Samuel Chamberlain, American, 1895-1975, drypoint etching, "The Verdant Village", image size: 6 1/2 x 11 inches. 1931, edition 75/100, cat. Chamberlain and Kingsland-107, pencil signed, numbered and titled. This scene of Bellefontain, Ile-de-France, exhibits Chamberlain's ability to create subtle gradation in plate tone.
"The Hunt" oil on canvas 8 1/2" x 10 3/4" J.R. Herve was born in 1887 in Langres, a town in the eastern part of France. He began his art studies in an evening school of his hometown. He went to Paris where he first continued his studies at the School of Decorative Arts and then at the Fine Arts School. He exhibited his works for the first time at the Salon of French Artists in 1910. He was one of the most important members of this group. Obtaining his teaching diploma, he started teaching...
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Excavation Site, 16th & I Streets
Oil on canvas, located, inscribed and dated: “1958” on the reverse.
Painting size: 24” x 18”
Frame size: 29” x 23”
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Franklin Watkins (1894-1972) American Artist. "MILL TOWN" Oil on Canvas. Signed Lower Right "FW". Dimensions; 36" x 28"; site 31" x 23".
Complete 1967 portfolio of 25 soft ground etchings with aquatint by Jack Levine (American, Boston, born 1915). This work is complete--portfolio case plus all original material, including the 25 soft ground etchings individually pencil signed by the artist and numbered 37/100. Published in 1967 by Touchstone Publishers on handmade BFK Rives wove paper. This portfolio was inspired by the "Dreigroschen Oper" film by Pabst, after the play by Bertold Brecht (The Threepenny Opera)...
Wine Bottle and Onions, water color on paper 13 1/2" x 10 1/2" Emil Carlsen was especially noted for his still lives of humble everyday objects in the tradition of 17th-century Dutch painters. He perceived art as pure aesthetics with its only language being color, masses, and rhythms of line. Carlsen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on October 19, 1848, and not as widely assumed in 1853. He studied architecture at the Danish Royal Academy before immigrating to Chicago at age 19...
Louis Orr, American, 1879-1961, etching, "The United Nations", image size: 15 18 1/2 inches, pencil signed, plate signed and inscribed copyright Webb & Knapp Inc., 1953.
Arthur Heintzelman, American, 1891-1965, drypoint etching, "Convalescence", image size: 12 x 9 1/4 inches, 1926, cat. Smith-128, edition of 80, pencil signed lower right. Heintzelman's skill captures this tender moment between a mother and child. A fine impression with ample margins. Provenance: Baldwin-Wallace College.
Carl M. Schultheiss, German/American, 1885-1961, engraving, "Goatherd", image size: 8 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, pencil signed. Presentation Print for the Society of Print Connoisseurs, Society blindstamp lower left. Provenance: Baldwin-Wallace College.
Original pastel of a field hunter by listed artist Ole Larsen. Dates to 1950's. Measures 21" by 25" in original wooden frame.
Oil on Canvas, English School. "The Hull to London Post". After Charles Cooper Henderson (1803-1877). Dimensions; 24" x 16", 27.5" x 19.5" framed. Late 19th/early 20rg Century. Condition; crackling and professional restoration done. Reframed.
A fine 17th century Dutch landscape by Solomon Van Ruisdael oil on oak panel 19 x 25.5 inches signed lower right. The scene is from a area near old Haarlem where he often painted pictured is a ferryboat in the distance and an angler and woman by a cottage in the foreground. An exquisite old master painting. Biography, (1600/03-1670) Salomon van Ruysdael was called De Goyer until he and his brother Isaack changed their name to Ruysdael, after the castle near their father's birthplace, Blaricum...
Alphonse Legros, French, 1837-1911, etching, "Les Bords De La Liane", image size: 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches, c. 1900, pencil signed lower right. This airy, impressionistc etching depicts a man fishing in a forested landscape. Provenance: Baldwin-Wallace College.
Sir Francis Seymour Haden, British, 1818-1910, etching and drypoint on copper, "Dusty Millers", image size: 5 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches, dated 1877, state V/V, cat. Schneiderman-172, pencil signed lower right. One of Haden's intrestes apart from being a surgeon and printmaker was firshing...
Sir Francis Seymour Haden, British, 1818-1910, etching, "The Two Sheep", image size: 4 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches, 1870, cat. Harrinton-177, cat. Schneiderman-132, state V/V, pencil signed.
Banka Maruyama (Japanese, 1867-1942)
A Bamboo Grove
Watercolor on paper, signed.
Sheet Size: 20.5” x 13.5”
Sight Size: 19” x 13”
Frame Size: 25.75” x 19.5”
Banka Maruyama was a Japanese watercolor artist whose work spanned the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa periods. Today, his work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
Howard Weston Arnold (American, b. 1904)
Flowers in a Vase
Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed.
Painting Size: 12” x 10”
Frame Size: 21.25” x 18.5”
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Illustrator, designer, painter and educator, Arnold was born in Chicago, IL in 1904...
Stephen Parrish, American, 1846-1938, etching, "Sunset, Gloucester Harbor", image size: 4 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches, 1880, cat. Schneider 40, SP number 40, first state of two, pencil signed. A beautiful, rich impression, Parrish makes excellent use of plate tone to imbue the scene with atmosphere. The second state, which has much less ink in the sky and sea, was later published in American Etchings.