" Venus Rising " Oil on Canvas Painting by Deborah Buck

Samaritan at the well. Oil painting on canvas, measures H111,5 cm x 94cm Early 19th century.

Deboah Hiatt, born in 1953 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, died in 2013 in Scottsdale, Arizona, was a renown painter of Southwest and Pueblo Indian imagery. She frequently visited Pueblos and Cliff dwellings, finding a continuing source of inspiration in living history of ceremonial dances, powwows, and traditional way of life. Her paintings celebrated Native-American society with profound sense of serenity and spirituality conveyed through respectful interpretation of the subject and careful, thoughtful choices of colors. Hiatt majored in the visual arts and art history at Moore College of Arts in Philadelphia; she was a member of Arizona Artists Guild, Arizona Watercolor Association, and associate member of American Watercolor Society. She painted in many mediums, including acrylic and oil on canvas, watercolor, and mixed media. The painting measures 48in by 36in by 1.5in. It is signed by the artist in lower left corner "Deborah Hiatt...

An impressive and high quality Italian 19th century Oil on Canvas painting of the Bathing of Venus. This important and richly colored painting, is modeled after a version by Francesco Albani and is framed within a wonderful rectangular frame with richly carved mottled edges. The painting depicts Venus, the splendid Goddess of Beauty...

A northern Italian early XVIII century painting of Francesco Perezzoli, depicting the birth of Venus. Oil on canvas. Original guild wood frame. Italy circa 1700.