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Item Ships From: Ohio
Kandahar
By Virginia Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Kandahar
Acrylic and mixed media on fabric, c. 1970
Signed by the artist lower right (see photo)
Kandahar is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan, located in the southern part of the country next to Pakistan. Inspired by the Dehns visit to Afghanistan in the 1960's.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Dehn Heirs
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 18 x 20 inches
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
Category
1970s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
By Stephen Longstreet
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Navajo Thunderbird Silversmith
Signed in ink, titled in pencil
Dimensions: 42 1/4 x 23 inches
Mixed media on paper
Provenance: Acquired from the art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Reclining Nude on Bed
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Reclining Nude on Bed
Lithograph, c. 1910
Signed in pencil lower right and in the plate, lower right
Image size: 7-1/4 x 13"
Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 19 inches
Condition: very good
Some aging to the tan paper
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Borghi & Company, New York
Rudolph Bauer
1889-1953
Rudolf Bauer was born in Lindenwald near Bromberg, Silesia, in 1889 but his family moved only a few years later to Berlin. In 1905 Bauer began his studies at the Berlin Academy of Art but left the Academy only a few months later to educate himself. The upshot was paintings, caricatures and comical drawings which were published in 'Berliner Tageblatt', 'Ulk' and 'Le Figaro'.
From 1912 Bauer contributed to the magazine and Gallery 'Der Sturm' founded by Herwarth Walden and pivotal to German Expressionism and the international avant-garde. In 1915 Rudolf Bauer participated for the first time in a group show at Walden's gallery. There he met Hilla von Rebay, with whom he began a relationship of many years that was crucial to Bauer's later work. By 1922 Bauer had shown work at about eight exhibitions mounted by 'Der Sturm'. From 1918 he also taught at the 'Der Sturm' art school, where Georg Muche was the director. After the war ended, Bauer was a founding member of the 'November Group' although he did not collaborate closely with the group. In 1919 Bauer joined forces with the painter and architect Otto Nebel and with Hilla von Rebay to found the artists' association 'Die Krater'. Impressionist at the outset, Bauer's early work reveals Cubist and Expressionist influences. By 1915/16 Bauer had switched to an abstract pictorial idiom, which is markedly influenced by Kandinsky. In the early 1920s Bauer was also preoccupied with Russian Constructivism as well as the Dutch de Stijl group. Bauer's decided preference for non-representational painting culminated in 1929 with the foundation of a private museum, 'Das Geistreich', which he directed as a salon for abstract art.
Political developments in Germany forced Bauer to sell some of his work in America from 1932. His agent in America was Hilla von Rebay, who was by now director of the Guggenheim Collection. In 1936 she organized a touring exhibition of non-representational European art that included sixty Rudolf Bauer oil...
Category
1910s Jugendstil Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Get Up (Plate 1 of 4)
Watercolor on Yupo mounted to board, 2019
Signed with the artist's initials lower right
Series: The Get Up (4 plates)
Exhibited: Occupying A Space, Swope Ar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Tethered Ash", Contemporary Art Painting, 2022
By Addison Jones
Located in Delaware , OH
"Tethered Ash", Contemporary Art Painting, 2022
Tethered Ash is a contemporary art graffiti painting by Addison Jones featuring her unique text previously featured in her portrait a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
By Francis Frith
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Great Pylon at Edfou, Upper Egypt
Original gold toned albumin photograph, c. 1862
Unsigned as is usual
From: Upper Egypt and Ethiopia, c. 1862, Vol 1, (36 plates)
Published by Wi...
Category
1860s Romantic Ohio - Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Cypresses
By Donald Sultan
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Cypresses
Reductive color woodcut in colors, black, green & brown, 1982
Unsigned
From: Tramp Picture series
"The printer was Claude Jinchat at Imprimerie Arnéra, Vallauris. The set w...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Linocut
In the Sky II
Located in Dallas, TX
Torn Layered Papers
Collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
In the Sky I
Located in Dallas, TX
Torn Layered Papers
Collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Le Poissons magique
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: Epreuve d'Artiste viii/X
Reference: Passeron 359
"Mario Avati was both an etcher and a painter born in Monaco in 1921. In 1947, afte...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Ohio - Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Going Places #2 (Baggage Claim)
By Darius Steward
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Watercolor on Yupo
Signed by the artist DRS #1, lower right.
