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Untitled
By David Salle
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a watercolor on paper made by David Salle in 1984. The work is signed in pencil, lower right, "David Salle". The art size is 18 x 24 inches. The framed size is 23 3/4 x...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Expanding
By Adolph Gottlieb
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Expanding" is a color screenprint made by Adolph Gottlieb in 1967. The work is number 4 from an edition of 75. The work is signed and dated in pencil, lower left, "Adolph Gottlieb 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Robe Against Desert Sky
By Jim Dine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Robe Against Desert Sky" is a lithograph and screenprint with handcoloring made by Jim Dine in 1979. It is number 2 from an edition of 17. The work is signed and dated in pencil, lo...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Untitled
By Raymond Parker
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is an oil on canvas painting made by Ray Parker in 1965. The piece is signed verso, "R. Parker, 30 x 24, 1965". The art size is 30 1/8 x 23 1/4 inches. The framed size is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (FULL) 154b
By Asger Jorn
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled (FULL) 154b" is an oil on canvas work by Asger Jorn. The piece is signed in the lower right, "Jorn 64". The size is 31 3/4 x 25 1/4 inches. The framed size is 36 3/4 x 30 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goethe, FS II.270
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Goethe" is a silkscreen in colors made by Andy Warhol in 1982. The work is signed and editioned in graphite, lower left, "70/100 Andy Warhol". The artwork size is 38 x 38 inches. Th...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Goethe, FS II.271
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Goethe" is a silkscreen in colors made by Andy Warhol in 1982. The work is signed and editioned in graphite, lower left, "70/100 Andy Warhol". The artwork size is 38 x 38 inches. Th...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
By Ansel Adams
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico" is a photograph by famed landmark photographer Ansel Adams taken in 1941 and printed c. 1959. The photograph is signed on verso with artist's stamp,...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)
By Winslow Homer
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"In the Wheatfield (Girl Standing in a Wheat Field)" is a painting by Winslow Homer. The painting is signed, lower left, "Homer 1873". The framed piece measures 29 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 2 7/8 in.
During the early 1870s, Winslow Homer frequently painted scenes of country living near a small farm hamlet renowned for generations for its remarkable stands of wheat, situated between the Hudson River and the Catskills in New York state. Today Hurley is far more famous for inspiring one of Homer’s greatest works, Snap the Whip...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Haystack #6, RL69-236
By Roy Lichtenstein
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Haystack #6, RL69-236", is a lithograph print by Roy Lichtenstein, made in 1969. It is edition 32 out of 100. The work is signed in the lower right, "Lichtenstein '69". The framed size is 21 x 30 1/4 x 1 1/4 inches.
In 1968–9 Lichtenstein made a series of paintings paraphrasing Claude Monet's ‘Haystacks’ and ‘Rouen Cathedral...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pop Art Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two Crosses
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Two Crosses" is a gouache on paper by Alexander Calder. The work is signed in the lower right, "Calder 65”.
Although renowned for his innovative and groundbreaking sculptures, Alexander Calder started his artistic career as an abstract painter, preferring to use gouache. What is gouache? Gouache is a water-soluble paint – a type of opaque watercolor.
As Calder returned to gouache painting towards the end of his life, he was now armed with a lifetime of experience as a sculptor. He explored the three-dimensional vocabulary of sculptural forms he had developed onto the two-dimensional surface of the paper. Certain shapes and colors recur throughout his gouaches and sculptures. Circles, ovals, and other geometric forms dominate the space. There is the same sense of energy and fluidity. The shapes do not sit on the surface but vibrate giving a feeling of movement in contrast to the static nature of painting.
