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Artist
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Title | Thumbnail |
Notes old |
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Signature status |
| George Herbert Baker |
Purple 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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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 9/2/16 along with the following gallery comments:
George Herbert Baker was part of the Richmond Group of artists but existed largely outside of that assembly. He got his nose bent out of joint with the Richmond Art League and largely shunned their efforts. Baker worked in oil, pastel and watercolor and was known primarily as a colorist. Today’s works, Purple Road and Autumn Shadows (out titling on both) really highlight his infusion of hue into simple landscapes. We don’t see enough purple roads in this life – just sayin’… Both works are in great shape and housed in the original frames. We cleaned the frames up and spaced the pastels off the glass. Then put them back together with acid-free materials. Each is glazed in glare-free glass, allowing the viewer to get right inside the works.
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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.
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Pastel on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Arnold Turtle |
Old Houses, Galena |
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SOLD
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 9/16/16 along with the following gallery comments:
Arnold Turtle took the strangest route to ultimately finding and painting in Brown County. He was a Brit and emigrated to Canada and eventually wound up in Chicago. He was an accountant but took night classes at the Chicago Art Institute and had his first solo exhibit in 1929 establishing his painting career. He was close with Anthony Buchta and other members of Chicago’s Palette and Chisel Club, many of whom were visiting Brown County to paint during the summers of the early 1930s. Beyond Brown County, he painted all over the country. Many pieces emanating from Puget Sound, New Orleans, California and the Eastern Seaboard. Add to that Western Illinois. Today’s painting, Old Houses, Galena informed me of Galena, IL’s long history of African American residents. More on that can be seen here. Much like Turtle’s work in New Orleans, we’re offered an unadorned, local moment-in-time, depicting life in-town. And like all of Turtles work, it’s wonderfully loose – perhaps one of the loosest painters we represent. Yet, he’s consistently on – values are great, abstracted people and structures appear just right in the context of his work. I love it! The painting has been cleaned and re-varnished (it’s flawless – no in-painting). Original frame was lightly cleaned. Includes original Chicago Galleries Association tag, verso. We have another Turtle in inventory as well – Oakland Bay, representing his love for harbor scenes. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Homer Gordon Davisson |
Autumn Stream |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Leota Williams Loop |
Asters |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Left |
| L. Clarence Ball |
Lake Path |
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SOLD
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 9/9/16 along with the following gallery comments:
Clarence Ball spent most of his artistic career in South Bend. It’s interesting that he was early, born in 1858 and would have been close in age to all the Hoosier Group members but he’s not typically associated or compared to them. This is probably because much of his output was in watercolor and the Hoosier Group artists are most noted for their oils. Today’s example, Lakeside Path (our title) is a charming, representative example. Expansive in its view and typical of Ball, tiny figures who are dwarfed by their surroundings. At at least 100 years old, it’s in nice shape. We’ve re-framed it using all-acid-free materials and it’s housed in a simple, antique reproduction frame. Charming work by one of Indiana’s early painters. |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Paul Turner Sargent |
Brown County Hills |
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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 |
| Evalyn Gertrude James |
Magnolia |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Otto Stark |
Indiana Sunset |
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 8/26/16 along with the following gallery comments:
Otto Stark’s reputation as an artist is well established – a member of the famed ‘Hoosier Group’ (along with T.C. Steele, William Forsyth, J. Ottis Adams and R. B. Gruelle), he was a prolific painter working in all mediums. His influence on historic Indiana art was vast – particularly in his role as an educator. He taught the next generation from posts at both Manual Training High School (in Indianapolis) and at Herron School of Art. Literally hundreds of students were touched by and benefited from his instruction. Today’s work, Sunset (our title) is a charming, tonal depiction of a cloud-laced Indiana evening with the sun fading. It’s executed in mixed-media (watercolor and pastel) and was recently reframed using all conservation materials. An evocative painting from one of the most important historical figures in Indiana art.
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Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| James Eccles |
Brown County |
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SOLD
Original Eccles frame
This painting appeared in our weekly email on 8/12/16 with the following gallery comments:
James Eccles lived in Oak Park, IL and spent his professional life as a banker. He enjoyed art in his free time and was a student at the Art Institute and other Chicago-area schools. When he retired from banking in 1945, he was able to devote himself more fully to painting. Along with his wife, he traveled and painted for many, many years. Those destinations included the Virgin Islands and greater Caribbean, Japan and the Far East and Brown County, Indiana. Today’s work, simply titled Brown County, is a nice example of the latter. This cute little summer landscape features Eccles typical ‘high key’ palette, representing a farmstead with a dramatic sky and blue hills in the background. Looks about the same today. The painting is in perfect condition, it was lightly cleaned and it’s housed in Eccles’ original gesso-finished frame (his go-to look). A wonderful, bright little Brown County landscape. |
Oil on Board |
Signed lower left |
| Carl Woolsey |
Sunlit Hill |
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SOLD
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 8/19/16 along with the following gallery comments:
Carl Woolsey was raised in Danville, IL and moved with his family to Indianapolis in 1921. The next year had him in Long Beach, CA but he returned to Indianapolis in 1925. He had become intrigued with Taos after seeing an exhibition of works by Walter Ufer. That began a period of correspondence with Ufter which resulted in Carl relocating to Taos in 1927. Ufer informally mentored Woolsey and his Taos works sold very well. Today’s painting, Sunlit Hill emanated from the Taos period. It highlights Woolsey’s detail work and his ability to convey difficult subject matter. Carl’s brother Jean was a frame maker and in Taos during Carl’s time there. And Sunlit Hill is housed in a Jean Woolsey frame. The painting is in flawless condition and was recently cleaned and revarnished. The frame is in very good condition and recently underwent a light cleaning. A very nice work by a national artist who found a great following in Indiana. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Left |
| Glenn Bastian |
Indiana Sand Dunes |
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Housed in an antique reproduction frame; painting has gone through basic cleaning and conservation.
