Michigan - Paintings

James Murray (American, mid-20th Century) Signed: J. Murray, (lower, right) " Tugboat & Ship in New York Harbor ", circa 1950s Oil on canvas board (Lee's Art Shop Inc., Picture ...

Josef Frank Froula (American, 1887-1939) Signed: Josef Froula, (lower, right) " Autumn Glow ", circa 1920 (on label attached to stretcher verso) Oil on canvas 12 1/8" x 15 1/8" ...

Daniel Sherrin (British, 1868-1940) Signed: D. Sherrin (Lower, Left) " Figures by a Highland Stream ", circa 1895-1915 Oil on Canvas 20" x 30" Housed in a 4" Period Carved Frame...

Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen (Danish/American, 1850-1921) Signed: Antonio Jacobsen, 1907 (lower, right) " The Steamship Jamestown of the Old Dominion Line ", 1907 Oil on Board ...

Framed Painting 24.5" x 22.5" inches Canvas size 17.5" x 15.5" inches Sam Karres Born in Wyandotte, Michigan in 1929, Sam Karres earned a B.F.A. and M.A. in art from Wayne Universit...

Impressionist Landscape" is an exquisitely peaceful late summer scene along the banks of a quiet river. The dappling yellow and green leaves and the spots of blue sky give the perfect impressionistic feel to the scene. Impressionism was a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color. Methven captured this impression perfectly. It is as fresh today as when it was painted in 1902 so much so that you can almost hear the rustle of the leaves and see the shifting light. The gold gilt frame is original to the piece. Without the frame the piece measures 20 h x 16 w. It is signed by the artist. Methven was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1930's he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he painted with other area Chicago artists and showed at The Art Institute of Chicago. He spent his summers in Benton Harbor, Michigan, along Lake Michigan. He is known for his landscapes and water scenes. Michigan has numerous rivers, creeks and small lakes and Methven would have had a wealth of scenes to draw upon for his numerous oil paintings. He studied under Henry Fenton Spread who taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later founded Spread's Art Academy. In 1902, this academy became the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Spread was named the first president of the Chicago Society of Artists in 1889. Known primarily as a portraitist, Spread also painted landscape and genre scenes. Although a skilled artist, he did not exhibit widely; his primary legacy being fostering a love of art in Chicago. Fellow artist (and former student of Spread), Ralph Clarkson, the noted Chicago society portrait painter, stated that Spread' s "fine and advice formed the careers of the men who were not only to achieve prominence as artists, but to occupy leading places as art teachers". Harry Wallace Methven...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY UNTITLED by Fanny Rabel a Mexican artist who was born in Poland in 1922 is a soul wrenching work depicting among other things, the children killed by Nazi bombing in Spain during the Second World War. The lavender and purple surrounding the seated female figure and the kneeling child suggest both grief for the innocents' deaths and the prayers being offered for an end to the carnage. The bright gold and red can be read as either explosions or the hopeful light of redemption after death. Like Picasso's Guernica from 1937, this painting from 1965 can stand as a powerful anti-war statement. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Morton Auctions, Cerro de Mayka have featured Fanny Rabel's work in the past. Her anti-Nazi and anti-Fascism politics resulted in her participation in a mural called Retrato de la Burguesía in 1940 for the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas building on Alfonso Caso Street in Mexico City. Rabel met a group of exiled Spaniards in Mexico along with Antonio Pujol, who invited her to take part in a mural project headed by him, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Joseph Renau, Luis Arenal, Antonio Rodríguez Luna and Miguel Prieto. The artist died in 2008. Fanny Rabel born August 27, 1922, in Poland born Fanny Rabinovich, was a Polish-born Mexican artist who is considered to be the first modern female muralist and one of the youngest associated with the Mexican muralism of the early to the mid-20th century. She and her family arrived in Mexico in 1938 from Europe and she studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda", where she met and became friends with Frida Kahlo. She became the only female member of “Los Fridos” a group of students under Kahlo’s tutelage. She also worked as an assistant and apprentice to Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, painting several murals of her own during her career. The most significant of these is "Ronda en el tiempo" at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City. She also created canvases and other works, with children often featured in her work, and was one of the first of her generation to work with ecological themes in a series of works begun in 1979. She is considered to be the first female muralist in Mexico. She was an assistant to Diego Rivera while he worked on the frescos for the National Palace and an apprentice to David Alfaro Siqueiros. Her most important mural is Ronda en el tiempo located in the Museo Nacional de Antropología, which was created from 1964 to 1965. She also created murals at the Unidad de Lavaderos Público de Tepalcatitlán (1945), Sobrevivencia, Alfabetización in Coyoacán in 1952 Sobrevivencia de un pueblo at the Centro Deportivo Israelita (1957) Hacia la salud for the Hospital Infantil de México (1982), La familia mexicana at the Registro Público de la Propiedad (1984) (which Rabel preferred to title Abolición de la propiedad privada) and at the Imprenta Artgraf. In collaboration with other artists, she participated in the creation of the murals at the La Rosita pulque bar (disappeared) and at the Casa de la Madre Soltera. She entered the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda" shortly after it was established in 1942, taking classes with José Chávez Morado, Feliciano Peña and Frida Kahlo, with whom she became close friends. She changed her last name from Rabinovich to Rabel during her career. Rabel married urologist Jaime Woolrich and had two children Abel and Paloma Woolrich, both of whom became actors. The first exhibition of her work was in 1945 with twenty-four oils, thirteen drawings, and eight engravings at the Liga Popular Israelita with Frida Kahlo writing the presentation. In 1955, she had an individual exhibition at the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. She had a large exhibition at the Museum of the Palacio de Bellas Artes to commemorate a half-century of her work. Her last exhibition was in 2007 at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. Her work can be found in collections in over fifteen countries including those of the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Royal Academy of Denmark, the National Library in Paris, the Casa de las Américas in Havana, the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City. A retrospective of her work after her death called Retrospectiva in Memoriam, Fanny Rabel (1922-2008) was held at the Museum of the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla . She is considered to be the first modern female muralist in Mexico although she also did significant work in painting, engraving, drawing, and ceramic sculpture. Her work has been classified as poetic Surrealism, Neo-expressionism and is also considered part of the Escuela Mexicana de Pintura (the dominant art movement of the early to mid 20th century in Mexico) as one of the youngest muralists to be associated with it along with Arnold Belkin and José Hernández Delga. Rabel was more drawn to depicting mankind’s pain rather than happiness, sharing other Mexican muralists' concerns about social injustice. However, she stated to Leopoldo Méndez that she could not create combative works, with clenched fists and fierce faces, and she wanted to leave the Taller de Gráfica Popular. Méndez convinced her to stay, saying that more tender images are important to political struggle as well. Children with Mexican faces...

