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Artist
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Title | Thumbnail |
Notes old |
Media |
Signature status |
| Varaldo Guiseppe (V.J.) Cariani |
Still Life with Chrysanthemums |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed Lower Right |
| Richard Buckner (R.B.) Gruelle |
Winter Sunset |
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SOLD
This painting was featured in our weekly email on 10/17/14 along with the following gallery comments:
Richard Brucker (R. B.) Gruelle was one of the Hoosier Group artists. The others being T.C. Steele, J. Ottis Adams, Otto Stark and William Forsyth. The moniker was coined based on their inclusion in the Indiana Pavilion at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago, representing the State in paintings. He and his family were in Indianapolis until moving to the East Coast around 1905. One of Gruelle’s boys, Johnny, went on to create, write and illustrate Raggedy Ann. Much of Gruelle’s output was gouache (watercolor with white applied) and here we have a nice example of that medium. Winter Sunset (our title) features a snowy road drawing one back to the beautiful glow of the setting sun. A very nice example with a somewhat rare winter setting from one of Indiana’s most important painters.
-Curt Churchman |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Frederick Polley |
Soldiers and Sailors Monument |
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Etching on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Floyd D. Hopper |
Indiana Village |
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Lithograph on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Von Williamson |
Grown Over and Blown Down |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Von Williamson |
Red Sky at Night |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Von Williamson |
Winterly Winds |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Verso |
| Varaldo Guiseppe (V.J.) Cariani |
Overlooking Clay Lick Valley |
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 8/22/14 along with the following gallery comments:
Varaldo J. Cariani (‘V.J.’ per his signature and ‘Cari’ to everyone who knew him) attended the Art Students League in New York as was lured to Indianapolis by his lifetime partner, Marie Goth upon her return to Indiana from New York. V. J. and Marie settled in separate cottages in Nashville, IN where he remained the rest of his life. He is beloved for his large, tight floral still lifes which featured flowers from his extensive garden. He split time with his subject matter, painting many landscapes featuring locales throughout his beloved Brown County. On offer today is Overlooking Clay Lick Valley – a very nice example of his work and housed in the original, artist-created, hand-carved frame. Could it be any more adorable…? The frame has been restored and the painting has been cleaned and revarnished. A gem of a piece from this desirable Hoosier artist transplant.
-Curt Churchman |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Louis Oscar (L.O.) Griffith |
Shaded Barn |
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This etching was featured in our weekly email on 8/29/14 along with the following gallery comments:
Louis Oscar Griffith (‘L.O.’ per his signature and ‘Griff’ to his friends) began visiting Brown County in the early 1910s and left his gig as a commercial artist in Chicago to move there permanently in the early 1920s. He was very accomplished as both a painter and a printmaker and produced over 300 copper plate etchings throughout his career. Shaded Barn (our title) is a very nice example of Griffith's Brown County subject matter. Full of the drama in the tree and that long, afternoon shadow cast onto the adjacent barn. This is a closed editon print (e.g. 30/75) – not typical of his black and white etchings. The paper is in great shape with little to no toning and it’s housed in all-acid free materials and a vintage-look frame that stays out of the way yet complements the piece well. Brown County all the way by one of the beloved artists, who visted, painted, relocated and stayed the rest of their lives in the peaceful art community of Nashville, Indiana.
-Curt Churchman |
Etching on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Anthony Buchta |
Home From the Fishing Trip - Gloucester, Mass |
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Gouache on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Edward K. (E.K.) Williams |
Along the Shanties |
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SOLD |
Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Emabelle (Em.) Flanagan |
Holiday Park Twins |
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SOLD
This painting was featured in our weekly email on 9/12/14 along with the following gallery comments:
Emabelle Flanagan (almost always going by 'Em') graduated from Jefferson H.S. in Lafayette, IN and lived and painted most of her life in central Indiana. In the vintage context, she’s a little under the radar but I love her mid-century, loose yet painterly approach to her work. Think Derk Smit and Dorothy Franz in terms of style (a bit under the radar themselves). Holiday Park Twins is a really nice example and it’s Holiday Park, an Indianapolis fixture. (Nice article on history of Holiday Park’s ruins, here. Friends of Holiday Park current improvement initiative, here. ) Love the local subject matter! A very competent work by an oft-overlooked Indiana artist.
