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 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
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
The painter ETIENNE RET (1900-1996)was born in Bourbonnais, France on Jan. 6, 1900. He graduated from the College of Mesnieres and completed military service in 1924. He then began formal art training in Paris in the ateliers of Maurice Denis and Georges Desvallieres, and at Ecole des Beaux Arts and Ecole des Arts Décoratifs. His book of poetry, Blindmans Bluff, was a prize winner in 1929. Ret exhibited in London and Paris before settling in Hollywood, California in 1934. He taught at the Chouln ...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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Howard L. Hastings, the early to mid-20th century animal painter, painted this oil on canvas depicting an equestrienne taking her
bay hunter over the wall. It is signed & dated 1930. Hastings illustrated for many of the early-to-mid-20th century outdoor magazines, including "Outdoor Life" and American Sportsman." This extremely well done horse painting has a lot of motion and detail and is in fine condition. Dimensions: 25-1/2 inches high x 33 inches wide, sight size; 29 inc ...click for details
This absolutely charming oil on canvas double portrait of the Skinner children was painted in Baltimore by the British artist Robert Aker (Liverpool,England. The painting is signed verso "Miss/Sarah Skinner/Miss Mary nner,Baltimore/Robt.Aker/pinxt/Liverpool
August 1856."
Obviously the little Skinner girls are members of a family of privilege. One sister is wearing a white dress and holding a bunch of grapes; the other is in a red dress, kneeling & holding apples in her lap.
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Helen Wilson Sherman (American, 1913-2005) painted this engaging oil on canvas portrait of Astrid of Andely and Frisco Saddler, two champion Smooth Coated Fox Terriers. Helen Wilson Sherman was a renowned Nantucket animal portrait artist who specialized in dogs, cats, horses, farm animals & wild life, as well as a student and teacher of Chinese painting. She studied under Madam Fan Tchun Pi and with the late J.W.S. Cox. She is included in "Who’s Who of American Women Artists."
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