Calderwood Gallery Wall Decorations

Striking and handsome, this depiction of a Bedouin in his traditional robe has the color and intensity one would associate with the fierce sun and heat of North Africa. The painting ...

Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Dimensions listed include the frame. Featuring sailboats off the coast on a beautiful day for a sail. Brereton was born in Derby in 1954. He rece...

A neapolitan gouache depicting a Vesuvius eruption, circa 1840. Inscription on frame verso detailing provenance from Collins family of New York: "Charles Bush Collins bought this pi...

Large and dynamic, this 1947-vintage painting depicts a shirtless man handling a high-spirited Percheron horse that won a blue ribbon at the Indiana st...

Pastel gouache of a steam yacht underway flying the New York Yacht Club burgee and Commodore’s flag. Matted and framed, circa 1925. Overall dimensions: 25 1/2" H x 37 1/2"...

A rare 19th-century painting of the Horsefair at the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, Scotland Follower of Rosa Bonheur, oil on canvas indistinctive collector wax seals verso. 19th-Century...

Watercolor of Gloucester harbor scene by listed American Artist Gordon Grant (framed and under glass)...Soho location.

WWII, how are you? Private Theater: Gay American Soldier in Reflection, Original WWII-Era Gouache, Signed CSG A highly nuanced, emotionally layered, and visually accomplished original painting in gouache and watercolor on Whatman drawing board, signed CSG lower right. This rare mid-20th-century work portrays a seated U.S. Army Air Forces officer—smiling faintly, cigarette in hand, and with a small black-bound diary resting on his lap—lost in reverie as smoke from his cigarette rises and transforms into the visages of three idealized male figures. Rendered in an illustrative realist style with tonal sensitivity and surreal suggestion, the composition invites interpretation as an interior portrait of desire, intimacy, and memory—quietly coded, emotionally sincere, and possibly autobiographical. The figure wears a regulation-issue A-2 leather flight jacket, iconic of U.S. Army Air Forces personnel during WWII. The jacket is detailed with a personalized, hand-painted circular patch depicting a lion rampant in a blue roundel—a heraldic symbol of power, pride, and possibly self-invention. An American flag patch is affixed to the left shoulder. The jacket, traditionally worn by bomber crews, officers, and pilots, functions here not only as a marker of military identity but as a gendered and cultural signifier—suggesting the complex intersection of duty, masculinity, and private identity. The slightly open collar, relaxed posture, and cigarette suggest the officer is off-duty—physically grounded but mentally elsewhere. The seated figure’s companions—summoned in smoke—appear above and behind him in a dreamlike procession: a helmeted infantryman, a pilot in goggles, and a hat-wearing civilian (?) man posed in pin-up style. Each face is rendered with tenderness and idealization, not as ghosts or casualties, but as romantic or erotic conquests: remembered lovers, fleeting encounters, or imagined partners. Their expressions, softly lit and emotionally present, reflect a form of desire neither tormented nor tragic. This is not a meditation on loss but on intimacy remembered, perhaps treasured. On the table beside him rests a small bronze Buddha...

England, circa 1950 A fine gouache of a large amaryllis, with two resplendent flowers and a blue butterfly perching on a leaf at the stem, framed in a double cracquelle bordered ivo...

Leo Russel Gouache 1956. Organic abstract shapes on paper framed in distressed gold leaf and under glass. Image is 8.5 x 11. Frame is 26.5 x 33.

Contemporary abstract painting in gouache and pencil on paper in a black rectangular frame (TOM JOHN, 2010).  

Jean Chaleye (French, b. 1878 - d. 1960) "Theater" - oil on board , signed upper right. Depicting a balcony view towards an orchestra pit in a theater.