Massachusetts - Wall Decorations

This exquisite pair of hand-painted Wedgwood porcelain plaques, painted by Thomas Allen, is a beautiful example of the Aesthetic Movement. The delicate, intricate designs and vibrant...

Original ink & gouache on paper/board, framed.

Stately secessionist-inspired design for the circus.

A large, nicely-framed Italian hand-colored engraving in tones of terracotta and black. The engraving depicts various figures and scenes from the house of Titus, including angels in chariots bringing love and prosperity, boys playing childhood games, fishing, and other elements of Roman life (17th century, with more recent matte and frame). Engraving is captioned in Latin: "Pictura qua Domus Titi fornices exornabat, plures exhibens Genios in bigis, variosque puerorum ludos, et piscationem, ultra alias principales figuras." "Petrus Sancte Bartoli delin." Pietro Santo...

Though this isn’t my usual areas of offerings, I was so excited when I came upon this amazing wine related piece of artwork. Perfect for a wine cellar or restaurant, this large mahog...

Michael Gloeckner American, 1915-1989 Pale Flower Oil on canvas Dated 1971 20 by 18 in. W/frame 25 by 23 in. Michael lived in NYC, he also had a home and studio in West Cornwall, ...

Depicting the meeting between Gombaut and Masse, set within a landscape, and surrounded by floral border

This extremely large Faience pottery plaque is the epitome of the "Aesthetic Movement" style at it's best! Thick impasto enamels create a 3-dimensional effect of flowers rising out o...

A large, nicely-framed Italian hand-colored engraving in tones of terracotta and black (17th century, with more recent matte and frame) by Pietro Bartoli. The engraving depicts the mosaic ceiling in the church of Santa Costanza outside of Rome, which was studied by the ecclesiatical archaeologist Giovanni Ciampini. The mosaic ceiling no longer exists, but is known through various depictions of the artwork, such as this engraving. The images include Christian imagery including the sacrifice of Cain and Abel and possibly Noah building the ark. The upper row of mosaics is believed to represent scenes from the New Testament, with caryatids dividing the ceiling into twelve segments. The engraving is captioned in Latin: "Opus Musiuum olim in tholo Templi, quod vulgo creditur Bacchi, nunc Sancte Constantie extra Portam Piam cariatides, et Telamones in duodecium dividant Segmenta, ubi plura autumnales ferias, et piscationis Genium demostrant, iuxta interpretionem Ciampini qui mediatatem exhibet Veterum monum." In the 17th century, the church of Santa Costanza was known as the "Temple of Bacchus," and was the site of rowdy Bacchic festivals until Pope Clement XI banned the rites in 1720. Pietro Santo...

Frame photograph of the elegant steam yacht "Verona" by Kirk & Sons photographers. With blind stamp at lower right corner. Launched in Greenock in 1890, Verona was famous in her day....

Tree II, 52” X 62”, Oil on Canvas MIRA PARK BIOGRAPHY Mira Park is a painter from Korea, currently based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After a career in fashion design from companie...

Vladimir Ilich Teniaev Russian, Born 1965 “Gone Fishing” Oil on canvas Circa 1995 32 ½ by 56 ½ in. W/frame 38 by 62 in. Vladimir Ilich Teni...

Robert Brackman American, 1898-1980 “A Still Life in the Morning Light” Oil on canvas Signed Brackman lower right 15 1/2 by 19 1/2 in. w/frame 22 by...

Nautical chart showing the harbor and local waters of Marion Harbor., The chart displays depth, buoys, lighthouses, etc., Shown are Planting Island, Ram Island, Sippican Neck, Little...

Tree I, 54” x 52”, Oil on Canvas Mira park biography Mira Park is a painter from Korea, currently based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After a career in fashion design from companies...

Oil on canvas
Signed on back of canvas
64 by 51in. w/frame 65 by 52in.

Daniel Argimon painted for the French Government from 1965-1966 and for the Inte...

George Loring Brown American, 1814-1889 “Pastoral Landscape with Locomotive and Picnic Goers” Circa 1850 Oil on canvas 30 by 48 in. W/frame 34 by 52 in. The Hudson...

Mario Dubsky. American, 1939-1985. Firebrand. Oil on canvas. 84 by 84 in. Dated 1973. Painter and teacher, born in London. He studied at Slade School of Art, 1956-1961, where his work was heavily influenced by fellow painter Dorothy Mead...

Original blueprint of the Purdy built speedboat, hull number 166. This is the profile plan of the 27-footer. Showing deck, cockpit, engine watch, seats, wheel, light, etc. A very sleek craft. Legend reads “Purdy Boat Co. INC. Port Washington...

Tree I, 52” x 62”, Oil on Canvas Mira Park Biography Mira Park is a painter from Korea, currently based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. After a career in fashion design from companies...

Sigfredo Chacon Venezuelan, 1950. Paysage. Acrylic on canvas. 23-3/4 in. by 23-3/4 in. Sigfredo was born in Caracas in 1950. He studied at the School of Fine and Applied Arts Cristóbal Rojas (1963-1966) and Design Institute Neumann-INCE, Caracas (1966-1970). He continued his training as a designer at the Chelsea School of Art and the London College of Printing, England. In the early seventies he participated in the Young confrontations Venezuelan News, Gallery Current Study Hall Arturo Michelena...

Framed architect's drawing noted as "Columbia", "Plot Load Scale". 1/2 inch equals one foot. The drawing shows deck frames, hatches, mast placement, Cockpit, etc.. Circa 1935. With t...

Joseph Boston American, 1860-1954 Large “Impressionist Landscape” Oil on canvas 40 by 42 in. w/ frame 48 by 60 in. ...

Henri Verge Sarrat French, 1880-1966 “Port Vendres” Oil on canvas Signed & dated 1930 24 by 29 in. W/frame 32 by 37 in. Henri exhibited often in Paris at the Salons ...

RICHARD HENNESSY AMERICAN, b. 1941 ?Abstract, Untitled? Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1976 on verso 32 1/2 by 30 in. Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969. EDUCATION: EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963 INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO DOW JONES HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK I. T. & T. ITALIAN RELIEF FUND J.P.MORGAN CHASE JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA READER'S DIGEST SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK AWARDS 2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION 1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY 1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL 1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN 1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO 1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK 1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK 1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO 1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK 1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION 1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK 1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD 2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION 2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES 2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND?S AMERICA 1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE 1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION) 1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW 1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN 1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S 1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION 1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART 1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...

Ronaldo de Juan Argentina, 1930-1989 “Untitled, New York” Large Acrylic on canvas 72 by 50 in. W/frame 73 by 51 in. Signed and dated 1971 on reverse Titled New York on reverse S...

Rene Couturier French, b. 1933 “Le Pom Pom Rouge” Oil on paper Signed ‘R. Couturier’ LR and titled LL 30 by 22 ½ in. w/frame 43 by 35 in. Rene Couturier is a worl...

RICHARD HENNESSY AMERICAN, b. 1941 "THE SUMMER OF OUR CONTENT" "Large" Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1980 on verso 60 by 72 ½ in. Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969. EDUCATION: EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963 INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO DOW JONES HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK I. T. & T. ITALIAN RELIEF FUND J.P.MORGAN CHASE JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA READER'S DIGEST SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK AWARDS 2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION 1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY 1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL 1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN 1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO 1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK 1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK 1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO 1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK 1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION 1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK 1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD 2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION 2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES 2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND’S AMERICA 1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE 1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION) 1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW 1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN 1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S 1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF GÉNÉRATION 1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART 1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...

Walter Granville-Smith American, 1870-1938 La Promenade dans le Jardin Oil on canvas 30 by 22 in. with frame 40 by 32 in. Signed lower left Born in South Granville, New Yor...

Painting Pair "The Sacred" and "The Profane" by Kevin Paulsen. Created with plaster and pigment on theatrical fabric, laid on board. Available individually for $8,000. per painting...

Delores Alton American, B.1951- Landlord Blues Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1976 18 by 27 in. W/frame 19 by 28 in. Provenance: From The Phil Rubin Estate, Riverside Drive, NYC. ...

Carved with figures, foliage and scrolls

Elie-Anatole Pavil French, 1873-1948 “La Promenade” Oil on canvas Signed ‘E.A.Pavil, lower right 14 by 23 in. w/frame 22 by 31 in. E...

Michael Young American, 1952-1993 “Site Terra Firma” Soil, sand, acrylic, resin on canvas 32 by 32 in. Circa 1990 Michael Young Biography: 1952...

Cabin layout of a one design class by John Alden framed in silver. Overall dimensions: 27" x 44".

Early oil on board of a sloop sailing by a lighthouse. Signed lower left A.T. Margueson (?). Frame has some loss. Measuires: 12" high x 14...

RICHARD HENNESSY AMERICAN, b. 1941 "Abstract, Untitled" Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1975 on verso 48 by 36 in. Provenance: From the estate of Christopher Scott, acquired from the artist. Note: Christopher Scott was a painter who was best known as curator/gadfly Henry, Geldzahler's partner. This relationship was immortalized in one of David Hockney's best portraits of 1969. EDUCATION: EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 1954-59 COLUMBIA COLLEGE, B.A., 1963 INSTITUTE OF FINE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1963-66 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: ALBRIGHT KNOX ART GALLERY, BUFFALO, NEW YORK AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH BROOKLYN MUSEUM, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK CARNEGIE MUSEUM, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA CENTRO CULTURAL, MUSEO CONTEMPORANEO, MEXICO CITY COPLAND HOUSE, CORTLANDT MANOR, NEW YORK DAYTON ART INSTITUTE, DAYTON, OHIO DOW JONES HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, SAN ANTONIO HECKSHER MUSEUM OF ART, HUNTINGTON, NEW YORK I. T. & T. ITALIAN RELIEF FUND J.P.MORGAN CHASE JACK S. BLANTON MUSEUM,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, AUSTIN METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NEW YORK MOMA/P.S.1, STAIRWELL MURAL NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART, PENNSYLVANIA PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, PHOENIX, ARIZONA READER'S DIGEST SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC, RICE UNIVERSITY, HOUSTON SHIMIZU CONSTRUCTION, TOKYO SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, NEW YORK THE COMMODITIES CORPORATION, TRINITY UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX THE LANNAN FOUNDATION, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA THE WADSWORTH ATHENEUM, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT WESTINGHOUSE CORPORATION WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK AWARDS: 2008 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1988 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION 1987 THE ANN AND ERLO VAN WAVEREN FOUNDATION 1983 INGRAM MERRILL FOUNDATION SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2008 CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY HUDSON, NY 1991 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY BAY HARBOR ISLANDS, FL 1989 BALL STATE UNIVERSITY MUNCIE, IN 1986 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO 1986 JOHN GOOD GALLERY NEW YORK 1985 GETLER/PALL/SAPER GALLERY NEW YORK 1983 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1982 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1981 IVORY KIMPTON GALLERY SAN FRANCISCO 1980 HAMILTON GALLERY NEW YORK 1978 ROBERT MILLER GALLERY NEW YORK 1976 OLIVER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1976 GREY ART GALLERY, NYU NEW YORK RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION 1976 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK 1970 TIBOR DE NAGY GALLERY NEW YORK 1969 OLIVIER BERNIER, INC. NEW YORK GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2007 VILLE DE REIMS GLOBAL BOOKS: LES LIVRES D'ARTISTE DE GERVAIS JASSAUD 2006 WEBER FINE ART GREENWICH, CT MY FRIENDS-THEIR VISION 2006 SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER STATEN ISLAND, NY ABSTRACT LANDSCAPES 2000 THE HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART HUNTINGTON, NY AARON COPLAND�S AMERICA 1997 ESPACE CULTUREL DE TINQUEUX FRANCE LA TENTATION DU LIVRE 1992 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NEW YORK THE ARTIST, THE WRITER AND THE BOOK DESIGN (ARTISTS'S BOOKS FROM COLLECTIF G��N��RATION) 1992 MARGULIES/TAPLIN GALLERY MIAMI GROUP SHOW 1991 NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY BUFFALO RICHARD HENNESSY AND JEFFREY WASSERMAN 1991 ANDRE EMMERICH GALLERY NEW YORK ABSTRACT PAINTING: THE 90'S 1991 FRENCH CULTURAL SERVICES NEW YORK LIVRES D'ARTISTES OF COLLECTIF G��N��RATION 1991 SAMUEL P. HARN MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AT GAINESVILLE GAINESVILLE, FL CONTEMPORARY ART 1990 MARTA CERVERA GALLERY NEW YORK THE PAINTER AND HIS OCCASION, CURATED BY ALAN JONES...

