Juliette Steele – Action Painting, ca. 1946 Juliette Steele, (American 1909-1980), was an early modernist painter who worked and exhibited in California. Action Painting, ca. 1946 Early abstract works by women artists are rare, and this is a great example of early American modernism from a California based female artist. Excellent condition. Purchased from the…
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…
Hanne-Lore Sutro Nepote Hanne-Lore Sutro Nepote, (American 1923-2013). A colorful modernist street scene by Hanne-Lore Sutro Nepote, wife of artist Alexander Nepote. Hanne-Lore was yet another female artist that gave up her career as an artist to raise a family and support her husband who was also an artist. Recently purchased at a San Francisco…
Polia Pillin – Surrealist Painting Polia Sunockin Pillin, (Polish/American 1909-1992), was and American painter and ceramist. Pillin exhibited her work widely during her lifetime. Her works can be found a numberous public and private coillections around the world. This surrealist painting is a great example of her work which depicts circus performers. Titled The Circus…
Ruth Wall – Abstraction Ruth Wall, (1917-2009), was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker who worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. Wall exhibited occasionally, but was more interested in the creative process than adulation who seemed to prefer working in her North Beach studio. Ruth Wall was born in Wyoming, later moving to…
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…
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…
Wally Strautin – 1940s Abstract Needlepoint 1940s abstraction in needlepoint by Wally Strautin. 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,…
Zahara Schatz – 1940s Kinetic Sculpture Zahara Schatz – Kinetic Sculpture Zahara (Zohara) Schatz, (1916 – 1999), was progressive female artist, designer, and educator from Israel, and the daughter of Israeli artist Boris Schatz who founded the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. During her lifetime Zahara lived, created and taught in…
Janet Scudder – ‘Dominatrix’ – 1935 Large oil painting on canvas by Janet Scudder, titled ‘Dominatrix’ – 1935 Janet Scudder, 1869-1940, was an American sculptor and painter from Terre Haute, Indiana, who is best known for her award-winning sculptures, many of which are held in public and private collections around the world. Scudder received her…
