JOSEPH GROSSMAN FINE ART Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

This artwork "Untitled, Woman in Costume" c. 1960 is a watercolor and gouache on beige thin paper by French artist Vincent Breton, b.1919. It is hand ...

This artwork "Fishing Boat" c. 1950 is a watercolor on paper by California artist Eleanor M. Wilkevich, 1908-1969. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 16 x 19.5 inches, framed size is 24.25 x 27.5 inches. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is damaged and will be replaced by a new black frame before shipping. This will bring the over all condition to excellent. About the artist: Born in New York City on Aug. 2, 1908. Wilkevich studied at the Art Students League and Grand Central Art School in New York City. By the late 1930s she had settled in San Diego where she taught painting. She died there on May 6, 1969. Member: San Diego Art Guild; La Jolla Art...

This artwork titled "Chinatown Under the Rain" 1966 is a watercolor by Japanese/Taiwanese artist Paul Kuo, 1920-1995. It is signed and dated at the lower righ...

This artwork titled "Landscape with House, California" is a watercolor on paper by California artist Ralph Ledesma, 1910-1993. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. T...

Artist: June Felter (1919-2019) Title: Untitled Year: 1964 Medium: Watercolor Sight size: 20 x 14.25 inches. Framed size: 29.25 x 23 inches Signature: Si...

Artist: Margaret. Sweet Johnson (American, 1893-1964) Title: "Two Dogs, One Cat Walking" Year : Circa 1930 Medium: original ink drawing Paper: Stock image size: 9.25 x 7 inc...

This artwork titled "Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle en Autonne" 2007 is a pastel on paper by French artist Anne De Vernac, b.1930. It is hand signed by the artist at the lower right corne...

This artwork titled "London Lodge" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Henry Waltermar Doane, 1905-2002. It is signed by the artist at the lower right corner. The art...

This artwork "On the Road" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Henry Waltermar Doane, 1905-2002. It is signed by the artist at the lower ri...

This Artwork "View of Angel Island from Tiburon, California II" c. 1975 is a watercolor on paper by San Francisco Bay Area artist Hilda Kider, 1921-2017. I...

This Artwork "Sausalito, California" c. 1975 is a watercolor on paper by San Francisco Bay Area artist Hilda Kider, 1921-2017. It is hand signed at the low...

This Artwork "View of Angel Island from Tiburon, California" c. 1975 is a watercolor on paper by San Francisco Bay Area artist Hilda Kider, 1921-2017. It i...

This artwork titled "Audience" 1983 is a watercolor on hand made paper by noted artist Ruth Weisberg, born 1942. It is hand signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwor...

Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016) Title: California Coast with Cypress Year: c.1980 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Size image: 16 x 18.75 inches paper: 16...

Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016) Title: East Irvine Post Office Year: 1977 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Size image: 15.5...

Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016) Title: The Old Factory Year: c.1980 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Size image: 16 x 21 in...

Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016) Title: Cadillac Corner, Venice CA Year: 1983 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Size image: 1...

This artwork "Landscape" is a watercolor on heavy rag paper by noted Arkansas artist Bruce Roy Anderson, 1907-1985. It is signed at the lower left corner ...

This artwork "Landscape with Boat and House, California" is a watercolor by California artist Catherine Rubino Eaton Baca, 1907-1978. It is hand signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The image size is 17 x 23 inches, framed size is 25 x 31 inches. Framed in original dark wood and gold frame. It is in very good condition. About the artist: Born in Oakland, CA on Jan. 18, 1907. Catherine Rubino studied at the CCAC and with Phil Paradise...

This artwork titled "Sausalito" 1936 in a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Emily Shotwell Goeller Wood, 1887-1965. It is signed, titled and dated at the lower left corn...

This artwork titled "La Danseuse Espagnol Rosita Segovia: c.1950. Is a pastel and black stone on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997. It is hand signed an titled at t...

This artwork titled "Danse populaire des Isles Canaries" (Dance Popular from the Canaries Islands) c.1950 is a watercolor, pastel and black stone on pap...

This artwork titled "La Jeune Danseuse Espagnole Rosita Rivera, Dans la Danse du Feu" c.1945 is a watercolor, pastel and black stone on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910...

