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Apple Blossoms
, Paris, New York, Chicago, AIC, ASL, Japanese Edo, Woman Artist
By Anna Lee Stacey
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Anna Lee Stacey' (American, 1871–1943) and dated, verso, 1924. An elegant and substantial still-life depicting apple blossoms elegantly and informally arranged b...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Sunset
AIC, ASL, NAD, PAFA, New York, Boston, New England, Connecticut
By Robert Emmett Owen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'R. Emmett Owen' for Robert Emmett Owen (American, 1878-1957) and painted circa 1915.
Displayed in a substantial, carved, giltwood frame
Framed dimensions: 30 x 1...
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Madonna
, Paris Universal Exposition, Danish Academy Fine Arts, Palestine, Rome
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed, verso, with artist's name, Axel Helsted (Danish, 1847-1907) and painted circa 1895. Additionally titled, verso, 'Madonna'. Unsigned. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authe...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Children Landing a Catfish
, 19th Century American School, Large Nocturnal Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, mid-to-late 19th century, unsigned, American School nocturnal landscape showing a view of three children, accompanied by their terrier, fishing by lamp-light and start...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Organic Abstract
, 1950
s Woman Artist, San Francisco Bay Area Abstraction
By Dora Masters
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Dora Masters (American, 1913-2003) and painted circa 1960. Stamped verso with certification of authenticity.
Dora Masters exhibited widely and with success throughout th...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter
, Académie Julian, Budapest Nemzeti Szalon, Műcsarno, Ex. Ernst Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Magyar-Mannheimer' for Gustav Magyar-Mannheimer (Hungarian, 1859-1937) and painted circa 1900.
Exhibited: Ernst Museum, Budapest (from label, verso)
Provenance: ...
Category
Early 1900s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pink Pit Bull
, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, Leslie-Lohman Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Twiz Rimer (American, born 1982) and accompanied with Certificate of Authenticity. Authorship has been confirmed by the artist.
Framed dimensions: 49.25 H x 49.5 W inches
...
Category
Early 2000s Animal Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Paint, Mica, Mixed Media
Roofs of Ravello
, Mid-Century Abstract, Harvard Fogg Museum, SFAA, Carmel, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Roofs of Ravello' by Margaret Wentworth, 1959.
Mid-Century Abstract, Harvard Fogg Museum, San Francisco Art Association, Carmel, Art Institute of Chicago
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Initialed lower rig...
Category
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Pen, Paper
Budapest, Váci Street in the Snow
, France, Salon d
Automne, Legion of Honour
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kunffy' for Lajos Kunffy (Hungarian, 1869-1962); additionally titled, verso, 'Budapest 1942, A váci utca ...'
A Hungarian winter landscape showing a birds-eye v...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Coastal Breakers
, Kennebunkport, Maine, Seascape, Baltimore Museum of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Josef M Arentz' (German-American, 1903-1969) and painted circa 1955.
Displayed in a period, carved gilt-wood and painted frame.
Fra...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Marie Mancini as Cleopatra
, Flemish Portrait, Italian Noblewoman, Louis XIV
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed and dated indistinctly, lower left, and painted circa 1850.
Framed dimensions: 39 W x 4 D x 34.5 W inches
Displayed in a fine and substantial, late 19th Century, carved giltwo...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Nude
, Fauve Figural, SFAA, Carmel, LACMA, Louvre, Paris
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955, and with Di Gesu estate stamp verso.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art C...
Category
1950s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Abstract, Saffron and Blue
, Chouinard, Osaka, Butler Institute of Art, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Inman' for Robert Inman (American, 1927–2016) and dated, lower right, '79'. Retaining original, card, mat and backing boards. Titled on board, 'City Dwellings #2...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Laid Paper
At the Cafe, Paris
, North Beach, San Francisco, City Lights, Vesuvio
s, Butler
By Pascal Cucaro, 1915-2003
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower and upper right, "Cucaro" for Pascal Cucaro (American, 1915-2003).
An icon of the Beat years in San Francisco's North Beach, Pascal Cucaro was the winner of numerous me...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper, Illustration Board
Still Life, Amaryllis Lilies
, Expressionist, Danish, Aurora, The Twelve
By Jules Schyl
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Schyl' for Jules Schyl (Danish, 1893-1977); additionally signed, verso, and dated 1952.
This pioneer of Fauvism in Sweden worked as a painter, graphic artist an...
