Art

San Francisco Bay Area abstract expressionist painting by Charles Safford. This work dates from the late 1940s - early 1950s. Oil on stretched canvas....

Black and white Abstract Expressionist painting on paper by Felix Ruvolo. Felix Ruvolo, (1912-1992), was a highly respected and admired artist of the 20th century in America. Ruvol...

Exceptional early American abstract oil painting by California artist Helen Clark Oldfield. Helen Clark Oldfield, (1902–1981), was born in Santa Rosa, CA. She studied art and design...

A wildly colorful depiction of black musicians doing a set at the Blue Note studios. This painting is signed lower left, 'DAMU'. We have not been able to attribute this work to a pa...

Early American modernist work on paper by Abraham Walkowitz. Abraham Walkowitz, (1878-1965), was born in Siberia to Jewish parents. He immigrant to the United States around 1900 wit...

Haunting abstract work on paper done is black, grays and white, by Pacific Northwest artist Wendell Brazeau. Wendell Brazeau, (1910-1974), was born in Spokane, WA. He moved to Seatt...

A bold and colorful modernist landscape painting by California artist Irene Pattinson. Irene Pattinson, (1909-1999), studied art at the California School of Fine Art , the San Franc...

San Francisco Bay Area figurative abstract by Edward Corbett. Edward Corbett, (1919-1971), was born in Chicago, Il. In 1937, Corbett began art studies at the California School of Fin...

William Sanders Fanning painting of the Panama Canal Zone, circa 1920s. William Sanders Fanning, (1887-1964), was born in Detroit, Michigan. Fanning trained as an artist in Paris, F...

Expressionist painting on paper by California artist Byron Randall. Byron Randall, (1918-1999), was raised in Salem, Oregon, where he worked as a waiter, a harvest hand, a boxer, and...

A fine pencil drawing on paper by California artist Robert Harvey. robert Harvey, (1924-2004), was an American artist, who worked in the San Francisco Bay Area of California before m...

Soft and pleasingly calm depiction of a worker at a cottage near a wharf by American artist Kenneth Gayoso How. Kenneth Gayoso How, (1883–1950), was an American painter and artist kn...

Exceptional 20th century abstract oil and mixed media on stretched canvas by Guyanese artist Aubrey Williams. Aubrey Williams, (1926-1990), was a Guyanese artist who spent most of hi...

Jerry Foyster, (1932- ), is a pioneering American Op Art artist based in New York. He exhibited in the seminal 1965 exhibition called 'The Responsive Eye' held at the Museum of Mod...

'A warm summer day at a beachside home' best describes this colorful oil painting by George F. Schultz. George F. Schultz, (1869–1934), was a Chicago based artist, who trained at the...

Colorful Hard Edge painting by an unknown artist. Possibly created by Canadian artist, Brian Fisher. This painting was purchased from an estate in Seattle, Washington in the early ...

Early Abstract expressionist mixed media by John Franklin Koenig. John Franklin Koenig, (1924-2008), was an internationally renowned artist, better known in Europe and Japan than in ...

Miriam Hoffman 'The Guardian Bowl' Miriam Hoffman, (1911-2005), studied art at Columbia University and New York City College before earning a graduate degree in art and literature f...

Bold and colorful abstract expressionist painting by American artist and educator, Boyer Gonzales Jr. Boyer Gonzales Jr., (1909-1987), was born in Texas, and was immediately immersed...

A delightful landscape oil painting by Japanese-American artist Kazuo Matsubara titled 'Chapel Through the Trees'. Matsubara was born in Hawaii in 1895. By 1912 he had moved to San ...

Mid-century abstract expressionist mixed media on paper by Oscar Chelimsky. Oscar Chelimsky, (1923-2010), was an American-born painter who spent the prime of his painting career in P...

A striking portrait of a native American woman, Owns Different Horses, by artist James Neil Boyle. Neil (James Neil) Boyle, grew up in Indian Country. His father was an honorary Chie...

Exceptional American modernist painting by Charles Shepard Chapman. Charles Shepard Chapman, (1879-1962), was a supremely talented American artist. Born in New York, Chapman studied...

Pictorialist images of two nudes under a California oak by Percy Neymann. Not much is known at this point of Percy Neymann, other than that he held a PhD, and was active as a photogr...

Etching and aquatint of Wall Street, New York circa 1928 by Max Pollak. Painter and printmaker Max Pollak, (1886-1970), was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia and was raised in Vienna, A...

A modern art painting of three horses by artist Theodore Polos, in the manner of Marino Marini. Theodore C. Polos, (1901-1976), was a painter, printmaker and educator, was born in Mytilene, Greece. In 1916 Polos immigrated to the United States, settling in Boston first before moving to San Francisco in 1922. He studied art at the San Francisco Institute of Art, and at the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland with Xavier Martinez...

Impressionist winter or spring scene, titled 'Late Afternoon' by George Gardner Symons. George Gardner. Symons, (1861-1930), was born in Chicago, and began his training as an artist ...

An eloquently painted reclining female nude figure by Lois Elaine Green Cohen. Lois Elaine Green Cohen (1919-2012), was born in Chicago, Ill. She studied art at the Carnegie Technic...

