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'Regionalist Landscape', California Watercolor Society, GGIE, Chouinard
By Marcel Emile Cailliet
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Cailliet' and dated 1940; additionally inscribed verso, 'Marcel Emile Cailliet, Los Angeles'. A softly-painted, Regionalist landscape showing a woman standin...
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

'Piano And Violin Recital', Paris Salon, Royal Academy, Still Life of Tulips
By Karl Harald Alfred Broge
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Alf. Broge' for Carl Harald Alfred Broge (Danish, 1870-1955) and dated '1918'. Alfred Broge first studied with Helger Gronvold and, from 1889 to 1891, at Denmar...
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1910s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Seated Nude', Paris, Académie Chaumière, Salon D'Automne, LACMA, Woman Sculptor
By Caroline Lloyd
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed 'Lloyd' for Caroline Lloyd (American, 1875-1945), created circa 1935 and impressed with foundry stamp, 'C. Valsuani Cire Perdue', for Claude Valsuani Fonderie, Paris. Please...
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1930s Nude Sculptures

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Bronze

'Radiant Abstraction', Kinetogenics, AIC, SFMoMA, SFMA, São Paulo Biennial
By Richard Irving Bowman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'R. Bowman' for Richard Irving Bowman (American, 1918-2001), titled, 'Kg. 55' (Kinetogenics 55) and dated February 1962. Additionally titled, on stretcher bar verso, 'Kg 55'. Accompanied by a first edition copy of 'Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions', by Patricia Watts and Stefanie De Winter, published 2018. Richard Bowman's work is featured in the July/August 2024 issue of Architectural Digest, in an article titled, 'Inside a 1920s LA Respite, Re-envisioned by Jamie Bush. Richard Bowman was awarded a scholarship to study at the Art Institute of Chicago and received his Bachelor's degree in 1942. He subsequently attended the University of Iowa, receiving his Master's degree in 1945. Over the course of a long and distinguished career, Bowman exhibited internationally with success and was the recipient of numerous gold medals, prizes and juried awards. With the Kinetogenics Series, which he began in 1956, Bowman explored the intersection of color and light using contemporary advances in light theory and fluorescence technology. "For this series, he started using fluorescent enamel alkyd paint, which, Bowman stated, emitted an actual, measurable energy from the canvas. He combines his early concept of elemental radiants with the gestures of a mature Abstract Expressionist. Incorporating bold fluorescent strokes of orange, yellow and blue, which are activated by the ultraviolet in daylight, Bowman's new abstractions represented a synthesis of the physical and sensorial transmissions of energy. The combination of the artist's interests in nuclear physics, atoms, and dynamism with these vibrant colors reflected Bowman's increasing confidence as an unconventional artist working in an unconventional medium." (Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions, p. 13) "The 'kinetogenic' series which Bowman has been painting recently, are whorls of pure energy in colors from the violet edges of the spectrum in vibrant relationship to the vivid primaries of the center. These paintings have much less sense of place or landscape than Bowman paintings we have seen before. The “Environs” group accompanying the energy pictures in this exhibition, are, on the other hand, specific about place: are of flower beds and branches of trees, painted with the same brilliant color intensity. This use of vibrant colors gives an all-over electric, textural effect in contrast to the after-image jump which obtains when the vibrants are painted flat and geometric. This textural mosaic effect is close to the vision of heat and passionate rhythm which was central to pre-Columbian art, and is still present in the Mexican arts and crafts, which were one of Bowman’s formative sources. It is interesting to note that several of the painters who have influenced many others to experiment with vibrancy and glow in color, found their own impetus in this direction while painting in Mexico. Bowman was one of the painters who was working with fluorescents when the general tendency was to paint with muck. One feels that using color