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Coastal Scene
By Walter Griffin
Located in Sheffield, MA
Walter Parsons Shaw Griffin
American, 1861-1935
Coastal Scene
Oil on canvas
27 ¼ by 32 in, w/ frame 39 by 44 in
Signed lower left
Born in Portland, Maine on 14 January 1861, the so...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barques De Peche Echouees Sur La Plage
Located in Sheffield, MA
William Thornley
French, 1857-1935
Barques De Peche Echouees Sur La Plage
Oil on canvas
25 by 32 in, w/ frame 33 ½ by 40 ½ in
Signed lower right
William Thornley was born in 1857 i...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tree In Winter
Located in Sheffield, MA
Mabel Spencer Peterson
American, 1886-1953
Tree In Winter
Oil on canvas
16 by 20 ¼ in, w/ frame 24 by 28 in
Signed lower right
Born in Dunlap, Elkhart County, Indiana as the eldest...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Notre Dame, Paris
By Gustave Madelain
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gustave Madelain
French, 1867-1944
Notre Dame, Paris
Oil on board
14 ½ by 20 ¾ in, w/ frame 21 ½ by 27 ¾ in
Signed lower right
Gustave Madelain exhibited in Paris at the Salon des ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Church in the Square
By Élisée Maclet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Élisée Maclet
French, 1881-1962
Church in the Square
Oil on board
18 ¼ by 24 in, w/ frame 26 ¼ by 32 in
Signed lower left
Born in Lihons-en-Santerre April 12, 1881, Elisée Maclet b...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
City Skyline
By Denes de Holesch
Located in Sheffield, MA
Denes Holesch
Hungarian, 1910-1983
City Skyline
Oil on board
21 ¾ by 26 in, w/ frame 30 by 34 in
Signed lower left
Denes Holesch (Denes de Holesch) was born in 1910 in Beszterceban...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venetian Canal
Located in Sheffield, MA
Arthur Vidal Diehl
British, 1870-1929
Venetian Canal
Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in, w/ frame 32 by 44 in
Signed lower left
Best known for his sand dun...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fauvist Landscape
Located in Sheffield, MA
George-Henri Tribout
French, 1884-1962
Fauvist Landscape
Oil on board
31 ½ by 41 ¾, w/ frame 34 ½ by 44 ½ in
Signed lower right
George Henri Tribout was born in Paris in 1884. He s...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Martigues, France
Located in Sheffield, MA
Paul Savigny
French, 1858-1916
Martigues, France
Oil on canvas
25 ½ by 36 ½ in, w/ frame 31 ½ by 42 ½ in
Signed lower right
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bruyers en Fleurs
By William Didier-Pouget
Located in Sheffield, MA
William Didier-Pouget
French, 1864-1959
Bruyers en Fleurs
Oil on canvas
29 by 36 ½ in, w/ frame 42 ½ by 49 ¾ in
Signed lower right
William Didier-Pouget began his formal art traini...
Category
Late 20th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walk by the River
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alphonse Léon Quizet
French, 1885-1955
Walk by the River
Oil on board
23 ¾ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 32 ½ by 38 in
Signed lower right
Alphonse Quizet was ...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Jardin du Versailles
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Roux
French, 1853-1929
Les Jardin du Versailles
Oil on canvas
23 ⅝ by 32 in, w/ frame 30 ¼ by 38 ½ in
Signed lower right
George Roux was a French ...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jardin des Tuileries
By Gabriel Spat
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gabriel Spat
American, 1890-1967
Jardin des Tuileries
Oil on board
8 ⅛ by 11 ⅛ in, w/ frame 13 ¾ by 17 in
Signed lower left
Gabriel Spat spent most of his career in France painting...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coastal View
By Joaquin Mir Trinxet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Joaquín Mir Y Trinxet
Spanish, 1873-1940
Coastal View
Oil on board
11 ¾ by 16 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 29 ¼ in
Signed lower right
Joaquín Mir Trinxet was a Catalan Spanish artist. Livi...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Park, Versailles
By Wynford Dewhurst
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wynford Dewhurst
British, 1864-1941
The Park, Versailles
Oil on Canvas
23 ½ by 29 in, w/ frame 31 ½ by 36 ½ in
Signed Wynford Dewhurst lower left
A controversial figure on the Angl...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stony Brook, Long Island
By Paul Bernard King
Located in Sheffield, MA
Paul Bernard King
American, 1867-1947
Stony Brook, Long Island