This artwork titled "Olga Nikistens dans Athena" 1949 is a watercolor, pastel and black stone on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is hand signed and dated at th...

This artwork titled "Les Danseurs Espagnols Rosario and Antonio" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Antonio Ruiz Soler and Florence Perez Padilla ...

This artwork titled "Danseuses Espagoles" (Spanish Dancers) is a watercolor, pastel and crayon on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is hand signed at the lower r...

This artwork "Balanced Rock" in the Garden of the Gods, Colorado Springs, CO" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Ted Lewy, 1912-1963. It is hand signed at the...

This artwork "View of the Bay of Naples" c.1935 is a watercolor on paper by noted impressionist Italian artist Maria Ada Gianni, 1873-1956. It is si...

This artwork "Seascape" is a watercolor by noted American artist, Charles Grant Davidson, 1865-1945. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 10.5 x 1...

This artwork "Landscape with House" is a watercolor by noted California artist Earl Thollander, 1923-2001. It is signed at the lower right corner by th...

This artwork titled "Japanese Garden, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco" c.1975 is a watercolor on paper by noted Chinese/American artist Sun Ying, 1919-2016. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 15.5 x 22.5 inches, framed is 27.5 x 34 inches. It is beautifully custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist. 1919 Sun Ying 孙瑛 ( 1919-2016 ) known as (Sun Dashi 大石) was born on November 8, in a poor family, in Gaotang Xian, Shandong Province, in China. 1949 Based in Taipei, he devoted himself entirely to painting and influenced the world of art by creating several painting societies as the Chinese Association of Ink Painting . Taiwan awarded him the Golden Cup Award. 1960 / 1970 He exhibited his works in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia and United States. 1974 He went to live in the United States. 1982 After a visit to his family, he returned to China. 1984 With Qi Baishi...

This artwork titled "Chinatown, San Francisco" c.1975 is a watercolor on paper by noted Chinese/American artist Sun Ying, 1919-2016. It is hand signed at the lower left corner by the artist, stamped with the artist red ink stamp at the lower right corner. The artwork size is 15 x 22 inches, framed is 27 x 33.5 inches. It is beautifully custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist. 1919 Sun Ying 孙瑛 ( 1919-2016 ) known as (Sun Dashi 大石) was born on November 8, in a poor family, in Gaotang Xian, Shandong Province, in China. 1949 Based in Taipei, he devoted himself entirely to painting and influenced the world of art by creating several painting societies as the Chinese Association of Ink Painting . Taiwan awarded him the Golden Cup Award. 1960 / 1970 He exhibited his works in Australia, Brazil, Germany, Malaysia and United States. 1974 He went to live in the United States. 1982 After a visit to his family, he returned to China. 1984 With Qi Baishi...

This artwork titled "The Scarecrow" 1933 is a watercolor on paper by noted Kansas artist Robert Ivan Lockard. It is signed an dated at the lower right co...

This artwork titled "Down in Mexico Way" 1955 is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Stanley M. Long 1892-1972 It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 13.25 x 18.5 inches, framed is 23.5 x 28 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with silver color spacer. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. About the artist: Stanley M. Long spent his childhood on a ranch in Napa where he broke wild horses. He began sketching when quite young and at 15 enrolled at the San Francisco Institute of Art. He continued at the California College of Arts and Crafts, where he was awarded a scholarship for further study at Académie Julian in Paris. He served in the camouflage corps in both world wars. Long taught art in San Francisco at Mission High School and for 17 years at Polytechnic High School. His western illustrations were featured in Sunset Magazine and the Los Angeles Times. Having worked with horses all his life, they were to become the main theme of his paintings. Long died in San Carlos, CA on March 29, 1972. Member: Society of Western Artists, Napa Valley Art...

