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Item Ships From: Cleveland
Evening Still Life, Dark 20th Century Landscape, Post Impressionism
By Joseph O'Sickey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph B. O'Sickey (American, 1918-2013)
Evening Still Life
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
32 x 24.5 inches
34.25 x 27.25 inches, framed
Joseph O'Sickey, born in Detroit in 1918, ...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled Mid Century Abstract Oil Painting New York Artist
By John Opper
Located in Beachwood, OH
John Opper (American, 1908 - 1994)
Untitled, 1959
Oil on board
Signed and dated lower right
14.75 in. h x 18 in. w.
20 in. h. x 24.5 in. w., as framed
John Opper described the 1930s...
Category
1950s Abstract Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Rolling Rock Red Eclipse
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline Bunnies on Red
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Macaws and Amazon Aviary
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
Category
2010s Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
19th Century Bronze Figure of Crouching Venus or Naked Aphrodite
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century Bronze Figure of Crouching Venus or Naked Aphrodite
Bronze with dark patination
22.5 x 13 x 11 inches
The Crouching Venus is a Hellenisti...
Category
19th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Bronze
Early 20th Century Impressionist Seascape, Harbor and Town Scene
By Charles Salis Kaelin
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Salis Kaelin (American, 1858–1929)
Harbor and Town
Oil on canvas
25.75 in. h. x 27.75 in. w., as framed
18 in. h. x 20 in. w., canvas
Described as an artist whose "love of nature amounted to a passion," Charles Salis Kaelin was one of the earliest American exponents of Divisionism. A respected member of the art colony at Rockport, Massachusetts, Kaelin's colorful renderings of Cape Ann...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Female Nude Godiva Riding a Rhinoceros Sculpture, 20th Century
By John Kearney
Located in Beachwood, OH
John W. Kearney (American, 1924-2014)
Godiva on a Rhinoceros
Bronze
Signed with monogram to base
6.5 x 3 x 8.5 inches
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he studied at the Cranbrook Acadamy of...
Category
Late 20th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Bronze
Right, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
This piece has "Richter" style smears in bright paint with a muted shrapnel grid overlaying the saturated field. It's one of my favorite smaller paintings I have done. The feel is ve...
Category
2010s Abstract Cleveland - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Large Painting, Changing Bear Maiden, Nude Woman Laying w/ Wolf, Taos Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Cynthia Bissell (American, 1924-2000)
Changing Bear Maiden, 1962
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
20 x 50 inches
26 x 56 inches, framed
Cynthia Bissell was an American art...
Category
1960s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Harbor Scene Seascape/Landscape Painting
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky, American (1883-1962)
Harbor Scene
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower right
13 x 16.25 canvas
17 x 20 inches framed
Early 20th Century Harbor Scene Seascape/Landscape Pain...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Seated Woman Reading Julia Maud De Forest, Late 19th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Ora Coltman (American, 1858-1940)
Julia Maud De Forest, 1898
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated upper left
9.25 x 12.75 inches
15 x 18.25 inches, framed
Ora Coltman was born in 18...
Category
1890s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Modern Bronze Scorpion Fish on Marble Base
Located in Beachwood, OH
Modern Scorpion Fish, Early 20th Century
Bronze on marble base
23 x 22 x 10 inches
Category
Early 20th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Jumpy Newton, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Matthew Dibble
Located in Yardley, PA
“My paintings do have a story to tell although it does not lie in each piece but in the process of abstract expressionism. As an artist I think about scale, unity and color. I’m ...
Category
2010s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Green Onyx Marble Napoleonic Desk Trough, 19th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Napoleonic Desk Trough, 19th Century
Green onyx marble
4 x 9.5 x 5.5 inches
Category
19th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Marble
Silver Blue Ascension
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
Category
2010s Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Jacobson (20th Century) - Mid-Century Ceramic Portrait Vase
Located in Beachwood, OH
Jacobson (20th Century)
Portrait Vase, 1949
Ceramic
Signed and dated on bottom
13 x 6 x 6 inches
Category
1940s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Ceramic
Man with Flute and Cougar, American 19th/20th century bronze w/ marble base
By Edwin Willard Deming
Located in Beachwood, OH
Edwin Willard Deming (American, 1860-1942)
Man with Flute and Cougar
Cast bronze sculpture with golden brown patina
Signed, numbered 9/100, with Fenn F...