This painting appeared in our weekly email on 7/29/16 with the following gallery comments:
Glenn Bastian also spent much of his life in painting Northwest Indiana. Though prolific, his artistic output was irregular in quality. Today we feature a cute little Dunes rendering. So you have your choice of Dunes paintings – fancy or on a budget! |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| John Elwood Bundy |
Early Autumn Landscape |
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Housed in an older, hand-carved frame; painting is spaced-back from glass and in perfect condition.
This painting appeared in our weekly email on 7/22/16 with the following gallery comments:
John Elwood Bundy moved to Indiana from North Carolina at age five and was largely self-taught as an artist. He did engage in some formal study under Barton Hayes in Indianapolis and additionally, undertook copyist work on a stay in New York. Returning to Indiana, he set up shop in Martinsville and was, in 1887, hired by Earlham College in Richmond to head their art department. He maintained that position for eight years, resigning to devote his full attention to painting in 1895. Though he engaged in some travel, he’s known for his interior woods landscapes (and landscapes in general) in the Richmond, IN area. Today’s painting, Early Autumn Landscape (1906) is a wonderful gouache example. Featuring a road and distant fence row it’s a very typical (in a good way) Bundy watercolor. We kept this painting in its existent frame (older frame, likely not original) and re-set it, spacing the painting off the glass and backing it in acid-free materials. This ‘little gem’ is in excellent condition and ready to hang. |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| John Elwood Bundy |
Beeches on Clear Creek |
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Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Homer Gordon Davisson |
Summer Pasture |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Carl Lotick |
Summer Pond |
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Oil on Board |
Signed lower left |
| Ruthven (Holmes) Byrum |
Anderson City View |
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Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Frank Virgil Dudley |
Blossom Time, Indiana Dunes |
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SOLD
Recently cleaned and re-varnished. Original hand-carved frame, recently restored and re-leafed. A charming painting.
This painting appeared in our weekly email on 7/29/16 with the following gallery comments:
Frank Dudley was born in Delevan, WI and picked up his early training from his father. He eventually moved to Chicago and took evening painting classes at the Chicago Art Institute. He owned and operated small art supply store in Chicago. His first visit to the Indiana Dunes was in 1911 and that seeded his lifelong interest in the Lake Michigan shore in northern Indiana. By 1921 he closed the art supply store and built a cabin on the Dunes, thereafter devoting nearly all his painting attention to this beloved subject. Through a conservation movement with which Dudley was very associated, over 2,000 acres of dune lands were incorporated into Indiana State Dunes Park. The Park happened to encompass Dudley’s cabin and studio. As rent for the land, Dudley provided the State of Indiana a painting a year (their choice!). Upon his death, the State of Indiana purchased another 57 Dudley paintings from his widow. This very nice position of Dudley work now resides at the Indiana State Museum. Today’s painting, Blossom Time, Indiana Dunes (our title) is a charming example. What’s to be said – it’s classic Dudley: simply rendered and featuring the sand landscape and native flora of a Hoosier dune. Housed in the original frame and recently cleaned and conserved. |
Oil on Board |
Signed lower left |
| John Cowan Templeton |
Indiana Sand Dunes |
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SOLD |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Edward K. (E.K.) Williams |
Abandoned |
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Recently re-framed in all acid-free materials.
This painting appeared in our weekly email on 6/17/16 with the following gallery comments:
E. K. Williams was a Chicago illustrator and artist when he discovered beautiful Brown County in the 1920s moving there permanently in 1927 to pursue painting full time. It’s interesting to note that he was primarily a watercolorist. Every watercolor painter I’ve ever met will tell you it’s a more difficult medium than oil. (Kinda like the old Harvard grad joke: How can you tell if a person is a Harvard grad? They’ll tell you within the first minute of conversation. I’m here all week…). Today’s painting, Abandoned, is one of those Williams watercolors. Depicting an old boat on the beach, all fadey with that sand almost white under the harsh sun. We’ve re-framed this piece in all-conservation board and backing and it’s all ready to hang. It can be summer in your living room all year long! |
Watercolor on paper |
Signed bottom right |
| Floyd D. Hopper |
Clear to Land |
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Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
