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Rare Fidalgo Island, Washington oil of men fishing at Pass Lake, right before you get the famous Deception Pass Bridge on the HW 20 Scenic Byway! Great Newcomb-Mackin carved frame...
Stunning, Bright Rare Alaskan watercolor by a pre WWII woman artist. White-line woodblocks included.
Wonderful Central Oregon Snow scene of the Upper Deschutes River, near LaPine, Oregon. Framed in a period carved, gilt Jensen frame that highlights the painting exceptionally well!
Delicate, Subtle & Iridescent, yet a Powerful Statement! Float mounted on silk in fantastic custom frame.
Engaging Alaskan Life subject matter.
This is my favorite Derbyshire painting & the finest Leon Derbyshire still life painting that we know of. The illuminating light & shading in this modern still life make it a special piece!
Stunning formal portrait in a period interior looking out onto a classical landscape outside done in remarkable miniaturist detail (ie. the lace, velvet, hair and hands). Great period frame and in wonderful condition.
Bright & has a lot of POP! Charming Morgan with family authentication letter on reverse from artist's niece, Dana Morgan Sr in 1997.
Popular Ziegler etching most noted for being on the cover of the Ziegler etching catalog done by the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.
One of the very finest early Alaska Laurence paintings you'll see, with impeccable fellow Alaska artist family provenance. Inscribed Beluga, Alaska 1910 on the front of painting beside signature. The detail, subject and luminous light are exceptional in this painting.
One of Gonzales' finest major paintings from this period.
Wonderful early, abstract expressionist work by Close, done the year he completed his undergraduate studies Magna Cum Laude at the University of Washington (Seattle). This work is compositionally similar to that of Willem DeKooning, whom he admired, and the work of his UW art instructor Alden Mason. The globbing of paint is reminiscent of the impasto Hans Hofmann created on canvas. The provenance of this piece is directly from a friend of Close at the UW. Upon meeting DeKooning late in his life, Chuck Close quoted himself as saying "Its finally nice to meet someone who's painted more DeKoonings that I have".
This is a rarer Ziegler drypoint image of the Alaskan Husky Dog & Team done in approximately 1939...this image is shown in the Frye Art Museum publication from 2002 on Ziegler's drypoints 'Capturing The Character of the Northwest, Drypoints by Eustace P Ziegler', plate 9 pg 15. I have the matching imagery by Ziegler depicted on the cover of an Alaska Steamship Company Menu for the July 17, 1939 voyage of the SS Columbia...& a very similar original Husky portrait in pastel by Josephine Crumrine Liddell (also on AskArt), who also illustrated color menu covers for the Alaska Steamship Company in the 1940s.
Great Horse Racing image at the Northwest's most famous of now by-gone race tracks. 'Longacres' is an important & rare piece of Northwest Horse Racing history.
Striking, highly sought after thick white crackle glaze on black ground, prime period charger wall sculpture by the Seattle great ceramic artist and teacher Robert Sperry. This piece depicts 4th of July Fireworks over Lake Union, where Bob Sperry's studio was in the 1980s.
This is a double-sided piece. Lovely Eucalytus Laguna Beach Cottage on front and Mission San Juan Capistrano on the reverse…in original carved, gilt frame.
Very sharp depiction of a fruit processing barn/factory probably in Central, WA. This is a classic, prime period Helder architectural painting.
Lovely, large rare McKinley image by Goodale in mint condition...
Lovely, detailed Rockwell of the Oregon Coast, Near Pacific City
Classic 60s Cumming with a girl in action!
George Uchida, Seattle, widely exhibited photo of Mark Tobey 1963 on 20x16 backboard mount.... Arizona International Exhibition, Illinois International Exhibition, Oklahoma International Exhibition, & Seattle International Exhibition of Photography.
Wonderful, exhibited Masterwork by Margaret Camfferman, founding member of Women Painters of Washington showing the Fruits of Labor at Langley, Whidbey Island Art Colony. Earliest art modern art colony in Pacific Northwest. Original Art Deco painted artist frame. Family Siamese cat.
This is the best and most luminous midnight sun(set) painting by Laurence that I've ever seen. From the Anderson House Museum, Anchorage Family...Housed in period Schneider Seattle carved frame.
Bold, confident brushstroke in gritty piece with an exciting pink-orange-beige palette with artist’s classic green, blue, purple & white color highlights. The more orange tones in this carved, gilt period Schneider Seattle frame really compliment the tonality of this painting very well.
Lovely PNW GEM by this early & important NW Woman Artist.
Extremely rare, early symbolist Partridge done leading up to WWI in japanesque style, symbolically depicting the silencing of the delicate butterfly! Done in a edition of 40, of which is believed fewer than 15 survive.
Here's an exceptional 1955 31x43 inch Kenneth Callahan just in...Per inscription on the strecher, it was lent for exhibition to IX Premio Lissone (Museum of Contemporary Art near Milan, Italy) by owner actor Burgess Meredith ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Meredith )via The Maynard Walker Gallery on East 57th in NYC for a museum competition in the 1950s-60s. Not that it makes a bit of difference as to the great quality of the picture, but its kind of cool that Burgess Meredith was the trainer in the original 'Rocky' movie with Sylvester Stallone, and 'The Penguin' in the original Batman.