-Curt Churchman |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| C. Curry Bohm |
Hills o' Winter |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Anthony Buchta |
Winter Witcheries |
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SOLD
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This painting was featured in our weekly email on 12/12/14 along with the following gallery comments:
We seem to have an affinity for the work of Anthony Buchta. If you didn’t already know that a quick visit to his Fine Estate page shows the over fifty pieces that we’ve had over the years. This week’s painting of the moment, Winter Witcheries, is a charming example. Buchta jumped back and forth between illustrative type work and more painterly work and this piece falls into the latter category. A lovely winter evening featuring a Brown County farmstead, it’s infused with detail and dramatic shadowing. I love the square-ish size and it’s housed in the very nice original frame. One of the better Buchta works that we’ve had recently and it’s right in season!
- Curt Churchman, Fine Estate Art |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| John (Jan) Zwara |
Alpine Landscape #1 |
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Gouache on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| John (Jan) Zwara |
Alpine Landscape #2 |
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Gouache on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| George Herbert Baker |
Oregon Farmstead |
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Mixed Media on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
| Robert Marshall Root |
Over the Hill to the River |
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This Root painting was featured in our weekly email on 5/30/14 along with the following gallery comments:
Robert Root is indelibly associated with Shelbyville, IL but made frequent trips to Brown County with fellow Eastern Illinois artist Paul Turner Sargent. There he enjoyed the collegiality of the Nashville art scene as can be seen in the 1927 Frank Hohenberger photo (below). Much of Root’s output was watercolor and pastel. Over the Hill to the River (1922) is a somewhat rare oil example and a beautiful rendering of an apparently familiar Root painting spot. This same scape, featuring a couple maples and fencerow appears in other works by Root. The artist’s tonalist skills are showcased with his beautiful treatment of light dancing on the autumn landscape. The painting is in pristine condition with no in-painting, it’s been cleaned and revarnished and it’s housed in a handmade period reproduction frame (our work) and hand-leafed and finished to be sympathetic to the beautiful painting. An historically significant painting by one of Nashville’s orbit of early artists.
– Curt Churchman, Fine Estate Art |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Gianni Cilfone |
The Gardeners |
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This Cilfone painting was featured in our weekly email on 6/13/14 along with the following gallery comments:
Gianni Cilfone was a Chicago/Park Ridge, IL-based artist who was a frequent visitor to Nashville, IN and exhibitor in the Hoosier Salon where he won four awards over a ten year period. In addition to his largely landscape output, he was a teacher and frequent lecturer on painting technique. There is an excellent article in Palette Talk, by Cilfone in which he discusses his technique in depth. This week’s Painting of the Moment, The Gardeners, is a fantastic example of his work. A classic scene, hands working in the field, rendered in representative Cilfone style – very loose and impressionistic. The painting is in flawless condition and has been re-presented in a period reproduction frame (original frame is available though kinda weird). Cilfone’s title and date (1978) appear verso and also on the backing from the original set-up (included with the piece). In addition, an original studio label listing awards and distinctions is included. We’ve had many nice Cilfone pieces over the years and though small, this ranks up there with the best of them. A wonderful composition and such classic subject matter all brought to bear with Cilfone’s masterful approach to painting.
– Curt Churchman, Fine Estate Art |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Lois Davis |
Hurry Up To Wait |
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SOLD
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This Davis artwork was featured in our weekly email on 7/11/14 along with the following gallery comments:
Lois Davis is one of the few artists we deal in at Fine Estate who is still living! A good thing for her and us. She was married to fellow Hoosier artist and Prix de Rome winner Harry Davis and lived just up the road from Fine Estate in Broad Ripple. Her work is very consistent -- nearly always containing figures and representing a subtle (or not so subtle) social commentary. Hurry Up to Wait is no exception. Rendered in watercolor and ink it features a mother with her daughter doting on her doll. Sympathetic, as her work often is and beyond the focus, populated by several more background figures. A very nice, whimsical example of her output. The piece is archivally framed and ready to hang. A modestly priced and nicely representative example by an important Indiana artist.
– Curt Churchman, Fine Estate Art |
Mixed Media on Paper |
Signed Lower Left |
