Childs Gallery Paintings

Signed lower right: 'C.E.L. Green'. Two labels verso: 'Brockton Art Center/Fuller Memorial/Cat. #19/C.E.L. Green:/Shore and Landscape/Painter of Lynn and Newlyn/Sept.9-Nov.1, 1980'; ...

Signed and dated lower left: "E. BURRILL. /96." Edward Burrill is best-known today as one of the seven Lynn Beach Painters. However, his career as a painter began, not with the be...

Painted in the early 1960’s, this landscape depicts a ruined mill dam on Cobb Brook at the Quinapoxet Reservoir in Princeton, MA. Herbert Barnett was an American artist whose life a...

Signed and dated lower left: "Ben Norris / 29 - XII - 50". With label verso: "Landscape Variations II - Sardonic Interlude / by Ben Norris". From the Estate of the Artist. Exhibite...

Signed and dated top right: “Norris (c) 1982”. With label verso: “Ben Norris, 1982 / Coronation / watercolor, 52 x 31 1/4 inches”. As a teacher, academic, and artist, Ben Norris had...

Signed and dated lower left: "Molly Luce 27". In fine condition. A similar painting, The Zoo (1926), is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Exhibited: The Soci...

Pair of paintings each in original American Federal Period white pine gilded scoop frames with inner row of beads. Framed Dimensions: 24 x 29 1/2 inches. Provenance available upon request. Michele Felice Cornè, considered to be Salem, Massachusetts’ most versatile early nineteenth century artist, painted this remarkable pair of paintings about a decade after he arrived in America from Naples, Italy. Cornè worked and lived in Salem from 1800-06 when he moved to Boston. During his Boston tenure (1807-22) the artist was noted for painting portraits of Boston ships and naval battles of the War of 1812, as well as taking on major mural commissions. This charming pair of paintings, each of two children playing, were possibly intended as overdoor decorations for a Federal period house. Cornè’s most ambitious decorations were the wall murals which he painted for the Sullivan Dorr house in Providence in 1810. And this pair of paintings seems to date from about the same period. From 1822 to his death in 1845 he lived in Newport, Rhode Island. The pair of paintings of Children playing was long in the famous Americana collection of Benjamin Flayderman. Flayderman was said to have set the standard for collecting in American furniture and decorative arts in the 1920s. Much of his collection was sold at a legendary sale at the American Art Association-Anderson Galleries (predecessor of Parke-Burnet and Sotheby’s, New York) in April of 1931. These paintings, however, were retained by Flayderman and descended in his family. Cornè was instrumental in transferring current Neapolitan painting techniques as well as Italian landscape themes to America. On the subject of Cornè's non-marine work, Nina Fletcher Little, the Cornè expert, stated: “Although Cornè's claim to twentieth century recognition has rested chiefly on his marine subjects, it is becoming increasingly apparent that he was equally successful in the charming landscapes he placed upon overmantles, fireboards, and framed canvases. Many depict the rolling countryside of his native Italy, which he copied from romantic engravings. These compositions, featuring grazing cows and frolicking peasants, are extremely colorful and picturesque. Arched bridges, steepled churches, crenellated castles, and round stone towers form most decorative backgrounds.” The two paintings: Two Children at Play with a White Bird and Two Children Playing recall earlier European and Italian models. Cherub paintings were popular throughout western Europe in the last quarter of the 18th century. But these Cornè paintings also recall the Renaissance paintings of putti such as the little angels by Raphael, painted as part of his Sistine Madonna, and lately enjoying greatly renewed popularity and notice. Cornè often used Italian old master models as a basis for landscape or figure paintings. Cornè was born on the island of Elba in 1752. During the Napoleonic Wars, he sought refuge and sailed to America on the ship Mount Vernon commanded by Elias Hasket Derby, Jr., at whose father's house Cornè resided in Salem. The artist arrived in Salem, Massachusetts in July of 1800. Derby, impressed by the Neapolitan marine paintings that he had seen and collected during his Mediterranean voyages of the late eighteenth century, sought to make the same skills available in Salem by encouraging Cornè to live and work in that town. Cornè was quite successful in transferring the current Neapolitan decorative painting to America, and his popularity grew rapidly. Cornè attracted the patronage of many in Salem, and was introduced to Samuel McIntire with whom he worked on many of Salem's houses. Between 1807 and 1809 he was at 27 Hanover Street in Boston, but by 1810 the city directories list him at 61 Middle Street. By 1822, he was settled in Newport, Rhode Island and received enough patronage to support him the rest of his life. Cornè is well represented in public and private collections including the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts, the Peabody-Essex Museum of Salem, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, New Haven Colony Historical Society, the New York Historical Society, Newport Historical Society, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Rhode Island Historical Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, the United States Department of State, the United States Naval Academy...

Born in LaGrange, IL, 1905, Paul Parker was a multifaceted man of the arts: art historian, advertising art director, painter in oil and watercolor, museum director (Colorado Springs ...

Signed lower left: "Olive P. Black" Olive Parker Black uses many of the compositional devices of French Barbizon landscape painting. Her style also incorporates Impressionist techni...

