Macgowan Tuttle(American, 1861-1935's oil on canvas depiction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is viewed from the front along the Seine River. It is signed verso and the title
“Notre Dame Paris 1925”. Originally from Muncie, Indiana, Tuttle studied under the greats William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck and in Paris at the Academie Julien with J.P. Laurens. He was a member of the prestigious National Arts Club, the Salmagundi Club, and the Paris Artist’s Association.
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This is a great opportunity to own the catalogue for the traveling museum show "Time Made Real: The (Stone) Carvings of Tim Lewis", especially if you are unable to get to one of the exhibition venues, which run through December 2009. Loaded with images and showcasing the 60 powerful works of art in the premier exhibition at the Customs House Museum in Clarksville, TN, the catalogue is peppered with great photographs of Tim at work and with his family. It is also a scholarly work that ...click for details
This arresting upstate New York Regionalist Precisionism painting conveys the grittiness of the urban train yard, in the early dawn hours just before the hustle and bustle begins, just as night is beginning to lift, in the years following World War Two. The painting is oil on canvas on board, signed and dated 1954 by R. Hasreiter. This industrial painting depicts the downtown area around the Central Train Terminal in upstate New York, with N.Y.C. clearly marked on the railroad car, symbolic init ...click for details
This wonderful circa 1870s-90s oil on canvas rendition of the Civil War Bouquet Battery memorializes a well known image that first appeared in the June 1, 1861 edition of "Harper's Weekly. This Battery was a strategic outpost at the Relay House erected on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad crossing on the Patapsco River near Baltimore. The Battery comanded the bridge at the Relay House and was manned by Union volunteers who searched all trains going west to Washington and points south. O ...click for details
This extremely well executed large miniature oil on ivory half-length portrait depicts a British officer in the Royal Artillery. He is in full dress uniform with his white-gloved hand resting on the bill of his forage cap. He sports large bushy sideburns and his sword rests at his side. The painting is quite large, measuring 4 x 3 inches, and sits in a new frame that measures 6-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches. The portrait is behind UV museum quality glass.
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This delightful antique miniature portrait of the pretty young Comtesse di Folleville seated at her harp. Of watercolor on elephant ivory and enhanced with a silver gilt frame, the portrait depicts the young lady seated at her harp, dressed in a billowy pink gown, with hair fashionably powdered. The hallmarked frame is backed with the original silk, and the painting is signed lower right (appears to be the name Delaurent) and covered with glass. Dimensions: 3-1/2 x 2-1/2 inches.
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William Meyerowitz was born in the Ukraine, Russia 1885 or 1887 and died in New York City in 1981. He emigrated from Russia with his father to New York in 1908, leaving the rest of his family behind. They took up quarters in the Lower East Side of New York on Orchard Street. Through a childhood job with an architect, he began to show promise with his drawing. He studied at the National Academy of Design from 1912-1916, and won honorable mention in the Prix de Rome in 1917.
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This large and colorful Modernist oil of Times Square in New York City was painted by George Schwacha of New Jersey.
The bustling cityscape literally teems with buildings, signs, cars, lights and figures. Dimensions are 24 x 36 inches, sight size, and 27-1/4 x 39 inches framed. The artist was president of the American Artists Professional League and a past president of the Audubon Artists and Art Centre of New Jersey. He belonged to the American Water Color Society, The National Society of Pai ...click for details
This wonderful Cubist portrait by the American artist Jonah Kinigstein is oil on canvas. Using very heavy brushwork and heavy impasto to underscore the geometric forms, the artist has found a novel way to express the human figure. The painting is signed lower right and on reverse stretcher at top. It also reads Paris. It dates to circa 1947-1951, the period where the artist was studying in Paris. Dimensions: 31.75 x 25.25 inches, sight size; 33.5 x 27.25 inches in a floater frame.
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Julius Bloch, one of the prominent Jewish artists of Philadelphia, was a social realist painter whose subjects focused on the working classes. His admiration for Thomas Eakins, also a social realist, likely contributed to his interest in these subjects. For many years, he was a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and his message to students was that one needed to know life in order to paint life.
Bloch began his career painting floral still lives, but witnessing Depressio ...click for details