WWI painted postcard of Ham, Somme (Northern France), dated 1917. Watercolor on a paper postcard. Measures 3.5 x 5.5 x .1 inches overall.   Good condition overall with some dark mat ...

A historic painting of San Francisco Art Institute by woman artist Juliette Eleanor Wilm Steele. Juliette Steele, (1909-1980) was an American painter, ...

Rare print by Joseph A. Imhof, with only two proofs of this print printed on gray paper. Joseph Imhof 's first exposure to art was at the age of six, when his godfather gave him a bo...

Loose and confidently painted impression of the California coastline by Society of Six painter, Maurice Logan. Maurice Logan, (1886-1977), was an American watercolorist, commercial a...

Painted mixed media by Jimmy Ernst. Jimmy Ernst, (1920-1984), was born in Cologne, Germany, the son of famous German Surrealist Max Ernst, and Luise Straus-Ernst, a well-known art hi...

Surrealist composition by Daniel 'Zev' Harris. Zev, meaning 'wolf' in Hungarian, was the name the artist chose for himself in 1953. He was born Daniel Harris. He studied at the Mas...

Standing nude pencil drawing by French born artist Gaston Lachaise. Lachaise was a native of Paris, France best known for his robust depictions of female nudes. While still a student...

1940s action painting by California woman artist, Juliette Eleanor Wilm Steele. Juliette Steele, (1909-1980) was an American painter, printmaker and educator. She studied art and fas...

1940s American modern abstract painting by Virginia Banks. Virginia Banks (1920 – 1985) was a well-known Northwest artist based in Seattle. She was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, a...

A wonderful impressionist painting of palm trees in Cuba, by Canadian-American artist William Henry Clapp. Clapp was born in Canada, and moved with his family to Oakland, California ...

American modern portrait of a young woman with a bow in her hair by Allen Tucker. Tucker was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines at Columbia Uni...

A colorful depiction of a tropical scene with huts by Eliza BK Dooley, most likely created while the artist was in Puerto Rico. Dooley moved to Puerto Rico in 1904, and remained ther...

Art Deco watercolor on paper by renown Dutch artist, Leo Visser. This is rare opportunity to own a work by Visser whose work is almost exclusively held in the Rijksmuseum in the Neth...

Geometric abstract painting by Soviet artist Leonid Borisov, a leading figure in Soviet Nonconformist Art. Borisov participated in almost every significant "unofficial art" exhibiti...

An early modernist drawing by synchromist artist Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) was a pioneering American modernist painter and co-founder of Synchrom...

A colorful, stylized portrait of a seated woman by San Francisco Bay Area artist, Raymond Tom. Tom was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts deg...

A large bulbous horned vase formed studio pottery vessel by American ceramicist Robert Sperry. Sperry is an important figure in the American studio craft movement. He was born in Bu...

Found art sculpture by Australian-American environmental and counterculture artist Marr Grounds. This work was likely created in the 1960s when Grounds was active at UC Berkeley, and...

Geometric abstract painting by Soviet artist Leonid Borisov, a leading figure in Soviet Nonconformist Art. Borisov participated in almost every significant "unofficial art" exhibitio...

A Bay Area Figurative work by California artist James Weeks. This work is titled : Comedian Series #7. It is an acrylic painting on paper, laid on chipboard. The work measures 29 x 3...

A 1940s hard edge abstract painting by Dutch artist Pieter de Haard. This is a wonderful example of the artist's work from the 1940s, when the artist was fascinated with space and th...

A bold and strikingly colorful abstract painting of two women by American artist Edward Marecak. Titled 'Two Mystic Ladies out Mystifying Each Other'. This work is an oil painting on...

A color-filled abstract expressionist oil painting by Italian artist, Lorenzo Tornabuoni. Tornabuoni was an Italian artist, born in Rome in 1934. He was the son of a richly cultured...

A highly decorated Bauhaus inspired vase by California woman artist Marguerite Wildenhain. This vase was created while Wildenhain was teaching at Pond Farm, in Guerneville, CA. Wild...

A highly decorated, hand painted studio ceramic plate by American artist Jon Corbino. Corbino was born in Sicily, and emigrated to the United States where he attended the Art Studen...

An exceptional American Regionalist print by Adrian Troy. Adrian Troy was born in Britain in 1901, the son of an English father and a French mother. The family moved to Bordeaux in 1...

This is a rare 1940s abstract oil painting by British avant garde artist, poet, and film maker, Humphrey Jennings. Jennings is well-known for his contributions to British film making...

Two abstract oil paintings, framed separately, to form a diptych, as intended by the artist, Roger Selchow. Selchow was a well-known American abstract artist who worked in New York, ...

A classic form Bauhaus inspired studio pottery pitcher by Marguerite Wildenhain. Wildenhain was trained at the German Bauhaus, before moving to the United States with her fellow arti...

An abstract pencil drawing in paper by Janet Todd Young, early AAA member. Janet Todd Young was born in Illinois in 1908, and earned a bachelor's degree in languages from Oberlin Co...

An abstract collage by Janet Todd Young, early AAA member and lifelong abstract artist. Janet Todd Young was born in Illinois in 1908, and earned a bachelor's degree in languages fr...

Early modernist photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg. Lloyd Ullberg was a highly talented self-taught American modernist photographer whose works were published in major Am...