McNaught Fine Art Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Signed lower right 'E.M.Heath' for Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874-1972) and painted circa 1930. A lyrical and romantic view of this early California mission and picturesque land...

Signed lower right, 'Bonorat' and painted circa 1980 An elegant, modernist figural painting and early work by this Sydney-based Mexican artist who studied at the National School of Fine Arts in Mexico City (1982-84) and, subsequently, at the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo, Brazil (1986). STUDIES 1982-1984 Painting and Drawing Ateliers – National School of Fine Arts, Mexico City 1985-1986 Artistic Experimentation – Carrillo Hill Museum, Mexico City 1986 Metal Engraving – Museum of Modern Art Sao Paulo Brazil SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1986 Art Gallery of Santos Municipal Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1988 Art Gallery of Porto Alegre Municipal centre, R.S. Brazil 1991 Gallery Casa de la Cultura, Morelia Mexico 1994 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney 1996 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney 1996 Michael Burke Gallery, Brisbane 1997 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney 2019 ‘Golden Trinity’, Thienny Lee Gallery, Sydney 2019 ‘Continuous Thread, GAFFA Gallery, Sydney GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1985 Mail Art Network Kyoto City Museum, Kyoto Japan 1987 Banespa Cultural Centre, Sao Paulo Brazil 1988 IV National Contest of Fine Arts, Cubatao Brazil 1992 NCA Gallery, Sydney 1994 The Beatty Gallery, Sydney 1994/5/6 Selected for the “Fisher’s Ghost” Art...

Signed lower left, 'J. Orrock' for James Orrock (British, 1829-1913) and dated 1845. Matted Dimensions: 14.5 H x 19 W x .25 D Inches. A well composed and freshly painted, mid-nineteenth century watercolor showing a view of a herd of cattle pasturing in lush fields beside a river, with a view beyond towards the church spire...

Signed lower right 'R. Moscardo' for Ramon Moscardo Fernandez (Spanish, born 1953) and painted circa 1980. A substantial and scintillating, watercolor and gouache still-life comprising a bottle of Anis (Pastis), peaches in a cut glass bowl and a vase of flowers refracting rays of prismatic light across the surface of a lace tablecloth...

Signed verso, 'George Wilburton Colby' (American, 1859-1922) and dated 1920. George Colby was a member of the old Art League and a life member of the Chicago Art Institute. After hi...

Signed lower right, 'Carl Niederer' (American, 1927-2019) and dated 1965; additionally titled, 'Yerba Buena from Telegraph Hill' verso. Carl Niederer f...

Signed lower center, 'by Buk' for Eduard Buk Ulreich (American, 1889-1966), dedicated lower center, 'for Ruth' and painted circa 1945. Additionally signed and titled verso 'Navajo Fa...

Signed on old frame backing, 'La Vere Hutchings' (American, 1918-1998) and titled 'Early Snow'. LaVere Hutchings had a degree in art and during WWII ...

Signed lower right, 'Beverly Fields' (American, 20th century) and dated 1988. Accompanied by a copy of the artist's poster from the same series. This listed California artist has exhibited widely and with success and is the recipient of numerous medals and juried awards. Beverly Fields first studied with Zoltan Szabo and later with Charles Reid...

Certification of Authenticity stamped verso; titled verso, 'San Anselmo' and dated 1956. Muriel Backman exhibited widely and with success from the 1930's ...

A substantial, late 19th century, French School portrait of an elegantly dressed young woman of the court, shown holding her English spaniel in her arms and gazing towards the viewer...

Signed lower right, 'Mund' for Marvin Mund (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975. Accompanied by an old exhibition label bearing title, 'Seated Nude with Hat', and by the artist's business card. A lyrical and painterly watercolor study of a woman viewed from behind and shown seated, wearing a green hat. Marvin Mund exhibited widely and with success including at The San Francisco Museum of Art; the Palace of the Legion of Honor; the Quay Gallery, San Francisco and the Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles among others. Mund taught at the Fort Mason...

Signed lower left, 'Moesle' for Robert Moesle (American, b. 1932); additionally signed verso, titled 'Waiting Gondolier' and dated March 1998. A substantial and finely detailed wat...

