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"Clearing after a Shower" Guy Wiggins, Impressionist Gloucester Schooners
By Guy Wiggins
Located in New York, NY
Guy Wiggins
Clearing after a Shower
Signed lower right, titled on verso
Oil on panel
12 x 16 inches
Guy Carleton Wiggins is best known for his impressionistic snow scenes of New Yo...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Bass Rocks" Josephine Reichmann, Impressionist Surf, Luminous Waves, Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Josephine Reichmann
Bass Rocks
Signed lower right
Oil on canvasboard
14 x 16 inches
Reichmann was born in 1864 in Louisville, Kentucky. After studying at the School of the Art Inst...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Near Bourron, France" Gilbert Munger, Barbizon School, Countryside Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Gilbert Munger
Near Bourron, France, circa 1886
Signed lower left
Oil on panel
13 x 18 inches
Gilbert Munger was born on April 14, 1837 in Madison, Connecticut. He showed interest ...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Old Whaling Wharf, Newport, Rhode Island" Paulette Van Roekens, Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
Paulette Van Roekens
Old Whaling Wharf, Newport, Rhode Island, 1921
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Painter Paulette van Roekens was born in France and attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art and Design) and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her talent was recognized early on, and in 1916, she was awarded the John Sartain Fellowship at the Philadelphia School of Design. Her early paintings often were of still lifes, using flowers...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter Landscape" Wilson Irvine, Atmospheric Impressionist Snowy Hills
Located in New York, NY
Wilson Irvine
Winter Landscape
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
24 x 27 inches
A prolific Impressionist with a penchant for atmospheric scenes, Illinois native Wilson Irvine began h...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Boston Square" Arthur Clifton Goodwin, Impressionist Boston Urban Landscape
By Arthur Clifton Goodwin
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Clifton Goodwin
Boston Square
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches
A painter especially known for street and waterfront scenes of Boston, Arthur Clifton Goodwin di...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"White Horse" Frederick Lester Sexton, Bucolic Barn, Farm Scene, White Horse
By Frederick Lester Sexton
Located in New York, NY
Frederick Lester Sexton
White Horse
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Provenance
Part of a Collection received from the Lyme Art Association.
Frederick Lester Sexton received a lot of reviews and exhibitions in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when he was at the height of his career. Because it captured the personal view of many people's wish to ignore national issues and simply live their lives in their homes, his work was favorably welcomed. The rise of modernist styles like Abstract Expressionism, which started to take over the American art scene in the 1950s, also contributed to Sexton's fall in popularity. As collectors and regular spectators discover once more that realism is a valid component of American art because it speaks directly and clearly to the beauty they perceive in their surroundings, many artists, like Sexton, are experiencing a renaissance.
Cheshire, Connecticut, was the birthplace of Frederick Sexton in 1889. His father, J. Frederick Sexton, was the Rector of St. Peter's Church in Cheshire and a well-known Episcopal clergyman. The mother, Mary Louise Lester, was an amateur painter and came from a pretty well-known Hartford family. Frederick was killed in an open-hearth fire when he was eighteen months old. His right hand was badly burned and was never to be opened again. The father kept the family together after his mother passed away when he was nineteen.
Sexton's mother taught him art, and he went to public schools in New Haven. He received the prestigious Winchester Prize for a year of study in Spain while attending the Yale School of Fine Art, where he studied under Augustus Tack...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Autumn, New England" Charles Warren Eaton, Tonalist Gloaming Sunset in Woods
By Charles Warren Eaton
Located in New York, NY
Charles Warren Eaton
Autumn, New England
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 36 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Connecticut
A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings o...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Trail of the Snowshoes" William Baxter Closson, Lyrical Snowy Landscape
By William Baxter Closson
Located in New York, NY
William Baxter Closson
Trail of the Snowshoes, circa 1910
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches
Provenance
The Cooley Gallery, Old Lyme, Connecticut
Born October 13, 184...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hillside Landscape" Edwin Child, Farmland, Vast Rural Mountainous Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Edwin Child
Hillside Landscape, 1896
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 28 inches
Edwin Burrage Child was a prominent New England portraitis...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Building the Westside Highway" Frida Gugler, 1930s New York City Urban Scene
Located in New York, NY
Frida Gugler
Building the Westside Highway (Near the George Washington Bridge), circa 1935-37
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 28 inches
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the pain...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Crashing Waves at Sunset" William Formby Halsall, Dramatic Pink Sunset Seascape
Located in New York, NY
William Formby Halsall
Crashing Waves at Sunset
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 30 inches
Marine painter William Formby Halsall was born in Kirkdale, England, in 1841. He was...
