Ira Yeager – ‘Joan Brown’ Bust of fellow artist and friend, Joan Brown. Found wood, concrete, found objects and paint. From the collection of Claire Carlevaro. Unsigned. Measures 24.5 x 10 x 10 inches. Great condition.   Price $4500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Robert Kaess – Abstraction – 1959 Abstract oil on canvas. Dated 1959. Signed land dated lower right. This work was recently purchased from the estate of a northern California collector. Measures 24 x 38 inches sight size, and 26 x 40 x 2 inches overall including framing. Excellent condition.   Price  $4500 Click on price…

Juliette Steele – The Red Witch ‘The Red Witch’ A great modernist abstraction by a woman artist working in the 1940s. Limited edition lithograph. Excellent condition. Edition 3/25. 1947. Purchased from the collection of a California art dealer. Measures 10 x 12 sight size, and 18 x 20.75 x 1.75 inches overall, including the framing.…

Harold Paris – Untitled Abstract Form Abstract Form.   Bronze on wood plinth.   c1960.   Unsigned.   From the estate of fellow San Francisco Bay Area artist Sonia Rapaport .   Measures 22.5 x 8 x 5 inches.   Price $2500  

Melvin Schuler – Copper Clad Totemic Sculpture A quintessential totemic sculpture by the artist. Copper clad carved wooden form. Signed on the base. Measures 54.5″ by 12″ by 12″ and is in good condition with minor surface rust consistent with age. Provenance: From the collection of Claire Carlevaro, a long-time San Francisco modern art dealer.…

Janet Todd Young – Rugged Mountainscape Untitled – (Rugged Mountainscape) This image, created using collaged cut-outs from newsprint, depicts a rugged mountainscape, possibly an interpretation of Swiss Alps which the artist most likely had visited during her travels in Europe. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. An abstract image, possibly a cityscape, created using cut-outs of imagery…

Janet Todd Young – Study #18 Untitled – (Study #18) Study no. 18 is a quilt pattern created using random imagery cut-outs from newsprint. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. An abstract image, possibly a cityscape, created using cut-outs of imagery from periodicals. The images used include various textures, patterns, and at least one image of marching…

Janet Todd Young – Big City at Night Untitled – (Big City at Night) Created using various black and white newsprint cut-outs. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. An abstract image, possibly a cityscape, created using cut-outs of imagery from periodicals. The images used include various textures, patterns, and at least one image of marching soldiers. Good…

Janet Todd Young – City in Black and White Untitled – (Cityscape with Clouds) An abstracted nighttime cityscape using black and white cube -shaped cut-outs from periodicals. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. An abstract image, possibly a cityscape, created using cut-outs of imagery from periodicals. The images used include various textures, patterns, and at least one…

Janet Todd Young – Cityscape with Figure Untitled – (Cityscape with Clouds) An abstracted cityscape created with collaged newsprint cut-outs of images, including of bricks, architecture, upholstery, and linear patterns. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. An abstract image, possibly a cityscape, created using cut-outs of imagery from periodicals. The images used include various textures, patterns, and…

Janet Todd Young – Cityscape with Clouds Untitled – (Cityscape with Clouds) An abstracted cityscape created with collaged newsprint cut-outs of images, including of bricks, architecture, upholstery, and linear patterns. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. From a collection of work by the artist, including two sketchbooks, belonging to a member of the artist’s family.  Ink stamped…

Abstract with Pearl Necklace Untitled – (City of Eyes). An abstract image created by the artist using newsprint cut-out imagery of patterns of wire fencing, bricks walls, stone walls, a pearl necklace and a automobile tire and wheel. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. From a collection of work by the artist, including two sketchbooks, belonging to…

Janet Todd Young – Abstract with Flags and an Eyeball Untitled – (City of Eyes). An abstraction, possibly representing a cityscape, using collaged cut-outs of newsprint imagery including striped fabrics, a tray of cups, and an eyeball. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. From a collection of work by the artist, including two sketchbooks, belonging to a…

