Post-Impressionist French Painting of a Port City

Oil on canvas, signed and dated in the lower left corner. A tranquil painting featuring a European city on a lake or river at sunrise or sunset. Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg (1838,...

Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right featuring a vibrant street in Paris. Henri Alexis Schaeffer (1900-1975) was born in Paris, France in...

An oil on canvas signed in the lower left and presented in a gilded frame under glass. A wonderful scene of a sunny day on the canal in Venice, Italy. Measuring 20.25" x 24.25" inc...

Oil on artist board, signed Emily Hoffmeier lower left Most likely a scene of Nantucket harbor and presented in what could be the original frame with a slightly highlighted silver finish. Presents well overall measuring 16.5" x 20.5" including the frame. From 1929 to her death in 1952, Emily Hoffmeier (1888-1952) spent summers on Nantucket, painting in the waterfront studios—first Harborview No. 3 and later moving to the Red Anchor Studio on Washington Street. She exhibited in the Easy Street Gallery, the Candle House Studio, and later at the Kenneth Taylor Galleries. After the death of Maud Stumm in 1935, Hoffmeier took over the direction of the annual Sidewalk Art Show, which she ran for the next eighteen years “with untiring cheerfulness and unflagging interest.” She was one of the founding members of the Artists Association of Nantucket and served on its first executive committee. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachuetts, Hoffmeier taught art classes at the college for several years. From 1917 to 1951 she was a teacher at West Chester High School in Pennslyvania, where she headed the mathematics department. In addition to enrolling in the plein air classes of Frank Swift Chase...

This French Impressionist painting by Charles André Igounet de Villers (1881–1944) captures a nautical scene with boats moored at a calm pier. Painted in a soft, atmospheric palette...

Henri Alphonse Barnoin (1882-1940) studied with Emile Charles Dameron at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1912 he moved to the small community of Concarneau in Northwest France,...

Elegant impressionist style painting of a city harbor scene. The original frame with intentional distressed finish. 18 high, 24 wide, with frame...

Beautiful impasto, oil on canvas. Contemporary custom frame. Unsigned, but very well executed painting.