Wisconsin - More Art

This textile is an excellent and unusual example of the work of Stacy Wiatrak, being both an artwork and a wearable garment. The artist uses appliqued ribbons, images of lilacs and b...

Art Column (ART DBG)' is an original signed ceramic sculpture by Robin Campo. It is a rare and early example of the artist's fanciful work, made only a year after he earned his Master of Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and while he was developing his reputation through local galleries. Campo is here working in the later traditions of pop art by using the ceramic medium for trompe l'oeil effect: the sculpture is made to look like an oversize stack of toy wood...

This image is a colored engraving of a city view of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1873. The reverse depicts a lake view of the city of Racine, Wisconsin, a city to the south of Milwaukee....

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

African (Shona) 25 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box, ca. 2005

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

New Guinea, Ceremonial Drum, Wood (Mahogany), Lizard skin 24 1/2 x 7"d.

Woven silk and embroidered textiles have been popular in China and sought after the world over for thousands of years. Embroidered textiles are called xiuhua (or zhahua) ("making dec...

"Egyptian Scene" is a cotton textile created by an unknown Egyptian artist around 1925. This textile depicts a bull on an offering table before the Egyp...

This piece is a hand blown glass egg by Ioan Nemtoi. The artist signed the glass egg. This piece features a natural color palette like yellow ocher, brown, olive green, and black. ...

African (Shona) 49 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box

African (Shona) 49 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box.

Ceramic Bowl, signed by artist. 16.5" x 18"

African (Shona) 49 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box.

"This Way" is an acrylic on museum board signed on verso by Reginald K. Gee. This abstract landscape is a mixture of green, orange, and blue. Near the right is a blue house overgrown...

This darling angel garden stake sculpture brings the springtime inside or out while making a fantastic gift for mom, a friend, or as a welcome gift for a ...

Clay, Double Walled Porcelain Glazed signed on the bottom. 7 x 23 inches Karen Gunderman is an experienced artist based in the United States whose paintings have been exhibited nati...

This metal relief, by the artist Jean Carlo Brutus, features the figure in Haitian Voudou known as Bossou. Bossou is one of the Lwa – the pantheon of deities that intermediates betwe...

Art: 17 3/4"x 15" Frame: 31" x 26 3/4" Signed Watercolor Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff Elementary School in Shorewood, WI. During this time Sylvia produced a magnificent body of work that was undiscovered until her death. Sylvia's work is rich, diverse and fascinating collection of drawings...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

Indonesian wooden Flat Puppet (Klitk) with light pink face, 19th century. 18 1/2 x 4 3/8

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

'Bowl (Blue & White)' is a hand-thrown glazed stoneware bowl made by Mark Shekore, signed with his last name on the bottom of the piece. 3.75 x 8.75 in Mark Shekore attended the Un...