thus leads the artist, as it did his pre-Columbian esthetic ancestors, in the direction where the ecstatic becomes mystic." (courtesy: Artforum, April 1964) Thomas Albright writes of the artist, "Visiting Mexico on a traveling fellowship in the early 1940s, [Bowman] met Gordon Onslow-Ford, with whom he renewed a friendship after moving to San Mateo County in the early 1950s. His paintings, although gestural and abstract, were close in spirit to those of the Dynaton artists than to the mainstream of Abstract Expressionism. They constituted an intensely lyrical and metaphorical abstract Impressionism inspired by Bonnard and an intimacy with the natural environment. Bowman was also influenced by jazz improvisation and the jazz poetry of Kenneth Patchen, a close friend" (p. 263) EDUCATION Art Institute of Chicago, BFA, 1944 University of Iowa, MFA, 1949 AWARDS 1942 Edward L. Ryerson Foreign Traveling Fellowship, Art Institute of Chicago (Mexico) 1945 William M. R. French Memorial Gold Medal, Art Institute of Chicago 1952 Modern Painting Prize, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1972 Gift of Time Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1945 The Pinacotheca Gallery (Rose Fried Gallery) New York 1946 Milwaukee Art Institute, Wisconsin 1949 Swetzoff Gallery, Boston 1949 Bern Porter Gallery, Sausalito, CA 1950 Kinetic ... A commentary on the relationship of SCIENCE and ART. Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1956 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 1957-1977 (every 18 months) Rose Rabow Galleries, San Francisco 1961 Richard Bowman: Paintings and Reflections.1943-1961. San Francisco Museum of Art 1970 Richard Bowman: Paintings from 1966-1970. San Francisco Museum of Art 1972 Richard Bowman: Paintings, 1943-1972. Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico. Traveled to the Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 1972; and Sacred Heart Convent Gallery, Menlo Park, 1972 1986 Richard Bowman: Forty Years of Abstract Painting. Harcourts Modern Gallery, San Francisco 2000 Rock and Sun: Richard Bowman's Pioneer Abstractions of the 1940s. Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco 2019 Radiant Abstractions, Curated by Patricia Watts. the Landing Gallery, Los Angeles TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 1945 Room of Chicago Art: Paintings by Richard Bowman and Russell Woeltz. Art Institute of Chicago. 1947 Joan Mitchell and Richard Bowman: Oil Paintings. Harry and Della Burpee Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois. Traveled to University of Illinois. Sponsored by Rockford Art Association. 1959 Gordon Onslow Ford and Richard Bowman. San Francisco Museum of Art 1990 Independent Abstraction: A Survey of Paintings by Richard Bowman and Emerson Woelffer. Harcourts Modern & Contemporary Art, San Francisco. SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1943 Ras-Martin Gallery, Mexico City 1945 56th Annual American Exhibition of Oil Paintings. Art Institute of Chicago 1945 Art of This Century Gallery, New York 1947–48 Abstract and Surrealist American Art: Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. Art Institute of Chicago. Curators: Daniel Catton Rich, Frederick A. Sweet, and Katherine Kuh. Catalogue. 1948 Fourth Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art. State University of Iowa, Iowa City. Organized by Lester D. Longman. Included Milton Avery, Max Beckmann, Leonora Carrington, Max Ernst, Hans Hofmann, and others. Brochure. 1948 Joslyn Memorial Art Museum, Omaha, NE 1949 2nd Biennial Exhibition of Paintings and Prints. Walker Art Center, juried show, Minneapolis, 1949. Brooklyn Museum. 1951 [Group exhibition of University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, artists.] Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Included William McCloy, Robert Gadbois, John Kacere, and other instructors from the School or Art, University of Manitoba. 1952 Sixty-ninth Annual Spring Show. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Bowman awarded Modern Painting Prize. 1953 Annual Exhibition of Canadian Painting. The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Included John Kacere, William McCloy, Roland Wise, and Takao Tanabe. 1953 Winnipeg Group. Vancouver Art Gallery. Included William McCloy, John Kacere, Cecil Richards, Roland Wise. 1953–54 São Paulo Biennial of Modern Art, Second edition. Canadian section. Traveled to Caracas, Venezuela, and the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Catalogue. 1954 [Group exhibition of Winnipeg artists.] Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Included Oscar Cah n, William McCloy, and Cecil Richards. 1954 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto 1958 Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles 1959 Rabow Galleries, San Francisco. Included Julius Wasserstein, Gordon Onslow Ford, and Fred Reichman. June 18, 1960 David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA. Included Ruth Awasa, John Baxter, Nankoku Hidai, Onslow Ford, Fritz Rauh, David Simpson, and Jean Varda. 1961 Paintings from the Pacific: Japan, America, Australia, & New Zealand. Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand. Catalogue. 1961–62. Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture. Fine Arts Gallery, Carnegie Institute. 1962 50 California Artists. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Art, with assistance of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and Des Moines Art Center, IA. Catalogue. February 1966 Contrasts. San Francisco Art Institute. Included Hassel Smith, Gordon Onslow Ford, and Ruth Asawa. October 1967 Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco. Included Lee Mullican, Fred Reichman, Amalia Schulthess, and John Baxter. 1975 Gallery 865, San Francisco 1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1978 Creation. Galerie Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland. Included Joan Mir , Fritz Rauh, John Anderson, Ruth Asawa, J.B. Blunk, Roberto Matta, Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow Ford, Wolfgang Paalen, Fritz Rauh, Yves Tanguy, and others. Accompanying book by Onslow Ford. 1984 A Personal Selection/Collection. David Cole Gallery, Inverness, CA. Forty-eight artists including Richard Diebenkorn, Claire Falkenstein, Richard Faralla, Sam Francis, Arthur Holman, Frank Lobdell, Ed Moses, Gordon Onslow Ford, Fritz Rauh, David Simpson, Amalia Schulthess, Jean Varda, Jack Wright, J.B. Blunk. 1987 Visions of Inner Space: Gestural Painting in Modern American Art. Wight Gallery, UCLA. Fifteen artists including Sam Francis, Morris Graves, John Anderson, Lee Mullican, Gordon Onslow Ford, Mark Tobey, and Ed Moses. Co-curated by Merle Schipper and Lee Mullican. Catalogue. Traveled to National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, 1988 1997 Through the Light: An Exploration into Consciousness. Arts and Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California. Curated by Farbiba Bogzaran. Catalogue. 1998 Lee Mullican Memorial Exhibtion. Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles. 2007 The Rose Rabow Galleries Retrospective: 1959-1977. The 8 Gallery, San Franicsco. 2008 Landscapes of Consciousness: A Circle of Artists at the Beginning of Lucid Art. Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco. Included Gordon Onslow Ford, Fritz Rauh, John Anderson, and Jack Wright. Catalogue. 2016 Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, the Landing Gallery, Palm Springs, CA 2018 Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo. Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA. Catalogue. 2019 FOG Design+Art. the Landing Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2020 FOG Design+Art. the Landing Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2022 FOG Design+Art. the Landing Gallery, San Francisco, CA MUSEUM COLLECTIONS Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan Oakland Museum of California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California The Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia BOOKS AND CATALOGUES 1947 Rich, Daniel Catton. Abstract and Surrealist American Art: Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago. 1948 Fourth Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art. Iowa City: State University of Iowa. 1956 Porter, Bern. Kinetic: A commentary on the relation of Science and Art in conjunction with a retrospective exhibition of paintings by Richard Bowman. Palo Alto: Stanford University Art Gallery. 1986 Kim Eagles-Smith, ed. Richard Bowman: Forty Years of Abstract Painting. San Francisco: Harold Parker in association with Harcourts Modern Gallery, Inc. 1961 Culler, George D. Richard Bowman, Paintings and Reflections, 1943-1901. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art. 1962 Culler, George D. 50 California Artists. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. 1972 Nordland, Gerald. Richard Bowman, Paintings, 1943-1972, Roswell, NM: Roswell Museum and Art Center. 