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'Sunset Landscape', Hamburg, Rivne, Volhynia, Rivne Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'G. Kosmiadi' for Georg Kosmiadi (Ukranian-German, 1886-1967) and dated, '66'; additionally signed verso, 'Georg Kosmiadi', inscribed with serial number and dated, '20/9/66'.
Georg Kosmiadi was a resident of Rivne before moving to Hamburg in 1940 where he worked as an art teacher. Kosmiadi exhibited at the Rivne Regional Museum and a regional art...
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Study of a Woman Reading', American Mid-Century Figurative Interior Scene Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed verso, 'P. Johnstone' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965.
A substantial Modernist figural oil of a young woman shown reading a book in a rose-colored room, wi...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract in Coral and Jade', Painters Eleven, Ontario, Canadian Modernist Oil
By Hortense Mattice Gordon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hortense M. Gordon' for Hortense Crompton Mattice Gordon (Canadian, 1886-1961) and dated 1949.
Previously with: Dominion Gallery of Montreal (stamp, verso).
Photo courtesy of Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Hamilton artist Hortense Crompton Mattice Gordon was one of Canada’s earliest non-representational painters, embracing abstraction in the 1930s. She was also an active member of Canada's first English-speaking abstract group, Painters Eleven.
A scholarship recipient, Hortense Mattice first attended the Hamilton Art School and, subsequently, moved to Chatham, Ontario. Initially focusing on porcelain painting, Mattice quickly began building a portfolio of oils and, from 1908, was exhibiting both her porcelain and landscapes at what is now the Chatham Cultural Centre (1908) and the Art Gallery of Ontario (1909). During this time, Mattice frequently traveled to the United States and, in 1915, visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she would have seen early works by important modernists including Picasso and Matisse. She started her teaching career in Chatham but, having received a job offer from the artist John Sloan Gordon, returned to Hamilton to teach at the Hamilton Art School in 1918. The two artists married in 1920.
In 1922, Gordon and her husband took a study trip to France and, inspired by the fervent of Modernist ideas in Paris, expanded her own approaches to art, developing an increasingly soft, loose paint handling style. It was not until the 1930’s, after a few more trips to France and her discovery of Piet Mondrian’s work, that elements of abstraction began to appear in Gordon’s work. After the death of her husband in 1940, Gordon attended the Cranbrook Academy of Art and studied with Hans Hoffmann (1941-1945) whose influence and friendship pushed her to explore non-objective painting. After her training with Hofmann and in Cranbrook, Gordon began to exhibit regularly and with success in both Canada and the United States including at the Riverside Museum (New York, 1947), Creative Gallery (New York, 1952), in Ann Arbor (Michigan, 1952), Phillips Gallery (Detroit, 1952), the Flint Institute of Arts (Michigan, 1952), Mount Allison University (New Brunswick, 1952), the Galerie Agnes Lefort in Montréal and Art Gallery of Hamilton (retrospective, 1960). She was a member of the Contemporary Artists of Hamilton (honorary president in 1948), the Ontario Society of Artists, the Hamilton Women...
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Action Abstract, Ivory & Saffron', Paris, National Association of Women Artists
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M.S. Bremer' for Marlene Bremer (German-American, 1937-2018) and painted circa 1995. Additionally signed, verso, 'Marlene Bremer'.
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Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract, Citron & Scarlet', American Abstraction, Pittsburgh, Freeman Center
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Barr' for Charles Barr (American, 1929-2019); additionally inscribed and painted circa 1965.
From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 2019:
CHARLES "CHUCK" BARR
Age 89, of Highland Park, graduated from human life on August 11. Although no headlines marked the event, he was a great man. People ranging from fellow Pittsburghers to New York art collectors have known Chuck as a wonderful self-taught artist and creative jazz musician. But above all, everyone touched by his joy knew him as a carrier of the Great Spirit. Ten minutes with Chuck could do more than make your day. It could open your heart to the boundless possibilities that life offers, if only we live from love. Chuck was raised in a working-class musical family in Beechview. Leaving home as a teenager to play tenor sax in a Chicago nightclub alongside brother, Tommy, a pianist, he burned out on the late-night routine. He then spent years trying to fit into so-called normal society, working various jobs in places from Yokohama (with the U.S. Army) to Philadelphia. Around 1969, Chuck returned to Pittsburgh to rediscover his calling and became a local legend. A Post-Gazette article dubbed him the city's "rambling minstrel" for his sax and flute recitals in public. College-trained artists marveled at the dynamic, visually musical paintings...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Pacific Sunset', Oil Seascape, San Francisco Bay Area, Santa Cruz Art League
By Ray Radliff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 1965 by Ray Radliff (American, 1900-1974) and accompanied by certificate of authenticity. Framed dimensions: 30.5 x 40.5 inches.
