Palm Springs - Drawings

Large 1986 Surreal charcoal on paper by American artist Richard Parker. Pencil signed Richard G. Parker 1986 on the right bottom corner. Newly f...

Six pen drawings on paper executed in the late 1950s. All 6 were professionally framed and make a statement when they are all viewed together. Each drawing framed measures 14.75" wid...

Beautiful charcoal drawing by Flo Shapiro dated 1957. We believe she was a student at the Hans Hofmann School. The wrapping around this unframed art piece...

An original work by Eric Yahnker "A Dirty Pair" 2011 Colored pencil and graphite on paper 75 x 51.75 inches (framed)

Drawing by Lee Mullican (1919 - 1998). Most likely used as an example for book called 'Musical Chairs poems by James Broughton. Drawings in book are by Lee Mullican. Pictures of book is also pictured. Framed it's 12.5" wide, 14" high. Unframed it's 6.25" wide, 8" high. About the Artist: Mullican was invited to San Francisco in 1946 by Jack Stauffacher, a printer whom he had befriended during the war. Here, he devoted most of his time to drawing and, when finances permitted, painting. A Mullican painting hanging in Stauffacher’s printing studio was discovered by the former British Surrealist Gordon Onslow Ford. Immediately taking him under his wing, Onslow Ford introduced Mullican to the members of the San Francisco art community, including Wolfgang Paalen...

A great collage by the noted artist Wendy Grossman who has since gone on to creating a wonderful brand of furniture and decorative arts.

A study of a woman done in gouache or crayon on brown paper and signed and monogrammed. It has been framed, which looks original. This is one of our favorite artist and we have had quite a few of his paintings. Please forgive the glare from the glass.
A bio from his son follows from his wbsite and askart:
The following, at the suggestion of Barry Lenson, son of the artist, is from the artist's website, www.michaellenson.org.

Michael Lenson (1903-1971) has gained widespread recognition as one of America's most important realist painters.

Born in Russia, Lenson emigrated to America in 1911. While a student at the National Academy of Design in 1928, he won the coveted $10,000 Chaloner Paris Prize which paid for four years of study in London (Slade School of Art), Paris (Academie des Beaux Arts) and the Netherlands. While abroad, his works were exhibited in the Autumn and Spring Parisian Salons and other venues.

Upon his return to America, Lenson won critical acclaim in one-man shows in Manhattan's Kende, Bonestell and other galleries. When the Great Depression struck, he became director of WPA mural projects for the state of New Jersey. He completed major murals for Newark City Hall, The Verona Sanatorium, Weequahic High School in Newark, New Jersey, and the Post Office in Mount Hope, West Virginia. Who Was Who in American Art calls Lenson "New Jersey's most important muralist."

Michael Lenson was a man of many talents. "The Realm of Art," a weekly column he wrote for The Newark Sunday News from 1956-1971, established Lenson as "New Jersey's most distinguished art critic," according to scholar William Gerdts.

Lenson painted and exhibited extensively until his death in 1971. His works are in the collections of the RISD Museum, The Maier Museum of American Art, The Johnson Museum at Cornell, The Newark Museum, The Montclair Art Museum, the Wolfsonian Collection and many others.

EXHIBITIONS AND MURAL INSTALLATIONS:

Selected Exhibitions:
Rochester Memorial Gallery, NY, n.d.
Goupil Galleries, London, 1928-29
Salon d'Automne, Paris, 1928-29
Salon Printemps, Paris, 1928-29
Caz-Delbo Gallery, NY, 1933 (solo)
The Wanamaker Regional Art Exhibition, 1934
Museum of Modern Art, 1935
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1935, 1938
American Artists Congress, 1939, 1940
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1939, 1948
Newark Preparatory School, 1940 (solo)
"The Women," Associated American Artists, NY, circa 1940s
"The American Mining Scene," American British Art Center, NY, 1941
Carnegie Institute, 1943, 1949, 1950
Newark Museum, 1940, 1941, 1944-1946, 1952, 1955, 1961, 1964, 1965
Midtown Galleries, NYC, 1944
Riverside Museum, NYC, I944-1946, 1950
"Tribute to FDR," Vanderbilt Gallery, 1944
Bonestell Gallery, NYC, 1947 (solo)
Laurel Gallery, NYC, 1950 (solo)
Kende Gallery, NYC, 1951 (solo)
Newark Jewish Center, 1951
Montclair Art Museum, NJ, 1953, 1957-1959, 1961-1963, 1970 (solo)
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1955
Hunterdon County Art Center, 9th Annual New Jersey Exhibition, 1962
Cober Gallery, NYC, 1962 (solo)
Providence (Rhode Island) Art Club, 1963
New York World's Fair, New Jersey Pavilion, 1964
Glassboro State College, NJ, 1965 (solo)
Butler Institute of American Art, 1965
"WPA Artists Then and Now," Essex County YM-YWHA, NJ, October 29-November 26, 1967
Trenton Museum, 1968, 1970
Ringwood Association of the Arts, 1975 (solo)
"New Deal for Art," Rutgers University, NJ, 1980
William Paterson College, NJ, 1986 (solo retrospective)
"Painting America: Mural Art in the New Deal Era," Midtown Galleries and Janet Marqusee
Fine Arts, NYC, 1988
"New Jersey by Day, New York by Night," Susan Teller Gallery, NYC, 1991
"Michael Lenson: Real and Surreal," Rutgers University, NJ, Hunterdon Art Center, NJ,
Monmouth County Museum, NJ, 1993
"Surrealism in America During the 1930 and 1940s," Dalvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL,
1999
"Art of the People," U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, DC, 1999
Mural Commissions:
"New Jersey History," Essex Mountain Sanitorium, Verona, NJ, 1936 (destroyed)
"History of the Enlightenment of Man," Weequahic High School, Newark, NJ, 1939 (extant)
"New Jersey Agriculture and Industry," New Jersey Pavilion, New York World's Fair, 1939
(destroyed)
"History of Newark,' Newark City Hall, 1941 (extant) "Mining," Mount Hope, West Virginia
Post Office, 1942 (extant)
"Electronics," Electronic Corporation of America, New York (believed destroyed)
"Lincoln and Douglas," Charlton Street School, Newark
"The Four Freedoms," 14th Avenue School, Newark

Lenson also supervised the design and execution of murals now installed in over 15 public buildings throughout New Jersey comprising the major part of all mural decorations done in the state.

ARTICLES:
At the Bonestell Gallery. Art Digest, February 1, 1947, p.22
All in a Days Work at the WPA. Newark Evening News, December 3, 1940
Artist Speaks at Mural Ceremony. Newark Evening News, April 5, 1993 Brooklyn Artist
Wins $6,000 Prize. Brooklyn Daily Eagle, May 25, 1928 Chaloner Prize Awarded. New York
World, May 25, 1928
Freeholders Invite You to Murals Unveiling. Newark Evening News, November 17, 1936
Architecture, Art, Life by F. A. Gutheim, Magazine of Art, May 30, 1937
Jersey Murals Rushed for Opening of Fair. The Newark Ledger, April 26, 1939
Michael Lenson Will Have Show at New York Gallery. Nutley Sun, January 31, 1947
Michael Lenson to Have Show; Dutch Canvases to Be Seen Here. Newark Sunday News,
January 19, 1947
Michael Lenson. Art News, February 1947
Mural Dedication Set for Tuesday. Newark Evening News, April 1, 1939 Nation Becoming
More Art-Conscious, Lenson Says. Atlantic City Press, March 29, 1941
News Art Critics Paintings to be Shown in Montelair. Newark Sunday News, October 18,
1970
Science Speeds Art for Fair Building. Newark Evening News, April, 1939
Series of Murals to be Given City. Newark Evening News, June 6, 1941
Some words well worth a thousand pictures ... Newark Sunday Star-Ledger, November 1, 1970













Biography from Williams American Art Galleries:
Michael Lenson is a painter in realist style. In 1928, he was a struggling art student sharing a New York City cold-water flat with artists Louis Guglielmi and Gregorio Prestopino. In that year Lenson’s life was to change dramatically when he was awarded the Chaloner Prize for Painting from the Chaloner Foundation. This award enabled the Russian-born artist to return to Europe for four years of travel and study.

Besides enrollment at the University of London’s Slade School and the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Lenson also managed to visit and study art in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. This was the start of his lifelong commitment to the traditions of Renaissance painting. As time went on, this imaginative and intellectual artist also explored and experimented with new modernist ideas. However, no matter what mode he worked in—realism, cubism or surrealism—he was consistent in his dedication to the premise that his art was to be about people and ideas.

After four years abroad, Lenson returned to New York and had his first one-man exhibition, which opened to positive reviews. He won critical acclaim for his one-man shows in Manhattan’s Kende, Bonestell and other galleries. Unfortunately good reviews did not feed artists in those bleak Depression days and the emergence of the WPA Federal Arts Project proved to be another blessing for Lenson.

He is best remembered for his significant contribution to the 1930s mural...

Clearly in the manner of Picasso is this Pen and ink drawing of a devil faun or satyr with a nude woman in his lap with a drink in her hand. It signed lower right and dated 1975. We ...