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Period: 19th Century
Period: 1970s
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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
'Ferns and Mushrooms', Art Students League, CCAC, San Francisco Art Association
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'L. Macouillard' for Louis Macouillard (American, 1913-1987) and painted circa 1975.
Louis Macouillard was born in San Francisco, CA on Sept. 8, 1913 of French descent and first graduated from Polytechnic High School and the CCAC (1934) before further study at the Art Students League in NYC. Returning to San Francisco, he became art director for the Velvetone Poster Company and maintained a studio on Hotaling Place. He began painting scenes of San Francisco in watercolor during the 1930's and also worked in mosaics and as a muralist. He exhibited with success including at the Oakland Art Gallery (later the Oakland Museum) 1934, and at the San Francisco Art Association (1935). During WWII, he served in the Navy in the South Pacific and produced many artworks of that area which were featured in a six-page spread and cover of the October 1943 issue of Life magazine. As well as fine art, his work included book illustrations and the designs for two U.S. postage stamps (Daniel Boone...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Shepherdess in a River Landscape' Salon des Artistes Françaises, Pushkin Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'D. Guillot' for Donat Guillot (French, 19th Century) and painted circa 1870.
Displayed in a period and antique, carved giltwood and gesso frame...
Category
1860s Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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
'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...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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,...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Masonite, Acrylic
'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...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
'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
'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
'A Pair of Mandarin Ducks Settled on a Pond'
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Framed dimensions: 11 H x 12.5 W x 1.25 D inches
An elegant, 19th-century Chinese School, gouache scroll painting fragment showing a pair of a richly-pl...
Category
19th Century Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'The Seine and the Pont Neuf', Paris, Académie des Beaux Arts, Kraków, Normandy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Walles' for Luc Cossier Walles (French, born 1946), titled lower right, 'Paris' and dated 1978.
Luc Cossier, known as Walles, was born in Poland to French paren...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Peacock Among Magnolia', Chinese Painting in Period Gilt Frame
By 19th Century Chinese school
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Framed dimensions: 15.5 H x 13 W x 1.75 D inches
An elegant, 19th-century Chinese School gouache scroll painting fragment showing a richly-plumed peaco...
Category
19th Century Academic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Figural', Carmel, California Post-Impressionist, Ruskin School of Art, Madrid
By Robert Moesle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A large study of several people in action contrasted against a background of saffron yellow and cerulean blue.
Signed lower right 'Moesle', painted circa 1975 and titled verso 'On ...
Category
1970s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
'Circle of Marine Life', Aquatic, Psychedelic Fish Monster, Yellow Submarine
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Baba' and dated 1977.
A large and colorful Pop Art derived perspective on the aquatic circle of life.
Category
1970s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Masonite, Gouache
'Sunny Room in Aix-en-Provence', New York, San Diego Museum of Natural History
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'R. Landay' for Ruth Landay (American, 1917-2006) and dated, verso, 1971. Titled on verso, "Sunny Room in Aix-en-Provence".
A luminous, Post-Impressionist watercolor showing a view of a sunlit room interior with a view beyond a balcony to sailing boats and an emerald ocean. This New York-born Modernist exhibited in California during the 1960s-1980s, including at the San Diego Museum of Natural History.
Category
1970s Modern Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Coastal Sunset', California Impressionist, USC, LACMA, AIC, Académie Julian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'W. L. Judson' for William Lees Judson (American, 1842-1928) and painted circa 1910.
Born in Manchester, England, William Lees...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
'Gladioli by Moonlight', Laguna Beach Art Association, Pasadena Art Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'J.L. Freeman' for Jean L. Freeman (American 1926-2006) and painted circa 1975.
Born in Michigan, Jean Sampson studied at the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts (later the Center for Creative Studies) under John Foster before moving to California in 1953. In 1954, she married the artist Philip Freeman and settled in Dana Point...
Category
1970s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract in Ivory and Blue', Chouinard, Osaka, Butler Institute of Art, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Inman' for Robert Inman (American, 1927–2016) and dated, lower right, outside of design, '79'. Retaining original, card, mat and backi...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Laid Paper
'Blue Fish', Musee National d'Art Moderne, Grand Prix de Rome, Salon d'Automne
By Roger Bezombes
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Roger Bezombes' (French, 1913-1994) and titled, 'Poisson bleu' with number and limitation, lower right, '25/150'.