Austin Christian Fine Art is proud to represent this piece by what we believe to be one of the most important women artists of the 20th century. In addition to establishing a relatio...

Josef Heimerl (Austrian, 1867-1918) Signed: Jos. Heimerl (Lower, Right) " Kittens at Play ", circa 1900 Oil on Canvas 14 3/4" x 22 7/8" Housed in a 5 1/2" Ornamented Frame in Go...

Lance Cattermole (Irish, 1898-1992) Signed: Lance Cattermole, 1933 (lower, right) “ Afternoon Sketch ”, 1933 Lady Seated on a Bench Sketching with a Bridge in the Distance Waterc...

United Graffiti Artists (UGA) – Historic Pioneer Signature Canvas Creator: United Graffiti Artists (UGA) / Various Artists (CO-CO 144, SNAKE 1, SJK 171, MIKE 171, HENRY 161, STITCH 1...

john Pairman (Scottish, 1788 - 1843) Signed: J Pairman 1820 (Lower, Right) " Portrait of a Gentleman in a Scottish Landscape ", 1820 Oil on Canvas 22 1/4" x 18 5/8" Housed in a ...

Arvid Frederick Nyholm (Swedish-American, 1866-1937) Signed: A Nyholm (Lower, Right and Lower, Left) " Mother and Child in a Landscape ", circa 1910-1920 Oil on Canvas 25" x 30"...

Lou (Louis) Sackman (American, 1911-2000) Signed: Lou Sackman 7-78 (Lower, Left) " Friday Market, Ocotlan ", 1978 (Mexico) Acrylic on Board 19 1/4" x 32" Housed in its original ...

Gouache & Ink abstracts from the Mid-20th Century are unique. This is by Dutch artist Andrus Theodore Vossen born in the Netherlands in 1893 and he died in 1963. It is pencil sig...

"Untitled Abstract I" is an Original Oil on Canvas by G. CURTIS. The piece is part of a set. It measures 37.5 x 49.5 x 1 inches with frame. It is signed and dated by the artist. The ...

Armand Merizon (American, 1920 - 2010) Signed: Merizon (Lower, Right) " Lake Michigan Looking North ", circa 1950s (Sleeping Bear Dunes) Acrylic on Canvas Board 20" x 24" House...

George Ames Aldrich (American, 1872-1941) Signed: G. Ames Aldrich (Lower, Right) " Still Life of Peonies ", circa 1925 (Date based on Newcomb Macklin frame customer number) Oil on...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY This painting of four different species of fish that can be found in South Korea is from the mid-20th century Korean artist Kim Kyung. Seafood from both the seas that surround the peninsula and from its rivers are an integral part of the livelihood and cuisine of Koreans. Kim Kyung (in Hanja, 金耕, in Hangul 김경) was born in South Korea, his real name, under the current Revised Romanization was Kim Gyeong-Eun (in Hanja 金萬斗, in Hangul 김경은). His name follows the East Asian convention of family name first, though some Western galleries choose to reorder his name with the Western convention as Kyung Kim. He was born in Hadong, Gyeongnam during the Imperial Japanese occupation, as the eldest son of a poor farm family, and at the age of 18 he entered the art department of Japan University. In 1943, he returned to his hometown to escape being drafted into the Japanese army...

Alson Skinner Clark (American, 1856 - 1949) Signed: Alson Clark (Lower, Left) " Morning Sunlight in The Patio " Mission San Fernando Oil on Canvas 30" x 32" Housed in its original 3 1/2" Newcomb...

"Figures II" Giclee on Canvas by Glenn Payne (can be purchased individually or as part of set for $1,200). Signed by the artist. The piece measures approximately 51.50 x 22 x 2 inche...

Old Glory (2026) by John Stango. Mixed media on canvas. Artwork dimensions: 42 × 67 × 1.5 inches (106.68 × 170.18 × 3.81 cm). Framed dimensions: 43.5 × 68.5 × 2 inches. Frame included.

Lorne Kidd Smith (Canadian, 1880-1966) Signed: Lorne. K. Smith (Lower, Right) " Prince Edward County ", circa 1930 (Titled on Verso) Oil on Board 16" x 20" Housed in a 3" Frame ...

Richard Weers (American, 1932-2022) Signed: Richard Weers (Lower, Left) " A Friend in the Forest " Oil on Canvas 12" x 16" Housed in a 1 1/2" Gol...

L. Richard Enchantment, 2025 Medium: Oil on Canvas Artwork Size: 30 x 40 in

“Joe Louis” is a breathtakingly beautiful portrait of a man who was the best in his profession yet humble in his demeanor. Louis was an American professional boxer who competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement in 1949. He was victorious in 25 consecutive title defenses, a record for all weight classes. Louis had the longest single reign as champion of any boxer in history. He is widely regarded as the first person of African-American descent to achieve the status of a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II because of his historic rematch with German Boxer Max Schmeling in 1938. He was instrumental in integrating the game of golf, breaking the sport's color barrier in America by appearing under a sponsor's exemption in a PGA event in 1952. The artist, Henry Heading...

August Laux (German/American, 1853-1921) Signed: August Laux (Lower, Right) " Hide and Seek ", circa 1880 Oil on Canvas 16" x 20" Housed in a 3" Period Ornamented Frame with a 1...

Robert Hopkin (Scottish/American, 1832-1909) Signed: R Hopkin (Lower, Right) " In the Distance ", c. 1880s Oil on Canvas 14" x 20" Housed in a 2 3/4" Frame Overall Size: 19" x ...

Jim Stella 2012 Mixed Media Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Collage 68 x 63 inches Jim Stella was born in Detroit in 1954 and was attracted to art from an ear...

Orville Bulman (American, 1904 - 1978 Signed: Bulman (Lower, Left) “ Little Mother ”, 1960 Oil on Canvas 14" x 18" Housed in a 2" Husar Frame with a 3/4" Linen liner and a Gold ...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY The energy and gusto of the applied paint in "Untitled Abstract" appears close to violent except for the calming influence of the circle in the middle. The red circle tempers the movement a little and brings all the strokes and wild directions into a harmony that is bursting with life. This is an extraordinarily expressive painting by Simpson. Simpson became the first African American to receive a prestigious five-year fellowship from the Charleston Scientific and Cultural Education fund and left South Carolina in 1949 for New York City after he finished high school. He attended New York University and Cooper Union while working in the frame shop of Herbert Benevy. Many well-known artists came to the frame shop and in time critiqued Simpson's work and developed a relationship with him. At NYU Simpson became acquainted with Hale Woodruff...

