Worker with Shovel (Cigarette), c. 1950, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 46 x 26 inches, titled verso, Gallery Z label verso; Exhibited: i) Exhibition of New Paintings by Edward Biberman , Chabot Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, February 16 to March 7, 1953 (see Miller, Arthur, In the Galleries , The Los Angeles Times , February 22, 1953, part IV - “Less colorful but excellently drawn and full of human notes are several large paintings of workman in such typical actions as that

Los Angeles , 1927, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 19 x 23 inches, ex collection Sullivan Goss An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA (label verso) $7,500 Frode Dann’s Los Angeles is a rare American Scene painting depicting Southern California's largest city in the late 1920s. Painted soon after he immigrated to the United States, the present work demonstrates Dann's engagement with the light and terrain of his new home. His practice bridged European academic tr

Six O-Clock , c. 1942, oil on canvas, 20 x 30 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings , March 21 to May 2, 1943, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label ver

The Candidate , 1933, oil on canvas, 21 x 36 inches, signed and dated lower right $5,500 The Candidate shows Norman Thomas campaigning at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in New York City. Thomas was the six-time socialist party candidate for the presidency of the United States and the HIAS was founded as a non-profit organization devoted to assisting Jewish people fleeing pogroms and other persecution in eastern Europe. Presumably, the scene comes from the 1932 electi

The Hand of Industry, 1944, oil on canvas, 27 x 25 inches, exhibited 56th Annual of the Society of Chicago Painters , July, 1945, Findlay Galleries, Chicago, IL; titled and exhibition history indicated in pencil (verso); remnants of exhibition labels (verso).  Referenced in Jewett, Eleanor, Life on Home Front Theme of Art Show , The Chicago Tribune , July 22, 1945; presented in its original frame $4,500 In 1916, expressing the conventional, pro-industry sentiment of the coun

Arizona Landscape , 1935, oil on canvas, 24 ½ x 19 ½ inches, unsigned, exhibited at the Twenty-Eighth Indiana Artists Exhibition , John Herron Art Museum in Indianapolis, Indiana, Spring, 1935 (label verso). Referenced in New Indiana Art Trend Shown by Canvases at State Exhibit , The Indianapolis News , March 18, 1935; City Association First to Sponsor Project in State, Palladium Item  (Richmond, Indiana), April 6, 1935; and Several Visits Necessary For Full Appreciation of E

Mural Study for The Armistice Letter – Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania Post Office, c. 1938, watercolor on paper, 5 ½ x 10 ½ inches (unframed sheet), 12 ¾ x 16 ½ inches (framed sheet), initialed “EH” lower right, inscribed lower left “11/16 = 1 foot”, inscribed “Eugene Higgins” verso of original backing material $1,250 The Treasury Department's Section of Fine Art (Section) commissioned Eugene Higgins to create a mural for the Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania Post Office. A generation

Knight’s Lodging, 1941, oil on canvas panel, signed and dated lower left, 16 x 20 inches, exhibited: 1) 6th Annual Exhibition , Massilllon Museum November 2 to December 1, 1941, no. 50; 2) 59th Annual , Portland Maine, March, 1942; 3) 4th Annual , Parkersburg, West Virginia, May, 1942; 4) Spring Salon , Butler Art Institute, May, 1943; 5) Canfield Fair , Canfield, Ohio, September, 1944 and 6) USO Exhibition , Youngstown, Ohio; presented in original painted frame $2750 But

The Gripes of Rats , c. 1939, oil on canvas, 36 x 30 inches, verso has label from Exhibition of Works by California Artists, Golden Gate International Exposition , San Francisco, California, May 25 through September 29, 1940, #2021, with Artist’s name (G. Hawthorne Cove), Address (Lomita Park P.O.), Title (Gripes of Rats) and Medium (oil) $4,500 In The Gripes of Rats, Grace Hawthorne Cove introduces the beloved American author, John Steinbeck, to the famous Spanish master Fra

Farm Tragedy (Untitled) , c. 1930s, mixed media on plaster on panel, unsigned, 22 1/8 x 32 inches; label verso reads: "New York Artists Equity Association, New York, NY," provenance includes estate of the artist, the artist's sister, Artist Equity Association $8,500 Louis Goodman Ferstadt was a Ukrainian-born American artist renowned for his work as a painter, muralist, and comics illustrator. Born in Berestechko, then part of the Russian Empire, Ferstadt immigrated to Chicag

