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Vase on Poano
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed upper left and dated.
Category
1970s Abstract Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Guarding Sprit
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed underneath.
This carved stone sculpture by Brighton Sango (1958 - 1995) is from a private collection. The family owns a quality collection of Shona sculpture. They purchased...
Category
1980s Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Tête Tragique
By Auguste Rodin
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Auguste Rodin (French, 1840 - 1917)
Tête Tragique
6 ½ high x 4 x 4 1/2 inches
9 ½ inches high with base
Bronze, inscribed in three places:
Near top of head signed “Rodin” “No 4”
Inscribed with foundry mark “Georges Rudier...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Abstract
By Paul Burlin
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Born in New York City, Paul Berlin was a semi-abstract painter who achieved early success as a landscape, portrait, and mural painter ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Long Neck
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed underneath.
This carved stone sculpture by Bernard Takawira (1948 - 1997) is from a private collection. The family owns a quality collection o...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Huddled Women
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Joseph Ndandarika (Zimbabwe, 1941 - 1991)
Huddled Woman
12 x 10 1/2 x 6 inches
Carved serpentine stone, signed
This carved stone sculpture by Joseph Ndandarika (1941 - 1991) i...
Category
1990s Other Art Style Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Sand Lot Baseball
By Ralph Fasanella
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1954.
Bio:
FASANELLA, RALPH (1914-97) was a self-taught painter who created large, colorful and intricate paintings of working-class culture and American politics from 1945 until his death in 1997.
Fasanella had an artistic vision born of a working life. A child of Italian immigrants, he spent his youth delivering ice with his father and enduring the harsh regimen of a Catholic reform school. During the Great Depression, Fasanella worked in garment factories and as a truck driver.
From his mother—a literate, sensitive, and progressive woman, Fasanella acquired a social conscience. Through her influence he became active in antifascist and trade union causes. Fasanella's political beliefs were radicalized by the Depression. His antifascist zeal led him to volunteer for duty in the International Brigades fighting fascism in Spain, where he served in 1937-1938.
Upon his return to New York City Fasanella became an organizer for various unions, particularly the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, with whom he achieved some major organizing successes.
In 1945, disillusioned by the labor movement and plagued by a painful sensation in his fingers, Fasanella started to draw. He left organizing and began to paint full time. He painted obsessively, capturing the vibrant moods of the city and the tumult of American politics. For a brief time he received some critical notice for his work, and had shows of his work in galleries as well as union halls. Fasanella included in his paintings a profusion of brightly colored details, showed interiors and exteriors simultaneously, and combined past and future. He populated his paintings with likenesses of family and friends.
In 1950 Fasanella married Eva Lazorek, a schoolteacher who supported the couple through over two decades of artistic obscurity and blacklisting by the FBI. In the 1950s Fasanella retreated from political content in his works out of fear of reprisals. With the emergence of the New Left in the 1960s, however, his works became large, sharply focused political essays using images from the popular media. In 1972 Fasanella was featured in "New York" magazine and in an illustrated coffee-table book, "Fasanella's City". His large-scale, intricate paintings of urban life and American politics were then introduced to art critics and the public.
In the late 1970s Fasanella spent two years in Lawrence, researching the 1912 Bread and...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Landscape with Boy Fishing
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
This painting was exhibited in the Christopher Pearse Cranch landscape exhibition in 2007 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum and published and illustrated in the cata...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pont Neuf
By François Gall
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed and titled lower left.
Francois Gall, Hungarian by birth, became a naturalized French citizen in 1942. He is best known as an impressionist painter in the pure French traditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Autumn Scene with Boat
By Arthur Parton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Bio::
Known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of mountain landscapes, Arthur Parton was well established in the New York art world where he exhibited ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Brooklyn Bridge, New York
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
David Solot, a dentist and painter, was born in Falciu (Romania) and
settled in Paris in 1928. His art was surrealistic dentally inspired plus
portraits and city landscapes.
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Translated from an article by Luana Hrisanti Rigot:
"In 1956, at the Charlotte Norberg Gallery (Paris), he presented his first personal exhibition, composed of an ensemble of surrealist paintings of professional inspiration (dental elements). Two years later, at Gallery Royale (Rochefort), he exhibits another 50 paintings on the subject. At that time, a decisive event for the painter David Solot was made: a great new-York-born antibiotic producer Lederle Cy learns about his work and contacts him through the US Ambassador to Paris, proposing an advertising contract and buying the reproduction right for 24 of its canvases. A year later, the same company bought the right to print three of its cloths in color. This was the starting point of his international notoriety.
In 1959, the American Dental...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life of Currants
By Edward Chalmers Leavitt
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Edward Chalmers Leavitt, artist, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, March 9, 1842, the son of Rev. Jonathan and Charlotte Esther (Stearns) Leavitt. His patern...
Category
Early 1900s Hudson River School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gramacy Army Plaza Brooklyn NY
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Following his graduation, he toured the United States and Canada as lead baritone for the Grand Opera Company, after which he taught voice - first as his alma matter...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Autumn Landscape
By William Merritt Post
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
"Scholars continually rediscover competent American artists who enjoyed successful careers at the turn of the century, but whose legacy has been lost over time. One of these, William Merritt Post, was a tonalist landscape painter often associated with the Barbizon school and the early New England Impressionists...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Carnations
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left and dated 1894.
Edward C. Leavitt, born in 1842, has been described as "Providence, Rhode Island's leading still-life painter" in the late 19th Century. (Zellman...
Category
1890s Hudson River School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
African American Sitting Portrait
By Arnold Blanch
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Born in Mantorville, Minnesota, Arnold Blanch was a painter of scenes of social-realist American life with mystical overtones and a child-like seeming style. He was also a highly respected teacher, lecturer and visiting critic and was a spokesman for the art colony in Woodstock, New York. He was married to Lucile Blanch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indians in a Landscape
By William Mason Brown
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Along with Martin Johnson Heade, William Mason Brown was among a very elite group of artists equally adept at landscape painting as well as still-life painting. H...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstraction
By Agnes Hart
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right
Agnes Hart was born in Meridan, Connecticut. She studied at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida; at Iowa State University with Josef Presser, Paul Burlin and Lucile...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Sandstone
Geometric Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
A major exponent of non-objective painting, Rolph Scarlett's career and artistic philosophy is closely linked with the early history of the Solomon R. Guggenhei...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fishing by the Stream
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right
Category
1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nature's Beauty
By Julie Hart Beers
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Bio:
Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Julie Beers was a younger sister of artists James McDougal Hart and William Hart and grew up in Albany, New York. Her sch...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressions de New York No. 3
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
David Solot, a dentist and painter, was born in Falciu (Romania) and
settled in Paris in 1928. His art was surrealistic dentally inspired plus
portraits and city landscapes.
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Translated from an article by Luana Hrisanti Rigot:
"In 1956, at the Charlotte Norberg Gallery (Paris), he presented his first personal exhibition, composed of an ensemble of surrealist paintings of professional inspiration (dental elements). Two years later, at Gallery Royale (Rochefort), he exhibits another 50 paintings on the subject. At that time, a decisive event for the painter David Solot was made: a great new-York-born antibiotic producer Lederle Cy learns about his work and contacts him through the US Ambassador to Paris, proposing an advertising contract and buying the reproduction right for 24 of its canvases. A year later, the same company bought the right to print three of its cloths in color. This was the starting point of his international notoriety.
In 1959, the American Dental...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Lake Placid, Whiteface Mountain
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Monogram lower right.
But for sheer numbers, as well as degree of fame, the activity which is most closely linked with this Adirondack town is painting. Mrs. Peggy O'Brien, who has long studied Adirondack artists, finds over 400 have painted in these mountains and Keene Valley was the summer capital for many of them. The earliest in the valley are Asher B. Durand (1796-1800), considered a co-founder of the Hudson River School, John Casilear (1811 -1893) and John F. Kensett (1816 - 1871) coming in 1848.
Frederick Perkins came in 1857, boarded at the Bruce home, and with Orson Phelps sat on Mt. Marcy and named Skylight, Basin and Saddelback Mountains. Roswell Shurtleff came first to Keene Valley in 1868 and returned each year for the rest of his life, being, with A.H. Wyant, the first artists to have summer places here. Wyant built on the hillside east of the AuSable, Shurtleff on the west. Winslow Homer joined John Fitch and Shurtleff in Keene Valley for hunting, fishing, and painting.
John Adams Parker was here by 1866, subsequently building. Robert Monior came in 1875 and by 1882 had a house that became a center for art students. Samuel Coleman arrived in the 1860's. Homer Martin (1836-1897), Sanford Gifford (1823-1880), and Arthur Parton (1842-1914) are but a few more of the recognized American artists who painted the AuSable lakes and mountain of Keene in the nineteenth century. In fact, the Heidelberg Museum of the Paletinate's salute to the American Bicentennial was a 1976 exhibit of work by the first German to the American scenes, a man named Kappel, and featured scenes around Beede's.
John Marin brought Keene Valley art into the twentieth century. Harold Weston, son of S. Burns Weston, wintered alone at his AuSable Club studio 1920-21 to start his painting career, and gave us later life a good local history as well as art sampling in his autobiography Freedom in the Wilds (1971). Present day artists living or working in the town include Bruce Mitchell...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sunset Sketch #6
By William R. Davis 1
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Singed lower right.
William R. Davis is noted as a marine painter. He grew up in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or sunset on the water. He employs many of the techniques traditionally used by American luminist painters to realize his personal vision, showing a marked preference for 19th century subjects.
In 1987, Davis had the first one artist show ever mounted at the Mystic Maritime Gallery in Mystic, Connecticut. All twenty of the works featured in that show were sold at the opening reception. In 1990, he received the Mystic Maritime Gallery Award of Excellence, and his painting entitled Calm Day Off Latimer's Reef appeared on the cover of Mystic's The Art of the Sea Calendar in 1993. Three of his paintings were also used in the book Shipwrecks Around Boston by Cape Cod author, William P. Quinn. Rockport Publishers has included Boston Harbor at Sunset in a new book entitled, A Gallery of Marine Art.
Much of Davis' early works pays homage to 19th century artists such as James Bard, Martin Johnson Heade, Antonio Jacobsen and Fitz Hugh Lane...
Category
2010s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Harvesting, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1950.
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Transport
By Julian Nemethy
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Contemporary artist Julian Nemethy is the son of artist Albert Nemethy, and his work can be distinguished from that of his father by the use of
fantastical elements, extreme use of color and detail, and whimsical
touches.
Julian Nemethy is one of the many artists in the Nemethy family. Born in Hungary, his parents fled the Communist regime in the mid-1950s when Julian was a small child. He was one of six siblings who were raised by their father.
In high school, Julian taught himself to paint, and felt he had found his vocation. In the 1980s, he moved to the Smokey Mountains of...
Category
1980s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spinal Sea
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rande Barke (American -20th/21st Century )
“Spinal Sea”
Acrylic on wood
48 x 48 inches, “49 ½ x 49 ½ inches framed size
Gallery sticker on back is from G...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Fly Fising in a Mountain Stream
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Albert Nemethy Jr. is part of a well known artistic family from the Catskill region of New York State. The father Albert Nemethy Sr...
Category
1990s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Synthetic Paper
Pool Hall
By Jaimendes
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
This is a large example of a non-objective painting by Rolph Scarlett. Scarlett was a painter of geometric forms and shapes. His intuitive style helped establish ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blackberry picking near Church's Farm Hudson NY
By Arthur Parton
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left and dated 1863.
Known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of mountain landscapes, Arthur Parton was well established in the New York art world where he exhibited at the National Academy of Design for more than half a century. He was born in Hudson, New York to a religious family supported by a cabinetmaker father. He enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a student of William Trost Richards, who remained a strong influence, and in 1862, his first exhibitions were in Philadelphia.
In 1864, he moved to New York City where he exhibited regularly with the National Academy of Design excepting 1869 when he spent a year in Europe and was influenced by the Barbizon style of painting.
In 1874, he and his wife moved into the Tenth Street Building in New York City, and he kept his studio there until 1893. In 1876, he gained much national notoriety at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition for his paintings November, Loch Lomond and Solitude.
He spent summers painting in the...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Red House (The Hoffman House)
By Harry Leith-Ross
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Harry Leith-Ross (American, 1886 - 1973)
Red House (Hoffman House)
Oil on canvas, weathered wood 20th century frame
35” x 30”
Signed lower right, ‘Leith-Ross’
Exhibition sticker v...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ausable
By William Ongley
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
A landscape and marine painter, William Ongley was born in England in 1836 and came to America with his family and settled in New York. His art studies took him ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Gerge Ottman / Charleston, N.Y.
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated lower left August 29, 1893
Little is known about Fritz Vogt until 1890 to 1900 when he earned a reputation for doing nearly 500 graphic architectural drawings near Sharon Springs and Ames in upstate New York. These were rural agricultural towns of German immigrants.
His renderings were precise and detailed and indicate he had studied architecture either in Germany or America. His work resembles drawing produced for the Beers Company of Philadelphia, publishers of atlases, but extensive attempts to research his life before 1890 have not been successful. It is known that when he did his upstate New York drawings he stayed with farm families and worked with paper, pencil, and ruler, and that he often worked outdoors. He played musical instruments and sometimes worked as a farm hand.
His drawings, many of them in color pencil, showed the types of crops planted, the animals, and details of the buildings. He also did several drawings of churches...
Category
1890s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Cove at Dusk
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed and dated 1877.
Although born in Jamestown, New York, Mortimer Smith would become well-known as a Detroit architect and artist by the end of the nineteenth century. Little is known of Smith's earlier years; however, scholars speculate that he studied in Oberlin and Sandusky, Ohio before moving to Detroit in 1855. There, the artist flourished and became famous for his crisp landscapes of local scenery, including his beloved winter scenes. In addition to his artistic career, Smith founded a successful architectural firm by the name of Smith, Hynchman and Grylls; Smith's reputation in the visual arts was often overshadowed by his draftsmanship as an architect. Nevertheless, he was a vital force in Detroit's arts community exhibiting his works in venues including the Detroit Art...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seaside
By Gordon Grant
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Born in San Francisco, CA on July 7, 1875, Gordon Grant grew up in San Francisco and at age 12 sailed around the Horn to London, England to study art at the Heath...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Dreaming Girl
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed upper left.
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Women in Garden
By Arthur Trevor Haddon
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed right.
Category
Early 20th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family Portrait
By Angel Botello
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Ángel Botello (June 20, 1913 - November 11, 1986) was a Spanish-Puerto Rican painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He was dubbed "The Caribbean Gauguin" for his...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Landscape with Woman in Red
By Arne Kavli
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
A blond woman clad in a red blouse and skirt sits atop a blue blanket at the top of a set of stairs leading to a garden at the edge of a large body of water, with wooded hills in the distant background. Her back is turned from the viewer, her left hand and arm supporting her from behind as she gazes out beyond, her face hidden and sheltered from the sun by a straw hat.
Arne Kavli...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Indian Head, Ausable Head, Adirondacks
By George Clough
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
George Lafayette Clough was born September 18, 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's leading landscapist and, known as a Hudson River School painter, became Auburn's most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten. By age fifteen he had taken up painting, and his first and informal art influence came from the portraitist, Randall Palmer.
In 1844 Clough opened his own studio in Auburn. About that time Charles Loring...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life on the Beach in France
By David Burliuk
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
An exquisite painting executed during his travels, “Still Life on the Beach, France” depicts a vase of chrysanthemums perched along a sandy beach with sailboats ...
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract and Fractured, Biomorphic and Geometric Forms
By Agnes Hart
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
“Abstract and Fractured Biomorphic and Geometric Forms” which was painted in the mid to late 1950’s is a nod to Picasso’s famous painting Guernica, which Hart may have seen when it was given to the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1958. Several elements in the painting clearly reference Guernica: the black geometric and cut-out shapes, the biomorphic shapes, the abstracted horse’s head and body, with a district reference to the bull’s tail, along with the black and white pallet choice and various details throughout-all hallmarks of Picasso’s Guernica. The abstracted reality Hart presents in these references go beyond a simple nod and reflect a personal interpretation reflected in the splintered abstraction and her bespoke interpretation.
Agnes Hart’s first began her career as a social realist artist in the 1930’s. She was also WPA artist. Her longtime friend Milton Avery encouraged her, and she exhibited in the same gallery in the late 1940’s, the RoKo Gallery. Her instinctive and personalized modernist periods often reflected a similar path of her compatriot artists during the first half of the 20th century. Her early works were influenced by her teachers Josef Presser, Paul Burlin and Lucile Blanch, and Reginald Neal, and reflected historical modern trends-at times showing the influence of Avery and other modernist. Like Elaine DeKooning, Lee Kraser, Michael Corrine West...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snake Dancer
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed and stamped “Cire Perdue, Bisceglia F-es, Paris”
Biography
Paul Landowski was a French monument sculptor who was Polish. His parents were Polish refugees. He created over 35 monumental sculptures in the city of Paris. Landowski is known for the 1931 Christ the Redeemer...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Fishing Harbor, Brittiny
By Hayley Lever
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right and dated 1930.
Lever’s “Fishing Harbor in Brittany” is as much a scene celebrating the boats and quaint architecture of coastal France, as it is a nod to its ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Columbian Exhibition, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Thaddeus Welch (American 1844-1919)
The Columbian Exhibition, the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair
70 x 35”, oil on board signed
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The C...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Geometric Abstract
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
About the artist:
Rolph Scarlett was a painter of geometric abstraction during the American avant-garde movement of the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Guelph, Ontario,...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady in the Garden by the Bay
By Arne Kavli
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left
Arne Kavli was born 27 May, 1878 in Bergen, and received his first restricted initiation into the world of artistic expression at the Tec...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
California Mill
By Hermann Ottomar Herzog
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed & dated, lower left, 1869
Herman Ottomar Herzog was born in Bremen, Germany, on November 15, 1831. He studied art at the Dusseldorf Academy, starting in 1848, under several classical landscape painters. In 1855, Herzog made his first visit to Norway. The trip was a milestone in Herzog's career as it exposed him to the rugged landscape of the Norwegian wilderness and instilled in him a lifelong sense of nature that was to show in all his work.
During the late 1850's and early 1860's, Herzog's fame spread throughout Europe. His paintings were collected for their dynamic realism and strong atmospheric effects. Among his patrons were several of Europe's royal families, including Queen Victoria of England and Grand Duke Alexander of Russia. He exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1863 and 1864, winning an Honorable Mention. While in Paris, it is thought that Herzog came into contact with the popular Barbizon School, whose adherents painted the grandeur and beauty of Nature in a romantic and realistic style. The effect of the Barbizon painters can also be seen in Herzog's poetic handling of mood and color. Although he was still in Europe, Herzog sent several paintings for exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy from 1863 to 1869. He had several friends in the United States and they were developing a rather good demand for his work.
It is not known exactly when Herzog decided to come to America. Sometime in the late 1860's he settled in Philadelphia. Besides wanting a developing market for his work, Herzog left Bremen due to rising political agitation by Prussia, which had just absorbed Bremen into its domain. In America, Herzog continued to paint his romantic landscapes, finding the American wilderness well suited to his style. In 1871, he traveled up the Hudson River on a painting tour. In 1873, he took his first trip west, going to Yosemite, then to Wyoming, Oregon, and along the West Coast to the Coronado Island, near the Mexican border. Herzog made several journeys west, finding each trip more fruitful than the last. He became known for his depictions of Yosemite, receiving great acclaim for a fine El Capitan, much in the style of his fellow countryman and painter Albert Bierstadt. His last trip west was in 1905, at the age of 74.
In 1876, Herzog participated in the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, showing a Norwegian scene and a Yosemite landscape...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Warning
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Edward Lamson Henry (American, (1841 - 1919))
“The Warning”
Grisaille on paper mounted on board, signed lower left ‘E L Henry’ (partially obscured by frame)
...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Laid Paper
Civil War Battle Showing Union Troops in Battle
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Born in Leverett, Massachusetts, Erastus Field kept his home most of his life in that state but did study briefly with Samuel F.B. Morse in New York City where he lived from 1842 to ...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait
By Joseph Pollet
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
A portrait of a stylized young man dressed in a blue coat with a ruffled white shirt in an artistic background suggest that it may be a portrait of a young actor or performer.
About the artist.
Joseph Pollet was an important member of the Woodstock Art Colony. He emigrated to NYC in 1911 from Albbruck, Germany (born in 1897) and at age 21 had a promising career as an advertising copywriter. While working, he studied painting and his landscapes were immediately successful in NYC galleries. He studied at the Art Student's League with John Sloan, Robert Henri, and Homer Boss...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract and Drip
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
An example of Scarlett’s abstract drip painting, this untitled work has linear and geometric elements rendered in shades of black, rose, and blue and...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mango Trees, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico
By Reynolds Beal
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left and dated 1921.
About the artist:
From an affluent and artistic family, Reynolds Beal and his younger brother Gifford both made careers in art. Beal was born in ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Whiteface Mt, Lake Placid NY
By William Bradford
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left
A 19th-century marine painter, William Bradford is famous for his seascapes that reflect his background of being raised in an area known for whaling and other marine activities. During much of his career, his work focused on the Arctic region, which he depicted with strong color and spectacular lighting.
Bradford was born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts to Quaker parents who disapproved of his desire for a painting career. He became a clerk in his father's dry goods shop in New Bedford but devoted his spare time to sketching, a diversion that caused him and his wife to lose a farm that had been given to them by his father-in- law.
In the early 1850s, living in Fairhaven, he launched his professional career by selling portraits of ships for twenty-five dollars a piece. In 1854, he opened a studio and about this same time attracted the interest of Albert Van Beest, a Dutch painter who had come to America in 1845. He became Bradford's teacher and collaborator, and until his death in 1860, they painted together local scenes including seascapes and whaling pictures.
In 1861, Bradford began a series of trips to Nova Scotia, Labrador, and Greenland, and painting and photographing the Arctic region became a consuming interest. He also published a book in London titled The Arctic Region, which he vividly illustrated with photographs pasted onto the page and he gave lectures accompanied by lantern slides...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower & Vegtable Arrangement
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Johann Berthelsen (1883-1972)
He was born in Copenhagen in 1883, the 7th of seven sons, to Conrad and Dorothea Karen Berthelsen. The parents moved in artistic a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grapes and Peach
By George Cope
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right & dated 1888.
Category
1880s Hudson River School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Women Walking
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
A double sided painting.
An urban realist painter of New York City genre, Reginald Marsh devoted his career to depicting people going about their everyday business including Bower...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Watchers, Dakota Indians
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Nick Eggenhofer was one of the most popular illustrators of western story magazines and books in America from the 1920s to 1940s.
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Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Geometric Composition
By Rolph Scarlett
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Rolph Scarlett (Canadian/American, 1889 - 1984)
“Geometric Composition”
Signed lower right, circa late 1930’s early 1940’s
19 ½ x 26 inches
Mixed media, Price on request
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Category
1930s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