This California artist exhibited widel...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Seated Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie 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 Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Pacific Surf', California Plein Air Woman Artist, Santa Cruz, Carmel
By Jane McCullough
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'McCullough' for Jane McCullough (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
Jane McCullough was an avid California plein air painter, exhibiting and took ar...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Words to the Wise', African American Memento Mori, Skeletons, Bay Area, Black
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed on palette, lower right, 'John Diallo Jones' (American, 20th century) and dated 1992.
A dramatic figural oil showing the artist flanked by two whispering skeletons, one of wh...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Evening Fishing', Sunset River Landscape, Chicago Society of Artists, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur Dawson' (American, 1857-1922) and painted circa 1915; additionally inscribed, verso, 'The Stream'.
Bearing old framing label: Ferguson Art Shop, Flint, Mi...
Category
1910s Tonalist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
'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
'Still Life in Lavender and Rose'
By Jeannette Bedwell
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'J. Bedwell' for Jeanette Bedwell (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, on canvas.
A vibrant, mid-century oil still-life b...
Category
1970s 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
'Still Life, Roses with Figure Approaching', German Expressionist, Robert Graves
By Karl Goldschmidt
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Karl Goldschmidt' (Anglo-German, 1912-1995) and painted circa 1930.
Photo of Karl Goldschmidt (Kenneth Gay) with Robert Graves courte...
Category
1930s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Provincetown, Dusk', Evening Seascape, Massachusetts Harbor Lights
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'D. M. Hildreth' for Donald Hildreth (American, born 1941), additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Provincetown' and dated 1997.
Los Angeles native Donald Hildreth worked as an aerospace engineer and in real estate before following his career as an artist. He then studied under Kim English, Ovanes Berberian and Ted Goerschner...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
'Mount Fuji', Japanese Abstraction, Isle de St. Louis, Paris, Tokyo, Modernism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'S. Omori', for Sakue Omori (Japanese, 1919-2001) and painted circa 1965; additionally signed in Kanji, verso, with artist's name 大森 朔衛 (Omori Sakue) and titled, 'Mount Fuji'.
A large and exuberant, mid-century oil by this well-listed Japanese Modernist and Professor of Fine Art who studied in Paris and is particularly known for his lyrical landscape abstractions.
Sakusuke (Sakue) Omori was born in Takamatsu City in Kagawa Prefecture. He drew enthusiastically as a child and, by the age of 12, had resolved to become an artist. At the age of 13, he encountered the work of the Japanese Modernist, Takeji Fujishima, which further confirmed his vocation. Omori moved to Tokyo at the age of 18 and, despite his parents objections, entered the Japan Art School where he majored in oil painting. In 1940, at the age of 21, he was granted his first public exhibition. In 1941, he was selected as an exhibitor for the Independent Art Exhibition and, in 1942, for the Art Creators Association Exhibition. In 1943, Omori won the Kagawa Prefectural Governor's Award and also received the Naval Association Award at the Great Japan Maritime Art Exhibition. After the war, with his studio and his work having been destroyed by fire, he returned to Tokyo to build a new atelier in Yochomachi.
In 1950, Omori became a founding member of Japan's Modern Art Association and a member of the Action Art Association. In 1960, he was awarded the prestigious K-shi prize at the Contemporary Japanese Art...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
'Still Life with Fish & Chianti Bottle'
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-century Post Impressionist oil still-life comprising a fish on a platter with four lemons, a raffia-wrapped bottle of Italian chianti...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Trees at Sunset', Large Oil, Philadelphia Museum, Yale, PAFA Op-Ed Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, lower left, with monogram, 'E. A.', for Edna Wright Andrade (American, 1917-2008) and dated 1954. Additionally signed, verso.
A luminous, mid-ce...
Category
1950s Op Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Santa Barbara Landscape', Paris, Académie Julian, LACMA, Pasadena, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'J. W. Nicoll' for John W. Nicoll (American, 1865-1943), titled lower left, 'Santa Barbara' and painted circa 1925. Sheet dimensions: 9 x 12.75 inches.
