Although born in Canada, William Francis Taylor (1883-1970) moved to Lumberville under the influence of his friend William Lathrop around 1925 and is considered one of the New Hope School of Pennsylvania Impressionists. He studied in New York City at the Art Students League from 1905 to 1907 and John Sloan was one of his teachers.

In 1928 he headed the Subscription Committee to purchase Phillips Mill as an exhibition space for Bucks County artists. He published a history of Phillips Mill in 1963.

His work is in the Michener Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York amongst others.

Titled verso “March in Catskill Mountains”

Oil on artist board, 12 by 16 inches, with inscription verso “William F. Taylor for Judy and Henri 1966”.

$5,750

David Henry is a contemporary Philadelphia painter. He studied in New York at the School of Visual Arts and then at the Art Students League where he was selected for an apprenticeship with Nelson Shanks with whom he studied for three years.

“Chinese Pear with Wildflowers in a Jam Jar”

Oil on birch panel, 12 x 8 inches, 2024. The frame was also made by the artist. Other works by the artist are available.

$1,650

Peter Copmann (1794-1850) was a Danish artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and is particularly known for his works in pastel. He immigrated to the United States in 1834 working first in Brooklyn then heading south, working in Charleston, South Carolina in 1835, then on to New Orleans (active there in 1837) and was in Louisville in 1848. He died in Basseterre, Guadeloupe in 1850. He advertised his services in the city directories and his works were reviewed by local newspapers, such as the Charleston Courier, which not only praised his talents but also for discovering a fixative for pastel paintings. His work is in the Royal Collection in Copenhagen.

This pair of paintings is signed and dated 1838. Although the sitters are not identified, based upon the biographical information available for Copmann, they are likely a husband and wife from New Orleans.

Pastel, in their original frames and glass (please excuse the reflections in the images), 29 by 24 inches (framed), 1838.

$4,200

Stuart Shils (born 1954) is a Philadelphia-based artist who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (PAFA). There he met Seymour Remenick who would have a profound influence on his early landscapes. They painted together outdoors, often in Manayunk, a frequent subject of both their paintings.

Shils teaches at PAFA and exhibits frequently in New York, Philadelphia, Israel and Ireland.

This painting was a donation to a fundraiser for the Zoological Society of Philadelphia in 1996, with a description appearing to be in Shils’ hand verso.

“Arnest Mansion, View Toward Old House Across Fields from Fairmount Park”

Oil on paper mounted on board, 11 by 8 1/2 inches sight, 1993.

$2,400

Honoré Camos (1906-1991) was born in Vallauris in the South of France and was a painter, ceramacist and an actor on the stage. He was friends with Picasso who he first met in the 1920s. He lived in Sweden for a while before returning to France and settling in Bargemon in the Var, where a museum is dedicated to him.

"A Landscape in Provence", presented as a wedding present by the artist in 1982.

Oil on canvas in its original frame, approximately 15 by 18 inches.

$1,250

Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) was born in Detroit, studied at the Tyler School of Fine Arts 1940-1942, the Hans Hoffman Art School 1946-1948, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1977 to 1996, he was a much-loved teacher at PAFA.

His work is in many collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

“St. John the Baptist Church, Manayunk”

Oil on canvas, 22 by 30 inches. Ex collection Benjamin Bernstein.

$3250

Léon Joubert (1851-1928) studied under the French landscape painter Léon Pelouse. His work was also influenced by the Barbizon artists, particularly Corot. He exhibited regularly at the Sociétaire des Artistes Français and at the Exposition Universalle of 1889 and 1900. His work is held in the Musée d’Orsay, Montpellier, Montreal and Saint-Brieuc.

“Village Landscape”

Oil on wood panel, approximately 10 by 13 1/2 inches.

$1,750

Jaroslav Ronek (1892-1962) was a Czech painter who lived in Prague and studied with Jan Preisler and Karel Reisner. He was best known for his atmospheric paintings of steam locomotives. This painting was formerly with the Roy Miles Gallery in London.

