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The Duchess of St. Albans: A 17th C. Portrait After a Kneller Painting
By (After) Sir Godfrey Kneller
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a 17th century engraved mezzotint portrait of the Duchess of St. Albans by John Smith, after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. It was published in London by John Boydell in 1694.
The Duchess of St. Albans (1642-1712) was a woman named Diana de Vere. She was born in 1642, the daughter of Aubrey de Vere, the 20th Earl of Oxford. In 1662, she married Charles Beauclerk, the illegitimate son of King Charles II and his mistress, Nell Gwyn. As a result of her marriage, Diana became the Duchess of St. Albans, and she and Charles had several children together. Diana was known for her beauty and charm, and she was a prominent figure in the court of King Charles II. Despite her husband's illegitimate birth, Diana was highly respected in the royal court and was known for her intelligence and wit. She was a patron of the arts and supported many artists and writers of the time. Diana lived through a tumultuous period of English history, including the Great Fire of London and the Glorious Revolution, which saw King James II replaced by William of Orange. She died in 1712 at the age of 70 and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Descendants of Diana and her husband, who was an illegitimate son of King Charles II, include Diana, Princess of Wales and her son William, Duke of Cambridge.
An author wrote of her: "The line of Vere, so long renown’d in arms,
Concludes with luster in St. Albans’s charms;
Her conquering eyes have made their race complete,
It rose in valor, and in beauty set."
This striking mezzotint engraving depicts Diana, Duchess of St Albans in a three-quarter length pose, standing, wearing loose flowing dress and a wrap. She has a very serene, calm appearance as she is looking straight at the viewer. There is a landscape of trees in the background. The print is adhered in the corners to an archival backing, which is itself adhered in the upper corners to a larger backing. The print is trimmed to just beyond the plate mark. There are areas of discoloration in the margins and in the inscription area, but the print is otherwise in very good condition. The sheet measures 14.5" high and 10" wide. This mezzotint is held by multiple museums and institutions, including The British Museum, The National Portrait Gallery London, The Fine Arts Museum of Boston, The Lewis Walpole Library at Yale, The Yale Center for British Art, The Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge and The National Galleries of Scotland. The original Kneller painting is part of the British Royal Collection Trust and hangs in the King's Private Dining Room at Hampton Court Palace.
Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) was a leading portrait painter of his time, particularly renowned for his depictions of the British aristocracy and royalty. He was born in Lübeck, Germany, and trained in Amsterdam under the painter Ferdinand Bol...
Category
Late 17th Century Bay Area - Art
Materials
Mezzotint
$2,220 Sale Price
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"Arch of Titus" Large colors etching.
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Arch of Titus" created 1923 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil at the lower center by the artist's estat...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Raccoon: An Original 19th Century Audubon Hand-colored Lithograph
By John James Audubon
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century John James Audubon hand colored lithograph entitled "Raccoon", No. 13, Plate LXI, 61, from Audubon's "Quadrupeds of North America", printed and color...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Negra (The Black Woman)
By Rufino Tamayo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Negra (The Black Woman)" from the suite "The Mujeres File" 1969 is an original colors lithograph on B.F.K. Rives paper by renown Mexican artist Rufino Tamayo, 1899-1991. It is hand signed and numbered 150/150 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 26.85 x 21.25 inches, sheet size is 29.5 x 22.15 inches, framed size is 42 x 35 inches. Published by Touchtone Publisher, New York, printed by Ateliers Desjobert, Paris. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne by Pereda, plate #109 page 107. Custom framed in a wooden silver frame, with silver spacer and fabric matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
A native of Oaxaca in Southern Mexico, Rufino Tamayo's father was a shoemaker, and his mother a seamstress. Some accounts state that he was descended from Zapotec Indians, but he was actually 'mestizo' - of mixed indigenous/European ancestry. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art). He began painting at age 11. Orphaned at the age of 12, Tamayo moved to Mexico City, where he was raised by his maternal aunt who owned a wholesale fruit business.
