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Mid-Century Market

Circa 1950

Painting of a delightful waterfall flowing down a rocky creek by artist Wengen, 1980. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve...

Soft and sunlit acrylic painting of two figures enjoying a gorgeous day outside on a terrace by artist Clive Carpenter, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white m...

Lovely oil on paper landscape of autumn colored trees lining a small pathway in a park by artist Raymond Bailly, 1966. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a white ...

Eye catching oil on paper of an outdoor flower market brimming with colorful blooms by French artist Raymond Bailly, circa 1970. Original one-of-a-kind...

Provenance: Private Collection, San Diego, CA. Framed Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art* studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street. Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River. At this time he signed his paintings M. Giovanni. These colorful impressionistic* works proceeded more thinly painted dramatically poetic street scenes of the mill town. These images developed into impasto* laden oils in the 1960's with some of the paintings worked with a palette knife*. In Manayunk, he was a common sight on the streets and sidewalks, painting on-the-spot with his wife, Eva Marinelli and his two daughters, Nina & Babette. In the 1980's and 90's he also painted in Conshohocken and Norristown with his youngest daughter, Babette. His paintings became more sharply executed like his earlier work but were more colorful. In the late '90's he worked in his studio to enlarge paintings. He is the recipient of over 100 awards and honors. He received the Benjamin Altman Prize in Landscape Painting in 1975 at the National Academy of Design, NYC where he was elected an Academician (NA) in 1944. He mentored not only his wife and two daughters but also taught at Lehigh University and the Graphic Sketch Club, Philadelphia. He died at his home in Blue Bell on February 1, 1997. (Babette Martino...

Highly energetic and abstracted garden flowers and the hint of a figure emerge from this abstract expressionist explosion of color and form, by Dana Wegter (American, 20th-21st Century), 2000. Signed and dated "Dana Wegter '00" lower right. Displayed in a bright yellow mat...

Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water in Oil and Tempera on Paper Wonderful Bay Area abstract composition by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg ...

Gouache of a Shipwreck in a Storm with Gothic Ruins, Early 19th Century Technique: Gouache on paper Period: Early 19th century Description: This romantic painting depicts a dramatic ...