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Item Ships From: Pennsylvania
Elusive Orange, Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Elusive Orange uses bold brushwork and strong dynamic figure-ground relationships to create a balanced and intriguing abstract composition. The evidence of the process can be seen in...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Corner of Barbados
By Joseph Stella
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Joseph Stella(1877-1946)
A Corner of Barbados, 1937
Oil on canvas, 11 x 15 inches (27.9 x 38.1 cm)
Inscribed on verso: A corner of / Barbados / O:P by / Joseph Stella
Provenance
The artist;
By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946;
By descent in the family, until the present
Joseph Stella’s artistic career defies easy categorization. He was simultaneously a modernist and traditionalist, a dual citizen of the Old and New World, a bold experimenter and masterful practitioner of time-honored artistic techniques. His iconic paintings of New York City, such as the Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island, celebrate modernity and the Machine Age, while his exuberant paintings of the natural world speak to the spiritual revelation that guided and grounded him throughout his life. Until recently, the divergent aspects of Stella’s career “confounded his legacy.” But in Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, the multi-venue museum exhibition that focuses on the artist’s lifelong engagement with nature, a more complete and nuanced understanding of his career has emerged.
Stella’s work of flora and fauna demonstrate his deep connection to and close observational study of nature to invigorate his creativity and sustain his human spirit. Indeed, nature was a salve to his woes about life and the modern age. He made countless drawings and paintings of flowers, many of which were done at the New York Botanical Garden – a favorite place for the artist. In these works, Stella explored new styles and pressed the limits of his imagination. Like nature itself, he was always changing, always growing.
Stella found himself in Barbados in 1937, when then health of his wife had declined and she asked him to bring her home. He loved the island paradise, as it reawakened his creativity and love the natural world, much as his returns to Italy did. Although he remained in Barbados for only five months, the landscape he absorbed and the motifs he developed fueled his art for the next three years. The Barbados paintings...
Category
1930s American Modern Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Same Tune, Different Drummer: abstract painting w/ found objects, military items
By Richard J. Watson
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"Same Tune Different Drummer" is an acrylic collage painting with photograph portraits and a number of found objects integrated into the painting such a as military reference such as drums, guns, bullets, American flags, and imagery referencing American history. This painting "collects fragments from the artist's everyday life -- discarded objects found on the streets of Philadelphia that are saved and later repurposed to germinate an idea." Signed and dated by the artist. Already framed (with a second frame collaged into the work). All hanging hardware included and ready to install on your wall.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Original JAX Beer Advertisement, Illustration of an Autumnal Hunting Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original advertisement for JAX Beer (Jackson Brewing Company, New Orleans, LA), circa 1940s.
In this autumnal scene, a hunting party is enjoying JAX beer at their campsite when a bu...
Category
1940s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Afternoon Ride, Pair of Equestrian Landscape Paintings of Horses with Riders
Located in Doylestown, PA
Afternoon ride is a pair of, 13 x 9 inches each, equestrian paintings by Pennsylvania painter James N Hess. One is signed in the lower left, one is signed in the lower right.
Animal...
Category
1880s American Realist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Boats at Dock
By Hugh Henry Breckenridge
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Hugh Henry Breckenridge was a colorist, a seminal figure in Philadelphia’s Modernist circles, and an influential and beloved teacher. Like many artists of his generation, he experime...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
It’s Never Too Late to Mend
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
Commissioned from the artist by Coats & Clark thread company circa 1939
Exhibited at the Mint Museum, January 2022
Category
1930s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Battery Park with Statue of Liberty
By Henry Tidmarsh
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1880s
Medium: Ink and Wash Heightened with White on Paper
Dimensions: 5.75" x 12.75"
Signature: Signed in Initials on Lower Right
Category
1880s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Framed abstract Persian calligraphy ink drawing/painting on paper, black & white
By Nazanin Moghbeli
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Nazanin Moghbeli's "Morghe Sahar 2" is framed in a white wood painted frame with white mat. It is wired with all hanging hardware, and is ready to install. Moghbeli is a Persian American artist with training in Persian calligraphy, miniature painting, and music. She borrows techniques from Iranian calligraphy to create abstract drawings with traditional bamboo “ghalams,” or quills. Rather than using these techniques to create religious objects as they were originally used, she explores the secular meaning of line in and of itself. She seeks the complete dissolution of words and prefers instead to create abstract images, her alternative to religious object making.
