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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

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

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

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.

OUTSIDER ART/CHILDREN SLEEPING/HELEN LAFRANCE Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American: Pre 2000 item# 911480 (stock# HLChildrenSl)
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Helen LaFrance is a self-taught black artist who was born in 1919 in Western Kentucky. This very charming oil on canvas depiction of children sleeping, more than one in a bed as was the norm, measures 20 x 30 inches, sight size, and 21 x 31 inches framed. LaFrance's specialty is memory paintings of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South, although she has painted religious themes and floral studies, usually in oil on canvas. She has painted since she was a small child, always following ...click for details

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