Samuel Colman

Tower of Babel, Colorado Canyon oil painting by Samuel Colman

Circa 1900

This painting is listed in the W.H. Cadbury and H.F. Marsh book Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: Artist in the Adirondacks, Newark, Delaware, 1986, no.59.36t. It is hand-signed "AF Tait...

Signed and dated "Henry Bacon 1881" lower right. Provenance: private collection About this artist: A figure painter in the conservative tradition of the late 19th century French, H...

Lyrical landscape painting by William Scwartz. A Song Without Words (1927) Oil on canvas 16" x 20" 21 ½" x 25 ½" x 2 ½" framed Signed and dated "W.S. 27" lower right. Titled and dated "A song without Words by William S. Schwartz Chicago 1927" verso. About this artist: Born in Smorgon, Russia in 1896, William Schwartz began studying art at a young age. He immigrated to the United States as a teenager, and worked briefly as a house painter. Schwartz eventually ended up in Illinois, and studied with Ivan Trutnev and Karl Buehr at the Art Institute of Chicago. He held a variety of jobs, including as a singer, but ultimately pursued painting as a vocation. Despite choosing art over music, his interest in music would influence several of his paintings - notably his Symphonic Forms series. In Chicago Schwartz was friends with many other modernists of the time including Ivan Albright, Aaron Bohrod, and Anthony Angarola...

Hand-signed and dated "Franks 44" lower right. This work is in its original hand painted frame, made by the artist. The frame measures 29 ½" x 35 ½" x 1 ¾" and the canvas measures 26...

Byron Browne On the Beach (1959) Oil on canvas, 20" x 26" 26" x 32" x 1" frame size - likely original Inscribed verso "On the Beach / 1959 / Byron Browne" Provenance: Private collection, Berkley, California About this artist: Through an oeuvre displaying the re-envisioning of figural subjects and the formation of an abstract expressionist style, Byron Browne stands out among the American abstractionists of his generation. Born in Yonkers, New York, in 1907, the artist was a bright talent at the National Academy of Design in his teens. From 1924 to 1928 Browne studied at the Academy under notable artists Robert Aitkin, Charles Courtney Curran, Charles Hawthorne, Alice Murphy...

This painting is illustrated in the Catalogue of the 1945 Encyclopedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting, p.84. Written and edited by Grace Pagano. "Painting ...

Painted by Hudson River School artist Johann Hermann Carmiencke, "Hudson River Landscape" 1865 is oil on canvas, measures 12 x 18 inches, and is signed and dated 1865 at the lower ri...

Edward Hill (1843 - 1923) Haying at a North Conway Farm with Mount Washington in the Distance, New Hampshire Oil on canvas 13 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Dallas, Texas Born in Wolverhampton, England in 1843, Edward Hill was the ninth of ten children. Though ultimately less well known than his older brother Thomas Hill (1829-1908), Edward was a productive painter in oil and watercolor for more than sixty years, producing images of the White Mountains of New Hampshire, southern genre scenes, still-life paintings, portraits, American Indian pictures...

Signed and dated lower left: D. F. Bigelow / 70

F. Alexander Wust paints a stellar sunset over a hillside with light red color in his artwork entitled, “Sunset Landscape.”

Hermann Herzog paints a beautiful mountainside landscape with a house set into the incline in his work entitled, “Summer on the Delaware.”

Worthington Whittredge paints an iconic scene of the burgeoning West of the United States, specifically Colorado, in his artwork entitled, “A Mountain Trail, Colorado.”