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Artist Mildred Fries Ballard  (1903-2000)
Year Ca. 1950
Medium Oil on canvas 26 1/2"x46 1/2" (canvas size)
Price Upon Request

Mildred Fries, formerly Ballard, was a local artist from Kernersville.  She was born in 1903 in Old Salem (Winston-Salem, NC). Her early childhood was spent in Little Rock, Arkansas, before her family moved back to Kernersville when she was eight years old. She spent the rest of her childhood in Kernersville, eventually graduating from Kernersville High School. After she graduated, she moved to Washington DC, where she worked at the Pentagon. She married her boss, Harley Vernon, in 1940 and moved to Orlando, Florida with him. They later divorced and she was remarried in 1950, to William Fries. Mildred and William lived in Wisconsin until his passing in 1956. After William died Mildred moved back to Kernersville, where she remained until her passing in 2000.

​Mildred’s painting career began when she was just seven years old. She won her first art contest at the age of fourteen. Her talent was just that, innate talent. According to her family, she never received an art lesson in her life. When she moved back to Kernersville she opened her own art gallery, which was located on Main St. She was known to have painted several of Kernersville’s landscapes as she remembered the town in the 1920’s as well as contemporary landscapes. She also painted many portraits and commissioned landscapes for the many customers that she had.

Artist William Reginald Watkins (1890-1985)
Year 1934
Medium Oil on canvas 40"x40" (canvas size)
Price upon request

Born 1890 in Manchester, England, William Reginald Watkins settled in Baltimore from 1910 until his death at age 95. He studied at the Maryland Institute of Art under artists such as Hans Schuler, C.W. Turner and Maxwell Miller. His work exhibited at major Baltimore galleries, as well as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Peabody Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Grand Central Art Galleries, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts and the Maryland Institute. He taught painting and drawing at the Maryland Institute and the University of Maryland for half a century.

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Artist Reuben Jackson Gambrell  (1917-2006)
Year Unknown
Medium Ink, watercolor and gouache on paper 11 1/8"x16 1/2" (visible image size)
Price Upon Request

New Deal muralist, World War II serviceman, and art educator, Reuben Jackson Gambrell, Jr. painted a wide range of subjects in a Realist vein. Early in his career his figures were robust, but by mid-career his shapes appeared cubistic.

Born and raised in Belton, South Carolina, a small town in the Piedmont region, Gambrell excelled in his studies, making above average grades. He attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934. It was not until his junior year that Gambrell began to take painting seriously. After graduation he pursued drawing and painting under Lamar Dodd, artist-in-residence at the University of Georgia in Athens, and he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1940, the first such degree awarded by the university. He stayed at the university as an instructor while taking courses at the Art Students League in New York.

While in graduate school Gambrell submitted a mural design to the Forty-Eight State Mural Competition sponsored by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, a New Deal program. His was a highly favored entry with a scene depicting a tobacco auction within a warehouse; although the public loved his design, it did not win the competition. Success came, however, in 1941 when Gambrell received the mural commission for the post office in Rockmart, Georgia, where the cement industry was the sole manufacturing company and the obvious theme for his painting, titled Kiln Room, Cement Plant. An imposing composition above the door to the postmaster’s office, it illustrates various activities related to the industry: in the center, an internal light source shows five men wearing overalls struggling with a piece of equipment, while on the right two men are stuffing bags with cement.

In 1942 Gambrell joined the military and was sent to the U.S. Army Air Corps Photography School located in Denver, Colorado. Upon graduation he was assigned to photo mapping squadrons and intelligence divisions in the South Pacific. These photography squadrons flew over enemy territory, taking photographs of targets, and assessing damage. One of Gambrell’s responsibilities was to interpret the aerial photographs of such South Pacific islands as the New Hebrides, Bougainville, and New Caledonia. While overseas, Gambrell wrote to Dodd asking for art supplies, and in return he sent back sketchbooks full of his surroundings and his fellow servicemen. They numbered over one hundred drawings and watercolors, which were published in the Atlanta Journal over a two-year period. Quite a few of these works were exhibited during the 1940s at university galleries and museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. As well, a selection of his works done during World War II is now overseen by the South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation.

Reuben Gambrell remained in the Army Air Corps until October of 1945, when he returned to teaching at the University of Georgia. For a time, he taught in Savannah at the university’s extension campus and the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences where Myrtle Jones and Anna Hunter were among his students. By 1994, living in Columbia, South Carolina, his style shifted from American scene narrative imagery to focus on more modernist elements of line and shape.

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Artist Reuben Jackson Gambrell  (1917-2006)
Year 1957
Medium Graphite on paper 18"x13 1/2" (visible image size)
Price Upon Request

New Deal muralist, World War II serviceman, and art educator, Reuben Jackson Gambrell, Jr. painted a wide range of subjects in a Realist vein. Early in his career his figures were robust, but by mid-career his shapes appeared cubistic.

Born and raised in Belton, South Carolina, a small town in the Piedmont region, Gambrell excelled in his studies, making above average grades. He attended the University of South Carolina in Columbia and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1934. It was not until his junior year that Gambrell began to take painting seriously. After graduation he pursued drawing and painting under Lamar Dodd, artist-in-residence at the University of Georgia in Athens, and he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in 1940, the first such degree awarded by the university. He stayed at the university as an instructor while taking courses at the Art Students League in New York.

While in graduate school Gambrell submitted a mural design to the Forty-Eight State Mural Competition sponsored by the Treasury Section of Fine Arts, a New Deal program. His was a highly favored entry with a scene depicting a tobacco auction within a warehouse; although the public loved his design, it did not win the competition. Success came, however, in 1941 when Gambrell received the mural commission for the post office in Rockmart, Georgia, where the cement industry was the sole manufacturing company and the obvious theme for his painting, titled Kiln Room, Cement Plant. An imposing composition above the door to the postmaster’s office, it illustrates various activities related to the industry: in the center, an internal light source shows five men wearing overalls struggling with a piece of equipment, while on the right two men are stuffing bags with cement.