Like his sculpture, Calder’s gouache...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Bijou Gets Undressed 5
By Julian Opie
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bijou Gets Undressed 5" is a screenprint on Fedrigoni Sirio paper made in 2004 by Julian Opie. The work is signed in pencil, lower left, "Julian Opie" and editioned in pencil, lower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Bijou Gets Undressed 8
By Julian Opie
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bijou Gets Undressed 8" is a screenprint on Fedrigoni Sirio paper made in 2004 by Julian Opie. The work is signed in pencil, lower left, "Julian Opie" and editioned in pencil, lower...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Minimalist Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Paint Cans
By Wayne Thiebaud
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Paint Cans" is a lithograph in colors on wove paper made in 1990 by Wayne Thiebaud. The work is number 13 from an edition of 100. The work is signed in pencil, lower right, "Thiebau...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Still-life Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Electric Chair
By Andy Warhol
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Electric Chair" F. & S. 81, is a screenprint in colors on wove paper by Andy Warhol. The work is signed verso. This piece is from an edition of 250 + 50 AP, and is one from a portfo...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
San Juan Bowl
By William Acheff
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"San Juan Bowl" is an oil on panel painting by William Acheff. The work is signed and dated lower left, "Wm. Acheff 1986". The framed size is 10 1/2 x 15 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches.
Provena...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Evening Mesa and Rim
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Evening Mesa and Rim" is an oil on panel work by Duncan Martin. The framed size is 21 x 25 1/4 x 1 inch.
Provenance:
Private Collection
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Femme assise en pyjama de plage
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Femme assise en pyjama de plage" is a linocut by Pablo Picasso. It is edition 47/100. The work is signed in the lower right, "Picasso". The framed size is 23 1/4 x 18 5/8 x 1 1/2 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Prints
Materials
Linocut
Untitled
By Bill Nebeker
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a bronze sculpture by Bill Nebeker. Signed on reverse base "Bill Nebeker CA 6/30". The full size is 23 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches.
Bill Nebeker is an American artist ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Grand Canyon Series
By Sheldon Parsons
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Grand Canyon Series" is an oil on panel painting by Sheldon Orrin Parsons, painted in 1943. The work is signed in the lower left, “Sheldon Parsons 16”...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Prelude to the Man Eater, A03849
By Alexander Calder
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Prelude to the Man Eater, A03849" is a mobile sculpture made of sheet metal, wire, and paint by Alexander Calder. The work is signed with the artist's monogram on the uppermost element, "CA". The overall size is 59 x 42 x 18 inches.
This work is a study for "Man-Eater With Pennant", part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The work is also represented in "Sketches for Mobiles: Prelude to Man-Eater; Starfish; Octopus", that is in the permanent collection of the Harvard Fogg Museum.
Alexander Calder was a key figure in the development of abstract sculpture and is renowned for his groundbreaking work in kinetic art; he is one of the most influential artists of the Twentieth Century. "Prelude to Maneater" is a delicately balanced standing sculpture that responds to air currents, creating a constantly changing and dynamic visual experience.
Calder's Stabiles were a result of his continuous experimentation with materials, form, and balance. This Stabile is a historically significant prelude to a larger work commissioned in 1945 by Alfred Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
"Prelude to Maneater" is designed to be viewed from multiple angles, and encourages viewers to walk around and interact with it. Work by Calder can be found in esteemed private collections, and the collections of major museums worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Tate Gallery in London among others.
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Galerie Internazionale, Milan
Arnold Herstand...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Wire
Untitled
By Raymond Parker
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a watercolor painting by Raymond Parker. This work was painted in 1979, and is inscribed in pencil in the lower middle, "For Pat <3 RP 1979". The framed size is 25 1/4 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is an oil on panel painting by Duncan Martin. The framed size is 17 x 20 7/8 x 1 inch.
Provenance:
Private Collection
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tesuque Jar
By William Acheff
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Tesuque Jar" is an oil on panel painting by William Acheff. The work is signed and dated lower right, "WM Acheff 1986". The framed size is 17.5 x 17.25 x 1.75 inches.
Provenance:
P...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Last War-Whoop!
By Currier & Ives
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Last War-Whoop!" is a lithograph by Currier & Ives. The framed size is 26 x 32.62 x 1.25 inches.
