All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #1228118 (stock #22B3 457)
Snow Drifts - Walton Blodgett (American, 1907-1963), original watercolor painting. Circa: mid 20th century. Size: 12 inches x 14.5 inches. Signed in lower left. A dramatic image by this WPA era Vermont artist, with contrasting shadows set against a snowy field and with a silhouetted skyline of the Green Mountains in the background. Walton Blodgett received his artistic training in New York City at the Grand Central School of Art, and later with George Luks...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1900 item #1414201
The quality of this bronze neoclassical figure is exceptional, with fine detail, deep rich patina, and fire gilding accents. It measures 12 1/2" high, on a base measuring 6 3/4" x 3 3/8". The base is open on the bottom and shows screws that hold the sculpture in place. Probably had a marble base at some time. Signed on the corner, "Moreau", one of the famed French bronze sculptors of the 19th century...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #951367 (stock #31B4 G21)
"Dove" an original painting by Ben Shahn (American, 1898-1969), watercolor and ink. Circa. 1960. Signed in ink. Sheet size: 9.75 inches x 12.75 inches. Excellent condition. Offered in a modern frame.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1352128 (stock #40I62-100)
Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) original watercolor painting of a solitary skier. Circa 1950s-60s. Size: 14 inches x 20.5 inches (sight). Churchill Ettinger is recognized for his many illustrations, etchings and paintings of sporting subjects. He studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League in New York City, and also taught at the New York School of Industrial Art...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1365891 (stock #40i87-100)
Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) - Vermont Village in Winter. Oil on masonite. Size: 12 inches x 16 inches. Artist signed in lower left. Circa 1960's. Offered in as-found condition and would benefit from a professional cleaning. The barn-board frame is probably original. A late afternoon sun accentuates the white steeple of this northern Vermont village, painted in the midst of the winter season. Thomas Curtin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #777969 (stock #38B12 1353)
Walter Lofthouse Dean (American, 1854-1912), oil on canvas, circa 1880s, 18" x 24". This painting depicts a busy harbor, possibly Gloucester or even Boston, with numerous sailing vessels and a steam powered tugboat. Walter L Dean was a Massachusetts marine painter and an experienced sailor. He studied art in Boston and then in Paris at the Academie Julian with Lefebvre and Boulanger, in 1883. He maintained an art studio in E. Gloucester, Mass...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #511977 (stock #171)
Antique Portrait of a beautiful young girl oil on canvas signed on reverse Pankratz Korle and dated 1844. Pandratz Korle (1823-1875) is a well listed painter and highly regarded painter. This charming portrait of a girl in a white dress with a pink shawl is masterfully painted. A portrait by Korle sold at auction for $6,103 in November of 2005. Measuring approx. 24x28 inches framed in a antique gold leaf frame 27x32 overall...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #1301934 (stock #713)
Original Watercolor painting Modernist Seascape by Harold Christopher Davies, signed lower right. From the estate of the artist and the Hoover Gallery, San Francisco. Davies' work was exhibited at the San Francisco Art Association, the Oakland Art Gallery, the Birmingham Museum, the Southampton Museum, the University of Long Island Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, the Hoover Gallery, the Haggin Museum, and the Huntsville Museum. Image 13.5"L x 17"W. Framed 21.5" L x 25" W.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1910 item #1460367 (stock #40D23-1353)
Harvard Yard, Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts painting by Harold Broadfield Warren (American, 1859-1934). Dated 1902. Watercolor on paper. Size: 9 3/4 inches x 6 5/8 inches (sight). Signed and dated in lower left. A peaceful rendering of one of the College's halls of residence within 'Harvard Yard,' Harvard College, painted in 1902. Harold Broadfield Warren was a landscape painter, illustrator and craftsman...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Prints : Serigraphs : Pre 1960 item #1153711 (stock #40E12-142)
Wassily Kandinsky, after (Russian, 1866-1944) screen print Gris, edition 153/300, circa 1953. Sheet size: 25 inches x 19 inches. Image size: 16 inches x 13.75 inches. Gris was originally produced by Kandinsky in 1931, from the Collection of the artist's widow, Nina Kandinsky. This silkscreen was printed in 1953, in a limited edition of 300 prints, in Paris, at the studio of Wilfredo Arcay, and was issued the same year in the folio, Edition Art D'Aujourd'hui: Maitres de L'Art Abstrait (Art of ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1318112 (stock #22B3-1007)
Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) - Snowed In. Oil on artist board. Circa 1950's - early 1960's. Painting size: 15 1/2 inches X 19 3/4 inches. Signed by artist in lower right. In this painting, Thomas Curtin has depicted a small farm house buried in deep snow during the height of a New England winter. As is typical in his works, he uses the shadows cast from trees in the late afternoon light to create a web-like pattern across the snow, while scattered flurries continue despite the sun...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1837 VR item #975765 (stock #26C10E 3071)
Portrait of British officer Benjamin Everard. Oil on canvas. Circa 1813. Size: 22.5" x 16.5" Offered in an antique lemon yellow gilt frame, which is stamped "G.A. Plowman, Builder." This full length unsigned portrait of a British officer in uniform, with dress sword and cap, is identified by an early label, affixed to the stretcher, as "Benjamin Everard, Ensign 21st Foot, 25 Feb. 1813, served in the Marahtta War." British Army records show that Benjamin Everard served in the 1st (Royal) Re...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1304881 (stock #10662)
Edmond Darch Lewis (American, 1835-1910)

