Bio: Ernesto Alcántara (1933 - 2019) created a vast body of work along many themes: volcanoes, the Sierra Gorda, seascapes, landscapes, nudes, still life works, travel sketches, political satire, fairy tales drawn for his daughter, characters, with Sor Juana, Don Quixote, and Rembrandt being predominant.   His techniques include oil on linen, prepared by him in his studio with rabbit glue, linseed oil, and tempera; engravings on copper or zinc using burin, dry point, etching, or soft ground;...

(Consignment). Joe Dawley was known as a teacher and wrote many books on painting. This work is rare as it is a cubist abstract work done for a friend. Measures 7 1/2 x 10“ oval and his watercolor on paper framed in its original frame The following biography, submitted March 2005, is from the daughter of the artist. Although raised and educated in Texas, Joe Dawley moved to New Jersey in the early 1960's where he remained...

This work measures 11x14“ and is framed in a beautiful black frame that measures 16 x 20“ Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures...

Oil on canvas measuring 8x12” and framed in it’s original frame. Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures...

“New Mexico” by Augustus Dunbier, c.1970, oil on canvas, 20” x 24”, framed, signed lower left. Painted towards the end of his career; a culmination of all the influences of his education and early career can be seen in this work.Most of his late canvases were painted in New Mexico. This work shows the early lessons from Germany’s Dusseldorf Academy where he learned to paint in the “dark manner” of the old masters...

Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures...

A PAIR of lithograph prints of street scenes in Manchester, England, 1823, one titled "Market Street, Manchester", the other "Market Place, Manchester" both drawn by J Ralston, and transferred to the stone by J D Harding, printed by C Hullmandel, and published by D and P Jackson, May 1823. Each measures 21 3/4" by 17 1/2"...

Red River is an oil on canvas landscape measures 20 x 24“ Augustus Dunbier was born on a farm between Shelby and Osceola in Polk County, Nebraska and lived most of his life in Omaha, Nebraska where he became well-established as a portrait painter and private teacher. He was one of early Nebraska’s most successful and influential artists. His training was at Germany’s Dusseldorf Academy where he learned to paint in the “dark manner” of the old masters...

Gabrini known for his masterful watercolor paintings and draftsmanship was one of the most sought after paintings on the grand tour born in Italy in 1856 he died in 1926 this work is watercolor on fine Fabiano paper measuring 28 x 19“ Pietro Gabrini was an Italian artist working in variety of mediums on diverse subject matters. Perhaps he acquired his range of practices from his teacher, Guglielmo de Sanctis 1829- 1911...

Beautiful and original oil on paper painting from Field & Stream magazine in the 1940s or early 50s measuring 28 x 20“ Illustrator Arthur Davenport Fuller was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, and educated at Harvard University, the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston, and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Fuller was an ardent sportsman all his life. His hunting and fishing pictures were a natural part of his identity...

Sunday Picnic in Abruzzo (Italy), was featured at the Chicago worlds fair in 1933 in an exhibit titled “Paintings of the New Italy”. The paintings were handpicked by Mussolini to show the deep-rooted family values of Italians. Carlos Verdecchia born in Italy in 1905 exhibited throughout Europe and Italy extensively in his lifetime. Period is greatly acclaimed pieces have been shown to many museums...

A Rare/Fine Korean Water Color Painting by Won Suk Yeon(元錫淵-원석연)(1922-2003): “A Young musician playing a Korean traditional musical instrument in Royal dress” Korea, circa 1960s, framed, and painted on paper elaborately, and signed the artist’s round seal “원석연” in Korean stamped on the lower right.. It measures 12 3/4” x 16 1/2” painting only It’s in very fine condition without any noticeable damages. Framed.

This work done in Paris in the 1960s by premier artist Burnett 16x20 inches

Watercolor 10x14 inches Tom Jones riding to the house credible work by famous British artist C. Barrow From the series of watercolor done for production of the motion picture.

Watercolor 12x6 inches. Frame size 21x12” unsigned Nineteen Century Shorescape

Fine Drawing illustration by artist J.J. Gould 10x15 inch Framed size 20x24 inches Joseph J. Gould, better known as J.J. Gould, was born in 1880. Gould lived in Philadelphia and designed posters for Lippincott's during the mid-1890s. After 1900, Gould went on to design and illustrate 21 covers for The Saturday Evening Post.

Haystacks and Chickens Pastel Painting 17”x23” Attributed to L’Hermitege JOHN GOULD (UK, 1804–81) John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. He published several monographs on birds, illustrated by plates that he produced with the assistance of his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart...

Beautiful German Print circa 1919 22x17 inches

An incredible painting by the painter genius Abraham Ratner, oil on paper “ arms are too short the box with God“ 33x26 inches Abraham Rattner (July 8, 1895 – February 14, 1978) was an American artist, best known for his richly colored paintings, often with religious subject matter. During World War I, he served in France with the U.S...

