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Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. Unframed. Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques. He found that talent in Barbara Shermund. For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice. Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence. “Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League. In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.” “While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund. And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...

Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Tavern on the Green. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 3/8 x 12 inches. Unsigned. Excellent condition. Provenance: Ethel ...

Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). The Soda Fountain, ca. 1950s. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 x 12 inches; 13 x 16 inches framed. Signed lower right. Exc...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Portrait of Man in Trench Coat, 1950. Ink on paper, measuring 8 x 12 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframe...

Sterling Strauser (1907-1995). Dorothy and Jasper, Crystal Street Station, 1970. Oil on masonite panel, 11.5 x 22.25 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Very good condition with no damage or conservation. Unframed. Framing services available. Image depicts the artist's wife, Dorothy Strauser, walking the beloved family cat, Jasper. In the background can be seen the East Stroudsburg Pa Train Depot on Crystal Street. Provenance: Estate of the artist's Granddaughter, Princeton NJ. Often called a romantic expressionist and American intimist, self-taught Pennsylvania artist Sterling Strauser (1907-1995) completed his first oil painting in 1922- inspired by frequent visits to the collection of American folk art at the Everhardt Museum in Scranton. Throughout the following seven decades of his career, Strauser’s artistic pursuit was based on his own intuition and determination to paint what he saw, rather than adhering to the conventional pictorial structures prescribed by prevailing styles at the time. Strauser rejected pretension, believing instead that art should work from life as it was lived. His oeuvre therefore serves as an extremely personal record of his observations and experiences from his lifetime painting in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Beginning early in his career, Strauser took his inspiration from American regionalists and traditional realists in the Ashcan style, as well as European movements such as Fauvism and Cubism, yet he eventually developed his own fluid realism based on subject matter beloved and familiar to him- family and friends, local landscapes and floral still lifes. Known for his distorted pictorial space, exaggerated with vivid color, heavy impasto and an intensity of emotion, Strauser was adept at altering and rearranging the details and aspects of any given form to create a new kind of beauty. "All a painting has to do, or a piece of sculpture, or whatever, is to entertain the critical eye. You have to have a fresh seeing eye… to look at things like a child, as if looking at the world for the first time (seeing) something that somebody else doesn’t see, something you want to identify with… Painting is largely a matter of evaluation. (It) doesn’t matter how much it looks like the subject matter. It just depends on how interesting you have made it so that it pleases the critical eye." STERLING STRAUSER, STERLING STRAUSER: A MODERNIST REVISTED, P. 23 Sterling exhibited his work extensively throughout the country and drew the attention of many notable fellow artists including Milton Avery, Louise Nevelson, David Burliuk, Chaim Gross and Red Grooms. Sterling was also extremely influential within the arts community of Pennsylvania through his discovery and promotion of self-taught American Folk artists such as Justin McCarthy, Jack Savitsky, Joseph Gatto...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Ocean Beach, Fire Island, NY, 1946. Ink on paper, measuring 9 x 12 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframed ...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport, CT, 1936. Gouache on cardboard panel, 11.5 x 18 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. ...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Construction Scene, 1935. Gouache on cardboard, panel measures 9 x 11 inches; 19 x 21 inches framed. Signed, dated lower c...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Brattleboro, VT., 1969. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 18 x 22 inches. Measures 22.5 x 26.5 inches in custom float fr...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Beach Landscape, 1948. Gouache on paper, sheet measures 9.5 x 11.5 inches. measures 20.75 x 23.25 inches in 22K custom contemporary gilt frame. Signed and dated lower right. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1911, Joe Kardonne...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Tuileries Gardens. 1965. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 7.5 x 8 inches glued down to a sheet measuring 8.5 x 11 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower center. Excellent condition. Unframed. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1911, Joe Kardonne...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Boothbay Harbor, Maine, 1967. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower center. Excellent condition. Unframed. Born in Newark, New Jersey in 1911, Joe Kardonne...

Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1998. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 10.25 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base. Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho. Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...

Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1988. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 11.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base. Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho. Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...

Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1998. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 17.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base. Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho. Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...

