Portrait in Porcelain by Ejnar Hansen
Ejnar Hansen was a notable figure painter in Southern California during the years between the wars. He began his career in Copenhagen, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts while supporting himself as a painting contractor. This double career in the commercial and fine arts continued until the 1940s. In Denmark he [...]
Vase with Flowers by Lucius Crowell
Lucius Crowell was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1911. A realist painter who enjoyed depicting the everyday world with a touch of romanticism, he was well-known for his seemingly unstylized execution. A graduate of the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey, he attended Williams College before studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and [...]
Harbor Scene by Vaclav Vytlacil
Vaclav Vytlacil was one of the forerunners of American modernism, working hard to bring autonomy to contemporary art forms like Abstract Expressionism in the United States. As a student of Hans Hoffman and a teacher to such famous artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Vytlacil was at the center of a revolutionary assemblage of talented painters, all [...]
Samuel Marcus Adler, UNTITLED
Oil painted wood relief, mounted on wood panel. Signed and dated “69″ Biography – Samuel Marcus Adler (1898-1979, American) studied at the National Academy of Design in NYC with Leon Kroll and Charles Louis Hinton. His preferred media was oil and collage. Exhibited works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, [...]
Karl Schrag, “Fragrant Breeze At Nightfall”
Water Color. Signed Provanance: Kraushaar Galleries; The Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and The Philadelphia Water Color Club Biography – Karl Schrag (1912-1994, German/American) was a German-born American painter and printmaker whose work combined aspects of European an American Modernism. In a career that spanned more than 60 years, Mr. Schrag came to specialize in a [...]
Ludwig Sander, UNTITLED
A beautiful painting by Ludwig Sander (1906-1975, American). Signed front and back Provenance: Bertha Schaefer Gallery Biography – Ludwig Sander was born in Staten Island, NY in 1906. He studied in New York with George Elmer Brown and Alexander Archipenko in the mid-1920s, in Paris in the late-1920s, and afterwards again in New York, at [...]
Friedel Dzubas, “Aruba”
A large Friedel Dzubas monoprint in watercolor and goache. His monogram is visible in the upper left hand corner of the painting. Provenance: André Emmerich Gallery Biography – Friedel Dzubas (1915-1994, German/American) studied art in his native land before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and settling in New York City. In Manhattan during the early [...]