Richard Kimbel

“Mending Nets”, Rockport, MA, bearskin neck Seascape of Fishermen working

The early (pre-war) Gloucester Harbor scene by Emile A. Gruppe is richly atmospheric and captures the working waterfront in the golden glow of early evening. Gruppe’s mastery of coas...

In Dock Scene, American artist Bernard Corey captures the quiet beauty of a New England harbor. Corey's loose, expressive brushwork and earthy tones reflect the hallmarks of American...

Painting Size (unframed): 14" x 16" Framed Size: 21" x 23" Signature: Signed lower right This atmospheric harbor scene by James Jeffrey Grant capt...

"Pigeon Cove", Rockport, MA. T.M. Nicholas offers a sweeping view of the famous and often panitined Cove in Rockport. The painting looks out over rooftops and treetops toward the shi...

Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988) Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943 Watercolor on paper Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.” Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo. After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.” In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality. A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...

American, b. 1942 John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vespe...

Artist: Ernest Beaumont, British (1871 - 1933) Title: Gloucester, MA Year: 1926 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Frame: 27 x 30.5 in. (68.58 ...

Mystery American Artist No. 9 Glouchester, c. Early 20th Century Oil on artist board 16 x 20 in. Framed: 20 x 24 x 1 1/2 in. Signed lower left Inscribed verso: Dolitsky / No 9 Glouch...