Category
2010s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Debris Field
Located in Dallas, TX
Torn Layered Papers
Collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Leave No Stone Unturned II
Located in Dallas, TX
Torn Layered Papers
Collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Two Clouds
Located in Dallas, TX
Torn Layered Papers
Collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Excavating I
Located in Dallas, TX
Torn Layered Papers
Collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Chroma Cloud
Located in Dallas, TX
Torn Layered Papers
Collage
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Lice
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Lice (Mallards grooming themselves)
Drypoint, 1927
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled lower left corner
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 6 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches
Shee...
Category
1920s American Realist Ohio - Art
Materials
Drypoint
Maze, 20th Century Geometric Figurative Abstract Acrylic Painting
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Maze, 1982
Acrylic on cardboard
Signed and dated upper right
7 x 9.5 inches
A surrealist mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clar...
Category
1980s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Blue and Red Space
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blue and Red Space
Ilk Screen, 1971
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
editioned lower left (see photo)
Edition: 75 (75/75)
Sheet size: 22 1/8 x 29 7/8"
Image: 21-7/8 x 29-5/8"...
Category
1970s Op Art Ohio - Art
Materials
Screen
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of woman sitting with...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Sketch of nude man bent over. 24x18 inches. Signed.
Some p...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Gouache
Female Nude Study
By William Sommer
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Female Nude Study
Graphite and crayon on wove paper, c. 1928
Signed with the Estate stamp "B" (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Edward Sommer (his so...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Crayon
Plate 2
By Matt Phillips
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Plate 2
2 plate drypoint with hand coloring, 1984
Signed and numbered in pencil (see photos)
From: Barcelona Suite (6 plates)
Edition: A/P 8/10 in pencil lower left
Signed in pen...
Category
1980s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Drypoint
Arctic Light - Orange Sun
By Karl Zerbe
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Arctic Light-Orange Sun
Unsigned
Gouache on Japanese fibrous paper
Series: Tundra Paintings
Exhibited: Karl Zerbe, Gouaches of the Artic
Nordness Gallery, (Madison Avenue, NY) Feb 3 through Feb 23, 1958
Cat. No. 12 (label with work, see photo...
Category
1950s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Gouache
Ancient Landscape II (Ancient City)
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Ancient Landscape II (Ancient City)
Etching and drypoint, 1953-55
Signed and titled in pencil by the artist (see photos)
Annotated: "E130 A/1" in pencil lower right
Estate stamp vers...
Category
1950s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Drypoint
La Place de la Concorde
By Robert Delaunay
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Place de la Concorde
Depicts La Place d la Concorde, Tour Eiffel and Sacre-Couer on Montmarte Hill in the back left
Lithograph, 1926
Unsigned. as issued
From the book edition, Jos...
Category
1920s Orphist Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Pierre aux Trois Croquis
By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Pierre aux Trois Croquis
From: Douze lithographies originales de Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Publisher: Ambrose Vollard
Edition: 950 (signed in the stone) on wove paper as here (see pho...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
The River Barge
By David Cox
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The River Barge
Pen and ink on paper on laid paper, mounted in English drum mount , c. 1810
Unsigned
Condition: Slight sun staining to sheet and mount in the window (see photo)
Image/sheet size: 5 1/4 x 6 11/16 inches
Sight: : 5-3/4 x 7-1/4"
Frame: 13-3/8 x 14-3/8"
Provenance: Colnaghi, London (see photo of label)
David Cox (29 April 1783 – 7 June 1859) was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of Impressionism.
He is considered one of the greatest English landscape painters, and a major figure of the Golden age of English watercolour.
Although most popularly known for his works in watercolour, he also painted over 300 works in oil towards the end of his career, now considered "one of the greatest, but least recognised, achievements of any British painter.
His son, known as David Cox the Younger (1809-1885), was also a successful artist.
