Alston Wall Decorations

French painting, oil on Masonite, depicts people strolling the historic streets of Montmartre at the corner of Place Jean-Baptiste Clémente and Rue Norvins. On the corner is a French...

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...

Charles Levier born of a French Father and American mother. He was was active/lived in New York, California / United Kingdom, France and is known for landscape, still life and figura...

An early 20th Century Oil on canvas by Gustave Wiegand (1870-1957). The painting depicting assorted vibrant flowers in a yellow vase. Original frame. ...

French Figurative Oil Painting by Charles Levier. Titled "Une femme devant la mer", this masterful work of a well-known listed French artist whose work can be compared to Bernard Buf...

Rare, oil painting on Masonite board by listed Haitian modernist artist Spencer Depas, Haitian (1928–1989). Mounted in it's original custom chip carved frame. Signed "S. Depas" in lo...

VINTAGE ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING Depicting an ethereal dream-like scene with figures in a wooded landscape at night. Painted in a free expressionist bold style with a rich colour pale...

Antique Italian painting from late 19th century. Oil painting on masonite depicting landscape, view of mountain village in impressionist style. Signed painting on the lower left G. M...

Large contemporary oil on canvas painting by Charles Lee titled "Music for Two". This beautiful piece of art will enhance any modern or contemporary setting, anywhere vibrant colore...

1940 young orientalist shepherdess with her sheep, oil on Masonite in the style of Jacques Majorelle.

Early oil on linen landscape painting depicting a city by Steven Sles circa 1957. This example has a thick textured background and foreground with architectural and natural forms in ...

English Victorian large oil painting of a yachting scene with figures (Edward VII) on a deck in a gilt rope frame. (titled: "On the Brittania" by Thomas Henry).