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'Still Life with Fruit and Flowers', Paris, Tokyo, London, Copenhagen Academy
By Ib Eisner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Ib Eisner' (Danish, 1925-2003) and dated, lower right, 1953.
Displayed in a period, carved gilt-wood frame. Framed dimensions: 19 x 21.5 x 1.5 inches.
A lyrical...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
'Edwardian Plein-Air Painters', Summer Landscape with Artists Working
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A bright and breezy oil landscape showing a group of plein-air painters in Edwardian costume working at their easels beneath clouded blue skies. Signed lower right, 'M. Kane' for Mel Kane...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Toronto Sunset', Berkeley, Stanford, San Francisco Art Institute, Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Celia Rabinovitch' (Canadian, 20th century) and dated 1980; additionally titled, verso, on old label, 'Skyline', signed and dated.
A substantial oil cityscape showing the Toronto skyline...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Wood
'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
'Still Life of Peruvian Lilies', California Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art Guild
By Cathy Puccinelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Puccinelli' for Cathy Puccinelli, (American, born 1952), a member of the Santa Cruz Art Guild.
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life of Morning Glory', California Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art Guild
By Cathy Puccinelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Puccinelli' for Cathy Puccinelli, (American, born 1952), a member of the Santa Cruz Art Guild.
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Massacre of Tlatelolco', Plaza de las Tres Culturas, Mexican Olympics, Rio MAM
By Benjamin Silva
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center with artist monogram, 'B.S.' for Benjamin Silva (Brazilian, born 1927) and dated with roman numerals, 1968; additionally signed, verso, dated and titled.
A dramatic and animated oil painting of a crowd scene showing the feared, mounted police of Mexico City in action against the students in the demonstrations of October 2nd that preceded the opening of the Mexican Olympic Games...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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
'Abstract, Lilac and Rose', American Watercolor Society, National WC Society
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Betsy Dillard Stroud' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 2000.
Betsy Dillard Stroud, AWS, NWS, grew up in Rocky Mount, Virginia with a family straight from the pages of Tennessee Williams and Noel Coward and began painting at the age of eight. She is a signature member and Dolphin Fellow of the American Watercolor Society, a signature member of the National Watercolor Society in California and member of numerous prestigious art societies including the Rocky Mountain Watermedia Honor Society, the Western Federation of Watercolor Society, and a former president of the Southwestern Watercolor Society.
Stroud was one of 28 American artists from the United States who was invited to exhibit in Nanjing, China in the First International Exhibition of Watermedia Masters in November, 2007. Since 1987, she has judged over sixty-four International, National, Regional, and State Shows including the American Watercolor Society in New York, the National Watercolor Society in California. She has been the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including the High Winds Medal of the American Watercolor Society, the Edgar Whitney...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'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
'Still Life, Daisies and a Chocolate Pot', Paris, Benezit, Charlottenborg
By Victor Isbrand
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and painted circa 1945.
Precocious as a child, Victor Isbrand painted professionally from a young age and was...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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
'Still Life of Tulips', Post-Impressionist, Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen
By Poul Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left with monogram 'P/N' for Poul Nielsen (Danish, 1920-1998) and dated 1954.
A vibrant and light-filled still-life by this well-listed Danish Modernist and disciple o...
Category
1950s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Abstract, Azure and Rose', Paris, Art Students League, Carnegie Institute, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paul England' (American, 1918-1988) and painted circa 1965.
With old label, verso, bearing title, 'Gutenburg'.
Framed in a period wh...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Beach at Honfleur', Hawaiian Woman Artist, Giverny, San Francisco Art Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kari McCarthy' (American, 20th century), signed, verso, dated 2005, and titled, 'The Beach at Honfleur'.
Publisher and artist Kari ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape 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
'Still Life of Poppies', Mid-century, American School Expressionist Floral Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A powerful American Expressionist School study of poppies shown informally arranged in a lilac container. A heavily-impastoed oil showing bravura brushwork and demonstrating an elega...