Signed lower right, 'Jack B. Bevier' for Jack Bernard Bevier (American, 1923-1996) and painted circa 1985. Born in Michigan, Bevier was primarily a watercolor painter who specialized in rural country landscapes, seascapes of the Monterey Peninsula, boat and harbor scenes. Jack Bevier was educated in Ann Arbor, Michigan before serving 3 years in the Army Air Corp during World War II. After the war he attended the Art Institute of Chicago where he graduated with honors. After six years of painting and working in the commercial art business in Chicago, Bevier moved to California. He settled in the Salinas area on the Monterey Peninsula in 1956 and operated a gallery in Carmel, California for many years. His works have been exhibited widely and with success including at the National Watercolor Society...

Signed lower right, 'Gallo Giovanni' for Giovanni Gallo (Italian, 20th century) and dated 1954. Titled lower left, 'Eseguito a Pompei, 'Trionfo di Bacco'' (Done in Pompeii, 'Triumph of Bacchus...

Signed lower left, 'Donna Dearden'; additionally signed on old backing, titled, 'Winter Coming' and painted circa 1975. A semi-abstracted study of abscised leaves against a variegat...

Signed lower right, 'Monica Dengo' (Italian, born 1966) and dated 1995; additionally signed verso and titled, 'No.3: The Caliph Harum al Rashid'. An educator and calligrapher, Monica Dengo has taught, exhibited and studied around the world. Dengo began the study of graphic design in Venice and London. In London she studied calligraphy and bookbinding at the Roehampton Institute (1991-1992) with Gaynor Goffe and Ewan Clayton. In 1993 she moved to San Francisco, California and spent three years studying independently full time manuscript production techniques, illumination, design and history of lettering with Thomas Ingmire. In addition to her studies with Ingmire, Dengo studied figure drawing with Eleanor...

Signed lower right, 'Monica Dengo' and dated 1995. An elegant and substantial work by this contemporary Italian artist and calligrapher. An educator and calligrapher, Monica Dengo has taught, exhibited and studied around the world. Dengo began the study of graphic design in Venice and London. In London she studied calligraphy and bookbinding at the Roehampton Institute (1991-1992) with Gaynor Goffe and Ewan Clayton. In 1993 she moved to San Francisco, California and spent three years studying independently full time manuscript production techniques, illumination, design and history of lettering with Thomas Ingmire. In addition to her studies with Ingmire, Dengo studied figure drawing with Eleanor...

Certification of Authenticity verso and painted circa 1920. Provenance: Dualitie Gallery, Larchmont, NY An art deco study of a woman, with her hair in the style of Josephine Baker, ...

Estate stamp, verso, for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...

Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. An elegant figural interior showing a young woman seated on a bed beside a table bearing a vase...

Bearing Victor Di Gesu estate stamp verso and painted circa 1955. Watercolor figurative showing an abstracted view of a woman standing in an interior holding a pitcher, with a table...

Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp verso and painted circa 1960. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Cho...

A semi-abstracted study of a Tuscan townscape with warm terra-cotta roofs and stucco hues of saffron and crimson. Signed lower right, 'D. Masters' for Dora Masters (American, 1916-...

Signed lower right, 'H. Booth' for Harold Booth (American, 1931-2007) and painted circa 1975. Harold Booth first studied art at the University of Missouri and obtained his M.A. degree at San Jose State University. For many years, he taught art in the California Bay Area and, upon his retirement, took took up painting full time. He was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards and his watercolors and murals can be found in the the Fremont Niles Library and several Bay Area historic homes. Booth exhibited widely and with success, including throughout the Bay area and west coast, and his teaching took him to Southern France and Mexico. Exhibitions: Main Street Gallery, Pleasanton, California Olive Hyde Gallery, Fremont, California Contemporary Arts Gallery, Berkeley, California Parks Gallery, San Jose, Califronia Ohlone Arts Gallery, Fremont, California Adobe Art...

Signed lower right, 'Brian Johnson'; additionally signed verso and titled 'Shakes'. This elected member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors graduated with distinction from Art Center College in Los Angeles, California. and was awarded their annual medal for most outstanding work. Brian Johnson has lived and painted in London, Los Angeles, Vancouver and Toronto, and now resides with his family in Victoria BC.

Signed lower left, 'M.E. Bailey' for Mike Bailey (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1980. A substantial, bravura study of red and pink rhododendrons contrasted against a variegated green background. This notable American watercolorist has served has President of the National Watercolor Society...