Roger Bezombes first attended the Ècole des Beaux-Arts (1934) and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the Grand Prix de Rome...
Category
1970s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
'Young Girl Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Ac. 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 1971; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'Leslie'.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di G...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
'Dancing Musician', New York, Kinetic Figural, NYMOMA, LACMA, Whitney Museum
By Ronald Mallory
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Mallory' for Ronald Mallory (American, 1932-2021) and dated 1975.
A dramatic, disjunct figural study of a man wearing a checked cap, shown dancing and playing ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
'A Fashionable Young Woman in a Chiffon Ball-Gown', Scandinavian Oil Portrait
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A delicately-observed, three-quarter length oil portrait of a young woman in society, fashionably dressed in a pinch-waisted, embroidered chiffon ball-gown and wearing a gold pendant and teardrop earrings with tea roses in her hair; the subject shown gazing towards the viewer with candor and good humor. Displayed in a period, black-walnut frame with period gilt liner. Danish School...
Category
1860s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Venetian Capriccio', Gondolas, Basilica of St. Mark, Campanile, Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Girard' (French, 20th Century) and painted, circa 1965, in the style of Bernard Buffet. (N.B. Additional signature detail photographed under 365nm ultraviolet lig...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Happy Tabby', 19th Century Danish School, Swedish Embroidered Armchair
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed upper right, 'C.N.' (Danish, 19th Century) and dated 1898.
A late nineteenth-century oil composed with a fresh palette and finely-observed detail. This elegant feline stud...
Category
1890s Naturalistic Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Children Landing a Catfish', 19th Century American School, Large Nocturnal Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-to-late 19th century American School nocturnal landscape showing a view of three children, accompanied by their terrier, fishing by ...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Chez la Modiste', Interior Figural Oil, Post-Impressionist, Woman Folk Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Elisabeth' for Elisabeth Gevaert (Belgian, 1934-2016) and dated 1970.
A finely-painted, whimsical study of the interior of a milliner's shop with a woman seated...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Private Garden', Large American Impressionist oil, Hawaii, Australia, Seattle
By Loraine Balsillie
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial oil landscape showing a view of a sunlit courtyard with a fountain and blossoming perennials in earthenware pots, and a view beyond towards a neo-classical villa.
Signed lower right, "Loraine Balsillie" (American, 1919-2016) and painted circa 1980.
Loraine Balsillie first studied painting with Leo Fairbanks...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Study of a Young Woman', Framed Modernist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, "Mancini"; additionally signed verso and painted circa 1975.
Figurative oil in crimson, vermilion, jade, and deep blue, showing a young woman wearing a hat with...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'A Young Parisienne', Royal Academy of Arts, Academie Colarossi, Jeu-de-Paume
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center left, 'Christine Sundberg' (Swedish, 1837-1892) and dated 1888.
Displayed in a period golden maple frame; Framed dimensions: 25.5 x 1...
Category
1880s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Midday Rest', Breton Figural Harvest Scene oil, Brittany Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Late 19th century French School, unsigned and painted circa 1860. Oil on artist prepared panel.
A late 19th century oil landscape, painted in the style of Jean-François Millet, show...
Category
1850s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Red Poppies', Woman Artist, New York Art Students League, Metropolitan Opera
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Delmar-Oberth' for Alice Delmar Oberth (American, 2010-2000) and dated 1978.
Alice Oberth and her twin sister danced together at ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Cheese Market, Les Halles', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Independants
By Edouard-Jean Dambourgez
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), titled, 'Paris' and painted circa 1890.
A fine and detailed, late-nineteenth century view of a counter of the bustling cheese market...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Postcard, Oil
'La Taverne Pausset, Paris', Salon d'Automne, Salon des Independants, Benezit
By Edouard-Jean Dambourgez
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), titled, 'Paris' and painted circa 1880. Titled with inscription, verso, on old backing, ''Taverne Pausset', grands boulevards a Paris".
A fine and detailed, cabinet-size oil painting showing an elegant Parisian cafe and bar, the interior lit by luminous, floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows and filled with fashionably-dressed patrons drinking and socializing beneath a haze of pipe and cigar smoke. A minor, period masterpiece, providing an animated view of the city's fin-de-siècle nightlife, and characterised by finely observed and fully-realized figures showing an unusual degree of both social commentary and psychological penetration.