Tom Cramer (b.1960). Standing Figure, 1980. Carved wood and polymer paint. Measures 11.5 inches high. Excellent condition. Signed and dated under base. Tom Cramer is an American artist working in Portland, Oregon noted for his intricately carved and painted wood reliefs and ubiquity throughout the city of Portland. Often called the unofficial Artist Laureate of Portland,[2] Cramer is one of the most visible and successful artists in the city. The influences on his work are both organic and technological. He is widely collected and is in many prominent west coast museum and private collections. He is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum[3] in Portland Oregon, the Halle Ford Museum in Salem Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum in Eugene, Oregon, the Boise Art Museum in Idaho. Cramer made a name for himself in the 1980s and 1990s becoming a bridge between historical Oregon artists like Clifford Gleason and Milton Wilson...

Martin Schreiber (1924-2005). White Fins, 1972. Painted steel. 9" h., 16" w., 6" d. Signed and dated on base. Minor staining, oxidation and paint loss evident. Metal structure itself is in perfect condition with no bent areas or conservation. Born in Berlin, Germany, after his family moved there from Poland, Martin Schreiber immigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape war-torn Europe, and later served as a US Army soldier in WWII. He was a student of the late Reuben Tam...

Rita Boley Bolaffio (née Luzzatto; Trieste, Italy, 7 June 1898 - New York City, United States, 20 May 1995. Surrealist Rooftops. Collage on fabric, measures 19 x 34 inches framed. Ar...

Charles Rocher (1890-1962. Sailors, ca. 1920s. Gouache on paper. Sheet measures 19 x 25 inches. Considerable damage and loss as depicted. Signed lower left.

Beautiful abstract photo depicting female nude, Signed N. Scott. Image measures 10 x 12 inches; 19.25 x 21.25 inches framed and matted. Excellent condition.

Schuyler U. Bunnell. Dormitory & Cottages, Olivelands Ranch, Santa Paula California, 1913. Period, antique photo. Paper measures 41.5 x 8 inches; 43.5 x 9....

Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait, 1989. Oil on canvas, 11 x 17.5 inches. Unframed. Signed, dated and dedicated on verso. Excellent condition. Manuel Pa...

Edwin Kosarek (b.1929). Reclining Nude, 1952. Oil on wood panel, 17 x 48 inches. Signed and dated on verso. Edwin Kosarek Born: 1929 Studied: The Cit...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Mallorca, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. Ships rolled with matting removed. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson and the Waughs. About 1940, Clymer moved to New York City, and in 1946, he and his family settled in a home on Schunnemunk Mountain in New York (close to Newburgh, New York, in the Hudson River Valley). He lived there until circa 1978, when he moved to his granddaughter's house near Schenectady, New York, where he later died. Clymer worked with ease in the mediums of watercolor and oil painting, much like James Fitzgerald...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Mallorca, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. Ships rolled with matting removed. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...

Beautiful seascape painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Seabirds, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. SHIPS ROLLED. Matting removed. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...

Beautiful lanscape painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. SHIPS ROLLED. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...

Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses. Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I. During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter. In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...

Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait, 1986. Oil on canvas, 11 x 13 inches. Unframed. Signed, dated and dedicated on verso. Excellent condition. Manuel Pard...

Gabor Peterdi (1915-2001). Dark Landscape, 1958. Etching, engraving and aquatint with five stenciled colors. Image measures 20 x 24 inches. Signed, date...

Beautiful WWII era portrait of a young man by Louis Krupp (1888-1978). Charcoal on paper measures 16.5 x 22.5 inches, 25 X 30 IN MATTING. Signed and dated...

Beautiful cubist portrait of a woman by unknown Russian artist. Oil on canvas measures 17 x 25 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Label fragments affixed on verso.

Oliver Smith (1918-1994). Florida Fantasy, ca. 1960. Watercolor on heavy wove paper, sheet measures 22 x 28 inches. Signed lower left. Vintage label. Exce...

Whitford Carter (1915-1973). Didn't He Ramble?, 1964. Lithograph on paper, image measures 13 x 17 inches; 19 x 22 inches in original frame. Signed, dat...

