Mason Wells Watercolor of a Mining Operation

Mason Wells (1906-1984) watercolor, most likely from the 1970s. Mason was prolific in both acrylic and watercolor. His family were founders of the American Optical Company. Framed it measures 20.25” wide, 1.75” deep and 26” high. Unframed it measures 13.5” wide and 19” high. This watercolor and others came from the estate of Frank Hamilton...

Mason Wells (1906-1984) watercolor, most likely from the 1970s. Mason was prolific in both acrylic and watercolor. His family were founders of the American Optical Company. Framed it measures 16.75” wide, 1.25” deep and 20.25” high. Unframed it measures 10” wide and 14” high. We had the watercolor professionally framed. This watercolor and others came from the estate of Frank Hamilton...

Mason Wells (1906-1984) watercolor, most likely from the 1970s. Mason was prolific in both acrylic and watercolor. His family were founders of the American Optical Company. Framed it measures 26” wide, 1.75” deep and 20.75” high. Unframed it measures 19” wide and 14” high. This watercolor and others came from the estate of Frank Hamilton...

Mason Wells (1906-1984) watercolor, most likely from the 1970s. Mason was prolific in both acrylic and watercolor. His family were founders of the American Optical Company. Framed it measures 20” wide, 1.75” deep and 26.25” high. Unframed it measures 13.5” wide and 19.5” high. This watercolor and others came from the estate of Frank Hamilton...

Watercolor on paper of the New England coastline, probably New Hampshire. Signed in graphite, lower left: M.M. Brooks American, circa 1910.

Dasha Shishkin was born in 1977 in Moscow, USSR. Her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. Work in public collections includes the Museum o...

Title: De Mijn Maurits bij Sittard (The Maurits Mine near Sittard). On the verso 'Doorsnede van een kolen mijn in Limburg'. Translated: Cross Section of a Coalmine in Limburg (a province in the South of The Netherlands). Sittard is a city in the province of Limburg, in the south of Holland. In 1947 this coal mine was connected to another mine: the Emma Mine, by a 13 km straight tunnel. In the second half of the 1940s and in the 1950s the mine was expanded, and mining reached a depth of 810 m. A third shaft was completed in 1958. At the time of completion of the third shaft, the Maurits mine was the largest two-shafts mine in the world. It was the largest coal mine in the Netherlands. When in the beginning of the 1960s the economic tide for coal mining...

1870s watercolor of bird.