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The Great Spirit in the Sky
Located in Sheffield, MA
Bernard A. Kohn
American, 1905-1989
The Great Spirit in the Sky
Oil on board
30 by 45 in, w/ frame 35 ¼ by 50 ½ in
Signed and dated 1958
Bernard A. Kohn was born on the 21st of Nov...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Picture Book
By Pauline Palmer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pauline Lennards Palmer
American, 1867-1938
The Picture Book
Oil on Canvasboard
32 ¼ by 36 ¼, w/ frame 37 by 41 ¼ in
Signed lower right
Born in McHenry, Illinois, Pauline Palmer became a painter in realist/impressionist style of a wide variety of subjects including landscapes, street and beach scenes, genre, and portraits. She trained at the Art Institute of Chicago, and studied with William Merritt Chase, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and Charles Hawthorne. She also studied in Paris.
She married Dr. Albert...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Martigues, France
Located in Sheffield, MA
Paul Savigny
French, 1858-1916
Martigues, France
Oil on canvas
25 ½ by 36 ½ in, w/ frame 31 ½ by 42 ½ in
Signed lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bruyers en Fleurs
By William Didier-Pouget
Located in Sheffield, MA
William Didier-Pouget
French, 1864-1959
Bruyers en Fleurs
Oil on canvas
29 by 36 ½ in, w/ frame 42 ½ by 49 ¾ in
Signed lower right
William Didier-Pouget began his formal art traini...
Category
Late 20th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walk by the River
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alphonse Léon Quizet
French, 1885-1955
Walk by the River
Oil on board
23 ¾ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 32 ½ by 38 in
Signed lower right
Alphonse Quizet was ...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Parisian Lady in Blue
By Francois Gerome
Located in Sheffield, MA
Francois Gerome
French, 1895
Parisian Lady in Blue
Oil on canvas
24 ⅛ by 30 in, w/ frame 32 ¼ by 38 in
Signed lower right
Francois Gerome was born in Budapest in 1895. He attended ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Port de Peche Mediterranean
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Pradel
French, 1835-1892
Port de Peche Mediterranean
Oil on canvas
23 ¾ by 39 ⅝ in, w/ frame 33 ⅝ by 49 ½ in
Signed lower right
He exhibited in many salons including the Unive...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Jardin du Versailles
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Roux
French, 1853-1929
Les Jardin du Versailles
Oil on canvas
23 ⅝ by 32 in, w/ frame 30 ¼ by 38 ½ in
Signed lower right
George Roux was a French ...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Madeleine, Paris
By Johannes Schiefer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Johannes Schiefer
Dutch-American, 1896-1979
La Madeleine, Paris
Oil on canvas
10 by 15 ¾ in, w/ frame 12 ½ by 17 ¾ in
Signed lower left
Johannes Schiefer, painter of landscapes and...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jardin des Tuileries
By Gabriel Spat
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gabriel Spat
American, 1890-1967
Jardin des Tuileries
Oil on board
8 ⅛ by 11 ⅛ in, w/ frame 13 ¾ by 17 in
Signed lower left
Gabriel Spat spent most of his career in France painting...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coastal View
By Joaquin Mir Trinxet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Joaquín Mir Y Trinxet
Spanish, 1873-1940
Coastal View
Oil on board
11 ¾ by 16 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 29 ¼ in
Signed lower right
Joaquín Mir Trinxet was a Catalan Spanish artist. Livi...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marchande de Fleurs
By Emilio Grau Sala
Located in Sheffield, MA
Emilio Grau-Sala
Spanish, 1911-1975
Marchande de Fleurs
Oil on Canvas
23 ¾ by 29 in, w/ frame 32 ½ by 37 ½ in
Signed lower left
Son of the draughtsman Juan Grau Miró, Grau Sala com...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Madame Susanne, the Artist’s Wife
By Louis Valtat
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Valtat
French, 1869-1952
Portrait of Madame Susanne, the Artist’s Wife
Oil on canvas
19 ⅝ by 25 ⅝ in, w/ frame 28 ½ by 34 ⅜ in
Initialed lower left
Louis Valtat was a French ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Fruits and Vegetables
By Constantin Terechkovitch
Located in Sheffield, MA
Constantin Terechkovitch