The poem that is collaged into this work is a historic Iranian ballad, entitled "Morghe Sahar" (Bird of Dawn), written by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar and put to music by Morteza Neidavoud in 1921. Some consider this song to be the unofficial anthem of freedom in Iran. The lyrics describe a caged nightingale, urging her to sing with passion and break free. It has been sung in different political contexts, from the constitutional revolution of 1921 through the dictatorship of Mohammad Reza...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper, Graphite
No Trespassing, Autumn Landscape and Hunters by Female American Realist Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"No Trespassing" is a 24 x 30 inches, New Hampshire autumn scene of two hunters walking with their dog through the woods. Painted by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce...
Category
1930s American Realist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract painting w/ collage & photographs, Black African American history
By Richard J. Watson
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Please contact me with zip code for precise shipping rates. "Enough Said Already" is a large acrylic collage painting with photograph portraits integrated into it, as well as ticket stubs, and text. It includes imagery that references African American history...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
"No One's Fool" Curly-Haired Woman on Dark Red, Purple and Blue Scape
By Katherine Fraser
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "No One's Fool" is an original artwork by Katherine Fraser and measures 46"h x 38"w. This oil on canvas work marks a new chapter in Fraser's practice as she shifts...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Effervescent Motion, Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This painting, created with oil on canvas, combines abstract shapes and gestural line work that suggest figures, landscapes, and cartoon elements. The thick layers of paint reveal th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Become, Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This artwork was crafted using acrylic paint on a wood panel, featuring a mix of overlapping geometric and organic shapes in a contrasting palette of pinks and greens. The textured l...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
"Frosted Tips", Oil Painting of Medieval Water Feature on Handcrafted paper
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Frosted Tips" is an original piece by Megan Rea made from oil on hand crafted paper. This pieces measures 11"h x 8.5"w, is signed en verso and comes with a signed Certificate of Aut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Handmade Paper
Far Away Place, Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This painting was created using acrylic paint on raw canvas. The washy moments of paint create variations of black and grey tones and texture. The bold geometric shapes loosely refer...
Category
2010s Contemporary Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bathing by the Big Rock, American Impressionist Landscape and Beach Scene
By Martha Walter
Located in Doylestown, PA
This Impressionist beach scene and landscape was painted by American artist Martha Walter. The 15 x 18 oil on board is framed in a 22K gold reproduction frame and is signed "Martha W...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"AUTOMATON BACKDROP", Figurative Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, Blue Woman
By Libby Rosa
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The painting "AUTOMATON BACKDROP" by Libby Rosa blurs the distinction between abstraction and representation. And that rational/irrational alignment is only...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'Aura fields- study #2'- abstract geometric soak stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
'Aura fields- study #2'-- 46"x 54" abstract tantric painting by contemporary artist Elisa Niva
This textural color field painting uses the soak- method created by Helen Frankenthale...
Category
2010s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic, Pigment
Water Let in on a Field of Alfalfa
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed with initials M.P. (lower right); inscribed Article III. "Irrigation" water let in on a field of alfalfa (in the lower margin)
Written on back "February of 1902. Hot Springs,...
Category
Early 1900s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil
New Years Baby, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1907
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 24.00" x 20.00", Framed 31.00" x 27.00"
The Saturday Evening Post cover illustration, December 1907
Category
Early 1900s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn on Canal, American Impressionist Landscape, Oil on Board, Signed
By Albert Van Nesse Greene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Autumn on Canal" is a Pennsylvania landscape by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene.
The painting is a 8" x 10" oil on board, framed, and signed "A V Greene...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Scene at Voulangis
By Arthur Beecher Carles
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fin...