A late twentieth-century American school portrait of a girl posed against a light slate background and gazing back at the viewer. Displayed in a cream mat. Matted dimensions: 14.5...

Signed lower right, 'Charlotte A. Morton' (American, 1885-1974) and painted circa 1955. A sensitive study of various blossoms including geraniums, lupin and catmint. A landscape painter and teacher, Charlotte Augusta Morton graduated from Kansas State College before continuing her education at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Art Students League of New York and the Pratt Institute. After moving to California and attending Stanford University where she received her Masters in Education, Morton taught at San Jose State College before moving to Monterey and joining the Carmel Art...

Signed lower right, 'Muriel Backman' (American, 1902-1996); additionally signed verso, titled 'Mission San Juan Bautista, Founded June 24, 1797' and ...

Signed lower right, "Dignimont" for André Dignimont (French, 1891-1965) and painted circa 1950. A substantial, mid-century interior showing a man and ...

Signed lower right 'Engel G' and titled, 'Californie ... Cote d'Azur'. Born in Badenweiler, Irma Leisinger first studied in Paris with Andre Lhote from 1926. In 1930, she entered th...

Signed lower right, 'Michel Kady' and dated 1948. A substantial watercolor on Arches paper showing a coastal scene with figures walking beside the Pacific Ocean beneath imposing cli...

Signed lower right, "Amy Burnett" and dated 1992. A substantial watercolor and gouache study of a bearded and weathered cowboy wearing a dun-colored, broad-brimmed hat, and showing ...

Signed lower left, 'Michel Kady' (Hungarian-American, 1901-1977) and painted circa 1965 A substantial watercolor landscape showing a view of a dirt road in California Gold Country...

A delicate watercolor landscape showing a panoramic view of Australia's capital city looking towards Sydney Harbor Bridge from this desirable eastern sub...

Signed lower right, 'M. Cailliet' and dated 1940; additionally inscribed verso, 'Marcel Emile Cailliet, Los Angeles'. A softly-painted, Regionalist landscape showing a woman standing in the shade of a tree beside a path leading to a rural, clap-board house. This listed member of the California Watercolor Society, emigrated from Dijon, France to New York...

Signed lower right, "Muriel Backman", titled verso and dated 1960. Painted on Arches paper. This notable California woman artist exhibited widely and with success from the 1930's th...

Signed lower right, "M. Backman"; additionally signed verso, titled 'Corporation Yard' and painted circa 1960. This notable California woman artist exhibited widely and with success...

Signed lower right, 'C.A. Bartels' for Cornelius Anton Bartels (Dutch, born 1890) and painted circa 1945. A still-life with a sculpture of the Daoist immortal, Liu Haichan...

Signed lower center, 'Shepherd' for Sydney Horne Shepherd (British, 1909-1993) and painted circa 1960; accompanied by old exhibition label. A lyrical watercolor of a woman reclining and gazing towards the viewer. Born in Dundee and educated at Harris Academy, Sidney D’Horne Shepherd attended Dundee School of Art from 1924-1926 and then Glasgow School of Art...

A vibrant coastal landscape showing a view of a jetty extending into the cove of a beachside town with a view to mountains beyond. Signed lower right, 'Nadine Pizzo' and painted circa 1960. Born in San Francisco, Nadine Pizzo was educated at UC Berkeley and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. After marrying artist Sal Pizzo in the late 1930s, Overpack Pizzo moved to Sonoma County in 1976, where she continued painting until her death in 1985. Nadine Pizzo exhibited successfully on the West Coast, including a solo exhibition at the California Palace Legion of Honor...

Signed lower right, 'Albert Blaisdell' and painted circa 1975. A watercolor and cartoon artist, Albert Blaisdell began his career in art after being wounded in combat in the Palau I...

Signed center right, 'Phyllis McDowell' (British, 20th/21st century) with artist business sticker and title, 'Storm-Folkestone Harbour' on backing. An art teacher and artist, Phylll...

