Avery Galleries Paintings

Oil on canvas 52 x 36 inches (132.1 x 91.4 cm) Framed dimensions: 53 1/4 x 37 1/4 in Dated and inscribed on verso: 2009/42 Provenance Morrison Gallery, Kent, CT; Private collection,...

Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved to the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area when he was two years old. The Dutch marine painter Alber...

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 Fin...

Alfred Maurer was born in 1868 in New York City, the son of Louis Maurer, a commercial artist for Currier and Ives. He worked in the family lithographic business as a young man and a...

Colin Campbell Cooper is perhaps best known for his marvelous urban depictions of New York and Philadelphia, which encapsulate the vibrant modernity of these street scenes and skyscr...

Anna Richards Brewster is the daughter of the great marine painter William Trost Richards. Her father's reputation always precedes her own; however, Anna was an accomplished artist i...

Antonio Martino's work is a prominent example of the long tradition of realistic painting and instruction in Philadelphia. Painted towards the end of his long career, Before the Rega...

Stanley Reckless's formal art training began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1913. He studied with Daniel Garber and was greatly influenced by his teacher's lyrical a...

Stanley Reckless's formal art training began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1913. He studied with Daniel Garber and was greatly influenced by his teacher's lyrical a...

Hugh Breckenridge’s artistic training began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1887. The academic precision and attention to detail that mark his portraits and still lif...

Born in New York City, modernist painter Adelaide Lawson Gaylor studied at the Art Students League and with Kenneth Hayes Miller. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the New York Society of Women Artists. She was married to artist Wood Gaylor...

Star Island, Isles of Shoals is a fine example of Warren Sheppard’s great love and respect for the sea. As an expert navigator and yachtsman, Sheppard had a deep reverence for the oc...

The dark and smokey palette of Grez-sur-Loing reflects the influence of the French Barbizon School on Winkworth Allan Gay's painting style. It seems reasonable to assume that he pain...

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, ...

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, ...

Diego H. Rodriguez Carrion (Diego Hiromi) was born on July 26, 1995 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Diego studied at the Atelier San Juan under the guidance of artists Luis Borrero and Amb...

An expatriate painter, noted for figurative paintings of peasants as well as classical works, Biblical scenes, mythological subjects, and still lifes, William Babcock was born in Bos...

Born in Warren, Ohio, Luther Emerson Van Gorder was one of the most distinguished painters of the Toledo area during the late nineteenth and ...

Like his mentor the great American Impressionist William Merritt Chase, Charles Webster Hawthorne was equally admired in his own day as both a talented painter and a highly influential instructor. Hawthorne first studied with Chase at his Shinnecock Summer School of Art, which was specifically dedicated to open-air landscape painting. Not only did Hawthorne quickly absorb all the principles of Chase’s instruction, but he also became determined to found his own school based on the same model. In 1899 Hawthorne discovered the small fishing village of Provincetown on the furthermost tip of Cape Cod, and after purchasing a large house on Miller Hill, he opened the Cape Cod School of Art, which proved to be an immediate success. While Hawthorne’s own approach as a teacher owed much to Chase, he developed a distinctly unique painting style and teaching method that defies easy categorization. He was greatly impressed with the work of Franz Hals, which he was exposed to during his trip to Holland in the summer of 1898. Hawthorne was particularly struck by Hals’ Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almhouse, and from this work he absorbed a deep appreciation for the power of human expression and an economy of technique. Hawthorne applied these lessons to his own realistic portraits of Provincetown fishermen and their families; these works have a somber, almost melancholy quality to them, and they reveal a sense of the vulnerability of the human condition. Stylistically, Hawthorne maintained a life-long commitment to the importance of color. “Beauty in art,” he said, “is the delicious notes of color one against the other.” Of equal importance to him was capturing the effects of light. He told his students: “Everything in painting is a matter of silhouettes. Hold light against shadow, not light against light.” He developed a particular technique of layering glazes and texturing the surface of his paintings, which heightens the relationship between the colors and creates a light effect that seems to emanate from within the painting. These stylistic techniques in combination with his straightforward compositions of one or more figures shown at close range create the hallmarks of Hawthorne’s best paintings. Hawthorne and his wife Ethel’s 1905-1907 trip to Italy did not result in a drastic impact on his artistic style. Nonetheless, it proved to be a transformative and enlightening voyage. The extensive trip was financed by collectors who paid in advance for a painting to be produced abroad. On the trip, Hawthorne explored the work of old masters and was struck particularly by the paintings of Titian, which to Hawthorne, demonstrated the master’s true adoration for the act of painting itself through his handling of paint and color. Where Titian’s paintings...

Johann Berthelsen began his career as a professional singer. Graduating from the Chicago Musical College in 1905, Berthelsen toured the United States and Canada, performing in operas...

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 Ge...

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 Ge...

Signed and dated lower right: Burlin 1914 Provenance Private collection Born in New York City, Paul Berlin was a Social Realist for most of his career, i...

Signed and dated lower right: Burlin 1914 Oil on board 8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) Framed dimensions 14 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches Provenance Private collection Born in New York City, Paul Berlin...

Oil on board Provenance Estate of Marjorie MacMonnies Wysong (the artist's granddaughter); Hap Moore Auctions; Martin Ferrick Antiques Exhibitions Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, American Women Artists: 1860–1960, October 13–November 10, 2017. Description During her expatriate career, between the mid-1880s and return to the United States in 1920, painter and muralist Mary Fairchild MacMonnies (later Low) was one of the most successful American women artists of her generation. Mary Fairchild was born in Connecticut, but was raised largely in St. Louis, Missouri. Inspired by her mother's work as a painter of miniatures and dissatisfied as a school teacher, she enrolled in the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, where she led a movement for women to be permitted to draw model posed in the nude, an important component of artistic training then considered improper for well-bred young women. Impressed by her talent and drive, the school's director, Halsey Ives...

Robert William Vonnoh (1858-1933) Spring in the Meadow Signed lower left: Vonnoh Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches 50.8 x 61 cm Framed dimensions: 26.5 x 30.5 inches Provenance Private c...

Allen Tucker (1866-1939) Towards the Hills, 1923 Oil on canvas 28 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches 72.4 x 87.6 cm Signed lower left: Allen Tucker / 1923 Provenance Arthur Harrow, New York; By de...

Christina Weaver grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2012, and a Master’s Degree in Painting from I...

Oil on board Signed within painting (on bucket): AFT Provenance Private collection Why We Love It Tait’s animal paintings were hailed for their masterful realism. Moreover, he capt...

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...

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...

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...

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...