Mid nineteenth century watercolor, gouache and gum arabic drawing on paper of a young woman with the ringlet hair and prim dark dress fashionable at the time, holding the back of a Hitchcock chair, all against an extensive landscape. The drawing measures 6" by 4 1/4" inside the mat, and comes with a newish 1" wide gold colored frame. I don't see a signature. The gum arabic has oxidized and aged and is crackly, with tiny losses in the sleeve, and her lower face has lost some detail...

A Fine Korean Orchid Scroll Painting by 靜齋, 吳一英 (1890-1960): Painted with orchids on rock in ink on paper, inscription on the upper left side, signed with his pen name and artist name, and two seal, 靜齋, 吳一英 on the lower right side It’s in fine condition, it measures 31.7cm x 101.5cm (12.25” x 40”).

Oil on canvas, 12" by 16" (17" by 21" as framed---and likely original frame), signed at lower right by popular listed California artist HERBERT SARTELLE (1885-1955). This is a classic autumn scene of large trees and a lake with distant mountains, executed in Sartelle's unique impressionistic style. The painting probably dates to the 1940s or 1950s. It is in generally good condition, with the typical large cracking seen in a number of his paintings, (visible especially in the sky---see photo)...

Watercolor on paper, 13 1/2" by 19 1/2" inside the mat (20 1/2" by 26 1/2" as framed), signed at lower left "Roy E. Swanson" and titled in pencil on the backing board "Green Valley Church", along with the original $340.00 price. This watercolor is by a skilled hand, though I cannot seem to find a listing for the artist. There is a listing for a RAY Swanson (Cowboy Artists of America) is listed, but this is not that artist...

This is an old colorful Persian miniature painting on a panel featuring a courtship scenery depicting couples drinking and playing music mounted on a hand painted floral designed, all housed in a wooden frame covered with hand made geometric design. The scenery is very lively with choice of vibrant colors. The panel measures 9.5" x 7" and frame which itself is made of small fragments of bone is 14-5/8" x 12-1/4"...

Oil on canvas painting of trees in a tawny dry landscape, 12" by 20" and 1" wide old wood frame, signed at lower left by artist S. J. TUJAGUE. At first I had difficulty reading the signature but some net research showed this to be by an artist apparently at least originally hailing from Louisiana, there being a number of pieces, some still life works, having been auctioned in New Orleans. A famous restaurant in that city goes by this name...

Erotic Abstract Scene by Martins de Porangaba, is a Brazilian Artist born in 1944. He is know for his brilliant and brightly colored modernist artwork. This piece is a work on paper, mixed media, measuring 11” x 14”. It is framed in a museum mount measuring about 20” x 24” The work is dated 2005 and is signed on the lower right….

**(one of two by the photographer in my shop)**By the noted American photographer ROBERT "Bob" WERLING (1946-), this is an original gelatin silver print photograph of reflections in a western American mountain lake, pencil signed at lower right margin by the artist photographer. The scene of the high country in the American West, is perhaps Colorado, or possibly, California, such as Yosemite. Werling was born in San Francisco and very early in life showed artistic promise and drive...

Walter Tittle 1883-1966 American This is a fine original drypoint etching by American artist Walter Tittle. The title is: Church of the Heavenly Rest, which was built in New York City in 1929. This etching is hand signed in ink and measures 12X10 inches, nicely framed with archival materials. A very rich impression, Tittle at his very best...

A beautiful heartfelt watercolor signed RS,work on paper measuring 12x9”, framed size 18x15” beautiful watercolor by the American artist Richard Sched, known for his watercolors and rich oil. Mr. Sched, a native of Boston, who studied art at Boston College, was a member of the New York Painters Society. He taught art at Boston College and exhibited there. On his frequent trips abroad he would paint people he met. He painted Pope Jean Paul II as well as other dignitaries...

Vintage print titled "Gathering" an original hand drawn stone lithograph by Raphael Soyer, the renowned Russian-born American realist painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Hand proofed and printed in 1977 by master printer Joseph Kleineman, JK Fine Art Editions Co. NY using ink on Arches paper 100% acid free, from a traditional lithographic stone (which Joseph recalls carrying himself to Soyer's studio on Manhattan's Upper West Side)...

John White (English, 1851-1933)

Woodland Fall Landscape

Oil on panel, signed in lower left corner, “JN White, R.I.”

Painting size: 6.75” x 10”
Frame size: 10.5” x 13.5”

Known for his rustic genre paintings and landscapes, White attended the Royal Scottish Academy. By 1877, he moved to Devon and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, the Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street and the New Watercolor Society...

