A very fine oil on canvas by Venetian Artist Vosteni. The work circa 1890 brings together Venetian Art and Japanisme by introducing a play of characters. Measuring 17” x 12.5”

Mother and Sleeping Child by Joseph Spelter, 1840. Genre Scene. Framed Oil on Canvas, 22 x 20". Joseph or Jacob Spelter (ca.1805-after 1856) was a pupil of J.M. Morgenroth and royal portrait miniaturist at the Wuerttembergian Court in Karlsruhe (Germany), where he was recorded active until 1856. Especially known are his miniatures painted on porcelain. Spelter died in 1856.

A rare and powerful painting directly on a rather crude wood panel, unframed, 16 3/4" by 23 3/4", by the important twentieth century Peruvian artist ALICIA BUSTAMANTE VERNAL (1907-1968), featuring a group of native people climbing in the bleak mountain landscape, the forward group carrying a shrouded body for burial. The work is titled on the reverse "El Entierro" (The Interment/Burial"), and is dated there 1954, with additional notation "Ayacucho" (the Peruvian city)...

Beautiful Acrobat painting, pastel on paper 16“ x 9 1/2“ framed in a gold baroque. Frame excellent condition and signed Maurice Brianchon (French, 1899–1979) was born in 1899 in the village of Fresnay-sur-Sarthe to Parisian parents. After a classical education, he began his official art training at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1917. Early public recognition of his talent came when, at the age of 23, he was appointed a member of the committee of the Salon d’Automne...

Kathleen Hyland-Nesvig Master artist abstract Floral Floral Still Life Measuring 22 x 27“, frame size 31 x 36“ Oil on paper

This oil on canvas is one of Harpignies better works painted of a Château in Hérisson in central France. This tree as the central focus is one of his more exceptional landscape paintings, influence of realism of the Barbizon School during the Romantic Movement. Harpignies and Camille Corot were close friends and had traveled to Italy together to study. They were both main artists with the Barbizon school which was active roughly from 1830 through 1870...

A historic document and beautiful lithograph framed of “THE SURRENDER OF GENERAL LEE” 1866, measuring 22x25” "The Surrender of General Lee and his entire army to Lieut. General Grant April 9th, 1865. This memorable event terminated the Great Rebellion." - Philadelphia: Joseph Hoover, 1866. 17 1/8x23 3/4". Lithograph by P.S Duval & Son. Original hand color. Print dry mounted to old board but in stable condition. Minor staining in right hand side of sky and in bottom left hand margin...

Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space. This is part of the collection we have at the gallery. Automatic drawing was pioneered by the English artist Austin Osman Spare who wrote a chapter, Automatic Drawing as a Means to Art, in his book, The Book of Pleasure (1913)...

After six months of evaluation we have determined it to be a Crucifixion. There is a pink angel in the left corner. Late 1940's American Dutch on Paper by Willem de Kooning (1904-1997). 15" x 22". Signed by the Artist. The Paper texture is simular to Arches 90 lb cold pressed. At the bottom of this Painting, there are lines which indicate to us other drawings by de Kooning. This appears to be a requested or special order study painting for a larger stage back- drop...

Kathleen Hyland-Nesvig Abstract Painter. “The King Fisher” Oil 38”x24”Kathleen’s work has been shown in the US department of State as well as many embassies around the world. She is known for her sumptuous Expressionist abstraction work. Kathleen said she had a vision to paint as a young girl and her parents bought her a paint box while she was recovering from an illness. She later studied in France

Philadelphia Inquirer the following, The Lucien Crump Art Gallery and Education Center closed its doors for the final time Friday after 40 years of serving Philadelphia as the first to feature works by African-American artists. The gallery’s namesake, who had a long career as an artist and educator, passed away at age 71 in 2006. In the last days of the gallery’s opening, an announcement of the change caused neighbors and art lovers alike to pause and share their memories...

Paco Lane, brother of Anne Lane are brother and sister master painters who have been exhibiting works for over 20 years all over the United States and Puerto Rico. This work is from a series of paintings done in San Jean Oil on canvas 25x32 inches

Qing Dynasty Vivid colored Portrait of the last empress Cixi 47x26”,silk painting on mulberry paper mounted on silk. Circa 1880s late Qing Dynasty in a beautiful lacquer frame...

