Morris Shulman Art

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

Glücksburg Castle near Flensburg is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of 20th Century Oil on hardboard. Hand signed "H. Th. Nöbbe" on the lower margin. Include...

Celadon Sea Celadon Sea is part of C. Ellen Hart’s Reflection Series. The works feature reflections found on the surfaces of water and glass. She seeks out images that commonly ...

André Verdet ( 1913 - 2004 ) . Artiste français né à Nice (alpes maritimes ) mort à Saint Paul de Vence . poète , peintre , sculpteur , céramiste , mus...

Celadon Sea Gyre is part of C. Ellen Hart’s The Bayou Reflections Series which investigates reflections on my local waterways. An arm of White Oak Bayou meanders across the foot o...

In this piece, the use of negative space highlights each individual marks character, weight and texture. The painting explores various types of mark making and application inspired b...

"Ghosts of the Gardens" is a mysterious and captivating abstract painting, evoking the untamed beauty of wild gardens and chaotic floral motifs with its energetic and loose movement....

Bold figurative work by Richard Cronin (American, b. 1952). Two figures stand on a patio, turned away from each other. The figures and scene are rendere...

Vivid mid century modern maritime seascape by P. Mantos (20th Century), 1968. Expressive brushstrokes in a bold palette of blue and turquoise is acce...

Impressive early American modernist central park, new york city oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvasboard . Image size, 18H by 24L.

Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape - San Francisco Hills in the Fog Beautiful mid-century modern abstract landscape evoking ...

Nice modernist American school painting. Oil and watercolor and gouache on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 23H.