Sidney L. Brock was born in 1869 to a family of comfortable means in Missouri. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and began a career in general merchandising with a partner. He bought his partner out and later sold a successful business to begin raising cattle. He was a success at that, too. In 1905, he moved to Oklahoma City and opened Sidney L. Brock Dry Goods Store on Main Street and became a civic leader. In 1909, he was elected President of the Chamber of Commerce and recognized that Oklahoma City’s manpower, resources and location would be an ideal place for a packing plant. Within months, the Chamber, with Brock as a driving force, had convinced Morris & Co., one of the major meatpackers in the country, to build a plant in Oklahoma City. In October 1910, the plant opened with Brock pressing a button in New York City that started the power to the plant in Oklahoma City. The packing plants — another was built soon after — were major Oklahoma City employers for several decades, and housing additions were built on the southside of Oklahoma City, and the streetcar line was extended to transport workers and their families. It could be said that without the vision of the Chamber of Commerce and the leadership of Brock, the Oklahoma National Stockyards might never have existed, and certainly not on the scale it has achieved. Brock only stayed in Oklahoma City until 1915. When he retired, he sold his store to the predecessor of John A. Brown and moved to Colorado and then to California. He visited often, though, because his daughter and son-in-law and two grandsons lived in Nichols Hills, and the newspaper society writers kept tabs on their activities. He became an artist, and was a charter member of the Oklahoma Art League. When Brock died in 1943 in California, his obituary published in The Oklahoman, March 20, 1943, summed up his life with this statement: “He retired in 1915, and has since lived in Denver, Florida and California, but has always considered Oklahoma City his home.”
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1930's California Mountain Trail Landscape
By Sidney L. Brock
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful 1930's landscape titled "Trail into California Mountains" by Oklahoman artist Sidney Lorenzo Brock (American, 1869-1943). Presented in ...
Linen, Oil
$5,500
H 15 in W 22 in D 1 in
"The Wild Rose Hip Bush 06.23.2020" contemporary oil painting - impressionism
By Nelson White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil Painting of a rose bush, on a bright sunny day. Crisp blues make up the sky above, the horizon meets distant land across a body of water. bright greens and yellows make up a verd...
Linen, Oil
$1,800
H 16 in W 22 in D 0.5 in
Landscape View of Cohansey River, Greenwich NJ
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Benjamin Eisenstat (1915-2001). View of Cohansey River, Greenwich NJ, ca. 1960's. Oil on linen canvas 16 x 22 inches. Signed lower right. Signed, titled by artist on verso. Origi...
Linen, Oil
$35,000
H 66.93 in W 78.75 in
"Fish Shacks, Big" Large Scale Oil Painting of Nova Scotia Harbor
By Tim McGuire
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed dimensions: 74.93 x 86.75 inches A large scale oil painting of a harbor of fishing shacks, seen from above, in Nova Scotia. Tim McGuire Born in 1971, Tim McGuire grew up in...
Oil, Linen
$16,000
H 22 in W 28 in
"Breathe Deep II" contemporary realist landscape oil painting, California cliffs
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Breathe Deep II" is a contemporary realist landscape oil painting of California cliffs painted en plein air. Blue-green waves roll in toward the foreground filled with sand-colored...
Linen, Oil
$3,350
H 12 in W 16 in
"Perched" oil painting of California coastline, large rock on beach, figures
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of figures interacting with a large rock formation on a beach in California. A lone figure has climbed atop to sit perched up on the rock, and through the alcove, we see...
Linen, Oil
"Willow Patterns" Original Oil Painting, Landscape, Snow scene
By Dan Young
Located in Denver, CO
"Willow Patterns" by Dan Young is an original oil painting depicting a rural snow scene. Dan Young was born in Denver and grew up in western Colorado. “Camping and fishing throughou...
Linen, Oil
Autumn Old Cars
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Carl Bretzke is a representational painter who specializes in urban scenes and plein-aire landscapes. Carl's work has been exhibited extensively in Minnesota and California, includin...
Linen, Oil
$13,000
H 30 in W 40 in
"To Everything There Is a Season" (2025) Winter Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Griffin's "To Everything There Is a Season" (2025) is a beautiful handcrafted oil landscape painting, framed at 27 x 23 inches and is ready to hang. Artist Biography and Stat...
Linen, Oil, Board
$4,000
H 14 in W 18 in
"Looking For Shade" oil painting of beach-goers huddling behind lifeguard stand
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of beachgoers literally looking for shade from the sun on a beach in Laguna, California. Painted by award-winning plein air painter Carl Bretzke. Framed in a tradition...
Linen, Oil
$3,350
H 12 in W 16 in
"Dying to Stay in Maui" oil painting, Hawaiian landscape, sunshine on graveyard
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil painting of a Maui Landscape. Painted en plein air at a graveyard, Bretzke titles this work humorously, "Dying to Stay in Maui". Two figures stand in a graveyard, on a Hawaiian ...
Linen, Oil
$1,500
H 15 in W 21 in D 0.1 in
View of Trinity Gate, Trinity College, Cambridge UK.
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Benjamin Eisenstat (1915-2001). View of Trinity College, ca. 1960's. Gouache, watercolor and ink on Illustration Board, 15 x 21 inches. Signed and titled lower right. Signed, tit...
Oil, Illustration Board, Gouache, Watercolor, Ink, Linen
Dmitri Wright - Giocoso Opus 2, Painting 2018
By Dmitri Wright
Located in Stamford, CT
PROVENCAL Series: “In [this] series I was exploring the classical influences of the impressionist masters, to build on their ideas to move them forward, yet being true to the many ap...
Linen, Paint, Oil