Category
1940s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood, Laid Paper
'Biomorphic Abstract, Cobalt & Red', Bay Area Oil, Rhode Island School of Design
By Donald Roberts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Roberts' for Donald Roberts (American, 1923-2015) signed, verso, dated 2012 and inscribed, 'S.F. CA'.
This noted lithographer, pai...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Summer Days', Idyllic American Landscape, Children, Arts & Crafts Architecture
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, early twentieth-century oil showing two children, wearing period summer dress and posed beside a well, with a view beyond across lush green lawns...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life with Teapot', National Watercolor Society President, Pasadena Artist
By Chris Van Winkle
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An atmospheric watercolor still-life showing lemons, flowers and other objects gathered around a teapot.
Signed lower right, "Van Winkle" for Chris Van Winkle (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985.
Van Winkle studied with Robert E. Wood and Milford Zornes...
Category
1980s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Monterey Pier', California Modernist, Woman Artist, Santa Cruz Art League
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Muriel Backman" for Muriel Durgin Backman and dated 1955.
An elegant, Cubist-derived, mid-century view of the old Fisherman's Wha...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper
'Man Playing a Banjo', American Mid-Century Cubist-Derived Figural Oil, Fifties
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paula Melcher' (American, 20th century) and dated 1956.
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Bentwood Chair, High-waist Gown', California Woman Post-Impressionist, Sonoma
By Jill Davenport
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Davenport' for Jill Davenport (American, 1930-2019) and dated 1987; titled, verso, 'Attic Series - Pink Dress'.
Framed dimensions: 31 x 1.5 x 25 inches
Born in Kansas, Jill Davenport moved to California in 1963. A lifelong artist and art enthusiast, she raised a family before focusing, in her early forties, on her vocation as an artist. In 1976, she graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelors in Art, subsequently continuing her studies with the California Post-Impressionist, Maury Lapp. During this period, her work was primarily representational and her favored medium was oil. In the late 1980's, however, she became an early exponent of computer-aided design and worked with some of the earliest Mac computers...
Category
1980s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Attic Series, Yellow', California Woman Post-Impressionist Artist, Sonoma State
By Jill Davenport
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Davenport' for Jill Davenport (American, 1930-2019) and painted circa 1985; titled, verso, 'Attic Series- Yellow'.
Framed dimensions: 28 x 1.5 x 25 inches.
Born in Kansas, Jill Davenport moved to California in 1963. A lifelong artist and art enthusiast, she raised a family before focusing, in her early forties, on her vocation as an artist. In 1976, she graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelors in Art, subsequently continuing her studies with the California Post-Impressionist, Maury Lapp. During this period, her work was primarily representational and her favored medium was oil. In the late 1980's, however, she became an early exponent of computer-aided design and worked with some of the earliest Mac computers...
Category
1980s American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Old Country Store, Ontario', Canada, Painters Eleven, Post-Impressionist Oil
By Hortense Mattice Gordon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Attributed to Hortense Mattice Gordon (Canadian, 1886-1961) and painted circa 1925. Attribution based on similar style, composition and subject matter of McGill University's 'Old Country Store, Ontario' (1925) by the artist (see last image).
An exceptionally fine, early twentieth-century, Post-Impressionist oil showing a view of a rustic village with cottages dramatically dappled by the shade of large trees.
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
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Story Time', Paris, Salon d'Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Additionally signed, verso, dated March 1928 with artist's New York City ...
Category
1920s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
'Architectural', Exhibited: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Modernist Apartment Building by J. Katulski (American, 20th century), painted circa 1950 and titled, verso, 'Individuals'.
Exhibited circa 1950: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright A...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board, Casein
'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
'Bighorn Rams, Rocky Mountains', Idyllwild, California Artist, Nature painter
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Leslie H. Van Nimwegen' (Dutch-American, born 1951) and painted circa 1990.
A large oil landscape showing a group of male big...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
'Young Woman Wearing a Copper Scarf', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Brittany, Skagen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'W. Schwartz' for Walter Erwin Otto Schwartz (Danish, 1889-1958), dated 1935 and inscribed 'Skagen' lower right.
