Urban Village Landscape with trees and figures.

1929

Sydney Ure Smith O.B.E. 1887-1949, was an English born Australian Arts publisher and part time painter, but did not exhibit his own works. He studied pencil and ink drawing at the A...

Raymond James Coxon 1896-1997, was an English landscape and portrait painter, he was a war artist during the second World war after which his works became more abstract. He studied a...

19th Century watercolour, Dutch view, unsigned. The picture is in ink and watercolour and displays the view of a Harbour with a distant town in the background which at this point i...

In the manner of Jean-Francoise Milet, 1814-1875, who was a French artist, and one of the founders of the Barbizon School of painters. Milet influenced a great many painters through...

Composition is an original drawing in pen realized in the mid-20th Century by an anonymous Artist. Good Conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced ...

Landscape is an original drawing in Black Marker realized in the mid-20th Century by an unknown artist. Good Conditions except for fo some folding and cut-away. The artwork is depi...

Landscape with trees is an original china ink drawing realized by Unknown Artist in 1950s. The artwork represent a beautiful landscape. Good condition, so signature, mounted on a w...

This artwork titled "Village by a Road" c 1940 is a watercolor on paper by noted artist Donald Jeffries Bear 1905-1952. It is signed in pencil at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 10.65 x 14.5 inches, framed size is 17 x 21 inches. Framed in original frame. The artwork is in good condition, paper is toned by time, the four extreme corners are slightly discolored by hanging tape. The frame is also in good condition with minor dents, the linen is slightly discolored by time. The item is over all in good condition. About the artist. Donald Jeffries Bear, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's founding director from 1940 to 1952, was born on this day, February 5, 1905, in Terre Haute, Indiana. He previously served as the Director of the Denver Art Museum (1935-1940), regional advisor for the Federal Art Project (1935-38), and as principal of the World's Fair in New York (1938-39). While director of the SBMA, Bear served as president of the Western Association of Art Directors from 1943 to 1946. He was also an art critic and, last but not least, an artist. Bear was well travelled, spoke numerous foreign languages, and as a Renaissance man, he was a singular match for another local polymath, Wright S. Ludington. In addition to his duties as director, Bear was also the curator and was responsible for producing over 600 exhibitions during his tenure. The exhibitions were as remarkable for their quality as well as their quantity, including SBMA's inaugural exhibition, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States (June 5―September 1, 1941), which featured pieces from George Bellows, Mary Cassatt, Robert Harnett, Childe Hassam, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Georgia O'Keefe, and numerous others. Perhaps most remarkably, the SBMA displayed two of the most influential paintings of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) and Marcel Duchamp’s revolutionary Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912) as part of the “Free France” exhibition in 1942. He was also responsible for producing numerous solo artist exhibitions, many of which were the first of their careers, including: William Dole, Clarence Hinkle...