In 1942 Gambrell joined the military and was sent to the U.S. Army Air Corps Photography School located in Denver, Colorado. Upon graduation he was assigned to photo mapping squadrons and intelligence divisions in the South Pacific. These photography squadrons flew over enemy territory, taking photographs of targets, and assessing damage. One of Gambrell’s responsibilities was to interpret the aerial photographs of such South Pacific islands as the New Hebrides, Bougainville, and New Caledonia. While overseas, Gambrell wrote to Dodd asking for art supplies, and in return he sent back sketchbooks full of his surroundings and his fellow servicemen. They numbered over one hundred drawings and watercolors, which were published in the Atlanta Journal over a two-year period. Quite a few of these works were exhibited during the 1940s at university galleries and museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. As well, a selection of his works done during World War II is now overseen by the South Carolina Historic Aviation Foundation.

Reuben Gambrell remained in the Army Air Corps until October of 1945, when he returned to teaching at the University of Georgia. For a time, he taught in Savannah at the university’s extension campus and the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences where Myrtle Jones and Anna Hunter were among his students. By 1994, living in Columbia, South Carolina, his style shifted from American scene narrative imagery to focus on more modernist elements of line and shape.

Please excuse the glare on the right side of the image. This image is in perfect condition.

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Artist Earl Francis Hofmann  (1928-1992)
Year 1953
Medium Oil on panel 12"x20" (panel size)
Price $795

Earl Hofmann was a painter, sculptor, educator. Hofmann was one of Baltimore's realist artists, he was a significant part of the Baltimore art scene of the mid-20th century. Hofmann studied with and assisted Jacques Maroger at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Earl Francis Hofmann was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 11, 1928. He started painting at 12 and continued to develop his interest in art throughout his teenage years. Hofmann graduated Forest Park High School. After serving in the Marines he attended Maryland Institute College of Art where he studied and assisted Jacques Maroger until Maroger's death.

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Artist Buell Lee Whitehead  (1919-1993)
Year Mid-20th century
Medium Watercolor on paper 15 1/4"x19" (visible image size)
Price Upon Request

Buell Whitehead grew up in rural Ft. Myers. He entered the University of Florida in 1938, and in 1942 was called into the U.S. Army artillery one year short of his degree. Whitehead returned to Gainesville and earned Bachelors and Master Degrees in Fine Art. His home was a twelve acre farm eight miles Northeast of Ft. Myers where his familiarity with rural country life was transferred into paint using lithography. Whitehead traveled the country selling his prints out of a trunk. He became one of the most outstanding stone lithographers, working in color, in the United States.

This rare original watercolor by Whitehead was painted on the reverse of his folio-sized color lithograph titled WOOD IBIS presumably while he was on a marketing trip through the Carolinas. He obviously stopped in Charleston, South Carolina and being fascinated as he was with buildings, found the historic Miles Brewton House a perfect subject for a watercolor painting. The work has been professionally cleaned with a few edge repairs to the paper but all outside of the image area. A truly rare work by one of the south’s most revered lithographers.

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Artist Rosalie Chartrand Chaplin  (1871-1957)
Year Early 20th century
Medium Watercolor on paper 7"x9" (visible image size)
Price $400

Not much is known about Mrs. Chaplin’s art training but she was born on 21 February 1871, in Matanzas, Cuba. Apparently, the family moved to SC when she was an infant. She married Ashley Earnest Chaplin of SC on 16 June 1909. She lived in Ravenel, outside Charleston proper. She died on 27 January 1957, in Rantowles, Charleston. She is buried on Johns Island. Depicting Magnolia Gardens, one of Charleston’s venerable tourist spots, her adept handling of the watercolor medium is clearly evident in this work. A small, but expertly rendered painting.

Artist Louise Cone (1889-1968 )
Year 1963
Medium Oil on canvas 24"x30" (image size)
Price $895

Louise Schaefer Cone was born, reared and spent her adult life in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied locally under Edna Smith and visiting artists George Elmer Browne and Roderick MacKenzie. In New York she studied with Wayman Adams, George Bridgman, and Frank Vincent Dumond.  She was a member of the New York Art League, Southern States Art League, and the Birmingham Art Club.   She received numerous awards during her lifetime for works in oil and pastels.  Mrs. Cone was equally proficient in landscape, portraiture, and still life compositions.  Her portraits of prominent southerners hang throughout government buildings and museums in the south.

Artist John Carter Shryock (1914-2007)
Year 1970s
Medium Oil on canvas 22"x28" (canvas size)
Price Upon request

John Carter Shyrock studied at the Art Students League in New York City under Thomas Hart Benton, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Harry Sternberg, George Grosz, and Alexander Abels. After serving in the US Army during WWII, Shryock settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He found success as a freelance commercial artist and received commissions from several prominent companies including US Steel, Westinghouse, Pittsburgh Coal and Heinz. During these years, Shryock began painting noncommercial works of Pittsburgh and North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Many of these works were exhibited in galleries throughout the region. After the death of his wife, Shryock moved to Asheville, North Carolina where he focused on painting. A retrospective of his work was held in 2007 at the Merrimon Galleries in Asheville.

Artist Ruth E. Jewell (1908-1999)
Year 1950s
Medium Oil on board 20"x24" (board size)
Price $850

Ruth E. Jewell was born on Staten Island, New York in 1908.  Her art instructors included John F. Carlson, Jaffrey Harris, Paul Strisik, Emile Gruppe, Harry Ballinger and John McCoy.  She taught landscape painting in Wilmington, Delaware for fourteen years and exhibited in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Maine and Massachusetts with one-man shows in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New England. 

Artist John Paul "Laddie" Waters Jr. (1922-2022)
Year 1960s
Medium Oil on board 18"x22" (board size)
Price $850

John Paul Waters, Jr., known as “Laddie Waters,” was born in Washington, D.C., in 1933. The son of a butcher, he encountered people from all over the country who flocked to the capital during the tumultuous decade that followed. In elementary school, he showed an aptitude for oil painting, and after the divorce of his parents in 1944 he moved with his mother to Baltimore, Maryland, where he lived the rest of his life. He was a 1954 graduate of Baltimore City College and attended the Maryland Institute College of Art, studying under Jacques Maroger and his apprentice, Ann Schuler. He earned a Fine Arts degree and served with the Maryland National Guard for two years, before returning to art full time. He met and married Elizabeth O’Connor in 1978; they had two daughters who attended Baltimore School for the Arts and became artists as well. As a mentor to countless Baltimore artists who saw and recorded figures and landscapes in rich colors, he was particularly known for impressionistic depictions in the Flemish technique, creating his own paint using linseed oil, lead carbonate, and mastich varnish on his kitchen stovetop.