Russian/French 1902-1978
Still Life with Fruits and Vegetables
Oil on Canvas
25 by 31 in, w/ frame 34 ⅜ by 40 ¾ in
Signed lower left
Constantin Terechkovit...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Park, Versailles
By Wynford Dewhurst
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wynford Dewhurst
British, 1864-1941
The Park, Versailles
Oil on Canvas
23 ½ by 29 in, w/ frame 31 ½ by 36 ½ in
Signed Wynford Dewhurst lower left
A controversial figure on the Angl...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Look at the Menu
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
A Look at the Menu
Oil on Canvas
21 ¼ by 25 ½ in, w/ frame 27 ¾ by 32 ¼ in
Signed lower right
Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
$21,600
Spring Landscape
By George Laurence Nelson
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Laurence Nelson
American, 1887-1978
Spring Landscape
Oil on canvas
20 ⅛ by 24 ⅛ in, w/ frame 28 by 32 in
Signed and dated 1912 lower right
George Laurence Nelson was born in...
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rainy Day in New York
By Harry Leith-Ross
Located in Sheffield, MA
Harry Leith-Ross
American, 1886-1973
Rainy Day in New York
Oil on board
8 by 10 ¼ in, w/ frame 12 by 14 ½ in
Signed lower left
Landscape painter Harry Leith-Ross was born in Mauriti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Day at the Races
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gertrude Fiske
American, 1879-1961
Day at the Races
Oil on Canvas
10 by 14 in, w/ frame 14 by 18 in
Fiske (1879-1961) was a Boston School Painter, a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Blue Drapery
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lillian Burk Meeser
American, 1864-1942
Still Life with Blue Drapery
Oil on canvas
32 by 36 in, w/ frame 38 by 42 ¼ in
Signed lower left
Born at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, on July ...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stony Brook, Long Island
By Paul Bernard King
Located in Sheffield, MA
Paul Bernard King
American, 1867-1947
Stony Brook, Long Island
Oil on canvas
25 ¼ by 30 ¼ in, w/ frame 34 ¼ by 39 ¼ in
Signed and titled verso
Traditional American painter Paul Kin...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Between the Red Rocks
By Hayley Lever
Located in Sheffield, MA
Richard Hayley Lever
American, 1876-1958
Between the Red Rocks
Oil on Canvas
20 ¼ by 24 ¼ in, w/ frame 28 ½ by 33 in
Signed Hayley Lever lower right
Richard Hayley Lever was born o...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
House with a Flower Garden
Located in Sheffield, MA
Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer
American, 1877-1959
House with a Flower Garden
Oil on board
16 by 20 in, w/ frame 21 ½ by 25 ¼ in
Signed lower right
A plein-air painter of landscapes and f...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Zinnias
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lillian Burk Meeser
American, 1864-1942
Still Life with Zinnias
Oil on canvas
32 ¼ by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 36 ¼ by 40 ¼ in
Signed lower right
Born at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, on Jul...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract in Blue
By Margaret Peggy Reventlow
Located in Sheffield, MA
Peggy Reventlow
American, 1915-2014
Abstract in Blue
Oil on canvas
36 by 48 in, w/ frame 38 ¼ by 50 ¼ in
Signed verso
Reventlow studied at Le Cours Maintnon in Paris and at Le Coll...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl with a Green Parrot
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg
American, 1872-1965
Girl with a Green Parrot
Oil on Canvas
19 ¾ by 23 ¾ in, w/ frame 24 ½ by 28 ½ in
Signed Louis Kronberg 1907 upper right
Louis Kronberg, a popular...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rue de Village et Maisons
By Paul-Élie Gernez
Located in Sheffield, MA
Paul-Élie Gernez
French, 1888-1948
Rue de Village et Maisons
Oil on Canvas
23 ¾ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 34 ½ by 39 ½ in
Signed lower right
Paul-Élie Gernez (1888–1948) was a French pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Quai Du Louvre, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Quai Du Louvre, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in, w/ frame 21 ¾ by 26 in
Signed lower left
Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the Fre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rainy Evening in Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Rainy Evening in Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in, w/ frame 23 ⅞ by 27 ⅞ in
Signed lower right
Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking Through the Window
By Pierre Roussel
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pierre Roussel
French, 1927-1995
Looking Through the Window
Oil on Canvas
21 ½ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 ¼ by 36 ½ in
Signed lower right
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Canal View
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien-Hector Jonas
French, 1880-1947
Canal View
Oil on Canvas
21 ¼ by 29 in, w/ frame 32 ½ by 40 in
Signed lower left
Jonas was born in the town of Anzin in northern France. He fi...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Love Letter by the Sea
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henri Bénard
French, 1860-1927
A Love Letter By the Sea
Oil on Canvas
19 ¾ by 24 in, w/ frame 26 by 30 in
Signed Henri Bénard lower left
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monhegan
Located in Sheffield, MA
Prosper Louis Senat
American, 1852-1925
Monhegan
Oil on Canvas
20 by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 26 ¼ by 42 ¼ in
With artist's plaque
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1852, Prospe...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marche De Fleurs, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, Born 1900
Marche De Fleurs, Paris
Oil on canvas
20 by 24 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 29 ½ in
Signed lower left
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter known for hi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Park Terrace in St. Cloud
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alfred Nathaniel Oppenheim
German, 1873-1953
Park Terrace in St. Cloud
Oil on board
12 ¾ by 16 ¼ in, w/ frame 19 by 22 ½ in
Signed and dated 1908
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Basket of Fruit
By Charles Levier
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Levier
French, 1920-2004
Basket of Fruit
Oil on Canvas
24 ¼ by 30 ¼ in, w/ frame 33 ½ by 39 ½ in
Signed upper right
Charles Levier was born in 1920 from a French father and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Notre Dame
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Colin
Belgian, 1881-1961
View of Notre Dame
Oil on Board
19 by 23 ¾ in, w/ frame 24 by 28 ¾ in
Signed lower right
Jean Colin was born in 1881 in Ixelles, Belgium. Colin traine...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boats in the Harbor
By Jean Even
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Even
French, 1910-1986
Boats in the Harbor
Oil on Canvas
21 ¼ by 25 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 ¾ by 34 in
Signed Even lower right
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shoveling Snow
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jules Rene Herve
French, 1887-1981
Shoveling Snow
Oil on Canvas
8 ¾ by 10 ¾ in, w/ frame 14 ½ by 16 ½ in
Signed lower right
J.R. Herve, an impressionist of our time, is the very ty...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Snow Day
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jules Rene Herve
French, 1887-1981
Snow Day
Oil on Canvas
8 ¾ by 10 ¾ in, w/ frame 14 ½ by 16 ½ in
Signed lower left
J.R. Herve, an impressionist of our time, is the very type of a...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,600
Les Fruits
Located in Sheffield, MA
André Raffin
French, 1927-2005
Les Fruits
Oil on Canvas
18 ¼ by 22 in, w/ frame 25 ½ by 29 ¼ in
Signed lower right
André Raffin was born in 1927 in Evreux, France. He was one of th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,400
Vieux Bassin de Honfleur
By Achille-Émile Othon Friesz
Located in Sheffield, MA
Achille-Emile Othon Friesz
French, 1879-1949
Vieux Bassin de Honfleur
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 31 ⅜ by 36 ½ in
Signed lower right
Achille-Emile Othon Friesz, who lat...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monaco - Monte Carlo
By Johannes Schiefer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Johannes Schiefer
Dutch-American, 1896-1979
Monaco - Monte Carlo
Oil on canvas
25 ¼ by 30 ⅛ in, w/ frame 33 ½ by 38 ½ in
Signed lower right, titled lower left