AN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY AMERICAN CARVED EAGLE SIGN MEASURING 22” x 42”. WONDERFUL PATINA

Original etching by Wendell Black (USA, 1919-1972), started in 1961. Black was still working on this etching when he passed away 18 years later. First edition artist proof, posthumously printed by Berkley Chappell. No lifetime edition exists. Signed and dated "Wendell Black 61 by Elaine" l.r. Elaine was Wendell Black's wife. 24" by 35" image alone. Plate 27 in "The Lost Works of Wendell H. Black" by Henry M. Sayre.

**THREE** identically framed watercolor paintings of classic Greek scenes, each signed at lower left by well listed Greek artist KONSTANTINOS SOFIANOPOULOS (1910-1990). The subjects are small boats or fishing boats, with scenery beyond, including a cliffside temple, in one. As framed, they measure 21 1/2" by 17 1/2" each. The watercolors themselves measure 10 1/2" by 15". Signature is in Greek, and dates appear to be in the 1970's (last digit difficult to decipher in some)...

A fine mixed media study drawing in charcoal and white gouache of a soldier seemingly leaning against a wagon wheel, 10 1/4" by 7 5/8" inside the present mat (the sheet only very slightly larger), and 22 1/2" by 18 1/2" in gold frame with hand drawn lines), titled "Bataille de l'Alma"on the mat, signed with an impressed/embossed signature "I PILS" at lower right...

Painting on board, 17 1/2" by 19 7/8" (24" by 28" as framed), signed at lower right "BIZLEY" (artist RICHARD BIZLEY, 1959-, of Dorset, England). Auctions of items relating to natural history are seeing intense interest from museums and individuals, and record prices are set regularly. This highly detailed and imaginative work brings the viewer to the Jurassic period (206 to 144 million years ago) with its depth and imagery. A Brontosaurus pulls down a tree while feeding, at the base of a won...

Portrait of a Child by Raletick. Mixed Media 23 x 18".

Original lithograph print, 1976, featuring, a typical Boulanger figure reclining on his back, looking up at clouds which incorporate the names and locales of galleries worldwide in which exhibitions of the artist's work are about to be held. There are a number of variants of this poster, the top portion focusing on the gallery and location; this one is for Meridian Gallery of Indianapolis, Indiana. The artist was born in La Paz, Bolivia, and was in Europe while very young, receiving art instruc...

Oil on canvas, " by " (" by " framed), the subject a peaceful glen deep in a forest, painted in a luminous style reminiscent of the American Hudson River School, likely Fairy Glen in North Wales, signed at lower right by the noted well listed English artist WILLIAM MELLOR (1851-1931). Mellor was a highly prolific (I see over 1,200 auction records) artist, born in Barnsley, England. He traveled widely, painting often in Wales and Yorkshire. Today his peaceful classic paintings of sensitively r...

Watercolor and gouache on paper laid on thin card painting of a typical street scene in an Austrian city, 12 1/2" by 8 1/2" (17" by 13" in circa 1920's black frame), signed at extreme lower left corner and dated there 1917. I have spent considerable time trying to determine what the signature says....I tried Seiler and other similar combinations but so far seem to be unable to link this to a listed artist, though the quality is undeniable. There is lots of detail in the figures walking or stan...

Frank Benson, American, 1862-1951, etching, "The Passing Flock", image size: 11 3/4 x 13 3/4 in, 1927, signed in pencil, published state, edition of 150 (Paff 277), on laid paper with "ENGLAND" watermark

Oil on board, 20" by 24" and frame 2 3/4" wide, signed in the paint at lower right "H. YOSHIZUMI" and dated there "57". Titled on two labels "Monterey Wharf", this is a striking, impressionist yet modern painting by a talented artist who was born in nearby Watsonville of Japanese ancestry. Yoshizumi was incarcerated during World War II at the Poston, Arizona internment camp. Many net references discuss the art he was able to produce while there, depicting his grim and alien surroundings. He ...

Painting of two children hugging tenderly, 24" by 20", unframed, signed at upper left by the noted Brazil-California 20th century artist OZZ FRANCA (1928-1991). Franca is perhaps best known for his paintings of Native American women, and "Big Eye" children, but he also painted a wide range of other subject matter. The Askart listing says he painted, among other subjects, fantasy, dreams/mystery, female figure, still life, cityscapes, seascapes, and pure abstraction. The artist grew up in Sao ...

