About Gallery of the Masters
Founded almost 50 years ago, Gallery of the Masters has specialized in fine American and European art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Our expertise includes Impressionism, American Western, Regionalism, WPA, Ashcan Group, Hudson River as well as Post-War Modern and Contemporary paintings, drawings, rare prints and sculpture.
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Featured Pieces
Study for Los Lagartos
By Luis Jiménez
Located in Missouri, MO
Luis Jimenez (American, 1940-2006)
"Study for Los Lagartos" 1998
**UNIQUE**
*This was originally an etching in black and white, done in 1996 as an edition of 50. This is 20/50. THEN,...
Category
1990s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Color Pencil, Etching, Lithograph
En Repose
By Ermanno Nason
Located in Missouri, MO
Ermanno Nason (Italian, b. 1928)
Reclining Figure, 1978
18 x 8.5 inches
Smoke Glass
Signed and dated along base
Ermanno Nason was born on July 21st, 1928 on Murano. He belonged to o...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Mt. Shasta, California
Located in Missouri, MO
Eliza Barchus (American, 1857-1959)
Mt. Shasta, California
Signed Lower Left
Titled Verso
11 x 14 inches
13.75 x 16.75 inches with frame
Eliza Rosanna Lamb was born into the life of...
Category
Late 19th Century Land Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Statue of Liberty
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in Missouri, MO
LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921-2012)
Statue of Liberty, July 4, 1986
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Acrylic Paint and Chalk
24 x 16 inches
37.5 x 29.25 inches with frame
Mr. Neiman's ki...
Category
1980s American Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Chalk, Acrylic
Gold Iridescence Vase
By Durand
Located in Missouri, MO
Durand
Gold Iridescence Vase
Glass
Signed on bottom (enameled with numbering)
5 x 3.5 inches
Victor Durand, Jr. was born in Baccarat, France. As several generations before him, Victor, at the age of 12, went to work in a local glassworks. Victor's grandfather and father worked for Cristalleries de Baccarat, a famous glassworks that was established in 1764. In 1882, Victor Durand, Sr. immigrated to the U.S. Victor, Sr. worked for Wheaton Glass...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau More Art
Materials
Glass
Rare Favrile "Morning Glory" Pattern Vase Paperweight
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Missouri, MO
Tiffany Studios
Paperweight Vase, Morning Glories Design
Favrile Glass
Incised "L.C.T. Y5643" Bottom Edge
5 x 4.5 inches
Born in New York City to the founder of Tiffany & Co., the ...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau More Art
Materials
Glass
Diaspora Vase
By Loetz Glass
Located in Missouri, MO
Loetz
Diaspora Vase, c. 1900
Glass
Stamped on bottom
6 inches tall
3 inches diameter
This Loetz vase in the Papillon pattern has blue iridescent Papillon design covering the exterio...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau More Art
Materials
Glass
Gourds Bowl
Located in Missouri, MO
Gabriel Argy-Rousseau (1885-1953)
Gourds Bowl c. 1922
Glass
Signed
3.75 x 4.5 inches
This G. Argy-Rousseau bowl has a very distinct arts and crafts feel...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco More Art
Materials
Glass
Dark Green Wood
Located in Missouri, MO
Dark Green Wood, 1956
Philip Sutton RA (British, b. 1928)
Oil on Canvas
Signed and Titled Verso
34 x 34 inches
41 x 41 inches with frame
Philip Sutton studied under William Coldstre...
Category
1950s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bataille de Fleurs (Carnaval of Flowers) from Nice and the Côte d’Azur
By Marc Chagall
Located in Missouri, MO
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985)
"Bataille de Fleurs (Carnaval of Flowers)" (from Nice and the Côte d’Azur), 1967
Reference: CS 33
Color Lithograph
Image Size: 24 7/16 in x 18 in (62 cm x 45.8 cm)
Sheet Size: 29 9/16 in x 20 11/16 in (75 x 52.5 cm)
Framed Size: approx. 34 x 27 inches
Edition: Numbered 7 of 150 in pencil in the lower left margin and printed on Arches wove paper (aside from an edition of 75 signed and numbered in Roman numerals and 10 artist's proofs).
Signature: This work is hand signed by Marc Chagall (Vitebsk, 1887 - Saint-Paul, 1985) in pencil in the lower right margin.
