Michigan - Paintings

Ink on paper, 2022. Piece is matted.

Ink on paper, 2022. Piece is matted.

Ink on paper, 2022. Piece is matted.

Working a lot of elements, even other portraits into the layered composition. I'd like these to be starting points for the viewer. It's mostly fill-in-the-blank, with a love for the ...

The second in this series on deep wooden box frames. As a lover of balance, the weight of the figure, even in a ghostly outline, is strong enough to hold down a flurry of line and co...

Treatment of the figure has varied throughout my art. This feels similar to the shaped painting series. The figure is a contained shape. It's stamp-like and place-holding. In this ne...

Jim Stella 2012 Mixed Media Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Collage 100 x 67 inches Jim Stella was born in Detroit in 1954 and was attracted to art from an ea...

The warm tones of autumn highlight frisky horses running in the open field. Happy memories! Revised in 2021. Cradled wood panel Textured Ready to hang Sealed with gloss varni...

Cold winter day at dusk out on the farm. Memories of a time past. Revised in 2021. Cradled wood panel Textured Ready to hang Sealed with gloss varnish :: Painting :: Rustic :: ...

A happy child and happy dog racing through the field in the summer days. Good times! Revised in 2021. cradled wood panel with finished edges sealed wi...

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...

Jacques Potin (French, 1920-2009) Signed: Jacques Potin (Lower, Left) " les 3 grâces ", 1969 (Titled on Verso) Gouache on Paper 18" x 24" In excellen...

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...

Leticia Terrago (Mexican, Born 1940) Signed L. Terrago (Lower, Left) " Alas Paeo Volar ", c. 1960s (Titled on Verso) (Wings To Fly) Oil on Canvas 9 3/4" x 7 7/8" Housed in an Ar...

The root chakra is located at the base of the spine. It is a grounding force that activates our connection to the earth and other earthly beings. In opposition to the floating subjec...

SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Harley" is in the style of Pop-Art and Graffiti. It's a spray painted portrait of a Harlequin in red and white with black accents. Antonio “Shades” Agee, a passionate Detroit native and public figure, was an active participant in the creation of the Detroit graffiti scene as one of the first documented graffiti artists in the city. Growing up in the Motor City...

Jim Stella Triptych 2017 Mixed Media Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Collage 48 x 72 in  24" x 48" in  each panel  Jim Stella was born in Detroit in 1954 and was attracted to art from an early age. He attended University of Detroit Jesuit high school where he was inspired by art teacher Jim Bridenstien. In 1973 he attended Pratt Institute, NY where he studied sculpture and anatomy. He later returned to Michigan to attend the University of Michigan on a medical illustration scholarship.Stella graduated with high honors. He continued his artistic education at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where he studied watercolor under the direction of Richard Jersey...

Jim Stella 2017 Mixed Media Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Collage 90" x 68" inches Jim Stella was born in Detroit in 1954 and was attracted to art from an early age. He attended University of Detroit Jesuit high school where he was inspired by art teacher Jim Bridenstien. In 1973 he attended Pratt Institute, NY where he studied sculpture and anatomy. He later returned to Michigan to attend the University of Michigan on a medical illustration scholarship.Stella graduated with high honors. He continued his artistic education at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where he studied watercolor under the direction of Richard Jersey...

Jim Stella 2017 Mixed Media Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Collage 51" x 35" inches Jim Stella was born in Detroit in 1954 and was attracted to art from an early age. He attended University of Detroit Jesuit high school where he was inspired by art teacher Jim Bridenstien. In 1973 he attended Pratt Institute, NY where he studied sculpture and anatomy. He later returned to Michigan to attend the University of Michigan on a medical illustration scholarship.Stella graduated with high honors. He continued his artistic education at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where he studied watercolor under the direction of Richard Jersey...

Louis Aston Knight (French/American, 1873-1948) Signed: Aston Knight (Lower, Right) " River in France ", circa 1920 Oil on Canvas 21 3/4" x 18" Housed in a 3 1/2" Ornamented Fra...

To be safe in the world you must first be safe with yourself. This piece represents the energy of the solar plexus chakra, an energy center located in the stomach just below the ribs. Solar plexus energy is that of gut feelings, personal power, and self-regard. The mirror image depicts the egoic self with eyes closed and the higher self smiling knowingly at the ego with eyes open.

Signed: Nissen (Lower, Right) " Frederiksborg Castle ", circa 1930s Oil on Canvas 18" x 26" Housed in a 3 1/4" Frame Overall Size: 23 1/2" x 31 1/4" Minor ware to frame and ca...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with thick acid free matting and UV plexi...

Louis Aston Knight (French/American, 1873-1948) Signed: Aston Knight (Lower, Right) " Risle at Melleville ", circa 1920 Oil on Canvas 21 3/4" x 18" Housed in a 3" Ornamented Fra...

This painting features a light portal in the subject’s “crown” chakra, the body’s physical connection to the universal or divine. The figure is isolated in a bubble, but the “you” in...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with thick 4-ply acid free matting and UV...

Artist self-portrait.

The subject in this painting has his arms crossed over his heart chakra, closing it off from view. Despite this physical closure, a powerful energetic force still radiates from the c...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with 4" thick acid free matting and UV pl...

Donald Burnette Gooch (American, 1907 - 1985)' Signed: Gooch '45 (Lower, Right) " Daniel ", 1945 (titled on verso) Oil on Canvas 23 1/4" x 36" Housed in it's original 4" artist...

Allen Tucker (American, 1866-1939) Signed: Allen Tucker (Lower, Right) " Apartment Building ", ca. 1920 Oil on Canvas 31" x 25" Housed in a 3" ...

Exploding with emotion, energy and color Stephanie Visser's mixed media paintings on paper are framed in a simple and clean white wood frame with thick 4-ply acid free matting and UV...

In the still of the night an owl in a barren tree seems as if to contemplate the moonlight and nature itself. Has texture Sealed with gloss varnish Ready to hang :: Painting :: Impre...

John Cyril Harrison (British, 1898 - 1985) Signed: J.C. Harrison. (Lower, Right) " Winter Pheasants ", circa 1925-1930 (Titled in pencil on verso by the artist) Watercolor laid on...

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,...

Henri Julie (20th Century) Signed: Henri Julie (Lower, Right) " Flowers #13 " circa 1950s Oil on Panel 17 7/8" x 15 7/8" Housed in a 1 1/2" Period Antiqued Gold Leaf Frame...

Perhaps this was the allure Dorothy had for escape or a long nap. Has texture Sealed with gloss varnish Ready to hang :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an officia...

Gerald Fairclough (American, Born 1946) Signed: Fairclough 1972 (Lower, Right) " Nude ", 1972 Oil on Canvas 24" x 20" Housed in a 2 1/4" Frame Overall Size: 28" x 24" Small repair to canvas, see repair on verso. In otherwise very good condition. Ready to hang. Provenance: Four Winds Gallery Kalamazoo, Michigan Private Collection Kalamazoo, Michigan The Four Winds Gallery carried names such as Francoise Gilot, Jacques Potin, Robert De Niro Sr...

While watching crows congregate and listening to them, it makes one wonder what important news they are delivering to one another. Has texture Finished edges Sealed with gloss varnis...

Sometimes a quiet, peaceful resting place is all one needs to contemplate and restore. Texture Finished edges Sealed with gloss varnish Ready to hang :: Painting :: Impressionist :: ...

Sometimes feeling restrained is in your own mind. Perhaps that why one must leave... Has texture Finished edges Sealed with gloss varnish Ready to hang :: Painting :: Impressionist :...

John Maclauchlan Milne (Scottish, 1885-1957) Signed: Maclauchlan Milne (Lower, Left) " St. Tropez ", circa 1924 Oil on Board 20" x 24" Housed in...

Pinckney Marcius-Simons, (American, French, 1867-1909) Signed: Marcius-Simons, (lower, right) " Lost in Her Thoughts ", circa 1890-1892 Oil on mahogany panel bearing the stamp on verso of " H. Vieille e. Troisgros Sueei, 55 Rue de Laval...

Rolf Stoll, (German/American, 1892-1978) Signed: Rolf Stoll, (lower, left) “ After the Symphonic Poem, " Verklarte Nacht ", by Arnold Schoenberg ", (titled on stretcher verso) Circ...

John Farrar (American, 1928-1972) Signed: John Farrar (Lower, Left) “ Pardner ”, 1943 Titled Above Signature (Lower, Left) Oil on Canvas 26 ⅛” x 32 ⅛” Housed in a 2 ½” period ornamented Newcomb-Macklin frame in toned gold leaf, in good original condition. Outside Size: 30 1/2" x 36 5/8" A recent discovery of a painting that appears to be Farrar’s family dog. This was done when he was just fifteen years old. 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...

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...

Tomo Mori's fascination with the parts that make up the whole is represented in her work by the hundreds and thousands of small painted pieces of canvas that she then pastes onto a l...

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"...

George Sheridan Knowles (British, 1863-1931) Signed: G Sheridan Knowles 1912 (Lower, Left) " Lighting Lanterns ", 1912 Oil on Canvas 24" x 36" Housed in a 4" Period Tooled Gold...

Fernando Cueto Amorsolo (Filipino, 1892-1978) Signed: F Amorsolo 1937 (Lower, Right) " Girl in Pink Dress ", 1937 Oil on canvas 26 1/8" x 19" H...

William Hubacek (American, 1871-1958) Signed: " W. M. Hubacek '83 " " San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate ", 1893 Oil on Canvas 16 1/4" x 22" Housed in a 19th century 3.5" Silver Gilt Ornamented Frame Outside Frame Size: 19 3/4" x 25 1/2" The item was lined and cleaned. The canvas appears to be in very good condition with bright colors. Hubacek was born in Chicago, moving with his family to San Francisco while still a child. His initial studies in art we're at the Mark Hopkins...

Joshua Tolford (American, 1910-1985) Signed: Joshua Tolford (Lower, Right) " Sunday Morning ", circa 1950s First Baptist Church, Rockport, Massachusetts Oil on Canvas 16" x 20" Housed in a 3" Frame (Newcomb Macklin Molding) Overall Size: 21 1/4" x 25 1/4" Appears to be in very good condition. Ready to hang. Included with the item is an original photo postcard...

Antonieta Brandeis (Czech/Italian, 1848-1926) Signed: A. Brandeis (Lower, Right) " Ponte Alle Grazie ", Florence, Circa 1900-1910 Oil on Canvas 16 1/8" x 20" Housed in a 5" Gold...

Mixed media, abstract portrait.

Fortunato Anjos (Portuguese, 1908-2000) Signed: Fortunato Anjos 1980 (Lower, Left) " Sintra, Main Square ", 1980 Oil on Masonite 23 1/2" x 28 3/4" Housed in a 3" Frame Overall...

Gonzalo Ariza (Columbian, 1912-1995) Signed: Gonzalo Aria (Lower, Right) " Camino De Herradura " (La Mesa - El Colegio) (Titled on Verso) Oil on Canvas 66 3/4" x 31 3/8" Scuffi...

Jean Vollet Trevoux La Saone Painting Framed Size 35'' x 25.5'' in. Jean Vollet was born at Montayral, France on June 29, 1935. Studied art at the Ecole...

Guillaume Corneille “Le Gran Fleur”, 1974 Painting Gouache and Acrylic Paint on paper 25.5 x 19.5 in 66 x 50 cm signed and dated in image CONDITION NOTE: Push pin holes in all 4 cor...