A luminous, early twentieth-century landscape showing a picturesque view of a Spanish style cottage set in a lush garden with a view beyond towards the Santa Ynez Mountains rising towards clouded, blue skies. An unusual and elegant view of old-time Santa Barbara that retains much of its crispness and freshness of color.
Born in New York, John Nicoll first studied with his uncle, the landscape painter, James Nicoll. He subsequently moved to Paris where he furthered his education for three years under Bouguereau and Ferrier at the Académie Julian. He then continued on to Seville where he studied for three years at the Academia Real, spending his winters traveling and painting in North Africa.
By 1899, Nicoll had settled in Pasadena where he painted, exhibited and taught drawing at the College of Fine Arts from 1906-1935. Upon his retirement, he moved to San Diego where he continued to paint and exhibit until his death in 1943. Over the course of a long career, James Nicoll exhibited widely and with success including at the Stickley Building, Pasadena, 1899; Blanchard Hall, Los Angeles, 1899; the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St Louis, 1904; the Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, 1904; Lewis & Clark Expo Portland, 1905 (Bronze Medal); the Painters Club, Los Angeles, 1906-09; the Nicholson Gallery...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Pacific Sunset', Society of Western Artists, California Woman Artist, Seascape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Norma Webb' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 2000. Additionally signed, verso, stamped with artist address and titled, 'Sea and Rocks'.
A vibrant oil on on canvas showing a view of evening breakers crashing against rocks beneath sunlit clouds off Northern California...
Category
Early 2000s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The SS. San Jose', American Merchant Marine, United Fruit Company Freighter
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The S.S. San Jose shown making way in medium water. This early refrigerated freighter, built in 1904, was designed to transport bananas between the Caribbean and the American mainlan...
Category
1910s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'L'Oreal No. 3, Troyes', French Village, National Watercolor Society, Fashion
By Evelyne Brigeois
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 1985; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled, 'Troyes #3'.
Born in Troyes, France in 1946, Evelyne Brigeois grew up in the town of Nimes, east of Paris. She subsequently lived and painted in Germany, England and Spain before moving to the United States in her late twenties. Settling in Idaho, she began a forty-year career as a fine artist, exhibiting widely and with success including, regularly, at both Boise's Art in the Park and Art and Roses Festival. Evelyne Brigeois was also the recipient of numerous national and international awards including from the National Watercolor Society, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Michigan...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'L'Oreal No. 2, Troyes', French Village, Boise, National Watercolor Society
By Evelyne Brigeois
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'E. Brigeois' for Evelyne Brigeois (French, 1946-2016) and dated 1985; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled, 'Troyes #2'.
Born in Troyes, France in 1946, Evelyne Brigeois grew up in the town of Nimes, east of Paris. She subsequently lived and painted in Germany, England and Spain before moving to the United States in her late twenties. Settling in Idaho, she began a forty-year career as a fine artist, exhibiting widely and with success including, regularly, at both Boise's Art in the Park and Art and Roses Festival. Evelyne Brigeois was also the recipient of numerous national and international awards including from the National Watercolor Society, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Michigan...
Category
1980s Photorealist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'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 exhibited with success at the Oakland Art...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard, Pen
'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
Gouache, Varnish, Watercolor, Board, Laid Paper
'Woodland Stream', Paris, New York, Hudson River School, Luminism, AIC, PAFA
By Arthur Parton
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Arthur Parton' (American, 1842-1914) and painted circa 1885.
This notable Hudson River School painter first studied under William Trost Richards, from whom he gained a grounding in the technical aspects of his craft, and, subsequently, at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. While in Philadelphia, he began to exhibit with success and, in 1864, moved to New York where he continued to exhibit before leaving for Europe in 1869. In France, he was influenced by the works of the Barbizon painters and then furthered his studies in Paris and London (1870) before continuing to Scotland (1871). Upon his return to America, he would go on to establish himself as a major figure in the art world, maintaining a studio at 51 West 10th Street from 1874 to 1893.