Dane Porter Opal, 2024 Medium: Metal Artwork Size: 49.5 x 39.5 in Framed Size: 49.5 x 39.5 in

Marcel Mouly was one of the last student's of Picasso! This piece is stretched, and very collectible and has a COA. On the back it is reinforced with a wooden crossbar as in the pho...

Kent R. Wallis (American, Born 1945) Signed: Kent R. Wallis (Lower, Right) " Cottage Window ", circa 1997 Oil on Canvas 36" x 24" Housed in a 2 1/4" Frame Overall Size: 40 1/2"...

Hayley Lever was an Australian born artist who lived much of his life, as well as died, in Mt.Vernon, New York. His work as a painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher strongly embra...

Zula Kenyon (American, 1873-1947) Signed: Kenyon - '06 - " Curious Kittens ", 1906 Pastel on Paper 13 1/4" x 16 1/2" Housed in a 4" Period Ornamented Frame with a 1" Liner Over...

Artist: Jean Vollet Title: Lac st Cassien Medium: Painting on Canvas Framed Size: 30 x 23 Inches Image Size: 14.25 x 21 Inches Signature & Details: Signed on the lower right, an...

American School, 19th Century Unsigned " Portrait of a Woman ", circa 1840 Oil on Canvas 30" x 25 1/4" Housed in a 3 3/4" Gold Leaf Frame with a 3/4" Gold Liner Overall Size: ...

Original Oil on Canvas, Signed by the Artist. The piece measures 43 x 37 inches with frame. The image is in Good/Fair Condition-there are signs of wear due to age and handling (i.e. ...

Van Weiss (20th Century) Signed: Van Weiss (Lower, Left) " Winter Landscape ", c. 1920s-1930s Oil on Canvas 24" x 34"

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Untitled" by Nicholas Bodde depicts vibrant layers of color on narrow aluminum strips. These pieces are interchangeable and can be hung in various ways. Each is signed on the verso and was created in 2013. All three are sold as a set. Each aluminum panel measures 39 " h x 2.5" w. Bodde was born in New York he lives and works in Germany. He considers himself a German painter, who uses lacquered aluminum to create works that are beautiful in their simplicity and in their joyful exploration of color. The artist drives upon the tradition of European constructivism as well as Colour Field Painting, noting influences by Mark Rothko and Barnett Newmann. Bodde claims that his paintings “reveal themselves differently from close up and from a distance. When viewed from a distance they clearly appear related to constructivist geometric tendencies. But from close proximity, one notices that my main objective is painting and not construction.” The artist has reduced his subject to parallel vertical or horizontal lines and fields that race across the hard surface in a controlled riot – as if the viewer were looking out of a fast moving car while driving by fields of colorful flowers. Bodde constantly questions the colors, focusing on creating a construction through using different colors. He sees his creations as a mode of communication with the world. He paints on aluminum plates by successive coats of painting that he applies with different utensils to finally obtain a result that imprints itself into the eye’s retina. The game of colorful stripes, more or less large, sometimes with the feeling of the brush, sometimes flat, reflects the light differently on each lap. The brightness of his palette, a willful choice, accentuates the vitality that emanates from this painting. His works hesitate between the vibrating and nearly irritating colors and the calm of a monastic construction.   Bodde received his formal education from the University of Arts in Bremen (1989) and has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows across the world, including venues such as the Yeh Gallery in Seoul, Planet Art...

Charles L. A. Smith (American, 1871 - 1937) Signed: CHAS. L. A. SMITH (Lower, Right) " Valley of Dreams ", 1934 (San Gabriel Valley) Oil on Canvas 39" x 46 3/8" Housed in a 5" ...

Emile Vernon (French, 1872 - 1919) Signed: E. Vernon Paris 1914 " Playmates ", Paris, 1914 (Three Girls with Kitten) Oil on Canvas 21 3/8" x 25 5/8" Housed in a 3 1/2" Ornamente...

Signed: Morrow '65 (Lower, Right) " Venus of the Grotticella Fountain ", 1865 Oil on Paper 14 1/2" x 10" Housed in a 2 3/4" Ornamented Frame Overall Size: 19 1/2" x 15" The f...

William Samuel Schwartz (Russian/American, 1896-1977) Signed: William S Schwartz (Lower, Left) " Elements ", c. 1928-29 (Date based Upon 8 Pl...