Beautiful still life drawing by American artist, Lloyd Raymond Ney (1893-1964). Ink on paper, 14.5 x 21 inches; 25.5 x 31.5 inches framed. Excellent condition with no damage or restoration. Signed lower right. Birth place: Friedenburg, PA. Addresses: New Hope, PA, 1925-64 Profession: Painter, lecturer, teacher Studied: PAFA with H. McCarter, 1914 -18 (Cresson Scholarship; traveled in Europe 1918-21; Paris in 1924) Exhibited: AIC, 1937; Guggenheim Museum, 1941-56; PAFA Ann., 1941, 1951; numerous group shows in Europe. Work: Guggenheim Museum, NYC. WPA commission, 1941, mural for New London, Ohio Post Office (Citizens of New London petitioned WPA administrator Edward Bruce to allow Ney to paint the mural) Comments: Abstract painter. He spent many years in Paris, where he was friendly with Pascin, Foujita, Frieske, H.O. Tanner, W. Pach and Roger Fry...

Amazing fantasy group male nude composition by American artist, Robert Frederick Vorreyer (1924-2016). Graphite pencil on paper, image measures 15 x 27 inches; 27.5 x 40.5 inches framed. signed and dated lower right. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation. VORREYER, Robert Frederick Robert Frederick Vorreyer (August 25, 1924 - January 27, 2016) was truly a master of graphic media. The power and dynamics of Robert's graphics are in the use of negative space in the skillful rendering of the human form. Handled with great sensitivity and dignity, the figures seem to be alive with a sharpness that challenges the eye of the beholder. Robert was born in Downers Grove, a suburb of Chicago, IL and graduated from the Downers Grove High School with and art scholarship to an accredited college. He attended the University of Illinois, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Royal Academy in London as well as studying independently with various artists. Robert was a World War II special service artist in Camp Robinson, AR and eventually became the art director for TLVA Infantry/Airborne School in Fort Benning...

Vito Tomasello (American, ?-1982). Still Life with Strawberries, 1979. Oil on masonite panel, 10 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches. Signed and dated low...

Fumio Otani (Japanese, 1929-1995). Untitled and Untitled, ca, 1965. Cast and polished steel. Smaller composition measures 14.75 x 7.75 x 1.5 inches. Larger composition measures 16...

Beautiful winter landscape by American artist, J. Philip Richards (1906-1991). Maine Morning, 1974. Casein on paper, 16 x 26 inches; 26 x 36 inches framed. Signed lower right. Signed, titled and dated on verso. Excellent condition. Born in Moosic, PA, and graduated from the College of Fine Arts of Syracuse University in New York, J Philip Richards worked and studied with such artists of international reputation as William Von Schlagell, James Fitzgerald, David Porter, and John Taylor.He was professor emeritus of Fine Arts at Wilkes College in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Member of the American Watercolor Society, NYC, NY; York Artists Association, York, ME; Ogunquit Art Association, Ogunquit, ME; Wyoming Valley Art League, Wilkes-Barre, PA; National Society of Casein Painters, NYC, NY; Director Ancestor's Art Workshops, Searsport, ME; Gallery Director, "Gallery 164," Kennebunk, ME; Professional Artists League of America, NYC, NY; Art Guild of Kennebunks, Kennebunk, ME; Maine Artists...