Category
1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter Silence" Carl Wuermer, American Impressionism Quiet Snowy Landscape
By Carl Wuermer
Located in New York, NY
Carl Wuermer
Winter Silence
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Known for serene, realistic landscapes, he was a widely exhibited painter who won numerous awards includi...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter Landscape" Dale Bessire, Impressionist American Snowy Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Dale Bessire
Winter Landscape
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
A founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, Dale Bessire was a native of Indianapol...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rockport" William Lester Stevens, North East Coastal American Landscape
By William Lester Stevens
Located in New York, NY
William Lester Stevens
Rockport
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Born on June 15, 1888, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens displayed his artistic abilities from a y...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida" Beatrix Sherman, American, Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Beatrix Sherman
Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida, 1947
Signed lower right
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches
Beatrix Sherman (1894-1975), who changed her first name from Beatrice by...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Pigeon Hill, Rockport" Winthrop Duthie Turney, North Eastern American Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Winthrop Duthie Turney
Pigeon Hill, Rockport
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, Artists of America, Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1949.
Winthrop Duthie Turney was born in New York City and received his education at the Art Students League. He was affiliated with the Fifteen Gallery...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Winter Landscape" William Lester Stevens, Cape Ann Snowy Landscape
By William Lester Stevens
Located in New York, NY
William Lester Stevens
Winter Landscape
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
32 x 36 inches
Born on June 15, 1888, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens displayed his artistic abilities ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Village Green" Mary Bradish Titcomb, Bright American Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Mary Bradish Titcomb
Village Green
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
A native of Windham, New Hampshire, upon graduation from high school, Titcomb studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, before accepting a position as a drawing teacher in the public schools of Brockton, Massachusetts, where she remained for fourteen years before resigning, in 1889, to study painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her instructors there included Edmund Charles Tarbell, Philip Leslie Hale, and Frank Weston Benson. In the 1890s she went to Paris to study with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and to travel. She then returned to Boston, taking studio space at the Harcourt Studios, where all three of her teachers kept space. In 1895 she became a member of the Copley Society and began exhibiting locally; from 1904 to 1927 she showed work in 29 exhibits at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She began signing her name as "M. Bradish Titcomb" in 1905 to avoid prejudice against her gender. The same year saw her making a sketching trip to the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, a center for the American Impressionists; this trip seems to have cemented her interest in the style.
In 1915, Titcomb's Portrait of Geraldine J. – the mother of actress Jane Russell – was shown at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and purchased by President Woodrow Wilson; another portrait, of Frank P. Sibley, was reproduced in the Boston Globe. During this period her work was shown in a traveling exhibition with that of Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Jean MacLane...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Woodland and Stream" Theresa Bernstein, Red Green Yellow Abstracted Landscape
By Theresa Bernstein
Located in New York, NY
Theresa Bernstein
Woodland and Stream, circa 1980
Signed Lower Right
Oil on canvas
19 x 23 inches
Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-class im...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Phlox" Nina Hill, Pastel Colors, Pink Impressionist Flowers Still Life
Located in New York, NY
Nina Hill
Phlox, circa 1925
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Newcomb Macklin Frame
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" Theresa Bernstein, Expressionist Work by American Ashcan Artist
By Theresa Bernstein
Located in New York, NY
Theresa Bernstein
Untitled, circa 1990
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Theresa F. Bernstein was born in Philadelphia in 1895 to cultured, middle-class immigrant par...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Anyone for Croquet" Herbert Gustave Schmalz, Portrait by Pre-Raphaelite Artist
Located in New York, NY
Herbert Gustave Schmalz
Anyone for Croquet, circa 1898
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
47 5/8 x 31 3/4 inches
Provenance
Anthony Mitchell, Nottingham
Burlington Gallery Ltd., Londo...
