Beckford Young – 1930s Abstraction Exhibited 1930s abstract painting by California artist and early member of the American Abstract Artists group, Beckford Young. Exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1937. (partial museum label verso). Titled ‘Abstraction’ Mixed pigments on paper. Good condition overall. Some creasing to paper, and minor soiling and spots.…
Erle Loran – Navajo Country A great modernist interpretation of a southwest scene created in the 1930s by Erle Loran. Erle Loran, (1905-1999), was an American painter and educator who painted for the entirety of his adult life. Loran studied in the US and abroad, at one point living in the former studio of Paul…
Edward Corbett – 1946 A very rare, early oil painting by Edward Corbett, dated 1946. This work was created when Corbett was studying and socializing with Ad Reinhardt, and had just became a member of the American Abstract Artists group. Oil on stretched canvas. Dated 1946. Professionally cleaned and framed in a contemporary frame. Provenance:…
Albert Eugene Gallatin – No. 20 Albert Eugene Gallatin, (1882-1952), was a leading modernist painter in New York City in the early 20th century. AE Gallatin was born in Villanova, Pennsylvania into a prominent banking family of Swiss descent. Gallatin inherited a family fortune upon his father’s death in 1902. Gallatin moved to Park Avenue…
Howard Norton Cook – ‘Downtown II’ Howard Norton Cook, (1901-1980), was a highly regarded American painter and printmaker based in the American Southwest. Cook is was well educated and traveled extensively, but spent a majority of his life near Santa Fe, and Taos, New Mexico. His works are held in may major institutions in the…
Max Weber – Reclining Female Figure Max Weber, (1881-1961), was a leading figure in the development of a modern art world in the United States. Born in Russia, Weber studied art in Europe before setting and New York where he became a very prominent figure in the budding modern art scene there. Weber’s works…
Virginia Banks – Floating Tiger Virginia Banks, (1920-1985), was an American abstract artist who lived in worked in Connecticut and Washington State. Banks earned a Bachelors degree from Smith College in 1941, and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa before moving to Seattle in the mid-1950s. Banks…
Virginia Banks – Lobster Buoys Virginia Banks, (1920-1985), was an American abstract artist who lived in worked in Connecticut and Washington State. Banks earned a Bachelors degree from Smith College in 1941, and went on to earn a Master of Arts degree from the University of Iowa before moving to Seattle in the mid-1950s. Banks…
Rudolph Gessley – Exhibited Oil Painting Rudolph Gessley, (1852-1941), was an artist and treasurer of John Robinson’s Circus. Gessley was enrolled in the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 1932, around the time that this work was exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Museum’s annual show. I discovered and purchased this painting many years ago from an…
Wally Strautin – Abstract Oil Painting Valleja (Wally) Strautin (American, 1898-1995), was Latvian born American abstract artist who lived and worked in New York city. Strautin studied painting at the Cooper Union School of Art, where she graduated in 1931. Her work was greatly influenced by her friends, Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner, who were…
