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Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Framed in a fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York
Trinity House Paintings, London
Private Collcetion, New York
Alexander Avenard Collection
Le Trianon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
An Unusual “Specimen Petra Dura” Marble Top Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
An unusual “Specimen Petra Dura” marble top table
Resting on very rare shell form support bases
Possibly Florence, Italy
19th century
Measures: Height...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Baroque Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Neoclassical Style Painted Wrought-Iron Console with Slate Top
Located in Sheffield, MA
A neoclassical style painted
Wrought-iron console with slate top
Measures: Height 40 inches, width 53 inches, depth 13 inches.
Provenance:
Richard Kazarian, Providence, Rhode Island.
Property from a Private Collection, Southampton, New York
Le Trianon...
Category
20th Century North American Neoclassical Console Tables
Materials
Iron
Bathing Group
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathing Group
Oil on canvas board
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
12 by 16 in. W/frame 20 by 24 i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman and Child
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Woman and Child
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bathers
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathers
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Place de la Concorde, Paris
By Charles Cobelle
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Cobelle
French, 1902-1998
La Place de la Concorde, Paris
Oil on canvas
20 by 24 in. W/frame 28 by 32 in.
Signed lower right
Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and becoming a U.S. citizen in the late 1920s, Charles Cobelle, whose birth name was Carl Edelman, began his career in Paris after earning Bachelor and Master's Degrees at the University of Munich. Later he studied at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and with Marc Chagall. At Menton on the Riviera, he apprenticed with Raoul Dufy.
In the United States where he lived in Brookfield and Fairfield, Connecticut, he continued to create mixed-media paintings, and also did mural work for commercial establishments such as Neiman Marcus Company in Dallas, Texas; The Desert Inn...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Oil
Mother & Child in a Landscape, framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame
By André Gisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Gisson
American, 1921-2003
Mother & Child in a Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in. W/frame 32 by 44 in.
Signed lower left
Framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moonlight Over the Promenade
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
Swedish, 1844-1920
Moonlight Over the Promenade
Oil on canvas
27 by 45 in. W/frame 39 by 57 in.
Signed lower right
Wilh...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pale Morning
By Michiel Gloeckner
Located in Sheffield, MA
Michael Gloeckner
American, 1915-1989
Pale Morning
Oil on canvas
30 by 30 in. W/frame 31 by 31 in.
Signed lower right, & titled & dated 1966 on reverse on stretcher
Michael lived ...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Grand Hotel, Paris, 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Le Grand Hotel, Paris ,1954
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marche de Fleurs, a La Madeleine Paris 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Marche de Fleurs, La Madeleine Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable t...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moulin Rouge, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Moulin Rouge
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, Antoi...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Place de L'Opera, Paris 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
La Place de L'Opera, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
VUE DU SACRE COEUR - MONTMARTRE, PARIS
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Vue du Sacre Coeur, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Montmartre -La Place Dutertre, Paris 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Montmartre
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, An...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Rive Droite - Le Marche De Fleurs au CHATELET , PARIS, 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Marchand de Fleurs, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Poste 1954 PARIS - Post Impressionist street scene
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
La Poste
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to th...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Father & Child
By Renato Guttuso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Renato Guttuso
Italian 1911-1987
Father & Child
Oil on canvas
30 ½ by 19 in. W/frame 31 ½ in. by 20 in.
Signed verso "Guttuso"
Signed lower center "Guttuso"
Dated 1966
Titled vers...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Grands Boulevards et La Madeleine, Paris, 1953
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
La Madeleine, Paris
Oil on canvas
10 ¾ by 13 ¾ in. W/frame 16 ½ by 19 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
At The Seaside
By Gaston Sebire
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gaston Sebire
French, 1920-2002
At The Seaside
Oil on canvas
25 by 31 in. W/frame 33 ½ by 39 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris.
The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.”
The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris.
Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage. As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.”
Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Frost
America, 1843–1907
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Oil on Canvas
20 by 30 in. W/frame 28 by 38 in.
Signed lower l...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Day at the Beach
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leonce De Joncieres
French, 1871-1947
A Day at the Beach
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 'L. de Joncieres/ 1903' (lower right)
46 1/2 by 65¼ in. W/f...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
White Angora Cats
By Arthur Heyer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Arthur Heyer
German, 1872 – 1931
White Angora Cats
Oil on canvas
22 by 27 in. w/frame 30 by 35 in.
Arthur Heyer was born in Haarhausen. He studied at...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vase de Fleurs
By Leon Herbo
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Herbo
Belgian, 1850-1907
Vase de Fleurs
Oil on canvas
22 ½ by 18 in. W/frame 34 ½ by 30 in.
Signed and dated 1906
Leon exhibited in Brussels, Munich, Gand, Cologne and Paris....
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scene de Chasse
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alexandre Marie Guillemin
French, 1817-1880
Scene de Chasse
Oil on Panel
9 by 12in. w/frame 17 ½ by 20 ½in.
Signed lower right
He studied with Baron Gros. He exhibited at the Salo...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunny Hedge
By Frank Vincent Dumond
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Vincent Dumond
American, 1865-1931
Sunny Hedge
Oil on canvas
Signed "F.V. DuMond," lower right
24.5 in. by 29 in. W/frame 32.5 by 37 in.
Born in Rochester, New York in 1865, Frank DuMond left his work as an illustrator at age 23 to study in the rigorous classical atelier tradition of the Academie Julian Paris in 1888. Upon his return to New York in 1892, DuMond embarked on a painting and teaching term at the Art Students League spanning nearly six decades until his death.
A painter of diverse talents, he was an accomplished landscape, portrait and still life painter, muralist, and leader of the Tonalist then Impressionist art colonies of Lyme, Connecticut. In particular, DuMond was noted for his use of landscape green. American Impressionist expert William H. Gerdts wrote of DuMond, "As one might speak of Velazquez's blacks, one must speak of DuMond's greens." Scholars have described him as a deft painter of the American Impressionist landscape and the figure, but he will perhaps be remembered as among the most outstanding educators in American art history. Though an accomplished painter, he is said to have considered himself more of an educator than an artist.
By all accounts, DuMond is described by his students as a man whose art and teaching methods were based on deeply held religious and philosophical beliefs. One student recalls, "There were occasions when DuMond revealed a clear intent to educate us on a deeper level than might casually be associated with painting." His students remember him fondly as "a genial, generous, and perceptive instructor…whose warmth and kindness pervaded everything he did." Under his tutelage, many prominent American artists were brought to recognition, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, and John Marin. Still other protégés of DuMond renown became influential teachers, such as Baroque-style painter Frank Mason, whose influence emerged in New York at the Art Students League; and Arthur Maynard...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Segovie
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marie Antoinette Boullard-Deve
French, 1890-1970
Segovie
Oil on canvas
29 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 39 by 31 ½ in.
Signed lower left and titled and dated 1951 on the back
Marie was born...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Pair of Small Louis XVI Carved Giltwood Console Tables
Located in Sheffield, MA
A fine pair of small Louis XVI
Carved giltwood console tables
18th century
Each with a D-shape white Carrara marble top, above the guilloche-carved frieze, one centered by a wove...
Category
Antique 1790s French Louis XVI Console Tables
Materials
Giltwood
Brittany
Located in Sheffield, MA
Edward Francis Rook
American, 1870-1960
Brittany
Oil on Canvas
30 by 30 in. W/frame 38 by 38 in.
Signed lower left
Circa, 1898-1900
Rook, born in New York City on September 21, 1870, became one of the most original impressionists at Old Lyme. First he was a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Life started out to be rather promising for Rook, around the turn of the century. He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, both in 1898, when his harbor scene, entitled Pearl Clouds — Moonlight was reproduced in International Studio, in April. In addition, the PAFA presented him with the Temple Gold Medal for Deserted Street, Moonlight, which the Academy purchased. Three years later, Rook was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he exhibited three landscapes. Caffin (1902, p. xxxvi) praised the artist's "translucent quality of color," which suggests a study of color theory. Also in 1901, Rook married Edith Sone. For most of 1902, the Rooks were in Mexico.
Rook came to Old Lyme in October of 1903. The date is significant because Childe Hassam was also there that month. Hassam would more or less re-orient the artists' colony from Tonalism to impressionism. Rook would move there permanently two years later.
He took two medals at the St. Louis Universal Exposition (1904) where his landscapes from the Mexican trip were displayed. More awards followed: a silver medal at the International Fine Arts Exposition in Buenos Aires, 1910, a gold medal at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, a Corcoran Bronze Medal, and a William A. Clark Award in 1919 for Peonies. By 1924, the artist was made a National Academician. Despite all these awards and recognition, Rook did little in the way of selling his art and reportedly, his prices were too high. His paintings were handled by Macbeth and Grand Central Art Galleries.