Category
1890s English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pompeian Perfumer" Grace Hartigan, Roman Subject, Abstract Expressionist Artist
By Grace Hartigan
Located in New York, NY
Grace Hartigan
Pompeian Perfumer, 1999
Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled, and dated on the reverse
Oil on linen
72 x 66 inches
Grace Hartigan’s career began among the Ne...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
"John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn" Eastman Johnson, Prominent Gentleman Portrait
By Eastman Johnson
Located in New York, NY
Eastman Johnson
John Van Schaick Lansing Pruyn, 1883
Initialed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
28 x 18 inches
For many years the foremost genre painter in the United States, Eas...
Category
1880s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Still Life of Fish" William Merritt Chase, American Impressionist Bravura
By William Merritt Chase
Located in New York, NY
William Merritt Chase
Still Life of Fish
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
32 x 39 1/2 inches
Provenance
Francis E. Myers, III, Ashland, Ohio
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngs...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Street In Paris (Eglise St. Julien)" Jane Peterson, American Impressionism
By Jane Peterson
Located in New York, NY
Jane Peterson
Street In Paris (Eglise St. Julien), circa 1910
Signed lower right; artist's labels on the reverse
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Exhibited
New York, Lincoln Glenn Galle...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Red Chair" Diana Kurz, 1962 Figurative Expressionist Painting New York School
By Diana Kurz
Located in New York, NY
Diana Kurz
Red Chair, 1962
Signed, titled, dated on verso
Oil on canvas
53 x 41 1/2 inches
Diana Kurz (born 1936) is an Austrian-born feminist painter. In 1938, Diana Kurz's family...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Feathered Tribe" Mary Russell Smith, 1871 Graceful Academic Chicks Painting
By Mary Russell Smith
Located in New York, NY
Mary Russell Smith
Feathered Tribe, 1871
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
9 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches
The daughter of theater scenery and landscape painter Russell Smith (1812–1...
Category
1870s Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cumbres Pass, Colorado" Chuzo Tamotzu, 1956 Intense Color, Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Chuzo Tamotzu
Cumbres Pass, Colorado, 1956
Signed and dated lower left; titled on artist label on the reverse
Oil on Masonite
36 x 48 inches
Tamotzu was born in Kagoshima Prefectur...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Tama, Mimi, Chan" Chuzo Tamotzu, Japanese American Modernist Still Life, Cats
Located in New York, NY
Chuzo Tamotzu
Tama, Mimi, Chan, circa 1950
Signed lower left
Oil on canvasboard
40 1/2 x 28 inches
Tamotzu was born in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, in 1888. He was educated in poli...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"The Guitarist" Louis Betts, 1920s Portrait American Impressionist Painting
By Louis Betts
Located in New York, NY
Louis Betts
The Guitarist, circa 1920
Signed upper left
Oil on canvas
27 x 18 inches
Louis L. Betts was a painter active in the first half of the twentieth century in the United St...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois" Streeter Blair, 1949 Painting
Located in New York, NY
Streeter Blair
Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois, 1949
Signed, titled, and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Primitive painter St...
Category
1940s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Attack of the Merrimac" Alexander Charles Stuart, Civil War Naval Battle
By Alexander Charles Stuart
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Charles Stuart
The Attack of the Merrimac
Signed lower left
Oil on artist board
13 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches
Alexander Charles Stuart, a Scottish-born painter of ships and marin...