Category
1950s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter, Hungary
, Paris, Salon d
Automne, Légion d
Honneur, Académie Julian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Kunffy' for Lajos Kunffy (Hungarian, 1869-1962); additionally signed, verso, on stretcher bar and inscribed, 'Somogyi' with partial label.
A winter landscape s...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nancy in the Clouds
, San Francisco, CCAC, SFMoMA, Oakland
Seattle Art Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Pat Hagen' for Patricia Hagen (American, 20th century) and dated 1996. Titled, verso, on central stretcher bar 'Denial'.
Patricia Hagen...
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baur-Schweitzer Malting Company
, North Beach Malt House, Sacramento Street, SF
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center 'S.K.Frohsin', for Kim Frohsin (American, born 1961) and dated 'August 1990'; titled on painted reserve at lower center, 'Baur-Schweitzer Malting Co, Inc. 1990'. ...
Category
1990s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Laid Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Exterminator II
, Large Beat Generation Diptych, Naked Lunch, Ginsberg
By William S. Burroughs
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, right-hand canvas, "William S. Burroughs" (American, 1914-1997), dated "1993" and titled "Exterminator II'. Signed on lower left, left-hand canvas, "Steven Lowe" ...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The White Camel
, Paris, Cairo, Danish Modernism, De Tretten, Group of Thirteen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Anton Hansen (Danish, 1891-1960) circa 1935. Unsigned. Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
Provenance: Air Force Captain A.P. Botved, a personal friend of ...
Category
1930s Animal Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Webb Ranch, Menlo Park
, Northern California, Post-Impressionist Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Marlene Anderson (American, 1931-2023); accompanied with old backing signed by the artist, dated July 1978 and title, 'Road on ...
Category
1970s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Fancy Bringing that Thing on the Tube
, Bosch, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Mark S' for Mark Shepherd (English, 20th century) and dated 1995. Titled on the original Royal Academy exhibition label, verso.
This figural work by Shepherd wa...
Category
1990s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rural Landscape with Horse and Buggy
, Antique Americana, Folk Art, Naive, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Inscribed indistinctly verso, 'Painted by H. Herneisen' (?) and dated 1916.
Displayed in a period, polished walnut, swept frame.
Framed dimensions: 26 H x 2 D x 39.75 W inches
Paint...
Category
1910s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Casein, Fiberboard
Seated Nude with Flowers
Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, SFAA, LACMA
By Victor Di Gesu
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988), accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and painted circa 1955. Additional painting,...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Sunset, Paris
, Russian-American, New York, Artist
s Union, National Art Club
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Podryski' for Misha Podryski, also spelled Podrisky, (Russian-American, 1903-1989), titled, 'Paris' and dated 1934.
Displayed in a substantial, silver-gilt, swept frame.
Framed dimensions: 31.75 H x 2 D x 38.75 W inches
A substantial oil landscape showing a view of a barge moored to the bank of the Seine with a view beyond to an arched, stone bridge beneath a luminous evening sky.
Born in Estonia, this Russian-American painter first attended Moscow University before moving to France where he continued his education at the American Conservatory in Paris, the School of Fine Arts at Fontainebleau and, later, in Italy. This educational path explains the polished salon portrait manner seen in his Paris canvases from the period and in his later New York portrait...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Fancy Dancer and the Sunset Queen
, Santa Barbara, UCSB, Apache, Laguna, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Theodore Villa' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985; titled, lower left, 'Cake Walk: Fancy Dancer and the Sunset Queen'.
Born in Santa Barbara of Wh...
Category
1980s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glitter, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen, Laid Paper
Seated Nude
, California, Woman Artist, Stanford, Sausalito, Native American
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'LeMasney' for Carol LeMasney Hayes (American, 1933-2018) and dated 1954.
Carol LeMasney Hayes attended Oakland High School and studied art at Stanford Universit...
Category
1950s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Red Triptych
, California, Hazeltine Prize Winner, Royal Academy, Woman Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Woskow' for Catherine Woskow (American, born 1958); titled and dated on label, verso, 'Red Triptych 1997.'
Born in Ukiah, California, Catherine Woskow has built...
Category
1990s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Muslin, Acrylic
Gulls Near Carmel
, American Watercolor Society, Monterey, California, SWA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Jack Laycox' (American, 1921-1984); additionally signed, verso, titled, 'Gulls Near Carmel' and dated 1968.
An exceptionally fine and atmospheric study of stor...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
Still Life
, Worth Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida, Modernism
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Irv Smith' for Irving T. Smith, (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1965.
