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Muriel Backman Art

American, 1902-1996

Muriel Backman was born in 1902. She is well-listed in relevant art reference works, and her work is held in public and private collections, including the permanent collection of the San Francisco Public Library.

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Artist: Muriel Backman
'Grey Outpost, Fort Ross, California', Woman Artist, Modernist Park view
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Muriel Backman", titled verso and dated 1960. Painted on Arches paper. This notable California woman artist exhibited widely and with success from the 1930's th...
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1960s Muriel Backman Art

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Paper, Watercolor

'Monterey Pier', California Modernist, Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art League
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Muriel Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman and dated 1955. An elegant, Cubist-derived, mid-century view of the old Fisherman's Wharf in Monterey, California. A ly...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

'View of the Mission, San Juan Bautista', Crocker Art Museum, Santa Cruz
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Muriel Backman' (American, 1902-1996); additionally signed verso, titled 'Mission San Juan Bautista, Founded June 24, 1797' and painted circa 1960. This notable...
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1960s Muriel Backman Art

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Paper, Watercolor

'Corporation Yard', Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art League, Crocker Art Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "M. Backman"; additionally signed verso, titled 'Corporation Yard' and painted circa 1960. This notable California woman artist exhibited widely and with success...
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1960s Muriel Backman Art

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

'Lighthouse at Point Pinos', Pacific Grove, California Woman Post Impressionist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Backman' for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996); additionally signed verso, titled 'Pt. Pinos' and dated 1953. A bright and fresh watercolor showing a view...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

'Main Street, Port Costa', California Woman Post Impressionist, Crocker Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed twice, lower right, 'Muriel Backman' (American, 1902-1996); additionally signed verso, titled 'Main Street, Port Costa' and dated May, 1968. Muriel Backman exhibited widely a...
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1960s Muriel Backman Art

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Paper, Watercolor

'Golden Gate, San Francisco', Bay Area Woman Modernist, Crocker Art Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Muriel Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman (American, 1902-1996) and titled verso "The Cool Gray City". An elegant mid-century view of the San Francisco skyline a...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

'Lakeshore Drive, Chicago', Modernist Cityscape, Woman Artist, Crocker Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century, Modernist view of Chicago, seen in the evening with the lights of numerous buildings reflected in the still waters of Lake Michigan. Signed lower right "M. Backman" f...
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1960s Muriel Backman Art

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Watercolor, Handmade Paper

'Fort Bragg Lumber Mill', Woman Artist, California Post-Impressionist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "M. Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman. Titled verso "Union Lumber Co., Fort Bragg- Mendocino, Ca" and painted circa 1955. A moody, mid-century view of the lumber ...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper

'University Village, Berkeley' Carmel, California, Woman Post Impressionist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'M. Backman' for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996), titled 'University Village', dated 1958 and with inscription verso, 'Demonstration painting- horizontal and verti...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Paper, Watercolor

'Fisherman's Wharf, Monterey', Modernist California Artist, Crocker Art Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "M. Backman" for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996), titled verso and dated 1955. A vibrant Modernist work by this notable California woman artist who exhibit...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Watercolor, Illustration Board, Graphite

'Old San Anselmo, California', Woman Post-Impressionist, Crocker Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of Authenticity stamped verso; titled verso, 'San Anselmo' and dated 1956. Muriel Backman exhibited widely and with success from the 1930's through the 1950's, includi...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Paper, Watercolor