This artwork titled "Time to go Home Papa" c.1950 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Darrell Craig McClure, 1903-1987 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 14.85 x 21.5 inches, framed is 24 x 30 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. About the artist: Born in Ukiah Feb 25 1903, he showed his interest in cartooning at a very early age. One of his cartoons appeared in the old Ukiah Republican Press when he was nine years old. His love for the sailing schooners he served on as a young man inspired him to do a series of paintings on the vessels. McClure's work has been favorably received on both the East and West Coast, and a number of his paintings hang in the Maritime Museum in San Francisco. He studied at a cartoon school in San Francisco and the California School of Fine Arts. Instructors included Maynard Dixon, Harold Von Schmidt and Clarence Mackey, leading artists of the day. At the age of 17, he began his love affair with the sea, taking his first voyage on the Annie Johnson, destined for Hawaii. At 19 he shipped out for the East Coast aboard the freighter, Artiagas, and worked up and down the coast until friends were instrumental in getting him a job as an apprentice cartoonist with Hearst's King Features. He was with the newspaper for 37 years. Thirty-one were spent drawing the Annie Rooney cartoon. McClure’s work is held in numerous collections nationwide, many paintings are on display at the Kelley House, Mendocino, Mateo, NC,the San Juan Islands and the San Francisco Yacht...

This artwork titled "Taking a Rest" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Nat Levy 1896-1984. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is ...

This artwork "Banana Market" c.1960 is a watercolor on paper by noted British/American artist Jonathan Hartley Folliot Scott, 1914-1995 It is signed at the lower left corner by the a...

This artwork titled "Carmel Mission Basilica" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Jeanne Ocker, born 1922. It is signed and dated at the...

This artwork "California Coastal Scene with Figures" c.1970 in a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Wayne Carl Lacom, born 1922. It is signed at he lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 14.25 x 21.5 inches, framed is 20.35 x 28.75 inches. It is custom framed in original wooden silver brown frame. It is in very good condition. About the artist: Wayne La Com...

This artwork titled "Ballet dancer Helen Sauvaneix dans Neige, Theatre Montparnasse" referring to the ballet dancer, Helene Sauvaneix, 1950 is a watercolor, pastel and crayon on pap...

This artwork "Woman with Children" 2011 is a ink drawing on paper, by noted American artist Richard Benjamin Royce, born 1941. It is signed and dated at the lower right by the artist. The artwork size is 10.75 x 13.75 inches, framed is 17 x 21.5 inches. It is custom framed in a dark wood frame. it is in excellent condition. About the artist: After getting his BA and MA in fine art at the University of Wisconsin, Richard Royce went to France to study with Stanley W. Hayter, On returning to the US he opened a studio where he produced etchings, cast paper, paintings and sculptural commissions of his own work while at the same time helping other artists including Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, Marisol, George Segal, Raphael Soyer, Francoise Gilot and Jim Rosenquist to realize works in various media. Selected collections Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France State Historical Society of Wisconsin Portland Art Museum, Oregon Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York International Paper Corporation, New York Isla Center, University of Guam, Micronesia Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, Illinois Musee du Petite Format, Couvin, Belgique Uyasuda Life Insurance Company, Japan Selected solo exhibitions 1991 Prestige Gallery, Danvers, MA 1989 Watermark/Cargo Gallery.. Kingston, NY 1986 ARRAS Gallery, NYC, NY 1985 The Tremellen Gallery, Lancaster, PA 1982 Linden Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, OR Keller Gallery, Salem, OR The Tremellen Gallery, Lancaster, PA 1970 Ventura College, Ventura, CO University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 1969 Comsky Gallery, Boston, MA Ohio University, OH 1968 Thompson Gallery, Boston, MA The Galor Hagen Gallery, Dallas, TX University of Southern California Gallery Selected group exhibitions 2004 Living Space Gallery, Cornville, AZ 2001 Rodman Gallery, Stockbridge, MA 1997 Dalton Fine Art, Boston, MA Boston Corporate Art, Boston, MA Prestige Gallery, Atelier Royce Group Show, Danvers, MA 1996 Copley Society Gallery, Group Sculpture Show, Boston, MA 1995 Barbara’s Hang Up Gallery, Group Show, Beverly, MA 1991 Creative Framing Gallery, Boston, MA 1989 5e Exposition International "Petit Format de Papier" Cul-Des-Arts (Couvin), Belgique 1988 Premiere Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format (Traveling show to museums throughout France) 1987 "Eight Upstate Sculptors", Woodstock Artist Assn., NY 1986 First International Biennial of Paper Art, Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Dueren, Germany 1985 '85 Mini-Exhibition, Isla Center, University of Guam, Micronesia 1984 Paperworks: A National Invitational, Chevey Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, WA Paper, Canvas & Glass, Gallery Mack, Seattle, WA Atelier Royce Group Show, Eclipse Gallery, New York Contemporary Paperworks, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich, CT 1983 Paper As Images - Traveling exhibition: Six galleries throughout England 1982 Papermaking USA, American Crafts Museum, New York Atelier Royce Group Show, State University, Purchase, NY New American Graphics 2, Art Museum Association of San Francisco Traveling...

