Still life

Still Life

Frank Cohen Kirk (1889-1963) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 30” x 30”
Frame Size: 38” x 38”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

Frank C. Kirk was born on May 11, 1889 in Zitomir, Russia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia under Daniel Garber, Celia Beaux and Hugh Breckenridge.  At PAFA he won the Crescent Travel Scholarship.

Mr. Kirk exhibited nationally and was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Art, the Society of Washington Artists, Audubon Artists, Boston Art Club, Allied Artists of America, North Shore Art Association, the Copely Society in Boston, the Springfield Art League and Grand Centre Art Galleries in New York City.

His prizes included the Conn. Academy of Fine Art in 1934, 1939, 1951 and 1953; the Oqunquit Art Center (Maine) in 1935, 1948 and 1954; Allied Artists of America in 1943, 1945, 1959 and 1960.

Some of the museums which have works by Mr Kirk include the following:  The Museum of Western Art in Moscow, the State Museum of New Jersey in Trenton, the Binghamton Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Cayugha Museum of History and Art.

His last known address was 38 Union Square, New York City where he died in 1963.

Artist Profile Page: Kirk, Frank Cohen / Categories: Still Life

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Stephen Motyka (N/A) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 24” x 24”
Frame Size: 32” x 32”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: $2800

Biography/Statement

American artist Stephen Motyka was born in Rhode Island in 1964 and started painting and drawing at a young age. He maintained his interest in art as a hobby throughout his schooling. Upon graduation from High School, Stephen started taking courses at the Rhode Island School of Design, where he honed his skills both with watercolor and oils. While in design school, he became influenced by many different styles of painting. Over the years, he has come into his own as a professional artist, a frame maker, and as an art collector as well.

Artist Profile Page: Motyka, Stephen / Categories: Impressionism, Still Life

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John Williamson (1826-1885) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 27” x 20”
Frame Size: 35” x 28”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $9500

Biography/Statement

John Williamson was a versatile artist who created still lifes, genre scenes, and landscapes during the heyday of the Hudson River School. Born in Scotland, Williamson came to the United States with his family in 1831. He spent most of his life in Brooklyn, New York, studying art at the Brooklyn Institute and helping to found the Brooklyn Art Association.

Williamson was particularly drawn to mountain scenery and made frequent painting trips to the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains, as well as the Berkshire Mountains, White Mountains, and Green Mountains of New England. His intimate, poetic views drew from the atmospheric style of the Luminists and bear comparison to the works of John Frederick Kensett and Sanford Robinson Gifford.

In the mid-nineteenth century, his vivid depictions of nature earned a great deal of recognition, and Williamson was named an Associate at the National Academy of Design in 1861. He exhibited there regularly, and featured his paintings at the American Art-Union, the Utica Art Association, and in galleries throughout Boston and Washington. His work is now in The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Hudson River Museum, and the Maier Museum of Art, among other prominent institutions.

Artist Profile Page: Williamson, John / Categories: Landscape, Luminist, Still Life

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Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935) American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 12” x 18”
Frame Size: 22” x 28”
Signature: Signed on Basket
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Lewis County, New York in the Adirondack Mountains, he earned a reputation for painting still lifes in landscape, although he began his career painting only the landscape.  His still lifes were of two types, either arrangements placed in the landscape or close-ups of fruit growing on trees or falling out of baskets.

He was raised on a farm from where he painted the mountain landscape of Lewis County and also painted in the vicinity of Buffalo and Syracuse.  In 1883, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a carpenter, frame- maker, and art teacher and also began painting still lifes objects, something that by 1894, he focused on exclusively, especially highly polished and well defined apples.

He left Brooklyn in 1903, and from that time, little is known except that his obituary was in the Philadelphia newspapers in 1935.

Source:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art

Artist Profile Page: Prentice, Levi Wells / Categories: Still Life

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Leon Dabo (1864-1960) American

Still Life, Flowers

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 24” x 20”
Frame Size: 34” x 30”
Signature: Signed lower left
Frame: Very high quality Arts & Crafts frame by LOWY, New York
Price: $7500

Biography/Statement

A painter with a long and productive career, Leon Dabo was known for his atmospheric, tonalist paintings, especially of the Hudson and East rivers in New York City in early morning and sunset times of day—“silent, introspective times of day that appealed to the Tonalist sensibility. . .  he emphasized gentle nuances of light and atmosphere, luminous color effects, and an innovative handling of space”. (Lowrey 124)   Dabo also painted floral still lifes, and in the 1920s became a lecturer on art education and on specific artists including John La  Farge and James Whistler.