In 1917, he entered the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts, but left soon after to pursue independent study. Four years later, Tamayo was appointed the head designer of the department of ethnographic drawings at the National Museum of Archaeology in Mexico City. There he was surrounded by pre-Colombian objects, an aesthetic inspiration that would play a pivotal role in his life. In his own work, Tamayo integrated the forms and tones of pre-Columbian ceramics into his early still lives and portraits of Mexican men and women.
In the early 1920s he also taught art classes in Mexico City's public schools. Despite his involvement in Mexican history, he did not subscribe to the idea of art as nationalistic propaganda. Modern Mexican art at that time was dominated by 'The Three Great Ones' : Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueros, but Tamayo began to be noted as someone 'new' and different' for his blending of the aesthetics of post Revolutionary Mexico with the vanguard artists of Europe and the United States.
After the Mexican Revolution, he focused on creating his own identity in his work, expressing what he thought was the traditional Mexico, and refusing to follow the political trends of his contemporary artists. This caused some to see him as a 'traitor' to the political cause, and he felt it difficult to freely express himself in his art. As a result, he decided to leave Mexico in 1926 and move to New York, along with his friend, the composer Carlos Chavez. The first exhibition of Tamayo's work in the United States was held at the Weyhe Gallery, New York, in that same year. The show was successful, and Tamayo was praised for his 'authentic' status as a Mexican of 'indigenous heritage', and for his internationally appealing Modernist aesthetic. (Santa Barbara Museum of Art).
Throughout the late thirties and early forties New York's Valentine Gallery gave him shows. For nine years, beginning in 1938, he taught at the Dalton School in New York.
In 1929, some health problems led him to return to Mexico for treatment. While there he took a series of teaching jobs. During this period he became romantically involved with the artist Maria Izquierdo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Seascape I Diptych (framed) - abstract photograph of water color cloud horizon
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
SEASCAPE I Diptych ( framed ) by Frank Schott
from a series of photographic works capturing the sea blue color palette of the ocean
2 Panels
86.75 x 58 inches / 220.35cm x 147.3cm
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Giclée
"Phobeus , ce Dieu Couronne de Lauriers" from the suite "l
Art d
Aime d
Ovide"
By Salvador Dalí
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, "Phobeus, ce Dieu Couronne de Lauriers" from the suite, "l'Art d'Aimer d'Ovide" 1976. is an original wood engraving on Japan nacre paper by artist Salvador Dal...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Woodcut
“Europa and the Bull”
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
You have to hand it to the bull. Not just taking Europa with his unassailable power (he is Zeus in disguise, after all) he brings along a retinue for his seduction of the beautiful P...
Category
1980s Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Keith Haring Artist Signed Exhibition Poster
Into 84
for Tony Shafrazi Gallery
By Keith Haring
Located in San Rafael, CA
Keith Haring (1958–1990)
'Into 84' / Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1984
Lithograph in colors
Plate signed lower right, signed in silver ink lower right on figures foot
Sheet 35⅛ in H × 23⅛ ...
Category
1980s Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Trois Danseuses (Three Dancers)
By (after) Marie Laurencin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Trois Danseuses" (Three Dancers) c.1940 is an etching in sepia on Wove paper after French artist Marie Laurencin, 1883-1956. It his signed in the plate as issue. This is a posthumous impression from the canceled plate. The image (plate mark) is 14.60 x 10.75 inches, sheet size is 16.5 x 12.85 inches. It is in excellent condition, hanging tape mark, small piece of tape and 3 small skinned area are visible on the back only.
About the artist:
Marie Laurencin, intimate of Braque, Picasso, Matisse and Appollinaire, was born in 1883. She held a celebrated place in the early part of the 20th century during a period when Art exploded with genius. She lived in the Montmartre District of Paris and became part of the circle revolving around the Steins. Though her early portraits show the imprint of the Fauves and Cubists, her romantic and delicate temperament asserted itself against these schools.
