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'The Sacramento River, Rio Vista', California, Bohemian Club, White House, SFSD
By James Everett Stuart
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'The Sacramento River, Rio Vista', California, Bohemian Club, White House, SFSD
Signed lower left, 'J. E. Stuart' for James Everett Stuart (American, 1852-1941) ), dated 'Jan. 31, 19...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
'Action Abstract in Blue', Paris, Pompidou, Guggenheim, NYMoMA, LACMA, Whitney
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'American Action Abstract in Blue', Paris, Pompidou, Guggenheim, NYMoMa, LACMA, Whitney, Art Institute of Chicago, Fogg Museum, Bowdoin, Hirshhorn,
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Signed, verso, 'John...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
'Abstract, Parchment and Rose', Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kurt Weber' for Kurt Oscar Weber (Swiss-American, 1938-2011); additionally dated, verso, May 1963, and signed.
Framed dimensions: 46 H x 1.5 D x 58.5 W inches.
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Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Ivory and Rose', École des Beaux-Arts, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kurt Weber' for Kurt Oscar Weber (Swiss-American, 1938-2011); additionally dated, verso, May 1963, and signed.
Framed dimensions: 46 H x 1.5 D x 58.5 W inches.
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Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract, Cream and Rose', Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Musée d'Art Moderne
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kurt Weber' for Kurt Oscar Weber (Swiss-American, 1938-2011); additionally dated, verso, May 1963, and signed.
Framed dimensions: 46 H x 1.5 D x 58.5 W inches.
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Category
1960s Other Art Style Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract in Saffron and Rose', San Francisco, Bay Area Abstraction, SOMA, SFSFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Abstract in Saffron and Rose', San Francisco, Bay Area Abstraction, SOMA, SFSFA
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Signed lower right, 'P. Ciment' for Phyllis Ciment (American, born 1946) and painted circa 1975...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
'La Toilette', Seated Nude, Paris, Charlottenborg, Bornholm, Benezit, Large Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Mogens Hertz' (Danish, 1909-1999) and dated 1953.
A substantial figural oil showing a young woman, seated and arranging her hair before an open window. A substa...
Category
1950s Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstraction in Coral, Ivory and Charcoal', Large Guatemalan Abstract Oil
By Erwin Guillermo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Guillermo' for Erwin Guillermo (Guatemalan, born 1951) and dated 1998.
A substantial and elegant, dimensional abstract comprising linear constructs in scumbled ...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
'Silver Birches in the Snow', Large Sunlit Winter Landscape, Oakland, Norfolk
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Bella' for Bella Bigsby (British, 20th century) and painted circa 2010.
A substantial oil landscape showing a panoramic view of a warmly ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'West Side, New York', Central Park, Manhattan Modernist Abstract, BMFA, Harvard
By Donald Stoltenberg
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Stoltenberg' for Donald Hugo Stoltenberg (American, 1927-2016) and dated 1957. Titled, verso on original artist's label, 'West Side, New York'.
Provenance: Mr. & ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'View of San Francisco Bay', Bay Area Abstraction, Jack London, Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'J.e.t.' for Jessie E. Thomason (American, 20th Century) and dated 1956. Exhibited: Jack London Art Festival, 1956.
Displayed in the original and period, paint...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Portofino', Genoa, Italian Riviera, Naples Academy of Fine Art, Amalfi Coast
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sanzone' for Mario Sanzone (Italian, born 1946) and titled, 'Portofino'.
Previously with: Zantman Art Galleries, Carmel, CA.
A substantial oil on canvas showi...
Category
1990s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'City Lights' San Francisco Beat Generation, Woman Artist, Bay Area Abstraction
By Joan Savo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Savo' for Joan Savo (American, 1918-1992) and dated 1960. Additionally signed, verso, on old label and titled, 'City Lights'. Accompanie...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
'Large Abstract', San Francisco Bay Area, North Beach, Beat, Beatnik, Big Sur
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'K. Sanzenbach' for Keith Sanzenbach (American, 1931-1964) and dated 1956. Additionally signed, verso, and with the artist's Lagunitas, California address.
The ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Gouache
'Sunny Afternoon, Summer Cottages', Louvre, École des Beaux-Arts, Michigan State
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'K. Christensen' for Ken Christensen (American, born 1951) and dated, verso, 1989; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Summer Cottages in Bold Colors'.
Ken Christensen is a classically trained, on-site landscape painter with influences deriving from the Fauves and the French Impressionists. He seeks to combine the vision, color and verve of such masters as Vlaminck, Marquet and Derain with the cooler American perspective of Hopper and Benton.
Born in Cincinnati and raised in Flint...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Continental Coastal View', Berlin, Paris, Riga State Museum, Romantic Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Krause' for Franz Emil Krause (German, 1836-1900) and painted circa 1865.
Framed in a finely finished, hand-carved, gilt-wood and gesso frame.
Framed Size 42.5 ...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
'Figurative Abstract', Woman Artist, Art Institute of Chicago, San Bernardino
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Suzanne Gertz (American, 1938-2003) and painted circa 1985, partial signature lower right.
Suzanne Gertz first studied at the...
Category
1980s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite
'Abstract in Orchid and Jade', San Francisco Art Institute, Large Bay Area Oil
By Kevin Keaney
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Kevin Keaney' (American, born 1962) and painted circa 1995.
This San Francisco Bay area artist studied with Jerry Morgan at the San Francisco Art Institute and has ex...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Chalk, House Paint, Acrylic, Board, Laid Paper
'Abstract in Coral and Jade', Large Mid-century American Biomorphic Abstraction
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century American Abstract oil comprising biomorphic and dimensional forms in shades of coral, jade and straw, shown gathered around a central, rectangular element ...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Aqua Sky', Gump's, San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Blue, Clouds
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'Michael Bradley' for Michael Thorn Bradley (American, 1944-2015) and dated 1986.
Previously with: Gump's Gallery, San Francisco (fr...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Sailing at Kennebec, Maine', Abstract, Whitney Museum, Mills College, ASL, CCAC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Schoener' for Jason Schoener (American, 1919-1997) and painted circa 1970. Titled 'Kennebec Race' (labels, verso)
Previously with M...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Night Dance', San Francisco Art Institute, Oakland Museum, Osaka, Kobe, SFMOMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Takeshi Nakayoshi' (Japanese-American, born 1952), titled, 'Night Dance' and dated 1999.
Born in Osaka, Takeshi Nakayoshi first studied at the University of Oregon before attending the San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA (1977) and MFA (1982). Influenced by the work of Matisse and Diebenkorn, Nakayoshi combines this background with his interest in abstract expressionism and his ongoing exploration of the connections between art and music.
SELECTED SHOWS:
Oakland Museum, 2007
Citibank Building Headquarters, San Francisco, California 2007
Lantham Square Building, Oakland, California 2002
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, San Francisco
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Costa Rica
San Francisco Art Institute Group Alumni Exhibit
St. Francisco Hospital Fund Raising Auction, San Francisco
Oakland Federal Building
Kobe Earthquake Relief, Diamond & Jewelry Center, San Francisco
Triton Art Museum, San Jose
Synopsis Corporation, San Jose
Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco
Cadence Corporation, San Jose
Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA
Syntex Corporation, San Jose
SELECTED PERMANENT CORPORATION COLLECTIONS
Adobe Corporation, US Headquarters, San Jose
Alza Corporation, Mountain View
Bank of America, Washington D.C.
Birka-White Law Office, San Francisco
Burns, Doane, Sweckers & Mathis LLP, Redwood Shores
C & C Investment. San Francisco
Cadence Corporation, San Jose
CB Commercial Real Estate, Sacramento
Don Sebastiani & Sons, Sonoma
Fairview Capital, San Francisco
Hale and Dorr Law Firm, Boston, MA
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Irvine, California
Indus Corporation, San Francisco
Loral Western Development, San Jose
Macy's Union Square, San Francisco
Marcus I. Millichamp, Oregon, Washington DC., New Jersey
MCI Corporation, San Francisco
Mills College, Oakland
nth Power, San Francisco
NEC Corporation, US Headquarters, Santa Clara
Nordstrom, Atlanta, GA
Pyramid Technology, San Jose
Rolm Corporation. San Francisco
Saks Fifth Avenue, San Francisco and Texas
Scios Inc., San Francisco
Sedgwick James, San Francisco
SNK (Shin Nippon Kanko) Corporation, San Francisco
Ticor Corporation, San Jose
REVIEWS/AWARDS
San Francisco Chronicle "Don't Miss" designation by Kenneth Baker for last group show at Chroma Art...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Peacocks', Ecole de Paris, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Artistes Français, Carmel
By Anton Sipos
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Anton Sipos' (Bosnian-American, born 1938) and dated 1974.
