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'California Cove, Orange County', Laguna Beach Art Association, Chouinard
By Helen Hafer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Helen Hafer' (American, 1913-2003) and with artist label verso.
This listed California artist, Hafer studied at the Chouinard Institute in Los Angeles, and privately with Harry Emerson Lewis.
A member of the Palm Springs Art Association, Desert Art Center in Palm Springs, Whittier Art Association, Orange County Art Association and the Laguna Beach Art...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Carmel Coast', California Plein Air Impressionist oil, Oakland Museum, Stanford
By Francis Harvey Cutting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'F.H. Cutting' and dated '1932-1948'.
Born in Iowa in 1872, Francis Harvey Cutting moved to San Jose, California in 1893 where he st...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
'Aegean Blue', Crete, Greece, Post-Impressionist landscape
By John Loeb
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Loeb' for John Loeb (American, 20th century) and dated 1994; accompanied by old exhibition poster and title label from Loeb's Laudenbach solo retrospective.
A ...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
'Fashion Able II', Parsons School of Design, Haute Couture, Costume
By Isaac Mizrahi
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso lower left, 'Isaac Mizrahi'.
A fashion designer and creator of costume, Isaac Mizrahi attended the Parsons School of Design before becomin...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Synthetic Paper, Graphite, Oil Pastel, Acrylic
'Man In Motion', Framed Modernist Figural, Woman Artist, SFMOMA, Oakland Museum
By Carrie Lederer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right and painted circa 1985.
Provenance label verso from Ianetti Lanzone Gallery.
Winner of the prestigious Fleishacker Eureka Fellowship, Carrie Lederer received her BFA in sculpture from Michigan State University and has exhibited both nationally and internationally with success including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Calvin Morris...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Landscape in Provence', Large American Impressionist Oil, California artist
By David Harris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Oil landscape showing a view of the Provencale countryside, looking across a field with a goat grazing towards a village with trees and, beyond, to rolling hills beneath a clouded bl...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Young Woman Arranging Tulips with a View of Notre Dame', School of Paris oil
By Johannes Meyer Andersen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J. Meyer Andersen for Johan Meyer Andersen (Danish, 1919-2005) inscribed "Paris" and painted circa 1960.
An intimate, Parisian interior scene showing a beautifu...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Cattle at Pasture', Danish Impressionist Landscape oil, Paris, France
By Gunnar Bundgaard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'G. Bundgaard' for Gunnar Bundgaard (Danish, 1920-2005) and dated '57'.
A light-filled, panoramic landscape showing Holstein cattle grazing in a grassy field beneath sun-lit clouds.
This listed Danish painter first studied at Copenhagen's Gronvang School where he was particularly influenced by the romantic academic style of Niels Pederson...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Iglesia San Antonio', Bay Area Abstraction, Mendocino Art Center, San Diego
By Pieter Smoor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Pieter Smoor" and dated 1966.
Titled "Iglesia San Antonio" on old Mendocino Art Center label verso.
A semi-abstract landscape showing a view of the dome of a ren...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract Figure, Ebony and Cream'
By G. Distefano
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed bottom right 'G. Distefano' and dated 1965.
An exploration of tonality using airbrush techniques and negative space, sweeping lines define a figure.
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
Seated Jester
By Dan Wuthrich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wuthrich', and accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity.
Oil portrait of a jester dressed in black, white and emerald harlequin with bells on his collar and fool's hat, seated on a stone wall with the full moon hanging low in the coral and wine-red sky behind him.
Raised in a family that supported Wuthrich's interest in the arts, Dan Wuthrich has been painting since he was eight and at eleven had artwork featured in a Wisconsin newspaper article. After high school, Wuthrich continued his fine art studies at the Layton School of Art from 1954-1959 and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1961 taking courses in printmaking, English, speech and psychology. While maintaining his painting career, Wuthrich established a professional career as an engineer from 1965 to 1991, working for American Motors...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Abstract in Lilac and Lapis', Denver Metropolitan Museum, Germany, Galerie Lutz
By Kenneth Martin Snodgrass
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, Amrican school o,il abstract comprising adjacent and superimposed, organic shapes in Prussian blue, vermilion, and olive contrasted against a slate and lavender groun...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Geometric Interior', New York ASL, California Watercolor Society, Oakland
By Jon Cornin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Cornin," dated "LVII" for 1957, and titled verso "Uncial."
Jon Cornin first studied with Raphael Soyer at New York's Art Student's League and, subsequently, at the Grand Central School of Art. Using the pseudonym, CorKa, he and his wife, Zena Kavin produced cartoons for Saturday Evening Post and the New Yorker from 1941-1952. The Cornins moved to the San Francisco Bay area in 1940 and settled in Oakland. In addition to his career as a painter, Jon Cornin was also a noted teacher, respected theorist of Modernism and the author of 'Painter's Credo: Selected Notes' (Stone House Press, 1985). He exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards.
Partial List of Exhibitions:
Museum of New Mexico, 1937-39; Oakland Art Gallery, 1939-45; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1938, 1940, 1945; California Watercolor...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Port of Sark' Channel Islands, California, Laguna Beach Art Association, Carmel
By John Bingham
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial and painterly watercolor on Arches paper showing the sole port of the island of Sark in the Channel Islands with fishermen standing and conversing on the mole.
Signed lower right, 'John Bingham'; additionally signed on old backing, titled 'Island Ramparts', and dated 1962.
This listed California artist exhibited widely and with success including at the Laguna Beach Art...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Bay Shanties, San Francisco', Marin, WPA, Mid-century California oil, Benezit
By Gordon Cope
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Oil landscape showing a view of several age-worn buildings near waters edge, with two sailboats making their way past, and gold and lavender hued hills in the background.