Artist Mary Elizabeth (Betty) Fischer (1931-2016)
Year 1960s
Medium Oil on raised panel 6 1/4"x11 3/4" (image size)
Price $325

Betty Fischer was born in Byron, Georgia but spent most of her adult life in Kentucky and Maryland and died in Edgewater, Maryland in 2016. She was regarded as a folk artist who chose to paint on objects like wood shutters, bird houses, barrel slats, and in this case, a raised wood panel from an old door. Her genre scenes depicted, principally, southern rural landscapes with houses of African Americans, cotton picking scenes and the occasional wildlife painting.

Artist Kenneth Harris (1904-1983)
Year 1967
Medium Watercolor on paper 15"x22" (image size)
Price Upon request

Kenneth Harris studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and worked as a commercial artist in Charlotte, NC and Atlanta, GA before beginning a career as a painter in Norfolk, VA. He became known for his series of paintings of "Old Norfolk" prior to its redevelopment. His paintings became some of the only records of those sites. In the early 1950's, the Norfolk Museum (now the Chrysler Museum) purchased from Harris a series of thirty watercolors for a permanent collection of the city at mid-century. He also painted in Williamsburg, Virginia and throughout North Carolina.

Artist Buell Whitehead (1919-1993)
Year 1986
Medium Color lithograph on paper 21 1/2"x28” (image size)
Price $595

Buell Whitehead grew up in rural Ft. Myers. He entered the University of Florida in 1938, and in 1942 was called into the U.S. Army artillery one year short of his degree. Whitehead returned to Gainesville and earned Bachelors and Master Degrees in Fine Art. His home was a twelve acre farm eight miles Northeast of Ft. Myers where his familiarity with rural country life was transferred into paint using lithography. Whitehead traveled the country selling his prints out of a trunk. He became one of the most outstanding stone lithographers, working in color, in the United States.

Artist Ernest T. Fredericks (1877-1959)
Year 1930s
Medium Oil on canvas 22"x28" (Canvas size)
Price $895

This painting is by Ernest T. Fredericks, an artist principally known for his work in the Ozark Mountains. Ernest Fredericks (American, 1877-1959) was born in McPherson, Kansas in 1877 by the name Frederick Ernest Swedlun. He later moved to Chicago to study art. It was during this time he changed his name to Ernest Fredericks. He used this pseudonym because he was of Swedish origin and at the time he was living in Chicago, they were the newest immigrant group being bashed. Following his studies at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Fredericks exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and in the All-Illinois art shows. He also belonged to the Chicago Society of Artists. Fredericks' paintings were often accompanied by either a typed biographical sketch or a reprint of a 1940 edition from the Chicago Daily News pertaining to a Fredericks exhibition, but in this case there is no printed material on the rear. Fredericks married Cordella Florence Cayle on May 26, 1900, in Kane, Illinois. They had two children, a son and daughter. His son, Glenn Swedlun, became a landscape painter of considerable talent himself. Fredericks found endless inspiration in the beauty of the Ozarks. In Chicago, Fredericks described the Ozarks as an “artist’s gold mine of color and composition.” In 1950, Fredericks and his wife, along with his son and daughter-in-law, moved to Eureka Springs (Carroll County). There, he resumed signing his art with his actual name, Fred Swedlun. Together with his son, Swedlun painted and taught art classes in the Ozarks until his death in 1959.

Note: The work has some limited, broad craquelure in the center, white area of the clouds. The painting has been cleaned and varnished.

Artist Revington Arthur (1908-1986)
Year Late 1940s
Medium Oil on canvas 34”x35” (canvas size)
Price Price Upon Request

Revington Arthur was born in 1908 in the Glenbrook neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut, where he was also raised. His father was an engineer. He began painting from an early age. Arthur studied at the Art Students League of New York, the Eastport Summer School of Art, and the Grand Central School of Art under Kimon Nicolaïdes, George Luks, and George Pearse Ennis. Arthur had been taught painting for three years by abstract expressionist artist Arshile Gorky at the Grand Central School of Art, from 1927 until 1929. By 1932 he was professionally displaying his work in New York City and by 1957, he had held more than 22 solo art exhibitions. He primarily lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, with summers in Chautauqua, New York.

This work is unsigned but has the title written on both the stretcher and on the 1953 National Academy of Design Exhibition label as well as the artist’s name and address. The work has been cleaned and varnished. It has craquelure throughout. A very strong work with a Gauguinesque inspiration.

Artist Ruthven Holmes Byrum (1896-1958)
Year 1940s
Medium Oil on canvas 22”x26” (canvas size)
Price Price upon request

Ruthven Byrum, born in Grand Junction, Michigan in 1896, moved to Anderson, Indiana when he was 10 years old and fostered his early love of art at Anderson High School. After attending Anderson College for a year, Byrum transferred to Indiana University, where he studied art under Robert E. Burke and T.C. Steele. Byrum furthered his study in painting at the Art Institute of Chicago. Byrum continued to explore new ideas and traveled to Europe in 1929 to broaden his artistic knowledge. He studied under contemporary painters, including Andre L’Hote and Hans Hofmann, a leader in the abstract expressionist movement. Best known for his landscape paintings, Byrum traveled the United States, painting in Alaska, Indiana’s Brown County, the Lake Michigan countryside, and the Smoky Mountains. He returned to Anderson in 1936 and used his love of art to bolster the local community by giving private lessons while developing and heading the art program at AC until his death in 1958.

Artist Edwin Lamasure, Jr. (1867-1916)
Year Ca. 1900
Medium Watercolor on paper 9 1/2”x29” (image size)
Price $795

Edwin Lamasure, Jr., was born in Philadelphia to parents of French and Scottish heritage. Lamasure’s studio was in Washington, DC, where he became noted as a painter of landscapes, marine scenes, and historical buildings. He worked primarily in watercolors. While living in Washington, DC, he was active in numerous art clubs and exhibited at the Veerhoff Gallery. Much of his subject matter was in Virginia and Maryland, and he spent much of his time in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay region. Lamasure’s prints were mass produced for decorative purposes; his artwork also frequently appeared as calendar art. His work remained popular through the first two decades of the twentieth century.

Artist Jacob Glushakow (1914-2000)
Year 1950s
Medium Oil on canvas 13”x25” (canvas size)
Price Price upon request

Jacob Glushakow was an American painter known for his keen observations of life in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Glushakow was the oldest of 11 children born to Esther and Abraham Glushakow. He was born on the steamship Brandenburg while crossing the Atlantic from Bremen to Baltimore. His father was a clothing presser and candy maker and was also the host of a Jewish-American radio program. Jacob's parents left Ukraine days before the outbreak of World War I.