Titled, signed, and dated in lower margin. A move to an eighty-acre farm in Western Michigan from Detroit suited Janet Richardson Baughman to a tee. She and her three siblings loved country life, and relished the many humorous adjustments to their new surroundings. The one-room schoolhouse she attended, for example, contrasted sharply to her earlier city school. Sports programs had been fairly sophisticated in the city. Rural sports consisted of her teacher piling everyone in her car, including the trunk, and then driving the children to another one-room schoolhouse for games. When Janet reached the sixth grade, a chapter in American history closed because all of the one-room schoolhouses were annexed by the nearest cities, but that unusual educational experience is something Janet fondly remembers. Growing up in a family that was very artistic, it is not surprising that Janet loved drawing. She and her brothers and sisters would make Christmas decorations for the Christmas tree and had ongoing art projects all year long. Her architect father was an artist in his free time. As the children have become adults, they are all involved in artistic endeavors from carving to sculpture. Janet's high school years were spent riding and showing her horses. "That was my life," she says. Living on the farm allowed her freedom to indulge her love of animals including the dogs that were so special to her. Active in 4H, Janet became an accomplished seamstress and an excellent cook. She took no art classes in high school although she sometimes helped her father with drafting. Starting college with the intention of majoring in speech and drama, Janet took an art class only because it was required. She found the art classes so appealing that she took one after another. Eventually, having taken every art class offered, the university had to design independent studies for her. With her beloved horses back on the farm, Janet discovered a new passion, and that was ceramics. First working as a waitress during college to earn income, Janet later became a Student Assistant and lived at the Ceramics Studio. As an assistant, she would make clay and glazes, fire the kiln, and assist the instructor however she could. At first, she had planned to become a high school teacher, but she was encouraged to earn her graduate degree and pursue her artistic endeavors, in addition to teaching. Janet graduated in 1975 with a BFA in Ceramics and Weaving from Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, MI. Following her mentor's advice, she went to Indiana State University in Indiana for her graduate work where she studied under Dick Hay. Demanding, but very laid back personally, he expected a lot from Janet, and she grew from his expectations. She joined the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) which is a ceramics networking organization. It has a national conference each year where ceramists, educators and studio artists meet. She was on the Board of Directors for two years. Janet received her MFA in 1977. Moving back to Western Michigan, Janet found teaching positions with various colleges and taught art history, ceramics and a myriad of classes. However, she never forgot her mentor's advice, which was to continue her craft. Janet met a businessman/artist, John Baughman, who sold her artwork around the country. Janet bought a studio and her work was selling so well that she no longer needed to supplement her income with teaching. Janet and John had a business relationship for several years until life took one of those magical twists, and their relationship blossomed into much more. Later, the two of them were married. John and Janet bought acreage and moved to the country. Turning one of their buildings into a studio, the pair became extremely successful influencing them to concentrate only on their artwork and discontinue the sales end of his business. Janet says it has been very, very good for them and has caused different things to happen. The challenges of commissions make her think in directions that it is unlikely she would have done on her own. Janet is an extremely talented artist. It is difficult to believe when one sees her pastel, mixed media of pencil, oils and collage landscapes done on paper that this is the same artist that designs and makes very sophisticated and stylized ceramics. The natural beauty that abounds where she lives inspires her artwork. Interestingly, she also derives inspiration from her ceramics for her paintings although the two are quite different in style. Her paintings are stylized and readable, but she does not look for minute detail when she paints. These soft landscapes create a feeling of bucolic peace and serenity although Janet does not consciously paint a message. Janet says of her work, that it is like a dance or conversation in her head, which she expresses through her art. Janet lives an almost idyllic rural existence with her artist/husband who she says is "the love of her life." They work together everyday, and for them it is the perfect partnership because they compliment one another so well. Together they raise and train horses, and are expecting three foals within a year. In addition, she loves to garden and after the tradition of her grandmother and mother, has a huge vegetable garden. She and her husband love to cook. They enjoy golfing together as well. Their three grown children are still very important in their lives, and Janet sews intricate costumes for her daughter when she shows her horse. In the future, Janet thinks that living in Virginia with horses and continuing with her art would be perfect. She, along with her husband, would like to spend a summer in Provence...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anyth...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

This Kilim rug was hand woven in Turkey, circa mid-20th century from wool. It features geometric patterning in red, black, blue, and yellow and is priced under $4500. The design is perfect with any décor as it completes both contemporary and antique interior design settings. As part of the Design Lovers...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything di...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

This mask, depicting a western character with only partly slanted eyes and a mustache, was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. It is a deep mustard green and is about 7" tall by...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

This Kilim rug was hand woven in Turkey, circa mid-20th century. It features patterns in yellow, gray, white, brown, and pink in a beautiful geometric design. Priced under $4500, this rug is sure to be enjoyed with several design schemes as it works in both modern and antique settings. Lovers of carpets will appreciate the wool under their feet as they keep their interior both stylish and comfortable. Kilim rugs are a pileless rug woven using just one of numerous flat weaving techniques that originated in parts of Turkey. Other geographical areas producing kilim style rug weaving include Iran, North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, the Balkans, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. Perfect for the design lovers sale...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

This glass frame, now being used to hold a mirror, was hand-painted by an unknown Peruvian artist. The opening of the frame is 8" x 10". The frame itself features a Silver-Gray snowf...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

This mask, featuring a pink face, moustache, and slanted eyes, was created by an unknown Indonesian artist. It is approximately 8" high by 5" wide.

"Two Ladies in White" is an original pastel drawing by Sue Bartfield in white and purple. 27 1/4" x 40 3/4" art 33 5/8" x 48" framed Artist's Statement: "You might be surprised to...

"Breakfast in Merida (Homage to Carmen Miranda)" is an original woven wool tapestry with velvet fruit by Joan Ward Summers. It is a decorative tableau which displays a background pat...

Art: 26-3/4"x19-3/4" Frame: 27"x20" Poster, signed & inscribed to Philip Barnett lower left (43/58) Claude Weisbuch was born in Thionville, France in 1927 and was a pupil at L' Écol...

African (Shona) 49 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box.

African (Shona) 49 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box

African (Shona) 49 Shona Stone Samples with Specimen Box

2-1/4 x 7" Ceramic Bowl, signed and dated verso The ceramic sculptures of Wisconsin artist Michael Gross are personal narratives that reveal an unusual mix of earthly magic and primal vitality. The artist works in a variety of forms, including figurines, large vessels and furniture. With over a dozen museum exhibitions under his belt, the artist is a regular exhibitor at SOFA in New York...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 12K white gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading...

This photo frame was hand-made in Romania and features 22K gold leafing. It is made out of wood and includes archival plexiglass to protect anything displayed in it from fading or ot...

"Landscape Blue, Violet, White" is an original pastel drawing by Sue Bartfield. 41" x 28" art 41 1/4" x 35 7/8" framed Artist's Statement: "You might be surprised to know that I d...