Johannes Schiefer, pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and Children Having a Picnic
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jules Rene Herve
French, 1887-1981
Mother and Children Having a Picnic
Oil on canvas
28 ¾ by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 38 ¼ by 45 ½ in
Signed lower right
J.R. Herve, an impressionist of ou...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Côte d’Azur
Located in Sheffield, MA
Michel Dureuil
French, born 1929
Côte d’Azur
Oil on Canvas
15 by 18 ¼ in, w/ frame 22 ¾ by 25 ¾ in
Signed lower right
Michel Dureuil was born in Paris...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Corsican Shore
By Emile Marie Beaume
Located in Sheffield, MA
Émile Marie Beaume
French, 1888-1967
Corsican Shore
Oil on Canvas
18 ⅛ by 21 ⅝ in, w/ frame 25 ½ by 29 ¼ in
Signed lower right
French painter, lithographer, engraver and fresco art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Plage a Girolato
By Charles Levier
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Levier
French, 1920-2004
La Plage a Girolato
Oil on Canvas
30 by 40 in, w/ frame 38 ⅝ by 49 in
Signed lower left, titled verso
Charles Levier was born in 1920 from a French...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Girl on a Balcony
Located in Sheffield, MA
Kurt Polter
German, 1914-1987
Young Girl on a Balcony
Oil on Canvas
31 ¼ by 39 ½ in, w/ frame 39 ⅝ by 47 ½ in
Signed lower right
Kurt Polter was born in 1914 in Kassel, Germany. Hi...
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Jardin Du Giverny
By Frederick William MacMonnies
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frederick William MacMonnies
American, 1863-1937
Les Jardin Du Giverny
Oil on Canvas
21 by 25 in, w/ frame 27 ⅞ by 31 ⅞ in
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick ...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pont Neuf
By Frank Myers Boggs
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Myers Boggs
American, 1855-1926
Pont Neuf
Oil on Canvas
21 ⅜ by 25 ½ in, w/ frame 27 ⅜ by 31 ¾ in
Signed and dated 1896
At an early age, Frank Myers Boggs moved from Springfi...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
At the Flower Market
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Sheffield, MA
Walt Francis Kuhn
American, 1877-1949
At the Flower Market
Oil on Canvas
15 by 18 in, w/ frame 22 ½ by 25 ½ in
Signed lower right
A painter and major organizer of the Armory Show, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunlight on the Water
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Ivar Berg
Swedish, 1916-2003
Sunlight on the Water
Oil on Canvas
32 ¼ by 38 ½ in, w/ frame 32 ¾ by 39 in
Signed lower right
John Ivar Berg was a Swedish artist who studied at ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Personnages Dans un Parc
By Pierre Anfosso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pierre Anfosso
French, 1928-2004
Personnages Dans un Parc
Oil on Canvas
15 by 18 in, w/ frame 21 ½ by 24 ½ in
Signed lower left
Pierre Anfosso (1 Dece...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Framed in a fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York
Trinity House Paintings, London
Private Collcetion, New York
Alexander Avenard Collection
Le Trianon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bathers
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathers
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman and Child
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Woman and Child
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bathing Group
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathing Group
Oil on canvas board
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
12 by 16 in. W/frame 20 by 24 i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother & Child in a Landscape, framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame
By André Gisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Gisson
American, 1921-2003
Mother & Child in a Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in. W/frame 32 by 44 in.
Signed lower left
Framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pale Morning
By Michiel Gloeckner
Located in Sheffield, MA
Michael Gloeckner
American, 1915-1989
Pale Morning
Oil on canvas
30 by 30 in. W/frame 31 by 31 in.
Signed lower right, & titled & dated 1966 on reverse on stretcher
Michael lived ...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil