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'Venice', Large Venetian Vedute Oil, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo Sogenkai
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'T. Takashima' for Tsuneo Takashima (Japanese, 1922-1975) and dated 1968; additionally signed, verso, in Kanji, 高島 常雄 (Takashima Tsuneo), titled, ベニス (Venice) and ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
'Still Life, Carafe and Coffee-pot', Italian Modernist, Style of Giorgio Morandi
By Giorgio Chiesi
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Chiesi' and painted circa 1975.
Born in Felina, in the province of Reggio Emilia, Chiesi first studied in Milan and, subsequently, with Vicentini Enzo and Gianf...
Category
1970s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Women Riding', Italian Modernism, Horses, Avant-Garde Equestrian oil, Morandi
By Luciano Spazzali
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Spazzali' for Luciano Spazzali (Italian, 1911-1997) and dated 1958.
A complex and lyrical equestrian work by this notable Italian Modernist and exponent of Magi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Plaster, Oil
'Abstract in Chestnut and Blue', Florence, Accademia delle Arti, Oil Triptych
By Gregory Deane
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Gregory Deane' (American, born 1938) and painted circa 1985.
Framed dimensions: 15 H x 31.5 W x 1.5 D inches
This contemporary California Expressionist incorpora...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Venetian Canal', Early Woman Post Impressionist, Stockholm Academy of Fine Arts
By Harriet Rosander
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Rosander' for Harriet Rosander de Tourtchaninoff (Danish, 1912-1965) and painted circa 1935.
A substantial, early twentieth-century, Post-Impressionist oil show...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Grand Canal', Venetian Vedute, Post-Impressionist, Royal Academy, Benezit
By Theodor Hagedorn Olsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Hagedorn-Olsen" for Theodor Hagedorn-Olsen (Danish, 1902-1996) and painted in 1989. Formerly in the collection of the Johannes Larsen...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life of Irises', Carmel, Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped with the artist's estate seal.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los A...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
'Lilac and Tulips', American School Floral Abstraction
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jane Malinasky' (American, 1920-2003) and dated, verso, 1980.
Jane Malinasky attended the College of William and Mary.
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
'Mimosa Tree Restaurant', Aegean, Cyclades, Japanese Artist in Greece, Feral Cat
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Hirano' for Yoshito Hirano (Japanese, born 1938) and created circa 1970; titled, verso, 'Mimosa Tree Restaurant'. Paper dimensions: 28...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
'When the Boats Were Made of Wood and the Men Were Made of Steel', Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early twentieth-century, American School oil study of a two-masted, clinker-built schooner undergoing repair in dry dock. Unsigned and painted circa 1925.
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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 a child by her mother, artist Elanor Colburn, and first studied sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. The two women moved to Laguna Beach, California, in 1924, and became active in the local art scene. At their studio, Peabody sculpted fountains and memorial plaques when not teaching, privately and at Laguna Beach High School.
Over the course of a long career, Ruth Peabody exhibited widely and with success including at the Panama Pacific Exhibition (1915), Art Institute of Chicago, Oakland Art Gallery (1932)and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1931) and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards. In 1939, the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego presented Peabody's abstract works in a solo exhibition, the first show of its kind by a regional artist. Her work is held in private and public collections including the San Diego Museum and Orange County Museum.
Exhibitions:
Panama Pacific Exhibition, 1915; Laguna Beach Art Association, 1925-52; County Fair (LA), 1925, 1931; California State Fair, 1926, 1936; West Coast Arts (LA), 1927; Biltmore Salon (LA), 1927; San Diego FA Gallery, 1929, 1931, 1937, 1939; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1931; California Art Club, 1927-32; Painters & Sculptors of LA, 1930-31; Pasadena Art Institute 1931; Olympiad, LACMA, 1932; Oakland Art Gallery, 1932; Whittier Art Gallery, 1934; Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939.
Collections:
Laguna Beach Art Gallery (fountain & medallion of Anna Hills...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'View of Montmartre with the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur', Paris, Post Impressionism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'K. H. Kaneko'; additionally inscribed, verso, 'K. H. Kaneko' and dated 1946
A substantial, Post-Impressionist oil on canvas showing a view of Montmartre lookin...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Lady in a Satin Dress', 19th Century, Neo-Classical Female Portrait Oil
By E. Brown
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "E. Brown' and dated 'May, 1844'.