Early life in Birmingham, 1783–1804
Cox's birthplace in Deritend, Birmingham, illustrated by Samuel Lines
Cox was born on 29 April 1783 on Heath Mill Lane in Deritend, then an industrial suburb of Birmingham. His father was a blacksmith and whitesmith about whom little is known, except that he supplied components such as bayonets and barrels to the Birmingham gun trade. Cox's mother was the daughter of a farmer and miller from Small Heath to the east of Birmingham. Early biographers record that "she had had a better education than his father, and was a woman of superior intelligence and force of character." Cox was initially expected to follow his father into the metal trade and take over his forge, but his lack of physical strength led his family to seek opportunities for him to develop his interest in art, which is said to have first become apparent when the young Cox started painting paper kites while recovering from a broken leg.
By the late 18th century Birmingham had developed a network of private academies teaching drawing and painting, established to support the needs of the town's manufacturers of luxury metal goods, but also encouraging education in fine art, and nurturing the distinctive tradition of landscape art of the Birmingham School. Cox initially enrolled in the academy of Joseph Barber in Great Charles Street, where fellow students included the artist Charles Barber and the engraver William Radclyffe, both of whom would become important lifelong friends.
At the age of about 15 Cox was apprenticed to the Birmingham painter Albert Fielder, who produced portrait miniatures and paintings for the tops of snuffboxes from his workshop at 10 Parade in the northwest of the town. Early biographers of Cox record that he left his apprenticeship after Fielder's suicide, with one reporting that Cox himself discovered his master's hanging body, but this is probably a myth as Fielder is recorded at his address in Parade as late as 1825. At some time during mid-1800 Cox was given work by William Macready the elder at the Birmingham Theatre, initially as an assistant grinding colours and preparing canvases for the scene painters, but from 1801 painting scenery himself and by 1802 leading his own team of assistants and being credited in plays' publicity.
London, 1804–1814
In 1804 Cox was promised work by the theatre impresario Philip Astley and moved to London, taking lodgings in 16 Bridge Row, Lambeth. Although he was unable to get employment at Astley's Amphitheatre it is likely that he had already decided to try to establish himself as a professional artist, and apart from a few private commissions for painting scenery his focus over the next few years was to be on painting and exhibiting watercolours. While living in London, Cox married his landlord's daughter, Mary Agg and the couple moved to Dulwich in 1808.
David Cox Travellers on a Path, pencil and brown wash.
In 1805 he made his first of many trips to Wales, with Charles Barber, his earliest dated watercolours are from this year. Throughout his lifetime he made numerous sketching tours to the Home Counties, North Wales, Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Devon.
Cox exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy from 1805. His paintings never reached high prices, so he earned his living mainly as a drawing master. His first pupil, Colonel the Hon.H. Windsor (the future Earl of Plymouth) engaged him in 1808, Cox went on to acquire several other aristocratic and titled pupils. He also went on to write several books, including: Ackermanns' New Drawing Book (1809); A Series of Progressive Lessons (1811); Treatise on Landscape Painting (1813); and Progressive Lessons on Landscape (1816). The ninth and last edition of his series Progressive Lessons, was published in 1845.
By 1810 he was elected President of the Associated Artists in Water Colour. In 1812, following the demise of the Associated Artists, he was elected as associate of the Society of Painters in Water Colour (the old Water Colour Society). He was elected a Member of the Society in 1813, and exhibited there every year (except 1815 and 1817) until his death.
Hereford, 1814–1827
In the summer of 1813 Cox was appointed as the drawing master of the Royal Military College in Farnham, Surrey, but he resigned shortly afterwards, finding little sympathy with the atmosphere of a military institution. Soon after that he applied to a newspaper advertisement for a position as drawing master for Miss Crouchers' School for Young Ladies in Hereford and in Autumn 1814 moved to the town with his family. Cox taught at the school in Widemarsh Street until 1819, his substantial salary of £100 per year requiring only two-day's work per week, allowing time for painting and the taking of private pupils.
Cox's reputation as both a painter and a teacher had been building over previous years, as indicated by his election as a member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours and his inclusion in John Hassell's 1813 book Aqua Pictura, which claimed to present works by "all of the most approved water coloured draftsmen". The depression that accompanied the end of the Napoleonic Wars had caused a contraction in the art market, however, and by 1814 Cox had been very short of money, requiring a loan from one of his pupils to pay even for the move to Hereford. Despite its financial advantages and its proximity to the scenery of North Wales and the Wye Valley, the move to Hereford marked a retreat in terms of his career as a painter: he sent few works to the annual exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours during his first years away from London and not until 1823 would he again contribute more than 20 pictures.