German school, 20th century, oil on canvas, signed, inscribed and dated "Hans Muenchen 19." Size without frame: 27 x 24 inches. Wood frame included.

Eugenie Baizerman   American, 1899-1949 Reclining woman Oil on canvas 16 by 22 in. W/frame 22 by 28 in. Dated 1927 on reverse Originally from Poland, Eugenie Baizerman was ...

“Untitled” "Large" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas Dated 1967 63 ¼ by 51 in. W/frame 64 by 51 ¾. Joël Kermarrec moved to Paris in. H...

Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1888 32 by 48 in. w/frame 44 by 60 in. Niss won the gold medal at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1882 and again silver medals in ...

" Athyrium filix-femina, the lady fern or common lady-fern, is a large, feathery species of fern native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere, where it is often abunda...

The Cliffs by Balcomb Greene painted in 1978. Signed on the front titled and dated on the reverse. Paintings of the Montauk coast by Balcomb Greene are few and far between. This painting likely created at his Studio in Montauk New York. Painting is in excellent original condition and retains the original gallery frame. provenance: Estate of Gertrude B. Pascal / Gifted from the previous in 1987, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY / Christie's, New York 2012 / Private Collection, New Jersey Public collections: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Over a lifespan of 86 years, Balcomb Greene followed his muse wherever it led, unfettered by what had come before, unafraid of where the future might lead. Despite a series of different pathways explored, his purpose remained ever constant: to express truth as he found it and communicate it to a broader audience. In the 1930s, Greene was a young artist committed to abstraction as his expressive language. Greene’s paintings and collages of the 1930s reflect the influence of Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian and put him in the company of fellow Americans, including Ibram Lassaw, Josef Albers, Ilya Boltowsky and George L. K. Morris, all among the founding members, in 1936, of American Abstract Artists. John Wesley Greene, his christened name which he never legally changed, was born in 1904 in Millville, New York, the third child and only son of Methodist minister The Reverend Bertram Stillman Greene (1864–1929) and Florence Stover Greene (1876–1911). His family on both sides were Revolutionary-era colonists, originally living in Connecticut and Vermont before joining the Yankee migration to the western frontier of New York State. In 1922, John Wesley Greene enrolled at Syracuse University aided by a scholarship for the sons of Methodist ministers and intending to fulfill the promise of his name and follow his father into the ministry. As with so many before and after him, the liberal education he absorbed at Syracuse broadened his horizons and reshaped his life plan. Studying philosophy, psychology, and literature, along the way he separated himself from organized religion. During his senior year, on a visit to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Greene was introduced to Gertrude Glass (1904–1956), an art student and the Brooklyn-born daughter of Latvian Jewish immigrants. Following Greene’s graduation, the two married in 1926 and went to Europe. They stopped briefly in Paris but spent most of their time in Vienna where Greene had a fellowship to study psychology. When they returned to New York in 1927, Greene enrolled in a master’s program in ‘English literature at Columbia University. When his thesis advisor rejected his essay topic on the “fallen woman” in seventeenth-century literature as inappropriate, he left without a degree. From 1928 until 1931, Greene taught English at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. At some point, he stopped using his given name, John, and began to call himself, more distinctively, Balcomb, the family name of his paternal grandmother. While Greene wrote three novels (all unpublished) during his teaching years at Dartmouth, his wife was a working artist, and he eventually developed an interest of his own in painting. In 1931, Greene gave up his teaching position and he and Gertrude went to Paris, determined to immerse themselves in the modern art ferment they had briefly experienced in their earlier visit. For young Americans with no prescribed agenda, a receptiveness to innovation, and wide-open eyes and minds. Paris, in 1931, offered a rich stew of approaches to modern art. The city absorbed and transmuted an international mélange of styles—cubism, orphism, futurism, dadaism, constructivism, neoplasticism, suprematism, de Stijl, Bauhaus—France encountering Holland, Germany, Italy, and Russia with Pablo Picasso from Spain, Constantin Brancusi from Romania, and Jacques Lipchitz from Lithuania. As a sculptor, Gertrude Greene...