Cora W. Best

Bucks County, Country Lane - Mid Century Landscape

1940

Vibrant miniature landscape by Kathleen Murray (American, (American, b. 1958). Signed "MURRAY" in the lower left corner, but it is very difficult to read due to the color. "#12 The Landing...

Beautiful plein air painting of Bay Area mountains in autumn by Charles Eades (American, 1949-2009) circa 1965. Signed lower left corner "Chas. Eades." Unframed. Image 18"H x 24"W. ...

The Island Inn on Monhegan Island Maine, a beautiful landscape by Richmond Irwin Kelsey (American, 1905 - 1987), 1977. Titled "Island Inn - Monhegan", signed and dated "Kelsey '77" ...

Sweeping mid century desert landscape with a colossal purple mountain range in the distance by Alice M. Fink (American, b1880s-1968). Sign...

Classic California seascape of waves crashing on the coast by an artist named Cora (American, 20th Century). Unsigned and unframed. From a collection of her works. Image size, 12"H x...

Miniature landscape of trees in the snow by Kathleen Murray (American, b. 1958). Signed "MURRAY" in the lower left corner. Titled "#8 Snow + Trees" on verso. No frame. Kathleen Murr...

Guy C. Wiggins (1883 - 1962) Locomotive Train in Snowstorm, 1957 Oil on paperboard 8 x 10 inches Signed lower left; signed and dated on the reverse Guy Carleton Wiggins is best known for his impressionistic snow scenes of New York in 1920's. Wiggins lived in Old Lyme and Essex where he operated an art school. The Connecticut country-side was conducive to his impressionist technique of plein-air painting and broken brushwork.  Ironically, although his work includes many fine Connecticut landscapes, he is best remembered for some snow scenes of New York City. Like many other American Impressionists, Wiggins had one foot in the city and the other in the country (Vermont Hillside, South Londonderry).  Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, went to England with his family as a boy, received an English grammar school education, and traveled widely abroad. He was the son of a prominent artist, Carleton Wiggins, a painter in the Barbizon style who studied with George Inness and admired Anton Mauve and Dwight Tryon...

American Impressionist

"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...

A fine impressionist North Shore Cape Ann coastal oil painting by American artist Winfield Scott Clime (1881-1958). Clime was born in Philadelphia, studied at the Corcoran Art School...

1940s modernist mountain landscape painting, near Gunnison, Colorado with a white farmhouse and out buldings and trees in a meadow/valley with mountains in the background. Painted in...

Gifford Beal always knew that he wanted to paint. At the age of 12, he began studying with William Merritt Chase in New York City and during the summer at Chase’s School in Long Isla...