Gallery Selections
Fine nineteenth and twentieth-century works by renowned American artists, including important Florida and other tropical paintings for sale:
A. E. Backus (American, 1906-1990), Reynolds Beal (American, 1866-1951), Harriet Bowdoin (American, 1880-1947), Alfred T. Bricher (American, 1837-1908), Orville Bulman (American, 1904-1978), Frederick Frieseke (American, 1874-1939), Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), William Hart (American,1823-1894), John F. Kensett (American, 1816-1872) Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954), Grandma Moses (American, 1860-1961); Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965), Martin Rettig (American, 1869-1856), Marian Williams Steele (American, 1912-2001), Anthony Thieme (American, 1888-1954), David Walkley (American, 1849-1934), William John Whittemore (American, 1860-1955), Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820-1910), Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926) (5), Mabel May Woodward (American, 1877-1945), George Wright (American, 1850-1916) and others.
Below is merely a sampling of our inventory. There are many other paintings at the gallery.
Hours: By chance or appointment. We are located at 205 Worth Avenue, Suite 202 (second floor with elevator access) in Palm Beach. All works are for sale. For further information, please call (561) 655-1425 or e-mail [email protected]
E. "Beanie" Backus (American, 1906-1990), Pink Clouds Over the Indian River, Florida, circa 1950s, signed, oil on canvas, 25 X 30 inches.
William Hart (American,1823-1894), The Joy of Autumn, 1868, signed, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches.
William John Whittemore (American, 1860-1955), An Afternoon Stroll, signed, oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches.
Signed, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches, also signed, titled, and dated 1971 on the reverse, original frame.
Orville Bulman (American, 1904-1978), Échappé (Escaped),
1959, signed, oil on canvas, 20 x 18 inches.
Provenance: Private collection
Frederick Frieseke (American, 1874-1939), Femme lisant à coté d'une lampe (Woman Reading by a Lamp), signed and dated 190?, oil on French canvas, 32 x 26 inches. Exhibited, according to Frieseke's notebook, p. 17, at the 1905 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts. Also exhibited the same year at the Art Institute of Chicago. Included in the Frederick Frieseke Catalogue Raisonne.
Mabel May Woodward (American, 1877-1945)
Ogunquit Beach Scene, signed, oil on board,
10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches,
Old fragment of Provincetown exhibition label with
partial title of Ogunquit ... affixed to back.
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965),
Bridge over Canal, Venice, signed, oil on canvas,
28 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches.
Reginald Marsh (American, 1898 –1954)
Women on a Carousel,
Double-sided, temperas on board,
Signed and dated 1953,10 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches
Provenance: Montross Gallery, New York; American Art Association, collection of N. E. Montross, 1919; Edgar J. Lownes, philanthropist (1870-1924)
Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908), Echo Lake, Franconia Notch, White Mountains, New Hampshire, signed and dated 1868, oil on canvas,18 x 30 inches. Provenance: Kennedy Galleries
(Anna Mary Robertson) Grandma Moses
(American, 1860-1961) The Mountains, 1959, signed, oil on masonite, 16 x 24 inches.
Provenance: Galerie St. Etienne, New York (the artist's dealer).
Included in the catalog raisonné by Otto Kalir
George Wright (American, 1850-1916), I Won't!, 1887,
signed, 24 1/2 by 30 1/4 inches.
Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1888;
Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February-April 1999, no. 49, pp. 116-117, illustrated in color.
Anthony Thieme (American, 1888-1954), Riberia Street in Lincolnville, St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1940, signed, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches. Inscribed on the reverse "Negro Town, St. Augustine, Florida."
Exhibited: Images of Old Florida (1890-1950),
December 21, 1990-February 3, 1991,
Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Lincolnville is a prominent historical black neighborhood.
Bethel Church is on the left.
Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926)
Afterglow, Anastasia Island, St. Augustine, Florida, ca. 1891, watercolor, signed, also inscribed on the reverse with the location, 11 x 20 3/4 inches.
Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926)
Ocklawaha River, Florida, ca. 1889, watercolor, signed, also inscribed on the reverse with the location, 9 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.
Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926), New England Landscape, possibly Clarendon, Vermont. Exhibited: “Remember the Ladies: Women of the Hudson River School,” Thomas Cole National Historic Site; “Behold, A New Eden,” Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens. Literature: Deborah C. Pollack, Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach; Nancy Siegel and Jennifer Krieger, Remember the Ladies: Women Members of the Hudson River School; Siegel (ed.), The Cultured Canvas, illustrated on cover, plate 19.
Laura Woodward, Fort Dallas, Miami, Florida, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, ca. 1895, inscribed on reverse, Laura Woodward Artist, Fort Dallas, Amy Bennett. Also inscribed on stretcher: “Ft Dallas Miami, Laura Woodward Artist, From Amy Bennett with Love.” In 1895 Laura Woodward visited Julia Tuttle at Fort Dallas, where the Miami River converges with Biscayne Bay. From that visit, Woodward painted Fort Dallas, Miami.
A full provenance and literature list are available.
Martin Rettig (American, 1869-1956), Peonies,
signed, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches.
John F. Kensett (American, 1816-1872)
Northeastern Landscape
Unsigned, oil on canvas, 10 x 18 inches
Provenance: Kensett Estate Sale, 1873, pictured in the sale
Will be included in the John F. Kensett
Catalog Raisonné, begun by John Driscoll
Contemporary Paintings
Deborah Bigeleisen (American, contemporary), Rhythm 5 [Lisianthus], 2008, signed, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches.
Edward and Deborah Pollack Fine Art
205 Worth Avenue, Suite 202 (second floor)
Palm Beach, Florida 33480
(561) 655-1425
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