Irving Smith was an American Modernist painter who exhibited in Florida galleri...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman in Blue
, Nuremberg, Nahuel Huapi region, Argentina
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'H. Lauer' for Hans Lauer, (Argentine-German, 1902-1989) and dated 1965.
Hans Lauer emerges as a sympathetic chronicler of Patagonian light, a German-born landscapist who made Argentina his country and Bariloche his enduring motif. Born in Nuremberg in 1902, he emigrated to Argentina in 1920 and fixed his practice in the Nahuel Huapi region, painting the blue-white atmospheres of the lake basin and the sheltering stands of native forest with a direct, self-taught hand; he remained rooted there until his death in Bariloche in 1989. Contemporary reports place him working across northern Patagonia—San Martín de los Andes among his circuits—where he translated the temperate Andean palette into sober oils and watercolors keyed to weather and season rather than to metropolitan fashions. Autodidact by formation, he belongs to that émigré cohort who stitched European discipline to local terrain, and by the 1950s–60s his production reflects an assured, observational plein-air habit that privileges structure over effect. While Bariloche provided the studio and the subject, his name also circulates in Buenos Aires contexts through collectors and dealers who sought Patagonian views during the mid-century tourism boom, an afterlife that helped keep his vistas in the market even as he remained geographically anchored to the south. Within the regional history of Argentine painting...
Category
1960s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
, Catholic Church, Venetian Vedute, St.Mark
s
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
View of Venice. Inscribed indistinctly with signature lower left and painted circa 1900. Additional inscriptions, verso, in graphite.
Framed dimensions: 10H x 1.25D x 16.5W inches. ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Funny Money
, Hyper-Realism, Trompe-l
œil, Still Life, DW Gallery, Dallas, TX
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Tom Kraa' and dated 1987 on stretcher; bearing original gallery label verso with artist name, date and title, 'Funny Money'.
Previously with: DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
An exceptional trompe-l'œil still life showing illuminated party lights, United States currency and a crossword puzzle against the backdrop of a sheet of pegboard. This little known artist exhibited with the prestigious DW Gallery in Dallas in the year before it closed.
Along with several other women, Linda Samuels (formerly Linda Surls) started the DW Gallery (DWG) as a small women's co-op at McKinney and Hall streets in 1975. In the first few years, the gallery was staffed by member artists, each of whom worked three days a month and paid a $33 monthly fee toward overhead costs. Throughout its 13-year history, the gallery developed a reputation for recognizing raw talent and eventually became one of the nation's most respected showcases for contemporary regional artists. DWG was the first to exhibit several "new" artists who are nationally recognized today, including Lee N. Smith, David Bates, and Clyde Connell. The gallery was also successful at promoting up-and-coming Dallas artists such as David McManaway, John Hernandez, and Sam Gummelt. In 1978, the gallery was incorporated after receiving backing from founding member Lou Alpert (formerly Frederickson). By 1980, when director Linda Samuels moved to California, the gallery had expanded twice. In 1981, Diana Block succeeded Samuels as DWG director. Under Block, the gallery continued its successful theme exhibits, including a popular Book/Art exhibition. In 1983, DWG expanded to a new space on Main Street in Deep Ellum and opened a bookstore in a renovated warehouse.
In 1986, when the gallery again needed to expand, it moved to new space on Canton and Oakland Streets rented from John Tatum, Dallas developer and major stockholder in DWG. After a dispute over the lease, the gallery closed in September 1988. By this time, its operating budget had increased from $24,000 to $100,000 since 1981, with investors contributing less than 25 percent of the annual budget. The closing exhibition, The Last Show, was guest-curated by founding member Linda Samuel. It featured recent works by each of the 28 artists associated with the gallery over the past year. The gallery received postcard tributes from more than 80 artists who had exhibited there through the years, including Bob Wade, Peter Julian, Gilda Pervin, James Surls, Benito Huerta, Dan Rizzie, Danny Williams, Bill Komodore, and Frank Tolbert.
Category
1980s Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Port de Vendres
, Côte Vermeille, France, California Post Impressionist, Esalen
By Anthony McNaught
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Ant McNaught' (American, born 1952), dated 2020 and inscribed '(After Derain)'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist artist studied at the Es...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rebekah at the Well
, Follower of Luca Giordano, Early 19th Century Figural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early 19th century, figural oil of a young woman with chestnut hair, shown wearing a headscarf and glancing towards the viewers left. Unsigned. A detail from a copy of 'Rebeca at ...