Between 1823 and 1826 he had Joseph Murray Ince as a pupil.
London, 1827–1841
He made his first trip to the Continent, to Belgium and the Netherlands in 1826 and subsequently moved to London the following year.
He exhibited for the first time with the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1829, and with the Liverpool Academy in 1831. In 1839, two of Cox's watercolours were bought from the Old Water Colour Society exhibition by the Marquis of Conynha for Queen Victoria.
Birmingham, 1841–1859
Greenfield House in Harborne, Birmingham – where Cox lived from 1841 until his death in 1859 .
In May 1840 Cox wrote to one of his Birmingham friends: "I am making preparations to sketch in oil, and also to paint, and it is my intention to spend most of my time in Birmingham for the purpose of practice". Cox had been considering a return to painting in oils since 1836 and in 1839 had taken lessons in oil painting from William James Müller, to whom he had been introduced by mutual friend George Arthur Fripp. Hostility between the Society of Painters in Water Colours and the Royal Academy made it difficult for an artist to be recognised for work in both watercolour and oil in London, however, and it is likely that Cox would have preferred to explore this new medium in the more supportive environment of his home town. By the early 1840s his income from sales of his watercolours was sufficient to allow him to abandon his work as a drawing master, and in June 1841 he moved with his wife to Greenfield House in Harborne, then a village on Birmingham's south western outskirts. It was this move that would enable the higher levels of freedom and experimentation that were to characterise his later work.
The elderly Cox pictured by Samuel Bellin in 1855.
In Harborne, Cox established a steady routine – working in watercolour in the morning and oils in the afternoon. He would visit London every spring to attend the major exhibitions, followed by one or more sketching excursions, continuing the pattern that he had established in the 1830s. From 1844 these tours evolved into a yearly trip to Betws-y-Coed in North Wales to work outdoors in both oil and watercolour, gradually becoming the focus for an annual summer artists colony that continued until 1856 with Cox as its "presiding genius".
Cox's experience of trying to exhibit his oils in London was short and unsuccessful: in 1842 he made his only submission to the Society of British Artists; one oil painting was exhibited at each of the British Institution and the Royal Academy in 1843; and two oil paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1844 – the last that would be exhibited in London during his lifetime.
Cox showed regularly at the Birmingham Society of Arts and its successor, the Birmingham Society of Artists, becoming a member in 1842.
Cox suffered a stroke on 12 June 1853 that temporarily paralysed him, and permanently affected his eyesight, memory and coordination.
By 1857 however, his eyesight had deteriorated. An exhibition of his work was arranged in 1858 by the Conversazione Society Hampstead, and in 1859 a retrospective exhibition was held at the German Gallery Bond Street, London. Cox died several months later. He was buried in the churchyard of St Peters, Harborne, Birmingham, under a chestnut tree, alongside his wife Mary.
Work
Early work
In the spring of 1811 Cox made a small number of notable works in oils during a visit to Hastings with his family. It is not known why he didn't continue working in this medium at the time, but the five known surviving examples were described in 1969 as "surely some of the most brilliant examples of the genre in England".
Mature work
Cox reached artistic maturity after his move to Hereford in 1814. Although only two major watercolours can confidently be traced to the period between Cox's arrival in the town and the end of the decade, both of these – Butcher's Row, Hereford of 1815 and Lugg Meadows, near Hereford of 1817 – mark advances on his earlier work.
Later work
Cox's later work produced after his move to Birmingham in 1841 was marked by simplification, abstraction and a stripping down of detail. His art of the period combined the breadth and weight characteristic of the earlier English watercolour school, together with a boldness and freedom of expression comparable to later impressionism. His concern with capturing the fleeting nature of weather, atmosphere and light was similar to that of John Constable, but Cox stood apart from the older painter's focus on capturing material detail, instead employing a high degree of generalisation and a focus on overall effect.
