Mike Wright

South of San Luis Obispo, California Landscape

2017

The Island Inn on Monhegan Island Maine, a beautiful landscape by Richmond Irwin Kelsey (American, 1905 - 1987), 1977. Titled "Island Inn - Monhegan", signed and dated "Kelsey '77" ...

Scene of a road in a small town by Dorothy Gill (American, 20th Century). Signed "Dorothy Gill" in the lower left corner. Presented in a distressed wood frame. Image size: 18"H x 24"W

Mid century figurative landscape of a nude female figure with tree at El Capitan, Yosemite, California by Margaret Wherry Ziegler (American, 1909-1989). Signed "M. Ziegler" lower right. Displayed in a rustic new silver gilt frame. Image, 24"H x 12"W. Margaret Wherry Ziegler was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on November 27, 1909. At a young age she traveled with her parents to the Philippines, Japan, India, Italy, Greece, and Europe. She studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy, Minneapolis Art Institute, the University of the Philippines, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. While in Japan she studied Japanese brush painting...

Gorgeous vivid mid-century landscape painting of a house attributed to Texas artist Vivian Love (American, 1908-1982). Circa 1950s. Signed "Vivian" lower right. Presented in a blue wood frame. Image size, 20"L x 16"H. Vivian Rogers Love began exhibiting in San Antonio in the 1940s. She was a member of the San Antonio Art League, River Art Group, Coppini Academy of Fine Arts and the Highland Art...

Estate signed verso. Painted between the years 1916 and 1926. In a genuine gold leaf, had carved frame. This painting is identified in the Francis Draper Jr. archives as #0-90........

Guy C. Wiggins (1883 - 1962) Locomotive Train in Snowstorm, 1957 Oil on paperboard 8 x 10 inches Signed lower left; signed and dated on the reverse Guy Carleton Wiggins is best known for his impressionistic snow scenes of New York in 1920's. Wiggins lived in Old Lyme and Essex where he operated an art school. The Connecticut country-side was conducive to his impressionist technique of plein-air painting and broken brushwork.  Ironically, although his work includes many fine Connecticut landscapes, he is best remembered for some snow scenes of New York City. Like many other American Impressionists, Wiggins had one foot in the city and the other in the country (Vermont Hillside, South Londonderry).  Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, went to England with his family as a boy, received an English grammar school education, and traveled widely abroad. He was the son of a prominent artist, Carleton Wiggins, a painter in the Barbizon style who studied with George Inness and admired Anton Mauve and Dwight Tryon...

Estate signed verso. Painted between the years 1916 and 1926. In a genuine gold leaf, had carved frame. This painting is identified in the Francis Draper Jr. archives as #0-7...

A lovely Santa Barbara, California Plein Air Landscape oil painting of the Santa Ynez Mountains. Estate signed verso. Pain...