Category
19th Century Baroque Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Still Life of Pears
, Carlisle, Philadelphia, Post-Impressionist Woman Artist
By Eleida Bosler Ashcraft
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Eleida Ashcraft' for Eleida Bosler Ashcraft (American, 1875-1940) and dated 1931/2.
Framed dimensions: 23.5 H x 2.5 D x 25.25 H inches
Displayed in a carved 22kt...
Category
1930s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait
, Post Impressionist Danish Woman Artist, Charlottenborg, Aurora
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Anne Margrethe Grosell (Danish, 1909- 1999), circa 1935, and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Unsigned.
An accomplished Post-Impressionist self-portra...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old Country Store, Ontario
, Canada, Painters Eleven, Post-Impressionist Oil
By Hortense Mattice Gordon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Attributed to Hortense Mattice Gordon (Canadian, 1886-1961) and painted circa 1925. Unsigned. The attribution is based on the similar style, composition and subject matter of McGill ...
Category
1910s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of a Woman
, New York ASL, AIC, California, SFAI, Legion of Honor, Bath
By Geoffrey Lewis
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right and upper left, 'Geoffrey Lewis' (American, 1928-2005) and painted circa 1975.
Framed dimensions: 20 H x 1 D x 16 W Inches
Born in San Francisco, Geoffrey Lewis e...
Category
1960s Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Young Woman
, Gold Earring, Silk Scarf
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Unsigned and inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with additional indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910.
A psychol...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Evening Glow
, New York, Salmagundi, Brooklyn Art Association, Boston Art Club
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Ch. Baker' for Charles Edward Baker (American, 1844-1906) and dated 1891.
Displayed in a fine and period, carved gilt-wood frame.
Framed dimensions: 16 H x 2 D ...
Category
1890s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Olive Groves, Mallorca
, Barcelona, Catalonia, Majorca
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Ventosa' for Jose Ventosa Domenech (Spanish, 1897-1982) and painted circa 1950.
A very substantial oil showing a luminous view of the isle of Mallorca with ancie...
Category
1950s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Meeting of Boaz and Ruth
, Hungarian School, Old Testament, King David
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
After the original by Károly Markó the Elder (1791–1860).
A substantial, 19th century figural showing the meeting of Ruth and Boaz, set in a romantic Italianate landscape peopled w...
Category
1840s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
End of the Day
, Breton Figural Landscape, Brittany Harvest, Style of Millet
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Late 19th century French School, Unsigned and painted circa 1860. Oil on artist prepared panel. Bearing artist supplier label of 'F.W. Devo...
Category
1860s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Young Woman
, Bretonne, Brittany, France, Danish Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Agnes Louise Agnete Jensen Weie (Danish, 1878-1964) and painted circa 1911. Unsigned.
Provenance: ABR auction 170, 1964, catalog #83, 1964 (see photo).
Inscribed, verso, '83/170' fro...
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Steam Locomotive at Bry-Sur-Marne
, Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Delauzieres' for André Delauzieres (French, 1904-1941), dated 1936 and titled 'Bry-Sur-Marne'.
Provenance: Collection of Ole Wulff, Denmark.
A substantial,...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woodland Landscape
, Paris, NAD, Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum, New York
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'H. Dearth' for Henry Golden Dearth (American, 1864-1918) and dated 1892.
Provenance: Collection of George A. Hearn.
Exhibited: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1905...
Category
1890s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Market, Montmartre with a View of Sacré-Cœur
, Paris Cityscape, France
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A charming and naive oil showing a view of the cobbled streets of the Place du Tertre in Montmartre with pedestrians and a flower-seller in the foreground and the onion-dome spires o...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Still Life of Lemon and Pear
By Elana Ryznar
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted in 2014 by Elana Ryznar (American, born 1992) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity.
An elegantly muted still-life showing a dramatically lit view of a pea...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Caulking the Seams
, American Impressionist School Oil, Sailing Boat, Schooner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early twentieth-century, American School oil showing a view of a sailor caulking the seams of a substantial wooden sailing ship with a view beyond towards red-tiled houses beneath...
Category
1920s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude in Ivory and Coral
, Large Mid-Century Expressionist Figural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Sears" for Richard Sears (American, 1924-2013) and dated 1960.
A substantial, Expressionist style figural oil showing a partially-draped woman seated at a dressi...
Category
1960s Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cherubs Playing
, Angels, Amorini, Memento Mori, Naive, Baroque Religious Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early eighteenth-century, Italian baroque figural oil showing a group of cherubs or Amorini grouped together before red velvet drapes, one reclining on a wooden cross and wearing ...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Woman Bathing
, Chouinard, Yale, ASL, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, GGIE
By Palmer Schoppe
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Palmer Schoppe' (American, 1912-2001) and dated 1966.
Displayed in a gilt frame with a water-gilded, silver-gilt liner.
Framed dimensions: 27 H x 1.25 D x 23 W inches.
Born in Utah, Palmer Schoppe moved with his family to southern California in 1920 and settled in Santa Monica. Artistically inclined and precocious, he began painting as a child. After graduating from UCLA, he spent a year in the Merchant Marines before attending Yale School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League in New York. At the ASL, he was initially drawn to the paintings of Jean Charlot and Thomas Hart Benton but grew increasingly frustrated with their insistence on rigid compositional principles. His native artistic talents prevailed over his lack of formal training, however, and he was promptly employed by both the Chouinard Institute and Walt Disney Studios as a drawing instructor. During this pre-war period, he exhibited with success including at the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939) and with the California Watercolor Society.
Outside of his teaching responsibilities, he worked on his personal artistic endeavors and. like many artists of the time, focused primarily on figurative subject matter. Schoppe's early travels in the low country of South Carolina; Harlem, New York and Los Angeles informed his work as he sought to capture the regional life of manual laborers, musicians, circus performers, sun bathers and surfers. Schoppe once stated that, "It seems fairly certain that my work is not 'art about art', but art that is a reaction to a given stimulus. These are 'subject' pictures in that they are definitely in response to a certain place, type of people, cultures and customs".
Following his service in World War II, Schoppe returned to teaching at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He became increasingly disillusioned by the changing focus of the art world in the 1950s, when "the' drip' , the' blot', and the' isms' had taken over". He stated that, "it was difficult for the figurative painter to exhibit and I retired from the scene." However, a new artistic outlet presented itself when Schoppe began working as a muralist and architectural sculptor for the architect Aurthur Froelich, who designed race tracks and club houses around the country. This led to a proliferation of mural projects ranging from restaurants to scores of hotels and casinos, such as the Aladdin Hotel, Las Vegas; Circus-Circus, Las Vegas; the Queen Mary ship...
Category
1960s Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition in Blue and Red
, New York, Cooper Union, Smith, Israel, Tel Aviv
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'Nora Frenkel' (Israeli-American, 1931-1996); additionally signed, verso, on stretcher, titled, 'Composition in Blue and Red' and dated 1966.
Born in Shanghai, No...
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,750 Sale Price
26% Off
Landscape
, Paris, Salon des Artistes Français, Académie Julian
By Lucien Henri Grandgerard
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'L. Grandgerard' for Lucien Henri Grandgerard (French, 1880-1970) and painted circa 1945.
Framed dimensions: 17.75 H x 1.75 D x 22 W inches
Born in Nancy, Lucien...
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Still Life of Fruit and Wine
, Salmagundi Club, PAFA, AIC, National Academy
By Rosario Urbino Gerbino
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Gerbino' for Rosario Urbino Gerbino (Italian-American, 1900 - 1972) and painted circa 1935.
Born in Italy, Rosario Gerbino first...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Notre Dame, Paris
, Académie Julian, San Francisco PPIE, Legion of Honor
By Jules Pages
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Jules Pages' (American, 1867-1946) and painted circa 1935.
A prominent landscape and marine painter, Jules Eugène Pages spent most of his career in France where ...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of Henry Miller
Millerania, Tropic of Cancer, Big Sur, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Portrait of Henry Miller and friends painted by Jean (Yanko) Varda (American, 1893-1971) in 1970 as a gift for Henry Miller on the occasion of his 79th birthday.
Dedicated lower rig...
Category
1970s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache
$5,750 Sale Price
23% Off
Still Life of Dahlias
, German Floral Still Life
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'M. Streckenbach' for Max Theodore Streckenbach (German, 1863-1936) and painted circa 1900.
Framed dimensions: 37 H x 3 D x 33.25 W inches
Born in Eckernförde, Ge...
Category
Early 1900s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Desert II
, Palm Springs, California Woman Artist, Large Proto-Organic Abstract
By Charmaine Girelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Charmaine Girelli' (American, 20th/21st century) and painted circa 2015.
A very large, American School proto-organic abstract comprising dynamic and fluid traili...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
