All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1930 item #1056807 (stock #391)
An original portrait of a beautiful woman oil on canvas signed lower right and dated 1929 in excellent condition.

Biography

Charles Ward Traver was a painter born in Ann Arbor MI on Oct 10 1880. Traver was a resident of Los Angeles in the late 1890's. In 1927 he was in New York City and visited Los Angeles again in 1932. He also lived in Wuanita Hot Springs, Colorado. He was an illustrator for Land Of Sunshine magazine and did covers for Saturday Evening Post...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1056806 (stock #390)
Original oil on canvas of cattle in a landscape signed lower left in excellent condition measuring 32 x 36 inches. Provenance: The Closson Art Galleries Cincinnati Ohio

Biography

Thomas Corwin Lindsay, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, was a well-known painter of landscapes, animal subjects and occasional portraits. He studied in Dusseldorf, Germany, in the 1860s, but lived and worked most of his life in his native city where he opened a studio in 1856 or 1857...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1053478 (stock #389)
A beautiful abstract composition oil on paper by Harold Christopher Davies singed lower center and on reverse. a well listed California modernist Provenance is from the estate of the artist and Hoover Gallery of San Francisco. Measuring approx. 24 x 20 inchesA fine example of this artists work. Harold Christopher Davies was a painter with whom art came first and commercialism last...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1053180 (stock #388)
EMILE BAES "SUR LA PLAGE" oil on board, signed lower right in excellent condition. BELGUIM, C.1935 21.25 X 29 INCHES

Biography

Émile Baes was born in Brussels in either 1879 or 1889. He studied with J. Stallaert at l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles. He completed his education with Bonnet and Cabanel in Paris. Baes worked as a painter, illustrator, and writer. He was known for his diverse subject matter including historical paintings, portraits, nudes and landscapes...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1980 item #1053162 (stock #386)
A fine impressionist painting of a soccer game goal save initialed lower right A.P. Oil on canvas measuring Approx. 36 x 40 in excellent condition framed in a quality gilt frame. Provenance: the estate of the artist. Biography SIMONPIETRI, Alfred H. (1916-2001). Painter. Born in Puerto Rico on June 20, 1916. While serving in the Army during World War Two, Simonpietri was in a plane crash...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1910 item #1053125
Description: Original oil painting of Queen of Wurtemberg, housed in a fine gilt wood frame in which itself is mounted on another dark wood frame. Superbly done with close attention to every detail. Late 19th to early 20th century, 8.5" x 5.5" (sight) and black frame is 14.5" x 11.5". Good condition and shipping is FREE within the U.S.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1052806 (stock #283)
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Ida Sedgwick Proper (1873 - 1957)

Rare original oil on canvas by signed lower right measuring 20 x 24 inches in good all original condition. Provenance: The Grandson of the artist.

Biography

Born in Bonaparte, Iowa, into a Baptist minister family, she attended Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. Then at the Art Student's League in New York, she trained with William Merritt Chase, John Twachtmann, and Frank DuMond...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1049381 (stock #380)
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Eugène Fromentin (1820 - 1876) original oil on canvas signed lower left by famed French artist. Measuring approx. 15.5 x 16 inches in ornate original frame. A beautiful antique painting.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1960 item #1049003 (stock #6400)
A superbly rendered and vividly coloured lifetime woodblock print by the famed Japanese artist Kawase Kasui (1883-1957), entitled "Meguro-Fudo-Do" (Fudo Temple in Meguro). 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 seal of the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (seal used from 1946-57)...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1047851 (stock #376)
A Beautiful antique French oil painting on canvas by the famed French artist Baron Jean Antoine Gudin.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1047460 (stock #1234)
Ship's portrait of the "Eagle Hull" (named on the stern and on a pennant.) Port side view and Stern view. Recently out of an estate where it had hung since the 60's. Likely a British ship and fitted with gun ports, a hasty search shows the red ensign was also used by Britain's colonies (or "subjects"). An informed maritime scholar can no doubt place things more precisely given the other flag with apparently Swedish colors...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1040838 (stock #26C10 2231)
The Three Arches, a landscape painting by Frederick J. Wilder. Oil on canvas, dated 1934...
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 : Pre 1900 item #1032728 (stock #39B14 9170)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) low relief cast bronze portrait of French painter Jules Bastien-Lepage (1848-1884). Size: 14.5 inches x 10.25 inches. Circa 1880. An inscription along the top margin reads: "Jules Bastien-Lepage Aetatis XXXI Paris MDCCCLXXX Augustus Saint-Gaudens Fecit." The two artists first met in Paris in 1868, while studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Later, in 1877, Saint-Gaudens recalled, Bastien-Lepage "asked if I would make a medallion of him in exchange for a por...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #1026244 (stock #373)
A fine original oil painting on canvas by Clifford Park Baldwin titled "A Sailing Sunday" . Measuring 16 x 20 inches in a quality gallery frame.

