This is a hand colored lithograph of the species Ramphomicron ruficeps, (the Red-capped Thorn-Bill hummingbird), drawn by the famous 19th century English naturalist, ornithologist and natural history illustrator JOHN GOULD. The species is found in the lowland jungles of Bolivia...

In the nineteenth century traveler to Europe wanted to buy souvenirs of their journey on the grand tour as it was called.. this painting done circa 1850 depicting a Swiss landscape in the Jura region of Switzerland

A lovely impressionist pastel drawing of a lady in 19th century dress with sun hat seated alone in a dreamy park-like landscape of spaced trees, signed at lower right "Lily Meade" (or, Lily M______", hard to decipher). The work measures 12" by 19" inside the mat and 20" by 27 1/2" in attractive gold frame in excellent fresh condition. The piece reminds of French late 19th century classic Impressionism, or may be after an actual, known work. Regardless, the lady artist was skilled with pastel...

An oil on canvas, 12" by 16" and 16 1/2" by 20" in dark stained wood frame, featuring a number of women in a colorful tropical village, carrying baskets of tropical fruits (possibly papayas). The artist signed at bottom right "Paul". The work probably dates to the 1970's or 1980's. A colorful addition to any room. Very slight wear on frame and tiny white area in sky is a spot of disturbed paint.

Ralph Albert Blakelock,N.A. New York & California, 1847-1919. This stunning jewel like painting by Blakelock is typical of his better paintings. It is 8"W by 10"H in a 5" 19th C original frame. It is signed lower right (black lites well) and has an old auction sticker verso. It comes from an important private collection in Raleigh, VA.

Oil on canvas, 20" by 27 1/2" and 25" by 32 1/2" in gold frame, the subject a glass vase on a tabletop, the vase and surrounding area filled with various flowers including asters and roses of various colors, as well as unidentified blue flowers in background. The work is signed at lower right "G Cocco" (GIUSEPPE COCCO 1879-1963), a listed painter from Naples, Italy. Cocco's signature can occasionally be hard to decipher and as a result he is less known than he should be...

iebmann, Alexander (Berlin 1871) Dutch landscape, signed Alexander Liebmann in pencil bottom right, combined graphic technique/paper, glass, frame

Peonies and Delphiniums’ by Eva Wedlow, circa 1920’s, signed lower left, oil on panel, 26.5” x 31”. Typed paper stapled to the reverse of the work reads “x515 Original English oil on panel - a floral still life of iris, peonies and delphiniums By Eva Wedlow”. A portrait of an elderly man is on the reverse of the panel. Eva Wedlow was a ‘flower society painter’ of the 1920’s, highly considered by aristocrats at the time.

This painting measures 18"x36". Helen LaFrance is a self-taught, modern, contemporary artist who is 99 years of age. Her earliest known painting is a 12’x20’ mural inside of a local church that was made circa the late 40's and early 50’s and she continued to paint into the early 2000's. LaFrance’s work is represented in many notable public and private collections in this country and in Europe...

F.C. YOHN Stage Scene c1898 Sp. American war w/c19x13” Frederick Coffay Yohn (February 8, 1875 – June 6, 1933), often recognized only by his initials, F. C. Yohn, was an artist and magazine illustrator. Yohn's work appeared in publications including Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. Books he illustrated included Jack London's A Daughter of the Snows, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Dawn of a To-morrow and Henry Cabot Lodge's Story of the American Revolution...

An example of the 1969 lithograph print, titled variously as "Volcan Fosforescente", ("Phosphorescent Volcano"), numbered in lower left margin 73/250 and pencil signed at lower right, by the famous Mexican 20th century muralist artist DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS (1896-1974). This lithograph was printed by Mourlot in Paris. Siqueiros is considered one of the three giants of Mexican twentieth century art, alongside Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco...

A beautiful vintage set of three Chinese paintings on silk Muses of Music with Deer and Tiger with musical instruments. Presented beautifully framed and matted. Each measuring 16.5" W x 26.5" H x 0.75" D. Each artist signed with exquisite details.

**PAIR** of oil paintings on canvas either laid down or laid against board or panel, the horizontal image of a young man wearing a hat in a landscape 9" by 17", the vertical scene of a tawny hillside with thicket beyond and black birds in a partly cloudy sky 13" by 10", neither signed but on the reverse of the latter is 20th century writing: "Section from "Rabbit Warren" by Wm...

Oil on masonite, 18" by 14" (22" by 18" in its wood frame), the subject the familiar streets of the French Quarter, this being a view of Pirate's Alley, from Jackson Square, facing Royal Street, signed at lower right "Weller". I take from the website of the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts: "Dell Weller studied four years at the Art Students League in New York. After two years of study in Mexico, he returned to New Orleans. He developed a widespread reputation for his wildlife etchings...

Oil on canvas painting titled on reverse "Iris and Poppies", 9" by 12" (16" by 19" in gold leaf frame) signed at lower right corner by noted contemporary northern New Mexico artist DON BRACKETT (1932-). The artist, born in Oklahoma and raised and educated in Albuquerque, (where he received a fine art degree from the University of New Mexico) is known today for his plein air landscapes of northern New Mexico around Taos and Santa Fe, as well as paintings of flowers and wildflowers...

Vintage circa 1950-1960 KUKRYNIKSY group SOVIET SATIRE PROPAGANDA PRINT. From a trio of Russia's most important graphic artist receiving numerous awards from the Russian state for their work especially in WW11 . Translation "This man is in it for himself: a taker with a large ego. The feeling is more hedonistic than gluttonous here"...

John Taylor Arms 1887-1953 American This is a rare color etching by American artist John Taylor Arms. The title is: Early Morning, North River, created and printed in 1921. This color impression was printed in an edition of only 25 impressions. It was also printed in Black and White in an edition of 100. The image measures 9 1/2X7 1/2 inches. Very good condition Signed in pencil lower right...

Russian born artist who worked for the WPA, amd in 1939 was commissioned for a murals for the department of Justice in Washington DC. His work and papers are at Yale University and some of his works are in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art This work is graphite on paper, in a silver deco frame that measures 29x27 inches…… Sterne was born in Liepāja, Latvia, the youngest of five children to an Orthodox Jewish family living in the port city of Libau (now Liepāja), Latvia, when it was...

Oil on masonite painting of a small adobe structure in a landscape, 11" by 14" and narrow frame, signed in green at lower left corner "Clapp". The work is impressionistic, and the subject suggestive of New Mexico. I checked with an authority on the works of Canadian/California artist William Henry Clapp (1879-1954) to see if he thought this might be by that artist, which would enhance its value significantly. He did not believe the work to be by that artist, citing style and signature, and sa...

Jonas Lie (April 29, 1880 - January 18, 1940) was a Norwegian-born American painter and teacher. Lie is best known for his Expressionist paintings of the New England coastline and New York City.[2][3][4] He documented construction of the Panama Canal with thirty canvases, and represented the United States in the 1928 Summer Olympics art competition. This work is winter Townscape oil on canvas measuring 42 x 48“, frame size 52 x 58“ Lie was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway. His ...

A highly detailed nineteenth century PENCIL DRAWING, NOT A PRINT, featuring a classic turreted castle, with numerous (approximately twenty) figures completing the scene, unframed, 7" by 9 1/8". The artist signed at lower left corner "F. Pohl", and "1846" is written on the reverse. Nearby are two blue stamps that could be collector stamps. Condition is excellent, needs a frame.

An antique truly American painting (not the more common similar-looking English scenes) with feathery tree at left, a few simple wooden houses, distant church steeple, and two tiny central figures, a manageable size at 22" by 30" (29 1/2" by 37 1/2" in the likely original framing), apparently unsigned. This old work came out of a dilapidated local home, having no doubt hung there for decades. When found it had a sheet of glass over the canvas. Despite the protection, over the past 150 or so y...

Oil on canvas classic western landscape in early autumn, 22" by 28", unframed, signed at lower right in red "Claudine Morrow". This is a poetic scene, likely New Mexico's Taos Mountain in the distance including two horses, poplars, a shallow deep blue river, and wind shredded clouds over the high west. The artist, born in 1931, is listed in the comprehensive Contemporary Western Artists by Samuels. Her biography there says she was born in Kansas and moved to Arizona. Morrow lived all over th...

Color print, 8 1/4 by 12" inside the mat, 14 1/2" by 18" as framed, (no glass), the subject the famous booksellers by the Seine in Paris, Notre Dame cathedral in the distance, numbered at lower left 166 out of editions of 500, and signed at lower right in pencil, by the noted French 20th century impressionist painter CHARLES BLONDIN (1913-1991). Blondin was active in Paris in the post war years, painting and creating very popular editions of prints which he numbered and hand signed. This print...

Robert Von Vorst Sewell, American, 1860-1924. This oil on canvas is beautiful subject matter and is in very good condition. It is 31 1/4" X 29 5/8" and in unframed. It is signed verso.

Portrait of a woman by French artist Jean-Jacques Henner (1829-1905). Board: 9.25"L x 12.9"H framed 18.5" L x 14.75" w. Henner entered the École des Beaux-Arts and won the Prix de Rome in 1858. He exhibited paintings in the Salon, many now in the Musée d'Orsay. In 1889, he became commander of the Legion of Honour and succeeded Cabanel in the Institut de France. In 1900, he won a Grand Prix for painting at the Paris Exposition Universelle. Excellent condition minor age wear.

"The Coast- Near Exmouth, Devon" Watercolor on Paper: size 11 ¼” x 21”/ Framed 19.1/2” x 29” Tom Rowden was a self taught landscape artist born on 7 February 1842 in Exeter, England. By 1886 he had established himself as an artist with exceptional talent, although he had almost certainly been painting earlier whilst in the Royal Marines. He made numerous painting excursions to Scotland where he perfected his skills at rendering exquisite compositions depicting the highlands. He is b...

Lithograph by Kobayashi,dated 1894,Chikin ref.#49,The Fall of Chinchiau Castle,framed size is 26x39”

Stephen Parrish, American, 1846-1938, "Fishermen's Houses, Cape Ann". This is a very fine original etching by Stephen Parrish, published by Keppel in 1881. The image size is 12 x 19 inches, cat: Schneider-49, plate signed and titled, pencil signed. According to Schneider, this atmospheric image of the Massachusetts shore was one of Parrish's most popular etchings. This print features a very richly inked impression with beautiful plate tone, printed on a medium weight wove type paper with ample m...

Pair of original hand colored horse lithographs from "Professor Low's Illustrations of the Breeds of the Domestic Animals London, 1840" . Drawn by Mr. Nicholson, R.S.A. from a painting by Mr. Shiels, R.S.A. Drawn on stone & printed by Fairland. Published by Longman, Orme, Brown , Green & Longmans, Paternoster Row, London 1840. Presented framed and matted in quality vintage burl wood frames. Measuring 12.5 x 17 inches, matte window 10" x 13" overall framed size 18" x 24" Low was a professor o...

"Western Hills" oil on board 12" x 16". Henry Martin Gasser was born in Newark, New Jersey on Oct. 31,1909. He lived, studied and worked in New Jersey for his entire life. He was a painter, lecturer, teacher, illustrator and author. A Master at watercolor and oil his work consisted of, in his own words, "everyday subjects that are available to most of us-street scenes, back yards, trees, old houses, etc I looked for them in front of houses, in backyards, public parks, and elsewhere". He also pa...

Harry SCHAARE “Soldiers on the Traill 18x24 Harry Schaare (May 23, 1922 – April 9, 2008)[1] was an American painter whose work has primarily served the book cover and magazine illustration markets. In 1975, he got into western art galleries, and then 1981, moved to Arizona to continue his art. This work is based on his military unit based in Germany at the Battle of the Bulge

James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)

This Is It? (800 Block of 14th Street)

Oil on canvas, signed with initials, located and inscribed on the reverse.

Painting size: 20” x 16”
Frame size: 25” x 21”

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Watercolor on heavy paper landscape with house on a moor at sunset, a distant hill at left and blooming white wildflowers in the foreground, measuring 8 3/4" by 11 1/4" inside the mat, 17" by 20" in a simple old wood frame, and signed with initials that look to me like "R.E.M."---but this is just a guess. The piece likely was created in the last years of the nineteenth or early years of the 20th century. The shape of the house suggests to me an English rather than American origin. Condition i...

One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop) this is a sketch of a dockside building in New England, in brush and ink on paper, the drawing itself 13 3/4" by 16", signed at lower right and dated there '58, by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod. Hughes exhibited widely (eve...

Richard MacDonald (American b. 1946) "Sisters" Limited Edition Bronze Depicting a finely detailed gymnast sisters dancing. Measures approx. - 20 1/2" high x 19" wide x 12 1/2" deep. Total height with marble base - 23" high. Dated 1994. Richard MacDonald is considered by many to be the world’s preeminent living figurative sculptor. A leading advocate of the neo-figurative movement. Engraved Signature: Richard Mc Donald 1994, Artist Proof. Age: Circa 1994 Size: 20 1/2" high x 19" wide x ...