Signed lower left, 'Karl Yens' (American, 1868-1945) and painted circa 1920. A fine, early 20th century watercolor landscape showing the the luminous sunset serenely reflected in a still lake with elegant, calligraphic grasses. Painter, illustrator, etcher and muralist, Karl Yens was born in Germany and first studied with Max Koch in Berlin and, subsequently, with Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens in Paris. He was a successful active muralist in both Germany and Scotland before immigrating to the United States in 1901. After arriving in America, Yens continued to paint murals in New York City and Washington, D.C. before settling in Southern California where he lived and painted until his death in 1945. Karl Yens exhibited widely and with success, including at the 1915 Panama-California International Exposition in San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, the Duquesne Club of Pittsburgh, San Diego Museum, the Orange County, California Museum, Astor Theatre in NYC and the Society of California Pioneers. He was the recipient of numerous medals and prizes and juried awards, including at the 1919 California Art Club, Laguna Beach Art...

Signed lower right, 'Gilberg' and painted circa 1955. A woman, drawn in variegated shades of ruby and garnet red, poses on a bed with incised details. Born in Oakland, Robert Geor...

A lyrically painted, mid-century watercolor showing a seagull hovering suspended above a turbulent ocean with dramatic and play of light between clouds and mist and with a view towar...

Signed lower right, "M. Backman" for Muriel Backman (American, 1902-1996), titled verso and dated 1955. A vibrant Modernist work by this notable California woman artist who exhibit...

Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) Estate Stamp verso; drawn circa 1955. Figural study of a young woman shown reclining on a draped pedestal. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Vic...

Signed lower left, 'Geo Marzan' and painted circa 1965. A panoramic sunset view of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, with a fishing boat and other smaller craft in the foreground and Victori...

Signed lower center, 'Geo Marzan' and painted circa 1965. Panoramic sunset view of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong, with numerous fishing vessels and pleasure boats, and Victoria Peak risin...

Signed lower right, 'Beth Ames Swartz' (American, born 1936) and dated 1966. Primarily working in the idioms of abstraction and semi-abstraction, Beth Ames Swarts's paintings and mixed-media works are commonly informed by philosophical and spiritual concepts shared by people of different cultural world-views, and incorporate both symbols and words in the vocabulary of their visual language. Beth's art practice has been guided by aesthetic philosophies including Wassily Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and inspired by various religious and philosophical systems including Native American Healing practices, Buddhism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christianity in order to facilitate communication with viewers on both a conscious and unconscious level. Swartz syncretizes a variety of spiritual traditions in her work in order to reveal their inherent commonality. Born in New York City, Beth grew up in Manhattan, and by her mid-teens, was studying at the Art Students League in New York in the late 1940s. Her education continued at NYC's High School of Music & Art followed by Cornell University where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science (1957), followed by a Master of Arts degree (1959) from New York University. Beth Ames Swartz exhibited nationwide including at over seventy solo exhibitions including a solo show at The Jewish Museum in New York. In addition, she participated in three major traveling museum exhibitions and her work is held in the permanent collections of numerous major museums including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian. She