Oil on canvas
25 ¼ by 30 ¼ in, w/ frame 34 ¼ by 39 ¼ in
Signed and titled verso
Traditional American painter Paul Kin...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Between the Red Rocks
By Hayley Lever
Located in Sheffield, MA
Richard Hayley Lever
American, 1876-1958
Between the Red Rocks
Oil on Canvas
20 ¼ by 24 ¼ in, w/ frame 28 ½ by 33 in
Signed Hayley Lever lower right
Richard Hayley Lever was born o...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
House with a Flower Garden
Located in Sheffield, MA
Maude Kaufman Eggemeyer
American, 1877-1959
House with a Flower Garden
Oil on board
16 by 20 in, w/ frame 21 ½ by 25 ¼ in
Signed lower right
A plein-air painter of landscapes and f...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rue de Village et Maisons
By Paul-Élie Gernez
Located in Sheffield, MA
Paul-Élie Gernez
French, 1888-1948
Rue de Village et Maisons
Oil on Canvas
23 ¾ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 34 ½ by 39 ½ in
Signed lower right
Paul-Élie Gernez (1888–1948) was a French pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking Through the Window
By Pierre Roussel
Located in Sheffield, MA
Pierre Roussel
French, 1927-1995
Looking Through the Window
Oil on Canvas
21 ½ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 ¼ by 36 ½ in
Signed lower right
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Canal View
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien-Hector Jonas
French, 1880-1947
Canal View
Oil on Canvas
21 ¼ by 29 in, w/ frame 32 ½ by 40 in
Signed lower left
Jonas was born in the town of Anzin in northern France. He fi...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Love Letter by the Sea
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henri Bénard
French, 1860-1927
A Love Letter By the Sea
Oil on Canvas
19 ¾ by 24 in, w/ frame 26 by 30 in
Signed Henri Bénard lower left
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monhegan
Located in Sheffield, MA
Prosper Louis Senat
American, 1852-1925
Monhegan
Oil on Canvas
20 by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 26 ¼ by 42 ¼ in
With artist's plaque
Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, March 13, 1852, Prospe...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marche De Fleurs, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, Born 1900
Marche De Fleurs, Paris
Oil on canvas
20 by 24 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 29 ½ in
Signed lower left
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter known for hi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Park Terrace in St. Cloud
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alfred Nathaniel Oppenheim
German, 1873-1953
Park Terrace in St. Cloud
Oil on board
12 ¾ by 16 ¼ in, w/ frame 19 by 22 ½ in
Signed and dated 1908
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Notre Dame
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Colin
Belgian, 1881-1961
View of Notre Dame
Oil on Board
19 by 23 ¾ in, w/ frame 24 by 28 ¾ in
Signed lower right
Jean Colin was born in 1881 in Ixelles, Belgium. Colin traine...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boats in the Harbor
By Jean Even
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Even
French, 1910-1986
Boats in the Harbor
Oil on Canvas
21 ¼ by 25 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 ¾ by 34 in
Signed Even lower right
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vieux Bassin de Honfleur
By Achille-Émile Othon Friesz
Located in Sheffield, MA
Achille-Emile Othon Friesz
French, 1879-1949
Vieux Bassin de Honfleur
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in, w/ frame 31 ⅜ by 36 ½ in
Signed lower right
Achille-Emile Othon Friesz, who lat...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monaco - Monte Carlo
By Johannes Schiefer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Johannes Schiefer
Dutch-American, 1896-1979
Monaco - Monte Carlo
Oil on canvas
25 ¼ by 30 ⅛ in, w/ frame 33 ½ by 38 ½ in
Signed lower right, titled lower left
Johannes Schiefer, pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and Children Having a Picnic
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jules Rene Herve
French, 1887-1981
Mother and Children Having a Picnic
Oil on canvas
28 ¾ by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 38 ¼ by 45 ½ in
Signed lower right
J.R. Herve, an impressionist of ou...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Côte d’Azur
Located in Sheffield, MA
Michel Dureuil
French, born 1929
Côte d’Azur
Oil on Canvas
15 by 18 ¼ in, w/ frame 22 ¾ by 25 ¾ in
Signed lower right
Michel Dureuil was born in Paris...
