Berkshires - Paintings

Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer American, 1877-1959 House with a Flower Garden Oil on board 16 by 20 in, w/ frame 21 ½ by 25 ¼ in Signed lower right A plein-air painter of landscapes and f...

David Redpath Michie Scottish, 1928-2015 Modern City Scene Oil on board 30 by 40 in, w/ frame 33 ¼ by 43 ¼ in Signed lower right, dated 1955 Son of the painter Anne Redpath, David ...

Jean Salabet French, 20th Century Vue du Sacre Coeur, Paris Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes. His work is comparable to those of ...

Prosper Louis Senat American, 1852-1925 Monhegan Oil on Canvas 20 by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 26 ¼ by 42 ¼ in With artist's plaque Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1852, Prospe...

Yarnall Abbott American, 1870-1938 On the Dock Oil on canvas 28 ¼ by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 37 ¾ by 46 in Signed lower right Yarnall Abbott achieved prominence as a painter, photographe...

Jean Colin Belgian, 1881-1961 View of Notre Dame Oil on Board 19 by 23 ¾ in, w/ frame 24 by 28 ¾ in Signed lower right Jean Colin was born in 1881 in Ixelles, Belgium. Colin traine...

Myron Barlow American, 1873-1937 Woman with Strawberries Oil on canvas 29 by 29 in. W/frame 35 by 35 in. Unsigned Studied: Art Institution of Chicago; Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Gerome...

Georges d'Espagnat French, 1870 - 1950 Les Vendanges Signed gdE (lower left)  Oil on canvas 67 by 43 in. W/frame 71 by 47 in. Born at Melun on 14th August 1870, Georges d’Espagnat...

Lillian Burk Meeser American, 1864-1942 Still Life with Blue Drapery Oil on canvas 32 by 36 in, w/ frame 38 by 42 ¼ in Signed lower left Born at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, on July ...

Jean Pradel French, 1835-1892 Port de Peche Mediterranean Oil on canvas 23 ¾ by 39 ⅝ in, w/ frame 33 ⅝ by 49 ½ in Signed lower right He exhibited in many salons including the Unive...

Vincent Fannell French, born 20th century View of Paris Oil on canvas 30 by 36 in, w/ frame 40 ¼ by 46 ¼ in Signed lower right

Eugene Henri Cauchois French, 1850-1911 Still Life with Cherries Oil on canvas Signed “H. Cauchois” lower right 22 ½ by 28 ½ in. W/frame 30 ...

André Raffin French, 1927-2005 Les Fruits Oil on Canvas 18 ¼ by 22 in, w/ frame 25 ½ by 29 ¼ in Signed lower right André Raffin was born in 1927 in Evreux, France. He was one of th...

John Ivar Berg Swedish, 1916-2003 Sunlight on the Water Oil on Canvas 32 ¼ by 38 ½ in, w/ frame 32 ¾ by 39 in Signed lower right John Ivar Berg was a Swedish artist who studied at ...

George Loring Brown American, 1814-1889 A Coastal View Signed and dated 1878 Oil on canvas 22 by 36 in W/frame 30 by 44 in. Often referred to as “Claude...

Jacob Binder American 1887-1984 Still Life Vase of Flowers Oil on canvas 30 by 25 in. W/frame 37 by 32 in. Signed lower right Jacob Binder was born in...

“I Will”, Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel French, 1850-1923 Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht Oil on canvas, Signed 13 ¼ by 19 ½ in. W/frame 23 ¼ by 29 ½ in. Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel took ...

Henri Duvieux French, 1855 – 1920 Vue De Venise Oil on canvas 15 ¾ in. by 25 ½ in. W/frame 25 ¾ by 35 ½ in. Signed lower right Henri Duvieux was an artist influenced by the intere...

Jenner Augusto da Silveira Brazilian, 1924-2003 Abstract Oil on canvas 27 ½ by 35 ½ in. W/frame 29 by 37 in. Signed and dated "Jenner Augusto 1962" in lower right Jenner Augusto da Silveira (Aracaju SE 1924 - Salvador BA 2003). Painter, cartazista, illustrator, designer, writer. Reside in several cities of Sergipe. The Lizard city holds posters for the local cinema. In Orange, around 1940, studying painting of Horace Time . Returns to live in Singapore in 1944, when it dedicated to painting and works in trade. In 1949, conducts free panels in modernist style to the decor of the Bar Cacique. In 1949, he moved to Salvador, and works as an assistant in the studio of Mario Cravo...

Alfred Zwiebel German, 1914-2005 Still Life in a Vase Oil / Board 21 ¼ by 29 in. W/frame 30 ¼ by 38 in. Signed lower right Alfred Zwiebel was an esta...

George Botti Italian, 1923-2003 Family in a Park Oil on canvas 36 by 36 in. W/frame 42 by 42 in. Signed lower right Barrel George Botti was born on  2...

Walter Blackman American, 1847-1928 Young Beauty Oil on canvas 20 by 16 in. W/frame 32 by 28 in. Studied under Gerome, Paris Exhibited: Society of America...

Jean Salabet French, B. 1900 Moulin Rouge Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes. His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, Antoi...

Acrylic and pen on canvas sheet. Protective high quality varnish finish. Please note: There is a 1.25 inch painted white border around the whole image (this piece was taped before p...

