Landscape with Bluebonnets by W. R. Thrasher

oil on canvas landscape by Philip Erskine (South African 1933- ) Philip Erskine is a South African Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1933, South Africa, 2006 signed and...

framed late 18th century English hunt scene, oil on canvas, two men take a rest while hunting large hares / rabbits with a pack of hounds (lower left) while another pair of hunters ...

An American oil on canvas beautifully painted in a realistic manner of a hayfield. In the foreground and trees in the distance. Heavy impasto technique adds impressionist feeling. ci...

A realistic oil on canvas of two Japanese monks wearing robes in an outdoor ceremony by painter Francis Neydhart, (1860-1948). Signed lower right. Image measures: 16" H x 13.25" W

a California School oil on board painting of a treed landscape in green and gold tones in an impressionistic manner, signed illegibly, USA circa 1930's label for a Los Angeles fram...

pastorial landscape picture with cattle in the Manner of Paulus Potter, (Dutch, 1625-1654), oil on canvas, picture has been relined, some overpainting, signed front lower left POTTER...

W.R. Thrasher (1908-1997) An American well listed painter, who specialized on painting of landscapes and country scenes. Oil on canvas, signed ...

Oil on canvas board by Robert Harrison of Texas hill country bluebonnet landscape. Signed lower left corner. Displayed in giltwood frame, opening size 24"L x 17.5"H.

Watercolor on paper of Texas Hill Country bluebonnets by Bill Zaner (1930 - 2015) Texas, Arizona. Signed lower left corner, signed, titled Hill Country Afte...

Made by California Artist Virgil Thrasher in the 1970s. Brown mustard, and gold tones reflective of the period.A combination of reverse painting on glass, coordinated with a recessed...

A late 19th century Barbizon School oil on canvas by Victor Jean Baptiste Barthélemy Binet (1849-1924), featuring a rural scene of sheep with a shepherd on a cloudy day. He exhibite...

Gaston Sebire French, 1920-2002 Landscape with figures Oil on canvas 31 by 41 ½ in. With frame 38 by 48 ½ in. Signed lower right Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris. The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.” The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris. Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage.  As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and Frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.” Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...