Category
Late 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Corsican Shore
By Emile Marie Beaume
Located in Sheffield, MA
Émile Marie Beaume
French, 1888-1967
Corsican Shore
Oil on Canvas
18 ⅛ by 21 ⅝ in, w/ frame 25 ½ by 29 ¼ in
Signed lower right
French painter, lithographer, engraver and fresco art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Plage a Girolato
By Charles Levier
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Levier
French, 1920-2004
La Plage a Girolato
Oil on Canvas
30 by 40 in, w/ frame 38 ⅝ by 49 in
Signed lower left, titled verso
Charles Levier was born in 1920 from a French...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Jardin Du Giverny
By Frederick William MacMonnies
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frederick William MacMonnies
American, 1863-1937
Les Jardin Du Giverny
Oil on Canvas
21 by 25 in, w/ frame 27 ⅞ by 31 ⅞ in
A sculptor of classical figures, American-born Frederick ...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pont Neuf
By Frank Myers Boggs
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Myers Boggs
American, 1855-1926
Pont Neuf
Oil on Canvas
21 ⅜ by 25 ½ in, w/ frame 27 ⅜ by 31 ¾ in
Signed and dated 1896
At an early age, Frank Myers Boggs moved from Springfi...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Framed in a fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York
Trinity House Paintings, London
Private Collcetion, New York
Alexander Avenard Collection
Le Trianon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bathers
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathers
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman and Child
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Woman and Child
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother
Child in a Landscape, framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame
By André Gisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Gisson
American, 1921-2003
Mother & Child in a Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in. W/frame 32 by 44 in.
Signed lower left
Framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moonlight Over the Promenade
By Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
Located in Sheffield, MA
Wilhelm von Gegerfelt
Swedish, 1844-1920
Moonlight Over the Promenade
Oil on canvas
27 by 45 in. W/frame 39 by 57 in.
Signed lower right
Wilh...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
VUE DU SACRE COEUR - MONTMARTRE, PARIS
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Vue du Sacre Coeur, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Place de L
Opera, Paris 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
La Place de L'Opera, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marche de Fleurs, a La Madeleine Paris 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Marche de Fleurs, La Madeleine Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisia...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Grand Hotel, Paris, 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Le Grand Hotel, Paris ,1954
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moulin Rouge, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Moulin Rouge
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, Antoi...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Montmartre -La Place Dutertre, Paris 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Montmartre
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, An...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Father
Child
By Renato Guttuso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Renato Guttuso
Italian 1911-1987
Father & Child
Oil on canvas
30 ½ by 19 in. W/frame 31 ½ in. by 20 in.
Signed verso "Guttuso"
Signed lower center "Guttuso"
Dated 1966
Titled vers...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
At The Seaside
By Gaston Sebire
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gaston Sebire
French, 1920-2002
At The Seaside
Oil on canvas
25 by 31 in. W/frame 33 ½ by 39 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris.
The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.”
The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris.
Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage. As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.”
Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Frost
America, 1843–1907
View of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod
Oil on Canvas
20 by 30 in. W/frame 28 by 38 in.
Signed lower l...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scene de Chasse
Located in Sheffield, MA
Alexandre Marie Guillemin
French, 1817-1880
Scene de Chasse
Oil on Panel
9 by 12in. w/frame 17 ½ by 20 ½in.
Signed lower right
He studied with Baron Gros. He exhibited at the Salo...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunny Hedge
By Frank Vincent Dumond
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Vincent Dumond
American, 1865-1931
Sunny Hedge
Oil on canvas
Signed "F.V. DuMond," lower right
24.5 in. by 29 in. W/frame 32.5 by 37 in.
Born in Rochester, New York in 1865, Frank DuMond left his work as an illustrator at age 23 to study in the rigorous classical atelier tradition of the Academie Julian Paris in 1888. Upon his return to New York in 1892, DuMond embarked on a painting and teaching term at the Art Students League spanning nearly six decades until his death.
A painter of diverse talents, he was an accomplished landscape, portrait and still life painter, muralist, and leader of the Tonalist then Impressionist art colonies of Lyme, Connecticut. In particular, DuMond was noted for his use of landscape green. American Impressionist expert William H. Gerdts wrote of DuMond, "As one might speak of Velazquez's blacks, one must speak of DuMond's greens." Scholars have described him as a deft painter of the American Impressionist landscape and the figure, but he will perhaps be remembered as among the most outstanding educators in American art history. Though an accomplished painter, he is said to have considered himself more of an educator than an artist.
By all accounts, DuMond is described by his students as a man whose art and teaching methods were based on deeply held religious and philosophical beliefs. One student recalls, "There were occasions when DuMond revealed a clear intent to educate us on a deeper level than might casually be associated with painting." His students remember him fondly as "a genial, generous, and perceptive instructor…whose warmth and kindness pervaded everything he did." Under his tutelage, many prominent American artists were brought to recognition, including Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, and John Marin. Still other protégés of DuMond renown became influential teachers, such as Baroque-style painter Frank Mason, whose influence emerged in New York at the Art Students League; and Arthur Maynard...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Brittany
Located in Sheffield, MA
Edward Francis Rook
American, 1870-1960
Brittany
Oil on Canvas
30 by 30 in. W/frame 38 by 38 in.
Signed lower left
Circa, 1898-1900
Rook, born in New York City on September 21, 1870, became one of the most original impressionists at Old Lyme. First he was a student of Benjamin Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Life started out to be rather promising for Rook, around the turn of the century. He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, both in 1898, when his harbor scene, entitled Pearl Clouds — Moonlight was reproduced in International Studio, in April. In addition, the PAFA presented him with the Temple Gold Medal for Deserted Street, Moonlight, which the Academy purchased. Three years later, Rook was awarded a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, where he exhibited three landscapes. Caffin (1902, p. xxxvi) praised the artist's "translucent quality of color," which suggests a study of color theory. Also in 1901, Rook married Edith Sone. For most of 1902, the Rooks were in Mexico.
Rook came to Old Lyme in October of 1903. The date is significant because Childe Hassam was also there that month. Hassam would more or less re-orient the artists' colony from Tonalism to impressionism. Rook would move there permanently two years later.
He took two medals at the St. Louis Universal Exposition (1904) where his landscapes from the Mexican trip were displayed. More awards followed: a silver medal at the International Fine Arts Exposition in Buenos Aires, 1910, a gold medal at San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915, a Corcoran Bronze Medal, and a William A. Clark Award in 1919 for Peonies. By 1924, the artist was made a National Academician. Despite all these awards and recognition, Rook did little in the way of selling his art and reportedly, his prices were too high. His paintings were handled by Macbeth and Grand Central Art Galleries.
Rook was active in Old Lyme's art community. As stated above, he would have met Hassam that October in 1903 but Willard Metcalf had departed at the end of the summer. As several writers have explained (Connecticut and American Impressionism, 1980, p. 123), Hassam "was the catalyst around whom [impressionism] coalesced." Rook's niece, Virginia Rook Garver, who happened to be the grand-niece of Hassam, confirmed that Rook and Hassam knew each other in Europe — before they went to Old Lyme (Fischer, 1987, p. 19).
Rook was one of the relatively young painters to come to Old Lyme, along with Gifford Beal, William Chadwick, and Robert Nisbet, on the wave of impressionism, initiated there by Hassam and Metcalf. Old Lyme became a center of American impressionism, and as Donelson F. Hoopes remarked, "under Hassam, the shoreline of Connecticut became a kind of Giverny of America." Among Ranger's group, palettes started to become lighter, except those of the most determined tonalists. Ranger himself, perhaps admitting defeat, moved to Noank in 1904.
Rook is best known for his views of Bradbury's Mill, which was soon called Rook's Mill, owing to the painter's many versions of the scene. One, called Swirling Waters, dated ca. 1917, is in the Lyme Historical Society. Even more famous is Rook's Laurel, dated between 1905 and 1910 (Florence Griswold Museum), in which a profuse laurel bush (the state flower), is set off by a spectacular Constable-like background. But Swirling Waters could never be confused with Constable, with its violent brushwork, impasto-layered water, and bright, almost chalky, plein-air palette. Gerdts (1984, p. 226) compares the paintings of Walter...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Djeuner Champtre
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
Djeuner Champtre
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ½ by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower left
Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October 7,...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
By Marie Joseph Léon Clavel
Located in Sheffield, MA
“I Will”, Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel
French, 1850-1923
Septembre, La Meuse a Dordrecht
Oil on canvas, Signed
13 ¼ by 19 ½ in. W/frame 23 ¼ by 29 ½ in.
Marie-Joseph-Leon-Clavel took ...
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Kimono
By Everett Lloyd Bryant
Located in Sheffield, MA
Everett Lloyd Bryant
American, 1864-1945
Woman in Kimono
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right
30 by 25 in. W/frame 35 by 30 in.
Everett studied wit...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
By Andrew Thomas Schwartz
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andrew Thomas Schwartz
American, 1867-1942
Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia
Oil on canvas
24 by 30 in. W/frame 28 ½ by 34 ½ in.
Signed lower right...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Seller, Paris
Located in Sheffield, MA
Cesar Villacres
Ecuador, 1880–1941
Flower Seller, Paris
Cesar Villacres was an Ecuadorean artsit that worked in South America & Paris.
He exhibited i...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
VUE de PARIS , La TOUR ST. JACQUES et LE THEATRE du CHATELET
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jules Herve
French, 1887-1881
Vue du Paris
Oil on canvas
18 by 21 ½ in. Wframe 28 by 31 in.
Signed lower left
An impressionist French artist whose subjects ranged from rural genr...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Bouquinistes, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Les Bouquinistes, Paris
Oil on canvas
18 by 22 in. W/frame 24 by 28 in.
Signed lower left
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil





