collecting art books...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “Nature Morte A La Nappe Rouge” Still Life on a Red Tablecloth. An abstract grouping of items on a table in just deep red...

A mid-century still-life gouache of flowers in a blue vase by French artist J Reboa. Signed and presented in a frame under glass. A vibrant energy flows through this floral composi...

A modern depiction of Sun Flowers by Theresa F. Bernstein. The bold colors and strong contrasts make Berstein's work so striking and captivating. The flowers are executed with bold p...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...

This colorful painting by Eleanor Parke Custis is in the spirit of Louis Valtat and the Fauves. The subject of flowers in the foreground is repeated in the backdrop. It straddles the line between abstraction and representation. Signed lower right - Work is framed. Eleanor Parke Custis studied in Corcoran School of the Arts and Design under Edmund C. Tarbell and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Henry B. Snell. Initially, she began her art career as a painter, creating watercolors. Custis created illustrations for Scribner's Magazine, Harper's, Doubleday, Harcourt. She started to take photographs in her youth, using a Brownie camera...

Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on cardboard painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. BOŻENA LESIAK (born in 1952) Studied at the faculty of painting at the Acade...

Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on cardboard painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. BOŻENA LESIAK (born in 1952) Studied at the faculty of painting at the Acade...

Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on cardboard painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. BOŻENA LESIAK (born in 1952) Studied at the faculty of painting at the Acade...

A striking 20th‑century Russian Art Deco–Cubist gouache on cardboard, this work exemplifies the vibrant visual language developed by the Russian Cubist School of Paris, where émigré ...

Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...