About Gallery of the Masters
Founded almost 50 years ago, Gallery of the Masters has specialized in fine American and European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our expertise includes Impressionism, American Western, Regionalism, WPA, Ashcan Group, Hudson River as well as Post-War Modern and Contemporary paintings, drawings, rare prints and sculpture.

Established in 19701stDibs seller since 2017
Featured Pieces
Pink and Green Mizimah (Filet-de-verre Art Glass Vase)
Located in Missouri, MO
When I hear music, it translates into color. —Toots Zynsky
Toots Zynsky’s distinctive heat-formed filet de verre (glass thread) vessels enjoy a widespread popularity and deserved acclaim for their often extraordinary and always unique explorations in color. Defying categorization, her pieces inhabit a region all their own, interweaving the traditions of painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts.
Mary Ann Toots Zynsky was born in 1951 and raised in Massachusetts. Known professionally and to her friends as Toots Zynsky, she received her bachelor of fine arts in 1973 at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence. There, she was one of a group of pioneering artists studying with Dale Chihuly, who made studio glass a worldwide phenomenon.
“Glassmaking was wide open,” Zynsky remembers. “Hot glass slipped through the air, pulled and stretched. There was music and the furnaces were roaring. . . and everyone was working in concert. . . It was this material that hadn’t been widely explored as an artist’s medium. Everything was possible, and there was so much to be discovered. There were no rules. You could do anything you wanted.”
In Chihuly’s words, her class was a group with extraordinary energy, amounting to “the most creative, highly charged institutional experience I’d ever been a part of.” Among Zynsky’s classmates at RISD were other artists who went on to build successful careers, such as James Carpenter, Bruce Chao, Dan Dailey, and Therman Statom...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Menorah with Jerusalem Stone Base
By Salvador Dalí
Located in Missouri, MO
Menorah, 1980
Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989)
Silvered Bronze and Jerusalem Stone Base
Signed Lower Center
Edition H.C. Lower Center
20 x 12.25 x 5.75 inches
Salvador Dali was bo...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Silver, Bronze
Antilles Frosted Grape Cluster Bowl
By René Lalique
Located in Missouri, MO
Antilles Frosted Grape Cluster Bowl
Lalique
Art Glass
Inscribed on Base
12 x 8 inches
Rene Lalique's life and artistic career bestrode arguably the three most important movements in...
Category
20th Century Art Deco More Art
Materials
Glass
Sit Pretty
By Maud Earl
Located in Missouri, MO
Sit Pretty
Maud Earl (British, American, 1863-1943)
Oil on Canvas Laid to Board
Signed Lower Right
19 x 25 inches
25.25 x 31.25 inches with frame
Alice Maud...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Family Portrait
By Eugène Joseph Verboeckhoven
Located in Missouri, MO
Eugene Joseph Verboeckhoven (Belgian, 1798-1881)
Family Portrait, 1871
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Dated Lower Right
29 x 44 inches
34.5 x 49.5 inches with frame
Verboeckhoven began dr...
Category
1870s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Setters on Point
By Edmund Henry Osthaus
Located in Missouri, MO
Three Setters on Point
Edmund Henry Osthaus (German, 1858-1928)
Watercolor on Paper
Signed Lower Right
18 x 27 inches
24.5 x 33.5 inches with frame
Born in Hildesheim, Germany, Edmu...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Returning from the General Store
By William Henry Dethlef Koerner
Located in Missouri, MO
Returning from the General Store
William Henry Dethlef Koerner (German, American, 1878-1938)
Oil on Panel
Signed Lower Right
24 x 30 inches
27 x 33 inches with frame
William Henry D...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Paul and Linda McCartney
By Henry Diltz
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul and Linda McCartney, 1971
Henry Diltz (American, b. 1938)
Photo Print
Laid to Foamcore Board
17 x 11 inches (image)
20 x 16 inches (overall)
Hand-signed Lower Right
Titled and D...
Category
1970s American Modern Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Color
Preparing the Trick
By John George Brown
Located in Missouri, MO
Canvas Size: approx 26.5 x 18
Framed Size: approx 30 x 22 inches
Born into a poor family in Durham, England, John George Brown (1831-1913) earned a reputation as one of 19th-century...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Poissons
By Zao Wou-Ki
Located in Missouri, MO
Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese, French, 1921-2013)
Les Poissons, 1953
Lithograph
Hand-signed in pencil Lower Right
Hand-numbered 16/55 in pencil Lower Left
18 x 23 1/8 inches
29 x 33 inches wit...
Category
1950s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Barnyard Buddies
By Paul E. Harney Jr.
Located in Missouri, MO
20 x 24 (canvas size)
25.5 x 29.5 (w/ frame)
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Paul Harney (1850-1915)
Born in New Orleans on October 21, 1850, he was a landscape, portrait and still-li...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Donna con Ventilatore
Located in Missouri, MO
Arnaldo de Lisio (Italian, 1869-1949)
Donna con Ventilatore
Oil on Canvas
Signed Lower Right
34 x 24 inches
41 x 31.5 inches
Arnaldo De Lisio (9 December 1869 – 5 March 1949) was an...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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