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Artist
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Title | Thumbnail |
Notes old |
Media |
Signature status |
| 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 |
| Hilah Drake Wheeler |
Along the Pier |
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Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Verso |
| Paul Turner Sargent |
Brown County Overlook |
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This painting appeared in our weekly email on 6/24/16 with the following gallery comments:
Paul Turner Sargent was born and raised outside Charleston, IL and never left the family farm. His subject matter as a painter was not terribly far afield – many paintings featuring Eastern Illinois, some Chicago locations and otherwise, Brown County where he often ventured to paint. Today’s painting Brown County Overlook (or title) is one of those dear Brown County scenes. It was suggested that perhaps it’s a view from T.C. Steele’s property. Entirely possible since the piece was created in 1922, four years before Steele’s passing. The painting is clean and in very good condition. The original frame was recently restored (in-house) and has a great patina to it. A very nice example featuring an iconic Brown County vista. |
Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Edna S. Cathell |
Roses |
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Housed in an antique reproduction frame
This painting appeared in our weekly email on 7/1/16 with the following gallery comments:
Edna Stubbs Cathell was born in Richmond, IN in 1867. She studied under her mother (Emily Stubbs, an artist herself) during her younger years. She graduated from Earlham College in 1888 and travelled to Iowa to study further at the Cumming School of Art. She returned to Richmond and married in 1890 with the family bouncing back to Iowa in 1895. The Cathells eventually returned to Richmond in 1907 where they remained for the rest of her life. She was very active with the Richmond Art Association, the Palette Club and appeared in a handful of Hoosier Salon Annual Exhibitions. Later in her career she found work with the Joseph Hill Company, a Richmond firm that was an early hybridizer of roses. Her work with Hill focused on the exacting reproduction of new varieties for submission to the U.S. Patent Office. Beyond her paid gig, nearly all of her output was floral still lifes with a particular concentration on roses. Today’s painting is right out of that playbook – Roses per stretcher notation, verso (help us out here Edna…!). It’s clearly the type of painting she pursued throughout her whole artistic career. The painting has been cleaned, re-varnished and is in great condition. It’s been re-presented in an antique reproduction frame and it's ready to hang. A soft and beautiful work from a Richmond rose specialist. |
Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower left |
| Fred Rigley |
Summer Pier |
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Oil on Canvas |
Signed lower right |
| Anthony Buchta |
Summer's Rustic Charms |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Jean F. (Mrs. Frank) Vietor |
Redheaded Woodpecker |
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Woodcut Print on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Ruth Bernice Anderson |
Outward Bound |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Emabelle (Em.) Flanagan |
Fall in Hills |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Right |
| Frederick Polley |
Pirates Alley, New Orleans |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
| William Arnold, Jr. Eyden |
Spring in Richmond |
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Oil on Board |
Signed Lower Left |
| Varaldo Guiseppe (V.J.) Cariani |
The Lake in Autumn |
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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 |
| Sally Kriner |
Flowers in White Vase |
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Watercolor on Paper |
Signed Lower Right |
| Frederick Polley |
Westminster Abbey, London |
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Etching |
Signed Lower Right |
