Lester J. Ambrose

Beautiful Practice, Social Realist Scene, Figurative of Female Piano Player

1930 s

"Two Sisters" is a contemporary realist painting of two young women sitting at a bar. One sister looks a bit reserved, her hair down, clasping her hands in...

Signed "Levin" on lower right corner "Message" shows two people in an office with a bird in between them, flying in from the window. There is something uncanny about this image. Per...

A wonderful example of Roseland’s beloved genre scenes from the turn of the 20th century. This painting depicts an elderly man seated at a cluttered table, gently interacting with a ...

A serene and exquisitely composed work that captures the quiet poetry of a sunlit bedroom in the early hours of daybreak. A descendant of the renowned Wyeth artistic dynasty, McCoy h...

Oil on canvas STATEMENT by AUDREY ANASTASI: Considering myself primarily a feminist artist, painting other women, most of my work focuses on the human face, figures, animals and natu...

"Self Wearing Bag" is a striking oil painting that explores themes of identity, burden, and possession. The hyperrealistic rendering of a worn leather bag, gripped tightly by a parti...

A long and quiet night in the hotel lobby is depicted by Clyde Singer in this moody and still painting. Entitled Hotel Night Lobby (1947), Singer paints a moment of solitude during ...

A realist painting of people in a pool hall. The red pool table is the centerpiece of the painting, seemingly illuminating the space, and particularly t...

"Old Shoemaker" Ashcan 20th Century Modernism 1924 California WPA Realism Worker. Signed “Otis Oldfield” lower left. 14 x 12 inches. Exhibited: Galerie des Beaux Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1925 Provenance: Estate of the Artist Born in Sacramento, CA on July 3, 1890, Otis Oldfield left high school at age 16 to work in a local print shop. In 1909 he arrived in San Francisco and enrolled at the Best Art School. After working for two years as a bellhop at the Argonaut Hotel and as a hat check boy at the Cliff House, he had saved enough money for further studies in Paris. In 1911 he sailed for France and enrolled at Académie Julian. Caught up in the activities of wartime Paris, he was an apprentice for a book...

In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...