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Early 19th Century English watercolour of woodland near Croxdale Hall
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very attractive and meticulously executed view of a rocky landscape within the woods dating to 1823. This would suit a library or study with its muted tones and skifull draughtsmanship. William Nicholson (1781-1844) Near Croxdale Hall Signed with initials and inscribed with title and date 1823 Pen, ink and grey wash 11 x 8 inches, image only 17 x 13 inches without frame The portrait-painter and etcher William Nicholson was born in Ovingham-on-Tyne, Northumberland, on Christmas Day 1781. His family transferred to Newcastle when his father was appointed Headmaster of the city's Grammar School. At an early age, though, Nicholson appears to have moved to Hull where he made his artistic debut, painting miniatures of officers garrisoned there. He was almost entirely self-taught, learning his craft through the close study of artworks in private and public galleries. He subsequently returned to Newcastle where he received many commissions to paint portraits of the old families of Northumberland. In 1808, he began to exhibit at the Royal Academy, continuing to do so until 1822. By 1814, Nicholson, whose mother was a Scot, had moved to Edinburgh where he set up as a miniaturist and painter in oils. Soon, however, he began to specialize in watercolour portraits. Early subjects included the actor Daniel Terry and the poet and novelist James Hogg. In 1818 he began to publish a series of Portraits of Eminent Scotsmen, etched from his own portraits and those of other painters. Besides Scott and Hogg, the subjects included the writers Robert Burns, John Wilson ('Christopher North'), and Lord Jeffrey, the painters Sir Henry Raeburn, the divines Alexander Carlyle and Alexander Cameron, the engineer James Watt, the architect John Playfair, and the song-collector and composer George Thomson...
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“Nova Scotia Landscape”
By James Milton Sessions
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a well executed watercolor and gouache painting by the American artist, James Milton Sessions. Signed lower right. Circa 1955. The landscape is of a Novia Scotia pastoral landscape. Here you see horses grazing and two men fishing nearby. The watercolor is in excellent original condition and is beautifully double matted and framed in a thin gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurement 16 by 18.25 inches. James Milton Sessions (born September 20, 1882 in Rome, NY) received his initial exposure to art from his mother, who was an accomplished artist. He trained at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1903–1906 and initially supported himself as a wheelsman aboard Great Lakes ships from 1906–1914, later serving in the Illinois Naval Reserve during World War I. He also worked as a commercial illustrator. He was a master watercolorist of marine, sporting, and military World War II scenes. He developed a love of the sea and is probably best known as a painter of marine subjects. Sessions painted images of numerous locations, from the Bahamas to New England's busy fishing harbors, north to the raw fishing grounds of Nova Scotia, and ultimately to the Navajo reservations in New Mexico. Not only do his works document important World War II historical events, they visually portray and convey the spirit of the American fighting forces in both the Pacific and European campaigns, commencing with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, followed by D-Day Europe through to the final phases of the Pacific war, such as Jimmy Doolittle's daylight bombing raids of the Japanese mainland to the unconditional surrender of the Japanese military. The Chicago Tribune newspaper utilized his talents and Sessions is considered to be the greatest "brush reporter" of World War II. His works can be found in Presidential collections, numerous important corporate collections and military establishments throughout the country. Sessions created numerous wartime advertisements. Examples are a 1943 Willys Jeep ad showing the Coast Guard at Guadalcanal, and a Borg-Warner ad in 1945 showing the mass production of radiators and clutches for motorized warfare manufactured in Detroit. His work is highly collectible in the field of Militaria/WWII/1939-1945. In 1962 the New York Graphic Society commissioned him to make four paintings, reproductions of which were distributed as part of the Society's Works of Masters Group. Many of his other paintings have been reproduced over the years, issued as posters and as high quality reprints on watercolor paper. Sessions was married in Chicago, Illinois in 1946 to Chrysanthy G. Deamanthopulos. Although very prolific in the style of John Whorf and Ogden Pleissner...
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“View of Bay of Naples 2”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very well executed original gouache on archival paper by the Italian artist, Maria Ada Gianni. Signed lower left. Condition is excellent. Circa 192...
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1920s Academic Muriel Backman Art

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English watercolour of a fisherman and his dog
Located in Harkstead, GB
A very attractive rural scene of a fisherman and his dog on a riverbank, in very good colour and an appealing composition. Claude Hayes (1852-1922) A fisherman and his dog by a riverbank Signed Watercolour with touches of pencil 6½ x 10 inches, image only 13 x 16 inches with the frame Claude Hayes was a Dublin born painter who to avoid his father's wish to make a businessman of him ran away to sea and served on the Golden Fleece, one of the transports used in the Abyssinian expedition of 1867-68, and also spent a year in the United States. Returning to London, he studied art at Heatherley's and the Royal Academy Schools, and then in Antwerp, under Charles Verlat. He worked in Hampshire with James Aumonier and also in Surrey with William Charles Estall, whose sister he married. Hayes exhibited widely in London and provincial centres, and was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours in 1886, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1883, and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour, 1902. He also showed at the RA, RBSA, Brook Street Art Gallery, Dudley Gallery, FAS, GI, Grosvenor Gallery, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, MAFA, RBA, RHA, Ridley Art Club, RSW and Walker's Gallery, London. In 1912, Claude Hayes represented England at the Venice Biennale. His work is in various public collections in England and Ireland including the Ulster Museum, Museums Sheffield, Torre Abbey Museum and the Leeds City Art Gallery. His father was the artist Edwin Hayes.
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Late 18th Century Watercolour, A Swiss Village, Circle of Claude-Louis Châtelet
Located in Cotignac, FR
A late 18th or early 19th century watercolour view of a group of figures in a village square. Though not apparently signed the work is very competent and of high quality. It is frame...
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Late 18th Century French School Muriel Backman Art

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John White Abbott, Early English watercolor, Abraham and Isaac
By John White Abbott
Located in Harkstead, GB
A most attractive watercolor by one of the forefathers of British watercolour painting. John White Abbott (1763-1851) Abraham and Isaac in an extensive landscape Pen, ink and wash 7...
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Early 19th Century English School Muriel Backman Art

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Pair of Impressionist Mediterranean Garden Views. Gouache & Watercolor on Paper
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pair of early 20th Century French watercolours of a Mediterranean garden. The paintings are signed bottom right, Songa, and are presented under a hand coloured custom mount in a plain wood frame under glass. A pair of charming representations of a garden in spring and early summer. The first shows a line of majestic Cyprus trees...
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'The Hills of Old Oakland', California Post-Impressionist woman artist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'M. Backman' for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996) and painted circa 1955; additionally titled verso, 'Rooftop Pattern'. This notable California woman artist e...
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1950s American Modern Muriel Backman Art

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Modernist Watercolor of Monterey Dock, 'Afternoon at Decker's' Woman Artist
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A moody Monterey seascape showing a view of an old dock from a waterfront bar popular with local fishermen during the 1950's through the 1970's. Painted by this notable California Mo...
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1950s Modern Muriel Backman Art

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Lake Merrett, Oakland, Circa 1955
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped verso with certification of authenticity, titled "Lake Merrett" and painted circa 1955. A bright and breezy mid-century view of Oaklands Lake Merrett shoreline at sunset...
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1950s Muriel Backman Art

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Gouache, Handmade Paper, Watercolor

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