Civilization, c. 1948, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 x 24 inches, label verso reads “Eugene M. Dyczkowski / Grand Inland, N. Y. / Civilization,” inscribed verso in the artist’s hand: “Eugene M. Dyckowski / Grand Island N. Y. Price [illegible],” Rochester NY Framer’s stamp verso and titled “Civilization,” exhibited: Buffalo Society of Artist’s Exhibition , Albright Art Gallery (AKG Art Museum), October, 1948 (see Gallery Presents Buffalo as Artists See It; Waterfront Sc

Third Class Carriage (Down South), c. 1942 - 45, oil on canvas, 24 x 29 inches, labels verso read: "Painting by Mervin Honig / #9 Down South / Rhoda Sherbell / 64 Jane Court / Westbury L.I.N.Y / 11590 / 1-516-334-6153" and inscribed verso: "Title: Third Class Carriage / Mervin and sister Phoebe are the children / The adults are his father Joseph & the women [illegible] his mother / Uncle Phil is sleeping" $4,250 Mervin Honig was a New York-based painter and illustrator who is

Jones & Laughlin Mills (Untitled) , 1934, oil on panel, signed lower right, 20 x 24 inches, signed and dated August, 1934 verso, inscribed "Miss Perry" verso, nails from old exhibition label verso; literature: Oh, for the Life of a Carnegie Tech Artist on a Breezy Hilltop This Weather! , The Pittsburgh Press , July 29, 1934 (illustration featuring the artist painting this work (or a study for this work)) SOLD Bernice Perry Sutton was an American painter who worked mainly in P

RFD #1 , 1937, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, titled verso, 24 x 30 inches SOLD Iowa had Grant Wood. Missouri had Thomas Hart Benton. Kansas had John Steuart Curry. And, Nebraska had Dale Nichols. Although not as well known as the big three regionalists who captured America’s artistic attention during the 1930s, Dale Nichols was an important chronicler of his home state as well as the broader Midwest. Stylistically, Nichols is known for his spare, idealized port

The Woodshed or Woodshed, Woodstock," 1932 , oil on canvas, signed lower left, 19 x 25 inches, exhibited Downtown Gallery, New York, NY, likely as part of the solo exhibition Dorothy Varian: Recent Paintings , October 25 - November 13, 1932 (Downtown Gallery label verso), title, artist's name and "7" inscribed verso, stamped "Nov 2 1932" verso, label verso reads: "Varian, Dorothy - 'Woodshed, Woodstock' / Property of Mrs. Paula Moore", presented in the original restored fram

Indian Dance , 1935, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 30 x 24, label verso reads: “A Kutka / Indian Dance”, title and artist’s name inscribed verso together with number “121”; literature: Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian and Kovinick, Phil, An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West , University of Texas Press, Austin (1998), p. 179 (illustrated), provenance: the artist to Martin-Zambito Fine Art SOLD Anne Kutka McCosh painted Indian Dance  during her honeymoon.

Impending Shadow, 1941, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 30 inches, exhibited: 32nd Annual Exhibition of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh , Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, February 12 – March 12, 1942 (label verso) SOLD Impending Shadow  is a remarkable depiction of wartime America. Likely painted around the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and within a few years of the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Dean depicts the view from an

The Gas Station , c. 1930s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 25 x 20 inches; presented in newer frame SOLD The Gas Station  is a rare Southern California urban scene from the Great Depression. At a time when California art was recognized primarily for watercolors and bucolic plein air paintings of rural scenes, Gilbert’s canvases went in a different direction.  As Los Angeles Times  art critic Arthur Millier noted, “Gilbert is heavy but he looks outside himself for local cha

World War II Invades Central Park , 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 30 x 36 inches, literature: Barton, Phyllis, Cecil C. Bell , McGrew Color Graphics (Kansas City, MO, 1976), pp. 78-79 (illustrated) $18,000 Bell's World War II Invades Central Park is among the artist's most significant works from the war years. Painted nine years after The Fleet's In , Bell takes on the same subject matter as Paul Cadmus' notorious painting from the inter-war period. In his evening

Goldmine, Central City, Colorado , c. 1936 - 38, oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches, signed lower right; provenance includes Platt Fine Art, Chicago (label verso); likely original frame painted gold; included with this work are two studies illustrated below SOLD Joseph Meert’s painting, Goldmine, Central City, Colorado , depicts the short-lived resurrection of a once prominent city just outside Denver. Central City was founded in 1859 soon after John Gregory struck gold in the are