received the Governor's Individual Artist Award in 2001 in Arizona, and a retrospective of her work was mounted in 2002 at The Phoenix Art Museum, with a monograph about her work co-published by The Phoenix Art Museum and Hudson Hills Press. Fellowships, Awards, Grants and Honors: New York, NY - 2003 Veteran Feminists of America, Medal of Honor Phoenix, AZ - 2001 Recipient, Governor's Arts Award, the highest honor in Arizona for one individual who may be a visual or performing artist or a writer. Snowmass Village, CO - 2000 Anderson Ranch, Artist in Residence Phoenix, AZ - 1994 Founder, Culture Care , an international, non-profit organization sponsoring The Sacred Souls Project, to identify, support and honor individuals who demonstrate positive human societal values New York, NY - 1994 Awarded Flow Fund grant for discretionary philanthropic use for non-personal benefit New York, NY - 1994 Panelist, College Art Association, Art, Earth and Medicine: A Healing Approach New York, NY - 1993 Panelist, The Sacred in the Arts Conference New York, NY - 1992 Speaker, MedArts Conference, Research Study on A Moving Point of Balance Stinson Beach, CA - 1991 Speaker, Symposium, Art as a Healing Force New Harmony, IN - 1990 Keynote Speaker, Art and Healing Conference Phoenix, AZ - 1988 Co-Founder, International Friends of Transformative Art (IFTA), an international, non-profit organization for positive global change Payson, AZ - 1988, '87 Project Coordinator, Rim Institute, Transformative Artist's Conference and Workshop Phoenix, AZ - 1985 Governor's Award, Outstanding Women of Arizona - Women Who Create Sun Valley, ID - 1980 Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Artist in Residence, The Awesome Space: The Inner and Outer Landscape Hawaii National Park, HI - 1979 Volcano Art Center, Artist in Residence Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77 Named Master Teacher by State Department of Public Instruction Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77 Educational Grant for Inquiry Into Fire, Arizona Commission on Arts and Humanities Selected Bibliography and Reference: Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p.2468; Arizona/Women '75 (exhibition catalogue). Tucson, AZ: Tucson Art Museum, 1975; Baigell, Matthew. "Art and Spirit: Kabbalah and Jewish-American Artists." Tikkun vol. 14, no.4, (July-August 1999): 59-61 (illus. in b&w of Shen Qi Series: the Cabalistic Scheme of the Four Worlds #5); Beth Ames Swartz, Inquiry Into Fire (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1978. Introduction by Melinda Wortz; Beth Ames Swartz, 1982-1988: A Moving Point of Balance (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: A Moving Point of Balance, Inc., 1988. Introduction by John Perreault; Biennial 1979 (exhibition catalog). Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, March 9-April 8, 1979, 35-37, 64 (illus. in color Sedona, #23; illus. in b&w, Torah Scroll, #5); Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing (exhibition catalog). Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1994. Introduction by Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, Nicholas Capasso, and Sara Rehm Roberts; Cembalest, Robin. "The Ecological Art Explosion." ARTnews vol. 90, no. 6 (summer 1991): 96-105; The First Western States Biennial Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Denver: Western States Art Foundation, 1979. Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor (with illus. in color of Torah Scroll #4); Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. Thames and Hudson: New York, 1991, 155-57; Gadon, Elinor W. The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1989, 245-46; 248; Henderson, Barbara. "Beth Ames Swartz," A Magazine of Fine Arts vol. 2, no. 15 (April 1976): 34-41; Israel Revisited: Beth Ames Swartz (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Beth Ames Swartz, 1981: 40 pp. Introduction by Harry Rand...

