This is a detailed photo of Rockefeller's bluish gray eyes and broken nose. Refer to Rockefeller portrait in our listing.
ROBERT BRACKMAN-1898-1980; AMERICAN
STILL LIFE; Oil on Canvas
Signed lower right: Brackman
Robert Brackman was born in Russia in 1898 and came to America with family in 1908. He died in Noank, CT in 1980. Brackman was a painter and an educator. He studied at the National Academy of Art in NY under George Bellows and Robert Henri. He taught at several schools, including the Art Student’s League and The Brooklyn Museum School...
Daffodils in Blue Vase
Oil on canvas 16” x 20” unframed
A magazine illustrator early in his career for McCalls and Ladies Home Journal, Samuel George Phillips later devoted himself to portraiture and landscape painting as part of the Pennsylvania Impressionist School, artists who painted in Bucks County after 1915 and were much influenced by Daniel Garber...
For the last four years, I have researched every aspect of this self-portrait to confirm its artist identity!! Today, I can confirm the artist of this self-portrait, it is ROY FOX LICHTENSTEIN!! I was able to match the 1956 signature to the “rather primitive notion of patterned linear repetition”, or unknown markings (which look like Hebrew) on the side of an airplane in the RFL’s drawing “AIRPLANE 1961”. Similar markings can be found on the RFL’s TEN DOLLAR BILL 1956 Lithograph...
American School, Early 19th Century
Carib Indians Around a Jungle Campfire, with a Piton in the Background
Oil on canvas, signed indistinctly on the stretcher.
Mid 19th century carved wood, compo and gilt frame
Painting Size: 9.25” x 12”
Frame Size: 13.5” x 16.5”
“Winter in Central Park”
Oil on canvas 16” x 20” w/o frame
A native of Copenhagen, Denmark, Berthelsen was six when his family immigrated to the United States in 1889. When he was 18, Berthelsen studied music and voice for four years at the Chicago Musical College. Following this graduation, he toured the United Slates and Canada as lead baritone for the Grand Opera Company, after which he taught voice, first at his alma mater and then at the Indianapolis Conservatory or Music...
"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"...
Original oil painting on reinforced masonite panel by Vernon Fimple (American, born 1930). This painting retains its original artist-constructed frame. It is signed "V. Fimple" and dated "62" l.r. It is also titled "Masquerade" on a label which also indicates the original price of the painting ($1250). This painting measures 24" by 30" (29" by 35" in its frame). Extraordinary surrealist painting inspired by the "Garden of Earthly Delights"...
White Mountain Landscape
Oil on canvas 18” x 30” w/o frame
Benjamin Champney is synonymous with White Mountain paintings of the 19th century. Most art historians consider him the founder of the White Mountain School of painters who came to North Conway and the surrounding area during the second half of the 19th century. His paintings were often used to make chromolithographs that were subsequently sold to tourists who could not afford Champney's originals...
"The Farm" oil on canvas 40" x 25" Elsie Palmer was born in San Antonio, Texas on September 9, 1884 and was raised by parents who had emigrated from England where her father had raised fine horses. In 1886, they moved from Texas, where they had tried unsuccessfully to raise horse, to Los Angeles and then to San Francisco where Elsie Payne was raised...
Original collage painting (Japanese paper on stretched canvas with pigment) by "Master of Collage" Paul Horiuchi. This is a large work (48" by 42"), signed and dated "68" l.r., also titled ("Spring Awakening") on a typewritten label stapled to the artist-constructed stretcher. This work retains the original black slat frame which the artist often used. Paul Horiuchi was born in Japan in 1906...
Rare early expressionist painting by important American painter, printmaker, collector, curator, and art historian Jacob Kainen (American, 1909-2001). This work on board measures 16" by 20" (painting alone). It is signed "Kainen" upper right and inscribed "Jacob Kainen" verso under the ghost of a long gone gallery label...
JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING- AMERICAN;1841-1916
NOVEMBER TWILIGHT
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower right
Dimensions; 10.25" x 14.25"; framed; 16" x 20".
JJE was one of the most distinguished and successful painters of the late 19th C. He lived most his life in New England, and according to Wikipedia, his "favorite subject is the November Twilight of New England and the half lights of early spring, and late autumn and winter dawn and evening." He always said that his greatest teacher was nature. He ...
Signed American original oil painting on 100% Belgian linen depicting an outward peaceful look, from a cave or rocky edge, at a lone sailboat on a serene lake river or marine cove showing muted hills in the background with a luminous sky at upper left quadrant. Painted with a languid, romantic approach.
Title: Serene Lake - ID# 0425120704
Image: 8 x 10 Belgian linen archival artist hardboard panel.
Framed Included: 11.5" X 13.5". Without: Please inquire for price.
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This is a early 19th century portrait of a New York Lady wearing a fur. It appears she is wearing a fur wrap. The oil on canvas portrait measures 26" 21 1/2". The portrait was purchased from the family from Woodstock New York. The name of the lady in the portrait is Mrs. Duenner. We have all the provenance and will advise more later. At this time, I am attributing this portrait to have been done by Sheldon Peck. It is very rare to see fur in paintings. This portrait has three areas where it ...
"Arc de Triomphe"
Oil on canvas, 16" x 12" unframed, 19" x 15" framed
Andre Gisson was born with the name Anders Gittleson, in Brooklyn, New York but lived in Westport, Connecticut for most of his life. He traveled extensively and studied throughout Europe and the Far East. Mr. Gittleson was a leading American realist painter. He graduated from the Pratt Institute and was a Captain in the Army during WWII. Over 4 decades his one man shows extended from New York, Washington, Texas, and Cali...
The photo on the left shows a double portrait by John Singer Sargent of Mr. John White Field and his wife. This painting was done in the early 1880's and is in the collection of Pennyslvania Academy of Fine Arts. The image on the right shows an earlier portrait of Mr. Field by Sargent. Notice Mr. Field is blind in his left eye, which is enlarged and his right eye is focused which is a good eye. It is my opinion that Mr. Field rejected the first portrait of himself done by Sargent. And of co...
The study photo on the left is a close up of Mr. John White Field,a Philadelphia Merchant, which was painted by John Singer Sargent in the early 1880's. The study image in the center shows what Mr. Field looks like with the beard removed. The image on the right shows an earlier Sargent portrait of Mr. Field. Please refer to Sargent Painting in our listing.