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…
Stanton MacDonald-Wright – modernist drawing An early modernist drawing by synchromist artist Stanton MacDonald-Wright. Stanton Macdonald-Wright (1890–1973) was a pioneering American modernist painter and co-founder of Synchromism, in 1912. Synchromist paintings were some of the first abstract paintings created in America. The theory of synchromism is based on the idea that color and sound are…
Leonid Borisov painting – EW Geometric abstract painting by Soviet artist Leonid Borisov, a leading figure in Soviet Nonconformist Art. Borisov participated in almost every significant “unofficial art” exhibitions in St Petersburg since the 1970s. He was influenced by Moscow’s Conceptualism (early 1970s – 1980s) and by 20th century art from the West, including the…
Marr Grounds found object sculpture Found art sculpture by Australian-American environmental and counterculture artist Marr Grounds. This work was likely created in the 1960s when Grounds was active at UC Berkeley, and was involved with the counterculture movement there. At the time Grounds became friends with Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac while spending…
William Gaw – Arrangement in Yellow and Blue Art Deco watercolor on paper by renown Dutch artist, Leo Visser. This is rare opportunity to own a work by Visser whose work is almost exclusively held in the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. This work is strikingly similar to a work the museum has been reproduced on…
Lloyd Ullberg – Heads Early modernist photograph by California artist Lloyd Ullberg. ‘Heads’ Circa 1930s. A great vintage photograph by the artist, from series of images of rural Nevada and California in the 1930s. Gelatin silver print. Small crease in upper right-center. From a collection of works by the artist that were purchased from the…