She was prim, conservative and always wore a kitchen apron...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Charleston
s Garden Perfume
By Guy Begin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Charleston's Garden Perfume" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Canadian artist Guy Begin, born 1944. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. Th...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
The Roman Colosseum: A Framed 18th Century Etching of the Interior by Piranesi
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
This large framed 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta dell'interno dell'Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo" (View of the interior of the Flavian Amph...
Category
1760s Old Masters Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Flowering Peppermint Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Pulegium Cervinum, Pseudo Pulegium Struthium, Pulegium Regium", depicting flowering Peppermint, Weld and Pennyroyal plants respectively from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thin laid chain-linked paper. There are subtle creases in the right upper corner, very common with Besler's relating to the drying of the paper during its production. The right margin is thinner than the others. The print is otherwise in excellent condition with striking hand-coloring.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
1640s Academic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Engraving
Winding Path (18 x 11 inch hand-printed cyanotype)
Located in Oakland, CA
New as of Jan. 1, 2025. This is a brand-new addition to the artist's ever-growing series of foggy woods in northern California near San Francisco. These tall eucalyptus trees are the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Photogram
Approach to Mount Sinai 1839: Roberts
19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph
By David Roberts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored lithograph entitled "Approach to Mount Sinai Wady Barah Feby 17th 1839" by David Roberts, Plate 122 in Volume III of his Egypt and Nubia...
Category
1840s Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
$2,380 Sale Price
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Aspen Study I - large scale photograph of Indian summer autumnal color palette
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Aspen Study I by Frank Schott
a series of images capturing the yellow golden Indian summer foliage palette of aspen trees in California's Sierra Nevada
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Cacti - large format photograph of iconic desert cactus landscape 48" x 72"
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of sunny cactus landscape, from a series of highly detailed large format nature observations,
an homage to the photo realistic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment
$3,520 Sale Price
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Tomales Bay
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Tomales Bay - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Pointillist View of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist had a lot to say. Why else spend the intense focus and time on rendering such a luminous work brought to completion literally point by point in tiny dots? Ask yourself: Ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Course de Chevaux a Longchamp (Horses Race in Longchamp)
By Gabriel Dauchot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Course de chevaux a Lonchamp (Horses Race in Lonchamp) c.1960, is an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Gabriel Dauchot, 1917-1990. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 18.65 x 7.5 inches, framed size is 21.85 x 11.85 inches. Custom framed in a wooden green frame. It is in excellent condition, the frame have a minor scratch a the lower side, barely visible.
About the artist:
Gabriel Dauchot was born on May 10, 1927 in Livry-Gargan 4 . Supported by the encouragement of his father, an architect, and painting from the age of fourteen 5 , Gabriel Dauchot, whose admiration goes to Maurice Utrillo and Chaïm Soutine 5 , received advice in 1940 from Émile Othon Friesz and Yves Brayer at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière , then entered the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 1942 . He participated in Parisian Salons from his youth and was not yet twenty when the Katia Granoff 6 gallery , then the Cardo 7 gallery , organized his first personal exhibitions.
“The winner is under thirty years old” observes Claude Roger-Marx , who does not fail to note “the atmosphere of disguise which is dear to him” as well as “the muted truculence which he gives to the opaque backgrounds where sing with distinction cold grays, greens, carmines and saffron” 8 when in 1951 the prize from the Society of Collectors and Art Lovers was awarded to Gabriel Dauchot.