Best known for his landscapes of the Adirondacks and Catskill Mountains, Parton also painted in England and Scotland. During his career, he explored several styles including Tonalism and Impressionism, but remained closely influenced by the Hudson River style including Luminism. Parton was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Artists Fund Society and, from 1871, the National Academy of Design, becoming a National Academician in 1884. Parton exhibited widely and with success including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (1907-1908, 1910), Brooklyn Artists Association (1866-85), Philadelphia Centennial Exposition (1876), Boston Art Club (1882-1909), New York City (1886 gold medal), Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1889 Temple gold medal, 1891, 1896-97, 1905), Paris Exposition Universelle (1889 honorable mention), St Louis Exposition (1904 medal), the Art Institute of Chicago and, for more than 50 years, at the National Academy of Design (1862-1914, 1896 prize).
Parton gained widespread recognition after his painting of the Shenandoah River (1872) was published in William Cullen Bryant...
Category
1880s Hudson River School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Postcard
'Woman Dancing' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie 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.
A dynamic, mid-century monotype by this Paris-trained, California Post-Impressioni...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Monotype
'Nuns at Notre-Dame', Paris, Munich, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
By Patricia Stanley Cunningham
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, and lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965.
A vibrant, Post-Impressionistic oil showing a view of Paris with two nuns wearing wimples and cornets, one carrying a basket of daffodils, standing beneath the shade of a tree and with a view beyond to the facade of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame lit by bright sunshine.
The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Association, Patricia Stanley Cunningham first studied at UC Berkeley and, subsequently, with Hans Hofmann in Munich and with André Lhote in Paris. While in Paris, in 1930, she wed the American artist, John Cunningham. Settling on the Monterey Peninsula after returning from Europe, Cunningham joined the Carmel Art Institute, of which she became president, the Southwest Artists...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Formal Samoan Meal', NYMoMA, Metropolitan Museum, National Gallery, SFAA, GGIE
By Marion Osborn Cunningham
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for 'Marion Cunningham' (American, 1908-1948) and created in 1948.
Paper dimensions: 17.75 x 16 inches
A substantial and rare, mid-century silkscreen showing a Samoan family seated beneath a traditional tent of tapa cloth and being served by a young woman. To realize this complex work, Cunningham used as many as one dozen hand-drawn screens, each of which varied in pigment, hue and opacity. Created during the extraordinary creative ferment that characterized the last year of the artist's life, this work represents a remarkable achievement for both artist and medium.
Born in Indiana, Marion Osborn Cunningham moved to California in 1911. She first studied art with the American Impressionist, Ruth Heil Emerson, before continuing her education at Santa Barbara City College and receiving her Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University. She subsequently furthered her studies at the California School of the Fine Arts and at the Art Students League in New York City, where she met and married the American abstract artist Ben Cunningham. Returning to San Francisco...
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1940s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
'Junks in Hong Kong Harbor', Kowloon, Bank, California Watercolor Society, SFAI
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Frank M. Hamilton' for Frank Moss Hamilton (American, 1930-1999) and painted circa 1965. Titled, verso, 'The Smugglers, Hong Kong' on artist card and inscribed, ...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
'Portrait of Pasta', Italian Modernist gouache study of a Maltese
By Vittorio Pisani
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Pisani' for Vittorio Pisani (Italian, born 1916) and dated 1975; additionally titled 'Pasta'.
An elegantly framed and character-filled, study of a Maltese captu...
Category
1970s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'A.S.' for Anton Schroder (Danish, 1893-1965) and dated 1953.
A substantial, modernist oil painting of a young woman, shown seated and gazing to her left with ...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Coastal Mist', Woman Artist, Carnegie Foundation, Rhode Island School of Design
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Horning' for Elizabeth Horning (American, born 1943) and painted circa 1985. Accompanied by artist biography and old label on or...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Evening Light, Rocky Shore', American School Impressionist Seascape, Pacific
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A late 19th century, American School seascape showing a lyrical view of sunlit waves flowing in towards a rocky beach. The unknown artist shows excepti...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Abstract in Jade', Bay Area Abstraction, Woman artist, SFMOMA, Oakland Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right in pencil, 'B.R.' for Barbara Rainforth (American, 20th century) and dated 1989. Additionally signed in pencil, verso, 'Barbara...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Laid Paper, Graphite
'Three Figures', Mid-century German Expressionist, Düsseldorf, Venice Biennale
By Kurt Craemer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signer upper right, 'Craemer' for Kurt Craemer (German, 1912-1961) and dated 1954.