A Pair of Watercolor of 18th century period Landscape Periods, Italian School, influence of Claude Lorainne. 21x25 inches price is $4,500 each Claude Lorrain (French: [klod lɔ.ʁɛ̃]; born Claude Gellée [ʒəle], called le Lorrain in French; traditionally just Claude in English; c. 1600 – 23 November 1682) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher of the Baroque era...

Napoleanonic War Figures in Russia, Russian Town of Tcherkask Lithograph circa 1800 21x18 inches

A magnificent and important work by master Xiaopo 34x29 and beautifully framed

An exquisite and well painted work signed Butterfield. Oil on canvas 25x22 inches Clown playing the cello Cortland Butterfield was one of the leading portrait artists of his time. The subjects of his naturalistic works in watercolors and oils ranged from people he met in his daily life to performing artists, including luminaries such as Pablo Casals and Margot Fonteyn...

Caroline Solomon Abstract Portrait “Bosnian Grandfather”, acrylic on paper. This work is electric in color and amazing 23”x20”

Delicious Fruit Still Life lithograph Bontanical Lithograph 10x8 inches

Chinese Lithograph Avian work on paper framed and ready to hang

M.Hanay oil on canvas work signed and framed measures 12x13.5 inches.... This work is from the 1930s Our gallery in Washington DC is located in the heart of Georgetown

John Singer Sargent attributed portrait of Moffit Anderson 1879, pastel on paper 32x28. Drawn in Savannah Georgia in 1879

Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs with Western creative techniques. Born in 1962 in the Ivory Coast villa...

Still Life Italian Artist C. D. Mirani oil on canvas Italian Artist Mirani, the granddaughter of the the artist Silvio Ottoviani known for his simplicity. This still life is a painting in oil of a bouquet of flowers and bowl of fruit., measuring 17” x 15”

A vintage drawing in brown and sepia colored pencil, featuring the ruins of the historic old Tumacacori Mission between Tucson and Nogales, Arizona, signed "Marjorie Hardaway", titled and dated 1946. The work is by a talented artist of the day who appears to be not recorded. The mission on the Santa Cruz River was started by the Spanish in the late 1700's and by the early years of the 19th century had already been replaced and enlarged. Most of what we see today had already been erected by 18...

Abstract Figure Family by Ephrem Kouakou. 48 x 40". Oil on Canvas Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs...

Wrestling Lithograph by Augustus Bernard Liege, circa 1900. 12 x 9:"

Hungary Artist Maria Szantho, Oil on Canvas, 31.5 x 23.5. Maria Szantho was born July 31, 1897 in the city of Szeged, in the south part of Hungary. She had an extraordinary life, gifted in arts, and achieved fame and international appreciation and honor. Her paintings are well known at galleries and auction houses, and part of many collections. Szantho Maria's first love was music, she was a talented piano player and finished her music studies as a teacher. She earned her diploma at the Hung...

Notre Dame watercolor 16 x 13". Frame Size 24 x 21". Parisian Artist

Ashcan School Charcoal Signed Weeks, dedicated to John Phelps Pette. 18 x 16", 26 x 23" Weeks was born in New Jersey in the early 20th century and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Pineapple Turtles by Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. 40 x 48". Abstracted Figures by Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blend...

Hunting Rabbits by Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 40 x 48". Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs with...

Silvio Ottaviano Italian artist Still Life Fruit & Squash Oil Painting 24x32 inches This work is artistic and beautiful and is part of a Triptych by the artist we have in stock

Abstract Figures by Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 48 x40". Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs with...

Portrait of a Nigerian Woman by Olisa Nwadiogbu. Oil on Canvas with newsprint. 39 x 32".

Artist Michael P Rocco “Wyeth’s Chapel” Watercolor 26x35” Rocco is a member of the highly prestigious American Watercolor Society

Dominican Republic Artist RASCAL “Woman with a Red Tie” Abstract Oil 23x21 inches, signed and framed A bad boy, Rascal was caught creating graffiti too many times, when a judge finally told him enough was enough and encouraged him to paint in earnest. Rascal responded with urban art, full of color and stories of his life. Each painting had meaning special to him and explained the joys of his life, his defeats in love lost and his life in the city. Art that was unlike anyone else’s, his...

Abstract Figure Painting by RASCAL oil on canvas 23x46” Originally from the Dominican Republic, Rascal’s work can be seen throughout the islands of the Caribbean as well as the US A bad boy, Rascal was caught creating graffiti too many times, when a judge finally told him enough was enough and encouraged him to paint in earnest. Rascal responded with urban art, full of color and stories of his life. Each painting had meaning special to him and explained the joys of his life, his defeat...

Abstract Impasto Landscape by Nigerian artist NM

Landscape with Stream by Nigerian artist NM, Oil on Canvas, 6 x 8", Frame Size 8 x 10".

