All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Contemporary item #1205154 (stock #38B20 350)
Robert Charles Gruppe (American, born 1944) - Trout Stream (Vermont). Oil on canvas. Circa 2000+ Size: 25 inches x 30 inches. Signed in lower right. Excellent, like new condition, offered in a carved plein air silver leaf frame. This painting was acquired directly from the artist. An autumnal landscape painting of a trout stream painted by Robert Gruppe while traveling in Vermont...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1090485 (stock #424)
August Ludecke-Cleve (1868-1957): A beautiful antique German impressionist Landscape of cows in a meadow with a view through the trees. Bold brush work and bright colors. This is a very good and large example of this artists work. Measuring approx. 32 x 43 inches in excellent condition. Provenance: Stanford Museum Sale. Artist Biography: August Ludecke-Cleve first studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf then at the Munich Academy...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #1186786 (stock #22B3 426)
Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) winter landscape of a Vermont farm. Oil on canvas board. Circa 1960s. Size: 10 inches x 14 inches. Estate stamped in lower left and on the reverse, together with the estate inventory #281. Excellent condition and recently cleaned. Offered in a vintage gilt, plein air frame...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #815867 (stock #26C10E 300)
"Mountain Bridge in Spring, Jackson, New Hampshire" by Roger Deering (American, 1904 - ?) Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches, dated 1968 & signed in lower right. A landscape painting of a covered bridge in Jackson, NH, painted in May 1968 by the Maine artist Roger Deering. Signed by the artist in the lower right and also with the artist’s name, title and date on the stretcher, and offered in what is probably the artist’s original frame...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1415566
Oil on wood panel, this portrait of a young man dressed in vest and coat measures 9 1/8" x 7" (sight size) and the frame is 11 3/4" x 10 1/8". Well painted, there is a crazed and bubbled varnish surface, with some crazing in the paint visible on the vest. The bird's eye maple frame has a thin gold liner, with minor damage and some gilt loss. The wood panel is beveled on all four sides...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1088893
Theodore 'Ted' Kautzky (Hungarian/American, 1896-1953) watercolor painting of Rainy Day - New York, 1932. Watercolor on watercolor board. Painting size: 15 x 22." Signed and dated 1932 in lower right corner. In this painting, Kautzky captures the shimmering reflections on a rainy day in New York on the Harlem River Speedway looking south along the Harlem River with Washington Bridge and High Bridge visible in the distance. Old automobiles and decorative lamp posts remind us of earlier times...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1189374 (stock #582)
Original oil Marko Stupar modernist portrait of a woman colorful beautiful painting measuring 11 x 14 framed in a beautiful quality gallery frame overall size 14 x 16 a quality painting would enhance any collection.

Biography

Born in 1936 in Yugoslavia, Stupar chose France as his permanent home in 1964 after completing his studies at the Beaux-Arts of Belgrade. Today we find that the art of Marko Stupar is totally integrated into the School of Paris...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #1153818 (stock #40E12 145)
Paul Klee, after (German, born in Switzerland, 1879-1940), silkscreen print, Musique Diurne (Day Music). Edition: 153/300. Circa 1953. Sheet size: 19 inches x 25 inches. Image size: 13.75 inches x 20.5 inches. Klee painted the original of Musique Diurne (Day Music) in 1940, shortly before his death...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1482239 (stock #38B20-423)
Lower Hollow, Dorset, Vermont landscape painting by Edward Burrage Child (American, 1868-1937), oil on canvas, dated 1894. Size: 18 inches x 24 inches. Offered in an Arts and Crafts style carved gilt wood frame. This is the earliest image of Dorset Hollow that we have come across, and is a fine example of the work by the southern Vermont artist, Edwin Burrage Child. Edwin Child undertook formal training at the Art Students League in New York City and became assistant to John Lafarge in his pa...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1352130 (stock #40H67 125)
Eric Tobin landscape painting, titled Early Snow on Mt. Mansfield. Oil on linen canvas. Painted in 2010. Size: 20 inches x 24 inches. Signed in lower right and signed and titled on the reverse. A late autumn landscape of an early snowfall on Mount Mansfield, as viewed from a farm with red barn in Cambridge, Vermont to the north. Offered in a silvered wood frame. Eric Tobin is a contemporary Vermont landscape artist. He resides in the northern part of the state, near Johnson, VT. Tobin was great...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Metal : Pre 1940 item #1433043
This handwrought arts & crafts candlestick was designed and signed by William Spratling in the early 1930's. The candlestick base measures 5 inches across and stands 3 1/2" high. Excellent condition and patina. Signed on the underside WS TAXCO MEXICO. This Spratling tin candlestick is pictured on p. 227 of WILLIAM SPRATLING AND THE MEXICAN SILVER RENAISSANCE by Penny Morrill.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1234175 (stock #10468)
Wilhelm Engelhard (German, 1813-1902)

