27. The Road Up , 1992, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 11 x 17 inches, exhibited 1) Marina Stern Nocturnes , Forum Gallery, New York, NY, September 9 to 24, 1993, no. 17 (label verso); and 2) Perception and the Cultural Environment – The Paintings of Marina Stern, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Altoona, PA, January 19 to April 22, 2007 $4,500

28. Factory #2/Yellow Shed , 1996, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 16 x 28 inches $6,000

29. Jan and Josef , 1997, six oils on canvas framed together, signed, dated and titled verso, 24 ¾ x 41 ½ inches, exhibited: In Light and Shadows – Marina Stern, Tremaine Gallery, Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT, May 6 – June 16, 2002, no. 10, literature: Marina Stern Paintings and Drawings , privately published (2015), p. 37     $10,000

30. Paper Bags , 2003, oil on Masonite, signed, dated and titled verso, 22 x 43 inches $9,000

31. Water Jar 1, 2003, oil on Masonite, signed, dated and titled verso, 16 x 16 inches SOLD

32. Water Jar 2 Horizon, 2003, oil on Masonite, signed, dated and titled verso, 16 x 16 inches SOLD

33. Two Strings , 2004, oil on Masonite, signed, dated and titled verso, 16 x 12 inches, literature: Marina Stern Paintings and Drawings , privately published (2015), p. 36   $4,500

34. String , 2004, oil on Masonite, signed, dated and titled verso, 16 x 12 inches, literature: Marina Stern Paintings and Drawings , privately published (2015), p. 36   $4,500

35. 2 Barns , 2005, oil on Masonite, signed, dated and titled verso, 28 x 24 inches $9,000

36. MGM Barn, West , 2005, oil on Masonite, signed, dated and titled verso, 24 x 28 inches, literature: Marina Stern Paintings and Drawings , privately published (2015), p. 38 SOLD

37. Factory Under Arch/ Green Arch 4 , 2005, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 36 x 39 inches, literature: Marina Stern Paintings and Drawings , privately published (2015), p. 6 $9,500

38. Factory 2008, oil on canvas, signed and dated verso, 30 x 40 inches $10,000

39. Bridge in Dover Plains 4/4 , 2008, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches $10,000

Street Cleaners, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 28 ¾ x 42 inches, Gallery Z labels verso; exhibited in When Artists Became Workers: The People’s Art Movement of the ‘30s & ‘40s, Works by Jewish Artists in California Collections , Judah L. Magnes Museum, University of California, Berkeley, December 8, 1996 to March 30, 1997 (listed in catalog); illustrated (film) Kaufman, Jeffrey, Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman , 2007, (DVD release 2010), 85 mi

Landscape , 1937, oil on canvas applied to panel, signed and dated lower left, 24 x 30 inches $7,500 Arthur Durston was one of California’s leading modernist painters of the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Farnsborough, England, Durston immigrated to the United States and in 1921 studied art in San Francisco. In 1924, he returned to Europe and studied in Paris and England. He exhibited at the Berkeley League of Fine Arts in 1927, the San Francisco Art Association in 1927 through 192

Portrait of Pat , 1936, oil on canvas, 14 x 12, signed and dated lower left, exhibited: San Francisco Museum of Art in 1938 (or 1939); label verso from the museum show includes artist’s name, title of painting and accession number; handwriting verso includes the number “103”, the title “Pat” and Mottram’s Palo Alto address $8,500 John Mottram was a Northern California-based painter, printmaker, and educator. Mottram was born in Towle, California, coming from a gold mining fam

Buffalo Harbor in Wartime, 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 36 x 46 inches, newspaper in foreground bears the headline: "Buffalo Evening News 1000 Bombers Leave Berlin a Sea of Flames, Explosions," inscribed verso "Louisa W. Robins, Buffalo, N.Y.", exhibited: 1) Patteran Society January Show , Albright Art Gallery (now Buffalo AKG Art Museum), Buffalo, NY, December 29, 1943 - January 31, 1944 (see Rohr, Nora Lee, Oil Based on Biblical Text Wins Patteran January Show,

Original Sin (Untitled) , c. 1940, oil on Masonite, signed lower left, estate stamp verso, 20 x 24 inches $7,500 Joseph Vorst is best known for his sensitive and sometimes somber depictions of rural and working-class life during the Great Depression. His subject matter often included farmers, laborers, and religious imagery rendered with a blend of realism and stylized expressionism. In Original Sin , Vorst draws on biblical themes to explore the human condition, morality, an

Horseshoes on Uxbridge Common, 1937, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 19 x 25 inches, inscribed “Horseshoes on Uxbridge Common/Uxbridge Mass. 1937”; provenance includes Vose Galleries, Boston; Collection of Peggy & Arthur Hittner $6000 Louis (Ludvik) Durchanek's Horseshoes on Uxbridge Common depicts the main square of the small 6500 person town outside of Boston during the mid-1930s. The compact composition contains over twenty figures surrounded by community symbols

Moonlight Shanties , c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches, signed lower right, signed and titled verso $4,500 In Moonlight Shanties , Joachim depicts a lower-class neighborhood sitting along-side an elevated road or railway which crowds out the small nearby houses and structures. Joachim’s use of an expressionist palette and gestural brushstrokes together with the isolated figures obscured in the shadows, create a feeling of unease, isolation and even loneliness. From the