Marc Chagall was a man of keen intelligence, a shrewd observer of the contemporary scene, with a great sympathy for human suffering. He was born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia; his original name was Moishe Shagal (Segal), but when he became a foremost member of the Ecole de Paris, he adopted French citizenship and the French spelling of his name. Vitebsk was a good-sized Russian town of over 60,000, not a shtetl. His father supported a wife and eight children as a worker in a herring-pickling plant.
Sheltered by the Jewish commandment against graven images, the young Chagall never saw so much as a drawing until, one day, he watched a schoolmate copying a magazine illustration. He was ridiculed for his astonishment, but he began copying and improvising from magazines. Both Chagall's parents reluctantly agreed to let him study with Yehuda Pen, a Jewish artist in Vitebsk. Later, in 1906, they allowed their son to study in St. Petersburg, where he was exposed to Russian Iconography and folk art. At that time, Jews could leave the Pale only for business and employment and were required to carry a permit. Chagall, who was in St. Petersburg without a permit, was imprisoned briefly.
His first wife, Bella Rosenfeld, was a product of a rich cultivated and intellectual group of Jews in Vitebsk. Chagall was made commissar for the arts for the area, charged with directing its cultural life and establishing an art school. Russian folklore, peasant life and landscapes persisted in his work all his life. In 1910 a rich patron, a lawyer named Vinaver, staked him to a crucial trip to Paris, where young artists were revolutionizing art. He also sent him a handsome allowance of 125 francs (in those days about $24) each month. Chagall rejected cubism, fauvism and futurism, but remained in Paris. He found a studio near Montparnasse in a famous twelve-sided wooden structure divided into wedge-shaped rooms. Chaim Soutine, a fellow Russian Jew...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
River Access
By Joseph Orr
Located in Missouri, MO
Joseph Orr (Japanese, American, b. 1949)
River Access
Signed Lower Right
30 x 30 inches
39.5 x 39.5 inches with frame
BORN in Tokyo, Japan, Oct 31,1949, Joseph lived his first years in an orphanage sponsored by American Armed Forces. He was adopted April,1954 and came to the US at age 5 where he became an American citizen. As the Orr’s traveled for the US military Joseph enjoyed a childhood rich in experiences from Germany and back to California where he attended High School and started College.
Following his parents to Missouri In 1971 he took a job with Hallmark Cards as machine operator in the cardboard fold dept. It sparked an interest in art, so after a few months he sought out some of the Hallmark artists at their work for private lessons. He learned basic drawing and watercolor from Anthony Allison and, “Probably before I was ready”, he admits, Joseph was entering local art shows and even winning prizes. At that time Joseph also enrolled for art instruction under John Coleman at Longview Community College. He spent one semester there.
By the end of 1972 Joseph had quit his day job to become a full time painter, joining an art show tour group called Word Of Art, which was a new concept: culture meets promotion. Booking weekly art exhibits in the new indoor shopping malls across America, The idea transformed part of the art world by bringing art to the masses.
For Joe and many other artists in the early 1970’s, it created the chance to paint full time and sell their work to an otherwise unobtainable audience. During this time of continuous self study and painting Joseph transitioned from watercolor to the newer acrylic painting medium.
Believing that acrylic, as a fine art painting medium, can be as viable as oil, Orr has always promoted it as the modern medium that it is.
In 1990 Joseph, along with his wife, Rita and two other artists, founded the National Oil & Acrylic Painter’s Society. The Orr’s brainchild, they were aided in founding NOAPS organization by local art patrons, Wm & Martha Mitchell and fellow artists Pete Peterson and Dennis T. Yates.
While traveling with the World of Art Tour Joseph had met Rita Mathews, an aspiring artist, in Columbia, MO. They were married in June 1974 and stayed in Missouri, traveling and exhibiting their art together. Orr had a brief encounter with printmaking in 1977. He took private instruction in stone lithography and copper plate etching from Frank Stack, professor of art at the Univ of MO, Columbia, but painting remained his principal devotion.
By 1999 Joseph had become proficient enough to have obtained Gallery representation with several Fine Art Galleries across the US.
Joseph Orr currently resides in Osage Beach, Missouri, but travels to paint and visit his gallery representatives and Exhibit Openings.
PHILOSOPHY:
For me the idea is that painting should follow some form of illustration and truth telling. Basically, the premise of my painting philosophy, is to build layers of narrative into my paintings. A place or landscape scene is never defined satisfactorily without it’s relationship to color and composition. It is important to balance fact with imagination.
