George Hand Wright Art

Kerry Smith Black Flag - Who’s Got The 10 1/2? Mixed Media on Crescent board Year: 2020 Size: 21x20in Signed, dated by hand COA provided Ref.: 924802-1638 *Black frame with a mirror...

Early 20th Century European School, view of the city, with buildings in the background, gouache on paper unsigned in a beautiful custom made Haydenryk frame under glass.

Walpi #4 is an original semi-abstract Southwestern landscape by German-American modernist Bert Van Bork (1928–2014). Executed in watercolor and mixed media, this intimate yet powerful composition captures the dramatic beauty of a Native American pueblo village atop First Mesa, Arizona—an area long associated with the Hopi people and their enduring cultural heritage. With a vibrant palette of deep blues, luminous yellows, warm oranges, and expressive pinks, Van Bork transforms adobe structures and desert sky into a dynamic interplay of color and form. The semi-abstract treatment merges architectural geometry with expressive linework, reflecting both the grandeur of the Southwestern landscape and the spiritual resonance of the land. His reverence for Native American culture is evident in the sensitive balance between abstraction and representation. The artwork is presented in a custom white frame with archival mounting materials and UV-protective glass for long-term preservation. Framed dimensions measure 8 ½ x 10 ½ x ½ inches, with an image size of 4 ¾ x 7 inches—an ideal scale for collectors of refined works on paper or thoughtfully curated salon-style installations. Provenance: Estate of Bert Van Bork, Evanston, Illinois. Van Bork was born in Germany and trained in Berlin under Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, a founding member of Die Brücke. He was active in the post-war German art scene before immigrating to the United States in 1954. In addition to his achievements as a painter and printmaker, he gained international recognition for his documentary filmmaking, including the Academy Award–nominated EyeWitness The Legacy of Death Camp Art...

Only Ballantine Ale Brews "Brewer's Gold," ad illustration appeared in the major magazines of the day. A magic moment is caught at a peak point of drama. It's the instant of friends having fun. A cold beer from the fridge is offered and it's is acknowledged with a head nod. The woman in the foreground covers her giggling face reacting to a funny comment. The decisive moment is preserved. Sounds like a critique of an art photograph? No, it's an illustrator. This ingenious Infiniti "S" composition simultaneously represents the best of photography and painting. Cartier-Bresson could have captured the precise moment. While Nicolas Poussin could have rendered the complex figural composition. Add to it , a painting technique and color scheme with the quick drama of a post-impressionist. We have a great work of art by an overlooked American illustrator/artist/painter, Mike Ludlow...

Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...

Early 20th Century view of barges at a riverbank by French artist Georges Planes. The painting is signed bottom right. The painting is very nicely framed in a blue painted wood frame...

Good, wholesome mid-century Americana is on full display in the joyous illustration depicting a red horse-drawn sled full of merrymakers being greeted at an inn. Signed lower left Fr...

Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...

"I have been painting seriously for somewhere around 35 years, but have only ever sold regionally - most recently, through my gallery on Magazine Street in New Orleans. Through 1stDi...

Gold and orange yellow with black and white emblazon this figurative mixed media 'San Tropez Palette' abstracted figurative nude from Kim Frohsin's "Figures...

Artist's Statement: "This painting originally looked different, and though it had 22 saves on it and looked sure to sell there was just something that bothered me about it. So I rep...

Untitled Cubist Abstraction Signed and dated lower right Watercolor, charcoal and gouache on paper, 1922 Provenance: Estate of the Artist Schroeder, Romero & Sh...