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Artist
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Title | Thumbnail |
Notes old |
Media |
Signature status |
| Rob O'Dell |
Summer Show |
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SOLD |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Adolph Robert Shulz |
Brown County Summer Landscape |
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Oil on canvas |
Signed lower right |
| John William (Will) Vawter |
The Snow Cloud |
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Recently cleaned and conserved. Contains in-painting throughout, most heavily in the upper sky region. Some fracturing of paint but painting is stable and in overall good condition. Antique, hand-leafed custom reproduction frame.
This painting was featured in our weekly email on 4/8/2016 with the following gallery comments:
Will Vawter grew up in Greenfield and was largely self-taught. He moved to Brown County in 1908 and after divorcing his wife Mary, moved into Nashville proper in the early 1920s. The fact that he didn’t undertake much in the way of formal instruction is amazing as he was an accomplished etcher/printmaker, illustrator and of course is beloved for his Brown County landscapes. It’s one of those landscapes that we present today – The Storm Cloud – a rare winter landscape. Vawter, as was his style, working with the sunlight and its luminous effect. The canvas has great depth and I love the treatment of light on the stream -- what appears to be utterly nonsensical at close a perspective, resolves itself to the perfect touch with perspective. That’s exactly what the sun is doing in its reflection on the water! The painting has been cleaned and conserved and there is minor in-painting throughout and the upper left area contains areas of loss which have been restored. There is minor crazing in the upper region of the canvas, consistent with age. Housed in a hand-leafed custom reproduction frame and ready to hang. A beloved Hoosier native son, his talents on full display in an important Brown County winter landscape.
-Curt Churchman |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| Frank Vietor |
Durango, Colorado |
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Acrylic on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Derk Smit |
California Seascape |
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Oil on Board |
Unsigned |
| Derk Smit |
California Desert |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Derk Smit |
California Landscape |
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Oil on Board |
Unsigned |
| Derk Smit |
California Seascape |
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Oil on Board |
Unsigned |
| Derk Smit |
California Desert |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Derk Smit |
California Desert |
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Oil on Board |
Unsigned |
| Derk Smit |
California Landscape |
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Oil on Board |
Unsigned |
| 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 |
