William Vareika Fine Arts ART FOR SALE

Provenance: Family of the Artist

This artwork is included in the Catalogue Raisonne of Bannister's work compiled by Anne Louise Avery.

Framed dimensions: 56 x 66 inches

A luminous coastal view with rolling surf breaking against rocky outcroppings beneath a bright, cloud-filled sky. Bricher’s refined detail and atmospheric light exemplify his mastery of the American Luminist seascape.

Watercolor & gouache on mechanical reproduction: Provenance: Given to Albert Stickney, John La Farge’s attorney, in payment for legal services; Literature: James Yarnall, John La Farge in Paradise: The Painter and His Muse, Newport, RI: Wm Vareika Fine Arts, 1995, p 168, color illus, p 169, no 231

Provenance: Family of the Artist

"Burning of the Mississippi" In the midst of the Civil War, the "Mississippi" ran aground in an attempt by Adm Farragut to create a blockade NW of Pt Hudson. She was burned by the crew to prevent her from falling to the Confederacy. The Mississippi was the flagship of Commodore Perry’s voyage to Japan.

Fort Dumpling on Conanicut Island was erected in 1798 to protect the entrance to Rhode Island, Narragansett Bay. The beauty and iconic nature of the fortification was depicted by many 19th Century artists, including William Trost Richards who built a home nearby.

Framed dimensions: 18 ½ x 15 ¾ inches

This artwork is part of a series of thirty-six works by Walter which detailed images of immigrants at Ellis Island, New York in the 1920s. The paintings were exhibited in 1922 in the Galerie George in Paris. The series subsequently appeared in 1923 at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Painted Air: American Impressionism, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, Maine, August 14 - October 15, 2000

Exhibited: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Pont-Aven, Brittany, France “Peintres Americans de Bretagne,”1995; David Long & Co., New York, NY “A Retrospective Exhibition,” March 11-April 5, 1980, cat. no. 7

The subject of this painting is Vernon, the Normandy town on the River Seine near to Giverny where the train stops to and from Paris and Rouen.

Framed Dimensions: 30 1/2 x 27 inches Literature: Ludwig Bemelmans, My Life In Art, Harper & Brothers, New York, (color illustration)

Framed dimensions: 39 x 27 Signed and inscribed "Assisted by Lewis Crum" lower left Period Frame

Size of each: 11.5 x 4.5 inches

Provenance: Family of the artist

Framed dimensions: 16 x 18 ¾ inches

Exhibited: “Hans Hofmann,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 20, 1990- Sept. 16, 1990; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Nov. 1990- Jan. 1991; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, Feb. 1991- April 1991.

Framed dimensions: 16 x 18 ¾ inches

We are actively purchasing artworks by George Loring Brown.

L. Goodrich and A. Gerdts, Record of Works by Winslow Homer, Volume III, New York, 2008, no. 766, illustrated in color p. 188 (as Woman Reading under Oaks)

A sunlit hillside at Cragsmoor bursts with blooming azaleas in soft pinks and whites, overlooking rolling green fields. Curran’s luminous palette and atmospheric Impressionist brushwork capture the serenity and light of early summer in the Hudson Valley.

Vibrant autumn view of Gloucester, Massachusetts, looking down a sloping street toward colorful storefronts and clustered rooftops. Golden leaves frame the scene as small figures engaged in every-day activities animate the foreground. Foote’s lively brushwork captures crisp New England light.

Provenance: Family of the Artist