Rook was active in Old Lyme's art community. As stated above, he would have met Hassam that October in 1903 but Willard Metcalf had departed at the end of the summer. As several writers have explained (Connecticut and American Impressionism, 1980, p. 123), Hassam "was the catalyst around whom [impressionism] coalesced." Rook's niece, Virginia Rook Garver, who happened to be the grand-niece of Hassam, confirmed that Rook and Hassam knew each other in Europe — before they went to Old Lyme (Fischer, 1987, p. 19).
Rook was one of the relatively young painters to come to Old Lyme, along with Gifford Beal, William Chadwick, and Robert Nisbet, on the wave of impressionism, initiated there by Hassam and Metcalf. Old Lyme became a center of American impressionism, and as Donelson F. Hoopes remarked, "under Hassam, the shoreline of Connecticut became a kind of Giverny of America." Among Ranger's group, palettes started to become lighter, except those of the most determined tonalists. Ranger himself, perhaps admitting defeat, moved to Noank in 1904.
Rook is best known for his views of Bradbury's Mill, which was soon called Rook's Mill, owing to the painter's many versions of the scene. One, called Swirling Waters, dated ca. 1917, is in the Lyme Historical Society. Even more famous is Rook's Laurel, dated between 1905 and 1910 (Florence Griswold Museum), in which a profuse laurel bush (the state flower), is set off by a spectacular Constable-like background. But Swirling Waters could never be confused with Constable, with its violent brushwork, impasto-layered water, and bright, almost chalky, plein-air palette. Gerdts (1984, p. 226) compares the paintings of Walter...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
East River, New York Winter (From Brooklyn Bridge)
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Usher De Voll
American, 1873-1941
East River, New York Winter (From Brooklyn Bridge)
Oil on canvas
32 by 36 in. w/frame 41 by 45 in.
Signe...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Djeuner Champtre
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
Djeuner Champtre
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ½ by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower left
Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October 7,...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Peaches
Located in Sheffield, MA
Morston Constatine Ream
American 1840-1898
Still Life with Peaches
Oil on canvas
Signed Lower Middle
16 by 20 in. w/frame 22 ½ by 26 ½ in.
Morston Constatine Ream was a specialist in fruits and dessert still lifes...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
By Marie Joseph Léon Clavel
Located in Sheffield, MA
“I Will”, Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel
French, 1850-1923
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
Oil on canvas, Signed
13 ¼ by 19 ½ in. W/frame 23 ¼ by 29 ½ in.
Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel took ...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
By Andrew Thomas Schwartz
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andrew Thomas Schwartz
American, 1867-1942
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
Oil on canvas
24 by 30 in. W/frame 28 ½ by 34 ½ in.
Signed lower right...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Kimono
By Everett Lloyd Bryant
Located in Sheffield, MA
Everett Lloyd Bryant
American, 1864-1945
Woman in Kimono
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
30 by 25 in. W/frame 35 by 30 in.
Everett studied wit...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ballet D'enfants
By Suzanne Eisendieck
Located in Sheffield, MA
Suzanne Eisendieck
French, 1908-1998
Ballet D'enfants
Oil on canvas
36 by 29 ½ in. W/frame 44 by 37 ½ in.
Signed lower right
She was born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1908 ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl Reading a Book
By Lucien Pissarro
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien Pissarro
French, 1863-1944
Girl Reading a Book
Oil on canvas
18 ¼ by 15 in. W/frame 24 ¼ by 21 in.
Signed lower right and dated 1907
Born in Pa...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Fruits
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Raffin
French, 1927-2005
Les Fruits
Oil on Canvas
18 in. by 22 in. W/frame 25 ½ in. by 29 ½ in.
Signed & dated 61 lower left
André Raffin was bor...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Studio
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American, 1905-1981
Studio
Oil on canvas
24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in.
Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Studio”
Circa 1959
Remo Michael Farrugg...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signals
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American, 1905-1981
Signals
Oil on canvas
24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in.
Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Signals”
Circa 1959
Remo Michael Farru...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Covered Bridge
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American,1905-1981
Covered Bridge
Oil on canvas.
22 in. by 30 in. W/frame 26 in. by 34 in.
Signed lower right & titled on verso...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
VUE de PARIS , La TOUR ST. JACQUES et LE THEATRE du CHATELET
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jules Herve
French, 1887-1881
Vue du Paris
Oil on canvas
18 by 21 ½ in. Wframe 28 by 31 in.
