Olga Alexandrovna Art

Circa 1875 Unsigned Original gold leaf frame with wear Overall size with frame 7 x 9.25 in.

Tranquil seascape with a large flock of migrating Redhead ducks in flight by California artist Dan Findlay (American, 20th Century). Signed "Dan Findlay" lower right. Presented in a ...

"Manayunk Tressle" is a 10.5 x 16 inches, oil on board, regional, American street scene by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter Giovanni Martino. Manayunk is a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The painting is signed "Giovanni Martino" in the lower left. The following is from Babette Martino, daughter of the artist: Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street. Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River. At this time he signed his paintings M. Giovanni. These colorful impressionistic works proceeded more thinly painted dramatically poetic street scenes of the mill town. These images developed into impasto laden oils in the 1960's with some of the paintings worked with a palette knife. In Manayunk, he was a common sight on the streets and sidewalks, painting on-the-spot with his wife, Eva...

Hoffman is best known for his colorfully rich and impressionistic landscape scenes from the 20th Centruy. This painting is a wonderful display of his charasmatic paints with a view of "Kartabo, British Guiana" depicted with lush colors and thick use of paint. We are enchanted with the use of viridian green, and light specks of crimsion hiding behind the plush trees. This piece exudes light breathing through the pathway as we discover all of the magical qualities through out. This painting is signed lower center by the artist and it comes housed in a vintage gold tone giltwood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed. Art measures 16 x 12 inches Frame measures 23 x 19 inches Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania's Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien. In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists' colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony. In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman's antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910 Hoffman...

"Rising Moon" is a serene contemporary impressionist seascape in blue and purple Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative works was...

Intimate still-life of firewood and tools by the hearth by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work directly ...

Miniature landscape of Big Sur coast by Kathleen Murray (American, b. 1958). Signed "MURRAY" in the lower left corner. "Kathleen Murray" is written on verso. No frame. Kathleen Murr...

Delicate floral still life in the style of a botanical drawing of magnolia flowers in a glass vase with a figurine of a duck by Alexina Chamberlain (American, 20th Century). Presente...

Beautiful contemporary impressionist depiction of the historical Redman House in Watsonville, CA, by an unknown artist (20th Century). Titled "The Redman House Watsonville", dated "11/22/06" and initialed (illegible) on verso in pencil. No frame. Redman Hirahara Farmstead is a complex including a historic house designed by William Weeks (1897) and a vernacular barn in the Pajaro Valley, south of Watsonville, California. A Japanese American owned farm which was maintained by local citizens during the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II and was returned to the Hirahara family after the war, it is on the National Register of Historic Places. The barn included a living unit...

Colorful watercolor still life with plant, fruit and a red candle by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Sig...

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. ...

Colorful flowers fill the foreground in this large-scale watercolor still-life of a spring bouquet bursting with blossoms by California artist Royce Thyberg Gordon...