This artwork titled "Ballet Espagnol Pilar Lopez" c.1955 referring to the famous Spanish Flamenco dancer, Pilar Lopez, 1912-2008 is a pastel and crayon on paper by noted French artis...

This artwork titled "Michelle Bardin, l'Oiseau Bleu..." referring to the famous ballet dancer, Michelle Bardin, 1957 is a watercolor, pastel and crayon on...

This artwork titled "Alexander Grant, Dans Mam'zelle Angot" referring to the famous ballet dancer, Alexander Grant, c.1950 is a watercolor, pastel and crayon on brown paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is signed and titled at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 11.75 x 9 inches, framed is 20.75 x 17.5 inches. it is beautifully custom framed in a dark wood frame, with matting and gold color spacer. it is in excellent condition, the colors are fresh and bright. About the artist. Jean Target was born in France in 1910. From a very young age early on, he was impassioned by the two forms of art that would remain the focal point of his career for all his life: visual arts and performing arts. In the 30s and 40s, as a young man, Jean Target frequented the Parisian theaters and cabarets, just like his role model, the famous impressionist painter Toulouse Lautrec, did at the end of the 19th century. Jean became friends with many performers and captured many formal as well as candid depictions. He gained exclusive access and used this privilege to create art with unparalleled perspective as an insider to the seedy, dark, yet glamorous underworld of Parisian cabaret. He drew the dancers on-site, capturing the dancer’s movements in his immediately recognizable signature style. In the 40s and 50s, he continued his artistic career, gaining recognition among collectors in France and all over Europe. His work depicting the Parisian performing art scene captures the feeling and history of the the theater and golden age of cabaret in Paris. Jean Target continued to draw, paint and sculpt until his death in 1997. The work of Jean Target is held in collections and museums worldwide including the world renowned Victoria And Albert Museum in London. About the subject. Alexander Grant was born on February 22 1925 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of hoteliers. He was one of two brothers who would become major names in the Royal Ballet: Garry Grant, 15 years younger than Alexander, later took over many of his parts. Alexander resolved to become a dancer when he was six. Inspired by the rare tours of Russians migrant to the islands, he studied ballet at Wellington College, and won a scholarship to the Sadler’s Wells Ballet School in 1944. Because it was wartime, the London company was short of men, and Grant was swiftly taken into the company itself. Two years later the former Diaghilev choreographer Léonide Massine came to London to stage Mam’zelle Angot, decorated by André Derain. Massine seized on Grant for the virtuosic central role of the amorous Barber, and it made the young dancer a star. Massine and Grant had much less success with a Scottish-themed follow-up, Donald of the Burthens, designed and composed by Scottish artists, with Grant as the kilted Donald threatened by Beryl Grey as the figure of Death. Above all Grant’s distinction as a classical dancer, combined with his mastery of character, enabled Ashton to develop what were usually subsidiary supporting roles – the bravura trick soloists – into key players in the main drama, often introducing a provocative sexual charge. As a young man Grant was lusted after by both sexes, as well as by Ashton himself. As the Pirate Chief in Daphnis and Chloe (1951), the dancer described his orders: “I used to have to rush on stage, pick Margot up with one hand and run off with her, and then ... swing her round and round, throw her on the floor and proceed to jump all over her.” The swooning fans who gathered at the stage door to catch a glimpse of him were astonished to find how short he was. In Sylvia (1952) he had to stand immobile through most of Act 1, resembling a naked stone statue of the love-god Eros; when he suddenly moved, it created a shock much enjoyed by the audience. Ashton then cast him as the sailor hero of a Madam Butterfly-like ballet, now lost. This was Madame Chrysanthème, with an Alan Rawsthorne score and a