Category
1920s American Modern Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Holi powder Tantra painting #4 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Holi powder Tantra painting #4 - Colorful abstract tantric stain painting, acrylic and powder on raw canvas by contemporary artist Elisa Niva 42 inche...
Category
2010s Color-Field Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
"Little Tolo" Saturday Evening Post Illustration, December 30, 1922
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The illustration depicts a clipper ship at sea. "Little Tolo," a story illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, December 30, 1922.
The marine paintings by Anton Otto Fischer are as authoritative as only a working sailor could make them. Born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years before the mast on a variety of sailing ships. Paid off in New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship on the school ship, "St. Mary's." He later served as a hand on racing yachts on Long Island Sound and worked as a model and handyman for the illustrator A.B. Frost. When he had saved enough money, he spent two years at the Academie Julian in Paris under Laurens.
Returning to the United States, Fischer sold his first picture to Harper's Weekly in 1908, around the time he moves to Wilmington to receive critiques from Pyle. Everybody's magazine sent him the first of several Jack London stories. In 1910, he began a 48-year association with The Saturday Evening Post, which included illustrating seialized characters such as Peter B. Kyne's "Crappy Ricks," Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugoat Annie," Guy Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as well as serials for Kenneth Robert...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers in a Greenhouse
By Theodore Wendel
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Wendel was born in Midway, Ohio, and trained at the McMicken School of Design where he met and befriended Joseph DeCamp. Together, the two artists traveled to Munich in 1878 to study...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Window Sill
By Stephen Scott Young
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This still life by Stephen Scott Young stands out in the artist’s oeuvre in that Young is most known for his luminous portraits of African Americans or native Bahamians. Nonetheless,...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
0103: contemporary abstract gestural painting w/ yellow, pink & blue lines
By Paula Cahill
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Free shipping with code ART2021SHIP through December! Paula Cahill's linear abstract compositions are often comprised of a single, luminous line that meanders, changes color, and sea...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Archival Paper
Still Life with Robert Laurent Sculpture
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Born in New York City, modernist painter Adelaide Lawson Gaylor studied at the Art Students League and with Kenneth Hayes Miller. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the New York Society of Women Artists. She was married to artist Wood Gaylor...
Category
1920s American Modern Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Winter Quarry River House, American Impressionist Snowy Landscape, Oil on Canvas
By Albert Van Nesse Greene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Winter Sunset" is an Impressionist scene of homes along a snowy river and quarry landscape, painted by American artist Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 32" x 34" oil on ca...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Tipping The Porter, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 30.00" x 24.12", Framed 39.00" x 34.00"
Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 18, 1937
Exhibitions:
It's a Man's Worl...
Category
1960s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Prismatic Polygon XV: geometric abstract painting w/ linear pattern, red, orange
By Jay Walker
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Jay Walker is best known for his large-scale, site-specific installations and collector's pieces created with laser-cut vinyl, colored acrylic sheets, artist-made stencils, tape, and...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Readying for First Date, Original Cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By George Hughes
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A mother helps her son put on a tie in preparation for a formal party. Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, October 16, 1948. George Hughes used his neighbors, the Rockwells, as models. The young man is Thomas Rockwell, the son of famed Norman Rockwell, and the mother is modeled after Thomas' actual mother and Norman's then-wife, Mary Rockwell...
Category
1940s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Prismatic Polygon XIX: geometric abstract painting w/ pattern. Gold, green ombre
By Jay Walker
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Jay Walker is best known for his large-scale, site-specific installations and collector's pieces created with laser-cut vinyl, colored acrylic sheets, artist-made stencils, tape, and...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
The Pond, Landscape with house, New Mexico artist, signed, 1940s, Period frame
By Mabel Dodge Lujan
Located in Doylestown, PA
This painting of a lush, wooden landscape with a house by a lake was painted by New Mexico, female artist Mabel Dodge Luhan in the 1940's. It signed "Mabel Dodge" in the lower left a...
Category
1940s Naturalistic Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Butch at Fire Hydrant, "Wet Paint" - Original Promotional Illustration of a Dog
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A shaggy black and white dog sits in front of a fire hydrant
Promotional illustration used on items like playing cards and calendars.
In the published images, the sign on the fir...
Category
1940s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Tantra series: suite of 4 red minimalist mandala wall sculptures / paintings
By Antonio Puri
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a suite of four 12" x 12" canvas panels in Antonio Puri's "Tantra" sculptural painting series of intimately-scaled minimalist round mandala circle...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Third World Tendencies", Abstract Study of Water Discrepancies in Cities
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Third World Tendencies" is a piece by Caff Adeus made from acrylic and oil on canvas.
"My work boldly states what a lot of artists wouldn’t dare express openly. This unapologetic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Path Beside the Lake, Oil Painting
By Elizabeth Garat
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Path Beside the Lake" captures the feeling of a crisp, breezy Autumn afternoon on a path around a lake. The near trees have a few golden leaves clinging to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lion and Lioness, The Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Lynn Bogue Hunt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Watercolor on Board
Cover illustration for "The Saturday Evening Post," March 19, 1932, a copy of whic...
Category
1930s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Portrait of Fanny Icart- Original grand oil on canvas
By Louis Icart
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Louis Icart
Portrait de Fanny Icart
Excellent Condition
Original oil painting on canvas
Hand-signed in paint in the lower right by Icart
1935
31 1/2 X 39 inches
Framed in an antique ...
Category
1930s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Sketch for Post Office Mural in Short Hills, New Jersey
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Ernest Lawson is an artist who defies easy categorization. His work exhibits characteristics of both Impressionism and realism. In fact, he studied with the American Impressionists, ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Serenade Dance
By Herbert Morton Stoops
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist
Category
20th Century Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman with Earrings, Portrait of a Woman by Philadelphia Artist
By Bernard Harmon
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Woman with Earrings" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of an elegantly dressed woman sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 40" x 34" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
1970s Expressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Horses Feeding, American Impressionist Landscape and Equestrian Painting
By Joseph Thurman Pearson Jr.
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Horses Feeding" is an Equestrian painting by American Impressionist painter Joseph Thurman Pearson, Jr. The 40.5" x 56.25" oil on masonite ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Hound
By Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Oil on board
Signed within painting (on bucket): AFT
Provenance
Private collection
Why We Love It
Tait’s animal paintings were hailed for their masterful realism. Moreover, he capt...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Grapes
By Morston Constantine Ream
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Morston Constantine Ream
(American, 1840-1898)
Grapes
Oil on canvas, 10 x 12 inches
Framed: 22 x 24 inches (approx.)
Signed at lower right: “Morston Ream”
The still-life painter Mor...
Category
1880s Realist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resting, Expressionist Portrait of Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
By Bernard Harmon
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Resting" is an interior portrait of a young man resting on a sofa. This work was painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 24" x 32" oil on board painti...
Category
1960s Expressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Expansion/Contraction #23: geometric abstract Op Art painting, pink squares
By Benjamin Weaver
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Benjamin Weaver creates spatial tension through his use of contrasting colors arranged in a geometric framework. Imagery and color work both with and against each other to create mov...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
French Landscape by Jules Alexis Muenier
Located in Philadelphia, PA
JULES-ALEXIS MUENIER
(French, 1863–1942)
Landscape
Oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches
FRAMED: 34 1/2 x 30 (approx.)
Signed and dated at lower right: “J. A. MUENIER/1908”
Provena...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Life Cycle", Sewn Mixed Media, Human Portrait, Textiles, cityscape, cubist
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Life Cycle" is a piece by Eustace Mamba made from sewn mixed media. This piece measures 20"h x 16 "w framed, and is shipped in the featured wooden frame.
