Avery Galleries

Provenance The artist; Estate of the artist, until 2018 Exhibitions Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, The Art of John Pierce Barnes (1893–1954), June 28–August 30, 2009. A native ...

Provenance Alexander Gallery, until 2009 Albert Jean Adolphe was known as a decorator, a portrait painter, and a landscape artist. He worked in oil and watercolor. Born in Philadelphia in 1865, he attended the Pennsylvania Museum School of Art. After graduation, he traveled to Europe and studied under Jean Leon Gerome and James Whistler at the Ecole des Beaux Artes in Paris and under DeVriendt in Antwerp. Adolphe was a member of the Graphic Sketch Club and the Philadelphia Art Club. In 1894, he was awarded a honorable mention at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago and in 1899 he received an honorable mention in Paris. From the Philadelphia Art Club he won the Stotesbury Prize. He did decorative work at the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For many years, Adolphe showed in Chicago, St. Louis, and in Philadelphia. From 1898 to 1902, he exhibited at the Paris Salon and later in Antwerp and Munich. C. David Howell...

A native of Philadelphia, John Pierce Barnes began his artistic training at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design. He then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ...

Provenance The artist; Collection of Henry Dubin, Philadelphia until 2018 Exhibitions Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Living Color Modern Life: Hugh Henry Breckenridge and Arthur B. Carles, October 5-November 2, 2018. The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, soaking up the more conservative teaching of William Merritt Chase and Thomas Anshutz, he was deeply influenced by the avant-garde art scene in Paris during his first trip there in 1905. In 1907, Carles won the prestigious Cresson Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to return to Paris for several more years. This experience had a profound impact on Carles as an artist; he was extremely affected by modern French painting, especially the work of Cezanne and Matisse, and by the time Carles returned home to Philadelphia in 1912, he was a confirmed modernist. This small landscape sketch was probably painted early during Carles's career, and yet, it already reveals his strong interest in abstraction. Indeed, Landscape Abstraction demonstrates both his daring exploration of lyrical color harmonies as well as his interest in two-dimensional surface design. Painted loosely in the spontaneous medium of watercolor, Carles used thin washes and delicate pools of paint to suggest the foreground area and surrounding trees. His color palette is rich and expressive, ranging from pale greens and blues to deep red, yellow, and even purple. In addition to his remarkable career as an artist, Carles was also an incredibly gifted teacher. He taught at PAFA from 1917 to 1925 and had a very deep impact on a number of his students such as Morris Blackburn, Quita Brodhead, and Jane Piper...

Frank Mujica was born on December the 20th, 1985 in Pinar del Rio, Cuba. He studied at the San Alejandro Academy of fine Arts from 2000 to 2004 and at the Superior Institute of Art I...

Signed lower right: Henry B. Snell Provenance Private collection Born in Richmond, England, on September 29, 1858, Henry Bayley Snell was the son of Edward and Elizabeth Snell. At ...

Titled lower left. Signed lower right: S. Headley Van Campen Susan Van Campen’s plein-air oil paintings are painted with the confident brushwork of a...

A native of Philadelphia, John Pierce Barnes began his artistic training at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design. He then attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, ...

Signed lower right: Antonio P. Martino Provenance Private collection, Pennsylvania Antonio Martino's career is marked by numerous awards and accolades. By seventeen he was exhibiting publicly, and in his early twenties he had won honorable mentions from the Art Club of Philadelphia as well as the Philadelphia Sketch Club. In 1925 when he had two paintings accepted at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' Annual Exhibition, his teacher Albert Adolphe...

Provenance Robert Miller Gallery, New York; Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York; The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, until 2009; Sotheby's, New York, American Paintings, Drawings, ...

Provenance The artist; By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946; By descent in the family, until the present Joseph Stella’s artistic career defies easy categorization. He was ...

Signed lower left: Martinique F.W.I. / NEY Provenance Private collection Lloyd Ney was an American painter and member of the “New Hope Modernist School.” Born in Pennsylvania in 18...

Signed lower left: H. Gasser / Demonstration / 1951 Provenance Private collection Painter, lecturer, teacher, illustrator and author, Henry Gasser was born in Newark, New Jersey on...

Provenance The artist; By bequest to his nephew, Sergio Stella, 1946; By descent in the family, until the present Exhibitions Richard York Gallery, New York, 1994, Joseph Stella's N...

Signed lower middle: Rudolph '23 Peter was born in New York in 1946. He received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art and an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Peter taught at the Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia. Peter, when he is not painting, works as an art dealer in Philadelphia through the McClees Galleries. He specializes in European and early American Art, and his vast knowledge of art is evident in his work. Peter Rudolph...

Born in Italy, Joseph Stella immigrated to New York City at the age of nineteen and went on to become one of America’s foremost modernist painters. He remained deeply loyal to his It...

Born in Italy, Joseph Stella immigrated to New York City at the age of nineteen and went on to become one of America’s foremost modernist painters. He remained deeply loyal to his It...

Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe Emile Gruppe once said, “If you want exacting details in a painting, then you might as well look at a photograph. I make an impression on a canva...

Signed and dated lower right: F.M Lamb 1905 Provenance Private collection, Massachusetts Born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, Lamb, at age 17, attended the Massachusetts Normal Art S...

Signed lower right: John Whorf Provenance Private collection Sand Dunes, Cape Cod amply demonstrates John Whorf’s expert handling of the watercolor medium. The fluidity of his styl...

Provenance David Ramus, Ltd.; Menconi and Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York; Private collection, Atlanta, Georgia, until 2010 Exhibitions Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine ...