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untitled (polo player on horseback)
By Henry George Keller
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (polo player on horseback)
Chalk on tan paper, c. 1920
Unsigned
Provenance: Gift of the artist
William McGill (Keller's student)
Image size: 4 3/8 x 5 ...
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1920s American Impressionist Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Quicksand (Small) #18
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Quicksand (Small) #18
Colored pencil on raw sienna laid rag paper, 1980
Signed and dated by the artist on the image upper right (see photo)
Titled and described by the artist verso
C...
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1980s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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Farm Horse Drinking
By Edmund Blampied
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Farm Horse Drunking
Charcoal and pastel on artist's board, c. 1920
Signed lower right in pencil (see photo)
Titled in ink lower center, as are all the illustration for At the Farm (s...
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1920s English School Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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Minou-Study of Head
By Will Barnet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Minou-Study of Head
Charcoal and pencil on vellum, 1984
Signed and dated in pencil by the artist
Minou was Barnet's feline companion throughout many of his most prolific years. It has been said that if you entered Barnet's studio and Minou did not like you Barnet lost interest and dismissed you almost immediately.
Provenance:
Susan Teller Gallery, prior to 2005 (one of Barnet's friends and dealers)
Babcock Galleries, 2005-2008
This drawing is related to a similar composition reproduced in the Richard Boyle catalog for Babcock Galleries.
References:
Boyle, Will Barnet Drawings, related to works reproduced on pp. 21, 41 (see photo of page 41)
Minou is the cat on the back right.
Condition: Excellent
Stray ink and paint consistent with a working studio drawing
Archival framing with DEN Glass (see photo)
Image size: 9 x 11 7/8 inches
Frame size: 17 x 19 inches
Will Barnet
Born May 25, 1911, Beverly, Massachusetts, US
Died November 13, 2012 (aged 101), New York City, US
Will Barnet (May 25, 1911 – November 13, 2012) was an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.
Biography
Born in 1911 in Beverly, Massachusetts, Barnet knew by the age of ten that he wanted to be an artist. As a student, he studied with Philip Leslie Hale at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and viewed first-hand John Singer Sargent at work on the murals of the Boston Public Library. In 1930, Barnet studied at the Art Students League of New York, with Stuart Davis and Charles Locke, beginning his long association with the school. Here he concentrated on painting as well as printmaking, and, in 1936, he became the official printer for the Art Students League. There, he later instructed students in the graphic arts at the school and taught alongside the likes of Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Robert Beverly Hale and Richard Pousette-Dart. Barnet influenced a generation of artists, including James Rosenquist, Knox Martin, Emil Milan, Paul Jenkins, Ethel Fisher and Cy Twombly. Barnet continued his love of teaching with positions at the Cooper Union, at Yale University, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He was represented by the Bertha Schaefer Gallery in New York City. Barnet had three sons, Peter, Richard, and Todd Barnet, by his first wife Mary Sinclair. Barnet later married Elena Barnet, with whom he had a daughter, Ona Barnet.
Death
A longtime resident of the National Arts Club, Barnet died in New York City on November 13, 2012, at the age of 101.
Works
Barnett's works span the various "movements" of their era, from his early social realist work to his final signature style of clean lines and carefully placed volumes of solid color in a kind of minimalist representational approach. His work is concerned with humanity, yet at his core he always remained a formalist, cerebral in his approach to the elements that make up a good picture. In his interviews he articulated his well thought out principles regarding color use, composition and subject matter, in a professorial manner reflecting the theoretical acumen he brought to his teaching. Like many American painters of his generation he was digesting the evolving trends in Europe and integrating the new visual vocabulary into his American style while remaining universal, referencing his own personal history with images of his wife, his daughter, and their family pets. As James Thomas Flexner wrote, Barnet's work "makes us experience the interplay between the personal and the universal." While remaining representational, the simple elegance of the figures and their flat surfaces reflect his exploration with abstraction.