Janet Todd Young – City of Eyes Untitled – (City of Eyes). An abstracted cityscape created with imagery cut-outs from periodicals, including tires treads, thistles, fabric with polkas dots, and eyeballs. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. From a collection of work by the artist, including two sketchbooks, belonging to a member of the artist’s family.  Ink…

Janet Todd Young – Evening Cityscape Untitled – (Evening Cityscape). An early work, created with pasted minimalist cut-outs of periodicals creating what appears to be an abstract image of a ship in a city port, in the dark of night. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. From a collection of work by the artist, including two sketchbooks,…

Janet Todd Young – Abstract with Bolt, Pinecones and Polkadots Untitled – (Abstract with Bolt, Pinecones and Polkadots). Collaged pictorial cut-outs from periodicals, including images polka dots, pine cones, fabric threads, and a spring. Collage on paper. c1930s-1940s. From a collection of work by the artist, including two sketchbooks, belonging to a member of the…

Medard Klein – Drawing #3 Untitled – (drawing #4) Graphite on paper. c1940. Housed in a new frame under UV plexiglass. Measures 5 x 3.75 sight size, and 12.25 x 11.25 x 1.25 inches overall including framing.   Price  $750 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Medard Klein – Drawing #4 Untitled – (drawing #4) Graphite on paper. c1940. Housed in a new frame under UV plexiglass. Measures 4.5 x 4 sight size, and 11.75 x 11.25 x 1.2 inches overall including framing.   Price  $750 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Janet Todd Young – Biomorphic Drawing #2 Pencil drawing on paper. Circa 1930s. From a sketchbook belonging to the artist.  Acquired from the family of the artist. Framed. Measures 2.25 x 3 inches sight size, and 9 x 9.75 x 1.5 inches overall including framing.   Price  $500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Janet Todd Young – Biomorphic Drawing #1 Pencil drawing on paper. Circa 1930s. From a sketchbook belonging to the artist.  Acquired from the family of the artist. Framed. Measures 2.25 x 3 inches sight size, and 9 x 9.75 x 1.5 inches overall including framing.   Price  $500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Robert Boardman Howard – Jungle Swamp, Bali Titled ‘Jungle Swamp, Bali’ Dated 1928 Charcoal on paper. Good condition overall. Some minor smudge marks from studio handling. Recently framed. Measures 17.5 x 11.5 inches sight size, and  26 x 19.5 x 1 inches overall including framing.   Price $1500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Medard Klein – Drawing #5 Untitled – (drawing #5) Graphite on paper. c1940. Housed in a new frame under UV plexiglass. Measures 12.75 x 9.75 sight size, and 21 x 18 x 1.5 inches overall including framing.   Price  $2500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Medard Klein – Drawing #1 Untitled – (drawing #2) Graphite on paper. c1940. Housed in a new frame under UV plexiglass. Measures 9.5 x 13.25 sight size, and 17.5 x 22 x 1.25 inches overall including framing.   Price  $2500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Medard Klein – Drawing #2 Untitled – (drawing #2) Graphite on paper. c1940. Housed in a new frame under UV plexiglass. Measures 13 x 9 sight size, and 21 x 17 x 1.2 inches overall including framing.   Price  $2250 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

John Saccaro – Abstraction 1957 Untitled abstraction. Dated 1957 Mixed media. Good condition. Recently framed. Measures 8.75 x 12 inches sight size, and  16.75 x 19.75 x 1 inch overall including framing.   Price $1500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Ellwood Graham – Abstraction Abstract watercolor on paper. 1940s. Great condition. Measures 14.5 x 8 inches sight size, and  inches overall size with framing.   Price – $1500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Katherine Barieau – Abstraction Abstract oil painting on canvas. Dated 1964. Great condition. Sight size is 57.5 x 69.5 inches, and overall size with framing is 62 x 74 inches, and approximately 2 inches in depth.   Price – $9500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Felix Ruvolo – Fantasy in Black – #4 Fantasy in Black – #4 1940s Ink and watercolor on paper. Good condition overall. Some minor smudge marks from studio handling. Recently framed. Measures 12.5 x 19.5 inches sight size, and  20 x 26.75 x 1.25 inches overall including framing.   Price $2500 Click on price to…

Felix Ruvolo – Abstract #5 ‘Abstract #5’ 1940s Ink and watercolor on paper. Good condition overall. Small tear to paper on the left side, minor, but visible in the images. Some minor smudge marks from studio handling. Recently framed. Measures 19.75 x 12.5 inches sight size, and  26.75 x 19.75 x 1.25 inches overall including…

Felix Ruvolo – Abstract #2 ‘Abstract #2’ 1940s Ink and watercolor on paper. Good condition overall. Some minor smudge marks from studio handling. Recently framed. Measures 17 x 14.25 inches sight size, and  24.25 x 21.5 x 1.25 inches overall including framing.   Price $2500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Felix Ruvolo – Abstraction in Green, White, Black and Purple ‘Abstraction in Green, White, Black and Purple’. 1940s Mixed pigments on paper. Good condition. Recently framed. Measures 16 x 13.25 inches sight size, and  23.75 x 21.25 x 1.25 inches overall including framing.   Price $4500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Felix Ruvolo – The Alert One Felix Ruvolo – The Alert One Mixed pigments on paper. From the collection of the family of the artist. Good condition. Framed in a new frame with UV plexiglass. Measures 19.5 x 14 inches sight size, and 27 x 21 x 1.2 inches overall including framing.   Price  $4500…

Felix Ruvolo – Figuration #3 Figurative painting on paper. Mixed pigments. From the collection of the family of the artist. Good condition. Recently framed in a new frame with UV plexiglass. Measures 29.5 x 21.25 inches sight size, and 39.5 x 31.25 x 2 inches overall including framing.   Price  $6500 Click on price to…

Ruth Wall – Abstraction No. 11 1950s abstract oil painting by a woman artist from San Francisco, California. Measures 32 x 36 inches sight size, and 32.75 x 36.75 x 1.75 inches overall including framing. Excellent condition. Housed in a period frame.   Price  $3500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

BJO Nordfeldt – Homes Near the Water Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt  Oil on canvas. c1930. Good condition, recently cleaned and varnished. House in a new frame. Measures 16.5 inches by 19.5 inches sight size, and 19 inches by 24 inches by 1.5 inches overall including the frame.   Price $6500 Click on price to purchase…

Felix Ruvolo – ‘Black Birds’ ‘Black Birds’ 1949 Oil painting. Great condition. Housed in a period frame and bears a partial gallery Catherine Viviano Gallery label verso. Measures 15.75 x 11.25 inches sight size, and  23 x 18.5 x 3 inches overall including framing.   Price $6500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Richard Faralla – Exhibited Construction Exhibited construction. Painted wood. 1964 Great condition. Retains an exhibition label from the San Fransico Museum of Art, ‘Sculpture by Faralla’. Measures 14.5 x 12 x 2 inches.   Price – $3000 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

James McCray – Biomorphic Abstraction An early abstract painting by San Francisco Area artist, James McCray. Early 1940s. Oil on stretched canvas. Signed lower right. Measures 19 x 25 inches sight size, and 21  x 27 x 2 inches overall including framing. Excellent condition.   Price  $4500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Leonard Edmondson – Flexible Field A great abstract etching by California artist Leonard Edmondson. Titled – ‘Flexible Field’ Excellent condition. Edition 11/50. Circa 1950. Purchased from the collection of a northern California art dealer. Measures 12 x 15 sight size, and 19 x 22.5 x 1.25 inches overall, including the framing.   Price – $3000…