A fine, mid-nineteenth century portrait of a lady of quality wearing the hairstyle made popular by Queen Victoria in the early years of her reign; the lady shown relaxed, standing beside a velvet-draped, Neo-Classical column and wearing a satin ball...
Category
1840s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Lida & the Swan', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA
By Arthur B. Davies
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur B. Davies' for Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928) and created circa 1915.
An early twentieth-century sugar-lift aquatint showing Zeus in the guise of a swan, reclining and cradling Lida in his wings while King Tyndareus ponders the mutability of human circumstance.
Born in Utica, New York, Arthur Davies attended the Chicago Academy of Design from 1879 to 1882. He furthered his studies at the Chicago Art Institute, before moving to New York City in 1885 where he studied at the Art Students League and Gotham Art Students League. In 1893, he made the first of many trips to Europe, visiting Holland, Paris, and London. He became an arch-exponent of Modernism and the central organizing figure of 1913's watershed Armory Show. Davies developed a style that combined visionary Symbolism with elements of Tonalism and Cubism.
Who Was Who in American Art describes him as an “…important but enigmatic Modernist whose work was poetic, mysterious, and visionary”. Davies was the recipient of many gold medals and prizes and juried awards and his work is held in the permanent collections of museums nationwide, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others.
Photo of Arthur B Davies circa 1907 in New York City by Gertrude Käsebier courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 1, p. 835; Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, p. 280; Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 7/8, p. 470; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 4, p. 293; Davenport’s Art Reference and Price Guide 2009/10 Edition, LTB Gordonsart, Inc. 2008, p. 672; et al.
Additional biographical information follows, written by Catherine Southwick and Robert Torchia from the National Gallery of Art Online Editions:
Arthur B. Davies’s mystical, mysterious paintings hearken back to 19th-century romanticism, even while Davies aligned himself with American artists advancing the most radical ideals of their day. Davies was born on September 26, 1862, in Utica, New York, the son of English and Welsh parents who had immigrated to the United States in 1856. He first took art lessons as a teenager from a local landscape painter, Dwight Williams...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
'The Water Carriers', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Académie des Beaux-Arts, New York
By Jean Pierre Serrier
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J. P. Serrier' for Jean Pierre Serrier (French, 1934-1989) and dated 1966
Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in Montparnasse and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
'Woman playing a Lute', New Figurative Movement, Italian Modernism, Large Oil
By Vittorio Maria Di Carlo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V.M. Di Carlo' for Vittorio Maria Di Carlo (Italian, 1939-2015) and painted circa 1980. Accompanied by artist label with title, 'Musicante' and gallery exhibition information.
Born in San Marco, Maria Vittorio Di Carlo...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Women Gathering Garlands', Paris, Cooper Union, Metropolitan Museum, NAD, NG
By Frederick Ballard Williams
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Fred. Ballard Williams' for Frederick Ballard Williams (American, 1871-1956) and dated 1906.
An early twentieth-century oil showing two young women in classical robes, one standing holding a polished silver mirror while her companion braids her hair with flowers, all beneath a canopy of foliage with a distant view beyond towards a body of blue water.
Frederick Ballard Williams first artistic training took place artistic training took place at the Cooper Union in New York and he subsequently worked for a time in the drafting room of John Williams. He later studied at the New York Institute of Artists with John Ward Stimson, before enrolling in the life class of the National Academy of Art where he studied under Charles Yardley Turner and Edgar Melville Ward.
Williams made two trips to Europe, first in 1904 and again in 1908. During his first trip, he visited France, staying with Henry Golden Dearth...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Marne', Paris, Museum of Modern Art, Salon d'Automne, Bernheim Jeune, ASL
By Paul Crotto
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Crotto' for Paul Crotto (French-American, 1922-2016); additionally signed, verso, and dated 1964.
A substantial Post-Impressionist oil showing a view of the Riv...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Tea Party', New York Art Students League, Fechin Institute, Santa Fe, Large Oil
By Gregory Frank Harris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Greg Harris' for Gregory Frank Harris (American, born 1953) and dated 1981. Additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Stea Life in a Pond'.
Framed dimensions: 34.5 H x 29.5 W x 2.5 D inches.
The study of art and the history of art are closely intertwined in the work of Gregory Frank Harris which reflects his exploration of technique and art history. Born in southern California, Harris and his twin brother grew up in a family that embraced the visual arts as well as theatre and music. During his stint at California State University in Long Beach, he studied both art and theatre, but also began writing music, which then became his primary focus. Over the next decade, Harris and his brother played piano and drums respectively in a variety of bands, earning their living in the nightclubs and hotels up and down the west coast. The first sign of a new direction appeared while the band was on the road in Spokane, Washington where Harris rekindled his interest in painting.
Like generations of artists before him, Harris turned to the old masters and the impressionist painters as sources for his study of painting. Harris was fortunate to have two of his copies, Rembrandt’s Woman with Pink and Gainsborough’s Blue Boy, selected as props for the 1982 film version of the musical Annie, directed by John Huston. Harris also began exhibiting at juried shows in 1982 and marketing his work nationally. Juried exhibitions--and awards--followed, including an unprecedented first, second and third place award in the popular vote at the historic Lyme Art...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Seated around the Fire', Argentine
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J. Roig' for Jose Roig (Argentinian-Spanish, 1898-1968) and painted circa 1955.
This Argentine-Spanish Modernist was born in Spain in 1898 and was painting in A...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Cardboard
'Manolo Gonzalez' Plaza de Toros, Maestranza, Seville, Bullfighting, Matador
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'John Fulton' (American, 1933-1998) and painted circa 1995.
The original oil painting for the poster advertising the appearance of Manolo Gonzalez at the prestigious Maestranza bullring in Seville and showing famous bullfighter in an emerald suit of lights, holding his espada at the ready while deflecting the enraged bull with his red cape.
John Fulton was an American bullfighter and painter who settled in Seville. Born in Philadelphia, he received a scholarship to an art school in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, in the early 1950s. During this time, he studied both painting and bullfighting, killing his first calf there in 1953. In 1954, Fulton joined the U.S. Army and continued and continued painting and bullfighting on his downtime. After his release in 1956, he moved to Spain where he studied bullfighting under Juan Belmonte and performed as a novillero (novice) with some of Spain’s leading matadors. In July 1963, Fulton was sponsored by José María Montilla to take his 'alternativa' at the Plaza de toros...
Category
1990s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Spring in the Soana Valley, ' Dolomites, Piedmont, Gran Paradiso National Park
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Incised signature lower left, 'A. Sacerdote' for Anselmo Sacerdote (Italian, 1868-1923), titled, lower right, 'Val Soana' and dated August, 1903.
Anselmo Sacerdote was born in Turin...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
'The Young Courtesan', 19th Century French School, French Romanticism, Large Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'P. Lagiere' (French, 19th century) and dated, '1868'. After 'La Jeune Courtisane', 1821, by Xavier Sigalon (French, 1787–1837), held in the permanent collection o...
Category
1860s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman in Green', Modernist Fashion Portrait in Green and Yellow, Paris
By Philippe Auge
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Auge" (French, born 1935) for Philippe Auge (French, born 1935) and painted circa 1965.
An elegant and substantial, mid-century figurative oil by this member of...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Red Canoe', Endicott College, Stamford Loft Art Association, Large Oil Painting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Kim Harris' for Kimberly Ann Harris (American, 1952-2022), titled, 'Red Canoe' and dated 2004.
A substantial oil painting showing a view of a moody and atmospheric se...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
'Maison Catherine, Montmartre', La Mere Catherine, Place du Tertre, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
20th Century French School; Signed indistinctly lower left, 'Mini?' and dated 1993.
A bright and breezy, spring-time view of Montmartre wi...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Abstract, Scarlet & Ochre', Saudi Society of Fine Arts, Alwan Group, Large Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Ablan' for Mohammed Al Ablan (Saudi, 20th century) and dated 1971.
A substantial and dynamic abstract comprising contiguous and fluidly overlapping areas of rose, scarlet, parchment and ochre.
Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Al Ablan holds a Diploma in Art Education and has participated in numerous regional and international exhibitions, receiving several awards of appreciation. One of the artist's works is displayed at the King Fahd...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Le Consulat, Montmartre', Paris Cafe, Cathedral of Sacré-Cœur, Basilica
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
20th Century French School; Signed indistinctly, lower left, 'De Mini? and dated 1993.
A Post-Impressionist style, Parisian cityscape show...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Woman Standing', 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.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'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 ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
'Woman Seated', Paris, Louvre, Académie de la Grande 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 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Nymphs at Dusk', Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Tonalist Oil, Three Graces, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910.
Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance' (images included were taken prior to lay down).
Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame; framed dimensions: 27.75 x 33.75 x 1.5 inches.
Born in London, England, William Emerson...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Cardboard
'Woman in a Kimono', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamped, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
A substantial monotype and gouache showing a young woman seated, her kimono fallen open and b...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite, Monotype
'Still Life with Tiger Lily', Paris, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA, Louvre
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.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Graphite
'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...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'At the Beach', Chinese-American Woman Artist, Guangzhou Art Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Born in Hunan, China, Annie Peony Zhang studied at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts and, for over 30 years, has been integrating her Chinese Classical training with modern Western art styles including Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Zhang has exhibited widely and with success and her works are held in both private and public collections.
Annie Peony Zhang's paintings: “Childhood”, (2018), “Wish”(2019) and “Memories” (2020), were accepted into Crocker Art Museum. Three of her works (“Beautiful California”, “Delta Scenery”, “Sacramento River...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstraction in Coral, Aqua and Gold', 1970's American School Abstract Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American School, unsigned and painted circa 1975.
A vivid and upbeat oil abstract comprising discrete areas of golden-yellow, coral and aqua-turquoise...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Chalk, Pastel, Acrylic
'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil
By Robert Childers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, in the 53 stub, 'Childers' for Robert Childers (American, 1924-1984) and dated 1954.
Robert Childers first served in the U.S. Navy for six years after graduating from Medford High School in 1941. Following World War II, he studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art where he was the recipient of a gold medal and, upon graduating from the Museum's school, was the recipient of a Cresson scholarship and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his Masters degree. Childers continued his education with classes at Fleisher Memorial and performed for two years with the Philadelphia Dance Theater.
Following his studies, he worked in fabrics, film production, toys and illustrations for publishers with du Pont in New York City. At the same time he maintained a studio and old twine factory over the Cherry Lane Theater. He lived in Greenwich Village for 19 years before accepting a position developing new products for American Greetings Inc. While there he designed the Hobbie Holly cloth doll...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract in Turquoise and Rose', Large American School Oil Abstraction
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C. Maxwell' (American. 20th Century) and painted circa 1975.
A very substantial, American School oil abstract comprising cont...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Young Court Jester Holding a Puppet', Commedia dellArte, Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Dietrich' (German-American, 20th century) and dated 1963.
A powerful, character-driven portrait of the young man, shown gazing directly towards the viewer. w...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Grove of Trees in a Misty Landscape', Woman Artist, American Watercolor Society
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Marie McDonnell Roberts A.W.S. (American, 1915-2013) and painted circa 1965.
A moody watercolor landscape showing a stand of trees and a distant mountain beneath...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Laid Paper
'Young Pierrot', Arlequino, Harlequin, Costume Party, Fancy Dress Ball
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Fiedler' (20th century) and painted circa 1965.
A sensitively realized study of a young boy dressed for a costume party as Arlequino and shown gazing directly t...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life of Fruit and a Creamware Jug',
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Esther Lyne' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1955.
A sensitively painted Post-Impressionist oil still-life showing a view of a hand-painted creamware jug...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
'Sunflowers in the Garden', Tuscan Villa, Tuscany
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed, twice, verso, on stretcher bar, 'M.v.R' (20th century) and painted circa 1975.
A bright oil painting showing a bed of vibrant sunflowe...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Waikiki by Moonlight', Hawai'i, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Beach Oil. South Seas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James Mak' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975.
A large, Modernist evening view of Waikiki's sparkling city lights beneath the the silhouette of Dia...
Category
1970s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Board, Oil
'Go, Igor, Go!', 1960's Night Club Go-Go Dancers, Large Post-Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Phillips' for Dick Phillips (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965. Additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Dick Ric...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Red Cylinder', Very Large San Francisco Bay Area Constructivist Abstract, Lego
By Dee Brown
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dee Brown' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1995.
A massive American School, Constructivist abstract painting comprising geom...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, House Paint, Permanent Marker
'Southern California Desert Landscape', Art Institute of Chicago, Who Was Who
By George Sanders Bickerstaff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Bickerstaff' for George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893-1954) and painted circa 1950.
This California landscape painter was born in Arizona and studied at t...
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Horse-drawn Chaise with a Fashionable Young Woman', Original Watercolor & Wash
By Constantin Guys
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Constantine Guys (French, 1802-1892) circa 1875 and stamped verso with Certification of Authenticity.
A painter and illustrator in colorful watercolor and wash, Constanti...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
'Biomorphic Abstraction', Large Mid-Century American Abstract Leaf Form Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'E.B.S.' for E.B.Stetson (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; additionally signed, verso, 'E. B. Stetson'.
A substantial, mid-century American Sch...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Timberline Nurse', American illustrator, Avalon Books, Romance novel, Playboy
By Charles Winfield Miller
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century, figural gouache showing an attractive young nurse silhouetted against a snowy timberline with a lumberjack standing in a grove of trees and a view beyond towards a distant lodge.
Signed lower right for Charles 'Chuck' Winfield Miller (American, 1922-1995) and painted circa 1965.
This freelance illustrator, portrait painter and teacher was born in Illinois and subsequently moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to follow his passion for painting Western and Native American scenes. His oeuvre reached from Playboy cartoons and advertising art to Native American portraits, Western landscapes and wildlife. Chuck Miller exhibited widely and with success and his works are sought after at auction.
Titled 'Timberline Nurse' and accompanied by a first-edition, hardback copy of the novel, "Timberline Nurse" by Ruth McCarthy Sears (Avalon Books, 1965) for which this painting was the original cover art...
Category
1960s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Board
'Land, Sea & Sky', City College of New York, Pratt Institute, Clio Award
By Larry Dinkin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Dinkin' for Larry Dinkin (American, born 1943) and painted circa 1985.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Larry Dinkin first attended the City College of New York where he received his minor in Art before enrolling in the Pratt Institute School of Visual Arts. Dinkin has been the recipient of numerous awards including from the Nassau County Art League and the Clio Award...
Category
1980s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Red Pumps', Women's Fashion Shoes, Hat & Hatbox, Large Intimiste Oil, Boudoir
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed, twice, lower right, 'A.B' for 'Agnes B'' (American, 20th Century) and dated, twice, 1963. Bearing dedication, verso, dated October 19, 1963 from the artist, Agnes B.
Previously with: Little Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.
A delicately painted oil still-life in the tradition of Edouard Vuillard and the Intimistes showing a pair of shoes crafted in vivid red calfskin and a silk tapestry hatbox contrasted against a background of rose and blue textiles and drapes.
Established in 1950 by Marguerite DeSalle, the Little Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan was the first gallery in the region to deal in and exhibit contemporary art. Initially ,deSalle primarily handled the work of local artists starting out in their careers, and the work of faculty from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. DeSalle's ex-husband and close friend, artist Zoltan Sepeshy...
Category
1960s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Paris, Flower Market', Young Mademoiselles, Gamines des Fleurs, Jeunes Filles
By Francois Gerome
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Francois Gerome (French, born 1895) and accompanied with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Born in Paris in 1895, Francois Gerome is best known for paintings of young, fash...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Olive Groves, Mallorca', San Jorge School, Barcelona, Catalonia, Majorca
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Ventosa' for Jose Ventosa Domenech (Spanish, 1897-1982) and painted circa 1950.
A very substantial oil showing a luminous view of the isle of Mallorca with ancient olive groves and mountain cliffs bathed in warm evening light beneath clouded blue skies. A large and rare Mallorcan landscape by this notable Catalan painter.
Born in Barcelona, José Ventosa Doménech first attended the San Jorge School of Fine Arts in 1911. He then undertook an extended trip to Brussels where he studied Vanguard painting before returning to Barcelona where he continued his studies with the Realist, Martí Alsina. In 1922, Ventosa worked alongside Eliseu Meifren and Domingo Soler in Ripoll. From 1924, Ventosa exhibited in Barcelona as a member of the "Nou Ambient", the Catalan art...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
'Harvest Time', Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, London Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'H. Hammond' for Horace Murray Hammond (British, circa 1879-1966) and dated 1921.
A luminously painted, bucolic view of harvest time in England with the lilac of the evening casting a soft light over the contented horses and loaded hay-cart, as the harvesters come to the end of their day's labors.
Son of the noted landscape painter, Robert John Hammond, Horace Hammond was born and raised in Warwickshire. In 1927, he moved, first to Worcestershire and then to London. Over the course of a long and successful career, Hammond exhibited widely, including at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at London's Royal Academy, among numerous other locations. A well-listed painter...