Schooner off the Atlantic Coast

Watercolor on paper, signed lower left and dated β€œ1896”

Sight Size:13" x 26"
Frame Size: 23.25" x 36"

Lewis was born and died and Philadelphia where he studied with Paul Weber from about 1850-55. According to Peter Falk ("Who Was Who in American Art"), β€œhe was one of the most popular landscape painters of Philadelphia during the late 19th century. His early wor...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1025681 (stock #359.00)
Original antique oil painting on art board signed lower right measuring 12 x 16 . Beautiful colors and impressionist mood.

Artist Biography,

Landscape painter. Born on Aug. 26, 1865 in Stockton, CA when it was still a small frontier town. Mersfelder began drawing at an early age and in his teens moved to San Francisco where he studied for three years at the School of Design under Virgil Williams. While studying at that school, he often visited the nearby studio of William Keith w...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1206684 (stock #39B20 345)
Jacob I. Greenleaf (American, 1887-1968) - Vermont Village in Autumn, oil on canvas, c.1940s. Canvas size: 22 inches x 28 inches. Very good condition with some minor discoloration to the older varnish in the sky. Signed in the lower right and retaining the artist's original fragmented, partial label on the reverse. A native of Estonia, Jacob Greenleaf emigrated to the United States, where he settled in Rockport, Massachusetts. He is best known for his paintings of New England landscapes and ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #1253308 (stock #40H40 100)
Jacob I. Greenleaf (American, 1887-1968) - 'Autumn Glory, Mount Monadnock, NH,' oil on linen landscape painting, circa 1950s, signed in lower right. Size: 25 inches x 30 inches. Excellent condition and offered in the original carved gold leaf frame, including artist's label which gives the title, Autumn Glory. There is also an exhibition label from the Boston Society of Independent Artists 16th Annual Exhibition, that shows the title as Autumn Gold with an original price tag of $275. Jacob G...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1365892 (stock #40I93-101)
Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) - A Country Road in Autumn. Oil on canvas board. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Unsigned on the front, but signed on the reverse. Circa 1960's. Excellent condition. A dramatic example of Thomas Curtin's landscape painting - a country road in northern Vermont, as seen at the height of fall foliage, with a farm house and smoking chimney just visible in the distance. Thomas Curtin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He studied at the prestigious National Aca...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #1168991 (stock #40F44 103)
Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) Vermont winter landscape with a skier, titled Blue Ribbon. Oil on artist board. Size: 9 inches x 12 inches. Circa 1950s. Signed by the artist on the reverse and titled, together with the artist's Weston, VT address. We believe that 'Blue Ribbon' refers to a ski trail by that name on Bromley Mountain. Condition is excellent. Churchill Ettinger was a noted sportsman, printmaker and painter. He studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Stu...