"Lorelei" a Bronzed Spelter Sculpture

Signed and Dated in the Cast: "1852"

Height: 20"

Wilhelm Englehard trained as a sculptor first in Paris and then in London, In 1839 he became a pupil of Thorwaldsen in Copenhagen and in 1841 a pupil of Schwanthaler in Munich.

Englehard is known for his sculptures of mythological groups, single figures and genre pieces, most often in limestone. Some of his works a...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1199941 (stock #40G15-176)
Theodore 'Ted' Kautzky, N.A. (American, 1896-1953) original watercolor painting titled 'Autumn in Vermont.' Circa 1951. Unsigned. Size: 22.25 inches x 29.5 inches. Watercolor on 300lb. D'Arches paper. Condition: very good, with bright, crisp colors; some toning to the very edges of the sheet, which would be hidden if matted (currently framed floating with no mat.) This painting was published as the cover of the November 1951 issue of "Reader's Digest." A copy of this magazine is included ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #1133227 (stock #22B3 368)
Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) oil on canvas landscape painting of a Stream in Winter. Size: 30 inches x 36 inches. Excellent condition. Circa 1950s-60s. Signed lower left. Thomas Curtin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and painted in Cape Ann, Maine and then from 1943 in Vermont where he is known for his landscape paintings, and most especially for his winter scenes. He was friends with his contemporaries, John Carlson, Emile Gruppe and Aldro Hibbard. He studied at the prestigi...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #422994 (stock #8827)
Walter Harrowing (British, worked 1865-1904)

Chestnut Hunter in a Stable

Oil on canvas, signed and dated: “1877”.

There is no known exhibition record of Harrowing’s work and little is known of his background other than that he is noted for his portraits of horses and dogs, particularly beagles, hunters, brood mares and coach horses. He is also known to have painted still lifes of game as well as various other farm animals. He is listed in The Dictionary of Briti...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1256263 (stock #10560)
Ebenezer Colls (British , 1812-1887)

"The Old Ship Victory off Southampton Water"

Signed lower left and titled on an old label on the reverse.

Painting: 26" x 17.25"
Frame size: 32" x 23"

Colls was a painter of shipping and coastal scenes who lived in Camden Town, London and exhibited at the British Institution from 1852-4. The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich has a pair of his paintings. Denys Brook-Hart (see below) comments "Ebenezer Colls' pictures ar...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1910 item #756305 (stock #9705)
Chiesa Santa Maria Della Salute

Oil on canvas, signed lower left and entitled on reverse.
Painting size: 24” x 18”
Frame size: 31” x 25”

American painter C. Myron Clark specialized in marine subjects and, like so many other artists, was drawn to Venice with its ongoing atmospheric shifts in the sky and sea. This work shows the church of Santa Maria della Salute, one of the city’s landmarks, at the end of the day. Clark captures the effects of the mellowing light whic...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #577398 (stock #222)
Antique Italian oil painting portrait of a Cardinal by J. Rampollo signed lower left and titled on the reverse. The painting c.1890 is oil on board measuring approx. 10 in. by 15.5 inches. Framed in a beautiful antique gilt frame measuring 16.5 in. by 22.5 inches. The painting is in excellent condition the frame has some minor losses but shows very nicely and is ready to hang. J. Pampollo a highly skilled painter know for portraits of Cardinals and clergy.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1480066
Large oil on stretched canvas by the American artist Wesley Webber (1839-1914), identified often as a White Mountain Artist for his images of northern New England, depicting a bucolic farm scene, with lovely river and meadows, people and farm animals with houses in the background. Measures 16" x 30" x 3/4". Though always considered a realism artist, he was exposed to impressionism and some works exhibit this looser style. This painting exhibits a bit of the impressionist element, and the whole...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1990 item #1343503 (stock #26C10)
Hawes the Butler, life-size hydrocal cement sculpture, by Jack Dowd (American, 1938 - present). Dated Nov. 1988. Edition 102 of 123. Size: 66.5 inches H x 13.5 inches W x 11.5 inches D. Signed, dated and titled on base plinth. Jack Dowd is a Sarasota, Florida based sculptor who is known for his life-size figural representations of personalities and satirical characters, carved from wood or cast in resin or cement. This sculpture is of 'Hawes' from his butler series, cast in a small editio...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1150259 (stock #525)
Claude Lacaze Original painting cubist nudes oil on canvas in excellent condition measuring approx. 14 x 20 Biography

Lacaze was a painter who was heavily influenced by Cubism and Post-Cubism, particularly by fellow Bordeaux painters such as André L’Hote. He was born in Angoulême, Charente and studied at the Lycée Montaigne in Bordeaux and it was there, under an inspirational art master, that his desire to be an artist was initiated. He enrolled at L’École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux a...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1267255 (stock #650)
Original David Roberts lithograph of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives, April 8th 1839, plate 6 from Volume I of The Holy Land engraved by Louis Haghe 1806-85 pub. 1842. Original hand colored deluxe edition. In good antique condition some age discoloration minor fading spotting. Framed matted actuall image 12" x 18" framed matted 21 x 27 framed size.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1101260 (stock #454)
Fine western bronze of a cowboy bronco buster signed mounted on marble base in excellent condition.

Artist Biography Austrian sculptor was born in Vienna in 1865. His teachers were Karl Waschmann (1848-1905), known for his ivory sculptures and portrait plaquettes of contemporary celebrities, and Stefan Schwartz (1851-1924), who exhibited in Paris, including the Exposition Universelle of 1900 where he won a gold medal. Kauba’s intricate bronzes, imported to the United States between 1895 a...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #966783 (stock #40E29 7)
Aldro Thompson Hibbard (American, 1886-1972) winter landscape painting titled "Up The Valley"; oil on artist board; 18" x 24"; signed lower right, titled on the reverse. Circa 1940. A classic winter scene by Hibbard, one of New England's best artists of the 20th century and an undisputed master of "plein aire" Vermont winter landscapes. This scene has been identified as the old Arthur E. Gleason farm on Rte. 30 in East Jamaica, VT (Hibbard's studio was located in Jamaica, VT). Only two of the...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #105977 (stock #ww1)
This is a palatial oil on canvas, Madonna and Child with Angels, 19th Century, no signature, Child holding rosary beads in hands, larger angel playing lute, smaller angel playing violin, canvas mounted on stretcher frame in palladian style, reinforced on back by sections of masonite board. Good condition, varnish heavy in spots and dripped, signs of overpainting in one spot, scratch upper left, may need cleaning and some restoration. Measurements: 86 in H x 39 in W approximately
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1404324
This sculpture of an African American man is beautifully sculpted, in a style reminiscent of early 20th century artists who were inspired by the stylized forms of African traditional art. Good size, it measures 10 1/2" high, and the base is 6 3/4" in diameter, and is a heavy wood, possibly maple or walnut. There is a very dark finish, some of which has been cleaned off, and in areas where it was handled, there is wear to the finish. In good condition, some loss to the base around the neck are...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1980 item #1297273 (stock #31B4 501)
Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988) - The Fall of Troy. Colored screen print, 1979, signed in pencil in lower margin. From the Odysseus series. Image size: 18.25 inches x 24 inches. This is from the Deluxe print edition of 75 (numbered XXXXIV/LXXV). There was a regular edition of 125 prints, then a deluxe edition of 75 numbered in Roman numerals; then 30 artist proofs and a Museum edition of 30. Offered in museum quality framing. Excellent condition (not examined out of the frame). Romar...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1228660 (stock #10351)
Mrs. J. Lizzie Cloud (British, flourished 1873-1880)