A substantial, psychologically penetrating portrait of a young woman with braids, shown dressed in a charcoal wool coat and wearing a copper-colored neck-scarf. The self-possessed sitter stands and meets the viewers gaze directly, proving herself an unusually confident subject for this noted Danish Modernist.
Nephew of the Danish academic artist, Frans Schwartz, Walter Schwartz grew up surrounded by the painters who frequented the Danish art colony on the picturesque island of Skagen. Walter first studied formally (1904-8) with Michael Ancher...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Doctor's Office', WPA, San Francisco, Chouinard, SFMA, Oakland Museum, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Justin Murray' (American, 1912-1987), titled, verso, 'The Doctor's Office' and painted circa 1945.
Framed dimensions: 9¼ x 1½ x 21 inches.
Born in Minneapolis, ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Wharf with Dock Workers', American School, Oakland, San Francisco Bay Area Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A Post-Impressionist oil of a wooden wharf with a large sailing boat moored and dockhands working with a view beyond towards a coastal town with wooden-f...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Big Surf, Point Lobos' California Impressionism, Carmel Art Association, Taos
By Edward Norton Ward
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Edward Norton Ward' (American, born 1928) and painted circa 1960; additionally signed, verso, and titled 'Heavy Seas, Pt. Lobos'.
A substantial evening seascape showing dramatic breakers rolling in towards the the rocky coast near Point Lobos, California.
This plein-air Impressionist painter first attended the University of California in Los Angeles and subsequently studied with Joshua Meador. Over the course of a long career, he has exhibited widely and with success and has been the recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards. Edward Norton Ward was a charter member of the Society of American Impressionists; he is also a member of the California Art Club and has served as president of the Carmel Art...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life, Rust and Jade', American School Spring Flowers Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'S. L. Kramer' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1960.
A mid-century, oil still-life showing a bouquet of spring flowers informally arranged in a glass ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'At the Beach, Mexico near Sayulita', Santa Cruz, California Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wildermuth' for Jennifer Wildermuth Reyes (American, 20th century); additionally signed verso, on stretcher bar, and dated 2006.
A substantial figural coastal l...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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
'Garden of Eden', Idyllic Haitian Folk Art, Arcadian, Paradise, Giraffe, Leopard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A charming and substantial work with a strong, rhythmic compositional sense, vivid color and excellent naturalistic detail. Signed indistinctly lower right, 'Pisuri', inscribed 'Hai...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Abstract in Coral and Ivory', Mid-century Modernist Abstraction in Warm Colors
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'M. Rosera' (American, 20th century) and dated 1963.
A substantial mid-century abstract comprising contiguous and overlapping forms in variegated tones of coral, purp...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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
'Portrait of a Young Man', Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney, Figural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed center right, 'Ketcham' for Hank Ketcham (American, 1920-2001) and dated 1990.
Hank Ketcham, the creator of Dennis the Menace, was born in Seattle...
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Two Men Accused of a Capital Crime', Sacco and Vanzetti, Dartmouth, Ben Shahn
By Richard Britell
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created by Richard Britell (American, born 1944) circa 1990.
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Richard Britell Archive of Works, signed by the artist and noting title.
Born in New York, Richard Britell first studied at the Pratt Institute with Philip Pearlstein and Walter Erlebacher (1962-1964) before attending Syracuse University ( 1964-1966). He received his BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1972. Britell was the recipient of the 1985 artist residency by Dartmouth College and has exhibited widely and with success, including in New York, Massachusetts and Italy.
Solo Exhibitions:
2011 “Measuring the Universe” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2010 “And Now For Some things Completely Different”
Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2010 “The Figure, The Figure, The Figure and The Figure”
Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2009 “A nest of robins in her hair” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, MA
2007 “NY, NY” Lauren Clark Fine Art, Housatonic, Ma
2003 “Image and Text” Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
1999 “From Architecture to Abstraction” Tokonoma Gallery, Housatonic, MA
1998 “New Work” Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY
1998 “New Figures” Ute Stebich Gallery, Lenox, MA
1995 “Richard Britell, New Work” Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “New Work on Gilded Panel” Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “Fresco Panels...