Robert Bruce Tague – Abstraction 1947 Abstraction by robert Bruce Tague. A great 1940s abstract painting by a Chicago Bauhaus influenced artists and architect. Dated 1947. Oil on canvas. From the collection of a San Francisco art dealer and collector. Measures 15 x 10 inches sight size, and 20 x 15 x 1.5 inches overall…

Cleo Hartwig – Standing Figure Direct carving by Cleo Hartwig.   In direct carving the artist rejects traditional methodology of working with a model, and by using clay or wax they create a maquette to then pass along to a foundry or professional carver.  Direct carvers work spontaneously, cutting directly into stone or wood, and…

Morgan Russell – Baigneur Large male nude by a leading modernist painter of his time, Morgan Russell. Titled ‘Baignuer (Bather) 1924 Oil on canvas. Some waviness to canvas and mild crackalure due to heavy paint application. Measures 35.5 x 28.5 inches sight size, and 45.25 x 38.25 x 2.25 inches overall including framing.   Price…

Philip Evergood – Near Lake Hopatcog American landscape painting by Phil Evergood.  Philip Howard (Blashki) Evergood was one of the leading American modernists of the 20th century.  He was born in New York City and was raised in London, England where he moved in 1909 with his parents. Evergood studied art at Eton University, Cambridge…

Kedma Dupont – Desierto de los Leones Modernist painting of an abandoned monastery in Mexico City, Mexico by Kedma Dupont. Titled ‘Desiert de los Leones’ (Desert of the Lions) 1930s Oil on canvas. Recently cleaned. Housed in the original frame. Measures 15.35 x 19.35 inches sight size, and 18.75 x 22.75 x 1.75 inches overall…

Robert Kaess – Abstraction – 1958 – II Abstract oil on canvas. Dated 1958. Signed land dated lower right. This work was recently purchased from the estate of a northern California collector. Measures 24 x 19.5 inches sight size, and 25.5 x 21 x 2 inches overall including framing. Excellent condition.   Price  $4000 Click…

Leah Hamilton – Landscape with Two Creatures Modernist lanscape watercolor by California artist Leah Hamilton. Watercolor on paper. Unsigned. 1940s. Good condition. New frame and UV plexiglass. Measures 14.25 x 20.75 inches sight size, and 22 x 28.5 x 1.25 inches overall including framing.   Price – $3000 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Leah Hamilton – Shoreline Landscape with Whiskey Bottle Modernist lanscape watercolor by California artist Leah Hamilton. Watercolor on paper. Unsigned. 1940s. Good condition. New frame and UV plexiglass. Measures 15.25 x 21.25 inches sight size, and 22.75 x 29 x 1.25 inches overall including framing.   Price – $3000 Click on price to purchase or…

Felix Ruvolo – Standing Figure 1940s surrealist work on paper by Felix Ruvolo. Conte crayon drawing with ink wash and watercolor on paper. From the estate of the artist. Good condition. Recently framed in a new frame with UV plexiglass. Measures 22.5 x 11 inches sight size, and 30 x 18.25 x 1 inches overall…

Jules Engel – Abstraction Early abstract painting by California artist Jules Engel. c1940s-50s. Gouache on paper laid down. Housed in a contemporary frame. Excellent condition. Measures 13.75 x 20.75 inches sight size, and 15 x 22 x 2 inches overall including framing.   Price  $4500 Click on price to purchase or inquire.

Robert Kaess – Abstraction – 1958 Abstract oil on canvas. Dated 1958. Signed lower right. This work is an oil on canvas from 1958, and was recently purchased from the estate of a northern California collector. Measures 38 x 31 inches sight size, and 39.5 x 32.5 x 2 inches overall including framing.   Price …

Alfred H. Maurer – Modernist Still Life A semi-abstract, modernist still life painitng by Alfred Maurer. Gouache on paper, laid down. Signed by the artist in the upper right. c1920. Measures 18 x 21.5 inches sight size, and 19 x 22.5 x 2 overall, including frame.   Price $12.500 Click on price to purchase or…

Marion Messinger – Exhibited Abstraction A great modernist work by and early woman modernist painter. This work was shown in a retrospective on the artist in 1989 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recently purchased from the collection of a SF Bay Area modern art dealer. Good condition overall. Shows some paint shrinkage,…

Peter Camfferman – 1935 Abstraction A great early abstract painting by a pioneer in the field, Peter Marienus Camfferman. Dated 1935. Great condition. Oil on artist’s board. This work used to hang in the artist’s home on Whidbey Island, WA, and is pictured hanging in the artist’s house in a Seattle Post Intelligencer article. Measures…

Peter Voulkos – Abstract Painting Abstract mixed media painting on paper by Peter Voulkos. Likely created in the late 1940s or early 1950s given the similarities to decorations Voulkos did on his ceramics of the times period. Excellent condition. Housed in a contemporary frame. Measures 19 x 15 inches sight size, and 26.75 x 22.5…

Lloyd Ullberg – After the Rains Early modernist photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg. Titled – ‘After the Rains’ Circa 1930s. A great vintage photograph by the artist who did a series of images of rural Nevada and California in the 1930s. Gelatin silver print. From a collection of works by the artist that were…

Lloyd Ullberg – The Chair Early modernist photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg. Titled – ‘RM’ Circa 1930s. A great vintage photograph by the artist who did a series of images of rural Nevada and California in the 1930s. Gelatin silver print. From a collection of works by the artist that were purchased from the…

Lloyd Ullberg – The Button Is Here Early modernist photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg. Titled – ‘The Button is Here’ Circa 1930s. A great vintage photograph by the artist who did a series of images of rural Nevada and California in the 1930s. Gelatin silver print. From a collection of works by the artist…

Lloyd Ullberg – Two Faced Early modernist photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg. Circa 1930s. A great vintage photograph by the artist who did a series of images of rural Nevada and California in the 1930s. Blue tone photograph – Cyanotype. From a collection of works by the artist that were purchased from the estate…

Oscar Bluemner – Waterloo Oscar Bluemner outdoor landscape sketch. Titled – ‘Waterloo’. Dated 1915. Bluemner was a prolific artist creating sketches and pondering ideas, often making notations within the sketches he created. Many of his sketches will have elaborate notations on the backs, in english, and sometimes in his native language of German. (It is…

Oscar Bluemner – Belleville Oscar Bluemner outdoor landscape sketch. Titled – ‘Belleville’. Dated 1918. Bluemner was a prolific artist creating sketches and pondering ideas, often making notations within the sketches he created. Many of his sketches will have elaborate notations on the backs, in english, and sometimes in his native language of German. (It is…

Oscar Bluemner – S. Nutley Oscar Bluemner outdoor landscape sketch. Titled – ‘S. Nutley’ Dated 1922 Bluemner was a prolific artist creating sketches and pondering ideas, often making notations within the sketches he created. Many of his sketches will have elaborate notations on the backs, in english, and sometimes in his native language of German.…

Leah Hamilton – 1946 Surrealist Painting Super rare 1940s surrealist painting by early female artist , Leah I Rinne Hamilton. Recently purchased from the collection of a long-time San Francisco modern art dealer. Dated 1946. Great condition. Housed in a contemporary frame. Measures 17.5 x 25.5 inches sight size, and 24 x 32.25 x 1.5…

Hudson River Study – 1910 Oscar Bluemner outdoor landscape sketch. Titled ‘Hudson River Study – 1910’. Bluemner was a prolific artist creating sketches and pondering ideas, often making notations within the sketches he created. Many of his sketches will have elaborate notations on the backs, in english, and sometimes in his native language of German.…