Biography

Painter, illustrator. Born in Cincinnati, OH on Feb. 14, 1889. Baldwin moved to southern California in 1911 and had homes in Montrose and Carlsbad. He studied painting locally with Jean Mannheim, Paul Lauritz, and George Demont Otis. While on the staff of the Southwest Museum from 1933-41, he illustrated the books Gypsum Cave and Navaj...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Contemporary item #1025757 (stock #371)
This is a beautiful work of art by this highly acclaimed western painter. Original oil on board signed lower left and framed in a quality gallery frame. The painting measures 6 x 12 inches overall framed size 10 x 16 inches. The condition is excellent. Hartwig is know for his scenes of Indian life in the old west. Hartwigs paintings are in major public and private collections

Biography

Heinie Hartwig became a painter of primarily western subjects although he also does landscapes a...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1910 item #1025751 (stock #366)
A fine original antique photograph of the Oxford tennis team photo by J Soame stamped lower right framed and archival matted image approx. 11 x 14 inches.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1025686 (stock #360)
A beautiful original oil painting on Art board of a High Sierra Mountain peak signed lower right. Measuring 12 x 16 inches In excellent condition. Comes with a letter of authentication from the estate of the artist. a fine example of this his work.

Artists Biography,

Born in Denver, CO on Aug. 7, 1897, Curtis was a resident of Seattle before moving to Los Angeles in 1914. He was inspired to become an artist by his teacher Rob Wagner at Manual Arts High School. After working as a bank ...

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 1930 item #1024515 (stock #358)
Beautiful Egyptian street scene an Original oil painting on board signed lower right measuring approx. 20 x 24 in excellent condition. Biography LEONID GECHTOFF, 1883-1941 

Leonid Gechtoff was born in Odessa, Russia, in 1883, an only child of parents already in their forties and not particularly well off financially.  After his art school training in Russia, where he probably first met his close life-long friend David Burliuk, he and his parents fled from their homeland when h...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1022549 (stock #342)
A beautiful antique Italian original painting gouache on paper in an exquisite French matte and frame. Measuring Approx. 6x8 overall framed size 11x13 inches. In excellent condition one of a pair see #341 sold together or separate.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1900 item #1022547 (stock #341)
A beautiful antique Italian original painting gouache on paper in an exquisite French matte and frame. Measuring Approx. 6x8 overall framed size 11x13 inches. In excellent condition one of a pair see #342 sold together or separate.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1022546 (stock #340)
A beautiful modernist composition oil on paper by Harold Christopher Davies a well listed California modernist The Provenance is from the estate of the artist and Hoover Gallery of San Francisco. Measuring approx. 12 x 15 inchesA fine example of this artists work. Harold Christopher Davies was a painter with whom art came first and commercialism last. Though he was a remarkably passionate and somewhat prolific artist, he resisted gallery representation until the age of eighty-four, just one year...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1022515 (stock #339)
An original oil depicting a Brigantine Ship sailing ship off the coast with other vessels and a lighthouse. Oil in board signed lower left in an original arts and crafts era frame. Measuring approx. 10 x 16 inches in excellent condition. A fine example of this artists work. Biography C. Myron Clark (1858-1925) was a painter of mountain landscapes in oil and watercolor, as well as ships (USS Constitution, 1906; Frigate in Tow). He worked mostly in Massachusetts, though his oil landscape of ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1837 VR item #1022276 (stock #334)
A fine pair of antique portrait miniatures of a man and woman signed Dubbison and dated 1823 oil on Ivory in leather cases. In very good antique condition the lady has a restored hairline crack to her left. measuring approx. 3 x 4 inches. a beautiful pair.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #1022261 (stock #333)
"Village Du Moyen Age" An original oil painting on canvas signed lower right by this highly regarded abstract modernist artist. Provenance the Dalzel Hatfield gallery exhibited in a 1960s exhibit at the famed L.A. Ambassador Hotel. In very fine condition measuring approx. 25 x 35 inches. Biography, Jun Dobashi was born in Tokyo in 1910. He studied at the art academy there in 1933 but was in Paris in 1938-39. Dobashi returned once more to France to stay from 1953 to 1969, which is why he is ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1950 item #1020896 (stock #331)
A beautiful original oil on canvas board signed lower left and titled on reverse "Pirates Cove" in excellent all original condition with original frame measuring 20 x 24 inches. BIOGRAPHY Born in Los Angeles, CA on Oct. 1, 1881, the son of Esiquia and Miguel de Villa. His parents came to Los Angeles from Baja California in 1846 when the area was still part of Mexico. Raised in an artistic milieu, his mother was an amateur singer and his father an artist with a studio on the Plaza. Villa stu...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #1018074 (stock #40F79 100)
Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) original watercolor painting titled "Powder at Diavolezza". Circa 1965. Size: 14 inches x 19.5 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. He became a commercial artist and, being an avid outdoorsman and sportsman, was attrac...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #1008324 (stock #329)
A beautiful modernist composition oil on paper by Harold Christopher Davies a well listed California modernist The Provenance is from the estate of the artist and Hoover Gallery of San Francisco. Measuring approx. 23 x 28 inches framed size 32 x 40 inches. A fine example of this artists work. Harold Christopher Davies was a painter with whom art came first and commercialism last. Though he was a remarkably passionate and somewhat prolific artist, he resisted gallery representation until...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1920 item #1008294 (stock #326)
A fine California Impressionist painting of a view of Mt. Tam with lupine and poppies in the fore ground a small cabin to the left. Oil on canvas signed lower right measuring Approx. 15 x 20 inches in excellent condition but for some age cracking. Biography : Manuel Valencia was born in Marin County, California on October 30, 1856 on the family hacienda called Rancho San Jose, which is now Hamilton Field. A member of one of California's earliest families, Manuel was named after his grandfat...
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 : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1007280 (stock #6353)
A George Culley Canada watercolour painting of a boathouse dated 1958. This unframed 15-1/2" x 11-1/4" watercolour on paper is by George S. Culley (Canadian, 1905-?) depicting a boathouse on a river. This painting is in excellent original condition with no foxing, staining, bends, tears, losses, damage or repairs. It is signed G.S. Culley '58 on the lower left. It is not titled, but the scene is from Northern Ontario. Please note that there are some holes around the unpainted edge from the thum...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1970 item #1001909 (stock #40D61 176)
"English Garden" by Albert Sharp A.S.M.A. (American, b.1922), oil on masonite, 10 inches x 14 inches. NY gallery label on verso with title and attribution. A delightful portrayal of an English walled garden with dappled sunlight by this East Hampton, New York artist. Member: American Society of Marine Artists. Excellent condition.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #1000972 (stock #322)
A Beautiful original oil painting Robert William Wood of a Texas landscape with bluebonnet flowers and old homestead and oak trees. Oil on canvas measuring approx. 25x30 inches. Condition is excellent the canvas has been relined due to age cracking overall a fine example of this artists work ready to hang. Biography A painter of realistic landscapes reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood (not to be confused with Robert E. Wood) is reportedly one of the most mass-produced art...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1930 item #996461 (stock #40E17 OP52)
Marguerite Elizabeth Kumm (American, 1902-1992) painting of two seated dancers in black dresses. Oil on canvasboard. Circa 1930. Size: 19.75 inches x 15.75 inches. Unsigned, but with pencil inscription on reverse,"M.E.Kumm" and with provenance from the artist's estate, and then deaccessioned by Georgetown University in 1996. Excellent condition. Offered in a gilt wood frame.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1980 item #996253 (stock #39C80)
Vadim Federovich Korobov (Russian/Ukrainian, b.1931), oil on artist board; signed, titled and dated 1977 on the reverse. Size: 13 7/8 inches x 19 1/4 inches. Excellent condition. This genre painting depicts young people planting trees and is titled 'Spring.' Korobov is a Ukrainian painter. After his discharge from the Soviet Army in 1950, he enrolled in the Lugansk Art School, where he studied with the renowned Soviet artist, A. Filbert. Korobov's works are found in some 35 museums across R...