Beautiful 1994 monotype painting by American artist, David Chamberlain (b.1950). Oil on Arches paper, image measures 16.5 x 21.5 inches; sheet measures 22 x 30 inches. The subtle variations of the oil application are quite lovely. Titled and signed by the artist in pencil, lower margin and on reverse. Excellent, clean condition with no damage or restoration. Unframed: sheet is loose with no backing. SHIPS ROLLED IN TUBE David Chamberlain (American, b Canton, Ohio 1949) has been a full-time artist since 1977, and has created more than 2000 original works in both two and three dimensions. Over 100 of his works appear in the collections of recognized arts institutions and museums, worldwide. A serious and passionate musician (a cappella jazz singer with three recording albums and over 700 concerts in this avocation), Chamberlain's artistic approach and imagery is inspired by studies of musical patterns and relationships. Other influences include topology, poetry, design and flying. His sculptures are noted for their playful explorations of lyrical, melodic edges and harmonious spaces. The surfaces are all one continuous form; the insides become the outsides and vice-versa; the edges are all one line. Mediums include mahogany, bronze, titanium, gold, and ceramic/porcelain. His paintings reflect an enthusiasm for composition and improvisation. Chamberlain has developed a way to create original oil paintings using methods adapted from monotype processes incorporating a light table and mirrors, an etching press, and a variety of hands-on tools (including fingers, rollers, static electricity and blowing)... but no brushes. This method, sometimes called the Chamberlain Method, makes possible the intense collaborations he is known for, where he and another artist work on the same painting at the same time. Called Duett Painting, this mutual and simultaneous way for two artists to paint together attempts to involve the backgrounds of each, directly and profoundly. There are no rules, and there is no place to hide whoever the artists are appears in the composition. As each artist's marks influence the other's, the painting takes on a momentum of its own, compelling the artists toward a new direction neither would have pursued on their own. Chamberlain has worked with over 100 artists, musicians, dancers, poets and creative people from the USA, Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. About half of his paintings are collaborative duetts; half are conventional solo works using these techniques. His studio is based near Boulder, Colorado. He is married, with two children, a dog and three cats. EDUCATION MLA University of Colorado 2002 Landscape Architecture MFA University of Pennsylvania 1977 Sculpture & Printmaking BA Princeton University 1971 Architecture & Design SELECTED EXHIBITIONS Consulate of Japan, San Francisco, CA 1999, 1998 Major Shows Muse a Muse' Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 1997, 1999 Retrospective: "Solos, Duets & Concertos" Muskegon Mus. of Art, MI 1996 "Duets" Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE 1995 MacLaren/Markowitz Gallery, Boulder, CO 1991 Retrospective: McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC 1990 Retrospective: The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA 1988 Pucker Gallery, Boston, MA 1981, 1984, 1988 Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, NY 1987 Arlene McDaniel Galleries, Simsbury, CT 1986 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT 1985, 1986 Gallerie Obussier, Nantucket, MA 1985 New Acquisitions Gallery, Syracuse, NY 1983 Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 1983 COMMISSIONS: Operhall Suite; [Series of 6 original works] Muskegon Museum of Art 1994 Symphony Suite; Gibbes Museum & Charleston Symphony Orchestra 1994 Gospel Suite in F; New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA 1994 Eroica; Morgridge Auditorium, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1992 Balletté; Southworth Library, Canton College, Canton, NY 1991 A Une Passante; M. C. Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 1991 Festivale; K. B. K. Foundation, Boston, MA 1990 A Une Passante; SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY 1989 Balletté; Ensign-Bickford Corp., Simsbury, CT 1987 Torus; Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA 1986 Rondella; BNWC, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 1985 Viole, Ayre; Asset Management, Inc., Essex, CT 1983 Cantata; Horne Library, Babson College, Wellesley, MA 1981 COLLECTIONS Museums Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, England Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA British Museum, London, England Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Currier Gallery & Museum, Manchester, NH Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley, MA DeCordova Museum, Linclon, MA Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY Farnsworth Museum of Art, Rockland, ME Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville,TN Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge University, England Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Gibson Gallery & Museum, SUNY Potsdam, NY Greenville County Art Msueum, Greenville, SC Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY McKissick Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Art, Utica, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Nelson Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA Taylor Museum/CSFAC, Colorado Springs, CO University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT Institutions American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan [selected] Arjo Wiggins/Arches S.A., Annonay, France Bank of America, Boston, MA Boso Yusi Company, Tokyo, Japan Boston Ballet, Boston, MA Canadian Foreign Ministry, Ottawa, Canada Chase Manhattan Bank, Vietnam Embassy of Japan, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates FIA Institute, Tokyo, Japan Fidelity Ventures & Associates, Boston, MA Frederik Meijer Sculpture Gardens, Grand Rapids, MI Gauteng Legislature, Gauteng, South Africa German Embassy to Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam Helix Technology Corporation, Longmont, CO Ito-En Company, Tokyo, Japan JAFCO America Ventures, Boston, Palo Alto, Tokyo Japanese Consulates: Boston, MA; Atlanta, GA; San Francisco, CA Japanese Foreign Ministry, Tokyo, Japan Japan External Trade Organization, New York, Tokyo Kepner-Tregoe Company, Princeton, NJ Kobe Steel, Ltd Tokyo, Kobe Mochida Medicines, Inc., Tokyo Monsanto, European Division, Brussels, Belgium New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA Nueva Set-Kei, Inc. Tokyo, Japan Opinion Research Company, Princeton, NJ PAR Associates, Inc., Boston, MA Price, Waterhouse & Company, Greenwich, CT Princeton Club of Japan, Tokyo, Japan Saint Joseph's Heart Hospital, Lexington, KY Spencer, Fane & Browne; Shugert & Thomson, Kansas City, MO Temple Society of Concord, Syracuse, NY T. Rowe Price, Inc., Colorado Springs, CO University of Wisconsin School of Business, Madison, WI Vietnam Embassy to Canada, Ottawa, Canada Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Stamford, CT COLLABORATIONS Johannesburg, South Africa (& Artist Proof Studio) 1997 Duetts with: Kagiso Pat Mautloa, Durant Sihlali, Mmakgabo Sebidi, Dumisane Mabaso, Nhlanhla Xaba, Pepe Abela, Vincent Baloyi, Ntepe Osiah Masekwameng, Gordon Gabashane, Sokhaya Nkosi Vietnam (& Indochina Arts Project) 1995 Fine Arts Associations, Saigon, Hue and Hanoi; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Hanoi Duetts with: Do Minh Tam, Hoc Hai, Huy Oanh, Le Anh Van, Le Thong, Le Van Suu, Manh Tuan, Mai Khanh, Nghia Duyen, Thuc Ban, Tran Khan Chuong, Tran Luong Studio Duetts 1995-2001 With: Yuji Kishimoto (Architect -- Japan/USA), Emi Tajima (Japanese master caligrapher), Nguyen Quynh Nhu (Vietnam), Eduardo Chavez & Arturo Miranda (Mexico), Kyi May Kaung (Burmese Poet), Patrick Moraz (Swiss/American composer/performer), Jingalu (Aboriginal Australian artist), Rungsak Dokbua (Thailand), and Americans Don Grusin (Composer/performer), Dave Grusin (Composer/performer), Harry Skoler (Composer/performer), Sarah Schneider (Dancer/choreographer), Sally Ranney (artist/humanist), Cleo Parker Robinson (Dancer/choreographer) China (PRC) 2001-2004 Proposal for an Artistic Collaboration with China, 2001-2004 (38 pages). Involving ten Chinese Artists, streaming on the internet, development of 160 museum-quality Duett paintings for world-wide exhibition; budget 1.6 million USD. HIGHER EDUCATION Visiting Artist [Associate Professor One-year appointment] 1990/1991 Art Department, University of South Carolina Adjunct Professor 1991-1994 Art Department, Rivier College, Nashua, NH Fellow/Panelist The Aspen Institute Aspen, CO 2000 Conference on World Affairs [Univ of Colo, Boulder] 1990-1998 Visiting Artist Haverford School, Bryn Mawr, PA 1999 Clemson University, Clemson, SC 1997, 1998 African Institute of Art, FUNDA Soweto, South Africa 1997 Princeton University 1996 Williams College 1995 Bradford College 1994, 1998 College of Charleston 1994 University of Pennsylvania 1993 University of South Carolina 1990, 1994 SUNY Albany 1992, 1993 Pine Manor College 1987, 1989 Bentley College 1988 Simon's Rock/Bard College 1988 Brandeis University 1986 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts 1985, 1986 Emerson College 1985 Harvard University 1984, 1985 Mount Holyoke College 1984 Syracuse University 1983 Colorado College 1977 Director; Artist in Residence 1974-1977 Arts College House, University of Pennsylvania Taught Drawing (figure & still-life) and Photography Initiated Interdisciplinary Program: Dance, Music, Poetry, Theatre, Film, Architecture, Art SCHOOLS & PROGRAMS Instructor, Photography & Visual Arts 1974-1976 Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts Chair, Performing Arts Department 1971-1974 Purnell School Instructor, Visual Arts Department 1970-1974 Purnell School [Taught (& developed syllabi for) 21 Studio arts courses] Juror, College Entrance Examination Board Area: Fine Arts 1972 AWARDS Selection Who's Who: in American Art; in the East; in the World Grants Krasner-Pollack Foundation Emergency Grant, 1999 Indochina Arts Project (Ford Foundation) 1994 Individual Artist Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission 1991 K. B. K. Foundation, 1991, 1994 High Meadow Foundation, 1990 Ford Venture Fund Grant [Univ. of Pennsylvania] 1975-1977 Haas Memorial Fund Fellowship, 1976 GRANTS IN KIND Kodak, Rochester, NY Papeteries Canson & Montgolfier, Annonay, France; Royal Talens BV Oil Paints, Apeldoorn, Holland Takach Etching Press Corp., Albuquerque, NM South African Airlines; American Airlines Korean Airline; Trans World Airlines PUBLICATIONS Film segmant Video Jukebox DeCordova Museum of Art, Linclon, MA 1999 Film David Chamberlain: Artistry in Motion {30 minutes} SC-ETV/PBS 1992 Book Melodic Forms: The Sculpture of David Chamberlain {75 pages, color} 1990 David Godine, Publisher Boston, MA Videotape Search for Perfection; {16 minutes} FIS/Pucker Safrai 1982 Award: Red Ribbon Category: The Arts American Film Festival, New York INTERVIEWS All Things Considered, National Public Radio Weekend Edition, Monitor Radio & Public Radio International CNN Headline News, Atlanta, GA International News Scene, Reuters Press International, New York/Hong Kong Terra Infirma, Corp. for Public Broadcasting BBC World, London Art Scene, S. Carolina Public Radio Jazz Times, Blue Lakes Public Radio, Grand Rapids, MI Conversations with Jean Feraca, Wisc. Public Radio, Madison, WI WBZ-TV Boston, MA WCNY-TV Syracuse, NY WNPE-TV Watertown, NY WSBK-TV Boston, MA WERS-Radio Boston, MA RELATED EXPERIENCE Designs Arts College House (Program) ; University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1975 Performing Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1973 Fine Arts Center (Architectural); Purnell School, Pottersville, NJ 1971 Diplome Centre Audio Visuel Langues Modernes, Vichy, France 1973 School for International Training, Experiment in International Living, Putney, VT 1973 Graduate Credits Teaching Studio Art Institute, Colorado College, 1972 Consultant Sculpture Walk Project Univ. of South Carolina, Architectural Facilities Planning 1990/91 "How to create, fund and impliment a self-sufficient world-class sculpture collection" Speaker "[Man] In The Arena" , Haverford School, Haverford, PA 2000 "Architecture & Painting" Clemson University Dept of Art & Architecture, AIA Lecture 1997 Reflections on Creativity" Am. Inst. of Architects Convention, Highlands, NC 1994 "Neurons, Notes & Sketches", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1993 "Music into Sculpture", Conference on Art & Mathematics Albany, NY 1992 "On the Creative Process", Empire State Plaza Art Collection Albany, NY 1993 "Creativity and Fullfillment", Conference on Health & Spirituality Boston, MA 1991 Vocalist & Cahoots (jazz a cappella quartet) 1974-present Album Recordings: "Released" (1993) ; Arranger "Haven't We Met" (1991); All Good Children (octet) 1972-74 Album: "All Good Children" (1980); Canto Ergo Sum (sextet) 1971-72; The Footnotes (double sextet) 1967-1971 Album: "Another Summer...