Signed lower right: “Herbert Barnett”. Published: Art Digest, November, 1939. Exhibited: Marie Harriman Gallery, New York, 1939. The Institute of Contemporary Art, “Art of New England”, 1939. Contemporary Arts, Inc., New York, November, 1939. Herbert Barnett was an American artist whose life and work was closely tied to New England, and yet, his distinctive style of painting draws upon both the American tradition of representation and the artistic innovations of the Cubists. He is known as a painter of extraordinary ability and a virtuoso draftsman. Born in Cranston, Rhode Island, Barnett grew up in Providence. While still in high school, he began to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design. From 1927-31, he studied at the Boston Museum School and soon acquired a reputation for technical proficiency. At seventeen, he had his first one-man show at the Grace Horne Gallery in Boston and was already teaching private classes. After art school, where he won the Paige Travelling Fellowship, Barnett spent three years traveling and studying in Europe. In the late 1930s, Barnett's bold and expressive figure paintings and Cape Ann landscapes...

Signed and dated lower right: “Jason Berger ’99”. Titled verso: “DaFundo (Lisbon)”. From the estate of the artist. Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger is revered for the vivid...

Signed lower left. Marguerite Stuber Pearson was born in Philadelphia, PA. After overcoming childhood polio, that confined her to a wheel chair, she went on to have a distinguished...

Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont". In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden St...

Pima cotton broadcloth with reactive dyes, silk batting, cotton backing. Raised in the American South, Rodger Blum received a BFA at North Carolina University of the Arts and an MFA...

Canvas measures 21 x 13 inches. Signed at left, above the model’s leg: “H. Dudley Murphy” and with artist’s monogram.

From the series Dancing on the Ceiling. These luminous paintings depict jewel-like lanterns and radiant chandeliers – architectural details drawn from her extensive travels across In...

Signed lower left: "Trachtman 6-18-68". Born in Lynn, Trachtman spent most of his life in the Greater Boston area, eschewing the artistic hub of New York for his roots in New Engla...

Signed lower left: "I.M.Gaugengigl". Label verso inscribed: "No. 185 Val. M. Plgr 1/07-21 / Artist: Gaugengigl, Ignaz Marcel / Title: An Italian Street ...

Norris, as a teacher, academic, and artist had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and continued to stretch his stylistic methods throughout his career. While known for his bold wat...

Signed lower left: "Botkin". Henry Botkin (1896-1983) was a mid-century American modernist equally known as a painter, a collage artist, and for his work as a proponent of abstract art. Botkin’s oeuvre can be defined by three distinct styles—School of Paris Modernism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism. While each of the three styles is considered distinct, music can be seen as the common thread throughout his artistic output. In the 1930s, the impact of Gershwin’s opera “Porgy and Bess” is readily apparent in works such as Woman in Boat...

Ben Norris’ vibrant landscapes teem with creeping vines, tropical flowers, and encroaching vegetation. His watercolors and paintings of tranquil gardens and lush rainforests transpor...

Gammell Trust #W126. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "R.H. Ives Gammell, Paris, 1917". This is a very early work and despite the fact that it is squared off for enlargement,...

Signed verso. As Darsney’s work has developed, his compositions and influences have evolved. An auto-didactic artist, Darsney draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including The Boston School and iconic masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt and Degas. These artists’ attention to detail and adherence to classical ratio, coupled with Darsney’s own innate sense of structural integrity, inform his vision. He is also particularly influenced by the art on view in Boston museums and collections as seen here with his portrayal of The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit...

Condition: The paintings are in overall very good and sound condition, with age related craquelure running throughout. Framed in period frames.

Signed lower right: 'A.Brook '59'. Painted in Sag Harbor, Long Island in 1959. Adeline (Adaline) Glasheen was a writer. She was a friend of the artist and worked in literary circle...

Thomas Darsney’s paintings reveal a palpable tension between the tactile sensuousness of fabric and the subdued brushstrokes of paint made flesh. United by this visual juxtaposition,...

Thomas Darsney’s paintings reveal a palpable tension between the tactile sensuousness of fabric and the subdued brushstrokes of paint made flesh. United by this visual juxtaposition,...

Signed lower right: “Beatrice Whitney Van Ness”. From the estate of the artist. Beatrice Whitney Van Ness, acclaimed painter and art educato...

Signed and dated lower right: “jason berger 2003”. From the estate of the artist. Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger began visiting Portugal in the early half of the 1970s and would return for a part of almost every summer for the next twenty years, before moving there permanently in 1994. Berger painted mostly in the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost region known for its beautiful beaches and sparkling water...

Signed and dated lower right: “Jason Berger 2001”. Inscribed verso: “Factories / Mexhloiera”. From the estate of the artist. Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger began visiting Portugal in the early half of the 1970s and would return for a part of almost every summer for the next twenty years, before moving there permanently in 1994. Berger painted mostly in the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost region known for its beautiful beaches and sparkling water...

Signed verso. Based in New York, John MacConnell received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and his MFA from the School o...

