Ashbrook Studios Spanish Conquistador Don Quixote Oil Painting on Board 43"

Mid 20th century oil on board landscape painting by William Thon, titled "Olive Trees," No. 850. Shows an abstract expressionist forestscape with black trunked trees with green and white leaves over a golden forest floor. Signed lower right corner. Rustic wood frame with red stained recessed bevel and white linen mat. Labels on reverse from Midtown Galleries (New York, New York), Frost Gully Gallery (Portland, Maine). Exhibited at The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit, Maine) - "Creative Lives" July 1 - September 30, 1996. "William Thon (1906-2000) was an American artist noted for highly abstracted landscape paintings. He debuted as a professional artist in 1939 at the Corcoran Gallery Biennial* exhibition. He was born in New York City in 1906, and spent his childhood summers camping on Staten Island. He also developed a great love of travel, and in 1933 made an eight-month voyage to the Cocos Islands in the Pacific. He joined the Navy during World War II, and shortly after the war won the Prix de Rome*, a fellowship in Rome to the American Academy,* which he later served as trustee. Recognition for him continued with his participation in the 1942 "Artists for Victory" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art*, and in 1944, Midtown Galleries in New York held his first one-person show. This gallery then continued to be his representative throughout his career. He had subsequent solo exhibitions at Smith College Art Museum, Fort Wayne Museum and Farnsworth Museum in Rockland, Maine. He earned an honorary Doctor of Arts from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine in 1957, and was a member of The American Academy* and Institute of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Academy of Design*. In 1947, the year-long study at the American Academy proved highly influential on his career, especially with him beginning to paint as much with watercolor as oil. Returning to America, he submitted a watercolor into the 1949 exhibition of the National Academy of Design, and that year was voted into Academy membership. From thereon, he exhibited frequently at the Academy and won prizes including the Benjamin Altman Prize* in 1951, 1954, 1961, 1967 and 1969. In 1951, Thon received a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He also taught painting at Ohio University, and painted aspects of the Apollo Space...

Vintage L Brugman oil painting on board featuring a snowy river landscape theme with a figure walking home. Dimensions:. 29" x 1.25" x 21.25" / Sans Frame - 23" x 15.25" (Width x De...

Vintage Lori Zummo Nantucket landscape / seascape oil painting titled Steps Beach Dunes. Provenance: Estate of J. Frederic Gagel, owner of mul...

Antique coastal landscape / seascape oil painting on board featuring a group of birds flying over calm water with mountains lining the horizon. Framed in ornate baroque gold with fl...

3 antique oil on board miniature seascape paintings by William Trost Richards, depicting rocky, seaside cliffs / hills (Capri, Naples); a rocky beach (Near Hartland Point); and the ruins of a castle in a hilly landscape (Gulf of Naples). Wide, beveled giltwood frames with ridged borders and carved outer edge. "A native of Philadelphia, William Trost Richards (1833 - 1905) had a fifty-year career as a noted landscape and marine painter whose mature work combined extremely detailed aspects of nature with atmospheric qualities. He was especially innovative for his time because he borrowed informal composition techniques from the Pre-Raphaelites of England, painting lights and colors outdoors as he actually observed them. His formal education ended at age thirteen when he quit school to support his family by working as a commercial draughtsman designing ornamental metal fixtures. He studied painting privately with William Stanley Haseltine and Paul Weber from whom he learned a meticulous graphic technique. He was supported by local persons in Philadelphia who financed a year of study in Europe from 1855 to 1856, and in 1867, he went abroad for a second time. He did numerous pencil drawings and paintings of Italy and Switzerland and much painting along English coasts. By the 1850s, he had decided that landscape was his favorite subject matter and was especially inspired by American poetry but was much more inspired by American landscape painting, especially that of John Kensett and Frederic Edwin Church. He did a series of brilliant Adirondack landscapes and also coastal landscapes and marine subjects from New Jersey to Maine. The latter part of his career, he was firmly established as a coastal and marine painter, ever fascinated by the tumultuous phenomenon of water hitting rocks and beach. His works on paper--watercolor and pencil drawings--were some of his earliest and most important contributions, and hundreds of them survive in spite of an 1854 studio fire. Having been working in oil for some time, he began working in watercolor in the late 1860s, which was linked to his growing interest in the seashore. Watercolor was best for plein air sketching and was excellent for expressing the atmospheric effects he sought to achieve. Two patrons of his watercolor painting were Elias L. Magoon and George Whitney...

Early 20th century oil on canvas impressionist landscape painting of autumn trees along a river, titled "Indian Summer" by J. Lurell Wise. Signed in lower left corner. Framed in beve...

George Rouault Studio Fauvism Oil Painting on Paper on Board. Characteristic genre painting of a musician group in typical style and technique of George Rouault (1871-1958). The Fau...

1970s Spanish framed watercolor of Sancho Panza who is Don Quixotes squire in the renowned novel. Frame measurements: 19 x 23.5 x 4.5cm.

This is a beautiful early 20th century oil on board. It was brought back from England, so the true scene I cannot be clear of on however it's beautiful depicting boats on beautiful b...

Intriguing midcentury abstract oil painting on board painted with passion using a palette knife and brush in a tight layered composit...

Spanish painting oil on canvas. Spain, 1970.

A very decorative work of art by listed artist, Jo Patch. Jo Patch born in Opprebais on January 13, 1937. He was active in Belgium primarily although many of his works were exhibit...