A substantial Impressionist oil painting showing two young women relaxing in a sunny garden with a peacock and a peahen.
Born in Bosnia, Anton Sipos began drawing at an early age and left home in his teens to work as a film animation artist. He achieved immediate success with his first work, "Surrogate", which won an Academy Award for best-animated short subject under the direction of Yugoslav animator Dushon VuKotic.
In 1964, Sipos moved to Montmartre to study at the École de Paris. During this early period, Sipos exhibited widely and with success including at the Salon d'Automne and Le Salon d'Artistes Françaises. While in France, he made numerous painting trips to Provence, Giverny, Rouen and the Cote d'Azur as well as to Italy.
In 1970, Sipos arrived in California where he painted landscapes of Los Angeles and marine scenes of the harbor in San Diego. He also worked as an artist for the film industry, most notably with Eleanor Ettinger Studio in New York where he was given the responsibility of transferring Norman Rockwell...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Bal Masque, Venice', Venetian Vedute, Santa Maria della Salute, Masquerade, Oil
By Evgeny & Lydia Baranov
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Е. Баранов, Л. Величко' for Evgeny and Lydia Barnov (Russian-American, 20th century) and dated 2006. Titled, verso, on label, 'Traveling through Time'.
Born in...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Large Abstract', Exhibited at Tokyo Museum Of Fine Arts, Japanese Woman Artist
By Iku Nagai
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Nagai" for Ikuko K. Nagai (Japanese-American, born 1932) and painted circa 1980.
Previously with: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
paper dimensions: 33.5 x 45 inch...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver
'Still Life', Bay Area Abstraction, Metropolitan Museum, SFMOMA, LACMA, Abstract
By Douglas Mcclellan
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'DMc', for Douglas McCellan (American, 1921-2016) and painted circa 1975. Additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Still Life' and bearing old rental reference label....
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic Polymer, Oil, Board
'Abstract in Ultramarine and Pearl', Large 1970's American Action Abstract Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jasper Jackson' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975. Titled, verso, 'Opus 8'.
A substantial and period, American mid-c...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
'Nankaweep', Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, American Abstraction
By Jim Jacobs
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Jim Jacobs (American, born 1945), titled, 'Nankaweep' and dated 1983.
Previously with Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston from label, verso.
A substantial, dynamic abstract compri...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Acrylic Polymer
'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
'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
'Mare and Foal', Equestrian Modernist Oil, Chouinard, LACMA, Metropolitan Museum
By Leon D'Usseau
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr. (American, 1918-1991) and painted circa 1965.
A substantial, Modernist oil showing a mare and foal frolicking in a deep chestnut landscape interspersed with foliage and areas of bright color.
Born in Los Angeles, Leon D'Usseau began training under the guidance of his father, who was among the earliest fine-art film directors to work in Hollywood. At the age of twelve, Leon was drawing seriously and, at fifteen, received a working scholarship at Chouinard School of Art where he studied under Merrill Gage and Alexander Archipenko. At this early age, he was also employed by Chouinard to teach a line-drawing class.
Adopting the anglicized brush-name of Dusso, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1937-40), the California Palace Legion of Honor (1941), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942), the Laguna Festival of Arts, Los Angeles Artists Association (1945), the California Watercolor Society (1946) and the Audubon Association (1945). Leon Dusso...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Ink, Oil
'Women in Interior', Large Oil, California Woman artist studied with Picasso
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Zarbano' for Mary Zarbano (American, 1931-2019) and painted circa 1985.
Born in Nebraska, Mary Zarbano received her MFA from Califor...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'In the Sycamore', Large Figural Oil, Carmel, California Woman Artist, Muralist
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Caswell' for Helen Rayburn Caswell (American, 1923-2018) and painted circa 1955.