Provenance:
Private Collection
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Bedroom Breast (TW-56)
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Tom Wesselmann. "Bedroom Breast" is an oil on cut-out aluminum painting executed in a lush palette primarily of blues, turquoise, peach, pi...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Metal
Portrait de Sylvie Lacombe
By Theo van Rysselberghe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Portrait de Sylvie Lacombe" is a Post-Impressionist painting by Théo van Rysselberghe. The portrait is signed with monogram and dedication, upper right, "pour ma petite amie Sylvie ...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hacer Presente II
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Hacer Presente II" is an oil on canvas painting by Kim Douglas Wiggins. The painting is signed, "KD Wiggins '94". The framed piece measures 46 1/2 x 46 1/...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scouting
By Frank Tenney Johnson
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Scouting" is an oil on canvas painting by Frank Tenney Johnson. The framed piece measures 23 3/4 x 27 3/4 x 3 1/4 inches.
Johnson was well-known for his work of the American west, particularly for his portrayal of cowboys at night, lit by moonlight. Johnson utilized knives and fingers when painting, so his work is recognizable for its distinctive marks.
Provenance:
Biltmore Galleries, Scottsdale...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Navajo Camp
By Gerard Curtis Delano
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Navajo Camp" is an oil on panel painting by Gerard Curtis Delano. The painting is signed lower left "Delano". The framed piece measures 31 x 36 3/4 x 1 7/8 inches.
Delano was a pai...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Apaches
By Olaf Wieghorst
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Apaches" is an oil on canvas painting by Olaf Wieghorst. The painting is signed on the lower left, "O-Wieghorst". The framed piece measures 25 1/2 x 29 3/4 x 2 in.
“When the time comes for me to put away my palette and unsaddle my pony for the last time, I hope that my canvases will in some small measure add to the historical recording of an era, the cowboy, and the great American West.” ~ Olaf Wieghorst
Wieghorst worked with the mounted patrol of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Cavalry (1920-1922) with occasional interludes as a wrangler on ranches in the western states. Wherever he went, he sketched and painted the Western culture he loved, often selling his work as calendar and magazine illustrations.
His work appeared in Zane Grey...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Navajos at Rest
By Edgar Payne
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Navajos at Rest" is an oil on canvas painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed at the lower right, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 25 1/4...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino
By Edgar Payne
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino" is a painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed lower left, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 31 1/2 x 34 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
Payne wa...
Category
Early 20th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nude Descending a Staircase #2
By Mel Ramos
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Nude Descending a Staircase #2" is a painting by Mel Ramos. The painting is signed verso, "Mel Ramos '04". The framed piece measures 71 3/8 x 53 3/8 x 1 3/4 in.
Mel Ramos is best known for his paintings of superheroes and female nudes juxtaposed with pop culture imagery. Many of the subjects in his paintings emerge from iconic brands or cultural touchstones like Chiquita bananas...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carlotta
By Georges Rouault
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Georges Rouault. “Carlotta” is an oil on canvas portrait painting in a palette of blues, yellows, blacks, and pinks by expressionist artist Georges Rouault. The artwork...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Outside; Burgundy
By Andrew Taylor
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Andrew Taylor. “Outside; Burgundy,” is a contemporary oil painting on canvas in a palette of reds, whites, blacks, and greens by Australian artist Andrew Taylor. The ar...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tomato Catsup, A.C. Annie, Lola Cola, Tobacco Red
By Mel Ramos
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Four prints by Mel Ramos. “Tomato Catsup, A.C. Annie, Lola Cola,” and “Tobacco Red” are pop art, offset lithographs in a palette of yellows, orange, and pink by the playful Mel Ramos. The artwork is signed in pencil in the lower right of each print, “Mel Ramos 72.” Framed dimensions are 37 x 31 5/8 x 1 7/8 inches each.
Mel Ramos is a California based Pop artist best known for his paintings of superheroes and female nudes, including Marilyn Monroe and Scarlet Johansson, with pop culture imagery. Many of his subjects emerge from Chiquita bananas...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Mia
By Carlos Luna
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"La Mia" is a painting by Carlos Luna. The painting is signed upper left, "C. Luna". The framed piece measures 60 1/4 x 71 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.
Carlos Luna’s oeuvre is an amalgam of nati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Der Hafen von Plit
By Paul Klee
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Der Hafen von Plit" is a drawing by Paul Klee. The drawing is signed lower left, "Klee". The framed piece measures 25 1/4 x 30 1/2 x 1 3/8 in.
