This oil is unframed and unsigned and was painted in the 1940s
Watercolor signed F J Burns, 12 x 19“, frame size 20 x 27“
Beer Wagon etching by Harry Lewis Bailey. 8 x 12“. Frame Size 15x19".
Harry Lewis Bailey was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1879. He studied at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He was an etcher who relocated to California where he was an illustrator and etcher. He became a member of the California Arts Club, the California Society of Etchers and the Printmakers Society.
Oil on canvas California coastal landscape, in extremely poor condition, in need of someone to love it and preserve it. The work measures 19" by 22" (23" by 26" framed), and is signed at lower right J... WITT. From comparison to a fully signed painting, I can say that this is a work of listed California artist JESSIE R. DeWITT...
Circa 1940 watercolor landscape painting, 11 1/4" by 15 1/4", 19" by 22 1/2" framed (no glass), signed at lower left by artist Edith Ovaitt. Edith appears to have been a talented amateur artist. An internet search reveals a woman by that name born in 1893 or 1898, living in Flint, Michigan at the time of the 1930 census. That Edith Ovaitt died in 1969. Ovaitt is apparently a fairly common name in that area. The watercolor's blue dominating color is very soothing and the work is clean...
Offered together as a pair, as they were acquired, small oil paintings of landscapes of Australia, by listed artist BERTRAM BRYNING (1875-1960)...
A small but impressive watercolor painting of silhouetted eucalyptus trees at sunset or dawn, 3" by 2 1/4" (11" by 10 1/2" framed), signed at lower left by the noted California artist ALBERT THOMAS DeROME (1885-1959). The work is tastefully framed with mat and is wall-ready. DeRome was born on California's Central Coast. He studied art at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco with Arthur Mathews, and Lorenzo Latimer, and took on commercial work (advertising and political cartoons)...
A beautiful Fall Landscape in oil sign lower right, measuring 18” x 24” framed work in a gold leaf frame
From our African Collection: A Lwena Ceremonial Mask from Zambia, circa 1950 9 x 16" h
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The Lwena people, also spelled Lovale,Luvale, Balovale, Lubale, as well as Lwena or Luena in Angola, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. They are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, but they also share cultural similarities to the Kaonde to the east, and to the Chokwe and Luchazi, important groups of eastern Angola...
Watercolor on paper of a rugged seacoast with rocks and surf (presumably California, but could be a number of other places including England), 10" by 13" inside the flimsy makeshift mat (18" by 22 1/2" as framed), signed at lower right "GAY", and bearing a bonus---a pretty study on the reverse side. I do not believe this to be by any of the noted artists who share that last name of "Gay". Nevertheless it is a nicely drawn work, in excellent condition. Allow for reflections...
LEDA ANDTHE SWAN , bronze, by Edward Fenno Hoffman 1916-1991...measuring 18” high,12” Wide, 5” deep.....signed Ned Hoffman 1953 on back, the artist nom de plume
Circa first third of the 20th century, or maybe earlier, very colorful watercolor on paper of a busy street scene in Napoli (Naples, southern Italy), 22 1/2" by 12 1/2" framed, signed at lower left by artist G. CANO. I count at least 10 figures in the composition, and one burro, complementing the hanging laundry, flowers, and ancient facades. This was likely a piece made for the tourist trade, by a talented artist. The colors are very intense and the condition excellent...
An original gouache (or casein, tempera, etc.) on paper of a Native American male warrior, signed at lower right by the noted artist WOODROW WILSON BIG BOW (1914-1988) and dated there '50. This is an earlier work by the artist, who was born in Carnegie, Oklahoma, the grandson of Chief Big Bow. The artist studied at the University of Oklahoma in 1939...
American Artist BERTHA BRIGGS, 1884-1976 “Alsace Village” Oil , measuring 20 x 16 inches. This work depicts a village in Alsace, France with the theme of “Storks”
Berta N. Briggs, painter and writer, who had been active in New York City's cultural activities for many years.
Mrs. Briggs was the widow of William H. Briggs, writer, playwright and an editor of Harper & Bros. for 44 years before he died in 1953.
Mrs. Briggs was born in St...
Oil on canvas painting of flowers, possibly asters, signed at lower right by 20th century listed English artist Leslie S. G. Harries...
A Fine Painting by the Listed Iowa and Michigan Artist, Vernon Leroy Bobbitt (1911-92). Lightly signed on front bottom right "Bobbitt '43", exhibition label on back as shown. Painted on the rough side of masonite. Measures about 16" by 20", overall frame about 19" by 23".
Great Regionalist Look.
American Modernist Edward Rosenfeld 1906-1983 Circus Study, 11” x 14” Graphite drawing, circa 1930s…..When Matisse came to America and was asked by Mr Philips (of The Philips Collection) who he wanted to meet, and he replied; Manfred Schwarz and Edward Rosenfeld” so says Peter Colasante. Provenance: Peter discovered Edward through a great friend and expert John Swanner. Peter explains how he acquired Rosenfeld’s work: “John frequently visited Howard Street in Baltimore. In the 1970...
