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 ...
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...
(American, early 20th century)
Crashing Surf
Oil on panel, signed lower right: “T.S. Moran”.
Painting size: 9” x 13”
Frame size: 15” x 19”
Though sometimes confused with the famous landscape painter Thomas Moran, further research by Edan Hughes ("Artists in California 1786-1940") shows that this artist with a middle name of Sidney, is not the same.
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Unloading the Catch (Misty Morning on the Seine)
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Painting: 36” x 48”
Frame: 39 ½” 51 ½”
Snowden was born in Ashton, MD and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Corcoran School of Art. She was active in Washington, DC from 1910-1933, exhibiting during that time with both the Society of Washington Artists and the Washington Watercolor Club. She was a...
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Anna Richards Brewster (American, 1870-1952)
Oil-on-canvas, laid down on masonite; signed with conjoined initials.
Provenance: James Brewster, the artist's nephew. Collection of Dr. Clark S. Marlor.
Brewster was a painter and illustrator born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1870. The daughter of Marine painter W.T. Richards, she had a studio in London from 1896 to 1905. She studied with Dennis Bunker; H. Siddons Mowbray; National Academy of Desig...
Still Life, Summer Tracery
Oil on masonite, signed lower right.
Painting Size: 46” x 48”
Unframed
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Paul Zimmerman was an internationally known artist and Professor Emeritus of t...
Jospeh H. Ensor (American, 1881-1960)
Oil on artist board, signed lower right.
Painting size: 12” x 16”
Frame size: 19” x 23”
Born in England, landscape painter Joseph H. Ensor settled in Boston, Massachusetts. With a bright pallate and Impressionist brushwork, Ensor describes the sweep of a breeze through a line of roadside trees that lead to a solid Federal house. The image is a nod to both the 18th- and 19th- centur...
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...
(Late 19th century)
Landscape with Stream
Oil on board, signed indistinctly with initials in lower right corner.
Painting size: 3.75” x 5.25”
Frame size: 9.25” x 10.75”
This delicately rendered landscape is the work of a skilled artist, evidenced by the whispy brushstrokes used to deliniate the young trees and the shimmering, reflective surface of the stream.
American School, mid 19th Century.
Oil on canvas.
Painting Size: 9.75” x 7.75”
Frame Size: 15.5” x 13.5”
Rock Creek Park
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left.
Painting: 16” x 20”
Frame: 23” x 26 ½”
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 Washington, DC where he beca...
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Ravello (Italy)
Watercolor on paper, signed, located and dated "1901"
Sight size: 21" x 14"
Frame Size: 28" x 21"
Louis Warren Pulsifer was born in Newtonville, MA, Dec 2, 1869, the son of Royal MacIntosh and Clara Stacy (Keys) Pulsifer. He graduated from Harvard in 1890 and he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and took the course in architecture. Just before his graduation in ...
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Oil on canvas, signed, located and inscribed on the reverse.
Painting size: 25” x 20”
Frame size: 30” x 25”
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Portrait of a Woman
Oil on canvas, signed with initials, upper left.
Painting: 10” x 8”
Frame: 16” x 14”
Geer, a native of Boston, was a portrait and miniature artist. She attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School, established to train teachers of fine and decorative arts. She studied with F.H. Tompkins, Triscott, Tarbell and Vonnoh. Geer exhibited with several galleries and clubs in the Northeast, includ...
Spring Meadow with Field of Flowers
Oil-on-canvas.
Painting size: 18” x 24”
Frame size: 24” x 30”
Picknell was born in Springfield, Vermont in 1864, and studied in Paris with Constant and Lefebvre (1887-1890). After his studies in Paris, he was briefly an illustrator in Boston and New York. He returned to Paris for about fifteen years, painting throughout the country. He returned to the U.S. around 1911, an...
Night Lights at 18th and H Streets
Oil on canvas, signed, located and inscribed on the reverse.
Painting size: 20” x 16”
Frame size: 25” x 21”
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Watercolor on paper, unsigned
Late 19th/early 20th Century
Sight Size: 7.25” x 6.5”
Frame Size: 11.75” x 11”