Waldemar George observed in the 1950s that if "his early works were treated in a realistic style which sometimes borders on populism, the painter tries to free himself from it and reacts against a literary art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Coral Reef - large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef
By Erik Pawassar
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of sun reflections on a coral reef water surface, mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Seascape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Seascape" c. 1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted artist June Nelson, 20th Century. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Amaryllis Study no. 1
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Amaryllis Study no. 1' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensity, and s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Watercolor
David De Noter Still Life with Curious Cat
By David Emile Joseph de Noter
Located in San Francisco, CA
David De Noter: 1818-1892. Well listed Belgian painter with auction results as high as $142,000. Most famous for his still lifes. This fantastic little gem of a curious cat skipping...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Tree Study V - large scale photograph of dramatic mountain landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Tree Study V by Frank Schott
from a series of black and white photographs capturing the Golden State's vast mountain landscapes
40 x 32 inches / 102cm x 81cm
signed edition of 25...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 10" wide x 25" high
The rabbet measures 15.5" wide x 30.5" high
Please note: The rabbet is i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Arthur Dove 1940 "Sun" Painting
By Arthur Dove
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur Dove: 1880-1946. One of the most important early American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists. He has had auction results over $8,000,000 and that record was 2 weeks ago. A...
Category
1940s Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract Watercolor Painting,
Design for Sculpture
, C. 2000 by David Ruth
By David Ruth
Located in Oakland, CA
This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Thrill of the Chase 18/30
By Sandy Graves
Located in Napa, CA
Born in Colorado and raised in Nebraska, Sandy Graves first forayed into the art world by presenting work as a child and 4-H member at local county fairs. As she continued her educat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Stone, Bronze
Misty Agapanthus Diptych ( Two 24 x 18" cyanotypes)
Located in Oakland, CA
Although these look like screen prints or woodcuts, they are a form of 19th-century photography, cyanotypes. The normal color is dark blue. However, this unique celadon color that ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Paper, Archival Paper, Rag Paper, Monotype, Photogram
$400 Sale Price
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Lemons / purple and yellow still life
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
A dish of yellow lemons on a purple tablecloth are presented in this masterful still life oil painting from artist David Shevlino. The oil on panel is 14 x 15 inches. Framed, it has ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Humboldt County no. 4
By Brooks Anderson
Located in Burlingame, CA
Humboldt County ocean beach scene - oil on canvas is 24 x 36 inches, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to beh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled, Two Women
By Mario Cespedes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Untitled, Two Women" c.1990 in a mixed media (Acrylic paint on off set lithograph) by Bolivian artist Marion Ferrer (Mario) Cespedes, b1942It is hand signed and numbere...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Maurice Chevalier, Casino de Paris
By Charles Kiffer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Maurice Chevalier, Casino de Paris" created 1925 is a lithographic poster on paper by French noted artist Charles Kiffer, 1902-1...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Majestic Mountain Landscape Oil Painting c.1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
Majestic Mountain Landscape Original Oil Painting C.1940
Beautiful luminous mountain landscape oil painting
Original oil on canvas - ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washington Square Park - Summer Evening, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Washington Square Park on a summer evening. Several pairs of figures sit, absorbed in their phones, books and computers. Warm, pinkish orange light illuminate...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Winter Sunrise - large format photograph of ethereal abstract dawn landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photograph from the artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the tactile surfaces and monochromatic nature of oceanic water and cloudscapes
Winter Sunrise by Frank Schott
48 x 72 inches / 122cm x 183cm
signed edition of 7
27 x 40 inches / 69cm x 101cm
signed edition of 25
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Salvador Dali Pencil Signed Nude on a Rhinoceros Horn
By Salvador Dalí
Located in San Francisco, CA
Salvador Dali: 1904-1989. One of the most famous artist of the 20th century. A master surrealist, whose auction prices are well into the millions. This image of a nude on a rhinocero...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Mid-Century Italian Abstract, “Lake Garda”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Italian abstract titled “Lake Garda”
Signed indecipherably lower right
Oil on masonite
26 x 27.25 framed
21.5 x 22.5 unframed
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Easy Listener, February 2018
By Nick Veasey
Located in Napa, CA
X-ray digital C-type mounted onto Dibond, with Plexi face
We live in a world obsessed with image, what we look like, what our clothes, houses, and cars look like etc. Nick Veasey counters this obsession with superficiality by using x-rays to strip back layers and show what is under the surface. Often, integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar and challenges our automatic reaction to physical appearance by highlighting the beauty inside.