“ART REFLECTS THE SOUL OF SOCIETY. A JUDGMENT CAN BE MADE FOR THE ATTITUDE OR CONDITION OF SOCIETY BY INSPECTING THE POPULAR ‘IDEAS’ OF ART OR, IN SOME INSTANCES, THE LACK OF ART.” (JOSEPH C. ORR)
NOTED SOLO EXHIBITS :
*BIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL, LINDSBORG, KS;
*HARWELL ART MUSEUM, POPLAR BLUFF, MO;
*ASHBY-HODGE GALLERY OF AMERICAN FINE ART, FAYETTE, MO;
*NORFOLK ART CENTER, NORFOLK, NE;
*KODNER GALLERIES...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lake Visitors
By Joseph Orr
Located in Missouri, MO
Joseph Orr (Japanese, American, b. 1949)
Lake Visitors
Signed Lower Left
30 x 40 inches
35.5 x 45.5 inches with frame
Born in Tokyo, Japan, Oct 31, 1949, Joseph lived his first years in an orphanage sponsored by American Armed Forces. He was adopted April,1954 and came to the US at age 5 where he became an American citizen. As the Orr’s traveled for the US military Joseph enjoyed a childhood rich in experiences from Germany and back to California where he attended High School and started College.
Following his parents to Missouri In 1971 he took a job with Hallmark Cards as machine operator in the cardboard fold dept. It sparked an interest in art, so after a few months he sought out some of the Hallmark artists at their work for private lessons. He learned basic drawing and watercolor from Anthony Allison and, “Probably before I was ready”, he admits, Joseph was entering local art shows and even winning prizes. At that time Joseph also enrolled for art instruction under John Coleman at Longview Community College. He spent one semester there.
By the end of 1972 Joseph had quit his day job to become a full time painter, joining an art show tour group called Word Of Art, which was a new concept: culture meets promotion. Booking weekly art exhibits in the new indoor shopping malls across America, The idea transformed part of the art world by bringing art to the masses.
For Joe and many other artists in the early 1970’s, it created the chance to paint full time and sell their work to an otherwise unobtainable audience. During this time of continuous self study and painting Joseph transitioned from watercolor to the newer acrylic painting medium.
Believing that acrylic, as a fine art painting medium, can be as viable as oil, Orr has always promoted it as the modern medium that it is.
In 1990 Joseph, along with his wife, Rita and two other artists, founded the National Oil & Acrylic Painter’s Society. The Orr’s brainchild, they were aided in founding NOAPS organization by local art patrons, Wm & Martha Mitchell and fellow artists Pete Peterson and Dennis T. Yates.
While traveling with the World of Art Tour Joseph had met Rita Mathews, an aspiring artist, in Columbia, MO. They were married in June 1974 and stayed in Missouri, traveling and exhibiting their art together. Orr had a brief encounter with printmaking in 1977. He took private instruction in stone lithography and copper plate etching from Frank Stack, professor of art at the Univ of MO, Columbia, but painting remained his principal devotion.
By 1999 Joseph had become proficient enough to have obtained Gallery representation with several Fine Art Galleries across the US.
Joseph Orr currently resides in Osage Beach, Missouri, but travels to paint and visit his gallery representatives and Exhibit Openings.
PHILOSOPHY:
For me the idea is that painting should follow some form of illustration and truth telling. Basically, the premise of my painting philosophy, is to build layers of narrative into my paintings. A place or landscape scene is never defined satisfactorily without it’s relationship to color and composition. It is important to balance fact with imagination.
“ART REFLECTS THE SOUL OF SOCIETY. A JUDGMENT CAN BE MADE FOR THE ATTITUDE OR CONDITION OF SOCIETY BY INSPECTING THE POPULAR ‘IDEAS’ OF ART OR, IN SOME INSTANCES, THE LACK OF ART.” (JOSEPH C. ORR)
NOTED SOLO EXHIBITS :
*BIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL, LINDSBORG, KS;
*HARWELL ART MUSEUM, POPLAR BLUFF, MO;
*ASHBY-HODGE GALLERY OF AMERICAN FINE ART, FAYETTE, MO;
*NORFOLK ART CENTER, NORFOLK, NE;
*KODNER GALLERIES...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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