1978 Onslow Ford, Gordon. Creation. Basel: Galerie Schreiner. 1987 Schipper, Merle. Visions of Inner Space: Gestural Painting in Modern American Art. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, UCLA. With introduction by Lee Mullican. 1997 Bogzaran, Fariba. Through the Light: An Exploration into Consciousness. San Francisco: Dream Creations. 2008 Bogzaran, Fariba. Landscapes of Consciousness: A Circle of Artists at the Beginning of Lucid Art. San Francisco: Weinstein Gallery. 2018 Bogzaran, Fariba, ed. Artists, Poets, and Visionaries of the S.S. Vallejo: 1949-1969. Inverness, CA: Lucid Art Foundation. ARTICLES AND REVIEWS [Review of Solo Exhibition at The Pinacotheca Gallery.] Art News. March 1945. “Joan Mitchell, Richard Bowman Open TwoMan Show Tomorrow at Art Association Meeting.” Rockford Morning Star (IL). January 1947. Robert Ayre. [Review of Exhibition, Montreal Mu-seum of Fine Arts.] Montreal Daily Star. 1951. Ben Metcalfe. "Varsity Art Shock —A Morbid Hoax?" Winnipeg Tribune, December 3, 1951. Beverly Wright. "Richard Bowman, abstract painter, has one-man show at Stanford Gallery." Palo Alto Times. February 17, 1956. "Atomic Art Show at Stanford." San Francisco Chronicle. February, 19, 1956. "P.A. Artist Portrays Energy in Oils." San Jose Mercury News. July 25, 1958. Neita Crain Farmer. "A Solitary Voice: Richard Bowman's Paintings Say Something, In A New Way." Palo Alto Times. May 30, 1959. Barbara Bladen. "Dick Bowman's Paintings Show Atomic Awareness," San Mateo Times. July 18, 1959. Arthur Bloomfield. "Two Top Painters at San Francisco Museum." San Francisco Call Bulletin. July 31, 1959. Alfred Frankenstein. "Slow and Fast Sculpture and Kinetogenics." San Francisco Chronicle. May 24, 1959. "Paintings on Display: Bowman and Onslow Ford Show." San Francisco Weekly. July 1959. Herman Wong. "Bowman's Art Seen At Show, Artist Builds Studio Near Hillside House." Red-wood City Tribune, September 15, 1960. Dean Wallace. "Four Bring Their Art to Perfec-tion." San Francisco Chronicle. September 30, 1960. Dean Wallace. "A Painter Looks at the Atom." San Francisco Chronicle. May 29, 1961. Alfred Frankenstein. [Review of retrospective at San Francisco Museum of Art.] San Francisco Chronicle. November 12, 1961. "International Art." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sunday Magazine. October 29, 1961. "Pacific Paintings Show Common Character-istics." The Press (Auckland, New Zealand). August 5, 1961. Naomi Baker. "San Francisco's Art Is Viewed." San Diego Evening Tribune. January 26, 1962. John Canaday. "Visitors From the West." New York Times. October 28, 1962. Arthur Bloomfield. "Lost in a World They Were Never Made For." San Francisco News-Call Bulletin. August 3, 1963. Arthur Bloomfield. "Bowman Paints His Own Path." San Francisco News-Call Bulletin. February 11, 1964. "The Rockford Fifty States of Art Exhibition." Palo Alto Times. October 5, 1965. Alfred Frankenstein. "Bowman's Radiant Ab-stract Art." San Francisco Chronicle. November 12, 1965. Thomas Albright. "A Kind of Non-Art Show: Brilliant Work by Bowman." San Francisco Chronicle, February 14, 1970. Paul Emerson, "Menlo Gallery Shows Bow-man Art: Major Retrospective Show." Palo Alto Times. October 6, 1972. Arthur Bloomfield. "A Luxuriant Impact to Bowman Paintings." San Francisco Examiner. November 20, 1972. Thomas Albright. "Two Artists Views of Na-ture." San Francisco Chronicle. October 9, 1974. Arthur Bloomfield. "All But the Kitchen Sink." San Francisco Examiner. September 24, 1974. Thomas Albright. "Realism Moves In." San Francisco Chronicle. Thursday, September 4, 1975. Suzanne Muchnic. "Inspired Visions of Inner Worlds at UCLA." Los Angeles Times. January 10, 1988. Reference: Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, page 404; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 2, page 701; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, Thomas Albright, University of California Press, 1985, page 263; A Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists, Paul Cummings, St. Martin’s Press: New York 1966, page 66-67; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Supplement, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith: New York 1948 Edition, R.R. Bowker Company 1940, page 31; Richard Bowman: Radiant Abstractions, essays by Patricia Watts and Stefanie De Winter, published by Watts Art...
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1960s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Alkyd