Society is being increasingly inhibited by security and surveillance. Take a flight or go into a high-profile courtroom and your belongings will be x-rayed. The post arriving in corporations and government departments is often x-rayed. Security cameras...
Category
2010s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Plexiglass
Jupiter
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Juniper — luminous oil on linen. Dimensions are 66 x 83 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, is inspired by the cities and countrysides of France, New York, and California's B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Pair of Indigenous Fillipino Portraits
Located in San Francisco, CA
One might reasonably ask: What were the 16th-century Spanish colonizers thinking when they took on the conquest of the Philippines? The archipelago nation is comprised of 7,641 islan...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Wood, Oil
Large, mid century abstract, painting, signed "Sutton"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large, mid century abstract, painting, signed "Sutton"
Dated 1969
Oil line Candace
24 x 48 unframed, 26.5 x 50.5 framed
Category
1970s Bay Area - Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tuko-See-Mathla, A Seminole Chief: A Hand-colored McKenney
Hall Lithograph
By McKenney
Hall
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an original 19th century hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph of a Native American entitled "Tuko-See-Mathla, A Seminole Chief, No. 106", published by Rice, Rutter & Co. in 1865. For his portrait, painted by Charles Bird King, Tuko-See-Mathla wore a colorful outfit, primarily of red and blue with tassels and a matching headdress, a necklace including his presidential peace medal, two metallic bands on each arm, beautiful high moccasin boots and he carries a rifle. He appears to be standing in a desert landscape.
This original beautifully hand-colored McKenney and Hall lithograph is presented in a cream colored mat (adhered at the top), suitable for framing with a protective clear sleeve. The mat measures 13.88" x 11.75" and the sheet measures 10.63" x 7.38. There is one tiny spot in the lower portion of the left and right margins and minimal discoloration at the left and right edges (obscured by the mat), but the print is otherwise in excellent condition.
Col. Thomas J. McKenney was Superintendant of The Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1816 until 1830. He was one of a very few government officials to defend American Indian interests and attempt to preserve their culture. He travelled to Indian lands meeting the Native American leaders. He brought with him an accomplished artist, James Otto Lewis...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Au Repos
By Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Au Repos (At Rest)" 1983 is an original color lithograph on paper by noted Bolivian artist Graciela Rodo Boulanger, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered 157/20...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
California Mono - large photograph of infinite monochromatic desert landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
From a series of photographs capturing the Golden State's vast monochromatic desert landscapes on a moody autumn day in the American West
58 x 58 inches ( 147 x 147cm )
signed editi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Moses Smiting the Rock of Meribah, Exodus
By Sadao Watanabe
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, "Moses Smiting the Rock of Meribah, Exodus" 1972 is an original color stencil on hand crumpled momigami paper. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 47/70 in White ink by the artist. The artwork size is 27.5 x 24.75 inches, framed size is 39 x 36 inches. It is custom framed in a wooden gold frame, with matting and black color spacer. It is in excellent condition, Please NOTE, the dark area at the lower left corner of the frame is only the shadow, the frame is in perfect condition.
About the artist:
Sadao Watanabe born and raised in Tokyo, was a Japanese printmaker in the 20th Century. He was famous for his Biblical prints rendered in the mingei (folk art) tradition of Japan. As a student of the master textile dye artist Serizawa Keisuke...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bay Area - Art
Materials
Stencil
Cologne (Koln) Promenade, Germany
By Josef Eidenberger
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Cologne (Koln) Promenade, Germany" c.1950 is a color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991. It is hand signed n pencil by the artist, ins...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Etching
Nude
By Jan De Ruth
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Czech/American artist Jan De Ruth, 1922-1991. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 13 inches, framed size is 24 x 21 inches. Framed in the original wooden gold and black antique style frame, with fabric liner and gold bevel. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia
Studied: Rotter Art School, Prague; Ruskin Art School, Oxford University, England; ASL New York; New School, NY; also with Frederic Taubes.
Exhibited: 38 National Juried Exhibitions, 14 Museum Solo Shows and 51 Gallery Solo Exhibitions.
Author: Portrait Painting, 1964; Painting the Nude, 1968.
De Ruth, a native of Czechoslovakia and an American citizen, spent the years of World War II being shunted through five different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz. He made four escape attempts and finally made good on his fifth try.
De Ruth constantly sought materials with which to draw, but "The only things we had were the few pieces of cloth we wore," he recalls. By chance, he was transferred to Germany as part of a labor detail and managed to sneak a pencil away from the camp supervisor. "I became a perfect thief during those years," he says. De Ruth drew a mother and child on a scrap of paper he scrounged from the factory where he worked and filled it in with shadings of coffee in various strengths-his finger was his brush. He exchanged the sketch for a piece of bread from a camp guard, and in effect, sold his first painting.
In March of 1945, after being transferred to his native Czechoslovakia, he made his successful escape "knowing every step of the way." After the war, De Ruth became the commissar in a small Czech town and remained in the post for one year, just long enough to forge some documents that allowed him to flee to England. He took up residence in London and enrolled at the Ruskin Art School in Oxford University. He arrived in the USA in 1948.
There are times in the life of a painter when his dedication to his art is overshadowed by the immediate requirements of self-preservation. This was one of those times! From '48 to 1955 he supported himself by working at night, earning his way painting designs on neckties and bathroom cups...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
$2,300
Flowering Pea Plant: An 18th C. Hand-colored Botanical Engraving by J. Weinmann
By Johann Wilhelm Weinmann
Located in Alamo, CA
This hand-colored botanical mezzotint and line engraving by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) is entitled "A. Lathyrus Major Peremis Richern B. Lathyrus Narbonensis Flore Albescen...
Category
Mid-18th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Engraving, Mezzotint
Night Time 5053
By Kate Salenfriend
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Haitian Village
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Haitian Village" 1996 is a watercolor on paper by noted Haitian artist Martino Dorce, b.1943. It is signed and dated at the lower right cor...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Watercolor
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) / Oil on Linen
By Frédéric Choisel
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ether Sans Oiseaux I (Ether without Birds) Elegant sophisticated whites and creams of the clouds on rich blue sky. 39 x 39 inches.
French American Frédéric Choisel, has had multip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Buttercup Flowers: A Besler 18th Century Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting Ranunculus (Persian Buttercup) flowers from Basilius Besler's landmark work, Hortus Eystettensis (Garden at Eichstatt), first published in 1613 in Eichstatt, Germany near Nuremberg and later in 1640 and 1713.
This beautiful colorful engraving is printed on thick laid chain-linked paper. There is latin text on the verso. There are central horizontal creases and two small holes on the right and another in the left lower corner. It is otherwise in excellent condition.
Basilius Besler (1561–1629) was an apothecary and botanist. He was curator of the Willibaldsburg Castle garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Engraving
Seascape, California Coast
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Seascape, California Coast" is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Willam Henry Blackman, b.1930. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist, also stamped signed in the back. The canvas size is 23.75 x 48 inches. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
William H. Blackman was born February 2, 1930 in San Diego. He spent most of his early years in West Los Angeles. He became interested in art at about the age of 12 when he painted his first oil painting. In high school he majored in art so he could experiment with various mediums to find ways to interpret his ideas.
In December of 1948 he joined the Navy and was stationed in Hawaii. After his tour of duty he returned to California and attended Woodbury College to learn about advertising and the graphic arts. While there, he met his wife Shirley, who coincidentally came from the Big Island of Hawaii. They were married on June 11, 1955 in her home town of Honokaa. When they returned he began his career in the graphic arts.
In 1960 they began their family and moved to a new home in the San Fernando Valley. Meanwhile, Bill had become interested in the fine arts again. His position as an advertising production manger put him in contact with art directors and they would lunch together and then visit various art galleries in the area. He began oil painting again as a hobby.
In 1964 he made an important contact through an associate at his agency. This person was a vice-president at Aaron Brothers Galleries and purchased paintings for them. They had showrooms in various major cities and sold original framed paintings to art galleries and furniture stores. He said they could possibly sell some of his seascapes so Bill began painting in his spare time. Gradually, they sold more than he could produce so Bill made the decision to leave the advertising business and devote his time to painting.
In 1965 the Blackman's moved to Thousand Oaks, California. He began his career as a fine artist and to this day resides in Thousand Oaks. He contracted with Aaron Brothers to be his exclusive agents and began specializing in seascapes. After a few years he added landscapes and some other subjects. Bluebonnet landscapes and Padre Island seascapes were popular in the Dallas showroom.
He and his family vacationed frequently in Hawaii and that became another source of inspiration. There, he was represented by the Davis Gallery in Honolulu. A good relationship with "Barney" Davis continued after the closing of the Aaron Brothers Wholesale Division in 1980. He painted for the Davis Gallery for about 8 years until they closed due to illness. Afterwards, he was contacted by Kobayashi Art Enterprises and has been represented by them.
In 1980 he began teaching in private studios around the country, demonstrating his method of painting various subjects. During the latter part of the 80"s he was approached by Susan Scheewe Publishing to author and illustrate a book showing his way of painting. The first was published in 1990 and he has authored four other books since then. He demontrated six different instructional video tapes that were produced by his artist friend Gary Jenkins. Gary, who was helpful introducing Bill to the teaching business, was also an artist for Aaron Brothers Galleries.
William Blackman is a published artist. Twenty subjects have been lithographed, six being limited editions, when he was with Aaron Brothers. One of his Hawaiian paintings...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
Asia Declineatio: A 17th Century Hand-colored Map of Asia by Justus Danckerts
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a scarce 17th century beautifully hand-colored copperplate engraved map of Asia entitled “Exactissima Asiae Delineatio in Praecipuas Regiones Caerterasque Partes divisa et de...
Category
Late 17th Century Old Masters Bay Area - Art
Materials
Engraving
Tulips in a Vase
By Gary Bukovnik
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Tulips in a Vase" 1995 is an original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is hand signed, dated and numbered 169/200 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Eagle or Horned Owl: A Framed Original 19th C. Hand-colored Lithograph by Gould
By John Gould and Henry Constantine Richter
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a framed original 19th century hand-colored folio-sized lithograph entitled “Bubo Maximus" (Great Horned or Eagle Owl) by John Gould, from the supplement to his "Birds of Great Britain", published in London between 1862 and 1873. The print depicts an adult Eagle Owl about to feed her brood of babies who are in the their nest. A another adult (possibly the male) is seen in the distant background in the upper right.
This striking framed Gould...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Bay Area - Art
Materials
Lithograph
Eric Bancroft "The Warrior" Original Mixed Media Portrait c.1967
By Eric Bancroft
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eric Bancroft "The Warrior" Original Mixed Media Portrait c.1967
Original mixed media painting by noted California artist Eric Bancroft.
Created with oils and fibers on masonite. D...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Bay Area - Art
Materials
Textile, Masonite, Oil
Shadow 15/50
By Sandy Graves
Located in Napa, CA
Born in Colorado and raised in Nebraska, Sandy Graves first forayed into the art world by presenting work as a child and 4-H member at local county fairs. As she continued her educat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Art
Materials
Bronze
"San Jacinto Peak" Large oil painting on canvas.
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "San Jacinto Peak" c.1970, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Palm Spring artist Darwin Taylor, 1921-1975. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Art
Materials
Oil
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