Edouard-Jean Dambourgez first studied with Jules Lefebvre and, subsequently, as an engraver and chromo-lithographer under Gustave Boulanger. In 1880, Dambourgez commenced exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, and, in 1883, was elected a member of the Society. Throughout the 1880's, he exhibited frequently and with success at the major Paris salons including the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants and the Salon des Champs-de-Mars. In 1884, he was commissioned by the Louvre to engrave all illustrations for the catalog to the Thiers Collection, recently bequeathed to the Museum. The recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards, Dambourgez was awarded an honorable distinction by the Salon in 1888, and an honorable mention in 1891.
In 1888, the critic Albert Wolff recommended his painting, 'A Cheese Shop', for inclusion at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1891, the city of Paris bought his large canvas, 'The Cream and Cheese Market...
Category
1880s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Postcard
'Picnic on the Coast', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Salon des Independants, Benezit
By Edouard-Jean Dambourgez
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931) and painted circa 1880.
Edouard-Jean Dambourgez first studied under Jules Lefebvre and, later, as an engraver and chromo-lithographer with Gustave Boulanger. Dambourgez commenced exhibiting in 1880 at the Salon des Artistes Français, and, in 1883, was elected a member of the Society. He exhibited frequently and with success at the other major Paris salons including the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants and the Salon des Champs-de-Mars. In 1884, he was commissioned by the Louvre to engrave the illustrations for the catalog to the Thiers Collection, recently bequeathed to the Museum. The recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards, Dambourgez received an honorable distinction in 1888 and an honorable mention in 1891.
In 1888, the critic Albert Wolff spotted his canvas 'A Cheese Shop' and recommended its inclusion at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1891, the city of Paris bought his large canvas, 'The Cream and Cheese Market...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Postcard
'Charlotte with Carnations', Paris, Royal Academy of Art, Denmark, Copenhagen
By Evgenij Klenø
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Accompanied by 1979 exhibition label signed, 'Kleno' for Evgenij Klenø (Dutch, 1921-2005) and titled, verso, 'Charlotte'; additionally titled, verso, on ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Chorus Line', Cooper Union, WPA, MoMA, Metropolitan, Smithsonian, Woman Artist
By Ruth Gikow
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Gikow' for Ruth Levine Gikow (Russian-American, 1915-1982); with original New York, Kennedy Gallery gallery label bearing artist information and dated 1974. Photo of the artist courtesy of Wikipedia.
Framed dimensions: 21.25 x 1.5 x 31.25 inches.
Born in the Russian Ukraine, Ruth Gikow's family emigrated to the United States in 1920, settling on the Lower East Side of New York. She won early recognition for her artwork at Washington Irving High School, which then had one of the strongest art departments in New York City.
At 17, Gikow entered Cooper Union...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Village in Provence', Large French Geometric Abstract Oil, Palo Alto Gallery
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'S. Aron' (French, 20th century) and dated 1970; additionally signed, verso, on canvas with old label verso.
Provenance: Los Robles Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Estuary at Sunset', Mendocino, California, American Watercolor Society, SWA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Vernon Nye' (American, 1915-2013), inscribed 'AWS' and painted circa 1975.
A key figure in California's post-war watercolor revival, Ve...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
'E Pluribus Unum', Modernist Silk Screen, Walt Disney, San Miguel de Allende
By Ross Wetzel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in pencil, 'Ross Wetzel' (American, 1917 - 2013), titled lower left, 'E Pluribus Unum' and with number and limitation, '118/300'.
Paper dimensions: 14 x 21 inches.
Born in Chicago, Ross Wetzel was an avid art student through high school, and then enrolled- with his future wife and fellow artist, Janice- at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was soon working for Walt Disney Productions, taking lead production roles in the creation of such Disney classics as Pinocchio, Fantasia and Bambi. During the Second World War, he served with the Motion Picture Unit of the First Army Air Corp under Ronald Reagan, creating training films for fighter pilots and bombers and working beside actors including Alan Ladd and Clark Gable.
After the War, Ross and Janice started a serigraphy business, which came to be known as Ross Wetzel Studios creating animated commercials and print advertisements for companies such as Kellogg's, Kleenex and Continental Airlines that featured such characters as Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam. Ross was also hired to illustrate one of the first renderings of Smokey the Bear...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Screen
'Hungarian Landscape', Ukrainian Post-Impressionist, Budapest, Hungary, Israeli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Unik' for Leonid Unik (Ukrainian-Hungarian, born 1951) and inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, with signature and title, 'Hongre' (Hungary).