A substantial, mid-century figural oil by this listed California woman artist who showed her talent at an early age. In Saratoga, Caswell began a successful career as an artist and portrait painter, displaying in galleries in Carmel and teaching artist workshops. In addition to her work as a fine artist and portrait painter, Helen wrote and illustrated over 30 books for children and adults. In 1981, Helen moved to Occidental in Sonoma County where, in addition to continuing to paint and teach, she designed stained glass windows for the Sebastopol United Methodist Church. She was also commissioned to paint numerous murals including at St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and for the Elizabeth Seton Center in Menlo Park.
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Standing Horse, Olive and Coral', Large Equestrian, Stanford, Brown, Yale
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'R.S.' for Robert Schlegel (American, 1947-2021), additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Standing Horse' and dated 2014.
A substa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Beneath the Stars', Lovers, Moghul, Isfahan, Chouinard, LACMA, Dallas Museum
By Leon D'Usseau
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr. (American, 1918-1991) and painted circa 1965.
A substantial oil painting showing two lovers reclining in a barge on a stream before a Persian palace crowned with domes and minarets; the pair elegantly dressed, with the young woman bejeweled and the young man playing a lute.
Born in Los Angeles, Leon D'Usseau began training under the guidance of his father, who was among the earliest fine art film directors in Hollywood. At the age of twelve, he was drawing seriously and, at fifteen, he received a working scholarship at Chouinard School of Art where he studied under Merrill Gage and Alexander Archipenko and also taught a line-drawing class.
Adopting the anglicized brush-name of Dusso, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1937-40), the California Palace Legion of Honor (1941), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942), the Laguna Festival of Arts, Los Angeles Artists Association (1945), the California Watercolor Society (1946) and the Audubon Association (1945). Leon Dusso...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Ink, Oil
'Steeplechase, Los Altos Hunt', St. Martin's School, Carmel, PAFA, ASL, NAD, CAA
By Frank Ashley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Frank N Ashley' (American, 1920-2007) and painted circa 1985. Additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Steeplechase, Los Altos Hunt'. Bea...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Port-Vendres' Côte Vermeille, France, California, Large Post-Impressionist Oil
By Anthony McNaught
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Ant McNaught', (American, born 1952), titled 'Port de Vendres', dated 2022 and inscribed '(After Derain, 1905)'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expre...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Still Life with Florist', Paris, École des Beaux-Arts, Large Post-Impressionist
By Guily Joffrin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, "Joffrin" for Guily-Jeanne Joffrin (French, 1909-2007) and painted circa 1965.
Photo of the artist in her studio, 1995. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Born in Paris, Joffrin first attended the École Supérieure Sophie-Germain before, in 1928, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, initially in the studio of Lucien Simon. She continued her studies there for several years in the studios of Jacques Despierre and Lucien Fontanarosa. After receiving her diploma, Joffrin was appointed Professor of Drawing and taught in Paris until 1945, when she began to devote herself exclusively to her career as a fine artist. Over the course of a long career, she exhibited internationally with success including at more than forty exhibitions in France (Paris, Aurillac, Rennes, Strasbourg, Reims, Rodez, Toulouse, Barbizon, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Cannes) as well as in Geneva, Vevey, San Francisco and Tokyo among other cities.
The human face was of particular interest to Joffrin and she created many portraits of academic notables including Paul Guth...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Spring', Large Modernist Oil, Dartmouth, Slade School, McDowell Colony Fellow
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'L. Curtis' for Lynn Curtis (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
Exhibited: Lodi Art Center, 11th Annual Art Exhibition (from accompanying label).
Framed dimensions: 38.25 H x 60.5 W x 1.75 D Inches.
A very substantial, oil and mixed media Modernist work showing a profusion of spring wild-flowers bursting through panels of wind-billowed canvas. A dynamic expression of spring's power of growth overcoming all physical restraint.
