Fine nineteenth and twentieth-century works by renowned American artists including important Florida and other tropical paintings for sale:
A. E. Backus (American, 1906-1990), Reynolds Beal (American, 1866-1951), Harriet Bowdoin (American, 1880-1947), Alfred T. Bricher (American, 1837-1908), Orville Bulman (American, 1904-1978), Frederick Frieseke (American, 1874-1939), Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), William Hart (American,1823-1894), John F. Kensett (American, 1816-1872) Reginald Marsh (American, 1898-1954), Grandma Moses (American, 1860-1961); Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965), Martin Rettig (American, 1869-1856), Marian Williams Steele (American, 1912-2001), Abbott Thayer (American, 1849-1921), Anthony Thieme (American, 1888-1954), David Walkley (American, 1849-1934), William John Whittemore (American, 1860-1955),Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820-1910), Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926) (3 examples), Mabel May Woodward (American, 1877-1945), George Wright (American, 1850-1916) and others.
Below is merely a sampling of our inventory. There are many other paintings at the gallery.
Hours: By chance or appointment. We are located at 205 Worth Avenue, Suite 202 (second floor with elevator access) in Palm Beach. All works are for sale. For further information, please call 561-655-1425 or e-mail eddeb1@aol.com
Orville Bulman (American, 1904-1978), Échappé (Escaped),
1959, signed, oil on canvas, 20 x 18 inches.
Provenance: Private collection
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(Anna Mary Robertson) Grandma Moses
(American, 1860-1961) The Mountains, 1959, signed, oil on masonite, 16 x 24 inches.
Provenance: Galerie St. Etienne, New York (the artist's dealer).
Included in the catalogue raisonné by Otto Kalir
Reginald Marsh (American, 1898 –1954)
Women on a Carousel,
Double-sided, temperas on board,
Signed and dated 1953,10 ¼ x 9 ¾ inches
George Wright (American, 1850-1916), I Won't!, 1887,
signed, 24 1/2 by 30 1/4 inches.
Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1888;
Memphis, Tennessee, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Celebrate America 19th Century Paintings from the Manoogian Collection, February-April 1999, no. 49, pp. 116-117, illustrated in color.
Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965),
Bridge over Canal, Venice, signed, oil on canvas,
28 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches.
Alfred Thompson Bricher (American, 1837-1908), Echo Lake, Franconia Notch, White Mountains, New Hampshire, signed and dated 1868, oil on canvas,18 x 30 inches.
Provenance: Kennedy Galleries
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Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926)
Afterglow, Anastasia Island, Florida, ca. 1891, watercolor, signed, also inscribed on the reverse with the location,
11 x 20 3/4 inches.
Deborah Bigeleisen (American, contemporary), Venus, 2009, signed, oil on canvas, 49 x 44 inches.
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Deborah Bigeleisen (American, contemporary), Rhythm 5 [Lisianthus], 2008, signed, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches.
Contemporary Paintings
Mabel May Woodward (American, 1877-1945)
Ogunquit Beach Scene, signed, oil on board,
10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches,
Old fragment of Provincetown exhibition label with
partial title of Ogunquit ... affixed to back.
William Hart (American,1823-1894), The Joy of Autumn, 1868, signed, oil on canvas,
20 x 16 inches.
Harriet Bowdoin (American, 1880-1947), St. Mark's Basilica, Venice, Italy, signed, oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches.
Frederick Frieseke (American, 1874-1939), Femme lisant à coté d'une lampe (Woman Reading by a Lamp), signed and dated 190?, oil on French canvas, 32 x 26 inches. Exhibited, according to Frieseke's notebook, p. 17, at the 1905 Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux–Arts. Also exhibited the same year at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Included in the Frederick Frieseke Catalogue Raisonne.
Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926)
Ocklawaha River, Florida, ca. 1889, watercolor, signed, also inscribed on the reverse with the location, 9 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.
William John Whittemore (American, 1860-1955), An Afternoon Stroll, signed,
oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches.
Marian Williams Steele (American, 1912-2001), Beach Scene at Rockport, Massachusetts, signed, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches. Winner of the Lindley I. Dean Memorial Award at the Rockport Art Association, Rockport, Massachusetts, 1977. The woman holding the child is the artist's daughter.
Anthony Thieme (American, 1888-1954), Riberia Street, Lincolnville, St. Augustine, Florida, c. 1940s, signed, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches. Inscribed on the reverse "Negro Town, St. Augustine, Florida."
Exhibited: Images of Old Florida (1890-1950),
December 21, 1990-February 3, 1991,
Boca Raton Museum of Art.
Lincolnville is a prominent historical black neighborhood.
Bethel Church is on the left.
Abbott H. Thayer (American, 1849-1921), pair of paintings: Playing Sick and Who Said Rats?
Both signed, one dated 1870, oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches.
Illustrated: Henry Richards, "About Dogs," The Aldine, September 1872, 174-175.
Exhibited: Abbott H. Thayer, Carnegie Institute, 1919, owned by Alice L. Sand;
Memorial exhibition of the work of Abbott Handerson Thayer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1922.
Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820-1910), Brook in the Woods, signed, oil on canvas, 14 x 12 inches.
Provenance: Montross Gallery, New York
American Art Association, collection of N. E. Montross, 1919
Edgar J. Lownes, philanthropist (1870-1924)
A. E. "Beanie" Backus (American, 1906-1990), Pink Clouds Over the Indian River, Florida, circa 1950s, signed,
oil on canvas, 25 X 30 inches.
Orville Bulman (American, 1904-1978),
La Trek
Signed, oil on canvas, 30 x 36 inches, also signed, titled, and dated 1971 on the reverse, original frame.
Provenance: Private collection Recorded: Bulman Family Photos
Martin Rettig (American, 1869-1956), Peonies,
signed, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches.
John F. Kensett (American, 1816-1872)
Northeastern Landscape
Unsigned, oil on canvas, 10 x 18 inches
Provenance: Kensett Estate Sale, 1873, pictured in the sale
Will be included in the John F. Kensett
Catalogue Raisonné, begun by John Driscoll
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David Walkley (American, 1849-1934), Under the Arbor, signed, oil on canvas, 27 x 18 inches.
A. E. "Beanie" Backus (American, 1906-1990), Royal Poinciana on the Indian River, Florida, circa 1960, signed,
oil on canvasboard,16 x 20 inches.
Laura Woodward (American, 1834-1926)
Looking Up Keene Valley, Adirondacks, New York,
signed and dated 1874, oil on canvas, 14 x 24 inches.
Exhibited: Possibly Brooklyn Art Association, 1874,
"Women Reframe American Landscape: Susie Barstow and Her Circle,"
Thomas Cole National Historic Site, May 6-Octoer 29, 2023, New Britain Museum of American Art, November 16-March 31, 2023,
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum, May 4-August 25, 2024