“Locomotives”

Oil on canvas, 22 by 30 inches.

$1,250

Matt Johanning is a contemporary artist based in Lancaster, PA. His carefully considered compositions are a playful celebration of Pennsylvania’s rural environments and communities.

“Lancaster County Scene”

“Fall in Lancaster County”

“Amish City”

Each is an oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches.

$450 each

Julius Thiengen Bloch (1888-1966) emigrated from Germany with his parents when he was five and settled in Philadelphia. His mother recognized, and encouraged, his artistic talents. He attended the School of the Pennsylvania Museum and Industrial Art (now The University of the Arts), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) where he studied with Thomas Anshutz, and the school at the Barnes Foundation.

His early paintings were frequently still lifes, but his experiences of the effects of the Depression upon the working classes, and in particular the Black community, which also faced racial discrimination, led him to become a leading social realist artist depicting them with dignity.

For many years he taught at PAFA, and his message to students was that you need to know life in order to paint life.

“Still Life of Fruit”, 1922.

Oil on canvas, 28 by 22 inches.

$3,500

Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) was born in Detroit, studied at the Tyler School of Fine Arts 1940-1942, the Hans Hoffman Art School 1946-1948, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1977 to 1996, he was a much-loved teacher at PAFA.

His work is in many collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

“Still Life with Pheasant”

Oil on canvas, 24 by 30 inches.

$3,750

Arrah Lee Gaul (1883-1980) was born in Lancaster County and attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art). She studied with Elliott Dangerfield and Henry B. Snell in Philadelphia and with Charles Guerin in Paris. She exhibited frequently, including at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the National Academy of Design in New York , the Paris Salon, and the Beaux Arts Gallery in London.

Arrah was one of the founding members of the group of women artists known as the Philadelphia Ten and returned to teach at Moore College of Art becoming the head of the art education department. She traveled extensively, and completed many paintings during her travels through Europe, Africa and Asia as well as within the United States.

“Adobe House Interior”, New Mexico, dated 1937.

Oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, in likely its original frame with label to stretcher.

$3,500

Glenn Stuart Pearce (1909-1986) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) and with Arthur B. Carles. He was a WPA artist in the 1930s and painted many scenes of industrial and urban Philadelphia. He lived in West Philadelphia and later in Elkins Park and rarely sold his work. Two of his paintings are in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Pearce’s painting evolved and changed over time; this painting of the Town Hall in Germantown, seen leaning at an angle and defying traditional perspective, represents a familiarity with the aims of the German Expressionists and a desire to not simply record a scene but to represent how the artist feels about it.

“Germantown Town Hall”, 1930s/40s

Oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, in its original frame.

$1,950

Los Angeles artist Lorraine Schneider donated the use of “Primer”, an illustration of a sunflower on a yellow background amid the slogan "War is not healthy for children and other living things”, to Another Mother for Peace (AMP) for a Mother's Day peace card. AMP was founded in 1967 by Barbara Avedon, a former writer for The Donna Reed Show who would later co-create the series Cagney and Lacey. The Mother’s Day card was sent in opposition to the Vietnam War to President Lyndon B. Johnson and members of Congress in 1967. By May 1967, 200,000 cards had been sent. This message became very popular and was reprinted on bumper stickers, cards, pendants, and posters such as this one. Getty Images has a photograph by Robert Altman of this poster being held by a young girl in an anti-war rally in San Francisco in 1969.

“War is not healthy for children and other living things”, late 1960s.

Original fluorescent (blacklight) silkscreen poster, 35 x 23 inches, in very good condition.

$195

Walter Stuempfig, Jr. (1914-1970) was born in Germantown, Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) with Henry McCarter, Daniel Garber, and Francis Speight. He also taught at PAFA from 1948-70. At his first solo exhibition in New York in 1943 purchasers included New York’s Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art.

His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art and PAFA.

“Blue Caps”, 1965.

Oil on canvas, 19 x 14 inches, in its original frame. This painting was exhibited at the Richard K. Larcada Gallery in Manhattan in 1965 (exhibition catalogue included).

$4,250

Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) was born in Detroit, studied at the Tyler School of Fine Arts 1940-1942, the Hans Hoffman Art School 1946-1948, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. From 1977 to 1996, he was a much-loved teacher at PAFA.

His work is in many collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

“Manayunk from Cotton and Tower Streets”

Sepia watercolor and ink, the painting is approximately 10 by 14 inches and is matted in a good Carl Laughlin frame. This is one of several Philadelphia, and particularly Manayunk, scenes we have by Remenick in various media.

$775

Paul DuSold is a contemporary Philadelphia artist and teacher. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with Arthur DeCosta, and in fresco with B.F. Long. He currently teaches at Fleischer Art Memorial and Woodmere Art Museum.

Paul has exhibited at Gross McCleaf Gallery, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Delaware Art Museum, Michener Art Museum and many others.

“Summer Lilies”, 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas board.

$2400

Born Robert Clark in New Castle, Indiana in 1928, the artist changed his last name upon moving to New York City in 1954. In the early 1960s, Indiana explored the style of hard-edged painting that his friends such as Ellsworth Kelly were exploring. His interest in words, however, distinguished his works from other abstract painters of the time.

Familiar to everyone, this is Robert Indiana's first LOVE screen print ever produced. An original from 1965, it was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) as a Christmas card, this one was unused and includes the original envelope.

In very good condition, the screen printed pigments are rich and saturated.

After the success of this image, his LOVE series, which opened at the Stable Gallery in New York in 1966, became one of the defining images of the Pop Art era of the 1960s.

“LOVE”

Screen print, 6 3/16 x 6 3/8 inches, 1965, $950

Frederick James Boston (1855-1932) was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He studied under J. B. Whittaker at the Adelphi College, Brooklyn and then under Carolus Duran in Paris in the 1880’s. He was the first instructor of art at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (the fledgling Brooklyn Museum) and founded and served as president of the Painters and Sculptors Club. He exhibited work in many galleries in Manhattan as well as at the National Academy of Design, the Brooklyn Art Association, the Brooklyn Society of Artists, the Society of Independent Artists and the Salmagundi Club.

“Sewing”, circa 1890.

Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.

$4,150

Jay Rather was born in Houston in 1959. He is a watercolor painter, like his father Herb, and also a pipe carver. He was represented by Newman Galleries in Philadelphia and has exhibited several times with the American Watercolor Society.

“Train - Detail”, 1988

Watercolor, 20” x 30”.

$2,100

Giovanni Casadei was born in Rome in 1956, studied at the Scuola Libera del Nudo and the Academy of Fine Art in Rome, and moved to Philadelphia in 1986 and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Seymour Remenick. He exhibits regularly and has won many prizes for his art.

“The Painter’s Studio”

Oil on canvas, 32” x 40”, 1995, in a frame made by the artist.

$5,250

Clifford Winson Satterthwaite, was born on April 1, 1934 in Philadelphia. In 1955 he made the Dean's List upon graduation from the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. Among his fellow classmates were Robert B. Dance and Leonard Lehrer. He studied under and was most influenced by his teachers, Henry C. Pitz, Joseph Krush, Ben Eisenstat, Benton Spruance and W. Emerton Heitland. He lived in York, PA, for many years and later Fredericksburg, VA and exhibited widely. He is well known for architectural paintings of historic buildings.

“The Railway Station, Railroad, Pennsylvania”

Oil on canvas, 40” x 49”, 1980.

$5,250

Miodrag Vojić was born in Serbia in 1923. His studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade were interrupted by the war in 1944, but upon demobilisation in 1946 he continued post-graduate studies. He left Yugoslavia for the South of France around 1949. Perhaps this report from the Ministry of Education in Belgrade sheds some light on his decision to leave Yugoslavia:

“Miodrag Vojić, has not shown any progress in painting and has no prospect of improvement. In the National Youth, nothing works, on the contrary, his destructive attitude hinders the efforts of the Council and the National Youth on the path of proper development. Politically insecure.” (Translation from the Serbian courtesy of Google)

He settled in Cannes where he was also known as Michel Vojic and Vojic Milo. He founded the Association of Contemporary Artists of Cannes and the Cote d’Azur. He exhibited with, and was friends with, Hans Hartung, Arman, Cesar, Henri Goetz, Edouard Pignon, and many other artists. He died in 2004. We have several works by him available.

“Joie de Vivre”

Watercolor and ink, oval, matted to 16” x 20”, 1957.

$575

Kenneth MacIver Morrison (1868-1936) was an English post-impressionist painter who exhibited in London and Paris.

This painting was  with The Beaux Arts Gallery, at 7 Bruton Place, Bond St., London that was opened in 1923 by Frederick Lessore, the brother-in-law of Walter Sickert who also exhibited there. The painting also bears an exhibition label for The San Francisco Museum of Art as well as one stating this was the property of Katherine Morrison.

“Brittany Maidservant”

Oil on canvas, 32” x 24”.

$4,750

Cairine MacGillivray is a contemporary Scottish artist. She graduated from the University of Aberdeen, and has exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy and at the Royal Glasgow Institute.

“Ballade” painted in 2020.

Oil on canvas, 9 x 12 inches, in a Rich Genga hand carved and gilded frame.

$950

Carrie Mae Smith studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and this painting was exhibited there in 2004.

“1952 Forest Sherman Destroyer - Demilitarized Gun Turret”

Oil on canvas, 38” x 48”, c.2004.

$2,000

Donald Moodie (1892-1963) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and studied at the Edinburgh College of Art winning a postgraduate scholarship in 1914. He joined the staff in 1919 after seeing action in Gallipoli and being wounded in France where he was mentioned in dispatches with the 5th Royal Scots. Fellow teachers included John Maxwell and Sir William Gillies, the latter becoming a great friend and painting companion. He was an elected member of the Royal Scottish Academy where he was secretary for the last five years of his life and served as President of the Society of Scottish Artists from 1937 to 41. He received the Academy’s Guthrie Award in 1924. He is represented in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Kirkaldy and Edinburgh City Art Galleries.

“Still Life with Apples”

Oil on board, 17 1/2” x 21 1/2”, c. 1950’s. $1,800.

Stewart Sinclair MacDermott (1889-1966) studied at the Art Students League in New York and in France. He exhibited at the Whitney, PAFA, Corcoran Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Salon d’Automne in Paris.

“Farming Landscape with Clouds”

Oil on canvas, 20” x 24”.

$1,250.

A port, likely Le Havre, unsigned, c. 1900. Purchased in the south of France, recently cleaned and in very good condition.

Oil on canvas, approx. 15” x 22”.

$1,250

Sidney Goodman (1936-2013) entered the Philadelphia College of Art (which became the University of The Arts) in 1954, where he studied illustration. A 1957 scholarship to the Yale-Norfolk summer school crystallized Goodman’s decision to become a painter rather than an illustrator. In 1961, his debut exhibition in New York was highly received. He was recognized at the age of 27 by Time magazine as being one of the most influential upcoming artists on the scene. Goodman was one of the most respected figurative artists in America. He participated in and helped shape the return to figuration and realism that occurred in the 1960s.

Goodman spent over fifty years teaching, first a professor at the University of the Arts from 1960 to 1978, then the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, until 2011. Over the course of his career, Goodman received a number of formal honors, including a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship in 1962, the Hazlett Memorial Award for Excellence in the Arts (Painting) in 1986, and an honorary doctorate from Lyme Academy College of Art in 2006. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, and many more.

Untitled (Interior with Stove Pipes).

Oil on canvas, 22 x 18 inches, in a period Perakis frame.

$1,650.

Michel Jamart (1922-2004) was a Belgian impressionist painter.

“Forest Scene”

Oil on canvas, approx. 9” x 10 1/2”.

$600

Edgar Sergeant, born in 1877, was a New Jersey artist who studied at the Art Students League with his friend Ernest Lawson. he lived in Nutley, NJ.

“Landscape”

Oil on canvas, 20” x 24”.

$950

Nineteenth century Hague School painting, unsigned, similar to works by Albert Neuhuys.

Nurse and Baby.

Oil on canvas, approx. 12” x 18”, c. late 19th Century.

$1,200

Ken Blumberg is a contemporary Philadelphia painter. He studied in New York at the School of Visual Arts and at the Art Students League.

“29th and Harold Street, Philadelphia”

Oil on linen, 16 x 12 inches, 2021. The frame was also made by Ken. Other works by the artist are available.

$1,400

Julius Thiengen Bloch (1888-1966)

Julius Bloch was born in Germany and emigrated with his parents to Philadelphia in 1893. He studied at the School of the Pennsylvania Museum and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz. He was a social realist painter whose subjects in the 1930’s and 1940’s focused on the working classes.  His admiration for Thomas Eakins, also a social realist, likely contributed to his interest in these subjects.  For many years, he was a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy, and his message to students was that you need to know life in order to paint life. One of the first American artists to paint poverty-stricken black Americans, he tried to make sure that his subjects retained their dignity.  In 1934, he was asked to submit a painting to a Center City department store for National Art Week.  His entry was a portrait of Alonzo Jennings, a black man.  "Store officials said it was one of the finest paintings they had seen in years, but that the store 'could not exhibit a portrait of a Negro in its windows.' They asked Bloch if he had any pictures of whites. He said he did, but they were not available." (Freeman)

His work is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Whitney, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PAFA, and many others.

Titled “Little Girl with Daffodils” and dated 1945.

Oil on canvas, 32” x 25”.

$6,250

Charles Austin Needham (1844-1923) was born in Buffalo, New York and lived in New York City. He studied with August Will in Buffalo and at the Art Students League of New York. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design , the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and internationally, including at the 1900 Exposition Universalle in Paris where he won a bronze medal. He was a member of the American Water Color Society and The Salmagundi Club. This painting bears a label for an auction at The Salmagundi Club with Needham’s address at 145 East 23rd St., New York.

“The Winds of Fall”

Oil on wood panel, 12 x 16 inches.

$2,150

Anthony Hayward was an English artist living in Guilford in 1981 when he painted this view of Malmesbury in Wiltshire.

“Malmesbury, Wilts.” datred 1981

Oil on canvas laid to board, 18 x 24 inches, framed 23 x 29 inches.

$1,100

A contemporary Philadelphia artist, Tish attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania. She was a lead muralist for the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, has exhibited at Woodmere Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and has been represented by galleries in New York as well as Philadelphia.

“Window Sill”, 1980

Oil on canvas, 22 x 32 inches, in its original frame.

$1,250

Betty Sherman (1932-2022) was a Philadelphia artist and art teacher who studied at The Barnes Foundation and the Tyler School of Art. Betty was a much-loved art teacher at Springside School (now Springside Chestnut Hill Academy) for many years.

While at Tyler in the early 1970s she created a series of silkscreen prints, two are shown here, “Oran” and “Everlasting”. A limited number of these, and others in the series, remain available.

Edwin Anthony Cadogan (1908-1983) was born in San Francisco and belonged to the Lucas family for whom Lucas Valley in Marin County is named. He studied at Marin Jr. College and was active in the local art scene and a resident of Berkeley during the 1930s. He was studying in the atelier of S. W. Hayter in Paris at the outbreak of WWII. During the war he served in the Phillipines as a Seabee. He received his B.A. degree from San Francisco State University (1947) and M.F.A. degree from the CCAC (1950). From 1947 he headed the art department at College of Marin where Cadogan Hall is named in his honor.

“Breton Market Scene”, late 1930s

Oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches.

$725