Kate Sullivan

FOUR CHAIRS

2015

John Aldrich Ruthven American Painter Bison in a Snow Blizzard Watercolor and Gouache on Paper signed lower left

A painter who has lived amid and loved the subject matter of his art, Jorgensen’s pictures of the Yosemite Valley and the Missions of California are monuments of early art in this co...

Formally trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Cockrill is well know and respected for his use of the watercolor medium. Watercolor lends itself to melting, fluid brush stroke...

I’m telling stories. And the story and iconography support a framework that says – growing up in middle-class America. We lived this way. In a world of sentimental family portraits d...

Original watercolor by Edward Lamson Henry looking back at barge travel through small New York state towns. Delaware & Hudson Canal, Ellenville N...

Page Size: 15 x 22 inches Frame Size: 20 x 27 inches Signed and dated, bottom right A watercolor painting that captures the magic and excitement of exploring Pyrgos, Greece with its...

Page Size: 14 x 22 in. Frame Size: 20 x 27 in. Signed and dated, bottom right. A peaceful sunrise crew practice on misty Lady Bird Lake (Town Lake), in Austin, Texas. The City of Au...

Watercolor on Paper Page Size: 14 x 17 in. Frame Size: 22.5 x 26.5 in. Signed, bottom right: "K. Fearing '40" This watercolor painting from 1940 ...

TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3 10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy. Offered here is one of several original drawings by WPA artist David Fredenthal that were first published in the 1940 illustrated edition of the novel TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell. Background on the Drawing Erskine Caldwell remarked, on seeing the work of David Fredenthal, 26-year-old painter: "That boy could draw my Tobacco Road people." A casual comment, it was enormously productive. The young painter was just finishing a two-year Guggenhcim Fellowship, preceded by a year's study in Paris, two one-man shows at New York's Downtown Gallery, and a fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy near Detroit. He was out in Colorado Springs when he heard what Caldwell had said about him. Fredenthal hadn't read Tobacco Road. He had not even seen the play - now breaking all records in its seventh year on Broadway. But he swapped a portrait for a second-hand Ford and headed East. In New York he learned that Dnell, Sloan & Pearce were bringing out a deluxe edition of Tobacco Road. But he had no entrée to the publishers, and Caldwell, to his disappointment, was out of town. So he drove on to Georgia to have a look at the Tobacco Road people. He found Dr. I. C. Caldwell, the author's father, in Wrens, Ga., going on his ministerial rounds among people like the Lesters. Fredenthal got a room from a couple who ran a 1-pump filling station...

"Tobacco Road" Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 19 1/4 x 11 1/2 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by ...