The quest for character over precision in representing nature was an established characteristic of the Birmingham School of landscape artists with which Cox had been associated early in his life, and as early as 1810 Cox's work had been criticised for its "sketchiness of finish" and "cloudy confusion of objects", which were held to betray "the coarseness of scene-painting". During the 1840s and 1850s Cox took this "peculiar manner" to new extremes, incorporating the techniques of the sketch into his finished works to a far greater degree.
Cox's watercolour technique of the 1840s was sufficiently different from his earlier methods to need explanation to his son in 1842, despite the fact that his son had been helping him teach and paint since 1827. The materials used for his later works in watercolour also differed from his earlier periods: he used black chalk instead of graphite pencil as his primary drawing medium, and the rough and absorbent "Scotch" wrapping paper for which he became well-known – both of these were related to his development of a rougher and freer style.
Influence and legacy
By the 1840s Cox, alongside Peter De Wint and Copley Fielding, had become recognised as one of the leading figures of the English landscape watercolour style of the first half of the 19th century. This judgement was complicated by reaction to the rougher and bolder style of Cox's later Birmingham work, which was widely ignored or condemned. While by this time De Wint and Fielding were essentially continuing in a long-established tradition, Cox was creating a new one.
A group of young artists working in Cox's watercolour style emerged well before his death, including William Bennett, David Hall McKewan and Cox's son David Cox Jr. By 1850 Bennett in particular had become recognised as "perhaps the most distinguished among the landscape painters" for his Cox-like vigorous and decisive style. Such early followers concentrated on the example of Cox's more moderate earlier work and steered clear of what were then seen as the excesses of Cox's later years. During a period dominated by sleek and detailed picturesque landscape, however, they were still condemned by publications such as The Spectator as "the 'blottesque' school", and failed to establish themselves as a cohesive movement.
John Ruskin in 1857 condemned the work of the Society of Painters in Water-colours as "a kind of potted art, of an agreeable flavour, suppliable and taxable as a patented commodity", excluding only the late work of Cox, about which he wrote "there is not any other landscape which comes near these works of David Cox in simplicity or seriousness".
An 1881 book, A Biography of David Cox: With Remarks on His Works and Genius, was based on a manuscript by Cox's friend William Hall, edited and expanded by John Thackray Bunce, editor of the Birmingham Daily Post.
There are two Blue Plaque memorials commemorating him at 116 Greenfield Road, Harborne, Birmingham, and at 34 Foxley Road, Kennington, London, SW9, where he lived from 1827. It can also be seen at the David Cox exhibition in Birmingham.
His pupils included Birmingham architectural artist, Allen Edward...
Category
1810s Romantic Ohio - Art
Materials
Ink
Madi
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Cleveland, OH
Black Outline Bunny, PINK
Category
2010s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
$7,000
Feast of Lights: Hanukkah
By Abraham Rattner
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Feast of Lights (Poster)
Signed in the stone
17 color lithograph
Published by Kennedy Galleries
Edition: Unknown edition, signed in the stone
There was also a pencil signed edition o...
Category
1970s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Snow Circle, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Robert Musser
Located in Yardley, PA
Muted white gray and blue. Stone and grit mixed in for a high matte look. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artis...
Category
2010s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Woman's Head in Profile - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
By Elie Nadelman
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman's Head in Profile - Woman's Head in Profile (left) (Havard)
Drypooint, 1920
Unsigned (as usual)
From: The Drypoints of Elie Nadelman, 21 unpublished prints by the sculptor, pro...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Drypoint
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
By Mary Spain
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Two Boys (one standing, the other seated and drawing)
Graphite and colored pencils on wove paper, 1975
Signed and dated lower left center (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Slight waviness visible only on reverse
Image size: 11 1/2 x 13 3/4 inches
Sheet size: 14 x 17 3/4 inches
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
By descent
Mary Spain (Colie)
(1934-1983)
Mary Spain was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. She taught art in Chagrin Falls...
Category
1970s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Color Pencil
Bullfight
By Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bullfight
Lithograph, 1928
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left (see photo)
Edition: 41 (22/41)
Reference: Davis L37
Printed chine applique on wove ...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Bridge
By James Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Bridge (New York Harbor)
Lithograph, 1936-7
Signed in pencil l.r., (see photo)
titled lower left edge of sheet
Reference: Not in Ryan
Edition: Very small
Note: Extremely rare. ...