Nagasaki setting, in which Grant’s insouciance underscored the tragedy of the Japanese geisha whom he betrayed. In 1957 Grant was closely involved with the gestation of Ashton’s ballet Ondine, as the composer, Hans Werner Henze, stayed in his Battersea house while Ashton and Grant worked on what would be a very radical rewriting of the classical ballet idea. Grant himself danced the Mediterranean Sea god Tirrenio, in a stormy whirl of green seaweed-like costume ravishingly designed by Lila de Nobili. His superb incarnation of the puppet Petrushka and his eccentric Dr Coppelius in Coppelia laid the foundation for the two most famous character roles Ashton then created for him: as the capering halfwit Alain in La Fille mal gardée (1960), and Bottom the Weaver in The Dream (1964). In the first, sporting top knotted hair, he turned gawky cartwheels and conveyed a vain hope of love, finding solace in his red umbrella when spurned. In the second he turned a few short minutes, as Bottom wears a donkey’s head and capers about in pointed shoes, into a cameo of great pathos as well as comedy. When Ashton died he bequeathed the ownership of La Fille mal gardée to Grant, and its popularity kept him busy staging it globally, from the Bolshoi Ballet to the National Ballet of Canada, where he was artistic director from 1976 to 1983. Grant continued to perform character roles created for him by Ashton, requiring less active dancing but no less powerful style. He was the blustering William Meath Baker in Enigma Variations (1968) and the dejected husband Yslaev in A Month in the Country (1976), opposite Lynn Seymour. Arguably, the frequency and power with which “older man” roles recurred in British choreography by Ashton and his successor Kenneth MacMillan could be traced to the conviction and stage presence brought to bear by Grant. He was a keen collaborator on Ashton’s 1971 film Tales of Beatrix Potter, in which he performed Pigling Bland, repeating his feat from The Dream by dancing on point while wearing an enormous animal head. The following year, Grant became director of the Royal Ballet’s outreach wing, Ballet For All, and was asked to take over leadership of the National Ballet of Canada four years later. There he was sometimes accused of overloading the repertoire with Ashton ballets, but by the time he left in 1983 the Canadian Ballet also had a wide international modern ballet repertoire that included work by Kenneth MacMillan, Maurice Béjart, Jerome Robbins and rising home-grown talent such as the later NBC director James Kudelka. On his return to Britain, Grant was an extremely popular guest, in 1984 dancing the Dago in Ashton’s evergreen early hit Façade at the choreographer’s 80th birthday gala at Covent Garden. Grant also had character roles with London Festival Ballet, such as Dr Drosselmeyer in The Nutcracker and Madge the Witch in La Sylphide. During the years they worked together, Ashton made numerous roles for Grant. Among them are the following. 1946. Les Sirènes, music by Lord Berners. Role: "the boy who jumps through a hoop." 1946, The Fairy Queen, masque produced by Ashton and Malcolm Baker-Smith, music by Henry Purcell, adapted by Constant Lambert. Role: a Savage. 1948. Scènes de Ballet, music by Igor Stravinsky. Role: principal dancer. 1948. Cinderella, music by Sergei Prokofiev. Role: The Jester. 1951. Daphnis and Chloë, music by Maurice Ravel. Role: Bryaxis, a pirate chief. 1952. Sylvia, music by Léo Delibes. Role: Eros, god of love. 1952. Le Lac des Cygnes...

This artwork titled "Avril Navarre, Dans Mam,zelle Angot" referring to the famous ballet dancer, Avril Navarre, c.1950 is a watercolor, pastel and crayon on brown paper by noted Fre...

This artwork titled "Danse Espagnole" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Teresa Viera Romero, is a watercolor, on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is sig...

This artwork titled "Serge Golovine, Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo" 1949 is a watercolor and crayon on paper by noted French artist Jean Target, 1910-1997 It is signed at the lower rig...

This artwork titled "Les Danseurs Espagnols Teresa an Luisillo" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Teresa Viera Romero and Luis Perez Davila A.KA Luisillo, is a watercolor, on...

