PHEASANT oil on canvas painting c1890s (image: 19 3/4" x 16 3/4"; frame: 24 1/2" x 21 1/4"), unsigned,
depicting male & female pheasants in very good condition with approx. 1/4" repair on bottom left background.
HORSES, DOG, CHICKENS, BLACKSMITH Oil painting on board, c1880's, (image: 11 1/2" L x 10" W; frame: 18 1/2" L x 17" W),
unsigned with some touchups. Attributed to Fordell Castle, in Fife, Scotland that dates back to the 16th century,
& owned for many generations by the Fairbairns, most recently by the late Sir Nicholas Fairbairn, Member of Parliament.
Warm, & evocative of another era it has layers of different scenes to keep one interested.
Original oil on board painting (frame: 10" L x 9" W; image: 7" L x 6" W ) signed by Jules Dupre, Quebec, c1940's.
Wonderful thick painted brush strokes very evocative of winter.
ALBERT RUDINGER (1838 1925) COW oil painting (frame: 12 3/4" x 11"; image: 7 1/2" x 6") on fiber board, 4th quarter of the 19th century
Full name: Fritz Albert Christian Rüdinger. Born on Apr. 20th 1838 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was a well known, versatile artist and was educated as a royal musician in Dresden and as a painter he took lessons from Otto Haslund and Harald Foss. HE TRAVELLED, & STUDIED IN GERMANY (DRESDEN 1866). EXHIBITIONS: CHARLOTTENBORG SPRING 1875-1925, ART ASSOCIATION OF NOV. 18TH, 1882,TOWNHALL EXHIBITION COPENHAGEN 1901, NATIONAL EXHIBITION, AARHUS, JUTLAND 1909. He favoured landscapes, animal paintings although he made some genre pictures and portraits. He can be found in the art encyclopaedia: Weilbach’s Kunstnerleksikon and in the art book by H. Slyngbom: Dansk billedkunst
GIRL WITH BUTTERFLIES #2 (1964) by WALTER WILLIAMS, African American artist (1920-1998), Artist's Proof, handpainted coloured woodcut on paper (image: 19 3/4" x 26" ; frame:: 24" x 30") in excellent condition. Another example of this work is in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. IMP (impressit; which means he not only did the art but the printing itself!). In 1956, escaping the inequity he experienced in the U.S., he was inspired to new heights in his naive work, painting nature in all its exuberance when he visited Bronholm, an island belonging to Denmark which was his heaven on earth. His professional artistic career began when he was 30 and stopped in 1983 at the age of 63 when, "he had said everything he wanted to say with his art.".
AWARDS: John Hay Whitney Fellowship, 1955; National Institute of Arts and Letters Grant; National Academy of Design, NY, 1972: Represented Denamrk in the Int'l Art Show in Japan.
SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS: Whitney Museum, N.Y.C., Museum of Modern Art, N.Y.C., Brooklyn Museum of Art, N.Y.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y.C., Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Mexican American Institute, Mexico City,
NOTABLE BOOKS: The Artwork of Walter Williams by Eric Hanks; M. Hanks Gallery, 2005); Two Centuries of Black American Art by Driskell, David C.; Knopf 1976; The Other Side of Color : African American Art in the Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr.; Pomegranate Comm., 2003
MAJOR PRIVATE COLLECTIONS include the Emmy award winning actor, BILL COSBY (SEE NOTABLE BOOKS).
Provenance available to purchaser specifically explaining the name the work is dedicated to. Another bonus is an original photograph of the artist with this woodcut.
JONI MITCHELL, singer songwriter extraordinaire, copperplate etching (8”x10”), 2/2 (the no. 2 is written at the back of the work in pencil), dated ’67, & signed by the artist, Allan J. Ryan. Personally signed by Joni Mitchell to the artist, “The Circle Game Forever, Best Wishes Allan, Joni Mitchell” in excellent condition, & mounted on acid free matting.
From a telephone interview conducted with the artist, he did only two copies of the work (one was given to Joni 's mother, Mrs. Anderson).
Joe Lewis, mentions Alan Ryan’s music & his art in his column (the TORONTO TELEGRAM, May 18, 1967).
THE CIRCLE GAME, one of her most popular songs (requested in the Riverboat at the time, & she closed her set with the piece) was recorded by singer Tom Rush
before Joni did herself. Joni eventually recorded it for the first time on her album, LADIES OF THE CANYON (1970).
Full provenance of this piece, bio & interview with the artist, Allan J. Ryan, a copy of the photograph (from the Riverboat) that was used for inspiration for the etching,
& never before published songs from Joni Mitchell's company will be provided to the purchaser.
“On Being Yellow” (1967-8) Intaglio in colour with relief & stencil (citation & illustration: pg. 36 from ‘David Freed Printmaker, a Retrospective, 2001) limited edition (16/100), 26”(W) x 18 ½” (H), by DAVID FREED (1936 - ), M.F.A. Non hinged & mounted on Crescent RagMat Museum Solid 100% cotton rag.“The print is etching, aquatint, relief and stencil.”(08/17/04 email from David Freed). This particular work came out of a period of social conscious raising. He uses in the background Eddie Adams’s photo, “Execution in Saigon” (1968) of a South Vietnamese officer executing a Viet Cong prisoner. He now does primarily landscapes. Education: Masters of Fine Arts degree (cum laude) in 1962 from the University of Iowa, studying under legendary printmaker Mauricio Lasansky. Received Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Miami University of Ohio. He also studied at the Royal College of Art in London, England. On Faculty of Painting and Printmaking Department Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, U.S.A. Awards: Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts, Richmond, Va. (2001) Faculty Grant-in-Aid, Virginia Commonwealth University (1989-90; 1983-84) Virginia Museum of Fine Art (1983-84) Nattie Marie Jones Fellowship (1983) World Print Competition (1977) Fulbright Grant (1963-64)
Collections: Albertina Museum, Austria, Art Institute of Chicago, Bowes Museum, Exeter, England, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y., Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. ,Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Holland, Museum of Modern Art, New York , National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. , San Francisco Museum of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England , The New York Public Library, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., Citations: David Freed: Printmaker, A Retrospective (2001), Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commwealth Univ., School of the Arts, Richmond, VA, Foreword and interview by Ted Potter, "Improvisations on David Freed" by Charles Wright, 107 pp., 74 ills. (most color), one fold-out, artist's chronology, exhibition checklist, sq. 8vo., wraps. Who Was Who in American Art ISBN: 0-932087-55-8, 2000 Outstanding Artists of the 20th Century published by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England. Who’s Who in America, & Biographical Encyclopedia of American Sculptors, Painters & Engravers from the Colonial Period to the Present.
Setten, or in English, “Point of Contact 1”, limited edition silkscreen print (21/50),1976 ((15 1/2" (W) x 141/2"(L)) by FUMIO TOMITA (1934 - ) Signed, titled & dated. Non-hinged, & mounted on Crescent RagMat Museum Solid 100% rag. Fumio Tomita was born in Kagoshima prefecture and had studied art at the Kagoshima University. His preferred technique is silk screen. Is also known for wonderful still life images. Since the 1960s the artist has participated in the International Print Biennales and other shows. In Japan he belongs to the top group of contemporary artists with numerous one-man shows in renowned galleries like Yoseido. His works have been awarded with numerous national and international prizes.Cited in ‘Contemporary Japanese Prints 1: A Comprehensive Catalog’ ed. by Shozokawai, Kodansha Int’l, 1983, ISBN: 0-87011-604-5.
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PAIRPOINT & other EARLY ELECTRIC LAMPS
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