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Artist
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Title | Thumbnail |
Notes old |
Media |
Signature status |
| Louis William Bonsib |
Greasy 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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Exhibited in the 1972 Hoosier Salon
This painting was featured in our weekly email on 5/12/17 along with the following gallery comments:
Gallery Comments
Louis Bonsib grew up in Indianapolis and attended IU. Upon graduation, he returned to Indianapolis and worked at an engraving company. He soon established his own printing and marketing firm and located it in Fort Wayne, IN. After serving in WWII, he returned to Fort Wayne and turned over the day to day operations of the business to his sons, he released his tax returns to the public and began painting full-time. Bonsib would have been about 80 when he entered Greasy Creek in the 1972 Hoosier Salon and his painting days were drawing to a close. Still, a nice, competent and light example of Bonsib's work featuring that iconic Brown County waterway. |
Oil on board |
Signed lower right |
| George Jo Mess |
The Handy Pump (Brown County) |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Jo Mess |
Reelfoot Lake Bridge |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| Charles Dahlgreen |
Winter in the Woods |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| Charles Dahlgreen |
Rail Fence |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Jo Mess |
Winter |
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Aquatint Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Jo Mess |
Untitled (Sailing Ships) |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Jo Mess |
Drift Wood |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Jo Mess |
Ice House |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Jo Mess |
Fisheries |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Jo Mess |
Wishing Gate in Winter |
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Aquatint Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| Wilbur Meese |
Winter Farmstead |
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Nicely presented in acid-free materials and hanging in the gallery |
Watercolor on paper |
Signed lower right |
| Wilbur Meese |
Grist Mill |
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Watercolor on paper |
Signed lower right |
| Wilbur Meese |
Gray Barn |
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Watercolor on paper |
Signed lower right |
| Otto Stark |
Early Morning |
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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 3/22/17 along with the following gallery comments:
We have a late addition -- Otto Stark's Early Morning (imaged above) was just inserted into the sale. It's an interesting piece -- very tonal! Of historic note is that Stark and J. Ottis Adams traveled to New Smyrna, FL at the end of 1920 and painted there in the winter of 1921. This would have surely come from that trip. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Hallie Pace Prow |
The Fodder is in the Shocks |
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Oil on board |
Signed lower right |
| Kenneth Reeve |
Covered Bridge in Winter |
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 5/19/17 along with the following gallery comments:
Gallery Comments
Kenneth Reeve moved to Brown County from Chicago where he had been a commerical illustrator. Once relocated to the Peaceful Valley, he studied etching under George Jo Mess and became a very good printmaker. Today's paintings are two cute little watercolors -- Reeve's other preferred medium. Very Brown County! |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Kenneth Reeve |
A January Day |
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SOLD
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 5/19/17 along with the following gallery comments:
Gallery Comments
Kenneth Reeve moved to Brown County from Chicago where he had been a commerical illustrator. Once relocated to the Peaceful Valley, he studied etching under George Jo Mess and became a very good printmaker. Today's paintings are two cute little watercolors -- Reeve's other preferred medium. Very Brown County! |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Frank Vietor |
Nickel Plate Berkshire, Class S |
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Acrylic on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Dale (Philip) Bessire |
Spring Stream |
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 4/28/17 along with the following gallery comments:
Gallery Comments
Dale Bessire had a pretty predictable formula -- large, pallete knife (and certainly brush) landscapes depicting simple, pastoral Brown County landscapes. Many of these reflect Autumn. Spring Stream (Bessire's title) breaks rank with what we often see -- a cute little vernal landscape. It could be today in Brown County with the dogwood and the redbud just showing their colors. And I think, off to the left is that secret grove of morel mushrooms by the fallen Elm tree! Clean, perfect condition, original frame -- a nice compact work. |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
