This is a very decorative item of impressive size for your Southwest style home: a gouache painting on cloth, roughly square at 30 1/8" by 30 7/8" plus about 3 1/2" on a side of frame and undermat......no signature that I can see but it reminds me of the popular "yeibichai" weavings of the Navajo and Hopi Southwest. The condition is excellent and this is ready for the wall. Allow for reflections in the glass.

Original mixed media (watercolor, gouache, ink) on paper by Judith Shahn (USA, born in Paris, worked in New York and Cape Cod, 1929-2009). Signed lower right. Frame is by Robert Kulicke. Judith Shahn was Ben Shahn's daughter. She studied with her father and Moses Soyer. Her work appeared in the New Yorker Magazine, Harpers, The Nation, etc.

A beautiful sanguine color study in watercolor by artist E. Kiek signed and dated 1961 in pencil. More information coming soon….

Oil on board painting of a harbor with small boats, 11 3/4" by 14", (15 1/2" by 17 1/2" in stained oak frame), said by a handwritten note on the reverse to be Morro Bay in central California. The note reads "View of Morro Bay/by Mary Harrington on trip of California coast with friends Mr. & Mrs. Dan Castro 1961". The painting might be signed by the artist at lower right; difficult to see among the browned varnish...

A most interesting circa 1960's work featuring a group of older, mostly one story buildings in a town, those buildings apparently of stone, judging from the earthy colors. A dark blue sky elegantly sets off the earth tones, making for an interesting play of light and color. Brush strokes are vigorous and sure. The painting is oil on canvasboard, measuring 9" by 13" (12 3/4" by 16 1/2" framed), signed with initials that could be "CB" at lower right...

A circa 1960's or early 1970's mixed media collage painting of a "Big Eyed" girl and her doll, painted in his usual whimsical fashion, by the French mid century impressionist artist ROGER ETIENNE (1922-2011). The painting (23 1/4" by 17 1/2", and 29 1/4" by 23 1/4" as framed) is signed at lower right "Rousseau", but this fools no one; it is clearly by the artist Roger Etienne. Why he chose to use a pen name on this particular example will remain an unknown...

This is a Miniature PAINTING OIL ON BOARD. Depiction of an Inlet with Lake or Ocean Background. Add to the Collection Signed: J. Billard. Measures: 8 1/4" X 6 1/4" framed; 2 1/8" X 4 7/8" sight.

AMERICAN, 1909-1981 Henry Martin Gasser was an American painter in every sense. From his working-class industrial town, he sought out the greatest artists in the area in order to study from them and found inspiration in his backyard. Through persistence and a spirit of originality, Gasser turned humble scenes of urban American life in the mid-twentieth century into extraordinary works of art that were widely praised by the art world...

Laszlo Matulay - 1912 - 1999

Austrian/American

Gouache on heavy paper

Expressionist portrait entitled "Mozart"

20" x 30"

In very good unframed condition

Minor small tear in lower right

Studied - Vienna Academy of Applied Arts

Associated with Bauhaus artist group

Emigrated to the United States in 1935

Painter, magazine and book illustrator

Richard Hoptner modernist abstract sculpture in wood

15 1/2" tall

Base - 8" x 5 1/2"

Signed and dated 1965

Excellent condition

Hoptner - 1921 - 2002, Philadelphia, PA

Education - University of Pennsylvania, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan

Exhibitions - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Art, Woodmere Art Gallery, Sui Generis Gallery, NYC, St. Joseph's University, Phila.

Original finely detailed gouache and watercolor on board painting (no glass) of two warring ships, the 38-gun frigate HMS Macedonian of the Royal Navy, and the 44-gun better protected USS United States, as they appeared in the epic battle of October 25, 1812. The Macedonian surrendered to the Americans, making her the second warship to surrender to the US during that war. The painting, signed at lower right by artist Gordon Bracher and dated 1965, might be after a Thomas Birch painting...

Original oil painting on canvas by J. (Jesse Redwin) Bardin (USA, South Carolina, 1923-1997). Signed lower right. Also signed verso, and inscribed with the artist's address in Paris (60 Rue du Cherche-Midi). With a couple of gallery labels still attached. 10" by 14". unframed original condition.

This is an unsigned, unframed, double-sided watercolor on heavy watercolor paper, 14 1/2" by 10 1/4", one side featuring a partially nude woman with arms behind her head, a decorative flowered textile of some sort covering the lower portion of her body; the other side features an outdoor amphitheater nighttime performance---perhaps, it has been suggested, the Hollywood Bowl. The vintage piece was acquired from a large collection of art that came from the estate of Brooks Pettus (1918-2003)...

Original oil painting on panel by Paul Matthews (American, born 1933). In excellent condition and in its original gallery frame. Signed "Matthews" l.r. Also inscribed Paul Matthews verso. Still bears a gallery label from the Kiosk Gallery in Provincetown. This painting measures 29" by 16" in its frame (23" by 10" painting alone). Paul Matthews studied at the Cooper Union Art School in NYC in the fifties...

Oil on canvas painting of a man seated in a library, 28" by 22" (34" by 27 3/4" framed), signed on the book cover at lower right and the subject apparently one "Dr. Young", by well listed Russian-born California artist ALEXANDER IGNATIEV (1913-1995). The work is very 1940's/1950's in feeling, almost mural-like. Ignatiev escaped Russia for China during the revolution and was in San Francisco by 1923, where he studied with Gleb Ilyin...

Oil on canvasboard painting of flowering yucca ("Spanish Bayonet") in a landscape, signed at lower right by Barbara White, a talented artist from Silver City, New Mexico, who was elected first president of the organization in 1968. There does not seem to be much other information readily available on the net, but one reference does indicate that she is deceased. The painting measures 9" by 12" and 15" by 18" framed. The artist wrote her name, address and the title "N...

Japanese limited edition color etching and aquatint titled "Le Tournoi II" (The Tournament II) by Taiwan artist Shaih Li-fa (Xie Lifa) dated 1968. Pencil-signed, titled, and numbered 3/25 in the bottom margin. Xie Lifa (b. 1938) studied drawing and sculpture in Paris in the 1960s before relocating to the U.S. in 1968 to focus on printmaking...

Friedrich (Fritz) Heubner, 1896-1974, German, drypoint etching, "Portrait of a Young Woman ("Madchenkopf"), image size 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches, pencil signed