Signed lower left: “Botkin”. Titled and signed verso: “Vortex / Botkin”.

Signed top left: "Polonsky". Titled verso: "The Wagner Mirror".

Signed lower right: “Irwin D. Hoffman”.

Signed and dated lower right: “Trachtman 6-6-73”. From the estate of the artist. Though much of his art was political in nature, Arnold Trachtman also...

With artist frame

Signed lower left: “Freeman”. Artist’s frame.

Signed lower right: "S. Simkhovitch". Estate stamp on backing board verso.

Signed lower right: "Jason Berger". From the estate of the artist.

Signed and dated lower right: "Trachtman 6-7-62". Signed and titled verso: "Trachtman 'Amelia & Her Kittens'". From the estate of the artist.

Signed lower right: "Jason Berger". Dated verso: "89-3-21". From the estate of the artist.

Signed lower right: "Kupferman". Inscribed lower right: "1204". Titled, signed, dated, and inscribed verso: "EG: 1,204.J / "September Landscape, 1967" / Lawrence Kupferman". From the...

Signed lower right: "Kupferman". Inscribed lower right: "2317". Titled, signed, dated, and inscribed verso: "GK:2,317.D / "Pacific Tide Pool" / Lawrence Kupf...

From the estate of the artist. Published: Katz, Lois, The Paintings of Jason Berger, 1997: Page 295, Figure A-100.

Signed lower left: "Darsney".

In the face of the devastating effects of climate change, Karen Lee Sobol is determined to remain an optimist. Her paintings reflect a positivity born from deep admiration for the na...

'Portrait of British Naval Officer' is attributed to the British painter and engraver Daniel Orme (1766-c.1832) based on the scratched inscription verso, as well as its similarity to Orme’s known engraving oeuvre. The oil on tin portrait bears the scratched inscription “D. Orme” verso, which in the absence of contravening evidence as to the artist is significant in attributing the work to Orme. Katherine Coombs, Curator of Paintings at the Word & Image Department of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the writer of the Dictionary of National Biography article on Orme, states that Orme is “so obscure an artist that if his name is indeed scratched on the [tin] that seems good evidence for it being so.” Additionally, Orme’s stipple engravings of prominent naval figures in oval, including John Hunter in 1792, Horatio Nelson in 1798, among others at the National Portrait Gallery, London are consistent with the style and composition of the portrait. Roger Quarm, Curator of Paintings at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich notes that Orme’s “engraved portraits of naval officers tend to be oval”. Orme is known to have issued a series of engravings by subscription that included portraits of popular naval Admirals and Officers in 1797. Two oils in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, also demonstrate Orme’s execution of naval subject matter. The sitter has been identified as a lieutenant in the British Navy wearing the “full-dress uniform for the period 1787-1812,” according to Roger Quarm. Alfred Umhey has confirmed this identification of the sitter as a “lieutenant in the uniform pattern 1787-1795, which is however worn post that date.” The medal worn around the sitter’s neck has been identified as the Sultan’s Medal for Egypt issued in 1801, by both Quarm and Umhey. The Sultan’s Medal for Egypt or the Turkish Medal for Egypt was issued in 1801 to members of the British Army and Navy by Sultan Selim...

Label verso: "Portrait of a Lady / Oil / MUC / Beatrice Whitney Van Ness / unsigned / size 30h x 25w ". From the estate of the artist. Beatrice Whit...

Signed, titled, and dated verso. After the heaviness of the past few years, Blatman's latest work focuses on the optimistic ideologies associated with the arrival of springtime. Mus...

Signed, titled, and dated verso. Hope springs eternal in Resa Blatman’s new series 'Pure Love: Stardust, Clouds, and Dandelions'. After the heaviness of t...

Signed lower right: "Van Doren".

Signed lower right: "Flood". Titled, dated, and signed verso: "Scouting with Kevin / 2016/19 / Sean Flood".

From Gammell's 'Answer to Job' series, Spider Web speaks to man's entrapment in the forces of nature and destiny.

Gammell Trust #W126. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "R.H. Ives Gammell, Paris, 1917". Sheet measures 12 1/2 x 10 inches. This is a very early work and despite the fact that...

Signed lower left: "Polonsky". A Boston Expressionist with a wholly unique worldview, Arthur Polonsky, spent seven decades exploring man’s place i...

In the face of the devastating effects of climate change, Karen Lee Sobol is determined to remain an optimist. Her paintings reflect a positivity born from deep admiration for the na...

Signed lower right: "Polonsky". With label verso inscribed: "Arthur Polonsky/ 'Window Light'/ oil".

Canvas measures 23.5 x 26.5 inches. Brooklyn Bridge is seen in the foreground. Lower Manhattan skyline in distance. Fred Wagner, a Philadelphia, PA painter and teacher was born in Valley Forge, PA on 20 December 1864 and died on 14 January 1940. He studied with Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts...

"Creature Comforts" is featured in the exhibition "Andrew Fish: Retro Pictures". The exhibition explores Fish’s upbringing, adolescence, and adulthood as ...

Signed lower right: "Zerbe". In fine condition