Rachel Bentley

Methodist Church in Old Bodie Ghost Town - California - Watercolor on Paper

mid 20th Century

Colorful study of grape leaves in autumn with abstracted elements and a pink/magenta background by California artist Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the est...

Serene figurative landscape of a Zen sculpture garden surrounded by mountains and trees by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Mon...

Serene figurative landscape of a sculpture garden full of plants and architectural elements by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in...

Double-sided watercolor with a beautiful landscape of Cypress Point at sunrise, and a vertical landscape of Pt. Lobos on verso by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009)....

A bold and colorful cityscape watercolor of an urban Basilica, the great Saint Ignatius Church of San Francisco, with its impressive architecture captur...

Farmhouse by the Sea - Original Watercolor on Paper Tranquil landscape of a seaside farmhouse on the sand surrounded by coastal plants, in soft neutral watercolors. A distant ocean s...

John Whorf, born in 1903, was a talented, opinionated artist who achieved great success at a young age. Encouraged by his artistic father, Whorf studied briefly during his early te...

"Pennsylvania Farmhouse" is a beautiful spring landscape with rolling hills and countryside farmhouses. The watercolor on paper is painted by American Impressionist Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 14" x 19" watercolor on paper, matted, framed under glass, and signed "A V Greene...

Benjamin Cameron spent 48 years teaching students in Columbia across three different colleges. His own works still hang on the walls around the community and tell a greater story of ...

Louis Ritman (1889-1963) "Rolling Country" c. 1945 Original Watercolor on Paper Signed Lower Left Provenance: Milch Galleries, NY (original label verso) ...

Alice Schille Old Adobe Village, New Mexico Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 5 x 6 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Keny and Johnson Gallery, Columbus, Ohio Santa Fe East Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, California A painter in watercolor and oil, Alice Schille was a prolific artist using modernist styles of Post-Impressionism, Pointillism and Fauvism. Her subjects included portraits of women and children, landscapes with and without figures, a series of scenes of New York City. New Mexico, and Gloucester, Massachusetts. Her paintings also reflected her widespread international travels in Europe, North Africa, Russia, the Middle East, Mexico, and Guatemala. Although personally very shy, Schille possessed unusual courage and strength of will, which was reflected in both her independent lifestyle and in her work, as she continually worked to master new modes of painting throughout her career. A German critic once referred to Schille as "this daredevil disciple of art who is interested in anything and afraid of nothing." Alice Schille was born in Columbus, Ohio to a family supported by her father's success in manufacturing. She was raised in Columbus, and by the time she was age six, she determined to be an artist. She graduated at the top of her class from Central High School in 1887, studied from 1891 to 1893 at the Columbus Art School, and returned there as a teacher from 1902 to 1948. Going to New York City as a young woman, she enrolled in the Art Students League from 1897 to 1899 and then the New York School of Art with William Merritt Chase and Kenyon Cox. (Some years later, she attended Chase's Shinnecock Summer School on Long Island). From 1903 to 1904, Alice Schille was in Paris at the Academie Colarosi, and also studied privately with Raphael Collin, Rene Prinet, Gustave Courtois and Chase, who was then in Europe. In 1904, five of her paintings were accepted for exhibition at Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, and from that time on her work was included regularly in important American annual exhibitions including the Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery, American Watercolor Society, Boston Art Club, and the 1987 inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. Between 1905 and 1914, Alice Schille painted in Europe, and during the summers of 1916 to 1918, worked in New York and Gloucester. In 1919, she was in New Mexico. On this trip, her first to the Southwest, she spent a summer in Taos and Santa Fe and painted scenes including the Taos Pueblo, Canyon Road and local Hispanic and Indian figures. Reportedly the Ranchos de Taos Church was one of her favorite subjects. Many of these New Mexico paintings were hung at annual exhibitions of the Philadelphia Water Color Club. Between 1920 and 1940, she traveled frequently in the summers, returning to New Mexico and going to Central America and Africa. In 1922, she began her first series of North-African watercolors...

This 1930 watercolor by American artist and architect Allen Tucker is framed with museum quality, non-reflective glass and archival matting. It was gifted by the artist to his friend...