Category
1860s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Manayunk" Walter Emerson Baum, Pennsylvania Impressionist Landscape of Manayunk
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in New York, NY
Walter Emerson Baum
Manayunk, 1953
Signed and dated lower right; titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on board
12 x 14 inches
Walter Baum was born December 14, 1884 in Sellersville,...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Untitled" Lawrence Philp, Abstracted Surrealist Forms by Afro-American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Philp
Untitled
Oil and acrylic on canvas
75 1/2 x 79 inches
Lawrence Philp, the son of Jamaican immigrants, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and was included i...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
"Toucan" Edward Zutrau, 1949 Abstracted Bird by Abstract Expressionist Artist
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau
Toucan, 7/29/1949
Dated on verso
Oil on linen
30 x 23 inches
Edward Zutrau (1922–1993) was an American painter whose career spanned from the 1940s through the early 1...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"An Orange Seducing a Lemon while a Bunch of Grapes Look On" Edward Zutrau, 1953
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau
An Orange Seducing a Lemon while a Bunch of Grapes Look On, 4/20/1953
Signed, dated and titled on stretcher bar, and on the side of the work
Oil on linen
18 x 21 inches...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Seaside (Amagansett Beach)" Guy Pène du Bois, American Realist Beach Scene
By Guy Pène Du Bois
Located in New York, NY
Guy Pene du Bois
Seaside (Amagansett Beach), 1939
Signed and dated lower left; artist label on the reverse: "Seaside CAT No 192"
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Pène du Bois descended...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a Lady (Study for Harriet Blake)" Lilian Westcott Hale, Painting
By Lilian Westcott Hale
Located in New York, NY
Lilian Westcott Hale
Portrait of a Lady (Study for Harriet Blake)
Oil on canvas
40 ¼ x 30 ¼ inches
A leading American Impressionist working at t...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Spring Ploughing" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist American Farmed Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Spring Ploughing
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
34 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists ...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Taking in the Nets" March Avery, 1967 Abstracted Sea Scape With Fishermen
By March Avery
Located in New York, NY
March Avery
Taking in the Nets, 1967
Signed, titled and dated on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
16 x 22 inches
March Avery was born in New York in 1932 to painters Milton Avery and Sally Michel. Guided by her famous father, she began painting as a child—although as she would tell it, “I think I was painting in utero.” She had her first solo exhibition in 1963. Now in her late eighties, the artist continues to work six days a week in her lifelong neighborhood, Greenwich Village. Avery’s oil paintings, sketches, and watercolors carry forward certain stylistic characteristics of the family oeuvre, what art historian Robert Hobbs...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" Albert Heckman, 1950s Modernist Abstracted Still Life Painting
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Untitled, circa 1950
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 29 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after graduating from high school and landing a job at the Meadville Post Office. In 1917, at the age of 24, Heckman enrolled part-time in Teachers' College, Columbia University's Fine Arts Department to begin his formal art education. He worked as a freelance ceramic and textile designer and occasionally as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1920s, at the age of almost 30, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers College. He was especially impacted by his instructor at Columbia, Arthur Wesley Dow.
After graduating, he was hired by the Teachers' College as a Fine Arts instructor. He stayed with Columbia Teachers' College until 1929, when he left to attend the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Isami Doi (1903-1965), who was born in Hawaii, was arguably his most impressive student at Columbia. Doi is now regarded as one of the most prominent artists hailing from Hawaii. Heckman became an active member and officer of the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York in the 1920s as part of his early commercial art career. The Society's mission was to share knowledge and showcase textile and ceramic design exhibits.
In 1922, Heckman married Florence Hardman, a concert violinist. Mrs. Heckman's concert schedule during the 1920s kept Albert and Florence Heckman apart for a significant portion of the time, but they spent what little time they had together designing and building their Woodstock, New York, summer house and grounds. A small house and an acre of surrounding land on Overlook Mountain, just behind the village of Woodstock, were purchased by Albert and Florence Heckman at the time of their marriage. Their Woodstock home, with its connections, friendships, and memories, became a central part of their lives over the years, even though they had an apartment in New York City.
Heckman's main artistic focus shifted to the house on Overlook Mountain and the nearby towns and villages, Kingston, Eddyville, and Glasco. After returning from the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1930, Mr. Heckman joined Hunter College as an assistant professor of art. He worked there for almost thirty years, retiring in 1956. Throughout his tenure at Hunter, Mr. Heckman and his spouse spent the summers at their Woodstock residence and the winters in New York City. They were regular and well-known guests at the opera and art galleries in New York. Following his retirement in 1956, the Heckmans settled in Woodstock permanently, with occasional trips to Florida or Europe during the fall and winter. Mr. Heckman's close friends and artistic career were always connected to Woodstock or New York City. He joined the Woodstock art group early on and was greatly influenced by artists like Paul and Caroline Rohland, Emil Ganso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andre Ruellan, and her husband, Jack Taylor.
