Charles Criner

"Starry Night" Watercolor Impressionist Galveston Pier Landscape Painting

2009

Modern watercolor seascape painting by renowned sporting artists John P. Cowan. The work was originally created by Cowan to be used by Schlumberger as part of their fishing schedule calendar. Signed in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a gold frame with a cream matting. Provenance includes a framed letter...

Watercolor painting with boats at a dock in Kemah, Texas. The painting is in natural tones of blue and browns. The artist signed, dated and titled the painting. The artist Perry...

Modern abstract watercolor drawing of a house by Texas artist Bertha Davis. The work features a loosely rendered neutral-toned depiction of a spacio...

Modern early colorful city landscape scene by Houston artist Edsel Cramer. The work features an abstracted elevated view of the buildings of downtown San Francisco. Currently hung in...

Buck Schiwetz (1898-1984) Houston Artist Image Size: 12.5 x 22 Frame Size: 25.5 x 34.5 Medium: Ink & a little watercolor Dated 1962 "Shrimp Basin, Galveston" Buck Schiwetz (1898-1984...

Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Dock, Year: circa 1960, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm), Description: Looking out over a boathouse on a ...

The idyllic atmosphere of this local dock scene falls within a couple of styles one being regionalism, an American realist modern art movement that included paintings, murals, lithographs, and illustrations depicting scenes of rural and small-town America primarily in the Midwest and frequently associated with Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton. The other style is romanticism wherein the scene depicted is a more desired or dramatic version of what actually is. “Untitled (Dock Scene)” is typical of a small town dock scene from Michigan where Culver lived or from places as far away as Maine, but what makes it important is its easy familiarity: water, gulls or terns, slanting wood shanties, scruffy dirt patches and course grasses. It is not idealized, but does set the tone of fresh air, the scream of birds and the sun on water. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass. In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.” Charles Culver...

Moonside Oil 11"x14" League City Texas Moon Blues Evening Impressionism Artist " Driving to visit a friend in League City, the road curved past this scene. I stopped with a canvas ...