Amos Sewell Interior Paintings

This captivating mid-century Spanish painting by Alfredo Opisso immerses the viewer in the lively atmosphere of a café or bar, where figures gather to drink, sing, and dance. Rendere...

This intimate studio interior from 1930 belongs to the more psychologically engaging side of Carlo Hornung Jensen’s oeuvre. A seated woman has paused beside her easel and turned towa...

"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers Douglas Crockwell (1904-1968) "Paper Making" 19 x 39 inches Oil on board, c. 1936 Signed verso Framed: 28 x 47 Provenance: Estate of the Artist BIO Spencer Douglass Crockwell was born into a comfortable middle class household on April 29, 1904 in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Charles Roland Crockwell, was a mining engineer; his mother, Cora, was the daughter of an Iowa attorney. He became a commercial artist and experimental filmmaker who spent a good part of his career creating illustrations and advertisements for the Saturday Evening Post. In 1907 the Crockwell family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from high school and then attended from Washington University. Initially he studied engineering, but soon switched to business. While still an undergraduate, Crockwell took courses at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and quickly realized that he wanted to be an artist. After graduating from Washington University in 1926, Crockwell continued to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts until 1929. The following year he relocated to Chicago and continued his studies at the American Academy of Art. In 1930 and 1931 he studied in Europe on a Traveling Fellowship. In 1932 Douglass Crockwell moved to Glens Falls, New York, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life. The following year he married Margaret Braman. They had three children, a son Douglass and two daughters, Johanna and Margaret. During the depression he created murals and posters for the Works Progress Administration including Post Office murals in White River junction, Vermont; Endicott, New York; and Macon, Mississippi. In 1934 he painted Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co. (the leading Glens Falls, New York company) for the WPA. In the 1930s Crockwell developed an interest in experimental animated films that occupied him for the rest of his life. In 1936 and 1937, he collaborated with David Smith, a sculptor, to create surrealist films. Because of his interest in experimental films, his output of paintings was limited to just twenty to forty illustrations a year during this time. Crockwell painted his first of many Saturday Evening Post cover in 1933. He also worked for Life, Look, and Esquire, and numerous national advertisers including Friskies dog food, Welch’s Grape Juice, Republic Steel...

Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...

M. Jackson (English School, late 19th Century) Chickens in a Hen House Oil on board, circa 1890 Monogrammed lower left This charming late Victorian farmyard scene captures the quiet...

A Colorful, Intimate Modernist Portrait of a Young Woman Reading by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A wonderfully painted studio work dating from the 1930s. ...

M. Jackson (English School, late 19th Century) Chickens in a Hen House Oil on board, circa 1890 Monogrammed lower left This charming late Victorian farmyard scene captures the quiet...

A Unique, Unusual Surrealist Interior Scene with Abstracted Figure by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting an abstract city apartment interior wit...

CACTI BY THE WINDOW Size: 55 x 64 cm (including frame) Oil on board An elegant mid-century still life that captures a charming scene of three potted plants arranged along a windowsi...

Signed and dated oil on board still life by post impressionist painter Claude Emile Schuffenecker. The piece depicts eight red and green apples set against a predominantly pale blue ...

Tapered hands and pointy-toed female figures along with the cropped legs of a stagehand are depicted in a dance performance. Blanchard was a fashion illustrator and worked for many years in the advertising department of Lord & Taylor. Work is modestly framed Stamped on back "Copyright Conde Nast...

In the late 1960', computers were different then they are today. A whole room was required to accommodate an IBM mainframe. It's here that this romantic scene takes place: in the p...