Japanese two panel screen depicting a family of horses. Painted with a simple flowing style of sumi ink on paper. Bordered in original aged gold leaf and black lacquered frame.
The horse has always been considered the sacred mount of the kami, Japanese gods. During the Nara period (710-794), the practice of shinme, consisting in offering a horse as a votive offering to a shrine to serve as a divine mount, spread...

Oil Painting signed Yates 1940s, framed 18x24”,

A Pair of Fine Korean Landscape Paintings by 두산(斗山) 정술원(鄭述源] (1885-1955)- : Each painting painted in ink and color on silk with a Spring and Autumn landscapes, has an its description and two seals-斗山 鄭述源. It’s is good condition with aged patina on paper, each framed with plexi glass, it measures 88cm x 30 cm painting only...

A Mogal Persian illuminated pages pair in a matted frame. Full color watercolor and tempura with gold leaf applied double sided

A striking, traditional, antique, oil on old oak panel painting, with even an Old Master feel, the painting itself 13 1/4" by 15 3/4" (34.3 cm. by 41.3 cm), the scene a landscape dominated by a placid large white dray-type horse (painted with extraordinary sensitivity and skill), a goat at left foreground, and resting cattle in the distance, the remainder of the composition dominated by a sky filled with beautiful clouds, and classic willow trees at right...

Oil on canvas painting of waves breaking on the beach at sunset, (titled on reverse "Fading Sun"), measuring 16" by 20" unframed, signed at lower right by artist CARYL WOOD, the wife of famed landscape painter Robert Wood. Caryl was an amateur painter when she met the already famous Robert Wood in 1953 after he sustained serious injuries when hit by a car on Pacific Coast Highway. The couple married and Robert instructed her in painting, taking her along on painting trips...

Florine Hyer was an Iowa-born artist who became known for her exquisite paintings of roses. She was in Los Angeles by 1898, and remained there her entire life with the exception of the year 1908, when she assisted the botanist Luther Burbank at his home and gardens in Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County north of San Francisco. Burbank is reputed to have said, "Florine can paint roses better than gardens can grow them"...

William Stewart (1823-1906); Scottish Artist. Digging for Bait; Oil on Board, Signed lower right "WS". Title and Signature (William Stewart) on back (Title and Name on Plaque, as well). Dimensions; 17" x 11"; framed, 23" x 17". Excellent condition. Exhibited at the Stirling Fine Art Exhibition, and at the Smith Institute in Stirling, Scotland.

Born in German, known for his farm scenes of northern New York, he painted at Lake George before moving to the mid-Atlantic. He was a 19th century artist who also taught art. Little else is known

**ONE OF SEVERAL WORKS BY THIS ARTIST IN MY SHOP**Oil on canvas laid on board painting of colorful, flowering shrubs and bushes alongside the Pacific shore, 8 3/8" by 11" (11 3/4" by 14 3/4" in very attractive vintage pie crust style frame), signed at lower right center by the well listed California painter WILLIAM CONSTABLE ADAM (1846-1931). This is a typical work of an artist who is today best known for his depictions of the landscapes, gardens, and houses of the Monterey Peninsula area...

Original vintage modernist abstract painting of books by Barry Nemett oil on canvas signed lower right and dated 1971. Presented in a natural oak wood frame. Measures 19ʺW × 1.5ʺD × 49ʺH in good condition minor touch ups. Biography: Barry Nemett, Chair of the Painting Department at Maryland Institute College of Art, studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received his BFA at Pratt Institute and his MFA at Yale University...

Important woodcut of God the Father creating Eve from Adam’s rib.
According to Genesis, God the Father created Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden. There he was given dominion over the animals, which he named. But he himself had no mate. God made Adam fall into a deep sleep and created his mate Eve from one of his ribs.
The recto with two blocks of Latin text.
Page from Hartmann Schedel's Liber Chronicarum, more commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle...

"Winter Landscape with Grazing Cows" by Ernest Fiene. 1939. Framed Print. 18 x 17".

This is an excellently and intricately carved boxwood very charming netsuke,made by the native of Ukraine Alexander Derkachenko. It depicts a seated Okame who is laughing behind her sleeve as she realizes the erotical significance of a long noc e Tengu mask. Signed in seal form. Netsuke is stained in tan and brown colors. It measures 1.57 inches (4.0cm) wide, and 1.42 inches (3.6cm) tall...

(Consignment). “Après La Tempête” or"After the Storm" by French Artist J. Paul ALIZARD. Oil on Canvas. 45x35”, Frame Size 53x43”.

A most unusual and interesting DOUBLE-SIDED pencil drawing on wove paper, one side featuring an indian in headdress snatching a child off the shore, a tiny fenced white settlement visible in the upper left corner; the other side features a white man in frontier clothing holding his rifle as a native brave swings his tomahawk. Both sides are signed "E Thompson artist". I am not aware of a known artist by this name so this will rest squarely in the folk art or historical categories...

16th C Italian Crucifixion, Joseph Heintz the Younger, Augsburg(1600-1678) Venice. This magnificent painting is oil on canvas with old relining. It was most likely commissioned for an altarpiece painting. The painting is 41.5 W by 41.5" H. Collectors label verso. Provenance: Private Midwestern Collection, Private NY Collection, Private Prominent Old Master collection of J.J. Hollenbeck, Palm Beach Florida ...

Oil on board, measuring 13 1/2" by 13 1/2" and 1 1/2" wide gold frame, unsigned, depicting a number of California poppies vignetted against a neutral background. This is a very decorative painting of the California state flower, executed in late Victorian times or early 20th century when such paintings were all the vogue. This one has survived in excellent condition and would be perfect for a Mission, Arts and Crafts, or Southwest style interior. Frame has small losses.

Oil on canvas laid on board landscape of whitewashed red-roofed buildings, foreground donkeys carrying loads while chickens graze nearby, 11 1/4" by 15 1/2" (15 1/2" by 20" framed), signed at lower right by 20th century Hungarian or Romanian artist JULIO BEREGSZASZY. The artist's works of Venezuela, executed in the 1950's, indicate that he spent time there or was from there despite the European name. Little else seems to be known about this talented impressionist. The painting is in excellent...

Beautifully beautifully original framed Engraving of General McClellen and the union army. 25“ x 32“

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...

A beautiful California landscape oil on canvas board signed lower right Maurice Braun. measuring 11 x 14 inches framed in a quality 24k gold frame.

BiographyMaurice Braun (1877-1941). Painter. Maurice Braun was born in Nagy Bittse, Hungary on Oct. 1, 1877. Braun immigrated with his family to the U.S. in 1881 and settled in NYC. He began drawing at age three and in his early teens was apprenticed to a jeweler. In 1897 Maurice Braun began a five year study period at the NAD followed by on...

Finnish Artist Arthur Heickell 1873-1958 “ Religious Still Life” Measuring 20” x 16” oil on canvas, framed.

A black and white photograph image (not sure if actually an original photo) titled at lower left margin "The Meadow Pool", and pencil signed by the artist in lower right margin, the subject a meadow near mountains, measuring 9" by 11 1/4" and 16 1/4" by 17 3/4" framed. This is an example of the now sought-after mid century photographic work of STEPHEN H. WILLARD (1894-1966). Willard was born in Illinois and was in Southern California at age two. By 16 he already had a camera and was actively ...

(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. He painted in the traditional Old Masters style until 1982, when ...

Delicately and intricately crafted antique figure of a young aristocrat, proudly standing with both hands in the vest's pocket, signed "Buder", 12 inches in height including marble base. Condition Report: This figure is in absolutely perfect condition with some abrasions to the marble base. Estate of Lilian F. Davison, New York City, acquired 1930s.

In 1879 John Everett Millais produced Cherry Ripe, the oil painting of a little girl sitting on a tree trunk, next to her a large green leaf topped with red cherries. Cherry Ripe became extremely popular, and so was reproduced in various graphic media of the time. Millais’s painting was also used in the advertising campaigns of the Pears Soap company. This version of Cherry Ripe from around 1910 is a chromolithographic print, enhanced with hand coloring. It is unframed, fixed to passepartout c...

Black ink on paper drawing, 8 1/4" by 10 1/2", unframed, signed in the center of the image and dated in the image at lower left center "7 26 1999", and titled in the lower margin "TRUCK PLATE", by the noted contemporary sculptor, ceramicist, designer and painter PETER SHIRE (1947-). This complex modern drawing is imaginative, colorful, three dimensional, and whimsical, and could only have been created by a true artist. Shire was becoming known on the art scene with his now famous teapot sculptur...

Still Life With Flowers Oil Painting by Purdy 30x40”, frame size36x46”

This is an interesting very old monochromatic watercolor, circa late 18th century or very early 19th, measuring 4 1/2" by 8 3/4" (11" by 14" framed). The drawing has the feel of an old master drawing. The scene includes tiny figures, buildings, a willowy tree at right, and what appears as an isolated hill or butte-like feature in the distance. The work itself is not signed, but at lower right, written very faintly in pencil in the mat, is "Waterloo" and another word that is difficult to decip...

A late 20th century oil on canvas painting of a landscape, 30" by 30", unframed, signed at lower right "M T O'Brien". The colors used are light and airy----pinks, light blues, whites predominating. The creek or pond is very impressionistically presented. Great for a beach house or other sunny abode.

Benson Bond Moore (American,1882-1974)

Autumn in the Blue Ridge Mountains (near Emmittsburg, PA[sic]) 1955

Oil on board, signed lower left and dated “1955”. Titled on the reverse

Painting Size: 15.5” x 19.5”
Frame Size: 23.5” x 27.5”

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied...

Continental oval miniature painting, "Dolores", depicting a young beauty with flowing hair and large hoop earrings, signed 'Wagner', captured in an oval gilt frame within a rectangular frame with velvet lining, and titled in graphite verso, plaque 3.25"h x 2.5"w; frame 6'h x 5"w. No condition issues noted.

This is a beautiful DOUBLE SIDED watercolor dated 1883 by the hand of listed American 19th century artist BENJAMIN FITZ (1855-1891), measuring 11 1/2" by 18 3/4" plus about 3 1/2" of liner and modern frame. I am not sure as to the authorship of the loose dry landscape on the reverse, which might be later and by a totally unrelated hand. The subject matter of the primary, signed painting is a rural scene of farm buildings by a small pond on which swim two ducks, their trails in the water plainly...

A beautiful late 20th century vintage René Lalique Nemours frosted incised Crystal bowl with black lacquer dots at the center of each incised section The studio bowl is signed at the bottom in script. 4” height 10” width.

Warren Davis, American, 1865-1928, "Seated Nymph," Etching, image size 8 x 5 3/4 inches, pencil signed l.r. "Warren Davis" on wove paper. Davis studied at the Art Students League in New York and became known for his etchings of idealized female figures. Many were used on the covers of Vanity Fair and Life magazines. Later in his career Davis exhibited in Europe and the United States including the Pennsylvania Academy and the Salmagundi Club.