An incredible painting by the painter genius Abraham Ratner, oil on paper “ arms are too short the box with God“ 33x26 inches Abraham Rattner (July 8, 1895 – February 14, 1978) was an American artist, best known for his richly colored paintings, often with religious subject matter. During World War I, he served in France with the U.S...

Kathleens work has been seen and is featured in many embassies around the world including the state department. She’s an active artist still working with a very unique free style of painting This work is oil pastel 20 x 24“ on paper framed and matted

Silvia Lieferman modernist abstract expressionist oil on canvas

Prestigious D'Arcy gallery NYC label on verso

Image - 28" x 28"

Framed

Very good unrestored condition

An Original Acrylic Painting "CHRYSALIS" by SWISS Artist, Michael Maync. Signed and dated on the back of the stretched canvas. Size: 80 cm x 60 cm. No reference. Can be shipped economically, worldwide rolled up in a tube if you wish. Can be hung in any direction you like. .

A wonder oil on canvas portrait of a young woman, painted on canvas and frame behind glass in a gold leaf nineteenth century ornate frame. More information coming soon

ANDREW CHEBOTARU (born in Sevastopol in 1984) graduated from the Inkerman Art School and the Crimean Art Schoo under Prof. Grigoriev...

Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space. This is part of the collection we have at the gallery. Automatic drawing was pioneered by the English artist Austin Osman Spare who wrote a chapter, Automatic Drawing as a Means to Art, in his book, The Book of Pleasure (1913). Other artists who also...

“Tambourine Man” By Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou Oil on paper, measuring 40”x28” Abstract African Masks by Ivory Coast artist Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 60" Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol ...

A fine oil on canvas painting from the Seventeenth Century, depicting Jesus and the Samaritan Women at the Well, Baroque measuring 18” x 14”

An Original Acrylic Painting "ELUSIVE BEAUTY" by SWISS Artist Michael Maync, on stretched canvas. Signed and dated on the back of the painting. No reference. Size: 80 cm x 60 cm. Can be shipped economically rolled up in a tube and hung in any direction you wish!

French Modernist Artist Sylvand was born in Northern France and was taught at an early age to paint. He is a realist painter that uses 3 dimensional objects in his work. This is typical of his style. The painting which is acrylics on panel measuring 36” x 41” is a delicate work done from his studio.

Original Acrylic Painting "PROFOUND VISIONS" on stretched canvas, by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync. Signed and dated by the artist on the back of the canvas. No reference. Size: 27.5" x 20" inches (70 cm x 50 cm). Can be shipped economically, rolled up in a tube.

A wild and fiery Original Acrylic Painting "FLAMENCO" on stretched canvas by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync. Signed and dated on back of the canvas by artist. No reference. Size: 31.5" x 24" inches (80 cm x 60 cm). Can be hung in any direction you like and shipped economically, rolled up in a tube if you wish.

Original Acrylic Painting "PATH TO NIRVANA" by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync, on stretched canvas. No reference. Size 27.5" x 20" inches (70 cm x 50 cm). Can be hung in any direction you like and shipped economically, rolled up in a tube if you wish.

Original Acrylic Painting "CONTEMPLATING THE FUTURE" by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync, on stretched canvas. Signed and dated by the artist. No reference. Size: 27.5" x 20" inches (70 cm x 50 cm). Can be hung in any direction and shipped economicaly, rolled up in a tube if you wish.

Original Acrylic Painting "AUTUMN WHISPERS" by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync, on stretched canvas. Signed and dated by artist. Size: 27.5" x 20" inches (70 cm x 50 cm). Available for purchase. Kindly inquire for details. Thank you.

Large oil by J. Syer (1815 - 1885) British, this pleasant country scene was painted in 1870. It measures 51 1/2" wide x 38" high on the inside of the frame. On the back of the canvas there is a label that reads "Scene on the River Llugwy, North Wales." and says to keep the label attached for authenticity. This canvas has been relined, and there is a very tiny puncture on the left side near the fence.