Rarely seen Peterson view of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She made the trip there in 1916 with Louis Comfort Tiffany.
A splash of bright Summer color on Sauvies Island in Keller best year…lovely brushwork…period Newcomb-Macklin frame…Oregon State Fair Exhibit. One of Keller's very best works! The wonderful impasto of the gold & purple field in bloom harkens a bit to a Monet, if he'd painted in Oregon!
Stunning Picturesque Fishing Village in original Jensen Seattle carved/gilt frame. Great Provenance from the artist's family. The mural version of this painting hangs in the Washington Convention Center in Downtown Seattle.
A wonderful example by this Northwest Impressionist Master,with a wonderful Burke family provenance (Univ. of Wash. NW Native American/Natural History Museum).
Classic pair of 1930s sumi Market Sketches of Women. Came in with several other signed NW Mystic paintings (Tobey, Graves, Callahan), including a signed Tobey market sketch.
Wonderful, detailed rare American scene painting by this talented woman PNW artist from Boston...with all the circus acts & activity...depicted with wonderful color and character! Period, carved roman gilt frame.
Striking Collage of contacting colors and emotions
Gorgeous Masterpiece by Bisbing in mint condition and in a great period frame. Labelled as exhibited at the Chicago Worlds Fair, where it won the Silver Medal. Referenced directly on pg. 106 & 207 of Smithsonian's 'Revisiting the White City'. 1 of only 35 American works sold there.
This rare Chase woodblock has everything…Both the city of Seattle skyline and the landscape of Mt Rainier. Smith Tower on right of image was tallest building west of Mississippi when built in 1915.
Lovely Cumming watercolor!
Great period carved frame with silk mat and uv-plexi. His best watercolor that I have seen.
Wonderful, early Western action watercolor. Original Calgary framer's label.
Incredibly beautiful early Hawaiian picture by this very skilled native Australian who moved to Hawaii 1910-17, briefly on Monterey Peninsula, and settled in Seattle in 1918. Image features figure walking dog on beach.
Wonderful Northwest example by Patterson. This picture perhaps depicts Mt. Index. Ref. The Pacific Northwest Landscape by Harmon/Raban, pg. 86. & American Art Review, April-May 1994, pg. 142-143 (very similar image), Where Eagles Fly, Artists of the Pacific Northwest by Maria Sharylen.
Lovely Farm Homestead by McKim in Impressionist/Fauve color. Set of 4 paintings custom gold gilt, carved A/C style Boston frames by Eric Leggett. Exhibited in recent TAM CC McKim Retrospective and pictured in book.
Striking Modernist Sculptural object, having both glimpses of Tribal Art & modern line. This was a model made for the 1974 Spokane World's Fair Fountain.
A stunning etherial, luminist view of Mt Rainier from Lake Washington, flanked by Mercer Island and Seward Park in the mid-ground. In period gilt American cove frame. Elliott painted in Yellowstone Park with Thomas Moran in 1871 and is associated with the conservation of the Alaskan fur seal.
Wonderful Classic 60s Callahan Gem with lots of figures in swirling motion!
Just look at this mountain lion proudly sitting with it's prey under it's giant paw...Striking example by Austin with the big cat's memorizing surreal green eyes! Housed in a fantastic Jensen Seattle carved, gilt frame. Mint condition.
A very nice impression of Island Firs (from Orcas Island, WA) by Loggie in the original silver metal gilt Lloyd Jenson Seattle framing.
This work will be featured in our current exhibit "HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY, ALASKA! Pre-Statehood Alaskan Art". Wonderful classic McKinley image with rare bald eagle. This picture combines natural beauty, quality, rarity, originality and wonderful provenance to make it one of Laurence's finest 1919 pictures...Straight from the original family that purchased it from the artist in 1920 at The Anchorage Hotel.
This is a larger version of an Eastern Oregon Farm scene at twilight that I sold about six months ago. This one is 18x22 inches (the other one was 14x17) and framed in the original panel frame. This is a tight painting with a very nice surface. The sage brush and dappled back-lighting on the hills is wonderful...a prismatic rainbow of colors is created at the top of each hill by the sun being low on the horizon. Its truly a charming farm scene of the American West in the 20s. The windbreak created by the poplar trees dancing in the wind creates something of a dazzling green stage curtain popping the farmer's home in front and waiting to reveal the next scene behind it. The painting is out of a Bend, Oregon collection, and has never seen the market. This picture, I believe, is similar in location to the Wire on pg. 68 in 'The Pacific Northwest Landscape, A Painted History" by Harmon/Raban.
'From Goat Mountain' etching by Loggie just in. This is one of her most dramatic of the TREE etchings...and it's nice that its from '32, one of her best early dates. Incredible detail in this etching!
