“MAKING THE World Safe for Democracy “ Soft ground etching Early life and education Aaron Sopher, the tenth of the thirteen children of Samuel A. Sopher and Jennie Saperstein, was born in East Baltimore, Maryland, on December 16, 1905.[1] His father owned a small cigar factory and tobacco shop near the Baltimore harbor...

Otto Soglow (December 23, 1900 – April 3, 1975) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Little King. This work on a menu from the Astor Hotel circa 1930s in pencil, framed about 10” x 7” Born in Yorkville, Manhattan, Soglow grew up in New York City, where he held various jobs as a teenager and made an unsuccessful effort to become an actor. His first job was painting designs on baby rattles...

A beautifully dressed woman, done in watercolor with a veil and crown, probably 20th century. Framed 10” x 9”

A wonder circa 1950s Wooded Landscape Oil depicting a nature bride and stream. The work is sign ? Oil on canvas 5” x 7”, framed size 10” x 12”

A beautiful Egyptian landscape in watercolor depicting an arid scene and people with a beautiful blue sky. The work is signed by unattributed at the moment. Measuring framed 10” x 11” see also 3552

A beautiful oil landscape or cityscape painting depicting an impressionist style city or town, very well done, unsigned circa 1900. Oil on panel 6” x 7”

Jaqui McBride a pupil of the famous American artist John Court who also painted at the eastern shores of Maryland. The work is 1990s, measuring 8.5” x 11”

張大千 番馬圖設色水墨紙本立軸。1943年作。款識：番馬圖。癸未春日番人来漠高窟漫以唐法圖之。蜀郡張大千爰。鈐印：西蜀張爰、大千居士、大千豪髮、春愁怎畵。徐邦達題跋：髯也堂堂筆一枝，窺唐能復得新姿。莫高窟里尋常見，胡馬定傳出月支。别大千居士卅馀年矣，今日觀其佳作，恍如西窗剪燭。欣然揮毫此時，把臂何日臨風怅。庚申(1980年）之秋，題於京華客寓燈�...

張大千 並蒂圖 水墨設色描金紙本立軸 1944年作 款識：红豔凝香带露開，春風拂槛舊亭臺。可憐飛燕却歸來。 一曲霓裳使月堕，半鈎繡幕紫雲迴。殆人嬌弱与低徊。浣溪沙偶憶文華殿有錢玉潭此圖復擬之。甲卯嘉平月大千張爰。 鈐印：張爰之印、大千、大風堂供養。 出版目錄： 2009年3月：《張大千畫集》（福建美術出版社中國名家畫集系列）；Page 122。 Hanging Scroll of Portrait o...

程十髮款 王羲之戲鵝圖 設色水墨紙本立軸1983年作 款識：右軍本清真，瀟灑出風塵。書罷籠鵝去，何須問主人。癸亥上巳程十髮漫筆。鈐印：雲間程潼、程十髮印、程潼十髮之璽。Hanging Scroll of Eastern Jin Calligraphy Wang Xizhi with Geese Attributed to Cheng Shifa (1921-2007)Ink & Color on Paper Dated 1983 51 1/4 X 25 1/2 inches 130.2 X 64.8 cm Inscribed & signed with three artist seals. Dimensions 51 1/4 X 25 1/2 inches 130.2 X 64...

Print of the palace entrance in the Mayan city of Uxmal in Yucatan, Mexico.
Designed by Jean Arnould Leveil (1806-1866) after the drawing (sepia ink and wash on wove paper) of Frederic Catherwood (1799-1854) from 1843, entitled: Archway, Casa del Gobernador, Uxmal, Yucatan.
Engraved by Jean Baptiste Marie Bury.
The print was edited as fourth of twelve depictions of the ruins of Uxmal in the appendix of volume 4 in: Jules Gailhabaud...

Print of the ruins of the Mayan city of Uxmal in Yucatan, Mexico.
The general views were designed by Jean Arnould Leveil (1806-1866) and engraved by Jean Baptiste Marie Bury and Joseph Durond.
The print was edited as first of twelve depictions of the ruins of Uxmal in the appendix of volume 4 in: Jules Gailhabaud. Monuments anciens et modernes: Collection formant une histoire de l'architecture des différents peuples à toutes les époques...

Woodcut entitled ‘Vates Sibyllinae’, showing three naked prophetesses next to a tree. This may be an early representation of the ‘Three Graces’ so fashionable in Renaissance art.
The print is taken from a Latin edition of Münster's Cosmography one of the most influential geographical works of the 16th century.
Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) was a cosmographer and professor of Hebrew who taught at Tübingen, Heidelberg, and Basel...

The main woodcut shows the enchantress Circe in front of Odysseus and one of his crew members changed into a swine. Circe holds a beaker, which stands for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs.
The woodcut below depicts Samson with remains of the Philistine temple. Further vignettes show the descendants of Eli, and depictions of four Jewish judges...

Rare woodcut of Imperator Julius Caesar seated in front of the city of Rome.
Caesar is represented by a contemporary ruler wearing a crown and heavy armour...

Pastel work on paper titled. “HERALD SQUARE” done in 1910, measuring 5” x 2.75”, framed size is 11” x 9”………Carles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1900 and 1907. He studied with Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, Cecilia Beaux, and William Merritt Chase. In 1907 he traveled to France where he remained until 1910...

A wonderful landscape drawing in graphite by CARLES, measuring about 4” x 6” on paper, …… Carles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts between 1900 and 1907. He studied with Thomas Pollock Anshutz, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, Cecilia Beaux, and William Merritt Chase. In 1907 he traveled to France where he remained until 1910...

Colorful serigraph print entitled "Dakini, the Sky Goer" by the artist Mayumi Oda (b. 1941). Dakini, broadly identified as a female spirit, goddess or demon in Hinduism and Buddhism. She is a fierce goddess and considered the embodiment of enlightened energy...