Inscribed verso 'AL.P. Moretti', titled 'Jeudi à la Maison' (Thursday at Home) and painted circa 1955. A period watercolor interior scene showing two girls relaxing at home, surroun...

Signed lower left 'Creech PSWC' and created circa 1975 A compelling pastel study showing the subject dressed in brightly-colored ceremonial robes and gazing past the viewer. An eleg...

Signed lower right, 'Beth Ames Swartz' (American, born 1936) and dated 1967. Primarily working in the idioms of abstraction and semi-abstraction, Beth's paintings and mixed-media works are commonly informed by philosophical and spiritual concepts shared by people of different cultural worldviews, and incorporate both symbols and words in the vocabulary of their visual language. Her art practice has been guided by aesthetic philosophies including Wassily Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and inspired by various religious and philosophical systems including Native American Healing practices, Buddhism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christianity in order to facilitate communication with viewers on both the conscious and unconscious level. Swartz synthesizes these spiritual traditions in her work with the purpose of revealing the commonality between them. Beth was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan, and by her mid-teens was studying at the Art Students League in New York in the late 1940s. Her education continued at The High School of Music & Art in New York City, and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science degree, followed by a Master of Arts degree in 1959 from New York University. Beth Ames Swartz exhibited nationwide including at over seventy solo exhibitions including a solo show at The Jewish Museum in New York. In addition, she participated in three major traveling museum exhibitions and her work is held in the permanent collections of numerous major museums including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian. She received the Governor's Individual Artist Award in 2001 in Arizona, and a retrospective of her work was mounted in 2002 at The Phoenix Art Museum, with a monograph about her work co-published by The Phoenix Art Museum and Hudson Hills Press. Swartz explores systems of knowledge by translating philosophical concepts into aesthetic visual experiences. Fellowships, Awards, Grants and Honors: New York, NY - 2003 Veteran Feminists of America, Medal of Honor Phoenix, AZ - 2001 Recipient, Governor's Arts Award, the highest honor in Arizona for one individual who may be a visual or performing artist or a writer. Snowmass Village, CO - 2000 Anderson Ranch, Artist in Residence Phoenix, AZ - 1994 Founder, Culture Care , an international, non-profit organization sponsoring The Sacred Souls Project, to identify, support and honor individuals who demonstrate positive human societal values New York, NY - 1994 Awarded Flow Fund grant for discretionary philanthropic use for non-personal benefit New York, NY - 1994 Panelist, College Art Association, Art, Earth and Medicine: A Healing Approach New York, NY - 1993 Panelist, The Sacred in the Arts Conference New York, NY - 1992 Speaker, MedArts Conference, Research Study on A Moving Point of Balance Stinson Beach, CA - 1991 Speaker, Symposium, Art as a Healing Force New Harmony, IN - 1990 Keynote Speaker, Art and Healing Conference Phoenix, AZ - 1988 Co-Founder, International Friends of Transformative Art (IFTA), an international, non-profit organization for positive global change Payson, AZ - 1988, '87 Project Coordinator, Rim Institute, Transformative Artist's Conference and Workshop Phoenix, AZ - 1985 Governor's Award, Outstanding Women of Arizona - Women Who Create Sun Valley, ID - 1980 Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Artist in Residence, The Awesome Space: The Inner and Outer Landscape Hawaii National Park, HI - 1979 Volcano Art Center, Artist in Residence Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77 Named Master Teacher by State Department of Public Instruction Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77 Educational Grant for Inquiry Into Fire, Arizona Commission on Arts and Humanities Selected Bibliography and Reference: Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p.2468; Arizona/Women '75 (exhibition catalogue). Tucson, AZ: Tucson Art Museum, 1975; Baigell, Matthew. "Art and Spirit: Kabbalah and Jewish-American Artists." Tikkun vol. 14, no.4, (July-August 1999): 59-61 (illus. in b&w of Shen Qi Series: the Cabalistic Scheme of the Four Worlds #5); Beth Ames Swartz, Inquiry Into Fire (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1978. Introduction by Melinda Wortz; Beth Ames Swartz, 1982-1988: A Moving Point of Balance (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: A Moving Point of Balance, Inc., 1988. Introduction by John Perreault; Biennial 1979 (exhibition catalog). Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, March 9-April 8, 1979, 35-37, 64 (illus. in color Sedona, #23; illus. in b&w, Torah Scroll, #5); Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing (exhibition catalog). Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1994. Introduction by Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, Nicholas Capasso, and Sara Rehm Roberts; Cembalest, Robin. "The Ecological Art Explosion." ARTnews vol. 90, no. 6 (summer 1991): 96-105; The First Western States Biennial Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Denver: Western States Art Foundation, 1979. Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor (with illus. in color of Torah Scroll #4); Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. Thames and Hudson: New York, 1991, 155-57; Gadon, Elinor W. The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1989, 245-46; 248; Henderson, Barbara. "Beth Ames Swartz," A Magazine of Fine Arts vol. 2, no. 15 (April 1976): 34-41; Israel Revisited: Beth Ames Swartz (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Beth Ames Swartz, 1981: 40 pp. Introduction by Harry Rand...

