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Catalogue: Fine Art (53)

Drawings (1)

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Paintings (47)
Oil, Watercolor, Miniatures

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

c. 1940s STERLING SILVER COW CREAMER (GERMANY)

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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

EARLY 20C FOLK ART SHEEP PAINTING/ INSIDE BARN Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1910 item# 960607 (stock# PastoralPain)
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This early twentieth century pastoral painting of a herd of sheep huddled inside a barn is one of the best folk art paintings we have seen in a long time. How many sheep paintings have you seen where the animals are indoors as opposed to in the barnyard or in a landscape? Dimensions are 22 x 36 inches, sight size, and 25 x 29 inches in its old gilt frame. This painting has tremendous charm and realism.

SPORTING ART HUNTING DOGS S&D 1906 O/C BLACKBURN Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 1910 item# 960581 (stock# Blackburn.Hu)
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This turn-of-the-century oil on canvas sporting painting depicts a brace of hunting dogs on the scent. Reminicent of the work of Edmund Henry Osthaus, one of the premier American dog painters from that time period, Alan Blackburn's portrait of two dogs in the field is a very nice work of sporting art. Signed and dated Alan R. Blackburn 1906 lower right, the painting measures 17 x 28 inches, sight size, and 23 x 34 inches in its original gilt frame.

ORIGINAL RED GROOMS DRAWING/MOULIN ROUGE 1992/26.5x39" Catalogue: Fine Art: Drawings: Pre 2000 item# 919179 (stock# RGMoulinRoug)
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This original drawing of the fin-de-siecle French cabaret Moulin Rouge by Red Grooms is marker on tracing paper and measures 26-1/2 x 39 inches, sight size, and 37 x 49 inches in archival blond wood frame. Built in 1889 in the red light district of Pigalle in Paris, the Moulin Royuge was the spiritual birthplace of the can-can. It was the subject of paintings by the post-impressionist painter Toulouse-Lautrec, who is pictured at the bottom left of the drawing. Red Grooms enjoys incorporating fam ...click for details

FOLK ART CARVINGS/LOVE TRIANGLE/JFK,MM & JACKIE Catalogue: Fine Art: Sculpture: Wood: Pre 2000 item# 915649 (stock# MenageATrois)
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This superb folk art grouping depicts the love triangle of John F. Kennedy (35th President of the United States, duly noted by the artist), his wife Jacqueline and movie star Marilyn Monroe. Wimp Gibson was a great wood carver and the son-in-law of the Appalachian wood carver Troy Webb who was married to Webb's daughter Geneva. The Gibsons and the Webbs lived in rural Claiborne County, Tennessee near the Kentucky line. Gibson is deceased. All three pieces are fashioned from buckeye and are s ...click for details

MODERNIST SURREAL CARNIVAL PAINTING/EMILE GERARD Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: French: Pre 1970 item# 911762 (stock# EmileGerard)
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Emile Gerard (France, b. 1932) painted this Modernist oil on canvas depiction of a surreal fantasy carnival landscape. It is signed and dated 1965 lower left. Dimensions are 18 x 22 inches, sight size, and 22 x 25-1/2 inches framed.

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