R. T. Horley

Laiguelia - Coastal Beach Village on Italian Riviera Large Watercolor Painting

1959

A beautiful large signed and dated 1937 watercolour by Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA depicting the River Medway at Rochester in Kent. Fine quality and important pre-war view of Rochester by this important Modern British painter. A leading example the artists output. The work comes with impeccable provenance - it was previously sold through the prestigious dealership Wildenstein & Co. Limited of New Bond Street, London and owned by F.M.S. Winand, who was a very important collector of Modern British art. There are also several loan exhibition labels. F.M.S. Winand owned works by the most important British artists of the early to mid 20th century, including Augustus John, Christopher Wood and Sir William Nicholson. An exhibition of Winand's Collection was held at the Kensington Art Gallery in 1949 - it is quite possible that this painting was exhibited at that time. Signed and dated lower right and presented in a beautiful painted wood frame which has been finished with ultra clear UV resistant glass. Artist: Roland Vivian Pitchforth RA (British, 1895-1982) Title: The Medway, Rochester Medium: Watercolour on paper Size: 25.5 x 30 inches (65 x 76 cm) including the frame Signed: Lower right Provenance: Widenstein & Co. Limited, London Provenance: F.M.S. Winand, London Roland Vivian Pitchforth (also known as Vivian Pitchforth and R.V. Pitchforth) was a landscape and seascape painter in watercolour and, before 1945, oil. Born at Wakefield, Yorkshire, Pitchforth studied at Wakefield School of Art 1912...

A fine c.1960 watercolour by James Ingham Riley depicting Coire Lagan corrie in the Cuillin mountain range on the Isle Of Skye in Scotland. Signed lower left. One of a pair of Isle of Skye paintings...

A fine c.1960 watercolour by James Ingham Riley depicting the Northern Cuillin mountain range on the Isle Of Skye in Scotland. Signed lower left. One of a pair of Isle of Skye paintings that we have available by this artist. Artist: James Ingham Riley (British, 1928-2015) Title: The Northern Cuillin Medium: Watercolour on paper Size: 10.25 x 14.5 inches (26 x 37 cm) unframed / 17.5 x 21 inches (45.5 x 53 cm) including the mount Condition: Very good original condition James Ingham Riley was a respected Lake District artist who exhibited frequently with the Lake Artist's Society. He had a lifetime interest in climbing and hill walking in the Lake District, Wales, the Pennines...

A fine signed and dated 1868 watercolour and pencil on laid paper depicting a bustling scene on Rue Galande in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, by Alfred-Alexandre Delauney. Excellen...

This beautiful view of St James's Square in central London was painted by William Benjamin Chamberlin in the 1920's. The work has been painted from a window on a high floor of a bui...

A fine signed and dated 1903 watercolour depicting the Venice Lagoon at sunset by female British artist Nora Butson. Rare period work by a female artist, who were so often overlooke...

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Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Crashing Waves on the Atlantic Coast, 1957 Watercolor and graphite on paper Signed and dated lower right 22 x 29 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...

Wiltshire , ' Winter Light', Salisbury Plain . Modernist/ traditional watercolor works by Andrew Gradwell. Gradwell generally paints on a large scale canvas in oils. . These studie...

Landscape is an Original Watercolour realized by Alfred Sobottka in 1948. Good condition on a cream colored cardboard. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner.

If you are interested in African American Art and in Women in the Arts, I will certainly not need to introduce Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1988). Often associated with the Harlem Renaiss...

Gouache on paper with frame