Born in Saarbrucken, Craemer first attended the Academy of Cologne where he worked under Friedrich Ahlers-Hesterman in 1928. He then traveled to Paris with his teacher, where he was introduced to the work of Henri Matisse. From 1930-33, Craemer lived in Düsseldorf where he continued his studies at the Art Academy under Paul Klee. With the Nazi's ascent to power late that year, Craemer moved to Italy and lived there at the Art colony in Ischia until the end of the war when he moved to Positano.
Throughout the 1950's, Kurt Craemer continued to live in Italy exhibited with success internationally, including at the Venice Biennale...
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1950s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
'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 ...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Canvas, Acrylic
'Old Carmel', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1964.
A large, mid-century oil townscape showing a view of the old town of Carmel, California, with ...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
'Woodland Landscape', Paris, NAD, Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'H. Dearth' for Henry Golden Dearth (American, 1864-1918) and dated 1892.
Provenance: Collection of George A. Hearn.
Exhibite...
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1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'Cloisonné Abstract', Large Post-Impressionist Oil, Aptos, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C. S. Sanchez' for Clyde Sanchez (American, 20th century), and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, with artist location, 'Aptos, CA'.
A substantial,...
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1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Masonite, 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...
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1990s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Gesso
'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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Dog Park', California, University of California, San Francisco Bay Area
By Ted Fontaine
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'T. Fontaine' for Ted Fontaine (American, born 1952) and dated 2016.
A substantial, expressionist landscape comprising complex, overlaid a...
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2010s Abstract Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Laid Paper
'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
'Patio', San Francisco Academy of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, Long Island, NY
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Elizabeth Greaf' (American, 20th Century) and dated 1990.
A complex study of reflected light and images by this Virginia artist a...
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1990s Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie 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 Post-Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Watercolor, Board
'The Mid-Day Rest', Western American Landscape oil, Who Was Who in American Art
By Charles Damrow
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Damrow' for Charles Damrow (American, 1916-1989) and painted circa 1940; additionally signed verso on stretcher, 'Chas. Damrow'.
An idyllic, South-weste...
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1960s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Kneeling 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 showing a young woman kneeling an...
Category
1970s Impressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink
'Young Woman Seated', Cincinnati Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, San Francisco
By Jerry Opper
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Certification of Authenticity stamped verso for Jerry Opper (American, 1914-2014).
A lyrical, American modernist view of a young woman shown seated in an interior, gazing towards the viewer with her chin resting pensively on her hand.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, this California painter and printmaker moved to Los Angeles in 1933. Jerry Opper graduated from Hollywood High School and worked as a set painter in the movie industry while studying art at the Chouinard Institute. During the war, he was stationed in Colorado where he enrolled in the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. After the war, he returned to Los Angeles where he worked again in the film industry. In 1947, he moved to San Francisco where he studied full-time at the California School of Fine Arts and was awarded his diploma in June of 1950.
Opper exhibited widely and with success including at the Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association in 1950 and again in 1951 when he was awarded the Artists' Council Prize. His work was included in the International Biennial of Contemporary Color Lithography at the Cincinnati Art...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
'Harlequin with Guitar', California Modernist, Santa Cruz, University of Maine
By Jonathan Taylor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Taylor' for Jonathan Taylor (American, born 1968) and painted circa 2000.
This listed California artist first studied art at the College of the Atlantic in Bal Harbor...
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Early 2000s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Playing Guitar', California Post Impressionist oil, Santa Cruz, San Jose
By Jonathan Taylor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted circa 2000 by Jonathan Taylor (American, born 1968) and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
This listed California artist first studied art at the College of the Atlantic in Bal Harbor...
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1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Flag Medley', American School Pop Art, Red White and Blue, Stars and Stripes
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American School, Pop Art oil on canvas, unsigned and painted circa 1970.
A substantial and period, geometric Pop-Art abstract comprising red, white, and navy linear elements contras...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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
'Fish Market, Cannery Row, Monterey', California Expressionist, Stanford, Carmel
By Robert Canete
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Canete' for Robert Canete (American, born 1948) and painted circa 2000.
This Carmel artist studied with Vincent Rascon in the 1960's and later with Dwight Miller...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil
'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
'Standing Nude' Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie 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 Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
'Bacchanal', Paris Salon Modernist Oil, Royal Academy, Charlottenborg, Benezit
By Ludvig Jacobsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ludvig Jacobsen' (Danish, 1890-1957) and dated 1926.
An exceptional early twentieth-century figural work by this notable Danish modernist and follower of Wattea...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
