Lady with White Bird , 1976, mixed media construction on wood panel, signed, dated, and titled verso, exhibited Ilse Getz Paintings, Collages, Constructions , Neuberger Museum, State University of New York College at Purchase, Purchase NY, March 12 – April 15, 1978, and Kunsthalle Nuremberg am Marientor, Nuremberg, Germany, May 19 – August 13, 1978, no. 73 (illustrated in the accompanying catalog, p. 73) $8500 Created just two years prior to Ilse Getz Paintings, Collages, Con

Manayunk Fountain & Silverwood Sts , 1938, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower right, titled and dated verso, 20 x 16 inches $3250 Although Florence Prince Ewing’s paintings explored a wide variety of subjects, her best works like the present canvas depicted the Philadelphia suburb of Manayunk. Writing of Ewing’s entry to the Plastic Club’s 1945 annual exhibition, The Philadelphia Inquirer  commented approvingly, “Florence Prince Ewing shows herself painting on one of

Untitled , 1976, painted sheet metal, signed and dated, 24 x 20 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches, likely exhibited The Circle of Spheres , Wilcox Gallery, Parish Hall, Swarthmore College, March - April, 1978 (a solo exhibition of Chase's painted constructions) $8000 Untitled is an early work by Louisa Chase. Created the year following completion of her MFA degree from Yale in 1975, Untitled  was part of Chase’s exploration of painted and assembled forms created from a variety of materia

Untitled (New Bedford) , 1933, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 20 inches $6250 Hope Shippee Bunin was a multi-faceted artist, who worked as a painter, designer, and one of the country’s best-known puppeteers. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, she attended Brown University’s coordinate school, Pembroke College for Women, class of 1929. She moved to New York City and during the Great Depression, Bunin worked for the Children’s Art Project of the WPA, where she

Children’s Theater , 1934, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower right, 10 ¾ x 12 5/8 inches (image) $1250 Children’s Theater is a fine example of Berlandina’s modernist approach to American Scene painting. It displays the influence of Raoul Dufy’s simplified figuration and unusual palette choices, including burnt orange, a greenish ochre and touches of sky blue. Painted in the same year she completed her mural for Coit Tower, Berlandina resisted the temptation to fall

Eighth Avenue at 56 th  Street , 1930, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 31 ¾ x 24 inches, ex collection Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, gift of the artist (labels verso) $18,000 Eighth Avenue at 56 th Street is a prime example of Blanch's work from the early 1930s. Bright and colorful, it depicts a snapshot of Midtown New York with a hint of the calamity that was beginning to grip the country. Among the New Yorkers going

Loaves, 1937, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 16 x 26 ¼ inches, exhibited at the Seventeenth Exhibition of Artists Members , Chicago Galleries Association, Chicago, IL, December 9 – 31, 1937, (see 1) Jewett, Eleanor, Hails Exhibit as One of Best in Many Years , Chicago Tribune , December 9, 1937, and 2) Jewett, Eleanor, Two Splendid Art Exhibits   Now on View , Chicago Tribune , December 19, 1937) $3250 Although often associated with provocative portraits and nude

Portrait of J. L. David (Portrait), c. 1930, oil on canvas adhered to board, apparently unsigned, 26 x 20 inches, exhibited: 1) Fourth Annual State-Wide Exhibition, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA, February, 1931 (label verso),  2) California Palace of the Legion of Honor, unknown date (label verso), and 3) Oakland Art Gallery, unknown date (label verso), also bears labels verso from the 47 th Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture , Art Institute of Chi

Untitled,  1971, mixed media collage with painted and printed elements on paper, signed and dated lower right, 9 x 10 5/8 inches, exhibited Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, unknown date (label verso) $500 Fritzi Abadi was a New York-based artist, who was best known for her collages, such as the present example, which combined painted, drawn, and printed elements that were disassembled and reconstructed by the artist. She often borrowed from Middle Eastern and North African elem