Jacob was raised in East Baltimore at Eden and Baltimore streets and attended Baltimore City Public Schools. He graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1933 and went on to the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Art Students League in New York, where he studied from 1933 to 1936. During his time in New York he taught a children's art class at a public school in the Bronx as part of the Works Progress Administration.

Glushakow spent more than sixty years painting the neighborhoods of his hometown. His works reflect an interest in the everyday, often including views of row houses, markets, streets. They provide a record of Baltimore's past, and feature a somewhat melancholic view of the urban setting with a rich history that has disappeared. Glushakow studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Jewish Educational Alliance, and at the Art Students League in New York. He remained faithful to a traditional realist style of painting throughout his career. His work can be found in the permanent collections of The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Maryland Historical Society and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others.

Artist Alice Scott (Scanland) (1924-2005)
Year 1957
Medium Oil on board 12”x15” (board size)
Price $795.00

A South Carolina artist, Alice Scott studied painting techniques at the Art Students League, New York City, as well as individual instruction with Robert Brackman, in Connecticut, and with Richard Lahey at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Alice Scott also studied sculpture with both Hainz Warneke and Don Turano. During the decades of the 1940's through the 1960's, Alice Scott lived in Charleston and was active both as a painter and theater designer. In this latter vein, while working in New York, she was commissioned to design sets for a European tour of George Gershwin's, "Porgy and Bess". Later in her career the artist depicted scenes throughout the American South, including landscapes and bird and animal studies within Florida. Alice Scott exhibited her paintings, watercolors and sculpture at such institutions as the Pensacola Art Center, Pensacola, Florida, the Gallery of Art, Panama City, Florida, Lemoyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, Virginia, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina and the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina.

Artist Revington Arthur (1908-1986)
Year 1940s
Medium Oil on board 10”x14” (board size)
Price $395.00

Revington Arthur was born in 1908 in the Glenbrook neighborhood of Stamford, Connecticut, where he was also raised. His father was an engineer. He began painting from an early age. Arthur studied at the Art Students League of New York, the Eastport Summer School of Art, and the Grand Central School of Art under Kimon Nicolaïdes, George Luks, and George Pearse Ennis. Arthur had been taught painting for three years by abstract expressionist artist Arshile Gorky at the Grand Central School of Art, from 1927 until 1929. By 1932 he was professionally displaying his work in New York City and by 1957, he had held more than 22 solo art exhibitions. He primarily lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, with summers in Chautauqua, New York.

Artist Frances Hall Herring (1898-1973)
Year 1940s
Medium Watercolor on paper 13 1/4”x19 1/4” (image size)
Price $595.00

Frances Hall, from Milledgeville, Georgia was like many young female artists who came into their own artistically in the shadow of a more famous artist husband. In this case, it was the well-regarded portrait and landscape painter, Frank Stanley Herring. The couple met at the Grand Central School of Art in New York city where Mr. Herring was teaching in the early 1920s and Ms. Hall was a student. After marrying, the couple visited, and ultimately moved, to south Florida, living in Miami until the 1929 Stock Market crash which forced them back to NYC. Throughout the 1930s, the Herrings continued to travel in the South and both painted landscapes and portraits of local African Americans as well as white patrons. Mrs. Hall was always mentioned as simply the wife of Frank Herring. They painted throughout Florida and on the coast of Georgia and, in 1932, they made their first trip to Little Switzerland, high in the mountains of western North Carolina. They would spend nearly every summer in Little Switzerland until Frank Herring’s death in 1966 running the Ringling Museum School of Art’s summer term art school. With the end of World War II, in the summer of 1945, the Herrings in partnership with artist Edward Shorter, purchased a summer camp property, just north of Little Switzerland, in Burnsville, N.C. called Seecelo. Seecelo was a 52-acre tract of land, at an altitude of 3,000 feet, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with a large studio, 10 cottages, two lodges, a dining room, a lake and a swimming pool. There, both France Hall and Frank Herring taught classes while Frank keep his contacts and teaching positions at both the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota and the Grand Central School of Art. The Herrings finally retired to Milledgeville, Georgia in 1956. Both artists taught summer Burnsville art classes at Seecelo for twenty years, only stopping in 1965 for health reasons. In the post WWII era, Frances began to exhibit regularly with her husband. Her work is recognized as part of the pantheon of southern women artists active in her native Georgia and Florida and North Carolina.

Artist Franz Josef Bolinger (1903-1986)
Year 1950s
Medium Oil on canvas 24”x30” (canvas size)
Price Upon Request

Franz Josef Bolinger painted thousands of pictures of the Everglades. A man obsessed by his love of nature, Mr. Bolinger was best known for his outspoken devotion to and massive collection of paintings on the Everglades. He liked to call himself the last of the old-time Florida artists. "It's so beautiful, so beautiful that I get bitter and bitter at these people who are destroying it", Bolinger said of the Everglades in 1974. "If the Creator was willing, I'd paint 500 pictures a year. I don't care if I sell one of them. That's why I'm painting so furiously from 6 o'clock in the morning to 3 o'clock next morning. I paint every day." In 1960, Mr. Bolinger became dedicated to preserving the Everglades on canvas. "Civilization is working night and day to destroy the great vacant places of the earth," he said then. "I will try and retain in the only place where anything is permanent - man's imagination. Let's have some happy painting for a change. The world is still full of beauty. Of course, it's more difficult to paint a sunset than a board fence or a garbage pail, but just look at the difference. Between 1962 and 1974, Mr. Bolinger almost exclusively painted the Everglades completing more than 1,000 paintings. Mr. Bolinger, born in Ft. Lauderdale, lived in Florida nearly all of his life and was a favorite among many Miamians.