Category
1930s Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Large Abstract Expressionist Painting of Head, 20th Century New York Artist
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925–1996)
Head
1970
Ink on paper
Signed and dated lower right
39.5 x 30 inches
43 x 32.25 inches, framed
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Ink
Des Oeufs Pout Ta Fette (Holiday Eggs)
By Mario Avati
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Des Oeufs Pout Ta Fette
(Holiday Eggs)
Mezzotint, 1960
Signed, dated, titled and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50 (33/50)
Image: 8 5/8 x 10 11/16"
Condition: Mint
Mario Avati is a Fren...
Category
1960s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Mezzotint
Ile de la Cite, Paris
By Robert Delaunay
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Le Palais de Justice (Ile de la Cite, Paris)
Lithograph printed on chine paper, 1926
Signed in pencil; Atelier blindstamp l.l. (see photo)
Edition: Rare proof on chine, outside of th...
Category
1920s Cubist Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Flowers, 20th Century Figurative Expressionist Ink Painting, New York Artist
By Joseph Glasco
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925–1996)
Flowers
1970
Ink on paper
Signed and dated center right
10.5 x 8.5 inches
15 x 12.5 inches, framed
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklah...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Ink
The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb, after Peter Paul Rubens
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Infant Christ and St. John Playing with the Lamb,
after Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)
Woodcut, trimmed and tipped to support
Initialed in the block bottom ...
Category
1630s Old Masters Ohio - Art
Materials
Woodcut
Sammy Lee Sleeping II
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sammy Lee Sleeping II
Graphite on sketchbook paper, 2007
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right: "Sedrick Huckaby" (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 9 x 12 inches
Fram...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Graphite
Light Struck
By Sandro Chia
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Light Struck
Etching & Drypoint, 1984
Signed, dated and numbered in red pencil (see photos0
The artist's chop stamp (CS) lower right corner
Edition: 25 (18/25), 5 artist's proofs, B....
Category
1980s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Etching
Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword
By Natori Shunsen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bando Mitsugoro as a Servant with a Sword
Color woodcut, 1952
From The Series Shunsen Nigao-E Shu (Shunsen Portraits), Six Woodblock Prints
Publisher: Watanabe
Excellent condition
Im...
Category
1950s Other Art Style Ohio - Art
Materials
Woodcut
Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord...
By Sedrick Huckaby
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Joe "I try to get something accomplished everyday. I ask the Good Lord for Patience and Stregnth"
Verso: "I was in for a technical violation. I spent 65 days, but I thank the Lor...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Ink
Untitled (Inspired by a Chinese scroll painting)
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Inspired by a Chinese scroll painting)
Collage with ink on 6 paper elements
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 4 x 12 inches
Support...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Ink
Three Nudes in a Garden
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Three Nudes in a Garden
Graphite, c. 1928-1933
Initialed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, Aaron Bohrod: Figure Sketches, Fige 9, page 32 (see photo)
A...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Graphite
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
Located in Columbus, OH
Original oil pastel and gouache figure drawing by celebrated, twentieth-century California landscape painter, Ronald Shap. Vibrant sketch of sitting nude woman with washes of blue, g...
Category
1980s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Gouache
Un Debarquement en Angleterre (A Disembarking in England)
By Félix Hilaire Buhot
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Un Debarquement en Angleterre
(A Disembarking in England)
etching, drypoint, aquatint, roulette and spirit ground, 1879
Signed with the artist’s red owl stamp, Lugt 977 (see photo)
...
Category
1870s Impressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Drypoint
untitled
By Peter Marks
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled
Collage made of foil, golf leaf and marbled book papers, c. 2004
Unsigned, from the Estate of the artist.
Image size: 8 5/8 x 10 inches
Sheet size: 14 x 17 inches
Peter Marks (1935 -2010)
Peter Marks was born in New York City on January 18, 1935. A lifetime New Yorker, Marks graduated from the High School of Music and Art in 1952 and Amherst College in 1956.