Signed lower left
An impressionist French artist whose subjects ranged from rural genr...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Seller, Paris
Located in Sheffield, MA
Cesar Villacres
Ecuador, 1880–1941
Flower Seller, Paris
Cesar Villacres was an Ecuadorean artsit that worked in South America & Paris.
He exhibited i...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Bouquinistes, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Les Bouquinistes, Paris
Oil on canvas
18 by 22 in. W/frame 24 by 28 in.
Signed lower left
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scene de PARIS apres La Liberation
By Lucien Adrion
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien Adrion
French, 1889-1953
Scene De PARIS apres la Liberation
Oil on canvas
21 ¼ in. by 25 ½ in. W/frame 31 ¼ in. by 35 ½ in.
Signed & dated 1949 lower right
Lucien Adrion w...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Coastal View
By Yolande Ardissone
Located in Sheffield, MA
Yolande Ardissone
French, b. 1927
A Coastal View
Oil on canvas
38 by 51 in. W/frame 47 ½ by 60 in.
Signed lower left
Gallery label (Findlay Galleries) ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
L'Opera, Paris
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antonio DeVity
Italian, 1901-1993
L'Opera, Paris
Oil on canvas
16 by 20 in. W/frame 20 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Antonio De Vity was born in Reggio-Calbria in southern Italy. ...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Notre Dame, Autonne
By Merio Ameglio, 1897-1970
Located in Sheffield, MA
Merio Ameglio
Italian, 1897-1970
Notre Dame, Autonne
Oil on Canvas
18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in.
Signed lower left & titled on reverse
Merio noted impressionist painter p...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Montmatre, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Montmatre, Paris
Oil on canvas
15 by 18 in. W/frame 22 ½ by 25 ½ in.
Signed & dated 53 lower right
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter kn...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Parisian Street Scene
Located in Sheffield, MA
Merio Ameglio
Italian, 1897-1970
Parisian Street Scene
Oil on Canvas
18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in.
Signed lower left
Merio noted impr...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Outside a Deli
By Jack Levine
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jack Levine
American, 1915-2010
The Deli
Oil on board
28 ¼ by 34 in. W/frame 36 ¼ by 42 in.
Signed Lower Right
Born and raised in the south end of Boston, Jack Levine created soc...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Georges Georoy
Belgium, 1906–1983
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Oil on canvas
23 ¾ in. by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ¾ in. by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower right
In a period Heydenryk frame
...
Category
1960s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mountain Landscape, Springtime, New Mexico
By Russell Cowles
Located in Sheffield, MA
Russell Cowles
American, 1887-1979
Mountain Landscape, Springtime, New Mexico
Oil on board
24 by 30 in. W/frame 30 ¼ by 36 ¼ in.
Signed lower right
Russell Cowles was born in Algona, Iowa in 1887. His father was a well-known newspaperman, who became publisher of the Des Moines Register and Tribune. His mother studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and encouraged his interest. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1909 and studied in Paris as well as New York at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students' League with Douglas Volk...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Place de la Madeleine
By Frank Will
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Will
French 1900-1950
Place de la Madeleine
Watercolor on paper
18 by 21 in. w/frame 25 by 27 in.
Signed lower left
Son of painter Frank Myers Boggs. A Figure from montmatr...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Homage to Picasso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Vyacheslav Shraga
Russian, 1953-
Homage to Picasso
Ink on paper
12 by 17 in. W/frame 22 by 27 in.
Painter, graphic artist, sculptor Vyacheslav Sh...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Lady at her Vanity
By Henry Mayo Bateman
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henry Mayo Bateman
English, 1887–1970
Lady at her Vanity
Watercolor on paper
9 ½ by 10 ½ in. W/frame 18 ½ by 19 ½ in.
Signed & dated 1904 lower on left
H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and usually upper-class social gaffes, such as "The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before the Loyal Toast", "The Man Who Threw a Snowball at St. Moritz" and "The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum."
He was born in the small village of Sutton Forest in New South Wales, Australia. His parents were Henry Charles Bateman and Rose Mayo. His father had left England for Australia in 1878 at the age of 21 to seek his fortune, then returned to England briefly in 1885 before going back with an English wife. Soon after Henry was born, his strong-willed mother insisted that they return to London 'and civilisation'. He had one sister, Phyllis, three years younger. Henry remained in England for the remainder of his life except for one disappointing visit to his birthplace.[citation needed]
Henry was always drawing from an early age, consistently producing funny drawings...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor