Alexander Shandor

Granny's troubles, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2022

A fictional landscape with industrial overtones. A tower enveloped by mist or some other kind of cloud. Toxic, seductive beauty. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes w...

Like to add the mistery involved in foggy weather, smoke and even light pollution. Inspired by the artworks of Turner. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an offici...

A sentimental favorite flower, sunflowers, are transporting, leaving one feeling revitalized and fresh! This original 24x30 contemporary oil painting is ideal for any transitional lo...

Oil on board Provenance Estate of Marjorie MacMonnies Wysong (the artist's granddaughter); Hap Moore Auctions; Martin Ferrick Antiques Exhibitions Avery Galleries, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, American Women Artists: 1860–1960, October 13–November 10, 2017. Description During her expatriate career, between the mid-1880s and return to the United States in 1920, painter and muralist Mary Fairchild MacMonnies (later Low) was one of the most successful American women artists of her generation. Mary Fairchild was born in Connecticut, but was raised largely in St. Louis, Missouri. Inspired by her mother's work as a painter of miniatures and dissatisfied as a school teacher, she enrolled in the St. Louis School of Fine Arts, where she led a movement for women to be permitted to draw model posed in the nude, an important component of artistic training then considered improper for well-bred young women. Impressed by her talent and drive, the school's director, Halsey Ives...