Magnificent standing figure, Costa Rica, ca. 1000-1500. Carved volcanic stone. Measures 16.5 x 9 x 5.5 inches. Outstanding condition with no damage. The figure represents a captured...

Stunning Hudson River School landscape by George Lafayette Clough (1824-1901). High Bridge and Croton Waterworks, Harlem River, ca. 1870. Oil on canvas measures 14 x 21 inches; 26 x 33 inches in original frame. Signed lower left. Old repair of small diagonal puncture measuring 1/2 inch in length to the right of ship sail. Otherwise no damage or conservation to painting. Original frame has several areas of damage and loss and will require conservation. George Lafayette Clough was born September 18, 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's leading landscapist and, known as a Hudson River School painter, became Auburn's most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten. By age fifteen he had taken up painting, and his first and informal art influence came from the portraitist, Randall Palmer. In 1844 Clough opened his own studio in Auburn. About that time Charles Loring Elliott...

Philip Cheney (1897-1992) In the Casbah, 1928. Oil on canvas, 16 x 30 inches. Signed and dated lower margin. Condition: paint loss around margins.

Harry Dunn (1929-1998). Island People, ca. 1970. Oil on masonite panel, 18 x 30 inches; 24 x 36 inches framed. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. Du...

Werner Drewes (1899-1985). Composition 209, 1939. oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches; 28 x 32 inches in original frame. Signed and dated with artist monogram lower left and again on verso...

Jerome Kaplan (1920-1997). Malach (Angel), 1952. Lithograph on wove paper. Image measures 15 x 19 inches; 23 x 28 inches in custom shadowbox frame with custom beveled linen matting. ...

Alvar (b.1935). Still Life with Watermelon, ca. 1970. Lithograph on paper, image measures 16 x 24.5; 24.5 x 29 inches framed. Signed and numbered in pencil by artist, lower margin. E...

Alice B. Doughten (1880-1969). Still Life with Roses, ca. 1930. Oil on masonite panel, 12 x 16 inches. Measures 18 x 22 inches framed. Signed lower right. Original label affixed on verso with Moorestown NJ identified as artist's address. Born in Camden, New Jersey, Alice Doughten became noted for her still life and landscape paintings with figures, usually watercolors and sometimes abstract in style. She studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Henry McCarter, Earl Horter, Ralph Pearson...

Gilbert Lewis (b.1945). Portrait of a Young Man, ca. 1990s. Gouache on illustration board, 18 x 24 inches. Signed upper right. Excellent condition. Measures 24 x 30 inches in custom frame. Provenance: estate of the artist. Artist statement: Figurative art is a vital active process. The image has its own meaning; not storytelling, not just a picture of a face or a flower. Neither is it simply an exercise in the arrangement of shapes or colors. I want to translate my immediate impression into paint to present the image of an outstretched branch of flowers or a face – direct and simple. My art reflects human concerns expressed symbolically, through fantasy and in a more concrete manner in the process of making the representation itself. Art is my response to the image, the end result of an active process of exploration of the limits of the paint on paper within the confines of representation. The painting of a face is not just a face. My feelings are expressed through these images. My paintings speak to anyone in touch with their own humanity; to anyone else my art may be dismissed as “to personal”. Biography: Gilbert Braddy Lewis born September 25, 1945 in Hampton, Va. Son of David Blake Lewis (born in Atlanta, Ga.) and Gladys Louise Braddy [Lewis] (of Sanford, Fl.); brother of David Blake Lewis (Jr.) and Linda Lewis [Hunter]. The family resides at 3 South Linden Street, Hampton, Va. 1953 until 1962 “I studied from the age of seven, in Virginia, with two well-known Tidewater artists, Jean Craig and the late Allan Jones. The teaching methods of carefully observed studies from nature in charcoal or tempra paint, derived, of course, from the original French academic model, conveyed its impact on my early development; however, my eye and consciousness were mostly activated by the reproductions on the studio wall of works by Botticelli, Da Vinci, and Michelangelo.” Gilbert Lewis in Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, (Philadelphia Museum of Art 2000), p. 145 1963-68 Studies at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Franklin Watkins, Hobson Pittman, Morris Blackburn, and Walter Stuempfig. While a student at PAFA he shares apartment [261 South 21st Street] with PAFA students, Jody Pinto and Barbara Sosson. In 1967 he receives PAFA’s: Bergman Prize in Painting; M. Herbert Syme Prize; and Samuel Cresson Memorial Travelling Scholarship. The latter award enables Lewis to travel to Europe during the summer of 1967 where he visits museums. “In 1967, after having seen the Italian master’s work while on scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy, I was to realize my great influences and to discover the earlier Sienese masters whose clarity and energy still move me.” Gilbert Lewis in Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried Exhibition, (Philadelphia Museum of Art 2000), p. 145 1968 Horizontal painting [of an interior with a seated woman and cat by a large window] reproduced in black and white in school catalog for Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1968-1969, p. 24. Other students whose works are reproduced include Clayton Anderson, Barkley Hendricks...

