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Artist
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Title | Thumbnail |
Notes old |
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Signature status |
| James Eccles |
Untitled Brown County #1 |
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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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Original frame
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This painting, along with three other like-size and framed painting-siblings, was featured in our weekly email on 10/27/17 along with the following gallery comments:
Gray and rainy in Indianapolis today. What a wonderful six months of temperate weather we leave behind--one of the nicest summers I can remember. Sucks to be you, California ;-). James Eccles had a career as a banker in Chicago and in his retirement, painted full time. Most of his works were Brown County landscapes. He combined travel and other paintings emanate from the Far East and Caribbean. Today's four pieces are great little examples. They're all in Eccles trademark 'high-key' style and typical of his Brown County work showing the spare, rural existence. The 8x10 format works really well for Eccles -- his style and composition ring very true in this small size. All four pieces are in excellent shape, have been through light cleaning and all are housed in the original frames (Eccles specials -- gesso over a gold base). Charming paintings. |
Oil on board |
Signed lower left |
| Anthony Buchta |
Harvest Time in Peaceful Valley |
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This painting appeared in our Fourth Annual Curated Sale of Historic Indiana and American Art. "Invaluable.com":https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/fd85ul6e46<br>
Recently conserved. Recent frame. An excellent example of Buchta's work. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Hallie Pace Prow |
Afternoon Sunlight in the Brown County Hills |
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SOLD
This painting will appear in our 2nd Annual Curated Sale of Historic Indiana Art taking place Sunday April 8, 2018 at the Indianapolis Art Center.
"Click here":https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/sbnab2u53c for online catalog and pre-sale bidding.
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| C. Curry Bohm |
In the Valley of Peace |
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 8/11/17 along with the following gallery comments:
Claude Curry Bohm was born in Tennessee and art studies completed, settled and began a career in Chicago. Like so many Chicago artists (and probably because of so many…), he was introduced and became enamored of Brown County. His visits began in 1920 and he moved there permanently in 1932. He was very prolific working in both oil and watercolor. His work appeared a stunning 106 times in the Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibition over a forty five year span of entries. (Geek challenge: Is that the record for Salon entries by a single artist?). Today’s painting, In the Valley of Peace (our title) is a marvelous example. A square-ish, early Spring landscape enveloped in a cloud. Wonderful colors and overall effect – exhibition quality. Painting has been cleaned and is in good condition; housed in the original frame. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Left |
| Frederick Polley |
Bear Wallow Road |
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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 |
| Carl Rudolph Krafft |
A Mountain Vista |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Carl Rudolph Krafft |
Ozarks Landscape |
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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 |
| Carl Rudolph Krafft |
One Winter Day |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Carl Lotick |
Warm Tones of a Winter Sky |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| John (Jan) Zwara |
Brown County Cabin |
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Annotated, lower right: "1940 Brown County R.R. 4 Nashville Thomson (?) Ranch (illegible)" |
Gouache on paper |
Signed lower right |
| Edward R. Sitzman |
Happy Days |
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This painting appeared in our 2019 Fall Curated Sale of Historic Indiana Art.
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Bess Whitridge |
Floral Still Life 1 |
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This tile was featured in our weekly email on 9/1/17 along with the following gallery comments:
We bought these two tiles with some other Richmond pieces and at the time, I had no idea who Bess Whitridge was. Shaun Dengworth of the Richmond Art Museum was kind enough to give me a brief 411 on her and the kooky ceramic painting movement that seemed to be taking the art world by storm for a second, around the turn of the century. These pieces, 6” painted tiles, are very typical of Whitridge’s output. |
Painted Tile |
Signed Lower Right |
| Bess Whitridge |
Floral Still Life 2 |
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This tile was featured in our weekly email on 9/1/17 along with the following gallery comments:
We bought these two tiles with some other Richmond pieces and at the time, I had no idea who Bess Whitridge was. Shaun Dengworth of the Richmond Art Museum was kind enough to give me a brief 411 on her and the kooky ceramic painting movement that seemed to be taking the art world by storm for a second, around the turn of the century. These pieces, 6” painted tiles, are very typical of Whitridge’s output. |
Painted Tile |
Signed Lower Right |
| Harry R. Townsend |
Campfire Along the Creek |
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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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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 9/8/17 along with the following gallery comments:
Harry Townsend was a part-time Richmond, IN artist, studying under George Herbert Baker and Randolph Coats. He was a frequent exhibitor in Indiana shows and fairly prolific inasmuch as painting was not his full time pursuit. Today's painting, Campfire Along the Creek (our title), is a wonderfully loose example of his work -- almost to the point of abstract. It doesn't necessarily show in the above image but it's also heavy with texture and impasto. The painting has been cleaned and is in excellent condition. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Left |
| John (Jan) Zwara |
Shepard's Farm |
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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.
This painting was featured in our weekly email on 9/15/17 along with the following gallery comments:
In my book, Jan Zwara is one of the most compelling figures in Indiana art. He was an émigré from Hungary, doing some set/scenery painting in Paris along the way. Once in the States, he ultimately wound up in Indianapolis and had patrons in the Lieber and Vonnegut families, among others. He was an untreated schizophrenic (as there wasn’t much in the way of treatment back then). He spent six months at Central State Hospital. Zwara painted to live and lived to paint – vastly prolific and a lot of his output was gouache. Today’s painting, Shepard’s Farm (kinda our title, see below) is one of his many Brown County works. How Zwara even traveled to Brown County is a mystery to me – apparently he took the train to Bloomington and then to Helmsburg where he got a ride. This is a sight he painted more than once and some years ago I owned an oil of the same farmstead with some annotation. And that note by Zwara indicated the farmstead was ‘Shepard’s Farm’. I love that fence row! A very nice Zwara example and of iconic Brown County, no less. |
Gouache on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Anthony Buchta |
Spring Charm |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Karl C. Brandner |
Fall Wind (Oregon, Illinois) |
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This work was sold in our 2023 Annual Fall Auction of Historic Indiana Artworks. View the entire auction "HERE":https://www.invaluable.com/catalog/6J1E2QQFDO?page=1&size=48<br/> |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Glenn Cooper Henshaw |
Rio della Guerra |
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Recent custom gilded frame. Appeared in 1928 Hoosier Salon. Tag verso. |
Pastel on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Glenn Cooper Henshaw |
Rio della Guerra Hoosier Salon Tag |
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Pastel on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Elmira Kempton |
Tulips on a Chair |
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Recently reframed using non-acidic materials. Ready to hang.
This painting sold in our October 4, 2020 auction, “Annual Fall Sale of Historic Indiana Art”.
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Watercolor on paper |
Signed lower right |