Newly discovered research, verified by gallery owner and art historian, Frank Goss has shown that Leon Dabo was born in France in 1864 and not as previously thought in Detroit in 1868. His father was Ignace Scott, an artist specializing in architectural decoration.  Dabo grew up in Detroit, Michigan, and was an apprentice to his father before going to New York City, where he worked for J. & R. Lamb studios and associated with John La Farge, painter and muralist.

In 1886, Dabo went to Paris where, using letters of introduction provided by La Farge, met leading artists.  He studied with Daniel Vierge and Pierre Galland, and at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts.  He also went to Italy and London, where it is thought he spent time with James Mc Neill Whistler in his studio.   In subsequent paintings, Dabo reflected Whistler’s influence including his philosophy of ‘art for art’s sake’, his tonalist style, and his use of a monogram as a signature.   Dabo later considered himself an expert on documenting Whistler’s paintings, as did others,  and Dabo became an authenticator and published writer work by Whistler.

In 1892, Dabo returned to New York City.  He took up his former career of architectural decorator and muralist of public and religious buildings.  He also painted river scenes, initially working in an inhibited-seeming academic manner but then loosening up in what was then regarded as modernist influences.   Among those artists whose work had an effect on him in addition to Whistler were French Impressionists and Japanese painters such as Hiroshige and Hokusai.

Dabo’s painting career ascended in 1905, when the National Arts Club, of which he was a member, sponsored a solo exhibition of his work, which critics generally praised and which brought him public attention.   Prominent collector and Tonalist enthusiast William T. Evans purchased some of Dabo’s paintings, which conveyed special distinction.   In 1910, he participated in the “Independents” exhibit organized by The Eight in New York City, and in 1913, as a member of The Society of Painters and Sculptors, was one of the principle organizers of the New York City Armory Show that introduced modernist art from Europe to the United States.

He was a member of the National Academy of Design, Scholastic Art League and Brooklyn Society of Artists.  In 1917, Dabo was commissioned and sent to France in the A.E.F. Corps of Interpreters.  In France he also received the Chevalier Legion of Honor award.

The New York Times in it’s review of his Floral Etudes, drawings, and Pastels at M. Knoedler Company, New York City in 1933, wrote: “A distinct contribution to be associated with the flower harmonies of Odilon Redon and of Fantin-Latour.”

Artist Profile Page: Dabo, Leon / Categories: Still Life, Tonalism

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Rebecca Cuming (1956-) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 16” x 20”
Frame Size: 17” x 21”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $2400

Biography/Statement

EDUCATION

1977-1980 BFA (honors) School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (Luccio Pozzi, Elizabeth  Murrary)
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EXHIBITIONS
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2017       Pirate Contemporary Art 36th anniversary exhibition, Denver ,CO
2016       State Capitol "The Field"  Denver ,CO
2016       Pirate Contemporary Art solo "New Work" Denver , CO
2016       Goodwin Fine Art " Open Stacks" Denver,CO
2016       Pirate Contemporary Art 35th anniversary show Denver , CO
2015       Pirate Contemporary Art  solo  Denver, CO
2015       Thronton Cultural  Center , Thornton, CO
2014      1st BANK Center Solo 10/14-1/15 Broomfield,CO
2014      Pirate Contemporary Art  solo "recent paintings" Denver,CO
2014      Redline " Intersections" Jurors Michael Paglia, Denver,CO
2014      On Edge  EDGE Gallery juried by Michael Burnett Denver,CO
2014      Icebreaker National group show ( Clifford Still Museum ) Denver, CO
2014      Pirate Contemporary Art 34th anniversary member show Denver, CO
2013      Lincoln Art Center "There’s No PLace Like Home" Fort Collins, CO
2013      Firehouse Art Center invitational Longmont,CO
2013      CORE New Art Space juried "Flora Fauna Figura" Denver, CO
2013      Denver Modernism Show juried by Adam Lerner (MCA)Denver,CO
2013      CORE New Art Space " Horizontal Line"  Best Of Show, Denver CO
2013      Pirate Contemporary Art "Open Space"   solo Denver , CO
2013      Pirate Contemporary Art 33rd anniversary member show Denver, CO
2013      Arvada Art Center " California  (Clifford Still Museum director)
2013      Pirate Contemporary Art  juried by Adam Lerner (MCA) Denver, CO
2013      Edge gallery juried exhibition, Denver, CO
2012      Juried National Show Fort Collins, CO
2011      Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2011      Teal Gallery, Breckingridge, CO
2011      Juried “Recycle“ Broomfield Art Guild Broomfield, CO
2011      Juried “Rough Ruffles“ Dairy Center For The Arts, Boulder, CO
2010      Allan Stone Gallery, New York,NY
2010      Teal gallery, Breckingridge, CO
2009      Teal Gallery, Breckingridge, CO
2008      Allan Stone Gallery,New York, NY
2008      The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA
2007      “Talent“ Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2007      “Interpretations of Landscape: Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2006      Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2006      Clark Galleries, Stowe, VT
2006      Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT
2005      HW juried Group, Broomfield, CO
2005      The Harrison Gallery “ Williamstown” Williamstown, MA
2005      “Women Artists” Mary Brian Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT
2004-5  Group, The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA
2004      Group, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2003-4  “IV Centuries of Birds” Clark Galleries, Stowe, VT, Palm Beach FL
2003      “Talent” Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2003      The Harrison Gallery , Williamstown, MA
2003      “The Flower Show” The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown , MA
2003      “Water” Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury, VT
2002      Tamarack Gallery, Craftsbury, VT
2001      “Invitational Land and Sea," Jeffersonville, VT
2001      40th Anniversary Exhibition, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2001      “Talent: Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
2000      Invitational Land and Light," Jeffersonville, VT
2000      “Small Works” Mary Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, VT
1998      “Talent” Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1997      “Talent” Allan Stone Gallery , New York, NY
1996      “Talent” Allan Stone gallery, New York, NY
1995      “Talent Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1995      Wingspread Gallery, Northeast harbor, ME
1995      Maine Coast Artist Gallery, (Juried Group) Rockport, ME
1994      Gallery Jupiter, Little Silver, NJ
1994      Windsor Gallery, Windsor, VT
1993      Studio Gallery, Northeast harbor, ME
1993      “Night Light” ( Juried )Barn Gallery, Ogunquit, ME
1990      “Maine, Next Generation” Sumner School Museum, Washington, DC
1990      Borchardt Gallery West Palm Beach, FL
1987-6  Lavaggi Gallery Soho, New York, NY
1984-5  “Disposable Art” Kamikaze Club, New York, NY
1983      Bonlow Gallery, Soho, New York, NY
1980      Visual Arts Gallery, Tribeca, New York, NY
1979      Perry Gallery, New Hope, PA
1979      Phillips Mill Gallery, New Hope PA
1977      Studio Gallery, Red Bank NJ
1974      “Young Artists Of New Jersey” Washington , DC

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016      Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver ,CO
2015      Pirate Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2014      Pirate Contemporary Art,  Denver, CO
2013      Pirtae Contemporary Art  Denver , CO
2004      The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA
2003      Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2001      Green Mountain Art Gallery, Stowe, VT
1999      Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1995      Creative Living Center Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
1992      Gallery 68, Belfast, ME
1991      Wingspread gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
1989      Northeast harbor Gallery, Northeast Harbor, ME
1984      Christminster Gallery, New York , NY
1982      Thompson Park Museum, Lincroft, NJ
1978      Perry Gallery, New Hope, PA

AWARDS

2014      "Prairie Blanket" " No PLace Like Home,"  Center Fort Collins ,CO
2013      Best of Show  "Bloom," Denver CO
2011      Best of Show Juried Group “Recycle” Broomfield,CO
2006      Best of Show Juried group  “H W" Broomfield, CO
2002      “Art For Art Sake”, Stowe, VT First Place, Oil
2001      “Art For Art Sake”, Stowe, VT  First Place, Artist Choice award
2000      “Art For Art Sake”,  Stowe, VT First Place, Oil
1990      Sumner School Museum and the Senate Building, Washington, DC
1974      The National Gallery, Washington , DC
1970      First Place Red Bank, NJ
1969      First Place, Middletown, Nj

Artist Profile Page: Cuming, Rebecca / Categories: Still Life, Trompe L'Oeil

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Leslie Gabosh (N/A) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Board
Image Size: 6” x 8”
Frame Size: 10” x 12”
Signature: Monogram lower right
Price: $900

Biography/Statement

Leslie Gabosh has been a working artist for over 40 years, painting still life as well as designing and fabricating jewelry.  As a painter, her inspiration has been the 17th century and 18th century Dutch and Flemish paintings of the Golden Age, Spanish paintings of the 18th century, and the 19th century American painters.  “My subjects are the incidentals of daily life.  When I study the paintings of Adriaen Coorte, Willem van Aelst, and Luis Melendez, I see similar concerns and delights.”

