Edward Leavitt

Carnations

Signed lower right. Johann Berthelsen (1883-1972) He was born in Copenhagen in 1883, the 7th of seven sons, to Conrad and Dorothea Karen Berthelsen. The parents moved in artistic a...

Signed lower left & titled verso. A printmaker and painter in abstract style who used wide brush marks, Henry Kallem was born in Philadelphia. His father was Morris Kallem, a portrait painter, with whom he studied, and his brother was sculptor Herbert Kallem...

Signed upper right. She was a member of the National Association of Women Artists, New Jersey Watercolor Club, Modern Art Society of New Jersey, Woodstock Art Association, American Artists Professional League. Awards: Society of Independent Artists Seventh Kresge Exhibition American Watercolor Society Montclair Art Museum Salons of America National Association of Women Artists, 1944, 1946 National League of American Pen Women, 1950, 1952 Position: Art Editor at Paterson Morning Call...

Signed lower right Provenance: Wally Findlay Galleries Gaston Sebire was born August 18, 1920, in Saint-Samson Calvados. He was a painter of landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and flowers. Sebire was also an engraver, pastel artist and painter of theatre decorations. He settled in Paris in 1951. In 1953 he created the costumes and decorations for l'Ange Gris, with music by Debussy, for the Ballets of the marquis de Cuevas. He lived and worked in Normandy and participated in numerous group exhibitions, including: Salon of Independents, Paris Salon of Tuileries, Paris Comparisons Salon since 1962, Paris Salon of French Artists since 1964, Paris. He appeared at other groupings in London with Lorjou and Clave, in Munich, Washington, Japan, and different exhibitions of the School of Paris at the Charpentier Gallery in Paris in 1953, 1954, a1955, 1956, 1946, 1958 and 1962, at the Biennial of the Jeunes au Pavilon of Marsan in 1957. He had many solo exhibitions: 1944- Galerie Gosselin, Rouen 1952 - Galerie Visconti, Paris 1956 - Galerie Charpentier, Paris 1961 - Galerie Combes, Clermont-Ferrand 1962, 1965 and 1968 - Galerie Drouant, Paris 1964 - Musee de Rouen 1965 - Wally Findlay Gallery, New York, and Chicago 1965 and 1971 - Wally Findlay Gallery, Paris 1976 - Cultural Center, Le Mesnis-Esnard 1986 - Retrospective, Museum of Fine Art, Rouen 1991 - with Cacheux, Roger Worms...

Pristine and purely American in its aesthetic due to the fact that the artist concentrates on one type of fruit. Europeans were much more opulent in their approach to still lifes an...

Levi Wells Prentice (1851 - 1935) Gooseberries, circa 1899 Oil on canvas 6 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Donna Schlesak, Burlington, Wisconsin Self-taught ar...

George Harvey was born in 1800 in Tottenham, England but moved to the United states at 20 years old and spent several years in the west before he established himself in New York City...

Spring Picnic in the Vineyard, Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Beautiful oil painting of a variety of fruits with cups in a field of grass by Alexander Rapoport (Russian-Ameri...