"Black Subjectivity and A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Textile, Paint, Mixed Media
Abstract painting w/ collage & photographs, Black African American history
By Richard J. Watson
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Please contact me with zip code for precise shipping rates. "And the Beat Goes On" is a large acrylic collage painting with photograph portraits integrated into it, as well as found objects, and text. It includes imagery that references African American history and cultural references on the Black community. Signed by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements of 'real life' collaged and collapsed, as dreams are prone to do. If connections are made, all the better. I feel that life should remind us of our dreams." - Richard J. Watson
Richard J. Watson is an icon in the Philadelphia art world. Much of his work relates to his experiences as a Black African American man. He is a graduate of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1968), has taught at his alma mater, and has served in the Exhibitions Department at the African American Museum in Philadelphia since the 1980s. He has been exhibiting his work for decades, and has an extensive bibliography. His work is held in the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; the Uniworld Corporation; Sony; the Federal Reserve Bank; the City of Philadelphia; Sprint; the Church of the Advocate; the poet Dr. Sonia Sanchez; and the Woodmere Museum...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Cheryl Ladd in ‘Grace Kelly
By Richard Amsel
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cheryl Ladd in the role of Princess Grace Kelly of Monaco.
Cover illustration for TV Guide, February 5-11, 1983.
Richard Amsel had a brilliant ...
Category
1980s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil, Mixed Media
In Venice
By Charles Webster Hawthorne
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Like his mentor the great American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, Charles Webster Hawthorne was equally admired in his own day as both a talented painter and a highly influential instructor. Hawthorne first studied with Chase at his Shinnecock Summer School of Art, which was specifically dedicated to open-air landscape painting. Not only did Hawthorne quickly absorb all the principles of Chase’s instruction, but he also became determined to found his own school based on the same model. In 1899 Hawthorne discovered the small fishing village of Provincetown on the furthermost tip of Cape Cod, and after purchasing a large house on Miller Hill, he opened the Cape Cod School of Art, which proved to be an immediate success.
While Hawthorne’s own approach as a teacher owed much to Chase, he developed a distinctly unique painting style and teaching method that defies easy categorization. He was greatly impressed with the work of Franz Hals, which he was exposed to during his trip to Holland in the summer of 1898. Hawthorne was particularly struck by Hals’ Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almhouse, and from this work he absorbed a deep appreciation for the power of human expression and an economy of technique. Hawthorne applied these lessons to his own realistic portraits of Provincetown fishermen and their families; these works have a somber, almost melancholy quality to them, and they reveal a sense of the vulnerability of the human condition.
Stylistically, Hawthorne maintained a life-long commitment to the importance of color. “Beauty in art,” he said, “is the delicious notes of color one against the other.” Of equal importance to him was capturing the effects of light. He told his students: “Everything in painting is a matter of silhouettes. Hold light against shadow, not light against light.” He developed a particular technique of layering glazes and texturing the surface of his paintings, which heightens the relationship between the colors and creates a light effect that seems to emanate from within the painting. These stylistic techniques in combination with his straightforward compositions of one or more figures shown at close range create the hallmarks of Hawthorne’s best paintings.
Hawthorne and his wife Ethel’s 1905-1907 trip to Italy did not result in a drastic impact on his artistic style. Nonetheless, it proved to be a transformative and enlightening voyage. The extensive trip was financed by collectors who paid in advance for a painting to be produced abroad. On the trip, Hawthorne explored the work of old masters and was struck particularly by the paintings of Titian, which to Hawthorne, demonstrated the master’s true adoration for the act of painting itself through his handling of paint and color. Where Titian’s paintings...
Category
Early 1900s Abstract Impressionist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Prismatic Polygon XVII: geometric abstract painting in green, purple & gold
By Jay Walker
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Jay Walker is best known for his large-scale, site-specific installations and collector's pieces created with laser-cut vinyl, colored acrylic sheets, artist-made stencils, tape, and...
Category
2010s Abstract Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Archival Paper
Grandma Catches Fly-ball, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Richard Dick Sargent
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, April 23, 1960.
The Post described, "'Here's the pitch, Snider connects! It's a pop foul heading in the direction of the third-base stands. Mathe...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Casein
Polo Players on Horseback, Kuppenheimer Advertisement
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Styles for Men: The House of Kuppenheimer, Spring and Summer 1914, cover illustration.
This piece was published as the cover illu...
Category
1910s Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
By Antonio Petruccelli
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Movers
New Yorker published, September 20, 1935
18 X 11 1/2 inches...
Category
1930s American Realist Pennsylvania - Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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