Beautiful Landscape of the Italian countryside of Tuscany, oil on canvas measuring 36x53”

“Village Peoples” By Ivory Coast Master Artist Ephrem Kouakou Oil Measuring 39” x 31” Abstract African Masks by Ivory Coast artist Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 60" Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum...

Kathleen Hyland-Nesvig Important American Artist “ABSTRACT still life in blue16x24 oil pastel” Kathleens work has been seen and is featured in many embassies around the world including the state department. She’s an active artist still working with a very unique free style of painting This work is oil pastel on paper,signed lower left part of the Floral series by the artist Kathleen Hyland-Nesvig was born in Carroll, lowa, in 1941. She current lives and works in Paris, She was a precio...

Original Acrylic Painting "ANTICIPATION" by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync, on stretched canvas. Signed and dated by artist. No reference. Size: 27.5" x 20" inches (70 cm x 50 cm). Can be hung in any direction and shipped economically, rolled up in a tube if you wish.

This Autumn Landscape (13 1/2" X 19 1/4") is signed on the lower left side Francis Villeret. This oil on canvas has been cleaned and it is mounted in a new frame. Villeret was born in 1800 and died in 1866. His art can be found in many European Museums.

Two Cubist-Abstract Figures by American artist Max Kassler (1905-1992). Signed Lower Left. Oil on Canvas. 34 x 24". 35.5 x 25.5" Frame Size. A very beautiful work from the 1950s signed Max Kassler oil on canvas Artist panel,signed on back. The work is reminiscent of Abstract Expressionist Artist….. Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. Th...

From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, a large and very fine original oil painting on canvas in the Realism style, by renowned regional artist David Berger. Mr. Berger's work has appeared in many juried art fairs across the country, and is particularly well-known in the southeastern United States where he exhibits prolifically.

Those familiar with his work know that his nearly "hyper-realistic" renditions of silk lace are a signature feature for many of his still life pieces, where t...

Abbott Fuller Graves 1859-1936 American, Boston This is an early still Life of Flowers, oil on chamfered panel by American artist Abbott Fuller Graves. Created circa 1900 this painting is signed lower left corner and has an image size of 8 5/8 X 6 5/8 inches. Good condition with a few minor cracks in the panel, unobtrusive. This painting is housed in a period gilt frame. Graves worked with both Edmund Tarbell and Childe Hassam who he met while studying in Paris at the Academie Julian. ...

American Master Artist Glenn PIZER “On The Coast,France” 30x24” Done on one of his sojourns to France in the 1990s, this work is reminiscent of André Derain series of neo-impressionist work

Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"The Blue Ridge Mountains from Skyline Drive, VA"

Oil on masonite, signed lower right and titled on the reverse.

Painting: 16" x 20"

Frame: 23.5" x 27.5

" Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He ...

Portrait of a Little Girl by Maybel K Hat (1941). Signed upper left corner. Framed Oil on Canvas, 42 x 35.5".

Mario Russo (1925-2000) was an Italian painter known for his unique style and innovative approach to art. Born in Naples, Italy, Russo received his formal art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied painting and sculpture. He quickly gained recognition for his bold use of color and dynamic compositions. Russo exhibited his works in galleries and museums around the world, including the Venice Biennale, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, and the Institute ...

Beautiful framed painting, oil on canvas, measuring 12x18” by Sofia Vanya Khrustalyova, circa 1947.

This early work, done November 1931, while Studying in New York with other ashcan School Artist……. Alfred McNamara was born in Tompkinsville, Staten Island and lived most of his life in Staten Island. He was heavily influenced by John Sloane, Edward Hopper, and others of the Ashcan School in the 1920's and 1930's. During the 1930's, he received his basic art training under Walter Drewes, through a program sponsored by the WPA (Works Projects Administration) at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. ...

WERNER DREWES (AMERICAN, 1899-1985) NUDE Watercolor on paper: 23 x 18 1/2 in., 32 1/2 x 28 in. (framed) erner Drewes (1899–1985) was a painter, printmaker, and art teacher.[1][2] Considered to be one of the founding fathers of American abstraction, he was one of the first artists to introduce concepts of the Bauhaus school within the United States.[3] His mature style encompassed both nonobjective and figurative work and the emotional content of this work was consistently more expressive than ...