'Coastal Landscape', Berlin, Paris, Romantic Landscape, Riga, Benezit, Sailing
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Krause' for Franz Emil Krause (German, 1836-1900) and painted circa 1865. Displayed in an exceptionally fine, hand-carved, gilt-wood and gesso frame. Framed Dime...
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1860s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

'Provençal Landscape', Academie Chaumiere, Salon des Artistes Françaises, Paris
By Georges Lambert
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998) and inscribed lower left, number and limitation, '19/175'. Georges Lambert first studied in Paris at the Academie de la Gra...
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1960s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

'L'Étretat', French Post-Impressionist, Paris, Academie Chaumiere, Benezit
By Georges Lambert
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998) and inscribed lower left, number and limitation, '26/225'. Georges Lambert first studied in Paris at the Academie de la Gra...
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1960s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

'Peggy and Dot', Art Deco Sisters, Woman Artist, AIC, Paris, Salon d'Automne
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950) and created circa 1935; additionally titled lower left, 'Peggy and Dot' with number and limitation, '18/100'....
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1940s Figurative Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

'Abstracted Figural', Carmel Art Association, San Francisco Art Institute
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Alex Gonzales' (American, 1927-2020) and dated, '11/58'. A delicate and enigmatic, mid-century, painted collage showing a processio...
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1950s Mixed Media

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Resin, Paper, India Ink, Illustration Board, Magazine Paper

'Elves, Christmas Village on a Starry Night' San Francisco Post-Impressionist
By James March Phillips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'James March Phillips' (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965. Born in California, James March Phillips first studied in San Francisco at the Jean Turner Ar...
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1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Laid Paper

'Old Reliable', Early American Modernist, Jalopy, Model T Ford Flatbed Truck
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An American School watercolor showing an old Ford Model T flatbed truck backed up to a barn in a rural landscape. A well-composed work painted in a harmonious palette by an accomplis...
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1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

'The Doge's Palace, Venice'
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Tapie' for Viva Flower Tapie (American, 1897-1993) and painted circa 1925. Viva Flower Tapie was born in Sibley, Iowa and lived in Oakland, California where she...
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1920s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard, Pen

'After the Storm', Turbulent Seascape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Roy Sales' for Roy Rose Sales (American, 20th century) and dated September, 2003. Additionally dedicated, verso, signed and dated 2003. A substantial and atmosp...
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Early 2000s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

'A Pair of Mandarin Ducks Settled on a Pond'
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Framed dimensions: 11 H x 12.5 W x 1.25 D inches An elegant, 19th-century Chinese School, gouache scroll painting fragment showing a pair of a richly-pl...
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19th Century Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

'Grey Outpost, Fort Ross, California', Woman Artist, Modernist Park view
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Muriel Backman", titled verso and dated 1960. Painted on Arches paper. This notable California woman artist exhibited widely and with success from the 1930's th...
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1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950 on Cannery Row sardine paper. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu firs...
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1950s Figurative Prints

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Paper, Monotype

'Woman Wearing a Headscarf', Laguna Beach, California, Art Institute of Chicago
By Ruth Peabody
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ruth Peabody' for Ruth Eaton Colburn Peabody (American, 1893-1966) and painted circa 1955. Born in Highland Park, Illinois, Ruth Peabody was taught to paint as ...
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

