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John Brewster, Jr. (1766-1854). William Allen Drew.
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Pre 1900 item# 1113945 (stock# 2399B)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
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Oil on paper mounted on canvas, 32.75 x 22.75 inches, unsigned. This enigmatic portrait bears all the stylistic characteristics of the justly-admired deaf mute limner of Connecticut and Maine, John Brewster, Jr. Though much has been written about this singular figure, Harlan Lane's fascinating book, "A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr." (Beacon Press, 2004) is definitive. The most frequently noted characteristic of a Brewster portrait is his unique, pen ...click for details
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Marion Huse (1896-1967). 4:30 Shift at the Armory.
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Pre 1950 item# 1093263 (stock# 2400)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
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Oil on canvas, 32 x 40 inches, 40 x 48 framed, signed lower left. As Peter Baldaia noted in his excellent catalogue ("Marion Huse, An Artist's Evolution", Brockton Art Museum, 1985), this c. 1940 work (No. 41 in the catalogue) was painted from the artist's apartment window. It depicts the late afternoon shift arriving at the Springfield, Mass. Armory on a bleak winter day. From 1925 to 1940 Huse operated and taught at the Springfield School of Art. During the 30's, she was ...click for details
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Maurice Compris (1885-1939). Oriental Still Life.
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Pre 1940 item# 1093819 (stock# 2400A)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
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Oil on canvas, 30 x 25 inches plus frame, signed "M. Compris" lower left. Born in Amsterdam and trained at the Royal Academy there, Compris had come to Cape Ann by the 1920's, maintaining studios in Rockport and Boston. As Kristian Davies points out in his exellent book "Artists of Cape Ann" (Twin Lights Publishers, Rockport, 2001), "With his European training, Compris became an adept, sought-after portrait painter on Cape Ann". His portrait of fellow artist, Sa ...click for details
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Emil Carlsen (attr) (1852-1932). Still Life.
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Pre 1900 item# 1072212 (stock# 2401)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
978-281-5048
$3,500
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Oil on canvas, 24 x 32 inches, 28 x 36 framed, unsigned, Staten Island Thompson family provenance transcribed in pencil on frame. Soren-Emil Carlsen, called the "American Chardin", came to this country in 1872, fully-trained both as artist and architect. His brother was director of the Danish Royal Academy. His career advanced rapidly, as a teacher in Chicago, San Francisco and New York, while maintaining a busy schedule of one-man shows and exhibitions which garnered numerous national ...click for details
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Dorothy Stanley Emmons (1891-1961). "Thru the Willows".
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Pre 1930 item# 1123076 (stock# 2464)
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Oil on canvas, 14 x 13.75 inches, 20.5 x 18.5 framed, signed lower left, exhibition labels from Boston Art Club, Grace Horne Gallery and Pennsylvania Academy verso. Born to the sister of the inventors of the Stanley Steamer automobile, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, Dorothy worked closely with her now famous photographer mother, who travelled the country documenting the difficult life of the rural poor with her camera. Her father, James Emmons, died in 1898 when Dorothy was seven and, from that poi ...click for details
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