Beatrice Gildersleeve Art

Frederick James Boston Brooklyn, New York Inscribed verso Oil on board 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches Though understudied today, Frederick James Boston was a well-known and respected teacher...

Henry Charles Hannig (1883 - 1948) The Green Parasol Oil on canvas mounted on board 6 x 7 3/4 inches Provenance: R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois Private Collection, Lake Orion, Michigan Hannig, born in Hirschberg, Germany on 27 February 1883, came to America with his parents at the age of seven. He attended school in the southwest suburbs before the family settled in Chicago. Young Henry enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where Lawton Parker became his mentor. He made ends meet by working in industrial design and illustration. By 1908 he was a pupil in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where students followed the traditional European drawing curriculum, beginning with the copying of master engravings and drawing after plaster casts, then concentrating on the nude figure. Students worked toward the goal of winning various academic prizes. One of Hannig's fellow students was Louis Ritman...

"Stream with Rocks" is a 19" x 15" oil on board summer landscape by American impressionist painter Roy C. Kneeland. The work is painted in rich, dark colors and energetic brushstroke...

Leo B. Blake (1887 - 1976) Berkshires Winter landscape, Massachusetts, circa 1952-53 Oil on canvasboard 12 x 16 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Massachuset...

This 24" x 30" oil on board painting is of a summer landscape with trees and a meandering river in the center of the scene. The artist is unknown, however, there is a signature in th...

Signed lower right, 'Charles Harris', for Charles Gordon Harris (American, 1891-1963) and additionally signed verso. A substantial and atmospheric landscape showing a view of the S...

A whimsical depiction by Martha Walter of a picnic table with flowers, cups, Pepsi bottles, bowls and a basket. The bold colors and strong contrasts make Walter's work so striking an...

This Western Landscape by New England Impressionist painter Richard Edward Miller is a 12.5 x 23.5 inches, oil on board painting from 1931. A plein-air and impressionist painter as ...

Francis Henry Richardson Open Pasture, Winter Signed lower right Oil on board 10 3/8 x 13 inches Richardson, born in Boston, entered the formal art world in his late twenties. His ...

Guy C. Wiggins (1883 - 1962) Locomotive Train in Snowstorm, 1957 Oil on paperboard 8 x 10 inches Signed lower left; signed and dated on the reverse Guy Carleton Wiggins is best known for his impressionistic snow scenes of New York in 1920's. Wiggins lived in Old Lyme and Essex where he operated an art school. The Connecticut country-side was conducive to his impressionist technique of plein-air painting and broken brushwork.  Ironically, although his work includes many fine Connecticut landscapes, he is best remembered for some snow scenes of New York City. Like many other American Impressionists, Wiggins had one foot in the city and the other in the country (Vermont Hillside, South Londonderry).  Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, went to England with his family as a boy, received an English grammar school education, and traveled widely abroad. He was the son of a prominent artist, Carleton Wiggins, a painter in the Barbizon style who studied with George Inness and admired Anton Mauve and Dwight Tryon...

John Rettig Marblehead Harbor, Grey Day, 1919 Signed and dated lower right Oil on academy board 15 x 18 inches Dubbed as the “Wizard of Scenic Creation”, John Rettig was best known...

Frederick John Mulhaupt Gloucester Boats Signed lower left Oil on board 12 x 16 inches Born in Rock Port, Missouri, in 1871, Mulhaupt studied...