Walter Blackman American, 1847-1928 Young Beauty Oil on canvas 20 by 16 in, w/ frame 32 by 28 in Studied under Gerome, Paris Exhibited: Society of American Painters 1878 Paris Sal...

Edward Francis Rook American, 1870-1960 Brittany Oil on Canvas 30 by 30 in. W/frame 38 by 38 in. Signed lower left Circa, 1898-1900 Rook, born in New York City on September 21, 1870, became one of the most original impressionists at Old Lyme. First he was a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian.  Life started out to be rather promising for Rook, around the turn of the century.  He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, both in 1898, when his harbor scene, entitled Pearl Clouds — Moonlight was reproduced in International Studio, in April.  In addition, the PAFA presented him with the Temple Gold Medal for Deserted Street, Moonlight, which the Academy purchased.  Three years later, Rook was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he exhibited three landscapes.  Caffin (1902, p. xxxvi) praised the artist's "translucent quality of color," which suggests a study of color theory.  Also in 1901, Rook married Edith Sone.  For most of 1902, the Rooks were in Mexico. Rook came to Old Lyme in October of 1903.  The date is significant because Childe Hassam was also there that month.  Hassam would more or less re-orient the artists' colony from Tonalism to impressionism.  Rook would move there permanently two years later.  He took two medals at the St. Louis Universal Exposition (1904) where his landscapes from the Mexican trip were displayed.  More awards followed: a silver medal at the International Fine Arts Exposition in Buenos Aires, 1910, a gold medal at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915,  a Corcoran Bronze Medal, and a William A. Clark Award in 1919 for Peonies.   By 1924, the artist was made a National Academician.  Despite all these awards and recognition, Rook did little in the way of selling his art and reportedly, his prices were too high.  His paintings were handled by Macbeth and Grand Central Art Galleries. Rook was active in Old Lyme's art community.  As stated above, he would have met Hassam that October in 1903 but Willard Metcalf had departed at the end of the summer.  As several writers have explained (Connecticut and American Impressionism, 1980, p. 123), Hassam "was the catalyst around whom [impressionism] coalesced."   Rook's niece, Virginia Rook Garver, who happened to be the grand-niece of Hassam, confirmed that Rook and Hassam knew each other in Europe — before they went to Old Lyme (Fischer, 1987, p. 19).  Rook was one of the relatively young painters to come to Old Lyme, along with Gifford Beal, William Chadwick, and Robert Nisbet, on the wave of impressionism, initiated there by Hassam and Metcalf.  Old Lyme became a center of American impressionism, and as Donelson F. Hoopes remarked, "under Hassam, the shoreline of Connecticut became a kind of Giverny of America."  Among Ranger's group, palettes started to become lighter, except those of the most determined tonalists.  Ranger himself, perhaps admitting defeat, moved to Noank in 1904.  Rook is best known for his views of Bradbury's Mill, which was soon called Rook's Mill, owing to the painter's many versions of the scene.  One, called Swirling Waters, dated ca. 1917, is in the Lyme Historical Society.  Even more famous is Rook's Laurel, dated between 1905 and 1910 (Florence Griswold Museum), in which a profuse laurel bush (the state flower), is set off by a spectacular Constable-like background.  But Swirling Waters could never be confused with Constable, with its violent brushwork, impasto-layered water, and bright, almost chalky, plein-air palette.  Gerdts (1984, p. 226) compares the paintings of Walter...

Morston Constatine Ream American 1840-1898 Still Life with Peaches Oil on canvas Signed Lower Middle 16 by 20 in.  w/frame 22 ½ by 26 ½ in. Morston Constatine Ream was a specialist in fruits and dessert still lifes...

Antonio Guijarro Gutierrez Spanish, 1923-2011 Still Life Oil / Panel 17 ½ by 20 ½ in. W/frame 21 by 24 in. entitled "Rojo Para Cruzar Ante La Luna" Spanish painter, 1923, Villa...

Morris Solotaroff Russian, 1891-1970 Homage to Picasso Oil on canvas 34 ¾ by 28 ½ in. W/frame 41¾ by 35 ½ in. Born in Russia on Oct. 1, 1891.  Sol...

Benjamin Chasen American, 1911-1962 Still Life Oil on Canvas Signed & dated 1941 28 by 36 in. w/frame 34 by 42 in. Provenance: Private Collection Greenwich CT Le Trianon...

Émile Valentin Cardinal French, 1883–1958 Aux Cafe Oil on canvas 25 by 21 in. W/frame 34 by 30 in. Emile exhibited at the Salons in Paris b...

William Walton American, 1909-1994 Courthouse, 1961 Oil on canvas 33 ¼ by 50 in, w/ frame 34 ½ by 51 ⅝ in Signed lower right, titled verso William Walton, the journalist turned painter who chaired the Washington Fine Arts Commission from 1961 to 1971, was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin, he pursued a career in journalism, ultimately working with the Associated Press in Chicago and as Time-Life war correspondent during World War II (when he parachuted into France with the 82nd Airborne...

George H. Williams Australian, 1877-1964 Still Life with Pink and White Flowers Oil on canvas 28 by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 36 by 44 in Signed lower right

Maurice Greenberg American, 1893-1996 Pharaoh and His Family on a Chariot Oil on canvas 22 ¾ by 26 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 by 32 ¼ in Signed lower left Maurice was born in Milwaukee, whe...