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Joseph G. Chandler (1813-84). Thos. Sylvanus Rich, 1852
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Pre 1900 item# 820658 (stock# 2466)
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Raymond Agler Fine Arts
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Oil on canvas, 29.25 x 36.5 inches, 36 x 43 inches with frame, inscribed verso before lining: "Painted for Thomas Sylvanus Rich, aged 21 months, by J.G. Chandler, May 1852." John O'Keefe, then at the Art Institute of Chicago, observed in his article on Chandler ("The Magazine Antiques", November, 1972) that Chandler's paintings "...between 1837 and 1852 embody much of the best in American folk art...It was in his portraits of children that Chandler excelled. He s ...click for details
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Robert D. Wilkie. The Kelp Gatherers, Gloucester.
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Robert David Wilkie (1828-1903), "The Kelp Gatherers on the Beach at Gloucester, Mass.". Oil on canvas, 17 x 41 inches (sight), 25 x 49 inches with frame, signed "R. D. Wilkie" lower right, inscribed with title in pencil on stretcher. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Wilkie was earning a living as an artist by his early twenties. By 1853 he was in the Boston area, producing illustrations for "Gleason's Pictorial" and "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly" ...click for details
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Gilbert Tucker Margeson (1852-1949). Crashing Surf.
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Oil on board, 20 x 29 3/4 inches, 27 x 36 3/4 framed, signed "G.T. Margeson", lower left. Unlike his fellow master of "crashing waves", Frederick Waugh, who was a world-traveller, Margeson, either from preference or due to the pressures of making a living, observed the sea from his adopted home, Rockport, Massachusetts on Cape Ann. He operated a variety store, worked as the town tax collector and is credited with opening the first artist studio there in 1873, beginning the tr ...click for details
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Lodewijk Bruckman (1913-1980). Still Life with Grapes.
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Pre 1960 item# 607317 (stock# 2471)
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Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches plus frame, signed and dated verso, exhibition label. Bruckman was born in The Hague, Holland and studied at the Royal Academy of Art there. By the late 1940's he was in this country, exhibiting at New York City galleries. This painting has a Grand Central Galleries exhibition label on the stretcher. Below the signature is the date (1952) and, what was presumably his place of residence then, Chappaqua, New York. In 1953, Bruckman opened his summer studio, " ...click for details
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S.D. Gilchrist Sykes (19th/20th C.). Gloucester Rocks.
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Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches plus frame, signed lower right, label of the former Richardson-Clarke Gallery,Boston, verso. Born in England, Sykes emigrated to this country, settled in Brookline, Massachusetts and took up art studies at the Boston Museum School. A member of both the Copley Society and the North Shore Arts Association, Sykes apparently had a fondness for portraying the effects of light on the rocky, uncluttered Cape Ann landscape. A painting exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy ...click for details
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