Dorothy Joralemon – 1930s Abstract Painting Super rare exhibited abstract painting by early female artist and member of the American Abstract Artists group, Dorothy Joralemon. Exhibited at the San Francisco Museum Art.  (retains museum label verso). 1930s. Great condition. Housed in a vintage frame. Measures 10.2 x 14.25 inches sight size, and 15.75 x 20…

Beckford Young – 1930s Abstraction Exhibited 1930s abstract painting by California artist and early member of the American Abstract Artists group, Beckford Young. Exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1937.  (partial museum label verso). Titled ‘Abstraction’ Mixed pigments on paper. Good condition overall.  Some creasing to paper, and minor soiling and spots.…

Edward Corbett – 1946 A very rare, early oil painting by Edward Corbett, dated 1946. This work was created when Corbett was studying and socializing with Ad Reinhardt, and had just became a member of the American Abstract Artists group. Oil on stretched canvas. Dated 1946. Professionally cleaned and framed in a contemporary frame. Provenance:…

Albert Eugene Gallatin – No. 20 Albert Eugene Gallatin, (1882-1952), was a leading modernist painter in New York City in the early 20th century. AE Gallatin was born in Villanova, Pennsylvania into a prominent banking family of Swiss descent. Gallatin inherited a family fortune upon his father’s death in 1902. Gallatin moved to Park Avenue…

Howard Norton Cook – ‘Downtown II’ Howard Norton Cook, (1901-1980), was a highly regarded American painter and printmaker based in the American Southwest. Cook is was well educated and traveled extensively, but spent a majority of his life near Santa Fe, and Taos, New Mexico.  His works are held in may major institutions in the…

Max Weber – Reclining Female Figure   Max Weber, (1881-1961), was a leading figure in the development of a modern art world in the United States. Born in Russia, Weber studied art in Europe before setting and New York where he became a very prominent figure in the budding modern art scene there. Weber’s works…

Rudolph Gessley – Exhibited Oil Painting Rudolph Gessley, (1852-1941), was an artist and treasurer of John Robinson’s Circus. Gessley was enrolled in the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1932, around the time that this work was exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s annual show. I discovered and purchased this painting many years ago from an…

Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson – No. 11 – 1958 Raymond Jonson, (1891-1982), was the leading artist in the American Southwest, at teh forefront of the non’objective art movement in America, and the co-founder of the Transedentalist Group based in Santa Fe, NM. Jonson’s works are held in public and private…

Cesar Domela – Abstraction Cesar Domela – Abstract Composition Cesar Domela, (1900-1992), was a Dutch born painter and sculptor, and a key member of the De Stijl movement. Domela painted his first non-objective painting in 1923 and had his first solo exhibition in 1924 at the Galeria d’Audretsch inn Berlin, Germany. In 1925 Domela became…

Arthur N. Christie painting Arthur N. Christie painting Arthur N. Christie, (1891-1980), was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and studied at the Pratt Institute, the American Artists’ School, and later with Hans Hoffman in New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. Christie began doing abstract painting about 1931 and from 1937 to 1941 he exhibited with…

Minimalist Steel Sculpture Early minimalist steel sculpture by James Prestini. James Libero Prestini, (1908-1993), was a California minimalist sculptor best known for his thin-walled turned wood bowls he created early in his artistic career, and his highly polished aluminium I-Beam sculptures Prestini created later in his life. Prestini’s father was an Italian stonecutter, who exposed…

Andre Beaudin – ‘Oiseau’ (Bird)   Andre Beaudin – ‘Oiseau’ (Bird) – 1947 André Beaudin, (1895 – 1979), was a french painter and sculptor from the School of Paris who worked in a cubist manner throughout his career. Beaudin was born in Mennecy, and studied from 1911 to 1915 at the l’École des Arts Décoratifs.…

Carlos Dyer – WPA painting – 1938   Carlos Dyer – WPA oil painting – dated 1938   Carlos Dyer, (1917-2016), was an American painter and educator. Dyer, who sometimes went by Carlus, was born in Springfield, Missouri, and lived and worked in Los Angeles, California in the 1930s.  During this time he was working…