Category
Late 19th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rockport, Massachusetts Seascape, Cape Ann, Shoreline, Italian American Artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905, 1981)
Rockport , 1971
Oil on Masonite
Signed lower right, signed, dated and titled verso
10 x 16 inches
17 x 23 inches, framed
Born in Codroipo, a small ...
Category
1970s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Italian Bronze Sculpture of Nude Woman, Mid 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Mario Spampinato (Italian 1912–2000)
Nude
Bronze
Signed on base
17.5 in. h. x 5.75 in. w. x 6 in. d.
The artist was born, raised and trained in Italy. During one of his exhibits (at San Marcos in Rome) the Director of a New York Gallery asked him to come to New York to work for him. The American Consul, before issuing his visa, asked Spampinato to create a bust of him. In exchange, the Consul paid for his passage on the boat to New York. In New York, he worked with his brother Clemente Spampinato who is a well known sculptor as well.
After moving to Chicago in 1954, he discovered that there was no foundry in the Midwest that could cast his bronzes. So, he opened his own foundry called the Spampinato Art Foundry, casting in the lost wax process. He also started his own private school (Spampinato Art Workshop, Ltd) and did some teaching at the University of Chicago and conducted seminars at Lawrence University in Kansas.
Many of his own works are pictured and cataloged in Volumes 2 & 3 of Bronzes: Sculptors and Founders, 1800-1930 by Harold Berman.
Between 1959 and 1967, Spampinato recast a number of Charles M Russell...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Bronze
Wart Hog, 20th Century Oil Painting by Magical Surrealist, Cleveland School
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977)
Wart Hog
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
18 x 15 inches
24.25 x 21 inches, framed
Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the unreal j...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
20th Century Seascape Sailing the Norfolk Broads in England
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Mayes Wigg (British, 1889-1969)
Sailing the Norfolk Broads
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left, signed and inscribed verso
12 x 16 inches
16 x 20.5 inches, framed
Charles Mayes Wigg was a British landscape artist working mostly in watercolours and as an etcher, with only occasional paintings in oils. The Norfolk coast and scenery of the Broads gave him the subjects for his work, and his etchings were mostly of boats. He exhibited regularly at the Norwich Art Circle between 1909 and 1936, at the Royal Academy in 1915 and also with the British Water-colour Society.
Wigg was born in Nottingham, England on 13 January 1889. The eldest son of Mayes Wigg, a bank manager, and Agnes Wigg (formerly Sudbury), he grew up at Watton and Cromer in Norfolk and was educated at Gresham's School. In 1911, he arrived at the Norwich School of Art and later studied with Frank Spenlove-Spenlove at his Yellow Door School of Art in Beckenham, Kent.
During the First World War, Wigg served with the British Army and saw active service at Gaza. In 1916, he was invalided out of the army with severe leg injuries, and was left with a disability for the rest of his life.
Returning to his career as an artist and illustrator, he subsequently found life afloat easier than life on land and for many years lived and painted in a house-boat on the Norfolk Broads. He also had studios at The Thatched House, Brundall, his parents' home, and at Rose...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
1970 Abstract large Mixed Media “FORMA” by Robertino Fatica - Black & Brown
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Robertino Fatica was born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1970 he completed a three-year program at the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland. Following that, Fatica served in the U.S. Ar...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Cleveland - Art
Materials
Masonite, Mixed Media, Tape
Annunciation
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
Category
2010s Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow by Harry Benson
By Harry Benson
Located in Cleveland, OH
Harry Benson was born near Glasgow, Scotland. The photographer was assigned to travel with the Beatles on their first American tour in 1964. His iconic photograph shows the band in a...
Category
1960s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Erie Shore, Large Abstract Expressionist Mid-Century Modern geometric work
By Richard Andres
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Erie Shore, c. 1975
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
50 x 72 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Eye Fly
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline Multicolored Butterflies, Black Guardians. Multicolored
Category
2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
$28,000
Antoine Ponchin View of Martigues France French Impressionist oil painting 1918
By Antoine Ponchin
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
A lovely, 1918, French Impressionist oil painting depicting a view of the town of Martigues, France by Antoine Ponchin (1872-1933).
Antoine Ponchin was a landscapist, achieving the...
Category
1910s Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th Century English Double Handle Footman
Located in Beachwood, OH
English Double Handle Footman, 18th Century
Brass
12 x 18 x 17 inches
Category
18th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Brass
Moody Beach Scene, Surreal Mid-Century Figurative Familial Scene Italian Artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981)
The Beach, c. 1960
Oil on board
Signed lower left
11.75 x 19.5 inches
20 x 28 inches, framed
Born in Codroipo, a small village only a few miles fro...
