Arthur W. Woelfle

Sailing Boats

Jean Even French, 1910-1986 Boats in the Harbor Oil on Canvas 21 ¼ by 25 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 ¾ by 34 in Signed Even lower right

William Thornley French, 1857-1935 Barques De Peche Echouees Sur La Plage Oil on canvas 25 by 32 in, w/ frame 33 ½ by 40 ½ in Signed lower right William Thornley was born in 1857 i...

Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph American, 1868-1924 Ship at Sea Oil on canvas 20 by 24 in, w/ frame 25 ½ by 29 ½ in Signed "T. V. C. Valenkamph" lower right Born in Stockholm, Swed...

Jean Pradel French, 1835-1892 Port de Peche Mediterranean Oil on canvas 23 ¾ by 39 ⅝ in, w/ frame 33 ⅝ by 49 ½ in Signed lower right He exhibited in many salons including the Unive...

Mounted in a period, hand carved, gold leaf frame. Signed lower right "Paul King"

Antique American impressionist coastal seascape painting. Oil on board. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready ...

GYRTH RUSSELL 1892 - 1970 Picture Size: 30 x 24" (76 x 61cm) Outside Frame Size: 38 x 32" (97 x 82cm) Signed bottom left Oil on canvas The canvas is in very good condition and the painting has benefited from a light clean and a varnish. Considered one of the best coastal painters of the 20th century, Gyrth Russell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia in April 1892. At the age of fourteen, Russell began his artistic career at Halifax School of Art, and quickly graduated to the School of Art at Boston, Massachusetts. His first job was as a draughtsman in the Public Works Department of Canada, in Halifax. It was during this period he saw and sketched the cable ship Mackay Bennett returning to her Halifax Station, her decks piled high with coffins containing bodies found after the Titanic Disaster. In 1911 Russell left Canada to study at the Academie Julian and Academie Calorossi in Paris. In 1914 at the outbreak of War, he left France for London where he was commissioned, under the command of Lord Beaverbrook, as an official War Artist for the Canadian Sector, and spent most of 1918 in Northern France painting the landscapes and coasts travelled by the Canadian military during the conflict. During the course of the First World War he worked with amongst others, Augustus John, William Orpen & Frank Brangwyn, who greatly influenced him. Russell enjoyed considerable success between the Wars, exhibiting extensively at the major galleries, and was elected to membership of the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Institute of Painters n Watercolours, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and the Royal Society of Marine Artists as well as being an active member of the Langham...

A truly masterful depiction of several colorful sail boats in Gloucester Harbor, scene on the reflective water with a glowing sun shimmering through the puffed clouds. An oil on boar...