Gouache on satin painting of a well-dressed French young woman of the 1950's, by artist O. Vorgang. The work, unframed, measures 12" by 9 1/2" inside an old mat. It is signed at lower right (difficult to decipher) and remaining on the old mat is a printed label "Water Original Hand Painting on Satin by O. Vorgang". "French Girl" is also written on the back of the card to which the satin is laid (as well as some other old handwriting). This work would appear to date to the post-war period of ...

Highly impressionistic watercolor painting of a small boat in a foggy harbor, 14" by 20", unframed, signed at lower left by the listed American artist JOSEPH MARGULIES (1896-1984). Margulies was born in Vienna and by the 1920's was studying art in New York at the Art Students League, one of his instructors being Joseph Pennell. He also received training at the National Academy, Cooper Union, and in Europe. Margulies came to be known for his portraits and landscapes, many of the Cape Ann area ...

Oil on canvas extensive view of a town of red-roofed houses by the sea, a colorful garden and balustrade railing in the foreground, executed by an unknown artist, likely in the latter years of the 20th century. The artist painted a highly impressionistic work (27" by 31", 35 1/2" by 40" framed) in cheerful, light, sunny colors. The work is very decorative and is in perfect condition, so would be an item that you could hang on the wall immediately. Frame is in almost perfect condition as well....

The paper size: 35" W x 22" H (borderless sheet)
Unframed Original Lithograph by Artist, Charles Cobelle, (1902-1994)
The title, "Fiddler and Mermaid"
Medium: 100% Rag content Acid Free Paper.
Condition: excellent, never been framed.
Edition number AP(artist proof), signed Cobelle
and numbered in pencil on back AP.
Edition size 350 plus some aritist proof existing.
It was published in 1979 by The Graphic House.
We guarantee it is original lithogra...

Indonesian, probably 19th century, the carved driftwood monkey deity figure depicted with crossed legs and wearing a crown, 29 in., black-painted pyramid-form tripod base, 35 in. overall, extensive losses to backdrop frame, right arm and various elements at legs, base with paint losses

Parisian Scene 1930s Watercolor,Tuileries Garden 19 x 26“ $1600

Framed and matted under glass, a vibrant watercolor featuring workers in the rice fields. Indistinct signature (Jalin 49 or Jalimus ?). Not examined out of frame. The frame measures 16" x 19-1/2".

Tavik F. Simon, Czech, "From the Latin Quarter". This 1907 etching and aquatint by Tavik F. Simon measures 12 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches, pencil signed, numbered "81", edition of 150, cat: Novak-69, G. Petit publisher's blindstamp on l.l. T.F.Simon was born in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague and traveled extensively throughout Europe, as well as Asia and the U.S. He lived in Paris from 1905-1913, then returned to Prague to teach at the Academy of F...

WASHINGTON DC ARTIST ROBIN SUTLIFF, “Venetian Blue” 24” x 18” Inches,… Mixed Media with Resin on canvas., .from our recent exhibition of Ms. Robin Sutliff works,….Robin has been an artist most of her life using Acrylic and Resin in a variety of mediums. Robin masterfully uses rich colors and textures in her work, to evoke the joyful essence of nature

Dominican Republic Artist RASCAL “Woman with a Red Tie” Abstract Oil 23x21 inches, signed and framed A bad boy, Rascal was caught creating graffiti too many times, when a judge finally told him enough was enough and encouraged him to paint in earnest. Rascal responded with urban art, full of color and stories of his life. Each painting had meaning special to him and explained the joys of his life, his defeats in love lost and his life in the city. Art that was unlike anyone else’s, his...

A truly spectacular portrait miniature executed in watercolor on natural wafer. This is, by quite a few years, one of the earliest known pieces by Samuel Cotes. The painting is signed "SC" and dated "1756" at the center left. The sitter, clearly a nobleman, is seated in a chair as he plays a mandolin. It appears, from his expression and eyes, that the music is transporting him to some remembered or imagined place.

The condition of the painting is excellent. with no chips, cracks, paint loss or...

An accomplished watercolor of a spooky old Victorian house on a city block, signed at lower left by artist JOHN W. ATTERBURY and dated there 1944. The work measures 14" by 20" (24" by 29 1/2" in old stained oak wood frame). Titled in pencil "Yellow Windows" at lower center, the artist has created a work with very American qualities, and reminiscent of Edward Hopper's strangely empty and lonely structures, or perhaps those of Charles Burchfield. In this case some figures hurry by the venerable...