Nina Martino

View of the area around Manayunk and Philadelphia by female artist Nina Martino

Charles Lewis Fussell (American, 1840–1909) View from Gayley Street, Media PA, 1905 Watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 23 3/4 inches Framed: 25 1/2 x 35 3/4 (approx.) Signed and dated a...

Robertson K. Mygatt (American, 1862-1919) Uplands Oil on panel, 5 1/4 x 6 5/8 inches FRAMED: 9 x 10 1/2 inches (approx.) Exhibition label on verso: "Salamagundi Club/Thumb-box Exhibi...

Giuseppe Leoni (Italian, active early twentieth century) Garden View Oil on paper, 13 x 16 inches FRAMED: 20 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches Signed and dated at lower right: “[G?] Leoni/Febb 191...

Charles Lewis Fussell (American, 1840–1909) Trees in a Meadow Oil on canvas, 12 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches FRAMED: 18 x 13 1/2 inches (approx.) Fussell probably painted this work sometime b...

Hazy Morning, Manayunk by Philadelphia artist, John Bekavac (?-2011). Oil on linen, Canvas measures 16 x 22 inches. Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Provenance: Estate of ...

Born in Harlem, William Waithe studied painting, drafting and architecture at New York University and Queens College. He was known for painting outdoors, and is particularly identifi...

Provenance: Private Collection, San Diego, CA. Framed Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art* studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street. Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River. At this time he signed his paintings M. Giovanni. These colorful impressionistic* works proceeded more thinly painted dramatically poetic street scenes of the mill town. These images developed into impasto* laden oils in the 1960's with some of the paintings worked with a palette knife*. In Manayunk, he was a common sight on the streets and sidewalks, painting on-the-spot with his wife, Eva Marinelli and his two daughters, Nina & Babette. In the 1980's and 90's he also painted in Conshohocken and Norristown with his youngest daughter, Babette. His paintings became more sharply executed like his earlier work but were more colorful. In the late '90's he worked in his studio to enlarge paintings. He is the recipient of over 100 awards and honors. He received the Benjamin Altman Prize in Landscape Painting in 1975 at the National Academy of Design, NYC where he was elected an Academician (NA) in 1944. He mentored not only his wife and two daughters but also taught at Lehigh University and the Graphic Sketch Club, Philadelphia. He died at his home in Blue Bell on February 1, 1997. (Babette Martino...

Walter Emerson Baum Manayunk, 1953 Signed and dated lower right; titled and dated on the reverse Oil on board 12 x 14 inches Walter Baum was born December 14, 1884 in Sellersville,...