Serge Hollerbach (1923-2021). Nude Figure, 1968. Casein on illustration board, image measures 8.5 x 11 inches; 14.5 x 17 inches in a custom Kulicke welded steel frame. Signed and dated lower margin. Painter, Instructor Born in Pushkin, Russia November 1, 1923. Education : Academy of Fine Arts in Munich; Art Students League with Ernest Fiene; American Art Scholarship with Gordon Samstag. Holdings : St. Paul Gallery...

Martin Friedman (1896-1981). Two Nude Figures, ca. 1960. Charcoal on paper, image measures 17 x 22.5 inches; 24 x 30 in original custom chestnut frame ...

Amazing Figurative Expressionism painting with exceptional color and movement. Oil on canvas, ca. 1960s. Measures 40 x 52 inches. Unsigned and unattributed. Excellent condition.

Exotic Birds, ca. 1960. Enameled steel plate, 6.5 x 12.5 inches; 10 1/8 x 16 1/8 inches framed. Original studio label affixed on verso. Unsigned. UBALDO CINCIARINI (1940-2020) was an Italian enameller and embosser who studied his craft at the famous Ferruccio Mengaroni Art Institute in Pesaro, Italy before opening the "Studio Cellini...

PERIOD FRAMES c. 1915 American painting frame pair, (earlier Stanford White design), Newcomb-Macklin, New York makers, gold leaf, gray bole, gesso, on c...

Vintage jockstrap ad poster, 1975. Offset lithograph on paper measures 18.5 x 12.75 inches. Copyright Winifred Bonney. Original offset period print on perio...

Rocco Monticolo (b. 1931). Untitled, 2022. Found antique object, wood, paint. Signed on reverse of face. Monticolo was born in Italy in 1931 and came to America in 1946. He joined ...

Felipe Orlando (Cuban-Mexican, 1911-2001). Coronel Retirado y su Amante Esposa, ca. 1970. Ink and gouache on paper with heavily built up layers of textured ground. Measures 13 1/4 x 18 3/8 inches. Signed lower left. Original label affixed on verso. Excellent condition. Unframed. An anthropologist as well as a painter and engraver, Orlando, whose full name was Felipe Orlando Garcia Murciano, studied at the University of Havana and at the painting workshop of Jorge Arche and Víctor Manuel. He was a founding member of the Asociación de Pintores y Escultores de Cuba (APEC) and a professor at the Universidad de las Américas and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, both in Mexico City. His style is influenced by the Afro-Cuban movement and pre-columbian art...

Robert W. Milliken (Irish, 1920-2014). White Fronts Along the Coast, ca. 1960. Watercolor on paper, image measures 14.5 x 19.5 inches; 21.5 x 26.5 inches framed. Signed lower right. ...

William King (1925-2015). Reclining figure, ca. 1965. Cast and welded bronze, 7 x 9.5 x 5 inches. Unsigned. William King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East Hampton, N.Y. He was 90. His death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King's stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey. Mr. King worked in clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces depicting familiar human poses -- a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking men walking in lock step. But for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer's arched eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment. His subjects included tennis players and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners. Mr. King's work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer. Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious, displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder. and Elie Nadelman. The critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King's most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery exhibit that he was, "among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset." A "preoccupation with gesture is the focus of King's sculptural imagination," Mr. Kramer wrote. "Everything that one admires in his work - the virtuoso carving, the deft handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful invention - all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a coiffure or a costume - from a keen observation of these materials King has garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy, simplicity and psychological precision." William Dickey King...