Lynn Curtis holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Dartmouth College and a Masters in painting and drawing from The University of Iowa. She received a postgraduate certificate in printmaking from London's Slade School...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Glue, Oil
'Mid-century Abstract', NYMoMA, Paris, XXXII Venice Biennale, MALI, Lima, Peru
By Emilio Rodríguez Larraín
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Midcentury Biomorphic Abstract', NYMoMA, Paris, XXXII Venice Biennale, MALI, Lima, Peru
Signed, lower right, 'E.R. Larrain' for Emilio Rodríguez Larraín (Peruvian, 1928-2015), and inscribed 'Roma, Nov 1963, Enero 1964'. (Rome, Nov 1963-January 1964). Verso titled, "L'Homme C'est Sujet à Errer" (Man Tends to Wander), and bearing the artist's self-portrait in india ink and wash.
Exhibited: XXXII Venice Biennale, 1964. (original exhibition label verso)
Previously with Staempfli Galleries, New York. This painting is registered in the Archives of American Art as 'Staempfli Gallery, inventory #775'.
A monumental and historically distinguished work by this groundbreaking Peruvian Modernist who drew inspiration from Peruvian indigenous and pre-colonial culture. The paintings of Emilio Rodríguez Larraín are held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Musée de la Ville de Paris, Peru's Museo de Arte de Lima and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This painting was selected by the Peruvian Government for exhibition at the XXXII Venice Biennale in 1964 and is the largest single recorded work by the artist.
Emilio Rodríguez Larraín received his Bachelors of Architecture in 1949 from Peru's Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería and held his first solo exhibition in Lima after visiting Europe in 1950. In 1951, he returned to Europe in the company of the artists Alfredo Ruiz Rosas and Joaquín Roca Rey...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Fiberboard, Laid Paper, Oil
'Abstract Landscape, Chestnut and Coral', Venice Biennale, Michetti Prize Winner
By Gianni Pisani
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'G. Pisani', (Italian, born 1935), titled verso 'Paesaggio con Valigia' (Landscape with Luggage) and dated 1963.
Provenance: Galleria El Centro, Naples, Italy 1963. (from original label, copied verso).
A very substantial, mid-century abstracted landscape comprising an assembled group of Fendi shopping bags in the fashion designer's signature tones of cream, bistre and scarlet, shown contrasted against a lyrical, sunset-coral background. This powerful and lyrical oil was awarded the 1963 Michetti Painting Prize.
Gianni Pisani studied at the Accademia de Bella Arti in Naples under Emilio Notte. Much of his career in the 1960s and 70s involved reinvigorating the Neapolitan art scene with assemblages, ‘object art’ and performance art, an approach that was critically described and acclaimed by poet and writer, Edoardo Sanguineti.
The recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including the Prize City Cesenatico (1955). Pisani exhibited widely and with success from the early 1950's including at the 8th Biennale of San Benedetto del Tronto (1969), Palazzo Dugnani (1983) and at the Non-Existent Gallery. Other solo and group exhibitions include a three-time participation in the National Quadrennial Art Shows (VIII, Rome, 1960; IX, Palazzo dei Esposizione, 1965/66; XI, Palazzo dei Congressi, 1986) and the 1995 Venice Biennale.
An ardent exponent, and influential teacher, of Modernism, Pisani taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and, for many years, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, of which he was later appointed director. Gianni Pisani’s works are held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Museum of Capodimonte, the Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina (MADRE), Museum of Contemporary Religious Art...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
'California Coastal Diptych', Berkeley, Bay Area Woman Artist, Smithsonian, CCAC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, second panel, 'Isabelle Schrock' for Isabelle Schrock Barnett (American, 1903-1995) and painted circa 1975. Additionally signed, verso, on each panel and titled, 'Hillside City' on artist card.
Left panel dimensions: 22 x 30 inches.
Right panel dimensions: 30 x 22 inches.
Total dimensions: 30 x 52 inches.
Exhibited: Lodi 16th Annual Art Exhibition (1975) from partial label, verso, on right panel.
An unusual, asymmetric diptych landscape showing a view of a Northern California coastal city, probably Berkeley, set in gently rolling hills and painted circa 1975.