'Seated Nude', Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, SFAA, LACMA, California Woman Artist
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Jane Ament De La Roche (American, 1916-2000) and created circa 1950. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Ament first studied at t...
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

'Nude', Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, SFAA, LACMA, California Woman Artist, Carmel
By Janet Ament De La Roche
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Jane Ament De La Roche (American, 1916-2000) and created circa 1950. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Ament first studied at t...
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1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Graphite

'Ferragamo Balloon Dog', Pop Art, California, Jeff Koons, Inflatable Canine
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Paulo Montano' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 2015. A substantial, Jeff Koons derived Pop Art study of an iconic pink balloon dog on a Salvatore Ferragamo pedestal contrasted against a background of ivory curtains...
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2010s Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Magazine Paper

'Seated Nude', American Modernist Graphite Figural Study
By Michael Decker
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "M. Decker" for Michael Decker (American, 20th century) and created circa 1975. An elegant graphite and india ink figural study of a young woman shown seated and...
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1970s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Graphite, Paper

'Industrial Complex'
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Peter Baczek' (American, born 1945) and dated 1983; additionally titled, lower left, 'Industrial Complex' with number and limitation, lower center, '14/80'. Pape...
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1980s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Etching, Aquatint

'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
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1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Graphite

'Portrait of a Woman', Myanmar Neck Ring, Mill Valley, Mystic Seaport Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J. Norall' for John Norall (American, 1920-2024) and painted circa 1993. Exhibited: Mill Valley Library Gallery, 1993 Born in North Platte, John Norall studied ...
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1990s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

'Dancer', Cubist Figural
By G. Distefano
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A Cubist-derived exploration of tone and the human form using airbrush techniques and negative space. Signed lower left 'G. Distefano' and dated 1965.
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1960s Figurative Paintings

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Paper, India Ink

'Still Life', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Academie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
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1950s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon

Seated Jester
By Dan Wuthrich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wuthrich', and accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity. Oil portrait of a jester dressed in black, white and emerald harlequin with bells on his collar and fool's hat, seated on a stone wall with the full moon hanging low in the coral and wine-red sky behind him. Raised in a family that supported Wuthrich's interest in the arts, Dan Wuthrich has been painting since he was eight and at eleven had artwork featured in a Wisconsin newspaper article. After high school, Wuthrich continued his fine art studies at the Layton School of Art from 1954-1959 and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1961 taking courses in printmaking, English, speech and psychology. While maintaining his painting career, Wuthrich established a professional career as an engineer from 1965 to 1991, working for American Motors...
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Late 20th Century Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

'Jade', Sir John Cass, Otis Art Institute, California
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed center left, 'PT' for Pearl Took (American, 1928-2012); additionally signed, dated 1977 and titled verso 'Portrait of Jade' with artist card. Born in England, Pearl Took...
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1970s Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

'Spring Flowers', Kansas, Carmel Art Association, Pratt Institute, AIC, ASL
By Charlotte Morton
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charlotte A. Morton' (American, 1885-1974) and painted circa 1955. A sensitive study of various blossoms including geraniums, lupin and catmint. A landscape p...
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1950s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Illustration Board, Graphite

'The Old Oak Tree, Bushey School of Art, British
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Laurence Bell' (British, died 1916) and painted circa 1910. Bell studied at the Bushey School of Art in Hertfordshire in England. His preferred subject was land...
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1890s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

'Bacchanal', Mid-century Pompeii, Roman Mythology, Bacchus, Neo-classical
By Giovanni Gallo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gallo Giovanni' for Giovanni Gallo (Italian, 20th century) and dated 1954. Titled lower left, 'Eseguito a Pompei, 'Trionfo di Bacco'' (Done in Pompeii, 'Triumph...
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1950s Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

'Map of Life', University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Still Life of Flowers, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Ryonosuke Fukui" (Japanese, 1923-1986), a listed artist, and created circa 1965. An artist's proof, hand-colored etching comprising superimposed, stylized plan...
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1960s Still-life Prints

