Art Deco Period Smoking Man Illustration

Purchased straight from the Estate of Leonard Buzz Wallace. Painted by Wallace who taught and lectured on fine art at Orange County Community College, Middletown, NY through out the 1960-80s. Wallace's talent and output ranged from later large amazingly executed color field and abstract paintings to earlier figurative work. The haunting and moody row house...

Oil paint on canvas Artist's Studio by Leonard "Buzz" Wallace. Original photo for catalog and juried show included. Circa 1956. Painted in Rome while Wallace was studying art and trying to further his career and experience. There are other pieces offered here on 1stDibs by Wallace and his ex-wife, Linda Hopkins...

Watercolor and ink wash on paper by artist, William Thon (1906-2000). Entitled Roman Sketch. Thon had spent a good portion of his working life in Rome. Signed lower right in black, ...

Sinister little watercolor on paper that asks the question, " Have you had your beautiful thought today?" The figure has a very gray green complexion complete with black bangs and me...

Art deco, portrait of a man, watercolor on paper pasted on wooden board. Signed illegible lower right. Approx. 1920s. In good condition, needs cleaning. Measures 22 x 30.5 cm. Th...

Painted by an important Spanish artist depicting a likely Swedish gentleman living in France, this portrait was made in 1929 at the height of the Jazz Age, just before the Depression...

Our exceptional watercolor on paper by the American painter and illustrator, William Thomas Smedley (1858-1920), depicts a distinguished gentleman smoker standing beside a street lamp. Signed and dated 1894. Mounted in period giltwood frame originally glazed and now missing glass. We may install new plexiglass prior to shipment. William Thomas Smedley was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1858 and died in Bronxville, New York in 1920. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later entered the Paris studio of Jean Paul Laurens. He submitted paintings regularly at prestigious exhibitions both in America and abroad during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the Paris Salon and the Universal Exposition of 1900. Around the turn of the century the village of Bronxville, located just north of Manhattan, became the center of a small suburban artists' colony. Otto Bacher settled there in 1896 and was followed a year later by Will Hicock Low. Smedley moved to Bronxville in 1898 and was soon joined by his fellow Pennsylvanian, Milne Ramsey.

Refined oil painting "Portrait of a man with raincoat "executed in France in 1934,the author manages to fully capture the sensual gaze of the protagonist who seems to be watching us ...