Young Boy With Doll and Clay Pipe

Oil on board, signed lower left and dated "1872"

Painting Size: 10.5” x 8.25”
Frame Size: 15.5 ” x 13.25”

Mrs. Cloud was a painter of domestic genre scenes and is recorded as having exhibited at the Royal Academy, Suffolk Street and other galleries in England. A title of one of her paintings was “The Connemara Postman”. Little seems to be known of her painting ...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1007288 (stock #6354)
A George Culley watercolour painting 1981 from Canada. This unframed 15-1/2" x 11" double-sided watercolour on paper is by George S. Culley (Canadian, 1905-?) depicting a shack surrounded by low wooded hills on one side and a trees and yard winter scene on the other. This painting is in excellent original condition with no foxing, staining, bends, tears, losses, damage or repairs other than a thin scrape on the winter scene (see image). It is signed G.S. Culley in red in the left margin on the ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #656884 (stock #40E29 31)
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), oil on canvas board, signed lower right. Titled and dated in Gruppe's hand on the verso,"Mount Mansfield, Vermont, 1947." A vibrant spring scene with traces of lingering winter snow. Excellent condition. Size: 12 inches x 16 inches.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1308865 (stock #730)
Beautiful American oil painting of a portrait of a young girl with a parrot. American school 19th century. Measuring 8 x10 inches overall framed size 10.5" x 12.5". Original antique frame. In excellent condition oil on canvas laid down on board some minor flaws to frame.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1837 VR item #1036875
This is a Painting by Johann Cristoph Frisch...Germany 1738-1815. Middle eastern Scene with people near water and figure on camel. Oil on board. Signed at l.l., "J.C. Frisch". Framed. 17 3/4" x 15" sight; frame: 22 1/2" x 20
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1950 item #108152 (stock #T027)
SOLD, no price, no info. Collector wrote: ...very happy with it...SIZE: unframed image 5x3", mat board 5x7". SUBJECT: Sailing competition? COLOR: gray board can be rematted. CONDITION: very good with original, creamy color tissue wrap.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1365396 (stock #26C10-2656)
Luigi Lucioni - The Enduring Maple. Watercolor on paper. Dated 1954. Original frame with Associated American Artists label. Size: approx. 8" x 7". Signs and dated. Excellent condition.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1930 item #1302238 (stock #715)
Original Antique Watercolor British Portrait of "The Cutty Sark" signed lower right John Whitlock image 13"L x 18"W. Overall framed size 20" L x 24" W. Provenance imported from England by J Assenheim NY.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1960 item #1099771 (stock #6571)
A superbly rendered and atmospheric lifetime woodblock print by the famed Japanese artist Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), titled "Ikegami Honmonji Temple" (Honmonji Temple in Snow). First published in 1931, this is an artist's lifetime strike from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. This print is Oban size (14-1/4" x 9-1/2" image size, 19-3/4" x 14-1/4" frame size). It has the 6 mm. red lifetime seal of the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (seal used from 1946-57). It comes in a red-painted bamboo-style fr...