Born in Augusta, Kansas, Isabelle Schrock Barnett moved to California with her family at the age of five and graduated from the the California College of Arts and Crafts in 1923. She subsequently studied with Frederick Taubes and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. Over the course of a long and successful career as an artist, Isabelle Schrock Barnett exhibited widely and with success including at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, the Oakland Art Association, the San Francisco League of Women Artists and the Central California Art...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper, Varnish
'Baghdad by the Bay', SFMOMA, Oakland Museum, San Francisco, Bay Area Modernist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Maude Church' (American, born 1949) and dated 1986.
Additionally signed and dated, verso, and titled 'Baghdad by the Bay'.
Formerly ...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
'Desert II', Palm Springs, California Woman Artist, Large Proto-Organic Abstract
By Charmaine Girelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charmaine Girelli' (American, 20th/21st century) and painted circa 2015.
A very large, American School proto-organic abstract comprising dynamic and fluid trailing forms in primary and secondary colors, contrasted against a speckled and scumbled, aqua and sky-blue background. A substantial and lyrical work by this largely self-taught, Palm Springs woman...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'Grecian Urn', Prix de Rome, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
By Jacques Lamy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jacques Lamy' (French-American, 1946-2016); additionally stamped verso with artist copyright signature, Dallas location and dated 1997.
Born in Paris, Jacques Lamy studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where he was the recipient of the Prix de Rome...
Category
1990s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil
'Abstract, Rose & Parchment', Minnesota Woman Artist, Big Psychedelic Action Oil
By Anne Kramer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Anne Kramer (American, 20th century) circa 1985, stamped verso and accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity.
A very substantial and period, A...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Nude in Ivory and Coral', Large Mid-Century Expressionist Figural Oil
By Sears, Roebuck & Company
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Sears" (American, 20th century) and dated 1960.
A substantial, Expressionist style figural oil showing a partially-draped woman seated at a dressing-table and br...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Hills of Marin', Large American Expressionist, Carmel, Stanford, San Francisco
By Robert Canete
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Canete', for Robert Canete (American, born 1956) and painted circa 2010; additionally signed, verso, 'Robert Canete' and titled 'Marin, Blue Hills'
A substantia...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Mixed Media, Watercolor
'Organic Abstract', Large oil by San Francisco artist, Bay Area Abstraction
By Frealon Norden Bibbins
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Norden' for Frealon Norden Bibbins (American, 1926-2013) and dated 1976.
Additionally signed verso, 'Bibbins'.
A substantial 1970's abstract evoking graceful, oceanic forms and comprising fluidly superimposed and adjacent, diaphanous layers of scarlet, rose, lilac, and grass-green against a variegated sunshine-yellow field.
This listed California artist, author and musician lived and painted in Alameda and also had a distinguished career with the San Francisco Symphony...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Abstract, Coral and Jade', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Large Oil
By Frealon Norden Bibbins
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Norden' for Frealon Norden Bibbins (American, 1926-2013) and dated 1976.
Inscribed verso, 'Blue Storm', stamped with certification of authenticity and wax seal.
A substantial and dynamic work by this California Abstract painter evoking organic floral forms and comprising fluidly superimposed and adjacent, flowing layers of jade, coral and magenta set against an ivory field.
This listed California artist, author and musician lived and painted in Alameda and also had a distinguished career with the San Francisco Symphony...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'American Action Abstract', Large Beat Generation Diptych, Naked Lunch, Ginsberg
By William S. Burroughs
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, right-hand canvas, "William S. Burroughs" (American, 1914-1997), dated "1993" and titled "Exterminator II'. Signed on lower left, left-hand canvas, "Steven Lowe" (American, 1947-2007) and dated "93".
Diptych size: 72 x 96 inches.
Individual panel size: 72 x 48 Inches.
Condition: Excellent
A monumental Action Abstract comprising energetically interwoven swirls of parchment and ivory contrasted against a rich, dark-chestnut ground. This diptych is the largest recorded work by the artist.
An icon of twentieth-century counter-culture, William Burroughs was the seminal, postmodern author of 'The Naked Lunch...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Barbershop Designs', Kumasi, Accra, Ghana, Jah Bless, African Hair Styles, Folk
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A whimsical and unique, Ghanaian barbershop haircut board signed, upper left, 'Joe Addai' (Ghanaian, 20th century), inscribed 'City Boy Artworks, Kumasi' and ...
