Susan Teller Gallery

The frame adds a few inches to the size and was selected by the artist. Jack Henderson (1931-1998) taught at the Art Students League for many years and had a studio in at 30 East 14th Street, New York City. In that building were many other artists including Henderson's teacher and long-time collaborator, Edward Laning. A Kansas City native, Henderson was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome. He continued the Miller/Laning tradition of travel to Italy to study the masters of the Renaissance and the goal of fine figure painting as the ultimate artistic achievement. A version of his monumental triptych, New York in Ruin, 1967, is in the collection of the New York Landmarks Commission. Work by Jack Henderson was shown at the Susan Teller Gallery...

Spring, Bleecker Street, Ruellan's conté crayon drawing from 1938, shows young people out in the world. And their world is Bleecker Street, New York City. The heart of Greenwich Vil...

New York City native Oscar Weissbuch (1904-1948), attended the Yale University School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League, NY. He participated in the NYC-WPA printmaking project...

An Ohio native Witonski made his home in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and this subject may well be a Chelsea scene. But mostly it is a homage to intaglio printmaking. It...

David Feintstein is a master draughtsman working in the genre of everyday life in New York City. His style is highly original, especially in this work. Here he's used Visitors' Day (...

This is a classic New-Deal image: claustrophobic sweatshop with a row of hunched tailors. The windows and lamps offer light at least. But there is a major difference between this and...

This mural depicting ancient myths was designed for the Hotel Ambassador, a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, NYC; the building was converted to the Sheraton East in 1958. It was demolished in 1966. It could only be mid-century American! Signed, titled, and annotated, 'Scale 2" = 1' in ink. Edward Laning is largely known as a mural artist. His series The History of the Printed Word is installed at the New York Public Library at 42nd Street, New York City, and Building of the Transcontinental Railroad Mural, is in the Railroad Museum, Ogden, Utah. Laning was briefly a student of Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League, New York. They were lifelong colleagues and had studios on Union Square near friends Isabel Bishop, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer. As a group they were the Fourteenth Street School...

This serene subject, the Lambs' Creel relates to Minna Citron's mural project focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was such a new ...

In the 1950s woodcuts were getting bigger and bigger. This one isn't gigantic, but at an image size of 17 x 11 inches it is substantial. And of course NYC's El Trains and their stati...

Clearly an ironic title, 'Bedtime Story,' conjures up homey childhood experiences -- not over-sized, cigar-smoking, and alcohol-abusing, French soldiers. The artist who made Bedti...

The artist who made Company Party. (Male French WWII Soldiers with Kepis and Dancing), about 1939, is unknown. It could be J. B. Dolitro, but that's just a guess and a deep Google se...

Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images. He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor. Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...