Avery Galleries

July 25, Casco Bay Watercolor on paper, 4 x 12 inches (10.2 x 30.5 cm) Framed dimensions: 11 x 18 1/2 inches Susan Van Campen’s plein-air oil paintin...

Yellow Sky, Southern Island Watercolor on paper, 4 x 12 inches (10.2 x 30.5 cm) Framed dimensions: 11 x 18 1/2 inches Susan Van Campen’s plein-air oi...

Crabapples Watercolor on paper, 30 x 23 inches (76.2 x 58.4 cm) Framed dimensions: 33 1/4 x 25 3/4 inches Signed lower right Susan Van Campen’s plein...

Portrait of Alice Gerson, c. 1883 Oil on panel, 9 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches (23.2 x 15.9 cm) Framed dimensions: 18 5/8 x 15 3/4 inches Signed lower left: Chase. Provenance Jamie M. Martin;...

Brookline Village in Snow, 1893 Oil on canvas, 26 x 33 inches (66 x 83.8 cm) Framed dimensions: 36 x 43 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower right: Dwight Blaney '94 Provenance The art...

Wooded Sand Dune Oil on panel, 12 x 18 1/8 inches Framed dimensions: 17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches Estate stamp lower right: RSwain Gifford Provenance The artist; By descent in the family ...

Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951) New Hope Hills, c. 1931 Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm) Signed lower left: Fern I. Coppedge Provenance The artist; Gift from the arti...

Joseph Stella(1877-1946) A Corner of Barbados, 1937 Oil on canvas, 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm) Inscribed on verso: A corner of / Barbados / O:P by / Joseph Stella Provenance The artist; By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946; By descent in the family, until the present Joseph Stella’s artistic career defies easy categorization. He was simultaneously a modernist and traditionalist, a dual citizen of the Old and New World, a bold experimenter and masterful practitioner of time-honored artistic techniques. His iconic paintings of New York City, such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island, celebrate modernity and the Machine Age, while his exuberant paintings of the natural world speak to the spiritual revelation that guided and grounded him throughout his life. Until recently, the divergent aspects of Stella’s career “confounded his legacy.” But in Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, the multi-venue museum exhibition that focuses on the artist’s lifelong engagement with nature, a more complete and nuanced understanding of his career has emerged. Stella’s work of flora and fauna demonstrate his deep connection to and close observational study of nature to invigorate his creativity and sustain his human spirit. Indeed, nature was a salve to his woes about life and the modern age. He made countless drawings and paintings of flowers, many of which were done at the New York Botanical Garden – a favorite place for the artist. In these works, Stella explored new styles and pressed the limits of his imagination. Like nature itself, he was always changing, always growing. Stella found himself in Barbados in 1937, when then health of his wife had declined and she asked him to bring her home. He loved the island paradise, as it reawakened his creativity and love the natural world, much as his returns to Italy did. Although he remained in Barbados for only five months, the landscape he absorbed and the motifs he developed fueled his art for the next three years. The Barbados paintings...

Kenneth Nunamaker (1890-1957) House in Center Bridge Oil on canvas on board, 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Signed lower left: K. Nunamaker Inscribed on verso: K. Nunamaker / New Hop...

Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) Still Life with Flowers, c. 1915 Oil on canvas 14 x 12 inches (35.6 x 30.5 cm) Signed upper right: Irving R. Wiles Provenance Thomas Colville Fine Ar...

Provenance Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist); Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Sale #2326, 27 January 1965, Lot 168; Private Collection (acquired from the abo...

Anna Mary Richards Brewster (1870-1952) Plant Study Pencil and gouache on gray paper, 5 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches (14.9 x 20 cm) Signed and dated lower right: AMR Jul 28. Provenance The ar...