Paul Klee was one of the most import...
Category
1920s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper, Pen
After Hours
By Marilyn Minter
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"After Hours" is a photograph by Marilyn Minter and is a chromogenic print. The framed photograph measures 87 1/2 x 57 3/4 x 2 in. The piece is edition 1 of 3. The work is part of her "Dirty" series.
Marilyn Minter was born in Shreveport, Louisiana in 1948 and raised in Florida. As a student at the University of Florida...
Category
2010s Photorealist Abstract Photography
Materials
C Print
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a painting by Rodolfo Morales. The painting is signed lower right, "Rodolfo Morales". The framed piece measures 37 3/4 x 39 7/8 x 2 1/4 in.
Rodolfo Morales was a Mexican painter...
Category
1980s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Equestrian Horseman
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Equestrian Horseman" is a mixed media on paper by LeRoy Neiman. The artwork is signed lower right, "Leroy Neiman '66". The framed piece measures 40 3/4 x 46 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.
LeRoy N...
Category
1960s Pop Art Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault (Landscape with Thresher at Montfoucault)" is a pastel by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The artwork is signed lower right, "C. Pissarro...
Category
1870s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Board
Vaches au paturage sur les bords de la Seine
By Alfred Sisley
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Vaches au paturage sur les bords de la Seine (Cows Grazing on the Banks of the Seine)" is a pastel on paper by Alfred Sisley. The artwork is signed lower left, "Sisley". The framed ...
Category
1890s Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Maria Van Rysselberghe au coin du feu
By Theo van Rysselberghe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Maria Van Rysselberghe au coin du feu" is a portrait painting by Post-Impressionist Théo van Rysselberghe. The portrait is signed lower right, "Atelier Van Rysselberghe". The framed...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Matador
By Elaine de Kooning
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Matador" is a gouache on paper by Elaine de Kooning. The artwork is signed lower left, "E. de K." The framed piece measures 15 3/8 x 17 1/4 x 3/4 in....
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine
By Ansel Adams
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine" is a photography by famed and landmark photographer Ansel Adams. The photograph is signed on verso with artist's stamp, "Photograph by Ansel Adams Winter...
Category
1940s Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Aspens, Northern New Mexico
By Ansel Adams
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Aspens, Northern New Mexico" is a photography by famed and landmark photographer Ansel Adams. The photograph is signed in pencil, lower right, "Ansel Adams". The framed piece measur...
Category
1970s Landscape Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sculpture Mythique
By Jean Arp
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Sculpture Mythique" is a sculpture by Jean Arp. The sculpture is edition II/III.
Jean Arp was born Hans Arp on September 16, 1886, in Strassburg. In 1904, after leaving the Ecole des Arts et Métiers, Strasbourg, he visited Paris and published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar, and in 1908 went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In 1909, he moved to Switzerland and in 1911 was a founder of the Moderner Bund group there. The following year, he met Robert and Sonia Delaunay in Paris and Vasily Kandinsky in Munich. Arp participated in the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon in 1913 at the gallery Der Sturm, Berlin. After returning to Paris in 1914, he became acquainted with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Amadeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso. In 1915, he moved to Zurich, where he executed collages and tapestries, often in collaboration with his future wife Sophie Taeuber (who became known as Sophie Taeuber-Arp after they married in 1922).
In 1916, Hugo Ball...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Unmade Bed
By Imogen Cunningham
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Unmade Bed" is a photograph by Imogen Cunningham. The photograph is signed in pencil, lower right, "Imogen Cunningham, 1957". The framed piece measure...
Category
1950s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Untitled
By Fernand Léger
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Untitled" is a charcoal drawing by Fernand Léger. The drawing is signed lower right, "F.L. 30". The framed piece measures 17 1/4 x 21 1/4 x 7/8 in.
A veteran of the battle of Verdu...