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Paper, Etching

'Place du Tertre, Montmartre', Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Musée d'Art Moderne
By Yves Ganne
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Y. Ganne' for Yves Ganne (French, b. 1931), inscribed lower left with number and limitation, '87/150' and created circa 1975. Born in Anjou, Ganne first studied...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

'Fishing Boat in Harbor', Oakland, California, Woman artist
By Paula Koloday
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century oil of a tugboat moored in a calm harbor with a view towards a misty industrial port landscape beyond. Signed lower right, "Paula Koloday" (American, 20th century) and ...
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1960s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Paris, The Pont Neuf', Post-Impressionist, Fernand Léger, Musée d'Art Moderne
By Yves Ganne
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped verso with Certification of Authenticity for Yves Ganne (French, b. 1931). Signed lower right, 'Y. Ganne', inscribed lower left, 'Epreuve d' Artiste' (Artist's Proof) and cre...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

'A Bowl of Pomegranates', Academie Chaumiere, Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MoMA
By Pierre Garcia Fons
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Garcia Fons' for Pierre Garcia-Fons (French, 1928-2016), and inscribed lower left with edition number and limitation, '115/170'. Pierre Garcia-Fons left Spain d...
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1970s Still-life Prints

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Laid Paper, Lithograph

'Falaise de l'Étretat', French Post-Impressionist, Academie Chaumiere, Benezit
By Georges Lambert
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Georges Lambert' (French, 1919-1998) and inscribed lower left with number and limitation, '238/270'. Georges Lambert first studied in Paris at the Academie de l...
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1970s Landscape Prints

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Paper, Lithograph

'Consort', Modernist Equestrian Gouache, AIC, WPA artist, Benezit
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966); additionally titled verso 'Consort' and dated 1954 with inscription, 'by the one and only buk, made for Ruth'....
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1950s Animal Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Gouache, Illustration Board

'Abstract in Coral and Scarlet', Woman Artist, Pacific Grove Art Association
By Dorothy Stonely
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Stonely" for Dorothy Stonely (American, 20th century), titled verso "Redolent" and painted circa 2005. Abstract painting comprising interspersed with spiral clo...
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Early 2000s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Laid Paper

'Abstract in Azure and Jade', Large American School Watercolor
By D.M. Hubbard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial abstract watercolor comprising harmonious geometric forms arranged on a grid of blue, green, ivory and buff mosaic-like rectangles. Signed lower right "D.M. Hubbard" (A...
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1970s Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Handmade Paper

'Abstracted Sunset in Scarlet and Ochre', Woman Artist, California Modernist Oil
By Janice Haefner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of authenticity stamped verso for Janice Haefner (American, 1919-2002) and painted circa 1965. A substantial mid-century oil abstract comprising adjoining and overlapp...
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1960s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Study of a Young Woman', California Woman artist, Art Institute of Chicago
By Sarah Hobson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and dated, '1936'. A delicately modeled, gouache and watercolor study of a young woman with copper hair. Sarah Villarette Hoover Hobson studied...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

'Abstracted Lake Landscape', Wisconsin artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'C. Riter' for Carl Frederick Riter (American, born. 1915) and dated '6-'67'. Stamped verso with certification of authenticity...
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1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Glue, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen

'Woodland Stream in Spring', San Francisco Bay Area, Monterey, California
By James March Phillips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Phillips" for James March Phillips (American, 1913-1981) and painted circa 1965. A profusion of autumn-tinged, California flora is shown growing beside the lush...
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1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

'Garden Landscape with River', 19th Century Kano School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A finely-drawn Kano School watercolor and gouache showing figures in kimonos on a bridge and seated beside a stylized river flowing through a graceful garden. An elegantly formal com...
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Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

'Manila, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception', Intramuros General Luna Street
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right indistinctly, ( A.B. Delarova? ) and dated, '68''. Inscribed verso, 'Manila, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception viewed from General Luna Street'. A deftly-painted, tonalist oil painting showing of this elegant section of Manila with the silhouette of the dome of the cathedral as viewed from the far end General Luna Street. This minor basilica (Catedral Metropolitana de la Inmaculada Concepción), also known as Manila Cathedral, is located in Intramuros, the historic walled city located in the heart of today's modern city of Manila. It is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
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1960s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Fishermen at Monterey Wharf'
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Katherine Wengi' for Katherine Wengi O'Connor (American, 1936-1984); additionally inscribed verso with artist information. This listed Oregon artist was a membe...
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1960s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

'San Francisco and the Bay', Early California Woman Artist, Palo Alto Art Club
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Elva Senter' (American, 1891-1973) and painted circa 1975; additionally inscribed verso. Born in Callao, Missouri, Elva Senter moved to Oklahoma with her famil...
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1970s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

'New England Harbor', Cazenovia Watercolor Society, Connecticut, Adirondacks
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Tom McCobb' for Thomas McCobb (American, 1930-2020); additionally inscribed verso with artist's name, title and medium. Tom McCobb began focusing on his watercolor painting in the early 1980s in Connecticut and continued to paint with success after moving to New York where he became a member of the Cazenovia Watercolor Society...
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1990s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Laid Paper, Watercolor

'Woman Seated', Post Impressionist Woman Artist, Fauve, Carmel, California, PAFA
By Virginia Sevier Rogers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed lower left, 'VSR' for Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1916-2015) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado., Virginia Sevi...
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1970s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel

'Leaving the Garden of Eden', Mid-century American Expressionist, Adam and Eve
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'John T Stephens' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; additionally inscribed, verso, with title, 'Leaving the Garden of Eden' and signed. Paper dime...
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1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Acrylic, Gouache, Laid Paper

'Reclining Nude', Mid-century German Expressionist, Düsseldorf, Venice Biennale
By Kurt Craemer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signer lower right, 'Craemer' for Kurt Craemer (German, 1912-1961) and dated 1954. Born in Saarbrucken, Craemer first attended the Academy of Cologne in 1928 where he worked under F...
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink

'Reclining Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A figural pencil drawing of a young woman shown reclining on a bed. Created by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955 and stamped, verso, with Victor di Gesu estate stamp. ...
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1950s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

'Garden of Eden', Idyllic Haitian Folk Art, Arcadian, Paradise, Giraffe, Leopard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A charming and substantial work with a strong, rhythmic compositional sense, vivid color and excellent naturalistic detail. Signed indistinctly lower right, 'Pisuri', inscribed 'Hai...
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1990s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

'Still Life of Peruvian Lilies', California Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art Guild
By Cathy Puccinelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Puccinelli' for Cathy Puccinelli, (American, born 1952), a member of the Santa Cruz Art Guild.
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Early 2000s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Still Life of Morning Glory', California Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art Guild
By Cathy Puccinelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Puccinelli' for Cathy Puccinelli, (American, born 1952), a member of the Santa Cruz Art Guild.
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Early 2000s Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Abstract in Rose and Blue', Oregon Woman Artist, Portland State, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Gertrude Schoeler' (American, 1913-2007) and dated December, 1980. Additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bars and with artist...
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1980s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

'Abstract in Magenta and Indigo', Geometric Abstraction, Modernism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial oil abstract comprising a royal blue and citron triangle contained within receding rectangular elements on a scumbled pink and magenta background. American school, uns...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Abstract in Saffron and Sage', NYU, National Association Women Artists, NYAE
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M.S. Bremer' for Marlene Bremer (German-American, 1937-2018); additionally titled, verso, 'Spring Series 96 No. 3', signed and painted circa 1996. Displayed in a...
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1990s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

'Portrait of Gene Harrison', Pasadena, Parsons School of Design
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial and psychologically penetrating study of the American musician. Signed lower right with monogram; titled and dated, verso, 1977. Born in England, Pearl Took first stu...
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1970s Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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