"Family, " Remarkable WPA-style Sculpture, Mahogany, 1956

This African warrior, slender and attenuated, is a large and rare example of the stylized work of Karl Hagenauer and his contemporaries in Austria. It is beautifully executed in maho...

A lovely, touching ceramic piece attributed to Gertrude Kay, a watercolorist and artist active in the 1930s, this sculpture is gorgeously finished in a subtly mottled, rich brown glaze. It depicts a loving domestic scene of African Americans: a mother hugging a girl and boy. Kay was a student of Howard Pyle, the great illustrator and founder of the Brandywine School...

Large and highly affecting, this 52-inch high mahogany sculpture of a woman holding her child, looking out pensively into the world, won the Frank Logan Medal of the Arts at the 22nd Chicago Artist Exhibition in 1918. It is the greatest masterpiece of Emil Zettler, who is best known today for his architectural sculptures in collaboration with George Grant Elmslie, Perkins, Hamilton & Fellows, Holabird & Roche and other leading Chicago architects. An array of his sculptures survive, for example, on the facade of the Old Second National Bank, Aurora, Illinois, as well as two great hotels: the Palmer House...

Large and impressive, carved in a naive-sophisticated way that suggests folk art as well as WPA sculptures which glorified the worker, this large bas re...

A small 15cm., 6" high biomorphic two-tone wooden sculpture of a father and mother in a seated pose holding a child. The sculptor has selected a piece of walnut with both heartwood a...

Figurative modernist hand-carved mahogany sculpture purchased in Brazil in the 1950s. Signed to the bottom rear edge. Brazilian rosewood plinth base in...

DIMENSIONS height: 23 inches width; 12 inches depth: 6 inches MARKINGS Signed at the bottom in back. DETAILS Original hand-crafted black-painted wood plinth. REFERENCES Originally, sold to Papillon Gallery of Los Angeles. CONDITION Excellent antique condition, wear consistent with age and use. Enid Bell Palanchian (American, 1904 – 1994) a/k/a Mrs. E. B. Palanchian, Mrs. Enid Bell Palanchian and Mrs. Missak Palanchian was an important American sculptor, author, illustrator and professor who was primarily active in the New York/New Jersey area, but who established a respected body of work recognized throughout Europe and the United States as reflected by awards received in Paris, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico and Florida. Her achievements included numerous public works projects (e.g., the design of the Congressional Gold Medal) on display at public institutions and museums around the country, private commissions and sales throughout the world, group and solo exhibitions, generous donations of art and compilations, and the passing on of her knowledge and skills to 24 years of art students of the Newark School of Industrial and Fine Arts. Enid Bell was born in London, England, and later studied at the Glasgow School of Art and then at the St. John’s Wood Art School; as well as studying with fellow Scot Sir William Reid Dick in London. Then, after moving to the United States, she taught at the Art Student League in New York City at Miss Chapen’s School. Essentially a figurative, direct carving in wood artist, she was based in New Jersey where she became the head of the sculpture program of the Fedral Art Project for that state and was herself the creator of several FAP commissions. In 1932, she married Armenian/American businessman and artist, Missalk Palanchian athough she retained her name “Bell” for professional purposes. Following the end of the Federal Art Project in 1944, she taught as instructor of sculpture and Head of the Sculpture Department of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art until 1968, and was active was a member of the National Sculpture Society. Enid Bell died in 1994 in Englewood, New Jersey. WORK • Birds, Leonia Public Library in Leonia New Jersey (installed 1981) • Untitled, Boonton Post Office in Boonton, New Jersey (1938) • Boonton Post Office, Boonton, New Jersey • Colonizing America, Center for Youth Education, Newark, New Jersey, (1934) • Little Indian Dancer, Englewood Public Library, Englewood, New Jersey • Alexander Hamilton Troy Public Library in Troy, New York • bird bath, Music, Science, Union City...

Description: this sculpture was made in the 1950s in France. It consists of a black oak base and an oak ball carved . Very nice work combining organic form and raw material. Conditi...