Category
1990s Minimalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood
'California Sunset, Lilac and Rose', Palm Springs, Golden Gate Exhibition, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wm. P. Krehm' for William Krehm (American, 1901-1968) and painted circa 1940.
A period oil painting showing a mountainous, desert landscape at dusk, most likely a view of a Santa Ana River tributary in Southern California's Inland Empire...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'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
'Study of a Young Woman', Tonalism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'A.F' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1940.
A tonalist study of a young woman with bobbed brown hair, shown gazing to the ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
'Peaches, Apples and Roses', Paris, Royal Danish Academy, Charlottenborg Gallery
By Mogens Erik Christien Vantore
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Vantore' for Erik Mogens Christian Vantore (Danish, 1895-1977) and painted circa 1945.
Born in Copenhagen in 1895, Mogens Vantore first studied with his father,...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Seated Nude', Paris, Royal Danish Academy, Charlottenborg, Bornholm, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Mogens Hertz' (Danish, 1909-1999) and dated 1949.
A large, Post-Impressionist figural oil showing a pregnant young woman, draped from the waist down, with her hands resting serenely in her lap. Seated beside a garden door, she is gently dappled by golden sunlight that filters in through verdant foliage. Painted when the artist was forty years old, Hertz has accomplished a lyrical, light-suffused study of his beautiful and enigmatic young subject.
Mogens Hertz first studied with the Academician, Laurits Ring and, subsequently, with the Danish Impressionist, Rostrup Boyesen. In 1930, after an influential study trip to Paris, Hertz continued his formal studies at Copenhagen's Charlottenborg Academy before moving to the countryside outside Gudhjem. There, he became a co-founder of the Bornholm School. His work there came to exemplify the group's lyrical portrayal of idyllic landscapes, painted in a loose and painterly, Impressionist style that often borders on abstraction.
From 1930-1941, Hertz traveled and studied widely, including to France, Holland, Germany, Norway and Sweden. He was the recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards including the August Schiøtt scholarship (1948) and the Frederik Sødring prize (1939). Over the course of a long and distinguished career, he exhibited widely and with success including, from 1937, at the Royal Danish Academy's Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition, at the Bornholm Art Museum and the Vejen Art Museum, among others. Mogens Hertz is well-listed in relevant art biographical reference works including Benezit's definitive dictionary of artists. We are pleased to offer a major work from the artist's middle period.
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E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 6, p. 954; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Chr. F. Beck i: Da. Kunst, nr. 90, maj 1950; Helge Ernst...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Birds of Paradise, Hawaii', Mid-century, New York Woman Artist, Woodstock, ASL
By Ethelyn Cobb
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ethelyn Pratt Cobb' (American, 1884-1973) and dated, verso, 1962. Additionally signed and inscribed, verso, 'Tropical Flowers in our cabin in Hawaii - before crossing the Pacific Ocean, 1962. Painted on our return from three months on the continent'.
Ethelyn Pratt Cobb studied at the Art Students League in New York City with Frank Vincent DuMond, Woodstock Landscape...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'View of the Seine and the Pont Marie', School of Paris, Post Impressionist oil
By Kay Christensen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'Kay' for Kay Christensen (Danish, 1899-1981), dated verso, "27 October 1948" and titled, 'Paris'.
A serene, Parisian cityscape showing an aerial perspective of the Seine and the Île Saint-Louis viewed from above the Quai des Célestins, and looking towards the Île de la Cité and Notre Dame in the distance.
This early Danish Post-Impressionist artist first studied with Marie Sandholt and Astrid Holm at the Copenhagen Art Academy and, subsequently, at the School of Graphics (1929-31). Christensen continued his studies while traveling widely in Europe, including to Germany and Austria (1913-14), Paris (1917-23) and to Budapest and Vienna (1934). In 1935, he was awarded the Michaelsen Scholarship which enabled him to remain in Paris during the late 1930's. During intense period of development and creativity, he moved away from the bold colors and defined forms of his earlier Fauve and Cubist periods and began to explore the creation of predominantly single-color works, often in blues or greens accented with subtle shades of white. After the Second World War, he returned frequently to paint in Paris.
Kay Christensen, like his friend, Rainer Maria Rilke, followed a solitary artistic path in which his imagery was characterized by a personal aesthetic of sensuality combined with a spirited boldness and expressive force. He exhibited internationally with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards. Christensen's work is held in private and public collections including the State Art Museum of Denmark and Copenhagen's Metropolitan Museum, among others. We are pleased to offer this lyrical perspective of the Seine, the Pont Marie and the Île Saint-Louis painted...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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
'Leaving the Garden of Eden', Mid-century American Expressionist, Adam and Eve
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'John T Stephens' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; additionally inscribed, verso, with title, 'Leaving the Garden of Eden' and signed.
Paper dime...
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Laid Paper
'Couple Dancing', American Folk Art Figural Oil, WPA era
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed indistinctly, lower right, and painted circa 1935.
A strongly animated, vertically stacked figurative painting filled with compressed energy and an atmosphere of psychologic...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Still Life of Daffodils', Lithuanian, Art Institute of Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed on old label, verso, 'Anthony Cooper' (Lithuanian-American, 1907-1992), titled, 'Spring Bouquet' and painted circa 1955.
Antanas Skupas, also kn...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Cape Ann Harbor', Woman Artist, Massachusetts, Rockport, Gloucester, LACMA
By Nell Walker Warner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Nell Walker Warner' (American, 1891-1970) and painted circa 1925.
Born in Nebraska, Nell Walker Warner graduated from Lexington, Missouri, Women's College in 191...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Coastal Cottages', Mid-century Massachusetts Woman Artist, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Swinson' for Marjorie E.G. Swinson (American, born circa 1904) and painted circa 1955; additionally signed, verso, 'Marjorie E. G. Swinson'.
Marjorie Swinson...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Ladies in a Japanese Garden', Alameda Art Association, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Freda L. Hansen' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965; bearing, verso, Alameda Art Association label with artist information and titled, 'Ladies in a G...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard, Acrylic
'Geometric II', Bay Area Abstraction, San Francisco Art Institute, Woman Artist
By Renee Harwin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Renee Harwin' (Austrian-American, born 1924) and painted circa 1975.
A dramatically balanced abstract comprising adjacent and overlapping geometric forms in muted shades of saffron, brick red and ultramarine.
Renee Harwin's figures are gestural, reflective of human design and set within an environment of patterns suggestive of clouds and sky. She comes to the figure through years of hard-edge painting. Her work combines the influence of Midwest painters such as Clyfford Still and her San Francisco Art Institute instructor Jack Jefferson...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Sunset, Santa Maria della Salute', Venice, Smithsonian Museum, BMFA, De Young
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right, 'K.W.' for Katherine Westphal (American, 1919-2018) and painted circa 1965; additionally bearing label, verso, inscribed with artist's name and titled 'Venice'.
Framed Dimensions: 33.25 x 2 x 29 Inches
A large, Post-Impressionist oil showing a view of the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute on the Punte della Dogana with half-a-dozen gondolas rocking on the gentle swell of the Guidecca. A vibrant modernist vedute by this well-listed California woman artist who shows the iconic Baroque church as if suspended in golden light, both reflecting the sunset and, itself, reflected in the shimmering waters.
Born in Los Angeles, Katherine Westphal first attended Los Angeles City College and, subsequently, the University of California at Berkeley where she studied painting and art history and received both her Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees. In 1943, she was awarded the Phelan Travelling Scholarship which funded her travel to Mexico where she visited the studios of both David Siquieros and Diego Rivera, an experience that confirmed her lifelong preference for Modernist principles in her work. Over the course of a long and multi-faceted career, Westphal exhibited widely and with success and was the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards. In addition to her career as a fine artist, Westphal wrote extensively on art theory and also became a beloved teacher at the University of California, Davis, becoming a tenured faculty member in 1968, a full professor in 1975. She retired in 1979 as Professor Emeritus. Katherine Westphal’s work is held in the permanent collections of prominent American museums including the Smithsonian Museum...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