Category
1960s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Red Lorry
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Red Black Bird on Red
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Silent Prayers at St. Malo, France, Early 20th Century European Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Silent Prayers at St. Malo, France, 1925
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed and dated lower right
19 x 24 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (...
Category
1920s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Boats off Concarneau, France, Early 20th Century Seascape, Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Boats off Concarneau, France, c. 1910-11
Watercolor on paper
12.5 in. h. x 8.5 in. w.
22 in. h. x 18 in. w., as framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox ...
Category
1910s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Bag of Apples, Mid-Century Ceramic Still Life Sculpture, Cleveland School
By Lawrence Edwin Blazey
Located in Beachwood, OH
Lawrence Blazey (American, 1902-1999)
Bag of Apples, c. 1950
Ceramic
6 x 14 x 5.5 inches, including base
A graduate of the Cleveland School of Art in ...
Category
1950s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Ceramic
I Know I'm Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
By The Connor Brothers
Located in Cleveland, OH
I Know I'm Paranoid by The Connor Brothers
Category
2010s Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Varnish, Oil, Acrylic, Giclée, Screen
Two Old Pecan Trees, Early 20th Century Landscape, 1st Place May Show Winner
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887–1964)
Two Old Pecan Trees, 1932
Watercolor on paper mounted on board
Signed lower right
21 x 28.25 inches
27 x 35.25 inches, as framed
Exhibited: 1932 May Show (1st Place) Cleveland Museum of Art; Poetics of Place: Charles Burchfield and His Contemporaries, 2001 Cleveland Artist's Foundation.
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian.
In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery.
In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country."
Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
Category
1930s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Herbert Davidson Magical Realism Boy Finds Nude Woman Sand Sculpture Beach 1970s
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
An amazing, magical realism painting by renowned artist, Herbert Laurence Davidson (1930-2018). This painting depicts a young boy’s innocent discovery on the beach of a sand sculptur...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lowe...
Category
1920s American Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Red Sea Jan
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Multi Colored Butterflies on Gold background
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
$26,000
Migration
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
This is an original work by world famous artist Hunt Slonem.
Category
2010s Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
$42,000
Pride in Prejudice by The Connor Brothers
By The Connor Brothers
Located in Cleveland, OH
Pride in Prejudice by The Connor Brothers
Oil on Canvas
Category
2010s Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Balcony, Two Women Seated at Table, Woman Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1905-1977)
On the Balcony
Pastel on paper
Signed lower right
20 x 16 inches
Thelma Frazier Winter was an American enamelist, ceramic sculptor, and p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Pastel
Still Life w/ Flowers, Bust & Parisian Scene, American Impressionist
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky (American, 1883-1962)
Still Life
Oil on canvas
Signed upper right
32 x 25.5 inches
Provenance: From the Alexander Warshawsky Estate
Impressionist painter A.G. Wars...
Category
1950s Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Large Bronze Bust Sculpture of Diane de Poitiers, 18th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
After Jean Goujon (French, 1510-1568)
Bust of Diane de Poitiers, 18th/19th Century
Bronze
14 x 7 x 5 inches
22 x 8 x 7 inches, with base
Diane de Poitiers was a French noblewoman and prominent courtier. She wielded much power and influence as King Henry II's royal mistress and adviser until his death. Her position increased her wealth and family's status. She was a major patron of French Renaissance architecture...
Category
Late 18th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Bronze
Tyrannus, Early 20th Century painting of a dog, Cleveland School Artist
By William Sommer
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867-1949)
Tyrannus, c. 1935
Watercolor and pen and ink on paper
Signed lower right
7.5 x 9.5 inches
16 x 18 inches, framed
William Sommer is seen as a ke...
Category
1930s American Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
20th Century Spanish Seaside Village (Cadaques Catalonia), Cleveland School
By Rolf Stoll
Located in Beachwood, OH
Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978)
Spanish Seaside Village (Cadaques Catalonia)
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
28 x 38 inches
Exhibited: The 11th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1929
Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters.
Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside and Canada. Stoll also painted views of Spain and depictions of Spanish peasants, inspired by an extended trip to that country (1926), during which time he was entertained by the famous Spanish portrait painter, Ignacio Zuloaga. Moving easily between oil and watercolor, Stoll worked in an direct realist style, combining his characteristic firm draftsmanship with the use of simplified forms and decorative color.
Rolph Stoll was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists, the Cleveland Print Club...
Category
1920s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Beach Talk Scene, Late 20th Century Vibrant Print by Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Gretchen Troibner (American, Born 1953)
Beach Talk, 1997
Silkscreen on paper
Signed and dated lower right, numbered 1/10 lower left
10 x 12.5 inches
20 x 22.5 inches, framed
Gretche...
Category
1990s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Screen
White Stone Surrealist Painting, Late 20th Century, Cleveland Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Sally Lachina (American, 20th Century)
White Stone, 1994
Acrylic on canvas
Signed and dated lower right, signed, dated and titled verso
42 x 42 inches
Sally Lachina is an American a...
Category
1990s Surrealist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Venus with Koalas in Her Hair, 21st Century Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kristen Newell (American, b. 1989)
Venus with Koalas in Her Hair, 2020
Glazed stoneware and acrylic
Signed and dated on bottom
14 x 12 x 6 inches
Kristen Newell was born in a small town on the coast of Massachusetts, where from a very early age, she demonstrated a strong propensity for the arts. Important additional inspiration came from her family and from the family of a childhood friend, where Kristen found herself surrounded by the work of Paul Manship, her friend’s grandfather and one of America’s greatest sculptors.
With increased focus on her art, along with winning numerous awards throughout high school, Newell eagerly enrolled in the arts program at University of Vermont and augmented her studies with a valuable year at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Upon graduation, Newell moved back to Cleveland to begin her art career and started participating in group shows, including River Gallery and the Ohio State...
Category
2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Art
Materials
Glaze, Stoneware, Acrylic
New England Coastal Town Landscape w/ Houses, Cleveland School Woman Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kae Dorn Cass (American, 1901-1971)
New England Coastal Town
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
9 in. h. x 11.5 in. w.
17 in. h. x 19 in. w., as framed
Kae Dorn Cass was born...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Resin Flight
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Multicolor Butterflies, Blue Sparkle on Resin
Category
2010s Contemporary Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Botanical Motifs, Mid-Century Decorative Blue + Green Plate, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Kenneth Bates (American, 1904-1994)
Botanical Motifs, 1953
Enamel
Signed and dated on bottom
9 inches
Described in a 1967 issue of Ceramics Monthly as the ‘Dean of American Enameli...
Category
1950s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Enamel
Turkeys in the Trees, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape Watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Turkey in the Trees, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
22 x 29 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a mast...
Category
1920s American Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Watercolor
City Scape, Ovoid Geometrical Abstract Green & Brown Structures
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
City Scape, 1978
Acrylic on scintilla
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting....
Category
1970s American Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Early 20th Century Summer Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
By George Adomeit
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967)
Summer Landscape
Oil on canvas board
Signed lower right
13 x 14.25 inches
18.25 x 19.5 inches, framed
A major painter of American scene s...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Mid-20th Century Venetian Canal Cityscape, Italian-American artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981)
Venice Canalscape, c. 1950
Oil on board
Signed lower right
11.75 x 21.75 inches
19.75 x 29.75 inches, framed
Born in Codroipo, a small village only ...
Category
1950s American Modern Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Wooden Jellyfish Sculpture, Cedar Wood on Maple, Contemporary Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Daniel Grantham (American, 20th Century)
Jellyfish, 2017
Cedar wood on maple
Engraved signature on bottom of base
20 x 6.5 x 6 inches
Daniel Grantham was born and raised in Clevela...
Category
2010s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Wood, Cedar, Maple
Blue Line
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Blue Bunnies on Multi Silver
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
$26,000
Outdoor Garden Scene of Woman Painting, Late 20th C. Cleveland Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Algesa O'Sickey (American, 1917-2006)
Woman Painting
Watercolor and ink on green paper
Unsigned
9 x 12 inches
13.75 x 16 inches, framed
Born Algesa D’Agostino on June 4, 1917, Alges...
Category
Late 20th Century Cleveland - Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Bighorn Sheep, 20th Century Oil Painting by Magical Surrealist, Cleveland School
By Paul Riba
Located in Beachwood, OH
Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977)
Bighorn Sheep
Oil on paper
Signed lower right
25 x 30.5 inches
30.5 x 36 inches, framed
Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explored the un...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Cleveland - Art
Materials
Oil
Melody by Nguyen Tuan
By Nguyen Tuan
Located in Cleveland, OH
Melody by Nguyen Tuan
The Vietnamese master sculptor Nguyen Tuan is internationally known for his seemingly “weightless” figurative sculpture merging Western techniques with tradit...
Category
1990s Cleveland - Art
Materials
Bronze