View of the piers in Rockport, Massachusetts by Emma Mendenhall, c. 1910

An accomplished shoreline landscape in watercolor on laid paper. The work is presented float mounted on archival mat in a painted molding under UV filtering glass. American, North Shore...

Linoleum block print of a moored sailing vessel at sunset, rendered in soft pastel oranges and purples. Mounted in its original hand carved frame. Numbered and dated in graphite Sig...

Tonalist shoreline seascape oil on canvas mounted in a painted molding. The painting is defined by a row of pilings projecting into the sea with sailboats on the horizon, where gray ...

Watercolor study on paper of a three masted schooner at sea. The transparent celadon greens, grays, and blues convey a tonalist atmosphere to the composition. Archival mount under UV...

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...

A gorgeous American impressionist painting of Gloucester Harbor. Unsigned but by a very skilled hand. The canvas is 20" x 16" housed in a period frame.

Watercolor and gouache signed and inscribed in the lower left featuring boats in a harbor by Frances Hopkinson Smith. Presented in a wonderful gilt frame. Provenance: Thomas McCLe...

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...