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Artist
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Title | Thumbnail |
Notes old |
Media |
Signature status |
| Harry Engel |
Caesar |
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Available but not currently in the gallery.
Dated 1958, below signature, lower right. Tag, verso, from Krasner Gallery, New York.
This painting appeared in our weekly email on 4/22/16 with the following gallery comments:
Harry Engel -- what an unusual figure in our world of Indiana art. But decidedly a part of it. Engel taught painting at Indiana University in Bloomington from 1928 through his death in 1970. But he had a second life as a working artist – one capable of painting nearly any style but with a heavy bent toward abstract expressionism. He summered in Provincetown and was friends with the likes of Jasper Johns and Robert Motherwell. He was represented in several Whitney Annual Exhibitions (of Contemporary American Painting), hanging alongside such lions as Johns, Motherwell, Pollock, de Kooning, Rothko etc. Today’s amazing work, Caesar, is completely fresh to market from an East Coast collection. It bears a Krasner Gallery studio tag, verso. This would have been Oscar Krasner Gallery, (not Lee Krasner, Pollock's widow). Caesar would have certainly been inspired by Engel’s 1955 sabbatical spent in Rome and Pompeii. It’s a vaguely militarized representation yet very mysterious. Heck, it’s abstract – words fail. The painting has been cleaned and conserved. A small tear was repaired (<1/2”) and beyond that, it’s in excellent shape. Housed in Engel’s original craftsman frame and ready to hang. A major work by a major Indiana artist (and teacher) working at the cutting edge of a major art movement. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| Orrin Draver |
Richmond Winter Landscape |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Left |
| Dwight F. Steininger |
Alpine Cabin |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Dwight F. Steininger |
Alpine Lake |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| (James) Edgar Forkner |
Still Life with Peonies |
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Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Ida Nash Gordon |
Summertime in the Garden |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Center |
| Ida Nash Gordon |
Flowers and Stoneware |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Gustave Baumann |
All the Year Round; February |
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Woodblock Print on Paper |
Unsigned |
| William McKendree Snyder |
Southern Indiana Beeches |
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Cleaned and conserved. Housed in a custom, hand-finished reproduction frame with 23K gold leaf.
This painting was featured in our weekly email on 2/26/2016 along with the following gallery comments:
William McKendree Snyder was born in 1848 in Liberty, Indiana and grew up in Madison, Indiana where he took to art (and the study thereof) at an early age. In the 1870s, he studied with some of the most prominent American instructors of the day and his style evolved to resemble the Hudson River school. Residing in Madison during most of his adult life, Snyder was among the first artists to exploit Brown County, Indiana for painting opportunities in his overall prolific output of Southern Indiana landscapes. Today’s piece Southern Indiana Beeches is a very representative example featuring Snyder’s go-to subject matter and style: an interior forest rendered with realistic precision. The thousands of autumn beech leaves are fairly jumping off the canvas. The painting has been cleaned and conserved and is in excellent condition. The frame is a custom reproduction meant to channel turn-of-the-century styles, hand-finished with a 23K gold lip. A nice example from a 19th century Madison, Indiana realist.
--Curt Churchman |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| William McKendree Snyder |
Southern Indiana By-way |
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Appeared in the Miller Gallery (Cincinnati) 1970 Snyder retrospective. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| Varaldo Guiseppe (V.J.) Cariani |
Roses in Chinese Vase |
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Cleaned and conserved. Housed in a period frame that has been re-leafed. Frame is not original to the painting. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| (James) Edgar Forkner |
Puget Sound Pier |
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SOLD
This painting was featured in our weekly email on 4/15/2016 along with the following gallery comments:
Edgar Forkner was born in 1867 in Richmond, IN and was instrumental in the early development of that art colony. He relocated to Chicago around 1902 and ultimately, Seattle around 1912. His body of work contains some oil paintings but he is really remembered as a watercolorist. Today’s painting, Puget Sound Pier (our title) is a very representative example. The subject is classic Forkner – the Seattle waterfront. Executed in his typically loose style full of moody reflections, light and shadow. A solid work from a notable Richmond, IN artist.
-Curt Churchman |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed lower right |
| Louis Oscar (L.O.) Griffith |
Bridge Over Salt Creek |
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 3/4/2016 along with the following gallery comments:
L. O. Griffith was a frequent Brown County visitor prior to 1920 and moved there permanently in 1922. He was very prolific and while his oils are beloved, he was also a very gifted printmaker. He specifically worked in the aquatint process which yielded both monochromatic and multi-plate, colored works. Today’s example, Bridge Over Salt Creek (our title) is a classic example. It’s an aquatint print (open edition) of a sunbathed bridge spanning one of the many creeks running through ‘Peaceful Valley’. The scene is bathed in light and shadow on a summer’s day. Nicely framed (by us!) and ready to hang. We love bringing these modestly-priced, genuine Brown County works to market – something real for every budget.
Curt Churchman |
Etching on Paper |
Signed lower right |
| Leota Williams Loop |
Redbud and Dogwood |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| Marie Goth |
Mr. Walter C. Holmes |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| Varaldo Guiseppe (V.J.) Cariani |
Road to Nashville |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| John Elwood Bundy |
Autumn Harvest |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Adolph Robert Shulz |
Brown County Farmstead |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Floyd D. Hopper |
Sycamores in Autumn |
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Watercolor on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Carl Rudolph Krafft |
Winter in the Ozarks |
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SOLD
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This work was featured in our 2nd Annual Curated Sale of Historic Indiana Art, April 8th, 2018 at the Indianapolis Art Center.
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
