Outer: 25” x 32”
Inner: 17” x 24”
Rabbit: 18” x 25”
(American School, early- to mid- 20th Century)
Oil on canvas board, titled on reverse.
Painting: 11” x 14”
Frame: 15” x 18”
The strong linear forms and attention to architectural detail suggests that this painting is the work of a skilled illustrator.
Reuben LeGrande Johnston (American, 1850-1918)
Oil on Cradeled Panel, signed.
(repaired cracks to panel)
Painting:16" x 20"
Frame: 23" x 27"
Painter and teacher born in Alexandria, VA in 1850. He studied briefly with Dr. A.J. Volck in Baltimore, but was primarily self-taught in art, developing his skills while traveling and working in England, France, Spain, Tangiers and Morocco. He was a resident of New York City when he exhibited at the N...
Drugstore on 14th Street
Oil on canvas, signed, inscribed on the reverse.
Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”
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Bor...
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...
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Oil on canvasboard, titled and dated: “1975” on the reverse.
Painting size: 12” x 16”
Frame size: 15.5” x 19.5”
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River Birches
Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right and titled and signed on reverse
Painting: 20" x 24"
Frame: 24" x 28"
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August Herman Olson Rolle, painter, printmaker and graphic artist, dabbled in many activitie...
Kitchen Sunlight
Oil on canvas, signed, inscribed on the reverse.
Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”
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Bethesda
Oil on canvas, signed lower left and titled on the reverse.
Painting size: 20” x 24” Frame size: 25.5” x 29”
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B...
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left;
Titled on the reverse and inscribed on a paper label affixed to the reverse: “This picture was painted at Flatlands, LI . The girl, the farmer’s daughter and the hired help. Ever truly yours, Harry Roseland
Painting: 30” x 24”
Frame: 35 ½” x 29 ¾”
Born in Brooklyn, NY, Roseland was largely self-taught. He received some education in a...
The Canyon
Watercolor on paper, signed lower left
Sheet Size 15.5" x 22"
Mat size: 19.5 x 26.5" (unframed)
Dodge MacKnight began his career as a painter of theatre scenery. From 1883-1891 he traveled to Europe to study at Fernan & Cormon in Paris and exhibited at the Paris Salon (1885-87) and at John S. Sargent’s Studio, London (1890). He became a friend of Van Gogh’s in Arles. Working primarily in watercolors, his work...
Kitchen Still Life
Oil on canvas, signed, titled on reverse.
Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”
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Born in Newtonville, Massachusetts, O’Brie...
Hillside Landscape
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Painting size: 11.5” x 17” Unframed
Nye lived, worked and taught in Washington, DC for 58 years. While he may have been born in Richmond, VA, his love for the city earned him the distinction of a "native" son.
Nye was educated in public schools before entering the Corcoran School of Art at age 13. He studied there for eight years before setting off on the requisite Euro...
Moonlight on the Chesapeake
Oil on canvas, signed lower right
Painting size: 12” x 10”
Frame size: 15.5” x 13.5”
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Watson was born in Baltimore, MD. He studied with A. Castaigne, E.S. Whiteman and D. Woodward. A foundin...
Mermaid
Stone sculpture, signed and dated "1962"
Height: 17.5" (with base)
(There are traces of red paint on the sides, perhaps a flaw in the stone)
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Hovannes, an Armenian, was born in Smyrna (now Izmir), Turkey and initially educated there, probably escaping at the beginning of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). He studied at t...
Sailing Vessels at Sunrise
Oil-on-panel, signed lower right
Painting: 20” x 16”
Frame: 25” x 21”
Born in Massachusetts, Hallett studied in Antwerp and Paris. He is best known for his paintings of ships, notable marine events, and seascapes, many along Boston Harbor. He also painted in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Hallett worked outdoors, sketchi...
Winter Landscape
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting Size: 21” x 24.75”
Frame Size: 28 ” x 31.75”
Frederick Ernest Swedlun was born in McPherson, Kansas of Swedish parents. Wishing to escape farmlife, he moved to Chicago and began studies at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In an attempt to minimize the anti-immigrant prejudice against Swedes, he began using the p...
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Oil on canvas laid down, signed, titled and dated: “1956” on the reverse.
Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”
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