Highly impressionistic watercolor painting of a small boat in a foggy harbor, 14" by 20", unframed, signed at lower left by the listed American artist JOSEPH MARGULIES (1896-1984). Margulies was born in Vienna and by the 1920's was studying art in New York at the Art Students League, one of his instructors being Joseph Pennell. He also received training at the National Academy, Cooper Union, and in Europe. Margulies came to be known for his portraits and landscapes, many of the Cape Ann area ...
"Rattlesnake", bronze sculpture, approximate height with marble base 9 1/4". In good condition.
From our African Collection: Fante Akuaba Doll, circa 1960.
Akua'ba (sometimes spelled Akwaba or Akuba) are wooden ritual fertility dolls from Southern Ghana and nearby areas. The best known akua'ba are those of the Fanti people, “Fanti Dolls” whose akua'ba have large, disc-like heads. Other tribes in the West Africa region (f.ex. Kru and Igbo people) have their own distinctive style of akua'ba.
Traditionally, these dolls are carried on the back of young women either hoping to conceiv...
Joe Brown bronze nude sculpture
Bronze figure - 12 5/8"
Bronze figure including plinth - 13 1/2"
Wood base - 5" X 7"
Signed and dated on base - Joe Brown 1949
Excellent original condition with fine patina
Brown - 1909 - 1985
Artist, educator and athlete, Joe Brown was the pre-eminent sports sculptor of his time. Born in Philadelphia, he entered Temple University in 1927 on a football scholarship. Brown apprenticed to scul...
Large original signed bronze sculpture on wood base by Irma Rothstein (American, born in Russia, 1906-1971). Almost 20" high including base. In excellent original condition. Irma Rothstein was born in Rostoff, Russia, and studied art in Vienna before emigrating to the United States in 1938. She sculpted the busts of celebrities such as George Bernard Shaw, Hermann Broch, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Ernest Hemingway, etc. Exhibited in a number of galleries and museums, including the Metropolita...
From our African Collection: Bante Middle Ivory Coast Female Figure, circa 1950s.
Buddha Sculpture Info & Price Pending, Chinese
20TH CENTURY BRONZE BULLFIGHTER, Double Patina Circa 1950's Approximately 4 Inches Tall and 4 Inches Wide In Excellent Condition.
Portrait of a Woman in Black and White Oil. signed lower right by Martin Ocana. Oil on Canvas, 1970.
22 x 18". Frame Size 31.5 x 28".
Interesting painting of the Southwest, showing Native Americans at a nocturnal religious ceremony or festival such as Penitente, probably in New Mexico, many candles flickering in the scene also populated with processional crosses. The blues of the nocturne dominate the composition, and the yellow crosses and many candles receding into the distance complete this most agreeable painting. The work is signed at bottom right with what appears as "Judith Rossio" or "Romo" or similar. To date I can...
A beautiful early 20th century oil painting of a still life with fish measuring 22 x 28” signed more information coming soon
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. The accuracy of detail in his covers and story illustrations for Field ...
Original oil painting on canvas of the Italian coast by Willem Welters (Dutch, worked in Italy, 1881-1972). One of two paintings by this artist currently available
A watercolor of a Benedictine Monk in prayer, French. Measuring 14x10” and framed in a 20x14” frame. The work done circa 1940
A Still Life by artist Raymond Nielson, depicts a Sculpture on a table with flowers filled with dew, dated 1943,oil measures 30x24”, Frame measures 37x32”….l,l Raymond Perry Rodgers Neilson (1881 – March 1, 1964) was an American painter. Early life and education
Neilson was born in New York into a naval family, the grandson of Rear Admiral Christopher Raymond Perry Rodgers. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1905, before joining the Navy. After suffering from ill healt...
PAIR of etchings of dogs, one a Fox Terrier, the other a Scottish Terrier, each signed at lower right in pencil by the renowned twentieth century German dog and cat and other animal artist, KURT MEYER-EBERHARDT (1895-1977). The artist was born in Leipzig and died in Munich. In the late 1920's he was studying with Thedor Hagen and Lyonel Feininger, and could have ascended to the highest levels of the art world. He however chose to pursue his love of depicting domestic and other animals. Today...
This is a Pair of WATERCOLORS signed by the ARTIST: R.E. HOLMES.
From a Maryland Estate, suburb of Washington, DC. Bio of the Artist:
Born in Rosedale, B.C., Canada on March 6, 1917. After graduating from Chouinard Art Institute in 1940, Rosinda Sellers went to work in San Diego in an advertising agency. The following year she married artist Rexford Holmes and moved to San Francisco into Maynard Dixon's old studio (later the Melvin Belli office). After settling on a farm near Healdsburg,...
was introduced by Alfred Stieglitz at his 291 Gallery and along with John Marin,Arthur Dove and others were the earliest modernist artist in the United States.Biography[edit] 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. In France, he greatly...
Found locally in Los Angeles, this is a large oil on canvas still life of orange and yellow garden nasturtiums in a blue and white old ceramic vessel, a ladies' fan and blue beads resting at its base, the colorful subjects placed elegantly in the neutral space of a cloth covered table and gray-white background, the work signed at lower right by the noted Spanish artist VICENTE SANTAOLARIA (1886-1967). The painting, which likely dates from circa the 1930's to about 1950, measures 25 1/2" by 32" ...