Heckman operated a summer art school in Woodstock for several years in the 1930s with support from Columbia University, where these and other Woodstock artists gave guest lectures. The Potter's Shop in New York City hosted Mr. Heckman's first art show in December 1928. The exhibit received some positive reviews from critics. The American Institute of Graphic Arts chose the plate of "Wehlen, Saxony" as one of the "Fifty Prints of the Year in 1929." There were sixteen etchings displayed. The remaining plates depicted scenes in Saxony, Germany, while five of the plates were based on scenes in Rondout, New York.
Heckman started switching from etching to black and white lithography by the early 1930s. A lifelong admirer of Heckman's artwork, Mr. Gustave von Groschwitz organized a significant exhibition of Heckman etchings and lithographs at the Ferargil Gallery in New York City in 1933. The exhibition traveled to the Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles (May 1933), the Charles Lessler Gallery in Philadelphia (May 1933), J.L. Hudson in Detroit (June 1933), and Gumps in San Francisco (July 1933). Together with his early etchings, the exhibition featured brand-new black and white lithographs depicting scenes in and around Woodstock as well as "A View from Tudor City...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Untitled" Albert Heckman, Still Life, Floral Abstracted Modernist Composition
By Albert Heckman
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Untitled, circa 1950
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 32 1/4 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after graduating from high school and landing a job at the Meadville Post Office. In 1917, at the age of 24, Heckman enrolled part-time in Teachers' College, Columbia University's Fine Arts Department to begin his formal art education. He worked as a freelance ceramic and textile designer and occasionally as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1920s, at the age of almost 30, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers College. He was especially impacted by his instructor at Columbia, Arthur Wesley Dow.
After graduating, he was hired by the Teachers' College as a Fine Arts instructor. He stayed with Columbia Teachers' College until 1929, when he left to attend the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Isami Doi (1903-1965), who was born in Hawaii, was arguably his most impressive student at Columbia. Doi is now regarded as one of the most prominent artists hailing from Hawaii. Heckman became an active member and officer of the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York in the 1920s as part of his early commercial art career. The Society's mission was to share knowledge and showcase textile and ceramic design exhibits.
In 1922, Heckman married Florence Hardman, a concert violinist. Mrs. Heckman's concert schedule during the 1920s kept Albert and Florence Heckman apart for a significant portion of the time, but they spent what little time they had together designing and building their Woodstock, New York, summer house and grounds. A small house and an acre of surrounding land on Overlook Mountain, just behind the village of Woodstock, were purchased by Albert and Florence Heckman at the time of their marriage. Their Woodstock home, with its connections, friendships, and memories, became a central part of their lives over the years, even though they had an apartment in New York City.
Heckman's main artistic focus shifted to the house on Overlook Mountain and the nearby towns and villages, Kingston, Eddyville, and Glasco. After returning from the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1930, Mr. Heckman joined Hunter College as an assistant professor of art. He worked there for almost thirty years, retiring in 1956. Throughout his tenure at Hunter, Mr. Heckman and his spouse spent the summers at their Woodstock residence and the winters in New York City. They were regular and well-known guests at the opera and art galleries in New York. Following his retirement in 1956, the Heckmans settled in Woodstock permanently, with occasional trips to Florida or Europe during the fall and winter. Mr. Heckman's close friends and artistic career were always connected to Woodstock or New York City. He joined the Woodstock art group early on and was greatly influenced by artists like Paul and Caroline Rohland, Emil Ganso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andre Ruellan, and her husband, Jack Taylor.
