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(Untitled) Little Girl Cradling Her Black Cat, in Greens and Chestnut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Poignancy. A little girl hugging her black kitty rendered in any realistic palette would be cloying. But not here. You look longer. Tight little patterns bubble over in the backgroun...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Beagles" Early 19th C. Country People & Dogs. Rockefeller Provenance
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Originally the property of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., this watercolor scene, depicting a group of ordinary, early 19th-century English folk and their dogs resting in the shade, p...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Stained Glass" A Cathedral of Color
Located in San Francisco, CA
There was a time when pausing in a subdued environment dappled with the sunlit jeweled tones of stained glass helped to bring one closer to God. It may still work. Certainly, the Bri...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) A Tonalist’s Triumph of Roses and Anthurium
Located in San Francisco, CA
Who says you can’t hang a painting bursting with flowers in an all-neutrals room? At no risk of disturbing the peace, here’s an artwork done of roses and anthurium in surprisingly re...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) Portrait of A Distinguished Man in A Bowler Hat
Located in San Francisco, CA
In 1961, there would have been a chauffeured Rolls-Royce Phantom V limousine waiting for this gentleman curbside. Perhaps he was a new ambassador paying his respects to a head of gov...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Françoise Gilot, “On the Wheel of Fortunes” A Woman's Balancing Act
By Françoise Gilot
Located in San Francisco, CA
A superb expression of a triumphant free spirit, and the balancing act required to maintain it, this watercolor was created by a woman who embodied female independence—especially rem...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
"Maine Farmer" A late 20th-Century Abstract Painting in Red, Black & White
Located in San Francisco, CA
Not the visual expected of a painting carrying the title “Maine Farmer.” But this abstract composition manages to convey the flinty resolve of men who support their families on the output of demanding and “generally infertile” soils, as described by the University of Maine. Thank the Lord for blueberries.
Artist Abraham Elterman bestrides two countries. He was born in Mexico City and spent much of his education in the sciences, here in sequence: a B.Sc. in Physics at the nearly 475-year-old Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in his home town; a stint at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and then, taking a new direction with a residency in The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture located in Madison, Maine. Ah-ha, Maine!
Elterman’s website lists 22 exhibitions in both Mexico and California, starting in 1986, and inclusion in group shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled). A Moody, Golden-Tone Barbizon School Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
The subdued palette of the subject trees sets them against a background of palest yellow into amber for a striking effect reminiscent of dawn. The artist, Eduard Caret, was born in P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid 20th Century, Painting of Seashells with Collage
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s a weathered, driftwood feel to this painting, "Archaeology," by California artist R.W. (Richard) Hacket (1917-1988). Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hackett was undoubt...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Panel, Paper
Find the Dapper Black Cat in This Vintage Newsprint Collage
Located in San Francisco, CA
The warm amber tones of this piece suggest decades hung amid the smoky ambience of a legendary 19th-century cabaret. Almost hiding among the torn bits of vintage French and English n...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid 20thC Painting, Ghost-like Figures Against Bronze Background
Located in San Francisco, CA
Subdued bronzes and saddle leather tones provide a rich background for a cluster of mysterious, ghostlike figures--"The Visitors" of the painting's title--imagined as weathered paint...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Explosive Abstract in Vibrant Blue, Red and Black
By Heinie Hartwig
Located in San Francisco, CA
Small but mighty. A moment caught, an explosion of energy, of color. And such a departure for California artist Heinie Hartwig (b. 1937), who is known primarily for his Western subje...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
NOLA's French Quarter in Exuberant Impasto
Located in San Francisco, CA
The vibrant French Quarter is brilliantly depicted in "Bourbon Street in New Orleans" by California-based artist Pablo Cucaro in a rich palette of chestnut, Tiffany Blue and black. S...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Tim Weldon, "10¢ Per Dance" Folk Art Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco-based folk artist Tim Weldon, fresh off a showing at Scottsdale’s annual Celebration of Fine Art, is a man in touch with his lovable inner child. He declares himself a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Howard Norton Cook merry-go-round pencil signed etching
By Howard Norton Cook
Located in San Francisco, CA
Howard Norton Cook: 1901-1980. Well, listed American artist best known for his printmaking. He studied at the art student league in New York City. He has his head auction results as ...
Category
1930s American Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Watercolor Landscape Painting By J.H. Twachtman (1853-1902)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Watercolor Landscape Painting by American artist J.H. Twachtman (1853-1902)
Watercolor on board
Unframed
10" x 13.25"
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Keith Haring, Untitled (Black ink drawing atop a Japanese Guardian Figure print)
By Keith Haring
Located in San Francisco, CA
In February 1983, Keith Haring made his first visit to Japan to host an exhibition of his work in Tokyo. Enthralled by the experience, he let loose his spray cans covering every inch...
Category
1980s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Willem de Kooning, (Reclining Female Nude) A Special Gift For His Dear Friends
By Willem de Kooning
Located in San Francisco, CA
With such fondness, 20th-century artistic titan Willem de Kooning gifted this charcoal sketch on paper to his close East Hampton friends Roger and Lucia Wilcox...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
19th-century Orientalist Reclining Odalisque Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Was she a gift to the Sultan, deliciously bejeweled and enrobed in the finest embroidered silks? By this time, resigned to her fate, the once Christian Circassian girl would have bee...
Category
1880s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
David Hammons, Gray & Rust Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
David Hammons, Brown & Blue Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
John Winkler (California, 1890-1979) "Night in Chinatown" Original Etching
Located in San Francisco, CA
John Winkler (California, 1890-1979) "Night in Chinatown" Original Etching c.1936
Also known as "Figures by a Street Lamp." Winkler worked as a gas lamp lighter early in his student...
Category
1930s More Prints
Materials
Etching
Johann Weinmann 18th Century Hand Colored Copper Plate Engraving
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rare hand colored copper plate engraving by noted Botanist Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741)
Beautiful color after 250+ years!
This wonderful antique engraving is beautifully mat...
Category
18th Century Naturalistic More Prints
Materials
Engraving
Armando Villagran Original Painting
By Armando Villagran
Located in San Francisco, CA
Armando Villagran (Mexican, 1945-1995)
Untitled (Figure with Animal), 1991
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
Canvas: 55"h x 43.5"w, overall (with frame): 56"h x 44"w
Born ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Figure Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting C.1950s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic 1950's Cubist Oil Painting by Mystery Artist.
Though undated, this is a classic 1950's painting. A reclining figure under the sun. Original cubist oil painting on masonit...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Mid Century Geometric Abstract Paintings Signed "GAC", 1972
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of Mid-Century Geometric Abstract Paintings
Oil on canvas
Signed "GAC", 1972
Numbered I & II
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jesus Ortiz Tajonar (1919-1990) Boy W/Papier-Mâché Animal Warrior Mask
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jesus Ortiz Tajonar (1919-1990) Mexican Boy with Papier-Mâché Animal Warrior Mask
c.1950s
Fantastic mid century modern oil painting by listed Mexican artist Jesus Ortiz Tajonar.
W...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
James Grant (1924–1997) Mixed Media Abstract 1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine art mixed media painting by listed artist James Grant (1924–1997). Titled "Three Dots". Collage with oils on Masonite. This fine mid modern abstract painting will brighten up a...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Style Of William Aiken Walker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous oil on canvas in the style of the famous William Aiken Walker. The details of this painting are amazing and is the same subject matter of...
Category
1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active) Native American Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active)
Beautiful Native American Portrait, 1978
Oil on canvas board
Unframed: 15" x 24"
Framed: 16.75" x 25.75"
Category
1970s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
David Roberts “Approach of the Simoon - Desert of Geezah” “
By David Roberts
Located in San Francisco, CA
David Roberts: 1796-1864. Very important and well Listed 19th century Scottish artist. He has had Auction results for paintings in excess of $1 million. Nevertheless, he is most reco...
Category
1850s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Victor Joseph Gatto
Located in San Francisco, CA
Victor Joseph Gatto: 1893-1965. Very well listed American primitive artist. He is best known for these whimsical paintings in the jungle. This little gem measures 9 inches high by 6 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pearl A Van Sciver New Hope Pennsylvania
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pearl A Van Sciver: 1895-1966. Well listed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artist. She has had Auction results over $3900 She exhibited at the national Academy of design, Pafa and the Cor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Otterhound Portrait Painting by Constance Coleman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large portrait painting with group of six otterhounds in a lush garden landscape by Constance Coleman, 1979
Oil on canvas
Signed & dated lower right
Canvas dimensions: 34" x 46"
Fr...
Category
1970s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape With River And Figures By J. De Fleury
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful landscape with river and figures by James Vivien de Fleury.
Oil on canvas
1895
Canvas dimensions: 20" x 30", frame: 30.25" x 40.25"
James Vivien de Fleury flourished from...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Perle Fine Geometric Abstract
By Perle Fine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Perle Fine: 1905-1988. Very well listed American abstract and geometric abstract artist. Her high auction result was $57,600 in September 2024. She studied with Hans Hoffman, and was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huc- Mazelet Luquiens “Samoans at Kewalo (Oahu)
By Huc-Mazelet Luquiens
Located in San Francisco, CA
Huc Mazelet Luquiens: 1881-1961. Well listed American print maker who spent most of his life in Hawaii. His fabulous etchings were of all different parts of Hawaii. He has had aucti...
Category
1920s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Dutch school 18th or 19th century The Scribe
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic oil on panel possibly Dutch school. Looks to be at least 19 century possibly earlier. The scene looks like a very important gentleman or possibly royalty with a scribe taki...
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Expressionist Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulously colorful combination of abstract expressionist and outsider art. Most likely done in the 1950s or 60s signed lower right it appears to be a mixed medium on board. Very si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Early 20th Century Watercolor by Frank Merrill
Located in San Francisco, CA
This extraordinary watercolor by Frank Merrill is finely detailed with every brush stroke. One of the finest watercolors in our collection. The realism comes through in every detail....
Category
Early 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Dimitri Berea Still Life
By Dimitrie Berea
Located in San Francisco, CA
Dimitri Berea: 1908-1975. Very well listed Romanian artist with Auction results over $15,000, but sells for much higher in galleries He painted in the post impressionistic style. He ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Linda Besse Leopard On The Hunt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Linda Besse was born in 1959. She lives mostly in Washington state but travels all over the world to paint her incredibly lifelike images of all kinds of wildlife. This incredibly li...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arrigo Ghedini Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arrigo Ghedini: 1905-1997. Listed Italian, American artist who is highly collected. His paintings rarely become available on the open market as collectors hold onto them. He just had...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Andre Dunoyer De Segonzac (French, 1884-1974) Pen & Ink "Chickens" C.1930's
By André Dunoyer de Segonzac
Located in San Francisco, CA
Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac (French, 1884-1974) Pen & Ink "Chickens" c.1930's
Original pen and ink on paper by listed French artist Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac.
A mother hen with her b...
Category
1930s Expressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Ken Gore Nude in a Landscape
By Ken Gore
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ken Gore: 1911-1990. Well listed American artist with Auction records over $3500, but sells for more in galleries. Is best known for his paintings around Glou...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and child painting by Muller
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming painting of a mother and child. Very interesting early to mid 20th century oil on board. It is signed Muller. It could be a listed artist, but frankly there are too many Mu...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Still Life with Mother and Baby Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous mystery painting of a still life with a painting of a mother and baby in the background. It is initialed bottom, right and written on the back Robbins. It is an oil on canva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Diane Thorne Children at The Beach
By Diana Thorne
Located in San Francisco, CA
Diane Thorne: 1895-1963. Listed Canadian artist who was born in Russia. She is best known for her etchings of dogs and children. She has auction results as high as $1300 for a single...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Geo Ham 1937 Paris Race Poster
By Geo Ham
Located in San Francisco, CA
Geo Ham: 1900-1972. Well listed French artist who is best known for his posters of car racing. He has auction results over $32,000 for a single poster. This original lithographic pos...
Category
1930s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very powerful and colorful abstract, expressionist painting. Seems to be a mixed media of oil and gouache. The painting measures 15 inches high by 12 inches wide. The frame measures...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Christopher Tugwell South African waves breaking
Located in San Francisco, CA
Christopher Tugwell: 1938-2021. Very well listed South African artist. He has Auction results over $7000. This striking oil on the board was most likely painted in the 1960s or 70s. ...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Graciela Rodo Boulanger Children on horses
By Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Located in San Francisco, CA
Graciela Rodo Boulanger: she is a Bolivian artist born in 1935. She is best known for her paintings and prints of children. This beautiful colored lithograph sold for over $1800 at a...
Category
1960s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Dennis Ainsley French Market
Located in San Francisco, CA
Dennis Ainsley: 1880-1952. He was born in Illinois but spent a lot of time painting in France. This fabulous oil on canvas measures 36 inches wide by 24 inches high.. The beautiful f...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Frederick Arthur Jessup “Locksmiths Lilac”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fred Jessup: 1920-2007. Well listed Australian artist With Auction results over $4700. This very original modernist oil on canvas measures 25 3/4 inches wide by 21 1/4 inches high. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Folk Art Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming mid century or possibly earlier folk painting. It is an oil on board measuring 12 inches wide by 10 inches high. The frame measures 14 inches wide by 12 inches high.
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very powerful, mid century abstract expressionist painting. It is signed Triea and dated 1953. On the reverse it is signed Ruffino Triea and title...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Johnny Friedlander Abstract
By Johnny Friedlaender
Located in San Francisco, CA
Johnny Friedlander:1912-1992. Well listed German abstract expressionist artist. He has had an auction record price for a single print over $2400. this powerful piece is either an et...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Lucille Holderness Stonier
Located in San Francisco, CA
Lucille Holderness Stonier: 1884-1966. Listed American artist.. She is mostly known for her watercolors of scenes around North Carolina. It measures 23 inches wide by 16 1/2 high. Th...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Guy Lipscomb South Carolina Dunes
By Guy Lipscomb
Located in San Francisco, CA
Guy Lipscomb:1917-2009. Listed American artist from South Carolina. He is best known for doing these watercolors of the beach dunes. This wonderful watercolor measures 20 inches wide...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
