Charles Shepard Chapman – Mermaid with Fishes Exceptional American modernist painting by Charles Shepard Chapman. Charles Shepard Chapman, (1879-1962), was a supremely talented American artist. Born in New York, Chapman studied at the New York School of Art, under the mentor-ship of Walter Appleton Clark and William Merritt Chase, and later at the Ogdensburg Free…
Neil Boyle – Portrait of a Native American Woman – Owns Different Horses A striking portrait of a native American woman, Owns Different Horses, by artist James Neil Boyle. Neil (James Neil) Boyle, grew up in Indian Country. His father was an honorary Chief of the Blood of Peigan tribes of Canada’s Blackfoot Confederacy, and…
Daniel ‘Zev’ Harris – surrealist composition Surrealist composition by Daniel ‘Zev’ Harris. Zev, meaning ‘wolf’ in Hungarian, was the name the artist chose for himself in 1953. He was born Daniel Harris. He studied at the Masters Institute of the Roerich Museum in Hungary, in New York City at the National Academy of Design, and…
Juliette Steele – 1940s action painting 1940s action painting by California woman artist, Juliette Eleanor Wilm Steele. Juliette Steele, (1909-1980) was an American painter, printmaker and educator. She studied art and fashion design at the Traphagen School of Design in New York during the late 1920s. In the 1940s she moved to San Francisco, CA…
Virginia Banks – Floating Tiger 1940s American modern abstract painting by Virginia Banks. Virginia Banks (1920 – 1985) was a well-known Northwest artist based in Seattle. She was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, and received her bachelors degree from Smith College in 1941, and a master of arts from the University of Iowa in 1944. She…
Gaston Lachaise – Standing female figure Standing nude pencil drawing by French born artist Gaston Lachaise. Lachaise was a native of Paris, France best known for his robust depictions of female nudes. While still a student in Paris, studying the European approach to the female form, he met and fell in love with Isabel Dutaud…
Robert Sperry – Large sculptural vessel A large b\ulbous horned vase formed studio pottery vessel by American ceramicist Robert Sperry.Sperry is an important figure in the American studio craft movement. He was born in Bushnell, Illinois, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Saskatchewan, a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in…
Allen Tucker – Girl with a Bow in her Hair – 1913 American modern portrait of a young woman with a bow in her hair by Allen Tucker. Tucker was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines at Columbia University in 1887. Tucker , sometimes known as ‘the…
Raymond Tom – Berkeley School portrait of a seated woman A colorful, stylized portrait of a seated woman by San Francisco Bay Area artist, Raymond Tom. Tom was born and raised in San Francisco, California. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley,…
William Henry Clapp – Impressionist painting – Cuba A wonderful impressionist painting of palm trees in Cuba, by Canadian-American artist William Henry Clapp. Clapp was born in Canada, and moved with his family to Oakland, California in 1885. He returned to Montreal in 1900 to study at the Art Association of Montreal. Clapp moved to…