Heckman operated a summer art school in Woodstock for several years in the 1930s with support from Columbia University, where these and other Woodstock artists gave guest lectures. The Potter's Shop in New York City hosted Mr. Heckman's first art show in December 1928. The exhibit received some positive reviews from critics. The American Institute of Graphic Arts chose the plate of "Wehlen, Saxony" as one of the "Fifty Prints of the Year in 1929." There were sixteen etchings displayed. The remaining plates depicted scenes in Saxony, Germany, while five of the plates were based on scenes in Rondout, New York.
Heckman started switching from etching to black and white lithography by the early 1930s. A lifelong admirer of Heckman's artwork, Mr. Gustave von Groschwitz organized a significant exhibition of Heckman etchings and lithographs at the Ferargil Gallery in New York City in 1933. The exhibition traveled to the Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles (May 1933), the Charles Lessler Gallery in Philadelphia (May 1933), J.L. Hudson in Detroit (June 1933), and Gumps in San Francisco (July 1933). Together with his early etchings, the exhibition featured brand-new black and white lithographs depicting scenes in and around Woodstock as well as "A View from Tudor City...
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Villa Piedimonte, Bologna" Bruno Burattini, circa 1918 Landscape Of Villa
Located in New York, NY
Bruno Burattini
Villa Piedimonte, Bologna, circa 1918
Inscribed verso
Oil on board
13 3/4 x 18 inches
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Factories on The River" Charles Vezin, Impressionist Industrialization
By Charles Vezin
Located in New York, NY
Charles Vezin
Factories on The River
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas board
12 x 13 15/16 inches
After spending half his years as a partner in a highly profitable wholesale dry-goo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"False Faces" Sonia Gechtoff, circa 1950 Social Commentary Realist Painting
By Sonia Gechtoff
Located in New York, NY
Sonia Gechtoff
False Faces, circa 1950-52
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 22 1/4 inches
Sonia Gechtoff was born in Philadelphia to Ethel "Etya" and ...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Garage in Provincetown" Joseph Solman, Urban Landscape by Expressionist Artist
By Joseph Solman
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Solman
Garage in Provincetown
Signed with initials lower right
Graphite on paper
8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches
Joseph Solman was born in 1909 in Vitebsk, in what is now Belarus, the...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Chateau" European School, Castle Above Mountainous European Landscape Panting
Located in New York, NY
European School
Chateau
Oil on wood
9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
"Nymphs in a Landscape" Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, 19th Century Idyllic Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña
Nymphs in a Landscape
Estate sale seal lower left
Oil on board
9 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Narcisse Diaz de la Peña was born in 1808 in...
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Into the Woods" Henry Prellwitz, Lyrical Woman In Wooded Landscape Painting
By Henry Prellwitz
Located in New York, NY
Henry Prellwitz
Into the Woods
Oil on board
11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
Henry Prellwitz studied art at the Art Students League of New York, where his chief mentor was Thomas Wilmer Dewing; he later became its director.[3] He also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris.
In 1892, he set up his studio in the Holbein Studios building on West 55th Street in Manhattan, where his future wife, the artist Edith Mitchill, also had a studio. They married in 1894 and had a son, Edwin.
By the mid 1890s, he was teaching portrait painting at the Pratt Institute, where one of his students was the Cubist artist Max Weber.
In 1899, Henry and Edith moved to the north shore of Peconic Bay on Long Island, where their artist friends Irving Ramsay Wiles and Edward August Bell were already established. They painted plein air paintings and also worked in adjoining studios at High House, their Peconic Bay home.
Prellwitz painted Impressionist and Tonalist waterscapes of Peconic Bay and allegorical figure paintings such as the 1904 Lotus and Laurel. He exhibited mainly on the east coast and at expositions like the St. Louis World's Fair, where he won a silver medal. He won the Third Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design (NAD) in 1893 for The Prodigal Son, and his Venus won the Thomas B. Clarke Prize at the 1907 NAD exhibition for the best figure composition by an American citizen painted in the United States.