Category
1930s Academic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
'Alpine Landscape', Bay Area Abstraction, Mid-Century Woman Modernist, CCAC
By Marjorie Cathcart
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Cathcart' for Marjorie Cathcart (American, 1918-2014) and painted circa 1965. Additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Alpine Landscape'.
Marjorie Cathcart first attended the University of California in Berkeley, where she studied with Lundy Siegriest, Tom Holland and Anne O’Hanlon and was also influenced by the work of Wayne Thiebaud. Cathcart received her Bachelor's degree in 1943 and subsequently studied, and then taught, at the California College of Arts and Crafts, Over the course of a long and successful career, Marjorie Cathcart exhibited widely and with success including at the California State Art Exposition, the Jack London...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'South-Western Landscape', Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum, WPA, Odessa
By Todros Geller
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed 'Todros Geller' (Russian-American, 1889-1949) and dated 1937
An elegant and painterly, southwestern landscape painted when the artist was 48 years old.
Born in Vinnytsia, now in the Ukraine, Todros Geller first studied in Odessa before moving to Canada. He continued his studies in Montreal (1906) and, subsequently, at the Art Institute of Chicago with George Bellows and John Norton. Geller exhibited widely and with success including, from 1925, at the Chicago Art Institute as well as at the Riverside Museum (New York, 1939), the New York World's Fair (1939) and at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1941) in addition to other national institutions.
Geller was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards and his work may be found in private and public collections including the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a member of professional associations including the Artist's Union, the Artist's Congress and the Chicago Society of Artists, which he also served as president. During the the 1930's, Geller was an active participant in the Federal Art Project (WPA) in Illinois and his large-scale murals and stained glass windows may be found in Chicago and Detroit as well as Tel-Aviv. We are pleased to offer this elegant, South-Western landscape painted when the artist was 45.
Reference:
Todros Geller Archives, Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago; Sparks, Esther. "A Biographical Dictionary of Painters and Sculptors in Illinois 1808-1945." Diss., Northwestern University, 1971, p. 390; Yochim, Louise Dunn. Role and Impact: The Chicago Society of Artists. Chicago: 1979, pp. 28, 44, 238; Mavigliano, George J. and Richard A. Lawson. The Federal Art Project in Illinois 1935-1943. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990, p. 120; Dijkstra, Bram. American Expressionism: Art and Social Change 1920-1950. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003, p. 155. Chicago Modern...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
'Lunch on the Patio Deck', Pasadena Art Center, LAAA, Taos, Pittsburgh
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Wilson' for Vernon Wilson (American, 20th century) and created circa 1975.
Matted dimensions: 13 H x 14 W x .5 D inches
Vernon Wilson studied at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, the University of Miami and Belmont Abbey College. He exhibited widely and with success including at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (1923, 1928, 1929), the Pittsburgh Architectural Club (1933) and the Los Angeles Art Association, among others. In the late 1960's, Wilson joined the faculty of the Art Center's College of Design where he would teach for more than 25 years. A well-respected figure drawing teacher and pastelist, he is a noted influence on contemporary artists including Kurt Wenner, Ken Goldman and America Martin, among many others. In 1997, Wilson retired to New Mexico where he continued to draw and paint for the remainder of his life.
Reference:
Reference Services, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'Picnic in the Shade', Pasadena Art Center, LAAA, Taos, New Mexico, Pittsburgh
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Wilson' for Vernon Wilson (American, 20th century) and created circa 1975.
Matted dimensions: 12.75 H x 14 W x .5 D inches
Vernon Wilson studied at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, the University of Miami and Belmont Abbey College. He exhibited widely and with success including at the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (1923, 1928, 1929), the Pittsburgh Architectural Club (1933) and the Los Angeles Art Association, among others. In the late 1960's, Wilson joined the faculty of the Art Center's College of Design where he would teach for more than 25 years. A well-respected figure drawing teacher and pastelist, he is a noted influence on contemporary artists including Kurt Wenner, Ken Goldman and America Martin, among many others. In 1997, Wilson retired to New Mexico where he continued to draw and paint for the remainder of his life.
Reference:
Reference Services, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Mallett’s Index of Artists, Daniel Trowbridge Mallett, Peter Smith...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