Will's artistic output spans eighty years. Few artists, other than Picasso or Monet, can claim such a long continuous period of inspired art making, nor the logical progression of moving through artistic phases: in the 1930s he was a social realist, in the 1940s a Modernist, in the 1950s an Abstract Expressionist and in the 1960s and onward he settled on a representational minimalism honed from the refinement of his earlier explorations. His early work is decidedly social realist, with sullen portraits done in dark tonalities that suggest both the struggle of the depression era and the hope in the simple love of family life. He moves out of this phase with the improving economy and in the 1940s adds vibrant color and more abstract figures, suggesting a lifting of the depression era malaise. He was a key figure in the 1940s New York movement called Indian Space Painting, artists who based their abstract and semi-abstract work on Native American art; a striking movement which had a handful of practitioners (notably Steve Wheeler...
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1980s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Horses in Stable
By Georges Lemmen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses in a Stable
Black chalk on tan wove paper, 1896
Signed with the estate stamp lower right corner
(see photo)
Note: The image has been sqaured off in red chalk grid lines for use in a large painting
Dated in charcoal lower right: "23 Nov '96"
Condition: Tack holes in the corners
small tears and creases along margins
Sheet size: 14 11/16 x 16 13/16 inches
Provenance: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell
Brenner Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Alan Stone Gallery, New York
"Georges Lemmen was the son of an architect and studied under Amédée Bourson at the academy in St Joost-ten-Node. He was invited in 1889 to join the Group of Twenty ( Cercle des XX) which had been launched in 1884 by Oscar Maus and had in the interim emerged as an influential force in Belgian artistic circles, not least by bringing to public and critical attention the work of such artists as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. The Cercle des XX would be reborn in 1894 as La Libre Esthétique.
In the early days of the Cercle des XX, Lemmen espoused a pointilliste technique. His earlier painting was clearly influenced by the Neo-Impressionists; over time, however, his style became more subtle and nuanced – recalling, perhaps, that of his compatriot Van Rysselberghe, another Cercle des XX member. With the group’s rebirth as the Libre Esthétique, Lemmen’s work became more intimiste in character, most notably in his portraits, nudes and still-lifes, where the influence of Bonnard and Vuillard is unmistakable, as is that of Renoir, particularly after Lemmen’s travels in the Midi in 1911. From this point onwards, he would go on to make a major contribution to the renewal of the graphic and decorative arts in terms of his input to the new ‘free’ aesthetic and to Art Nouveau. Although his draughtsmanship retained its essential purity and elegance of line, his painting became more fleshy, imprecise and sensual, his compositions governed less by technical considerations than by the urgent need to express his emotions.
Between 1889 and 1893, Lemmen exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, aligning himself with the Neo-Impressionists. In 1893, Henry van de Velde invited him to participate in the Pour l’Art association that had been created in Antwerp. He travelled to the south of France in 1911. By this juncture, he had already exhibited solo on two occasions (in 1906 and 1908) at the Galerie Druet in Paris. A further solo exhibition in 1913, his first in Brussels, cemented Lemmen’s reputation.
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Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bull engaging the muleta (Bull Fight)
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left (See photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Marbella Gallery Inc., NYC
Refer...
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Untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Unsigned
Mixed media, c. 2003-2004
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
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VI Rose Nose Cat
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
VI Rose Nose Cat
Colored chalks on black paper, 1977
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left (see photo)
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Chilly Chicken
By Emma Lane Payne
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Exhibited:
I Don't Have Time to be Lonesome When I'm Painting: Emma Lane Payne 1857–1943 ... Cleveland Artists Foundation, June 22, 200...
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Page de Croquis: Tetes de Antilops
By Joseph Hecht
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil lower right recto
Provenance:
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untitled (Exotic Bird in Fantastic Landscape)
By August F. Biehle
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Painting of Exotic Birds in Fantastic Landscape leaning against a wall))
Graphite on paper
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right
Pr...
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