Category
1930s Cubist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Satiric Dancer
By Andre Kertesz
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Satiric Dancer" is a photograph by Andre Kertesz. The photograph is signed verso, "Paris 1926, A. Kertesz". The framed piece measures 18 1/4 x 15 1/4 x 3/4 in.
Kertész's work was i...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Charis, Santa Monica
By Edward Weston
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Charis, Santa Monica" is a photograph by Edward Weston. It has the artist stamp on verso, “Negative by Edward Weston print by Cole Weston”. The framed photograph measures 15 1/4 x 1...
Category
1930s Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Bern Series
By Robert Natkin
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Bern Series" is a painting by Robert Natkin. The painting is signed lower middle, "Natkin". The framed piece measures 49 x 54 x 1 7/8 in.
Robert Natkin (1930-2010) was born in Chicago and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1952. Natkin’s art blends Abstract Expressionism with Post-Impressionist colors. His work often runs in series he created using columns...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Dune Landscape with Figures Resting and a Couple on Horseback, a View of Nijme
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"A Dune Landscape with Figures Resting and a Couple on Horseback, a View of Nijmegen Cathedral Beyond" is a painting by Dutch Old Master painter Salomon van Ruysdael...
Category
1640s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flowers
By Lê Phổ
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Flowers" is a still life painting by Vietnamese Modernist painter Lê Phổ. The painting is signed lower right, "Le Pho". The framed painting measures 37 1/2 x 3...
Category
1960s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Smoker #21
By Tom Wesselmann
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Smoker #21" is a shaped canvas painting by Pop artist Tom Wesselmann. The painting is signed and dated on the overturn edge, "Wesselmann 75".
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati Ohio on February 23 1931. He attended college from 1945-1951, first at the Hiram College in Ohio and then the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in psychology. He was drafted during the Korean War in 1952, and it was during this time that Wesselmann did his first cartoons. After he was discharged and had finished in degree in psychology, Wesselmann began to study drawing at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He sold his first cartoon strips to two magazines, 1000 Jokes and True.
In 1956, he was accepted to Cooper Union in New York and he continued his studies there. It was while he was studying in New York, specifically on a trip to the MoMA that Wesselmann became inspired by Robert Motherwell and Willem de Kooning. In 1958, a landscape painting trip to Cooper Union’s Green Camp in New Jersey brought him to the realization that he could make his career in painting, rather than cartooning.
After graduation, Wesselmann became one of the founding members of the Judson Gallery, along with Marc Ratliff and Jim Dine. Wesselmann also began to teach art at a public school in Brooklyn and later at the High School of Art and Design.
In 1961, Wesselmann began the series that would bring him to the attention of the art world, Great American Nude. After a dream concerning the phrase “red, white and blue”, Wesselmann decided to limit himself to a palette of only those colors (including colors like gold and khaki that are associated with patriotic motifs). This series incorporated representational images along the same patriotic theme, including American landscape photographs and portraits of the founding fathers. Wesselmann often collaged these images from magazines and discarded posters which required him to work in a much larger format than he was used to. As his works became larger and larger he approached advertisers directly to acquire billboards. Wesselmann’s first solo show was held in 1961 at Tanager Gallery. In 1962, Richard Bellamy gave him a one man exhibition at the Green Gallery.
In 1962, Wesselmann participated in the group exhibition “New Realists” at the Sidney Janis Gallery and kicked off his international career. In that same year his first pieces with the title of Still Life, came about. In these works, Wesselmann concentrated on the juxtaposition of different elements, i.e. a cigarette ad...
Category
1970s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
California Landscape
By William Wendt
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"California Landscape" is a painting by California Impressionist William Wendt. The painting is signed lower left, "William Wendt 1917". The frame...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stelae No. 5
By Nathan Oliveira
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Stelae No. 5" is a painting by Bay Area Figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The painting is signed and dated lower right, "Oliveira 98". The framed piece measures 67 1/2 x 55 3/4 x 2...
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Landscape with a Windmill and Chapel
By Jan Josefsz Van Goyen
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"River Landscape with a Windmill and Chapel" is a painting by Dutch Old Master Painter, Jan van Goyen. There are traces of a signature on the bow of the boat...
Category
1640s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
