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Anna Davis Oil on Canvas
17.25 X 21.25 Inches Overall
$2450. |
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Geoffrey Holt Sierra Mountain Lake Oil on Canvas Born in England, Geoffrey Holt did realistic western landscape painting. He lived in Minneapolis during his youth and worked as an interior designer. By 1921, he was living in San Francisco and then in 1930, he moved to Southern California. He lived first in Los Angeles and then in Long Beach, where he lived until his death in 1977. His painting style has been described by Edan Hughes in "Artists in California" as realistic "in the manner of the English School". Two of his California Mission paintings, circa 1910, are in the collection of the Society of California Pioneers and a Grand Canyon landscape is in the Santa Fe Railway Collection.
24.5 X 32.5 Inches Overall
$7500. |
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Gustaf Oscar Dalstrom Oil on Canvas Gustaf Dalstrom was born in Gothland, Sweden in 1893 and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with George Bellows and Randall Davey. There he received the Logan Award and Gold Medal for excellence. A long-time president of the Chicago Society of Artists, he was a painter and museum artist who worked for many years at the Field Museum in Chicago, creating "authentically documented settings for various world-wide wildlife displays". One-man exhibitons of his work have been held at the Art Institute, as well as at the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago. Group exhibitions include the famous New York World's Fair of 1939, the International Watercolor Exhibiton and Riverside Museum Exhibition in New York. He travelled widely in Europe to paint, including in Sweden, Italy, France and Germany.
29.5 X 33.5 Inches Overall
$5250. |
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Frederick William Becker Oil on Canvas Frederick Becker was born in Vermillion, South Dakota in 1888 and lived in New York City, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Texas, Taos, New Mexico and California in Cathedral City and Palm Springs. He studied at the Los Angeles School of Art & Design, the Mackey School of Art, the Art Students League of Los Angeles and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His teachers included Daniel Garber, Joseph Pearson, Robert Reid and Emil Carlsen amongst others. He was head of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Oklahoma City and also taught summer classes there and at the University of New Mexico. During his years in San Antonio, he was the first President of the Society of Texas Artists. One of the early Taos artists, he lived with the Kit Carson family for many seasons. He died in Los Angeles in 1974. Known primarily for landscapes, murals and portraits.
20.5 X 24.5 Inches Overall
$2450. |
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Robert Wood Autumn Evening Oil on Canvas Robert Wood was born in Sandgate, England in 1889, the son of a well-known painter, W.J. Wood, who recognized his son's talent and encouraged him from an early age. At the age of nineteen, he emigrated to America and, after initially settling in Illinois, he lived the life of an itinerant painter, selling or bartering paintings along the way. He married and during the course of the next ten years, Wood and his family lived in Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, California, Oregon and finally settled in San Antonio, Texas. For the next seventeen years, he concentrated on painting the Texas landscapes and then moved to Laguna Beach, California, where seascapes became part of his oeuvre. After the war years, Robert Wood and his second wife moved to Woodstock, New York, from where he made painting trips to New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Some of these paintings, which illustrated the very colorful New England Autumns became published as prints, which afforded him a comfortable lifestyle. Further moves back to Laguna, San Diego and, finally, to Bishop, California, where he lived until his death in 1979.
31 X 37 Inches Overall
$12,500. |
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