Signed low...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Carnival Figures', New York Exhibited Oil, Mid-century Woman Artist, Theater
By Dorothy Ebenstein
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Ebenstein' titled verso, 'Seduction' and painted circa 1966. Accompanied by 1966 exhibition label from Barzansky Galleries, New York.
A substantial, Expression...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Field of Wild Poppies', American Impressionist, Woman Artist, Horticultural Oil
By Jane Chenoweth
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jane Chenoweth' for Jane Chenoweth (American, 20th century).
Oil botanical showing a field of vermilion poppies with white and gold daisies contrasted against ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract in Coral and Gold'
By John Franklin Sommers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial oil abstract comprising overlapping squares and circles in spackled shades of crimson, ochre, cream, ivory, and black, accented by curved linear elements.
Attributed t...
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Reclining Nude', Fauve Figural, SFAA, Carmel, LACMA, Louvre, Paris
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955, and with Di Gesu estate stamp verso.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art C...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Forms in Blue & Gray', Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts
By Robert George Gilberg
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Gilberg" for Robert Gilberg (American, 1911-1970) and dated 1954.
A substantial, mid-century gouache abstract comprising pendant geometric forms in pastel tone...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
'Abstract in Coral and Jade', American School
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant, cabinet-size, American School abstract comprising fragmented structural areas of goldenrod, coral, and ebony, superimposed on a soft field of jade and sage green.
Signed...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache
'Minotaur Descending', California woman artist
By Vanessa Stafford
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Vanessa Stafford' (American, born 1954) and dated 1991.
A dramatic, dreamlike townscape showing a minotaur standing at the head of a flight of stone stairs and silhouetted against a cobalt-blue night sky lit by a crescent moon. In the foreground, a figure flees while a beneficent stone statue overlooks the scene. Using soft washes of color over elegant and precise linear outlines, the artist has created an enigmatic and compelling work
This California painter and muralist received an Associate Degree in Studio Art from Cabrillo College in 1985 and subsequently studied graphic design and illustration at San Jose State University. She later continued her studies under Dave McGuire and Alice Carter.
Vanessa Stafford has exhibited with success nationwide and is the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including 1st places at the Santa Cruz County Fair (1994,1998), 1st place in the Art Ability Exhibition, Maoli, PA (2012) and first place for the United Nations Linus Pauling...
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
'In the Artist's Studio', Danish Expressionist Woman Artist
By Grethe Norgard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A Post-Impressionist-style oil interior scene showing a view of an artist's working studio with a paintbox and tools in the foreground and an Expressionist style figurative oil paint...
Category
1970s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Sleeping', Early Paris Post Impressionist Oil, Salon d’Automne, Fauve
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1961) and dated "51".
Born in Denmark, Jais Nielsen initially studied at Kunstnernes Frie Studieskoler under Kristian Zahrtma...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Still Life of Flowers', Paris, Salon D'Automne, Danish Avant-Garde, 'The Four'
By Karl Larsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Karl Larsen" (Danish, 1897-1977) and painted circa 1955.
Beginning in 1917, Karl Larsen participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Denmark including the...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract, Ebony & Rust', San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction, Large Oil
By Eral Leek
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Eral" for Eral Leek (American, 20th century) and dated 1962.
A substantial, mid-century oil abstract comprising bold, overlapping rectangular compositional elem...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Reclining Nude', Art Institute of Chicago, Hans Bellmer, Expressionism
By Hendrik Grise
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Grise" and painted circa 1965.
A substantial Expressionist-style figural watercolor of a young woman reclining on a divan.
Grise first studied at the Art Institute of Chicago...
Category
1960s Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Woman Sleeping', Large Modernist Figural Oil, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Portland
By Julio Lavallen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Lavallen', dated 1987 and titled verso 'Mujer Dormida' (Woman Sleeping).
A large figural oil painting of a young woman shown reclining on a sofa.
Julio Lavallen...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Standing Nude', Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen Modernist
By Evgenij Klenø
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "Kleno" for Evgenij Klenø (Dutch, 1921-2005).
Oil nude showing a young woman standing with hands clasped below her chin and knees tur...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Fishing Boats Off Monterey', Carmel, California Expressionist Seascape, Big Sur
By Robert Canete
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, "Canete", for Robert Canete, a Carmel artist who studied with Vincent Rascon in the 1960s and, later, with Dwight Miller at Stanford.
A colorful Expressionist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'After the Bacchanal', Contemporary Bay Area figural
By Vanessa Stafford
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Vanessa Stafford' (American, born 1954) and dated 1982.
Vanessa Stafford received her Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design from San Jose State University. She ...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pen
'Seated Nude', Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, California Post-Impressionist
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) estate stamp verso and painted circa 1955.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Cho...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Foam Board, Graphite
'Dancer', Cubist Figural
By G. Distefano
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A Cubist-derived exploration of tone and the human form using airbrush techniques and negative space.
Signed lower left 'G. Distefano' and dated 1965.
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink
'Memory', American school, clapboard house, study of light, window, San Diego
By Sharon Hinckley
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sharon Hinckley' (American, 20th century), a listed artist and painted circa 1975.
A period watercolor vignette of a sun-dappled clapboard house adorned with co...
Category
1960s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
'Aegean Dream', Oregon Watercolor Society
By Caroline Buchanan
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right and dated 1982.
An elegant figural watercolor showing a view of figures in classical greek dress contrasted against a striated polychrome background.
This signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
'Still Life', LACMA, SFAA, Académie Chaumière, California Post-Impressionist
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Estate stamp, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1968.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum
By Jan Hoowij
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An elegant oil portrait of a young Arab woman shown wearing a veil and gazing with candor and interest directly towards the viewer.
Signed lower left, "Jan Hoowij" (Dutch-American, ...
Category
1960s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