Oil on Canvas. 31 x 30". Frame Size 37 x 36". Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space. This is part of the collection we have at the gallery. Automatic drawing was pioneered by the English artist Austin Osman Spare who wrote a chapter, Automatic Drawing as a Means to Art, in his book, T...

“Bear Lake” is on the New Hampshire Massachusetts border this work dates from around 1860 by John Bunyan Bristol (1820-1883). 16 x 24", Frame Size 27 x 36". Self-taught, Bristol studied from nature and originally painted figure and portrait paintings. He abandoned these genres in order to devote his skillful hand to landscape painting. Bristol studied briefly with the painter Henry Ary. He painted from his home in Massachusetts and created highly detailed images which typically combined ...

Landscape with Sheep by Robert W Van Boskerck, 16 x 22". Frame Size 26 x 32". Robert Ward Van Boskerck, 1855-1932, was an Impressionist landscape painter, who preferred quiet settled, setteled scenes drawn from his domestic and foreign travels. He was elected to the National Academy of Design, New York City, as an Associate in 1897, and an Academician in 1907. He exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, and other major museums He was an 1877 graduate of the Columbia Uni...

Spanish Lanscape by Jorge F Cerda Girones. 30 x 36". Frame Size 36 x 42".

Modernist table top still life with fruit and blossoming tulips on a tilted table , Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30". Frame Size 30 x 36". The artist was inspired by Artist Thomas Hart Benton He was also featured in an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art around 1936 and won a prize at that exhibit

Liquor Bottles by Manfred Schwartz. Oil on Canvas. Framed. 30” x 36" Bio: Manfred Schwartz (1909 - 1970). Born in Poland, Schwartz came to America in 1920, when his father, a master engraver to European royalty, was brought to New York by the Colgate Palmolive Company. As a young man, Schwartz returned to Paris to study were him met and associated with some of the great masters of the 20th century; Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and Roualt. He was educated at the Sorbonne and the Académie de la...

Chinese Artist,Signed watercolor of the Manchurian harbor of Port Arthur, modern day Lushun, China. The work depicts a working harbor in the 1920s-1930s, measuring 26x32 inches The frame is also period.

American Impressionist artist Walter Launt Palmer (August 1, 1854 – April 16, 1932) was an American Impressionist painter. Palmer's father Erastus Dow Palmer was a prominent sculptor, and the family residence was frequented by his father's friends, notably Frederic Edwin Church.[1] Palmer began his formal artistic training under portrait painter Charles Loring Elliott, but it was Church, the period's premier landscape artist, who later tutored the young Palmer in landscape painting.[2][3] I...

This work by Levier is a fabulous watercolor original painting measuring 31 x 23“ and it’s from the 1960s at the height of his career Bio: Charles Levier (1920-2003) was born in Corsica to a French father and an American mother. At 17 he attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. During World War II Levier served in the French Army in North Africa, later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Levier’s work is considered C...

A fine print from New Orleans by the noted Louisiana-associated artist LOUIS OSCAR GRIFFITH (1875-1956), featuring a milk cart drawn by a horse, making its deliveries in the French Quarter. Measuring 12 1/2" by 10 1/4" inside the existing mat (19 1/2" by 15 1/4" as framed), the piece is pencil signed by the artist at lower right and numbered at lower left "No. 21" (of an apparent edition of 100). Colors are rich and this is an excellent impression. The Indiana-born artist is known for his pai...

Markus Pierson original painting "Decade" Jester Coyote, from the limited edition book and graphic of the same name . This painting c 1998 originally came with the limited edition book and graphic 1/400 but is no longer together. Wonderful image of his main character . Size 18 by 24" monogram signature on front left , the same location you can see in the limited edition having text . Originally purchased at Centaur Gallery.

An old print featuring a panorama of Florence, Italy, with the famous architecture and bridges seen across the Arno River. The print appears to be a lithographic process of some type. Measurements are 18" by 33" in its contemporary-age black attractive framing, so this horizontal piece works well on a long wall space in need of some art. Plexi makes for safe shipping; there are some light scratches on that. The print does appear to be likely old, but I am not sure if I can call it antique; th...

Simon Lake’s argonaut on the seafloor oil on canvas 1898 F. Wightman artist 25x37 inches If that white man who is in Richmond Virginia shows the first documented use of a submarine in the construction of a seawall or lighthouse I believe it was in Portsmouth Virginia or Virginia Beach very very rare

Anne Lane studied art at George Mason University in Virginia, completed her education at Saint Patrick’s college, Ireland, where she studied theology and philosophy. The tonal and contemplated intensity of her paintings reflect her 10 years spent working as an artist under the desert sun of New Mexico. Her vibrant style,resonant with color and baroque in detail,swoons its delight over her canvases. The subjects and themes of her art, reflect her fascination with people, particularly the phycho...