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Catalogue: Fine Art (54)

Drawings (1)

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Paintings (48)
Oil, Watercolor, Miniatures

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c.1910 TAXIDERMY PHEASANT DIORAMA/GRIEB/ALL ORIGINAL

1920s-30s IVORY LION EATING A SNAKE CANE/IN A BOOK

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Large Classical Nude Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1980 item# 999686 (stock# Nude)
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This classical nude is an original, oil on canvas by the American/New York artist Millicent Cullen-Werbin. A well-known artist and teacher, she made her home for many years at the New York Art Students League, she focused her studies primarily on portraits and nudes. Her natural, down-to-earth style of painting presents with subjects that are approachable and intriguing. Our subject is a beautiful, young woman who wears an honest expression that is both inviting and refreshing. A soft halo s ...click for details

AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN'S PORTRAITS/PAIR/c.1850s Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1900 item# 987270 (stock# Prc1850Child)
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These mid-1850s American School oil on canvas portraits of a boy and girl are sold as a pair and are probably depictions of a brother and sister, both framed alike in what appears to be their original period frames. Dimensions of the girl are 18-1/2 x 15 in., sight size, and 23 x 19-3/4 in. framed. The painting of the boy measures 18-1/2 x 15 inches, sight size, andn framed it is 22-3/8 x 19-3/4 inches. The artist has imbued a luminosity and a pleasant expressiveness to the children's faces. ...click for details

c.1850s PIETRA DURA/ITALIAN WINE MERCHANT Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Pre 1900 item# 987263 (stock# PietraDura)
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This charming example of Pietra Dura depicts a wine merchant holding his wares in each arm. The frame is new, but the mid-1800s label is on the back of the piece. Dimensions are 9 x 5-1/8 inches, sight size, and 10-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches framed. Pietra dura is an Italian phrase that means "hard stone" and refers to the technique of creating intricate inlaid pictures from shaped colored stones. The stones used are usually silicates, including agates, alabaster, amethyst, jade, jasper, lapis ...click for details

JOHN JAMES LOGUE (b.about 1810, PA) STILL LIFE O/C 1857 Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: Pre 1900 item# 987053 (stock# JJLogue)
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This signed & dated oil on canvas still life with fruit was painted in 1857 by John James Logue, who was born about 1810 in Pennsylvania and who was father of artist Kate Logue. Sight size is 13-1/4 x 16 inches; framed, the painting is 19 x 22-1/2 inches. J.J. Logue is listed in many artist anthologies, including the New-York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America, by George C. Croce and David H. Wallace, and Who Was Who in American Art. He exhibited in Philadelphia at the ...click for details

c.1885 FOXHOUNDS SPORTING ART/ON THE SCENT O/C SIGNED Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1900 item# 986925 (stock# c.1855Foxhou)
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This wonderful circa 1885 signed oil on canvas depicts part of a pack of fox hounds on the scent bounding over a fence, focused on their quarry. The painting is signed, but the signature is not familiar or easy to read, so we would appreciate any help identifying the artist. He is very skilled in portraying the dogs----their determined expressions and motion----and the glorious landscape. Dimensions are 20-1/2 x 30 inches, sight size, and 23 x 32-1/2 inches framed. This is a very nice example of ...click for details

BEN MESSICK CIRCUS CLOWN PORTRAIT O/C(1891-1981)1940s Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1950 item# 962116 (stock# MessickClown)
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Benjamin Newton Messick (American, 1891-1981) painted this terrific Modernist clown portrait in the 1940s. Oil on canvas, it measures 26 x 35 inches, sight size, and 21 x 29 inches framed. Messick grew up on a farm in Missouri, served in World War I and moved to Los Angeles to study at the Chouinard Art Institute in 1925 on scholarship. He won a cash prize that year at the Los Angeles County Fair for a group of pen and ink drawings done in the parks and streets of the city. He left Chouinard in ...click for details

EMIL HESS MODERNIST HORSE RACE MIXED MEDIA c. 1950 Catalogue: Fine Art: Mixed Media: Pre 1960 item# 961813 (stock# HessHorse)
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Emil John Hess (American, b. 1913-d. 2003)painted this wonderful Modernist pen, ink & watercolor mixed media depiction of a horse race. Well known for genre scenes of New York City, where he lived and worked primarily, Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey circus, off track betting parlors, famous race horses and modern metal sculpture. Hess studied at Duquesne University 1938-1939, Art Institute of Pittburgh 1946-1949, Brooklyn Museum Art School 1950-1951, and New York University 1959 ...click for details

EDWIN MEGARGEE(1883-1958)OB HUNTING DOG BEAGLE & RABBIT Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1940 item# 961415 (stock# MegargeeDog)
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This oil on illustration board depiction of a beagle and his quarry, a rabbit, is by the noted animal painter Edwin Megargeee (American, 1883-1958). Megargee was an illustrator and etcher as well as a painter. Born in 1883 in the Mt. Airy section of Philadelphia, he studied at Georgetown University from 1899-1900, Drexel Institute in Philadelphia from 1900-1904, and finally at the prestigious Art Students League in New York City from 1904-1905. He was a breeder and painter of gun dogs and wrote ...click for details

FRENCH MILITARY PAINTING circa 1850 NAPOLEONIC WARS Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1900 item# 961260 (stock# FrMilitary)
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This wonderful mid-19th century oil on tin French School military painting depicts a patriotic woman in the foreground, and in the background uniformed soldiers, tents, sheafs of grain, and staffs with the French Imperial eagle which were carried into battle as standards during the Napoleonic Wars. The fashionable lady is dressed in the new cage crinoline favored in 1855 by Empress Eugenie (1820-1920), wife of The Second French Empire’s Napoleon III (1808-73), a style that was followed by Eu ...click for details

1940S TETLEY ENGLISH ALE WAGON/SHIRE HORSES/SIGNED Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: British: Pre 1950 item# 961257 (stock# TetleyHorses)
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This oil on board painting of the Tetley nglish Ale colossal Shire horses pulling a cart is England's answer to Anheuser Busch's team of Clydesdales---great advertising art. Tetley Ale has been brewed in Yorkshire, England since 1822. The ale is a blend of barley, selected hops and mineral-rich water from deep below the Yorkshire Dales and is on tap in English pubs. Dimensions: 20 x 30 inches, sight size; 25 x 35 inches in a gorgeous gilt frame. The appealing circa 1940s painting is sign ...click for details

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