Gabosh also enjoys the addition of contemporary subjects that add a whimsical touch and resonate with her aesthetic sensibility.  Historically, translucence and luminosity of natural objects have appealed to artists and viewers; they relay a sense of tranquility and serenity that cancels out the noise of everyday chaos.  A moment of quiet reflection can produce a calm and meditative perspective on these ordinary and highly recognizable objects.

“My work is painted from life with intentionally organized and illuminated arrangements. Some objects come from my own garden where I have a deep and long-standing relationship with my trees and plants.  These small-format panels catch the eye from across the room and compel the viewer to move closer.  Although these are unremarkable objects, they are a pathway to thoughts and memories, and a window into the world of the artists who inspire me.”

Artist Profile Page: Gabosh, Leslie / Categories: Still Life

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(American School) American

American School Still Life

Medium: Watercolor & Gouache
Image Size: 18” x 12”
Frame Size: 31” x 24”
Signature: Monogram and date 1882 lower right
Price: $2800

Biography/Statement

N/A

Artist Profile Page: American School / Categories: Still Life

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Helen Van Wyk (1930-1994) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 24” x 20”
Frame Size: 34” x 30”
Signature: Signed lower left
Price: SOLD

Biography/Statement

Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, Helen Van Wyk became a resident of Rockport, Massachusetts in 1968 and was a painter of portraits and still lifes as well as a highly active person in the community including the Rockport Art Association.

She wrote seven books taught and demonstrated around the country. She became most known for her PBS television series on painting, “Welcome to my Studio” in the 1990s.
The Woburn Guild of Artists was fortunate to have Van Wyk agree to do a demonstration for their students.

Exhibits: Academic Artists, Springfield, MA; Audubon Artists, New York; National Academy of Design, New York, Silvermine Guild Artists, Conn.

Awards: John C. Pierson Prize, Ogunquit Art Ctr, ME; First Prize for Still Life, Catherine Lorillard Wolfe At Club; Curtis Memorial Award, Rockport Art Association.

Collections of her Works: Norfolk Museum Arts & Science, Virginia; Bergen County Museum, NJ; St. Vincents College, Latrobe, PA; Minneapolis Club.

Positions she held: Editor Palette Talk, Grumbacher, Inc., 1967.

Artist Profile Page: Van Wyk, Helen / Categories: Still Life

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Dan Rupe (N/A) Contemporary, American

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 22” x 24”
Frame Size: 26” x 30”
Signature: Signed upper right
Price: $2500

Biography/Statement

Dan Rupe paints the town he loves (Hudson, New York) with expressive abandon and a high-keyed palette. Inspired by the diverse architecture and color of the jumbled mix of historic and commercial and community landmarks, Rupe likes to be out on the street first thing in the morning, taking in the sensations of town. He paints only from life, his composition ruled by his intuitive sense of formal order. He begins covering his canvas with a deep crimson wash. This ground gives his brilliant pure color , applied with an expressive, direct gesture, an electric charge. No matter how often or how long one looks at a Rupe painting, it is always the present tense. The tone of his palette, the freshness and clarity of primary colors, reflects an optimistic attitude, an intrinsic love of life.

Dan has studied at Interlochen Arts Academy, Kansas City Art Institute and Boston MFA School. Many one man and group shows in Boston, Chicago, Provincetown, New York, Phoenix, Kansas City, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. Earlier representation in Provincetown was at the famed Ellen Harris Gallery. He was chosen as International Artist in Residence in 1988 by Altos De Chavon (La Romana, Dominican Republic).

Corporate collections include: AT & T, Bank of Oklahoma, Ameritech Mobile, Midwest Mus. of Art, State of Illinois, Mission Hills State Bank, Heineman Bakeries and PAAM. Was featured artist for Provincetown AIDS Support Group Annual Auction in 1996. Avid collectors include the former Governor of Illinois Jim Thompson and Mayor of Chicago Jane Byrne.

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