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Mount Mansfield in Winter by Eric Tobin, oil on canvas, 30 inches x 36 inches, 2018. Signed in lower right and titled on reverse. Eric Tobin is a contemporary landscape artist who resides in Johnson, Vermont, in the northern part of the state. He was influenced by the VT artist,Thomas Curtin, whom Tobin knew from his childhood and from whom he received his first set of paints. Tobin paints entirely 'plein air', or outdoors while actually viewing his subject. This view of Mount Mansfield in ...

A large Hudson River school Luminist landscape painting in a very ornate carved gilt wood frame. Unsigned. Oil on canvas. 2nd half 19th century. Canvas size: 30 inches x 42 inches. A dramatic canvas in the Luminist style, with a dark, rocky pond in the foreground and a distant mountainous skyline glowing in shades of pink and yellow from the light of a setting sun. The frame bears a Philadelphia framer's label on the reverse. Condition: an old patch to a small puncture, visible from the reve...

'On the Balcony' - by Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928). Oil on artist board. Signed in lower left. Size: 16 inches x 12 inches. A full-length portrait of a young girl standing on a balcony painted by the prominent American artist Arthur Bowen Davies. Offered in a period gilt wood frame. Davies was born in Utica, New York, and began drawing at an early age. When he relocated to Chicago, he attended the Art Institute of Chicago and later the Art Students League in New York City. Hi...

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903) - Palaces, Venice. Etching and drypoint in black ink on heavy Japan paper. Signed in pencil in lower left margin with a large butterfly and 'imp'. Ref: Kennedy 187, second state of three. Bearing a David Tunick, Inc., New York, gallery label on the reverse. Size: 10 inches X 14 /14 inches. Offered framed. A rare etching by this great American artist issued in 1879-80. This etching is the second state of three. 'The Palaces' is from the first ...

William B. Hoyt (American, 1945 - present) - Pursuit of Happiness. Oil on canvas. Dated 1990. Size: 48 inches x 60 inches (frame size: 54.5 inches x 66.5 inches). Signed and dated in lower right. In this thought-provoking work, the acclaimed Vermont painter, William B. Hoyt, portrays a timeless challenge: the 'Pursuit of Happiness.' This is a painting on a painting. The background of this colossal painting displays his version of the Spanish old master, Diego Velasquez's 'Joseph's Bloody Coa...

Jonas Lie (Norwegian/American, 1880-1940) - A large size landscape painting of a stand of white birch trees by a lake, with mountains in the background. Oil on canvas. Signed in lower left. Jonas Lie was a Norwegian born American painter, known for his paintings of the coastlines of New England and city views of New York City.

A large-size Native American pottery olla from Acoma pueblo, Zuni tribe, New Mexico. The pot is hand-coiled and shard fired and painted in red and black on white with encircling bands of stylized figures of deer and roadrunners. Circa 1910-1915. Size: 19.5 inches ht. x 16.5 inches in diameter. Very good condition with no chips, cracks or repairs. Name of the original owner written in light pencil on the inside of the rim. Rare to find an olla of this large a size and in such wonderful condition....