Hugh Henry Breckenridge Art

Miniature oil on board original painting of a view of Sacre Coeur from the street in Montmartre, Paris. France. Circa 1975. Signed illegibly lower left. Condition is excellent. O...

Born in Russia, the son of Friede (1878 – 1956) and Benjamin Hoffman (1878 – a. 1942). Benjamin was a dealer in mineral and seltzer water and the family resided on Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, just down the streetfrom the home where George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) was born. This area of Brooklyn, known as Brownsville, “witnessed the development of one of the largest communities of Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20 th century.” Today, little remains of this once thriving Jewish section of Brooklyn, which today houses many commercial and repair businesses. Hoffman studied at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and in the art program at Cooper Union. His work at the National Academy received praise, and in 1921 he was awarded the 2nd prize and an honorable mention from the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris Prize Foundation at the National Academy, which allowed the recipient to study in Paris, France for as long as five years. The following year he was awarded the 1 st prize in the competition (with The Reform Advocate running the headline “Young Jew Wins Art Prize”) as well as the Suydam Bronze Medal for his achievements in the Academy’s Men’s Night Class. In 1923 he was residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, when he was awarded 4th place in the Chaloner competition. Early on, Hoffman exhibited his work throughout the city, including in 1925 with the recently organized Society of Independent Artists. He also received several solo exhibitions during the first part of his career, including one at Ferargil Galleries in 1929. In the spring of 1930 a solo exhibition of his portraits, including paintings and drawings, was held at at Babcock Galleries, where a reviewer noted: “Portraiture is obviously Mr. Hoffman’s specialty… his best work is characterized by a sensitive appreciation of character set down in a vigorous decisive statement. Later that same year, in August, he participated in Babcock’s summer exhibition where reviewer Jerome Klein, writing for The Baltimore Sun, felt Hoffman’s and other artists work was already becoming old fashioned, remarking “…if an effort toward accomplishment is to be made, it must be in the language of today. It is for that reason that such contemporaries as Eugene Higgins and Nathan Hoffman, in this show, seem artists of a bygone era…” The onset of the Great Depression appears to have slowed his success, as was the case for many up-and-coming artists. By 1939 Hoffman had become a gallerist in addition to being a painter, operating the collective exhibition space “Sutton Gallery,” which was originally located at 358 East 57th Street. There Hoffman exhibited his own works as well as those created by other prominent New York artists including David Burliuk (1882 – 1967), Charles C. Curran (1861 – 1942), Louis Eilshemius (1864 – 1941), Ann Goldthwaite (1869 – 1944), Maurice Kish (1895 – 1987), Lawrence Lebduska (1894 – 1966), Bradford Perin and Ellis Wilson...

Henry Ottmann (1877-1927) "Orée du bois par brume", A forest in the mist signed lower right pastel on paper 24 x 32 cm In good condition In a vintage frame : 43.5 x 53 cm The gilding on the frame is missing in many places Henry Ottmann particularly excelled in the pastel technique, as can be seen here. This is due to the fact that this delicate material obviously lends itself very well to the artist's characteristic vaporous style and manner. We should also note the great modernity of this landscape and its fades, which go almost as far as abstraction. Henry Ottmann was born on 10 April 1877 in Ancenis. He made his debut at the Salon La Libre Esthétique in Brussels in 1904 and took part in the Salon des Indépendants in Paris from 1905, the Salon d'Automne, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts and the Salon des Tuileries. In 1911 and 1912, Ottmann exhibited at the Artistes de la Société Moderne at the Gallery Paul Durand-Ruel together with Armand Guillaumin, Henri Lebasque and others. In 1912, he exhibited at the gallery Eugène Druet. In 1920, Ottmann exhibited at the gallery Marcel...

"Salinas Valley Farm" - Fauvist Landscape in Oil on Artist's Board Bright and saturated landscape by Will H. Light (American, 1926-2004). The viewer stands at the edge of a farm, lo...

Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Sitges - Oil Oil on canvas glued to cardboard. Measures work 33x41 cm. Frameless. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan...

Wonderful Impressionist view of St. Marks Square, Venice. Pam Masco was an American from Massachusetts, and a graduate of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1976). She was married to the English artist John Heseltine. Her work is in well-known private and corporate collections and has been shown at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Watercolour Society and other London Galleries as well as in the Provinces. She travelled throughout the U.S.A. and Europe and painted American and European subjects, portraits, landscape and figure compositions, still life and interiors. From 1978 she was involved in drawing, painting, technical painting courses, watercolour and graphic design. She illustrated for major British and American publishers until 1988. Authors include Bruce Chatwin...

Gustav (Gustave) Wolff (1863 - 1935) View of New York Harbor from the Staten Island Ferry Oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches Signed lower right In the Autumn of 1913, the German Associati...

Sierra Mountain Waterfall, Vintage California Landscape w. Ornate Giltwood Frame Beautiful large-scale vertical landscape of a majestic waterfall in the Sierra Mountains by Califor...

Beautiful California plein air painting of San Gabriel Mountains in autumn with iconic Sycamore tree in foreground. Circa 1960. Unsigned. Presented in vintage gilt-toned carved wood frame. Image size: 10"H x 14"W. The San Gabriel Mountains have inspired many famous plein air painters including Hanson Puthuff, Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, Maurice Braun...

Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Marina - Oil Oil canvas glued to tablex. Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frame measures 37x45 cm. Rafael Duran Benet (Terra...

Well executed oil on board painting of a sailboat off the rocky coast. Signed lower right. Circa 1930. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in a faux wood molded frame wi...

Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Fishermen - Oil on panel Oil size 22x27 cm. Frameless. Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in Madrid, at th...