Signed lower right, 'Beth Ames Swartz' (American, born 1936) and dated 1966. Primarily working in the idioms of abstraction and semi-abstraction, Beth's paintings and mixed-media works are commonly informed by philosophical and spiritual concepts shared by people of different cultural worldviews, and incorporate both symbols and words in the vocabulary of their visual language. Her art practice has been guided by aesthetic philosophies including Wassily Kandinsky’s Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, and inspired by various religious and philosophical systems including Native American Healing practices, Buddhism, Jewish Mysticism, and Christianity in order to facilitate communication with viewers on both the conscious and unconscious level. Swartz synthesizes these spiritual traditions in her work with the purpose of revealing the commonality between them. Beth was born in New York City and grew up in Manhattan, and by her mid-teens was studying at the Art Students League in New York in the late 1940s. Her education continued at The High School of Music & Art in New York City, and Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she graduated in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science degree, followed by a Master of Arts degree in 1959 from New York University. Beth Ames Swartz exhibited nationwide including at over seventy solo exhibitions including a solo show at The Jewish Museum in New York. In addition, she participated in three major traveling museum exhibitions and her work is held in the permanent collections of numerous major museums including the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian. She received the Governor's Individual Artist Award in 2001 in Arizona, and a retrospective of her work was mounted in 2002 at The Phoenix Art Museum, with a monograph about her work co-published by The Phoenix Art Museum and Hudson Hills Press. Swartz explores systems of knowledge by translating philosophical concepts into aesthetic visual experiences. Fellowships, Awards, Grants and Honors: New York, NY - 2003 Veteran Feminists of America, Medal of Honor Phoenix, AZ - 2001 Recipient, Governor's Arts Award, the highest honor in Arizona for one individual who may be a visual or performing artist or a writer. Snowmass Village, CO - 2000 Anderson Ranch, Artist in Residence Phoenix, AZ - 1994 Founder, Culture Care , an international, non-profit organization sponsoring The Sacred Souls Project, to identify, support and honor individuals who demonstrate positive human societal values New York, NY - 1994 Awarded Flow Fund grant for discretionary philanthropic use for non-personal benefit New York, NY - 1994 Panelist, College Art Association, Art, Earth and Medicine: A Healing Approach New York, NY - 1993 Panelist, The Sacred in the Arts Conference New York, NY - 1992 Speaker, MedArts Conference, Research Study on A Moving Point of Balance Stinson Beach, CA - 1991 Speaker, Symposium, Art as a Healing Force New Harmony, IN - 1990 Keynote Speaker, Art and Healing Conference Phoenix, AZ - 1988 Co-Founder, International Friends of Transformative Art (IFTA), an international, non-profit organization for positive global change Payson, AZ - 1988, '87 Project Coordinator, Rim Institute, Transformative Artist's Conference and Workshop Phoenix, AZ - 1985 Governor's Award, Outstanding Women of Arizona - Women Who Create Sun Valley, ID - 1980 Sun Valley Center for the Arts & Humanities, Artist in Residence, The Awesome Space: The Inner and Outer Landscape Hawaii National Park, HI - 1979 Volcano Art Center, Artist in Residence Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77 Named Master Teacher by State Department of Public Instruction Phoenix, AZ - 1978, '77 Educational Grant for Inquiry Into Fire, Arizona Commission on Arts and Humanities Selected Bibliography and Reference: Davenport’s Art Reference Guide, 2007/8 Edition, p.2468; Arizona/Women '75 (exhibition catalogue). Tucson, AZ: Tucson Art Museum, 1975; Baigell, Matthew. "Art and Spirit: Kabbalah and Jewish-American Artists." Tikkun vol. 14, no.4, (July-August 1999): 59-61 (illus. in b&w of Shen Qi Series: the Cabalistic Scheme of the Four Worlds #5); Beth Ames Swartz, Inquiry Into Fire (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1978. Introduction by Melinda Wortz; Beth Ames Swartz, 1982-1988: A Moving Point of Balance (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: A Moving Point of Balance, Inc., 1988. Introduction by John Perreault; Biennial 1979 (exhibition catalog). Phoenix: Phoenix Art Museum, March 9-April 8, 1979, 35-37, 64 (illus. in color Sedona, #23; illus. in b&w, Torah Scroll, #5); Body and Soul: Contemporary Art and Healing (exhibition catalog). Lincoln, MA: DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, 1994. Introduction by Rachel Rosenfeld Lafo, Nicholas Capasso, and Sara Rehm Roberts; Cembalest, Robin. "The Ecological Art Explosion." ARTnews vol. 90, no. 6 (summer 1991): 96-105; The First Western States Biennial Exhibition (exhibition catalog). Denver: Western States Art Foundation, 1979. Introduction by Joshua C. Taylor (with illus. in color of Torah Scroll #4); Gablik, Suzi. The Reenchantment of Art. Thames and Hudson: New York, 1991, 155-57; Gadon, Elinor W. The Once and Future Goddess: A Symbol for Our Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1989, 245-46; 248; Henderson, Barbara. "Beth Ames Swartz," A Magazine of Fine Arts vol. 2, no. 15 (April 1976): 34-41; Israel Revisited: Beth Ames Swartz (exhibition catalog). Scottsdale, AZ: Beth Ames Swartz, 1981: 40 pp. Introduction by Harry Rand...

Signed lower right, 'Gunter Schulz-Ilhefeldt' (German, 1912-1966) and dated 1950. An elegant, modernist coastal scene showing a substantial stone-built breakwater at low tide juxtap...

Signed lower right, 'Aiwa' and dated 1996. A substantial, pen and ink and watercolor figural study of a scarecrow dressed in cap, ragged jacket and vest with a pair of birds perche...

Signed lower right, 'Kevin Elston' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. A substantial watercolor still-life of orchids and a persimmon, arranged with other objects relat...

Signed bottom right 'G. Distefano' and dated 1965. An exploration of tonality using airbrush techniques and negative space, sweeping lines define a figure.