After a brief stint as a graphic designer in publishing, Marks became a private art dealer and opened his gallery Peter Marks Works of Art, Inc. in 1960. During this time he specialized in the sale of Southeast Asian and Islamic antiquities and made many contributions to the field both as a dealer and an advocate of his profession. Above all, Marks was motivated by a strong desire to find great art and make it available to large audiences.
After retiring from art dealing in 2002, Marks transformed his Manhattan gallery space into a studio where he drew prolifically and painted large non-objective canvasses. This time in his studio was a happy one for Marks, who viewed this period of his life not as retirement, but rather fulfillment, a fact that is confirmed by passionate artistic output in the years leading up to his passing in 2010.
In 2012, Thomas French...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Long Light Notre Dame
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Long Light Notre Dame
Oil on canvas, 1931
Note: the painting is NOT framed
Signed and dated lower right
Condition: Excellent
Conservation by Monica Radecki, South Bend
Canvas size: ...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Ohio - Art
Materials
Oil
Staten Island
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Staten Island
Watercolor on paper, c. 1928
Signed with the Estate stamp lower left
Sheet size: 19 1/8 x 23 7/8 inches
Titled on verso
Part of small series of watercolors done of the ...
Category
1920s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Lesson 4)
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed and dated by the artist in ink, lower right
Annotated in ink lower left: Plate 19. Sec. 1. Lesson 4
Note: A very early student work by Dehn
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist
Category
1910s Ohio - Art
Materials
Ink
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
By Robert Delaunay
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La butte de Montmartre et le Sacre-Couer (Sacre Coeur from a Distance)
Lithograph, 1926
From Joseph Delteil's "Allo, Paris," published by Quatre Chemins, Paris, 1926
Rare signed proo...
Category
1920s Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
untitled (Reclining Female Nude)
By Charles Harris ( Beni Kosh )
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Aka Beni Kosh
Still Life with Flowers
Colored pencil on paper
Unsigned
Signed with the estate stamp on reverse (see photo)
Estate No. 716
Condition: Soft fold through image, wri...
Category
1960s Contemporary Ohio - Art
Materials
Gouache
Terror of History No. 1, Mid-Century Abstract Acrylic & Sand, Blue and Yellow
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Terror of History No. 1, 1962
Acrylic and sand on scintilla
Signed and dated upper left
23 x 30 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
Vetriculus Egg, Surrealist Ovoid acrylic and collage painting, Figural Abstract
By Clarence Holbrook Carter
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Vetriculus Egg, 1965
Acrylic and collage on textured paper
Signed and dated lower right
30 x 22 inches
A surrealist mid-century figura...
Category
1960s American Modern Ohio - Art
Materials
Acrylic
City Park, Winter
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
City Park, Winter
Lithograph, c. 1947
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Published by Associated American Artists
Printed by George C. Miller, New York
Edition: c. 250
In the Bohrod papers at Syracuse University, the artist states that it is a view of Pittsburgh. It depicts the George Washington Monument in Allegheny Commons Park, dedicated in 1891. The sculptor f the monument is Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch (1856-1931).
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 7/16 inches
Frame size: 19 x 23 inches
Provenance: Estate of Adolf Dehn
Reference: AAA Index No. 848
Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings.
Education
Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.
Career
He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...
Category
1940s American Realist Ohio - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
By Gene Davis
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Yellow, Gray and Pink)
Pastel on paper, 1981
Signed and dated lower right
Condition: Excellent
Sheet size: 12 x 18 inches
Frame size: 15 x 21 inches
Provenance: Jan Cowles
...
Category
1980s Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Pastel
Untitled 2
By Adam Fowler
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled 2
Aquatint and drypoint, 2008
Initialed, dated, and editioned in pencil by the artist
Edition of 14
Plate size: 11 1/2 x 11 inches
Sheet size: 20 1/2 x 19 inches
Adam Fowl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Ohio - Art
Materials
Aquatint
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Dharma Prayer Book Manuscript Folio
Ink and gouache on handmade paper, 1875-1925)
Miniature depicting Tibetan deity
Script is Tibetan.
Miniature Size: 2 3/8 x 1 ½ inches
Part of a se...
Category
Early 20th Century Other Art Style Ohio - Art
Materials
Gouache
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