Recent Acquisitions

This is an original oil on canvas painting by American artist Gifford Beal.  The image is titled on the back on the original  label from Kraushaar Galleries in New York.  Flowers in a Paper.  The painting is initialed lower right "G.B."  The canvas measures 10X12 inches, it came to us from the Beal family in the original hand carved Frame with the D.Matt label on the back.  The painting is quite bright with some texture in the flowers. The frame itself measures 20X17 1/2 inches.

This is an original pencil signed and numbered etching by American Modernist artist Leonard Baskin.  This image is titled Birdman, one of a series he did on the metamorphosis of a Man from a bird.  This image was created and printed in 1957,  The plate measures 18X12 inches, printed on a heavy weight wove type sheet.  It is numbered as 225/300.

This is a fine impressionist landscape painting by American artist John Joseph Enneking.  The subject is a Fall Twilight landscape.  It is signed Enneking lower right.  The painting measures 22X30 inches.  Relined but in very presentable condition. John J. Enneking (1841-1916) "John Joseph Enneking, a man ahead of his time, had a stylistic foot in both the pre-impressionist and impressionist worlds of the late nineteenth century. An 1873 sketch of Madame Monet bears evidence of his work as perhaps America’s earliest impressionist painter. But he also knew Edouard Manet (1824-1898), and studied with the great French Barbizon teacher Charles-Francois Daubigny (1817-1878), as well as with Eugene Boudin (1824-1898)." (Vose) 

This is a scarce original wood engraving by American Modernist Leonard Baskin.  The title is: Three Women Before a Plain, created and printed in 1952.  The image, pencil signed, measures 3 1/2X4 1/2 inches on a sheet size of 17X17 inches, printed on a thin japan type sheet,  The image appears in the Fern O'Sullivan catalog as image number 214.

This is a fine etching by American artist Edward J. Balthazar.  The subject is: The Wadsworth Barn in Hartford.  Created and printed in 1945.  Hand signed in pencil and editioned as 24/100  The image measures 7 7/8X 10 1/4 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image was  the 1949 Presentation print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.  An early larger image was created a few years earlier.

This is a rare etching by American artist Edward J. Balthazar.  The subject is: The Wadsworth Barn in Hartford.  Created and printed in 1945.  Hand signed in pencil and editioned as 6/50.  The image measures 8 3/4X 11 7/8 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.  This image was later recreated and so as the 1949 Presentation print published by the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts.

This is an original drypoint etching by British artist Edmund Blampied.  The title is Road to  the Farm.  It was created and printed in an edition of 100 in 1929.  The image measures 10 1/4X8 1/8 inches.  Hand  signed by the artist in pen and ink lower border.  Numbered as 98/100.  This image was reproduced for the book Fine Prints of the Year, 1929 edition… Catalog: Appleby 149.  A fine atmospheric impression, nicely framed with archival materials.

This is a fine intimate portrait of the artist's wife by French artist Albert Besnard (1849-1934)  This image is hand signed and incribed in pencil lower border, the image measures 3 13/16X2 3/8 inches.  "This intimate portrait presents the artist’s wife, Charlotte, in a private moment, eyes closed and head propped on a pillow. Besnard must have admired his wife’s profile. He depicted her from this angle, in both paintings and prints, no less than six time."  This impression was in a show at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, in a show titled "Images of Women: 19th Century French Prints."

This is an original etching by American artist Stephen Csoka (1897-1989)  This etching is pencil signed and titled and was created and printed circa 1940's.  The image measures 5X7 1/4 inches.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.

This is a very fine original drypoint etching by British artist Edmund Blampied.  The title is: The Joyride, created and printed in  1923 in an edition of 100.  The image measures 8 3/4X10 3/16.  This etching was reproduced for the 1924 issue of Fine Prints of the Year.  Catalog: Appleby 89. Nicely framed with archival materials.

This is an extremely rare lithograph by American artist Louis Lozowick.  The title is: Skating, a view of Central Park in Winter.  This image is hand signed and titled in pencil.  It was published in an edition of 10 or less For the Federal Art Project, New York City.  In the bottom border next to the title is a very faint, faded, WPA stamp.  There is some old glued residue at the upper back of the sheet, it is not visible on the image side.  Overall in very fine condition.  This image appears in the Flint catalog as image number 139.  Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.

This is an original lithograph by American artist Stow Wengenroth.  The title is: Inlet Light, created and printed in 1938 in an edition of 181 impressions.  This one is hand signed in pencil, printed on a medium weight wove type sheet with "GOM" watermark.  The image measures 8 1/8X12 11/16 inches.  The image appears in the Stuckey catalog as image number 75.  A fine view of the Maine coast.

This is an original drypoint etching by American artist Armin Landeck.  The title is: Sunset Palace Lodge, created and printed in 1938 in an edition of 100.  This etching is hand signed and numbered in pencil lower border.  The image measures 6X7 7/8 inches.  A rich impression, fine use of platetone in the sky.

This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Albert Heckman.  The title is:The Squatters House, Created and printed circa 1935.  This lithograph is pencil signed, titled and inscribed artist proof.  The image measures 8 1/4X12 7/8 inches.  A rare image by this artist.

This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist Harold Kerr Eby.  The title is: Lobster Fleet, created and printed in 1937.  A fine atmospheric study of a lone fisherman in the foggy morning bay.  This image measures 9 1/2X11 1/2 inches.  Printed in an edition of 100.