Both Prellwitzes disappeared into obscurity for several decades after their deaths in the early 1940s. Rediscovered in the 1980s, they have been called one of the best-kept secrets in art...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Lady in a Interior" Addison Thomas Millar, 19th Century American Genre Painting
By Addison Thomas Millar
Located in New York, NY
Addison Thomas Millar
Lady in a Interior
Oil on canvas board
14 x 10 inches
Millar's father emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1845. He grew up in Warren, Ohio. During his primary education, he took some painting lessons from John Bell, a local landscape painter.
In his late teens, he won three consecutive awards from The Youth's Companion, in their annual art contests. This prompted his parents to allow him to go to Cincinnati to take formal lessons from the genre painter, De Scott...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Fishing in Autumn" Frederick Dickinson Williams, Early 20th Century Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Frederick Dickinson Williams
Fishing in Autumn, 1914
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on board
9 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches
Frederick Dickinson W...
Category
1910s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Rowboat in a Summer Landscape" George Bacon Wood, Pleine Air Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Bacon Wood
Rowboat in a Summer Landscape
Signed lower left
Oil on wood panel
6 1/4 x 8 inches
Born in Philadelphia, landscape painter George Bacon Wood, Jr., studied at the ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"The Riverbank" Charles Sprague Pearce, American Impressionist Boat Sketch
By Charles Sprague Pearce
Located in New York, NY
Charles Sprague Pearce
The Riverbank, circa 1900
Signed lower left, inscribed verso
Oil on canvas
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Charles Sprague Pearce made a successful career painting high...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Sunny Corner" Eugenie M. Heller, Impressionist Garden Landscape In Bloom
Located in New York, NY
Eugenie M. Heller
A Sunny Corner, circa 1900
Signed lower right
Oil on board
10 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Eugenie M. Heller (1867 - 1952) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts.
Heller studied with Weir, Whistler, Amen-Jean, Grasset and Rodin. Eugenie Heller...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Tree in Winter" Delos Palmer Jr, Sketch of Tree 20th Century Impressionist Work
Located in New York, NY
Delos Palmer Jr.
Tree in Winter
Signed lower left
Oil on Masonite
10 x 8 inches
Delos Palmer, Jr. was born January 26, 1890 in New York City. His father was Dr. Delos Palmer, a socially prominent Park Avenue dentist. His mother was Jennifer Emma Banta. His parents were both born in NYC, where they married in 1880 and had five children. There had three sons and two daughters. He was the fourth born. They lived in a private townhouse at 48 West 50th Street, with a cook, a waitress, and a nurse to assist in his father's dental practice on the ground floor.
They lived a privileged life and the children all went to the best private schools. He graduated high school in June of 1908.
He studied at The Art Students League from 1911 to 1915 with the renowned American Impressionist, George Bellows. According to the artist, "Bellows was a good influence on me. He taught me how to paint what I see and what I feel!"
In 1916 Palmer moved to the historic Holbein Studios at 139 West 55th Street. He worked there until 1920, when he moved to the more fashionable Greenwich Village, where he became a successful society portraitist.
He was 27 years old during the Great War, so he was not selected for military service.
In 1923 Palmer began to sell interior story illustrations to Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Liberty.
In 1924 he married Helen Smith Romme and moved to Stamford, CT, where they raised a daughter and two step-sons.
The fateful market crash of 1929 ended Palmer's high society portrait business, but he soon found work through his contacts at Liberty magazine's MacFadden Publishing, which also produced several crime and detective magazines such as Master Detective and True Detective.
He then began to paint pulp covers for Dime Mystery, Clues, Frontier Stories, Action Stories, Western Trails, All Star Adventure, Complete Western Book...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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"Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Figures
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Pueblo Indians, Taos, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Color Sketch, Shakespeare Garden" Jennie Brownscombe, circa 1890 Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Jennie Brownscombe
Color Sketch, Shakespeare Garden, c. 1890s
Signed lower left
Oil on board
7 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches
The artist was born in a log cab...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Untitled" Larry Calcagno, Trompe-l
œil Mixed-Media Minimalist Composition
By Larry Calcagno
Located in New York, NY
Larry Calcagno
Untitled
Mixed media on canvas
36 x 23 1/3 inches
Lawrence Calcagno, better known as Larry, was an artist who gained notoriety during t...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media





