Folk Art Portrait of a Young Girl in a Blue Dress Elaborately Trimmed in White Lace
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right and dated: “1901”
Painting Size: 16” x 21”
Frame Size: 27” x 22”
Spear was active in Washington, from 1896-1925 and is listed in McMahan, "The Artists of Washington, DC 1796-1996"
Wyatt Earp
Pencil sketch on paper, inscribed and signed, framed with the dust jacket of the book Who Rides with Wyatt by Will Henry. A copy of the book is included. Copyright 1954.
An award winning artist, Oughton’s work has been published in numerous magazines, books and advertisements. Readers’ Digest, The Saturday Evening Post, Field and Stream, Cosmopolitan and Outdoor Life have all used his illustrations to accompany sto...
The Old General Store
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right, matted, unframed. Store sign reads: "C.T. McGraw & Co. Inc./General Merchandise/& Cotton Buyers/ Braden, Tenn."
Provenance: Philip Desind Collection, Capricorn Galleries Bethesda, MD
Yates received his education from the Memphis Academy of Arts. He is a member of the Tennessee Watercolor Society, The American Watercolor Society, and co-founder of the Memphis Watercolor Society ...
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Allegorical Landscape with Figures
Oil on masonite, signed.
Painting Size: 22” x 28”
Frame Size: 25.75” x 31.5”
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The following biography is courtesy of Peter Kostoulakos, AOA, NEAA.
Curtis was born in Gloucester, MA on June 6, 1906 and died in October of 1989. He is best remembered for his marines, allegori...
Bayou Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Provenance: Senator John B. Henderson (1826-1913)
Painting: 23” x 37”
Frame: 27” x 41”
Born 1846 in Upperville, Lucien Whiting Powell served with the Virginia cavalry during the Civil War. After attending the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Powell moved on to the London School of Art by 1875 where he was strongly influenced by the atmospheric painting style and ...
Moonrise on the Bay
Oil-on-canvas laid to aluminum panel, signed lower right
Painting: 13 ¾” x 16 ½”
Frame: 18 ½” x 21 ¼”
August Herman Olson Rolle, painter, printmaker and graphic artist, dabbled in many activities before turning his focus to art. Born in Sibley County, MN, in 1875, his first path toward adulthood led him to Red Wing Seminary. Service in the Spanish-American War, eventually lead him to Washi...
Henry Hobart Nichols, Jr. (American, 1869-1962)
Watercolor on paper, signed and dated: “1897”.
Exhibited at the Third Annual Washington Water Color Club, 1898.
Illustrated in McMahan, The Artists of Washington, DC: 1796-1996, p. 158.
Provenance: from the Estate of Virgil McMahan.
A painter and illustrator, Nichols was a member of quite an artistic family. His father, brother and wife were all professional painters as well.
He had diverse ...
The Vision
Limited Edition metal clad resin sculpture. Signed and dated: "1969"
10.5" x 14" x 3" deep
Reddy was born in India where he received his Fine Arts diploma. In 1947 he participated in the “Quit India” movement by painting hundreds of posters and surreptitiously pasting them on walls and buildings. He attended the Slade School of Arts in London and then studied in Paris at Atelier 17. While in Paris he met the...
Tabletop Still life with Bowl of Apples and Wine Bottle
Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed with initials “LMR”.
Painting Size: 10” x 7”
Frame Size: 13.5” x 11”
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Contemplation
Oil-on-canvas, signed upper right
Painting Size: 14.25” x 19”
Frame Size: 21.25” x 26.25”
Originally from Chicago, MacEwen rose to fame as a talented expatriate artist of the late nineteenth and early 20th centuries. Cosmopolitan and versatile, he produced works in varying genres and styles, but was best known for his charming depictions of rural Dutch life. He spent his early years in Holland, where ...
Now on View in Our Gallery
"Wood Interior, Near Manassas, VA"
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left; titled and dated “Oct.1953” on reverse
Painting Size: 12” x 9”
Frame Size: 17.5 ” x 14.5”
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Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art with Messer and ...
Height of bronze: 15.25"
Over all Height: 22"
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Summer Landscape
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Painting size: 14.5” x 22.5”
Frame size: 19” x 27”
A native of Talbot County on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Marshall became a highly regarded landscapist, painting mainly in the impressionist manner. Solo exhibitions of his work were held at the Peabody Institute and at The Baltimore Museum of Art. A student at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, he later ex...
by Celine Marie Tabary (French, b. 1908)
Watercolor on paper, from a portfolio of the artists drawings and watercolors.
Painting size: 14.75” x 19.5”
Unframed
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Born in Vermelles, France, Tabary was an...
Farm in Winter
Oil on artist board, signed lower right.
Painting: 17” x 22”
Frame: 22.25” x 27.25”
Although Court traveled the globe painting in the Antarctic, Canadian Rockies, Norway and Ireland, he remains best known for winter landscapes of New England and shore scenes of Monhegan Island, Maine. He spent summers on Monhegan Island beginning in 1925 and eventually built a studio there in 1958 Court studied at ...
The Inauguration Steps, 1912
Lithograph on ivory laid paper
17 x 22 (image); 19 x 24.5 (sheet); 17.75" x 22.25" (sight); 24" x 30" (frame)
Wuerth 265
Washington D.C. series. Edition of 25. Signed on stone and in pencil and inscribed: " #2 The Inauguration Portico"
This is from a series of six lithographs made for the Century Magazine entitled "The Capitol at Washington” and described as the "East Front of the Cap...
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No Woman is Worth It
Watercolor and gouache for illustration of the story in the Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 7th, 1953 together with a copy of the magazine.
Joe DeMers (1910-1984) specialized in that most transitory and ephermeral area of illustration, depicting the modern American girl. He did them, not as stereotypes, but as a diverse array of dazzling females - sweet, predatory or sophisticated. DeMers was born in San Diego, California...
Head of a Percheron
Oil on artist board, signed “J. N. Hess” and dated “(18)87” lower right.
Painting Size: 12.25” x 10.25”
Frame Size: 16.5” x 14.5”
John N. Hess was active in Pennsylvania and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in 1882. He is known for his paintings of farmyard scenes as well as for western scenes with cowboys and longhorns.
Sources:
Smithsonian Inventory o...