A W Best Navajo indian camp near bear mt. Arizona oil on canvas signed lower right measuring 8x10 inches framed in a hand carved 24k gold leaf frame approx. 16 x 18 overall. In excellent condition.

biography

Arthur William BEST 
1859 - 1935 Arthur William Best was born in Mount Pleasant, Canada on July 17, 1859. He and his brother Harry attended public school in Mount Pleasant and were members of a small band. Arthur played the cornet; Harry, the violin...

Vermont winter landscape painting by Robert Shaw Wesson (American, 1902-1967), oil on canvasboard, circa 1950s. Signed lower right and offered in what is probably the artist's original frame. This scene has wonderful composition and perspective with an old mill building in the foreground and with mountains receding into the background. Size: 16" x 20". Excellent condition.

Rare 1944 original etching by Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900-1988) of his setter "Missina" produced as a Christmas card by the artist. Edition size unknown. Image size: 3" x 5". Signed and dated in the plate, pencil signed and dated with Christmas greeting in bottom margin, penciled dedication in top margin. Embury #92. Condition is good with some wrinkles in top corners.

Dennis Sheehan (American, 1950 - ) landscape painting in early spring. Oil on canvas. Signed lower right. Sheehan paints in the Barbizon mode, and his works show the influence of the great tonalist George Inness. He delights in capturing the moods of nature's ever-changing landscapes in the style of his 19th century predecessors. Circa 1990. Sheehan currently maintains a gallery in Manchester, New Hampshire. Size: 20" x 24". Provenance: acquired directly from the artist...

Autumnal landscape painting of hillside farm by Bernard Corey (American, 1914-2000). Signed lower right and also in pencil on the verso. Oil on canvas laid on wood panel offered in a carved giltwood frame by Paul Carter Goodnow. Canvas size: 10" x 13.75". Excellent condition. Well known for his finely rendered New England landscapes and shore scenes, Corey was a member of the American Watercolor Society (AWS), the Rockport Art Association, and the Salmagundi Club, among others...

An impressionistic landscape painting of a river in winter by Aaron Harry Gorson (American, 1872-1933), oil on canvas. Circa 1920. Signed lower right: A.H. Gorson. Canvas size: 14 inches x 17 inches. This painting has been professionally restored and relined and is offered in a modern gilt wood frame. Aaron Harry Gorson was of Lithuanian descent and immigrated to Philadelphia in 1888. In 1894 he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, studying under Anshutz...

Charles Paul Gruppe (American, 1860-1940) autumnal Dutch landscape with windmill. Watercolor on paper. Circa 1920. Signed lower right. Offered in an antique giltwood frame. Size: 11" x 17" (sight). Provenance: Stanton's Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Excellent condition. Charles Gruppe was born in Canada but travelled to Europe in the 1880s, where he took up residence in the Netherlands for some 20 years...

"Afternoon Birches" autumnal landscape painting by Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), oil on canvas, circa. 1950s. This colorful and warm northern Vermont scene was probably painted near Jeffersonville, VT. It is titled and signed at the top of the stretcher and also signed in the lower right, Emile A. Gruppe. The painting is in excellent original condition with no in-painting or repairs and is offered in what is probably the original frame. Canvas size: 24" x 20".

Scottish Loch by Frances E. Jamieson (British, 1895-1950), oil on canvas. F.E. Jamieson was a prolific painter of Scottish Highland scenes, who used a variety of different pseudonyms. Canvas size: 16" x 24". Illegible signature in lower left. Offered in a modern custom frame with metal thistle corners. Excellent condition.

"Lambert's View" Vermont landscape painting by Cecil Vezin Grant (American, 1880-1953), oil on canvas, signed lower right. Circa 1940s. Titled in pencil on the stretcher "Lambert's View" with the original price of $150. Canvas size: 20" x 24". Very good condition, apart form a slight stretcher impression visible along the top edge. CV Grant was born in New Jersey and in the late 1920s purchased a summer home near Londonderry, Vermont...

"Deserted Station" watercolor painting by Frederick Clay Bartlett, Jr. (American, 1907-1955). Signed lower right and dated Sept. 1942. Clay Bartlett was a Vermont artist with a residence in Manchester, VT. He was a member of the Southern Vermont Artists from 1934-1951. This painting depicts an abandoned railway station with its shutters closed and with a stationary train on the adjacent tracks. Size: 13" x 19" (sight). Excellent condition.

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...

"Women at Market" by Haitian artist Alberoi Bazile. Oil on masonite in hand carved Haitian frame. Circa 1974. Painting size: 24.25" x 28". Excellent original condition. Alberoi Bazile was born in Jacmel, Haiti in 1920 and was brother to the more famous painter, Castera Bazile. Alberoi was a member of the Centre D'Art and became a full time artist in 1963. Colorful depictions of women at the market, carrying baskets of vegetables and fruit on their heads, was a popular subject of his.

"Drake's Well" by Vincent Maragliotti (Italian/American, 1888-1978). Signed lower right and dated 1976. Oil on artist board. Size: 22" x 24", and offered in a modern gilt frame. This unusual painting was commissioned for Pennsylvania's Bicentennial exhibition, celebrating its historical events. Edwin Drake drilled the world's first oil well in 1859, in Titusville, PA, thus creating the future of oil prospecting. The artist, Vincent Maragliotti, emigrated from Italy as a child and is now be...

Landscape painting of a Vermont village in winter by Robert Shaw Wesson (American, 1902-1967), oil on canvas board, signed lower right. Circa 1950s. Original artist's frame. Size: 18" x 24". Robert Shaw Wesson was born in Worcester, MA, and studied under Jay Hall Connaway. He is best known for his winter landscapes of New England. This is a particularly pleasing example of his art and is undoubtedly of a Vermont village.

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. for some 30 years and loved sailing and painting...

"Vermont Valley Farm - Winter" original painting by Aldro Thompson Hibbard (American, 1886-1972), signed lower right "A.T. Hibbard", oil on board, c.1950. Size: 8" x 10" and offered in what is probably the original gilt frame and under glass. This classic and colorful Vermont winter landscape shows a view of what is probably Glebe Mountain (now Magic Mountain) in the background. The scene combines all of the elements that Hibbard was noted for: a masterful handling of sunlight and shadow, wit...

Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (American, 1858-1923) painting after Titian of Virgin and Child with Saints, oil on canvas, dated 1881, 37" x 52" (49.5" x 64" frame size). This painting is similar to two paintings by Titian, 'The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John and a Female Saint or Donor ("The Aldobrandini Madonna")' in the collection of the National Gallery, London and 'The Madonna and Child with a Female Saint and the Infant Saint John the Baptist' in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, ...