This artwork titled "Les Danseurs Espagnols Rosario and Antonio" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Antonio Ruiz Soler and Florence Perez Padilla ...

This artwork titled "Flamenco Avec Rosario" referring to the famous Flamenco dancers, Antonio Ruiz Soler and Florence Perez Padilla A.K.A Rosario, c.1945...

Artist: William Wiley – American (1937- 2021) Title: Punch as Bosch Boy Year: 2003 Medium: Graphite and/or crayon on paper Size: 12 x 9 inches. Framed size: 17.5 x 14.25 inches Sign...

Artist: Lewis Suzuki (Japanese/American, 1920/2016) Title: Lanscape With Barn Year: Circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Image size: 14.5 x 10.25 inches paper s...

Artist: Lewis Suzuki (Japanese/American, 1920/2016) Title: Lanscape With Barn Year: Circa 1970 Medium: Watercolor Paper: Watercolor paper Image size: 14.5 x 10.25 inches paper s...

This artwork "Untitled, Flowers" is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Charlotte Britton, American, b.1938. It is signed at the middle left side by the artist. The artw...

This artwork "Barn and Carriage" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is inscribed Jake Lee and dated 89 on the back. The image size is 6 x 7.75 inches, framed is 13.35 x 14.65 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. it is in excellent condition. About the artist. Jake Lee is emerging as the visual chronicler of the Chinese American past, especially the daily life in San Francisco Chinatown. No other artist, of any background, has presented that history as richly and as evocatively as Lee did in his many, striking compositions. Completed over a lifetime of work, Lee's paintings of historical sites, moments, and experiences give us an artistic vision. For much of his life, Lee was known primarily as a commercial artist who completed arresting illustrations for travel magazines, greeting cards, and book jackets. He was an art teacher, with many students who learned the use of water-soluble pigments to depict the many landscapes of mid-20th century California. Less well-known were his representations of the many places historically linked to the Chinese of the state and the West. To this day, few in America know about Chinese work in the fisheries, in the early wine industry, in 19th century urban industry, and in the colorful cultural life of San Francisco in the years before the Great Earthquake. At a time when most Americans thought Chinese Americans had just been laundrymen, houseboys, or Charlie Chan, characters they saw on television. As a visual historian, he connected us with the past, but foremost he was an artist. He presented appealing scenes for the visitor to San Francisco who wanted a visual memento. He mastered Western...

This artwork "The Duck Hunter" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is inscribed Jake Lee and dated 89 on the back....

This artwork "The Old Barn" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is inscribed Jake Lee and dated 89 on the back. The i...

This artwork "The Gazebo" 1989 is a watercolor by noted Chinese/American artist Jake Lee, 1915-1991 It is signed and dated at the middle right corner by the artist. The image size is 14 x 17 inches, framed is 22.75 x 25.5 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. it is in excellent condition. About the artist. Jake Lee is emerging as the visual chronicler of the Chinese American past, especially the daily life in San Francisco Chinatown. No other artist, of any background, has presented that history as richly and as evocatively as Lee did in his many, striking compositions. Completed over a lifetime of work, Lee's paintings of historical sites, moments, and experiences give us an artistic vision. For much of his life, Lee was known primarily as a commercial artist who completed arresting illustrations for travel magazines, greeting cards, and book jackets. He was an art teacher, with many students who learned the use of water-soluble pigments to depict the many landscapes of mid-20th century California. Less well-known were his representations of the many places historically linked to the Chinese of the state and the West. To this day, few in America know about Chinese work in the fisheries, in the early wine industry, in 19th century urban industry, and in the colorful cultural life of San Francisco in the years before the Great Earthquake. At a time when most Americans thought Chinese Americans had just been laundrymen, houseboys, or Charlie Chan, characters they saw on television. As a visual historian, he connected us with the past, but foremost he was an artist. He presented appealing scenes for the visitor to San Francisco who wanted a visual memento. He mastered Western...

This artwork "Landscape with Trees" 1909 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 9.5 x 14 inches, framed is 18.5 x 22.35 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of...

This artwork "Village Harbor" c.1910 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 8 x 15 inches, framed is 17 x 23.75 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of New York...