Marguerite Stuber Pearson (American, 1898 - 1978) Signed: M. S. Pierson (Lower, Left) " The Sketching Lesson " Titled on verso (Rockport, MA. - Universalism Church can be seen in,...

H. Cole Forest Glow, 2025 Medium: Oil on Canvas Artwork Size: 30 x 40 in

Valerie Beller’s abstract paintings encourage visual exploration. Organic forms are both revealed and concealed amidst layers of paint. The streaked and stained surfaces of the canva...

Marcel Mouly was the last student of Pablo Picasso and painted this abstract original oil in Paris in 1968. The image size is 10" by 13.5" The frame size is 20.5" by 26" Le Cheval ...

Framed Painting 22.5" x 25.5" inches Sam Karres Born in Wyandotte, Michigan in 1929, Sam Karres earned a B.F.A. and M.A. in art from Wayne University.He worked as an illustrator for...

Oil on Unstretched Canvas, 2006 20 x 24 in, Unframed Signed by Artist, comes with Certificate of Authenticity Good Condition

James Francis Gill (American, Born 1934) Signed: Gill 7 (Lower, Right) " Marilyn Pose 3 ", 2007 (Titled on Canvas Verso) (Marilyn Monroe) Acrylic over Print on Canvas Housed in...

Elise Brennicke (German, Born 1855) Signed: Elise Brennicke 1909 (Lower, Right) " The Violin Player ", 1909 Oil on Canvas 39 3/4" x 30 7/8" Housed in a 2 5/8" Period Ornamented ...

Camilla Gobl-Wahl (Austrian, 1871 - 1965) Signed: C. Gobl (Lower, Right) Flowers, circa 1930s Oil on Canvas 24" x 36" Housed in a 3 1/2" Period Ornamented Frame in Gold Leaf Ov...

A finely executed pair of mid-19th-century husband and wife portraits painted within the Central European Biedermeier tradition. The portraits remain together as originally intended...

Valerie Beller’s abstract paintings encourage visual exploration. Organic forms are both revealed and concealed amidst layers of paint. The streaked and stained surfaces of the canva...

Alecos Kontopoulos (Greek, 1904-1975) Signed: A. Kontopoulos -965, (Lower, Left) " Heure D'Automne ", 1965 (titled on gallery label on verso) French for " Autumn Hour " or " Autum...

George Ames Aldrich (American, 1872-1941) Signed: G. Ames Aldrich (Lower, Right) " Rockport ", circa 1925 (Date based on Newcomb Macklin frame customer number) Oil on Canvas 28"...

George Raab (American, 1866 - 1943) Signed: G. Raab 1912 (Lower, Right) " Doctor Lake ", 1912 Oil on Canvas 18" x 22" Housed in a 3" Period Carved Frame in the style of Newcomb ...

John Farrar (American, 1928 - 1972) Signed: John Farrar (Lower, Left) " Pardner ", 1943 Titled Above Signature (Lower, Left) Oil on Canvas 26 1/8" x 32 1/8" Housed in a 2 1/2" period ornamented Newcomb-Macklin frame in toned goldleaf. Overall Size: 30 1/2" x 36 5/8" Depth: 2 1/4" A painting that appears to be of Farrar's family's dog. This piece is in overall very good condition. A nice presentation, ready to be hung and enjoyed. About the Artist: As a teenager in the 1940s, Farrar received much local acclaim in the Washington D.C. art Scene. Words like “Child Prodigy”, “Brilliant” and “Gifted” were used to describe him in the local newspaper. He had a great bout of early success which included developing patrons among Washington DC’s art elite but this was short lived as he was afflicted with schizophrenia and alcoholism as an adult causing him to spend much of his life in mental institutions. In 1942, Farrar won the Washington Times-Herald's outdoor art fair. This painting was executed the following year when he was 15 (1943). That same year he won the top prize at Atlanta University’s third annual “ Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists ” with a piece titled “ Queenie ”. Approximately one hundred and fifty works of art were included in the show, representing the best works of more than seventy-five contemporary African American artists. This show included works by Romare Bearden, who was awarded Honorable Mention for his painting “ The Two Genrerations ”. Also included among the exhibitors - Charles H. Alston, Allen Rohen Crite, Aaron Douglas, Fredrick Flemister, Sargant Johnson, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, Marjorie Wheeler Brown, Hughie Lee Smith, Lois Mailou Jones...