Still life
Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 12” x 22”
Frame Size: 22” x 32”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: SOLD
Biography/Statement
Prentice later turned to painting still-life subjects when he moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1883. He was a member of the Brooklyn Art Association and frequently exhibited his paintings there. In addition to his artistic talents, Prentice also designed his own frames and made his own brushes and palettes.
Prentice’s fruit still lifes are compositions are intended to create dramatic contrasts. The shift between dark background areas and the vibrant hues of the fruit are done to give the compositions an exciting, visual energy. The fruit is presented with clarity and precision. An emphasis is placed on the idea of man vs. nature. The wooden baskets with hand wrought nails represents a structured, man-made object, while the overly ripe fruit represents the fleeting qualities of nature.
These paintings also demonstrate Prentice’s remarkable skills at rendering color, form, and texture. Noted art historian, William H. Gerdts observed: “there are several works by Prentice in which he achieves a quality of illusionism which is unsurpassed.” (1)
In 1993, the skillful ‘illusionism’ of Levi Wells Prentice was celebrated in a retrospective exhibition at the Adirondack Museum in New York. His works continue to receive a high degree of appreciation by collectors today. His works are represented in many museums including the New York State Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Montclair Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art and Yale University Art Gallery.
Artist Profile Page: Prentice, Levi Wells / Categories: Still Life
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Greg English (N/A) Contemporary, American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 30” x 20”
Frame Size: 38.5” x 28.5”
Signature: Signed lower right
Price: $3800
Biography/Statement
Greg English has a natural eye for light source and believes knowing “how to blend light and shadow” is the key to drawing the observer into his paintings.
Viewing Greg’s work one would never believe that has had no formal training. His passion for detail and realism surfaces around the age of 10 as he drew and sketched everything that caught his eye.
Today, trained by experience and natural ability, Greg English’s oil paintings of Native American pottery, as well as his pencil drawings of a variety of subjects, are examples of conviction, understanding and dedication of both interpretation and realism.
Raised in Arizona, but born in Illinois, Greg has always been exposed to art and creativity. His mother is the famed Cheryl English, and oil color artist showing in galleries throughout the Southwest, as well as numerous shows around the country and in Japan. Joel English, Greg’s father, ran his own award winning advertising agency in Phoenix for 15 years.
In May of 1998, Greg participated in the Phippen Memorial Art Show in Prescott, AZ where he captures a 2nd place prize in “oils” and a 3rd place prize in “People’s Choice Award”.
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(Unsigned) European
British School Circa 1890. A beautiful botanical painted in the manner of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. In excellent condition.
Medium: Oil on wood panel
Image Size: 16” x 12”
Frame Size: 22” x 18”
Signature: indistinct monogram lower left
Price: SOLD
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N/A
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James B. Moore (1946-)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 35” x 30”
Frame Size: 39” x 34”
Signature: Signed center right
Price: $2400
Biography/Statement
James B. Moore, (born 1946- California), is an American realist artist known for still life painting. Moore was born in Chico, California. He studied and earned a MFA from the College of Design, Pasadena, CA. Moore’s works have been included in many gallery and museums exhibitions across the United States.
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(Unsigned)
Fly on Fruit
Medium: Oil on canvas
Image Size: 26” x 21”
Frame Size: 32” x 27”
Price: $4800
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N/A
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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: SOLD
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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.
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Robert Spear Dunning (1829-1905) American
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Image Size: 12” x 16”
Frame Size: 20” x 24”
Signature: Signed and dated 1889 verso
Price: SOLD
Biography/Statement
Robert Spear Dunning was a founder in Massachusetts of the Fall River School*, which emphasized still life paintings. He painted portraits and landscapes, but in 1865, his interest turned to still-life painting, which brought him notice and critical acclaim.
His highly realistic or “trompe l’oeil”* paintings usually had one or more prominent large objects such as a silver pitcher with luscious looking fruit on a highly polished table. His early work was dark in color and tone, and later ones were luminous*.
Born in 1829 in Brunswick, Maine, Dunning was brought to Fall River, a wealthy mill town, at age five and educated in the public schools. He became an art student of James Roberts, and then followed a well-trodden path to the National Academy of Design* in New York City. At the Academy, he studied under Daniel Huntington, focusing on figure and portrait painting.
Dunning’s pictures were exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1850 to 1880, and at the American Art Union* in 1850, as well as the Boston Art Club* and in local exhibitions.
In 1870, Dunning and friend John E. Grouard founded The Fall River Evening Drawing School, which was quite remarkable in a town that had little formal cultural life. No other town in the late 19th century is so associated with still life painting. All of his students are painters of still lifes and include Bryant Chapin, Franklin H. Miller, Albert F. Monroe, Abbie Luella Zuill, and Herbert Cash.
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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
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Originally from Middletown, New Jersey, Rebecca Cuming is a painter who has been living and working in Broomfield, Colorado since 2005.
Cuming received her Bachelors Degree of Fine Art (honors) in1980 from the School Of Visual Arts in New York City. Prior to that she studied at the Arts Students league in NYC and Tyler School Of Art in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania.
Cuming has exhibited extensively in the United States including the National Gallery, The Sumner Museum and Senate Building in Washington D.C , Monmouth Museum in Middletown New Jersey, the Allan Stone Gallery in New York City.
Cuming’s regional exhibitions include the State Capitol, Denver, CO, The Arvada Center For The Arts, Arvada CO,The Lincoln Center,Fort Collins CO,The Dairy Art Center,Boulder,CO, Pirate Contemporary Art ,Denver, CO. Redline,Denver CO, and Goodwin Fine Art,Denver, CO.
Cuming’s work has been published in architectural and design magazines, and acquired by corporate and private collections throughout the United States.
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Magda de la Rosa (N/A) European
White Dove
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Image Size: 31” x 17”
Frame Size: 36” x 22”
Signature: Signed
Price: $5500
Biography/Statement
(Italian woman artist, circa 1875)
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(Unsigned) 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
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N/A
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