LANDSCAPES

Oil on board. Signed L/R “Blanche Bruce” (1880-1945). Circa 1930. Bruce was a Midwestern female plein aire artist who trained at The Art Institute of Chicago in the realistic representational/naturalistic style. 19 3/4″ x 23 3/4″  in original frame $695

Oil on canvas. Signed L/L “E. (Elbert) Jones”. Circa 1935-40. Jones was a plein aire ex-patriot painter from Great Britain. 24″ x 31″ in original mid-century frame $750

Oil on canvas. Signed L/R “Henri J. Pauwels” (Henri Josef, 1903-1983). This Belgian artist was known for his paintings of small cities and landscapes throughout Western and Central Europe. The berg, or steep cobbled hills which typify the region, is the subject of this charming landscape. The articulation of the clouds is reminiscent of Constable’s famous cloud studies. 31″ x […]

Acrylic on board.  Signed L/R “Elvin Mauk” (Elvin Dean Mauk) ,(1929-2006), c.1960. Dean was an Illinois artist who was mostly self taught. Through his local art club he met an art professor from the University of Illinois, and was encouraged to join shows and exhibitions. Eventually finding modest success, Mauk never found mainstream representation and died in 2006 before he […]

Oil on canvas. Signed, inscribed, and dated L/R “Charles Henry Payne, 1892”  (1850-1916). Payne was an Irish-American painter in Chicago. He is listed in the Who’s Who in American Art. Although mostly known for his work in pastels, this is a rare example of his wide artistic interests and use of oil paint. $950

Oil on HardBoard, Corwin Knapp Linson (1864-1959).  Signed with Monogram L/R. Corwin Linson was an artist and illustrator who worked with author Stephen Crane;  Linson would later write a book about Crane, ” My Stephen Crane.” Several versions of the manuscript, and photographs of Crane taken by Linson, are in the Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University Library […]

Oil on canvas. Signed L/R “Emma Grim” and dated 1896. This lozenge canvas, which is always hung on the diagonal, is typical of the art being undertaken by the Taos Society of Artists. Though the society was not officially codified until 1915, the exploratory trips to Taos took place in the early 1890s. By this point, disenfranchisement of the Indigenous […]