Leonid Unik first st...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract in Turquoise and Copper', Sosaku-Hanga, NMAO, Tokyo, LACMA, Benezit
By Hiroyuki Tajima
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Hiroyuki Tajima' (Japanese, 1911-1984) and dated 1979 with limitation and number, '100-10', lower center and titled lower left, 'Section of Landscape'.
Paper dimensions: 19.75 x 12.5 inches
An elegant abstract comprising juxtaposed vertical, rectangular forms in variegated shades of turquoise blue and copper.
Engraver and printmaker, Hiroyuki Tajima was born in Tokyo in 1911 and graduated from Nihon University in 1932. In 1934, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts with a specialization in western-style painting. Tajima later studied fabric dyeing under Hirokawa Matsugoro (1889-1952) and woodblock printing with the Sosaku-Hanga artist, Nagase Yoshiro (1891-1978), a founder of the Japan Print Association (Hanga Kyokai). In 1946, inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Tajima joined Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai, a group dedicated to exploring and reviving the abstract and surrealist painting ideals that had been suppressed during WWII.
Tajima exhibited widely and with success, including with Tokyo's Modern Art Association (Prix du Nouveau Venu, 1962), the Japanese Engraving Association, the Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition in Tokyo (1962), the Northwest International Print Exhibition (1962-1964) and the Tokyo International Print Biennale (1964). His work is held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) and the British Museum in London.
In describing Tajima's work, Frances Blakemore...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
'Jade', Sir John Cass, Otis Art Institute, California
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed center left, 'PT' for Pearl Took (American, 1928-2012); additionally signed, dated 1977 and titled verso 'Portrait of Jade' with artist card.
Born in England, Pearl Took...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Two Women with a Guitar', Large Tonalist Figural Oil, New Orleans, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed lower right, 'Kimball' for Harold Kimball (American, born 1929) and painted circa 1975.
Born in New York City, Harold Kimball lived for sever...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
'Mt. Rundle, Canada', Alberta, Prix de West, National Academy of Western Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wayne E Wolfe' (American, born 1945), dated 1979 and titled verso, 'Mt. Rund'.
Framed dimensions: 20 x 2 x 22.75 inches
A mountain landscape showing a view of the Vermilion lakes before Mt. Rundle in the Canadian Rockies.
Son of western artist Bryon Wolfe, Wayne Wolfe...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
'Sheila Antoine with Afro', Sir John Cass, Otis Art Institute, California
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left with monogram, 'P.T.' for Pearl Took (American, 1928-2012); additionally signed verso, dated 1977 and titled 'Sheila Antoine'.
Born in England, Pearl Took first st...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Rain, Abstract in Ruby and Jade', sosaku-hanga, NMAO, Tokyo, LACMA, Benezit
By Hiroyuki Tajima
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right outside of block, 'Hiroyuki Tajima' (Japanese, 1911-1984) and dated 1973 with limitation and number, '50-4', lower center and titled lower left, 'The Rain'.
Paper dimensions: 19.75 x 12.5 inches
An elegant abstract comprising overlapping forms in deep ruby, coral and jade.
Engraver and printmaker, Hiroyuki Tajima was born in Tokyo in 1911 and graduated from Nihon University in 1932. In 1934, he graduated from the Tokyo School of Arts with a specialization in western-style painting. Tajima later studied fabric dyeing under Hirokawa Matsugoro (1889-1952) and woodblock printing with the Sosaku-Hanga artist, Nagase Yoshiro (1891-1978), a founder of the Japan Print Association (Hanga Kyokai). In 1946, inspired by Dada and Surrealism, Tajima joined Bijutsu Bunka Kyokai, a group dedicated to exploring and reviving the abstract and surrealist painting ideals that had been suppressed during WWII.
Tajima exhibited widely and with success, including with Tokyo's Modern Art Association ( Prix du Nouveau Venu, 1962), the Japanese Engraving Association, the Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition in Tokyo (1962), the Northwest International Print Exhibition (1962-1964) and the Tokyo International Print Biennale (1964). His work is held in the permanent collections of museums worldwide including the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (British Columbia), the Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia), the Carnegie Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art, Osaka (NMAO) and the British Museum in London.
In describing Tajima's work, Frances Blakemore...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