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'L'Obscurité', Trompe L'oeil, Newport Art Museum, Frye Museum, RISD, Yale
By Richard Whitten
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'RCW' for Richard Whitten (American, born 1958) and dated, lower right, in Roman numerals, 2009. Formerly in the collection of the Triton Art Museum, Santa Clara, California.
Whitten's early work may loosely be termed geometric abstraction, but he is best known for his later representational paintings that combine his interest in architecture, invented machinery and toys. Whitten is also known for his toy-like sculptures. His paintings and drawings are essentially representational but have strong ties to geometric abstraction.
A native of New York City, Richard Whitten first attended the Collegiate School before studying economics at Yale where he received his BA in 1980. He then constructed a personal painting program at Yale where he studied with Gretna Campbell...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
'Desert II', Palm Springs, California Woman Artist, Large Proto-Organic Abstract
By Charmaine Girelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Charmaine Girelli' (American, 20th/21st century) and painted circa 2015.
A very large, American School proto-organic abstract comprising dynamic and fluid trailing forms in primary and secondary colors, contrasted against a speckled and scumbled, aqua and sky-blue background. A substantial and lyrical work by this largely self-taught, Palm Springs woman...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'Large Post Impressionist Figural Oil Triptych', Bennington, Richmond Art Center
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Mine Grassetti (American-Dutch, 1928-2021) circa 1995.
Inscribed, verso, with certification of authenticity dated October 6th, 2021, by the artist's son, Richard Grassetti.
Mine Grassetti first attended Vermont's Bennington College, the first college to include visual and performing arts as an equal partner in the liberal arts curriculum. In 1948, she graduated with a degree in art and architecture and subsequently studied at the Richmond Art Center. It was during this extended period, the 1950's through the mid 1960's, that the Center was staffed with such California luminaries as David Park, Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff and Grassetti had the good fortune to be exposed to the ferment of artistic ideas and theories of modernism that were generated there. We are pleased to offer this vibrant figural triptych...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
'Burmese Dancers', Large Modernist Oil, Myanmar, Rangoon, SFMA, SFAI, PFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Aung Aung Taik' (Burmese, born 1948) and dated 1981.
Exhibited: San Francisco Cultural Center, 1981.
A major work by this celebrate...
Category
1980s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Lieselotte Friedländer', Bauhaus, Berlin National Gallery, Munich Sezession
By Georg Rössner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Georg W. Rössner' for Georg Walter Rössner (German, 1885-1972), titled 'Bildnis Lieselotte Friedländer' and painted circa 1926; original artist card verso.
A substantial, Modernist portrait of the fashion designer, Lieselotte Friedländer, shown seated in a chrome-steel Bauhaus chair with a view beyond to a sunlit, woodland grove.
Georg Rössner first studied in Berlin and, later, in Paris with Lovis Corinth. Rössner was a member of both the Berlin and Munich Sezession committees and, in 1920, was appointed professor at Berlin’s Staatliche Kunstschule. Over the course of a long career, Rössner exhibited internationally with success including at the 1929 Paris Exhibition des Peintres-Graveurs Allemands. His work is held in prominent private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Berlin.
Born in 1898, Lieselotte Friedländer moved to Berlin with her family in 1909. By the mid-1920s, she had established herself as the Weimar Republic...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Toronto Sunset', Berkeley, Stanford, San Francisco Art Institute, Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Celia Rabinovitch' (Canadian, 20th century) and dated 1980; additionally titled, verso, on old label, 'Skyline', signed and dated.
A substantial oil cityscape showing the Toronto skyline...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Wood
'Abstract, Azure and Rose', Paris, Art Students League, Carnegie Institute, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paul England' (American, 1918-1988) and painted circa 1965.
With old label, verso, bearing title, 'Gutenburg'.
Framed in a period wh...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Biomorphic Abstract, Cobalt & Red', Bay Area Oil, Rhode Island School of Design
By Donald Roberts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Roberts' for Donald Roberts (American, 1923-2015) signed, verso, dated 2012 and inscribed, 'S.F. CA'.
This noted lithographer, pai...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