German Artist Gustav Müller, Forest and Brookside oil c.1900 Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 24“, frame and its original circa 1900 frame 23 x 30“

Richard Hayley Lever (28 September 1875 – 6 December 1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Lever was born in Bowden, South Australia on 28 September 1875, the son of Albion W. Lever.[2] He excelled in painting classes at Prince Alfred College under James Ashton and on leaving school continued to study under Ashton at his Norwood art school. He was a charter ...

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1838-1915, was born in Baltimore Maryland the descendent of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first president of the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts. He had a successful career as a naval engineer, working on such projects as the Statue of Liberty and the race rock lighthouse off Block Island. By the 1880s Smith gave up engineering to pursue art in writing among other pursuits. Smith was self taught and quickly achieve great skill and pastel charcoal...

Beautiful oil Capriccio Scene measuring 46x36” by French artist Almon circa 1900

Seascape by Richmond artist John Court, grand nephew of Whistler. 7”x10”,frame size 15”x18”. The following information was submitted in August of 2006 by Helen Glenn Court: John Court was born in 1948 in Annapolis Maryland, and graduated from Cornell University in 1970, receiving his Master of Fine Arts Degree from this institution in 1972. Describing himself as a classical romanticist, he cites as major influences on his style the artists Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargeant, and Tit...

Procession by Nicola Simbari. Oil on Canvas. 6.5 x 20". Frame Size 11.5 x 25". This piece and one more in our collection, is from his early career

A very beautiful and stunning Surrealist Work by the painter Joshua Hilda KATZ, 1938, “Forest Landscape with Figure”. Norm for his dream like tableau the New York Painter was very active in the 1920s and 30s at the height of surrealist Painting. Is it measures 27 x 20“ in its original gold Plein Aire frame

Abstract Still Life by DC artist Paco Lane (2002). Unframed Oil on Canvas. 18x24” Paco Jacques Lane was born on October 24, 1969 in Virginia just outside of Wash- ington DC. From an early childhood Paco was encouraged The artist in Greenwich CT, 2003. and allowed great freedom to pursue a natural interest in the visual arts. With parents who were liberally and intellectually minded Paco recalls the excursions to the National Gallery and Phillips Collection from an early age and dinner t...

A beautiful Japanese Edo period 18th century scroll painting done on silk and mulberry paper depicting a nature scene. More information coming soon

Nicola Simbari was an Italian painter. Rendered in a distinctive style akin to Neo-Impressionism, Simbari's works employ broad swatches of bright pastel hues to form stylized representations of people and places. His oeuvre features recurring landscape scenes of Mediterranean environments, often with partially nude women bathing or in the process of dress. Born in San Lucido, Calabria on July 13, 1927, the artist developed his practice in the 1940s after study at the Accademia di Belle Arti di R...

Beautiful minimalist work by the artist Glenn Pizer, oil on canvas and i Glenn is known for his magnificent colorful work. This is one of the cathedrals in Florence Italy 36x30”

Known for his romantic and realistic watercolor paintings. Italian painter Domenico Pennacchini 1865-1917 was exhibiting throughout Europe in his lifetime and known for the fabulous work that he did for king Emmanuel of Italy and other royalty. His work is in collections and museums throughout the world. He was a student of Augusto Corelli 1853-1918

Abstract Figures by Rascal, Dominican Republic Artist Oil on Canvas 31x25.5 inches 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 work began to sell fro...

19th century Ship in Harbor w/c unsigned 12x18”

Haystacks and Chickens Pastel Painting 17”x23” Attributed to L’Hermitege JOHN GOULD (UK, 1804–81) John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. He published several monographs on birds, illustrated by plates that he produced with the assistance of his wife, Elizabeth Gould, and several other artists including Edward Lear, Henry Constantine Richter, Joseph Wolf and William Matthew Hart. Gould has been considered the father of bird study in Australia, and the Gould League i...