Jean Xceron – Exhibited oil painting – 1949 Jean Xceron – ‘Variations No. 329’ – 1949 Jean Xceron, (1890-1967), is heralded as a pioneer of non-objective painting by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and Xceron was a wildly successful American modernist artist during his lifetime. Xceron was a Greek-born American artist and writer.  He…

Emil Bisttram – Thunderbird Emil Bisttram watercolor. Emil Bisttram, (1895-1976), was a leading modernist painter in the American Southwest who created iconic abstract paintings and influenced and continues to influence young American artists. Bisttram studied in New York at the National Academy of Design, Cooper Union, and the Art Students League before traveling to Mexico…

Basil Marros Circa 1930s abstract oil painting. Basil Marros, (1897-1954), was of Greek born artist who moved from his home country to the United States where he settled in San Francisco, CA in 1916. In 1921 Marros accepted a scholarship at the Art Students League in New York City. In 1924 Marros departed for Paris to…

Peter Camfferman – 1930s Abstract forest scene by Pacific Northwest modernist Peter Marienus Camfferman. Peter Camfferman, 1890-1957, was born in The Hague, Holland, and emigrated to the US at a young age.  He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art where he met his future wife, Margaret Gove Camfferman. Peter and Margaret traveled, created…

Seymour Franks -1945 Abstracted cityscape of New York City from 1945 by American artist Seymour Franks. Seymour Franks, 1916-1981, was born in New York City in 1916.  At the age of 16, Franks was stricken with polio. He went on to work for the WPA and later studied at the National Academy of Design in…

Oronzo Gasparo – 1940 Interior of a home in 1940 by Oronzo Gasparo. Oronzo Vito Gasparo, 1903-1969, was an Italian-born American modernist painter. Gasparo studied, worked, and exhibited in New York in the 1930s and 1940s and was highly influenced by his mentor and teacher, Preston Dickinson. Gasparo exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art…

John Hansegger – 1930s 1930s abstract oil painting by John Hansegger. John Hansegger, aka Hans Egger, John Konstantin Egger, 1908-1989, was a Swiss-born modernist painter.  Hansegger was educated in Europe and had his first one-man show in Switzerland in 1928. He later joined the Kunstler-Vereinigung in Munich, Germany in 1933 where he participated in several…

Philip Evergood – 1940 Philip Evergood oil painting of young female art students studying their craft while male workers ogle and gawk from a distance. Philip Howard (Blashki) Evergood was one of the leading American modernists of the 20th century.  He was born in New York City and was raised in London, England where he…

Hanani Meller – Self Portrait – 1941 Surrealist self-portrait painting by Hanani Meller, dated 1941. This small painting is an oil on stretched canvas, framed in an artist made stip frame by surrealist Hanani Meller. Hanani Meller, aka Hanany Meller, D’Hanany, D’Hanani, was born in Israel and later moved to the United States settling in…

Arthur Bowen Davies – circa 1920 A quintessential oil on canvas by American modernist Arthur Bowen Davies. Titled ‘Fjording Song’ depicting a gathering of figures on the bluffs of a fjord, where masted sailing ships are moored. Early 20th century. Measures 17.5 inches by 29.5 inches sight size, and 23.25 inches by 35.25 inches by…

Louis Schanker – 1933 American modernist figurative abstract from 1933. Louis Schanker, (1903-1981), lived in worked in New York and Connecticut, creating paintings, sculptures and prints.  During his life, Schanker was known as a radical among radicals.  He was an important early American modernist, was a founder of the American Abstract Artists and was a…

Seymour Franks – 1947 1940s abstract painting by New York artist Seymour Franks. Seymour Franks, 1916-1981, was born in New York City in 1916.  At the age of 16, Franks was stricken with polio. He went on to work for the WPA and later studied at the National Academy of Design in 1937.  Early in…