Artist Edward “Eddie” Rosenfeld (1906-1983)
Year 1950s
Medium Oil on board 16”x20” (board size)
Price $695.00

Edward (Eddie) Rosenfeld was born in Baltimore in 1906 and lived in Walbrook. Eddie had two or three brothers and two sisters, but he never married. Eddie’s father had a shoemaker shop on Baltimore Street. Eddie had an early job as sign painter’s apprentice and went to Maryland Institute College of Art for about one semester. During the war, Eddie had a job in Washington, DC framing pictures. Later, Eddie returned to Baltimore and rented and subsequently bought a house on Tyson Street before the house was renovated and the neighborhood was revitalized. He was long known as “The Mayor of Tyson Street” due to the regentrification of Mount Vernon that Rosenfeld was integral in initiating in the 1940s. A group of artists including Carl Metzler, Aaron Sopher, Reuben Kramer, Jacob Glushakow & Eddie would meet regularly there to paint and critique each other’s work. Eddie was also a part of a weekly lunch group with Jim Brady, Donald Proctor, and Dr. Neustadt, who met at the Belvedere Hotel or Rosenfeld’s house. Rosenfeld’s works are owned by many known repositories of art, including the Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Phillips Collection. When Eddie Rosenfeld died in 1983, he donated his body to science and was subsequently buried in Spring Grove Cemetery.

This image depicts one of Rosenfeld’s favorite places, the race track at Pimlico Downs. Minor inpainting with new varnish. Comes in the original frame with a restored finish. The work is signed in the lower right corner in pencil and inscribed with the title and artist’s name on the back of the frame. Additional photographs available upon request.

Artist Sarah Dove “Sally” Lide Aimar (1914-1994)
Year Ca. 1960
Medium Oil on canvas 20"x24" (canvas size)
Price $750

Sally L. Aimar was an artist from Charleston, South Carolina and based on her business card attached to the back of the painting, she provided “Originals” to the public. Her address is listed and 2 seven digit phone numbers. On the reverse side of the card is information about this work including her name, home address again, the title “Burnsville”, the media and price of $250. Little else is known about her life other than she is buried in the St. Philip’s Episcopal Cemetery in downtown Charleston. Her husband was Harold Anthony Aimar (1908-1994). Given there was an active summer artist school near Burnsville, she might have been taught by members of the staff there including Frank Stanley Herring and John Bryans. This is a well-executed work in the style that combined evolving modernist sensibilities with more traditional landscape composition common in the mid-20th century.

Artist Doris Porter McLean (1897-1994)
Year 1960s
Medium Oil on canvas 24"x30" (canvas size)
Price $625

Doris Porter McLean was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1897. She attended and graduated from Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia and shortly there after, moved to Philadelphia to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She also received her M.A. degree from the University of Michigan where she spent most of her adult life having moved there due to her husbands job. She was very active in the arts scene in Michigan as well as teaching at several schools and the University of Michigan. She was the director of the Ann Arbor Art Academy, listed in Who’s Who in Art as a member of the Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors, Ann Arbor and North Shore Art Association, Grosse Point Artists and Palette and Brush, an honorary society of the Michigan Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters. Likewise, she contributed articles on art to arts and education magazines and became a frequent exhibitor. In 1960, following the death of her husband and a very productive career in the arts in Michigan, she relocated to her hometown of Portsmouth, Virginia where she remained active exhibiting her paintings until her death in 1994 at the age of 97. Her work approximated a Regionalist aesthetic throughout her career as this example from the 1960s illustrates. A familiar scene on the island of Ocracoke, this lighthouse has been the subject for many artists.

Artist Melvin Orville Miller, Jr. (1937-2007)
Year 1961
Medium Oil on Masonite 18"x24" (board size)
Price Price upon request

Born in Baltimore in 1937, Melvin O. Miller graduated from the Maryland Institute of Art in 1959. As a student of Jacques Maroger, Ann D. Schuler, and Earl Hofmann, he became interested in the mediums and techniques of the 15th - 18th century Flemish and Italian Masters, and he assisted Franklin Redelius in the research of those masters. The Maryland Institute of Art awarded him an honorary BFA degree in 1996. He was a member of the "6 Realists of Baltimore" 1961 - 1963. Favorite subjects include Baltimore and European cityscapes, maritime subjects and occasional floral pieces. Regionally, he has been sometimes called, "the Canaletto of Baltimore."

Artist Amos Lee Armstrong (1899-1969)
Year 1953
Medium Oil on board 22"x30" (board size)
Price Price upon request

Born in Many, Louisiana, Amos Armstrong became a painter of impressionist southern landscapes and also lectured on southern art. He attended Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston, Louisiana and also studied at the Natchitoches Art Colony in Louisiana and the Art Students League in New York.  For 26 years, he was geological draftsman for oil companies, working in Texas and Louisiana, living in Houston in the 1930s. From 1934 to 1942, he had a studio in New Orleans. He served in World War I and World War II, and then settled in Shreveport, Louisiana where he died in 1969.  Exhibitions included the Salons of America and the Society of Independent Artists in New York, the Southern States Art League, and the Houston Artists Exhibition.

Artist Marie Louise McQuiston Evans (1884-1949)
Year 1920s
Medium Watercolor on paper 13"x18 1/2" (image size)
Price $550

Marie Louise McQuiston Evans was born in 1884 in Aberdeen, Mississippi and charted a career as a watercolor artist concentrating on botanical subjects as well as landscapes. Not much is known about her art career other than she was a prolific illustrator and exhibited at the National Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution in the early 20th century. This work depicts two hunting dogs on the prowl in the upland south. Done on sepia paper, it projects the feel of an antique work with it’s warm earth tones. Expertly executed.

Artist Buell Whitehead (1919-1993)
Year 1940s
Medium Color lithograph on paper 14 1/2"x17 1/2” (image size)
Price $795

Buell Whitehead grew up in rural Ft. Myers. He entered the University of Florida in 1938, and in 1942 was called into the U.S. Army artillery one year short of his degree. Whitehead returned to Gainesville and earned Bachelors and Master Degrees in Fine Art. His home was a twelve acre farm eight miles Northeast of Ft. Myers where his familiarity with rural country life was transferred into paint using lithography. Whitehead traveled the country selling his prints out of a trunk. He became one of the most outstanding stone lithographers, working in color, in the United States.

Artist Dayrell Kortheuer (1906-1995)
Year 1960s
Medium Oil on canvas board 12"x16" (board size)
Price $450.00

Kortheuer was born in New York City in 1906 with an immediate passion for painting, which was developed at an early age. He studied the great art in the Museums and Galleries of London, Paris, Florence and Stockholm, besides New York City. In New York, Kortheuer studied at the Art Student's League beginning in 1924 with Frank Dumond, George Bridgmen, Max Weber, John Carroll and others. He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Charles Hawthorne. In 1937 Dayrell and Katheryn moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he remained until his death in 1995.

Artist Garnet W. Jex (1895-1979)
Year 1940s
Medium Oil on canvas 20"x24" (canvas size)
Price Upon request

Garnet Wolesey Jex (October 19, 1895 – September 21, 1979 was an American artist and historian. Born in Kent, Ohio, he moved with his family to Washington, D.C., at the age of four. He remained in the Washington area until his death. Jex enlisted in the U.S. Army in World War I. After the war, he worked as a medical illustrator for the Army Medical Corps for two years and attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design. He earned a BA in 1927 and a Master's degree in 1931, both from George Washington University. While completing his master's degree, he worked as an art editor for the journal Nature. Later, Jex was employed as the Director of Graphics for the U.S. Bureau of State Services, and worked as an artist and designer at the United States Public Health Service for 26 years, until his retirement in 1962. In 1965, Jex authored a history book of the American Civil War entitled The Upper Potomac in the Civil War, based on a series of 51 watercolor paintings. Jex was highly renowned for his landscape paintings of the Potomac River and the C & O Canal. Although a flood destroyed the canal in 1924, Jex's works remain as a visual record of the once commercially important structure. While many of Jex’s works are held in private collections, others can be found on public display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.

Artist Ruth Starr Rose (1887-1965 )
Year 1940s
Medium Serigraph on paper 11 1/2"x9 1/4" (image size)
Price $425.00

Ruth Starr Rose (1887–1965) was an American artist. She was a painter, lithographer and serigrapher, and best known for her paintings of African American life in Maryland in the 1930s and 1940s. This important woman artist's work has toured throughout Maryland, the United States, and Europe as a unique example of an early American Shared Community expressed through pigment and paint. Additionally, Rose is credited as the first white artist to create a work of art for a black church. The subject of her fresco, Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded, was to honor the minister's son who perished in training for WWII.

Artist Grant Tyson Reynard (1887-1968)
Year 1940s
Medium Watercolor on paper 14"x20” (sight size)
Price $650

Painter, etcher, lithographer, and illustrator Grant Reynard was born in Grand Island, Nebraska and originally trained as a pianist, which he abandoned in favor of the visual arts, studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1906-07. In 1913 he became Art Director of Red Book and contributed illustrations to it, as well as to Colliers and the Saturday Evening Post. Reynard pursued advanced training with Charles Chapman, Harvey Dunn, Mahonri Young and Harry Wickey at Leonia, New Jersey during this period, and maintained a studio there for many years. From 1926 through 1937, he was a fellow of the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Reynard was elected an Associate of the National Academy, and taught at several different schools. He died at New York City.

Artist Howard Murry (1891-1968)
Year 1940s
Medium Watercolor on paper 14"x19” (image size)
Price $875

During Howard Murry's lifetime (1891-1968) he exhibited his work at the Mint Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at commercial galleries in Charlotte, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. He was largely self-taught. He took up residence in Valle Crucis , North Carolina and this mountain hamlet is where he painted local scenes of the working men and women of the valley. He wrote a book titled "Salt O Life," providing stories from the western North Carolina mountains that match his watercolor paintings. He also painted on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and in low state South Carolina at Edisto Island near Charleston.

Artist Buell Whitehead (1919-1993)
Year 1946
Medium Color lithograph on paper 11 1/2"x13 1/2” (image size)
Price $495

Buell Whitehead grew up in rural Ft. Myers. He entered the University of Florida in 1938, and in 1942 was called into the U.S. Army artillery one year short of his degree. Whitehead returned to Gainesville and earned Bachelors and Master Degrees in Fine Art. His home was a twelve acre farm eight miles Northeast of Ft. Myers where his familiarity with rural country life was transferred into paint using lithography. Whitehead traveled the country selling his prints out of a trunk. He became one of the most outstanding stone lithographers, working in color, in the United States.

Artist Richard Jenkins Bryan (1907-1986)
Year 1939
Medium Oil on board 11 1/2" x 15 3/4" (board size)
Price $795.00

Richard Jenkins Bryan was born in 1907 on John's Island near Charleston, South Carolina. The descendant of an old and prominent South Carolina family, Richard Bryan spent much of his life painting in and around the Charleston area. A graduate of The Citadel in 1931, Bryan studied charcoal drawing under the well-known artist Alfred Hutty and oil painting under Charleston painter Emma Gilchrist. He also studied painting in a summer session at the Kansas City Art Institute, and, under Jack Leinhart on John's Island. Bryan exhibited frequently around his home state, often winning prizes for his works. He received a first place at the Charleston County Fair as an amateur.

Artist Alberta Barber (1898-1969)
Year 1930s
Medium Oil on board 12"x16" (board size)
Price $495.00

Alberta Barber was born in Savannah, Georgia and active during the heyday of the city’s art movement in the early 20th century. Although little is know about Ms. Barber’s artistic training and life in general, she is known to have painted some of the same scenes as contemporary artists during the period such as Lila Cabaniss, Hattie Saussy, members of the Murphy family and Anna Catherine Kuck. Skilled in the Impressionist style, in this scene, Ms. Barber depicts a typical Savannah marsh scene with live oaks, Spanish Moss and a waterway in the background. A talented artist who deserves more research.

Artist Alberta Barber (1898-1969)
Year 1930s
Medium Oil on board 18"x22" (Board size)
Price $795.00

Alberta Barber was born in Savannah, Georgia and active during the heyday of the city’s art movement in the early 20th century. Although little is know about Ms. Barber’s artistic training and life in general, she is known to have painted some of the same scenes as contemporary artists during the period such as Lila Cabaniss, Hattie Saussy, members of the Murphy family and Anna Catherine Kuck. Skilled in the Impressionist style, in this scene, Ms. Barber depicts a typical azalea-filled spring garden scene with live oaks and Spanish Moss. A talented artist who deserves more research.

Artist E. Gateson (Dates unknown)
Year 1930s
Medium Oil on Canvas 16"x20" (canvas size)
Price Upon request

Nearly nothing is known of this artist although oral tradition suggests he/she was from Alabama and active during the early to mid-20th century. This work and the accompanying one by the same artist are well-executed with emphasis on the caricature of the subjects in everyday activities.

Artist E. Gateson (Dates unknown)
Year 1930s
Medium Oil on Canvas 16"x20" (canvas size)
Price Upon request

Nearly nothing is known of this artist although oral tradition suggests he/she was from Alabama and active during the early to mid-20th century. This work and the accompanying one by the same artist are well-executed with emphasis on the caricature of the subjects in everyday activities.

Artist Emma Lossen (1892-1976)
Year 1936
Medium Oil on board 20"x24"
Price Upon request

Emma Lossen was born in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1892 and grew up in Wilmington with little opportunity for art study in the public schools, but read all available books on the subject. She studied pencil-sketching and crafts with Mrs. Braswell at UNC-G, design with Arthur W. Dow and still life with Kenyon Cox at Columbia University. She also studied with local artist Elisabeth Chant and oil painting with Augustus Cook at UNC-CH. Studies in interior decoration and life drawing were at the Abbott School of Art in Washington, D.C. and with A. Jacobi at the Spanish Art Center in San Diego, California. She was a public school teacher from 1914 until her retirement in 1959. Lossen exhibited at the Wilmington Museum of Art in 1939 and gave many gallery talks. She had a one-man show at Artists’ Gallery in October, 1958 and November, 1960 and at St. John’s Art Gallery in May, 1966. Her specialty were paintings of Greenfield Lake.

Artist Alice Scott Scanland (1924-2005)
Year 1998
Medium Watercolor on paper 9 1/2"x16" (image size)
Price Upon request

A South Carolina artist, Alice Scott studied painting techniques at the Art Students League, New York City, as well as individual instruction with Robert Brackman, in Connecticut, and with Richard Lahey at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Alice Scott also studied sculpture with both Hainz Warneke and Don Turano. During the decades of the 1940's through the 1960's, Alice Scott lived in Charleston and was active both as a painter and theater designer. In this latter vein, while working in New York, she was commissioned to design sets for a European tour of George Gershwin's, "Porgy and Bess". Later in her career the artist depicted scenes throughout the American South, including landscapes and bird and animal studies within Florida. Alice Scott exhibited her paintings, watercolors and sculpture at such institutions as the Pensacola Art Center, Pensacola, Florida, the Gallery of Art, Panama City, Florida, Lemoyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, Virginia, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina and the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina.

Artist Alice Scott Scanland (1924-2005)
Year 1984
Medium Oil on board 24"x36" (board size)
Price $750.00

A South Carolina artist, Alice Scott studied painting techniques at the Art Students League, New York City, as well as individual instruction with Robert Brackman, in Connecticut, and with Richard Lahey at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Alice Scott also studied sculpture with both Hainz Warneke and Don Turano. During the decades of the 1940's through the 1960's, Alice Scott lived in Charleston and was active both as a painter and theater designer. In this latter vein, while working in New York, she was commissioned to design sets for a European tour of George Gershwin's, "Porgy and Bess". Later in her career the artist depicted scenes throughout the American South, including landscapes and bird and animal studies within Florida. Alice Scott exhibited her paintings, watercolors and sculpture at such institutions as the Pensacola Art Center, Pensacola, Florida, the Gallery of Art, Panama City, Florida, Lemoyne Art Foundation, Tallahassee, Florida, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Twentieth Century Gallery, Williamsburg, Virginia, Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina and the Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina.

Artist (After) Harry Herman Roseland (1867-1950 ) Unsigned
Year ca. 1900
Medium Oil on canvas 22"x29 1/2" (canvas size)
Price Upon request

Harry Herman Roseland was one of the most notable painters of the genre painting school around the turn of the 20th century. An American, Roseland was primarily known for paintings centered on poor African-Americans. Roseland was largely self-taught, and never traveled to Europe to study art, as did many of the American artists of his time. However, he did receive instruction from John Bernard Whittaker and later, James Carroll Beckwith. One of his most popular subjects were his paintings of black women fortune tellers who read the palms and tea leaves of white women clients. These paintings were widely reproduced during the early 20th century in the form of postcard sets and large full-colour prints that were distributed as Sunday supplements in newspapers. While known most for his paintings of African Americans, his work encompassed many genres, including seascapes and portraits. He also gained renown for his paintings of laborers in the coastal areas of New England and New York and his many interior paintings. Roseland was born and lived his entire life in Brooklyn. He was a member of the Salmagundi Club and the Brooklyn Society of Artists; in the latter organization he was a member of the executive board.

Artist Caroline Kaufmann McCauley (1919- )
Year 1989
Medium Graphite on paper 14”x21” (image size)
Price $295

Caroline Kaufmann McCauley was born in 1919 in Savannah, Georgia and lived in Chapel Hill, NC, Rhode Island, Virginia, Puerto Rico, California, and Greenville, NC before coming to Wilmington, NC. She received a B.F.A. from the University of Georgia and studied at the American University in Washington, D.C. She taught art in the public schools of Georgia, Virginia and Maryland. McCauley had a one-man show at East Carolina Art Society in 1973 and at St. John’s Art Gallery in 1975 in Wilmington. She exhibited in a number of local and regional shows winning first prize in the Lower Cape Fear annual in 1970 and receiving the Hunt Purchase Award at the North Carolina Watercolor show in Raleigh in 1973.

Artist Nestor Hippoyle Fruge (1914-2011)
Year 1950s
Medium Oil on canvas 24"x30" (canvas size)
Price Upon request

Fruge was a self-trained artist. He operated an art school in New Orleans. He worked in both oils and watercolors though watercolor was his preferred medium. He was born in Bayou LaFourche, Louisiana, in 1916. He worked primarily in New Orleans, but also New York, Paris, and Mexico. He won numerous awards dating back to the mid-30's. He operated Fruge's Academy of Art, New Orleans, from 1949-1952. After the early 1950s he traveled and exhibited principally in Europe and Mexico with frequent periodic sojourns back to New Orleans.

Artist Laurence Christie Edwardson (1904-1995)
Year 1950s
Medium Oil on masonite 24"x36" (image size)
Price Upon request

Laurence Christie Edwardson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1904 and lived part of his life in Kensington, Connecticut. Much of his painting career was spent in New England and New Orleans, Louisiana. His work includes many Louisiana landscapes, portraits and religious subjects; and one of his modernist works is in the Historic New Orleans Collection. Edwardson studied at the Hartford Art School; with Gifford Beal, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Edward Dufner, New Britain Art League; A. Jones; and S. Nichols.

Artist Oscar Pinckney Wetherington (1921-1997 )
Year ca. 1960
Medium Watercolor on paper 18 1/2"x23" (image size)
Price $595

After World War II Wetherington attended the California School of Arts and Crafts in La Jolla, where he received a bachelor of arts degree and did graduate work in teacher training. While teaching art, he was also the supervisor of the art department of The San Diego Union and Evening Tribune for 10 years. Wetherington returned to South Carolina in 1960 and settled in Charleston, where he worked as art director for a national advertising agency. Making his way closer to Orangeburg and home, Wetherington took a graphic arts position with the R.L. Bryan Printing Co. in Columbia, where he did his most famous work. After Wetherington retired in 1972, he devoted his time to fine arts and conducting master classes for established artists such as noted Denmark artist Jim Harrison and local artist Elsie Lewis Fogle.

Artist Anne Carroll Marshall Ball (1932-1916)
Year 1950s or 1960s
Medium Watercolor on paper 16"x20" (image size)
Price $450

Anne Ball was a local, mid-20th century artist in Charleston, South Carolina who find subject matter in the streets and low country architecture of the region. She was on the Women's Council of the Gibbes Museum and an active member of other local art institutions. Little is known about her training or exhibition history.

Artist Rolland Golden (1931-    )
Year 1961
Medium Watercolor on paper 20 1/2"x28 1/2" (image size)
Price Price upon request

Rolland Golden is a nationally recognized artist who resides in Natchez, Ms. and Folsom, La. He is listed in numerous art directories and has won many awards from New York to California. He has had over 100 one-man exhibitions in galleries, cultural centers and museums in the U. S., as well as one-man touring exhibitions (Invitationals), notably, the former U.S.S.R. 1975-77 and France 1993-95. Golden's works are in countless private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad, as well as many museums, including the New Orleans Museum of Art, Mississippi Museum of Art, The Historic New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, N. O. Rolland Golden studied under regionalist painter and teacher John McCrady in the famed French Quarter of New Orleans.

Artist Dayrell Kortheuer (1906-1995)
Year 1970
Medium Oil on canvas 25"x35.5"
Price Price upon request

Kortheuer was born in New York City in 1906 with an immediate passion for painting, which was developed at an early age. He studied the great art in the Museums and Galleries of London, Paris, Florence and Stockholm, besides New York City. In New York, Kortheuer studied at the Art Student's League beginning in 1924 with Frank Dumond, George Bridgmen, Max Weber, John Carroll and others. He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Charles Hawthorne. In 1937 Dayrell and Katheryn moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, where he remained until his death in 1995.

Artist Harrison Cady (1877-1970 )
Year 1930s
Medium Etching on paper 10.25"x12.25" (image size)
Price $495

Cady was born in Gardner, Massachusetts, and during World War I he practiced his skills as a political cartoonist. Along with Thornton W. Burgess (1874-1965), a children's nature book author, Cady created more than 3,000 illustrations of furry creatures in their native wildlife habitat. To his artistic credit, magazines such as LIFE, the Saturday Evening Post, Country Gentleman, and the Ladies Home Journal featured his illustrations on their covers over the years. Harrison Cady exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the 1939 New York Worlds Fair, and he became a member of the American Society of Etchers and the American Watercolor Society.

Artist Hildegarde Hamilton (1898-1970)
Year 1963
Medium Oil on canvas 15x18" (image size)
Price Price upon request

Hamilton was born in Syracuse, New York on September 11, 1898.  In 1909 she traveled to Europe and received training in the art of painting in Geneva, Florence and Berlin.  In 1921-1926 she continued her studies in Paris, Seville, and England.  In 1929 she exhibited at Philip Dillon's club--L'artistique, at Provence, France...being the first American woman to do so.  Later on she lived in various cities in Europe, the Bahamas, and finally decided to settle in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she died January 22, 1970.  She is listed in editions of Who's Who in Art, and Who's Who in American Art.

Artist Leon Pescheret (1892-1971)
Year 1930s
Medium Color etching on paper 16"x20" (framed size)
Price $450

Leon R. Pescheret was born of French parents in London, England on March 15, 1892. He came to the United States in 1910 and studied interior design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Entering into the interior design business around 1919, he supervised decorating contracts in the midwest including the Memorial Union and Elizabeth Waters Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus. In 1926 he began designing and making etchings, and devoted his business to etching full-time in 1930. While exhibiting at the Century of Progress in 1933, he became interested in color etchings. He also studied at the Royal College of Engraving, London, England. In 1936, he puchased the Halverson home on 519 West Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin and opened a studio. For the next 31 years he produced both color and monochrome etchings earning national and international awards. Leon Pescheret closed the studio in 1967, relocating to Tucson, Arizona, where he died on February 23, 1971.

Artist Leon Pescheret (1892-1971)
Year 1930s
Medium Color etching on paper 16"x20" (framed size)
Price $395

Leon R. Pescheret was born of French parents in London, England on March 15, 1892. He came to the United States in 1910 and studied interior design at the Art Institute of Chicago. Entering into the interior design business around 1919, he supervised decorating contracts in the midwest including the Memorial Union and Elizabeth Waters Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus. In 1926 he began designing and making etchings, and devoted his business to etching full-time in 1930. While exhibiting at the Century of Progress in 1933, he became interested in color etchings. He also studied at the Royal College of Engraving, London, England. In 1936, he puchased the Halverson home on 519 West Main Street, Whitewater, Wisconsin and opened a studio. For the next 31 years he produced both color and monochrome etchings earning national and international awards. Leon Pescheret closed the studio in 1967, relocating to Tucson, Arizona, where he died on February 23, 1971.

Artist Laurence Christie Edwardson (1904-1995)
Year 1950s
Medium Oil on masonite 30"x40"
Price Price upon request

Laurence Christie Edwardson was born in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1904 and lived part of his life in Kensington, Connecticut. Much of his painting career was spent in New England and New Orleans, Louisiana. His work includes many Louisiana landscapes, portraits and religious subjects; and one of his modernist works is in the Historic New Orleans Collection. Edwardson studied at the Hartford Art School; with Gifford Beal, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts; Edward Dufner, New Britain Art League; A. Jones; and S. Nichols.

Artist Lorenz Griffith (1889-1968)
Year 1930s
Medium Oil on board 15.5"x29.5"
Price $295

Lorenz E. Griffith was born in Indiana on September 11, 1889 and died in Orange County, Florida in June of 1968. He is listed in the 1930 census in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina as a landscape artist. He produced oil on canvas and oil on board paintings. Griffith was known to paint landscapes from many states including Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Indiana, Texas, and Louisiana. At one point he lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and later moved to Atlanta, Georgia and eventually to Raleigh, North Carolina where he had his own studio and gallery.