Catalog: Sold Items (586)

Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) - A Country Road in Autumn. Oil on canvas board. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Unsigned on the front, but signed on the reverse. Circa 1960's. Excellent condition. A dramatic example of Thomas Curtin's landscape painting - a country road in northern Vermont, as seen at the height of fall foliage, with a farm house and smoking chimney just visible in the distance. Thomas Curtin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts...

A Northern Plains native American pipe with a carved Catlinite bowl and original twisted reed stem. Circa 1870-80. Overall length: 30". The twisted stem has brass tack decoration at the bowl end and attaches to an elbow shaped red Catlinite pipe bowl. Excellent condition, except for a hole in the twisted reed stem.

Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) landscape painting of a Red House in autumn. Oil on canvas board. Circa 1960. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Signed by the artist in the lower left and marked on the reverse with the Estate stamp of Thomas R. Curtin, together with the estate inventory #149. Excellent condition and recently cleaned. Offered in an antique 19th century gilded frame. Curtin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts...

Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) Vermont winter landscape with a skier, titled Blue Ribbon. Oil on artist board. Size: 9 inches x 12 inches. Circa 1950s. Signed by the artist on the reverse and titled, together with the artist's Weston, VT address. We believe that 'Blue Ribbon' refers to a ski trail by that name on Bromley Mountain. Condition is excellent. Churchill Ettinger was a noted sportsman, printmaker and painter...

Dennis Sheehan (American, born 1950) - 'Fall Trees' oil on linen, 13 inches x 19 inches. Late 20th century. Signed in lower left and titled on the stretcher. Dennis Sheehan is a contemporary painter of landscapes whose work is inspired by George Inness and other 19th century tonalists. His paintings are in many public and private collections, including the White House. He is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and maintains a workshop in Manchester, NH...

Dennis Sheehan (American, 1950 - present) - Full Moon Setting Over A Marsh. Oil on linen. Size: 14 inches x 20 inches. Signed 'Sheehan' in lower left. Excellent condition and offered in a contemporary gilt plein air frame. This small, but dramatic, tonalist painting is typical of Sheehan's style and subject, capturing the orb of a full moon as it sets over a marshy pasture...

Theodore 'Ted' Kautzky (Hungarian/American, 1896-1953) original watercolor painting titled 'Toward Mount Washington, New Hampshire.' Painting size: 22 inches x 30 inches. Framed size measures: 30 inches x 38 1/4 inches. Circa 1930s. Excellent condition. This early work depicts Mount Washington as it is seen when enveloped by clouds on a day in early winter...

William Lester Stevens (American, 1888-1969) - Coastal landscape, probably of the Massachusetts shore. Oil on artist board. Circa 1920s-30s. Size: 16 inches x 19.25 inches. Signed W LESTER STEVENS in lower right. William Lester Stevens was a Rockport, Massachusetts artist and a founding member of the Rockport Art Association. This post-Impressionist painting utilizes a thick impasto to its surface treatment. Stevens studied at Boston's Museum of Fine Art School under Edmund Tarbell and Frank Ben...

Dennis Sheehan (American, born 1950) - Sunset on a Misty Pond. Oil on linen. Size: 24 inches x 30 inches. Unsigned, but purchased directly from the artist. Offered in a modern gilt wood plein air frame. Dennis Sheehan is a contemporary painter of landscapes whose work is inspired by George Inness and other 19th century tonalists. His paintings are in many public and private collections, including the White House. He is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and maintains a workshop in Manches...

George III wine jug of classical urn form, decorated with bands of bright-cut foliate engraving. London, 1791, by John Robins. The jug is further adorned with an urn finial, bent wood handle, and with an engraved shield-shaped cartouche with family monogram. Size: 12 1/8" ht. x 6" length x 4 3/4" diameter. Excellent antique condition.

Hawes the Butler, life-size hydrocal cement sculpture, by Jack Dowd (American, 1938 - present). Dated Nov. 1988. Edition 102 of 123. Size: 66.5 inches H x 13.5 inches W x 11.5 inches D. Signed, dated and titled on base plinth. Jack Dowd is a Sarasota, Florida based sculptor who is known for his life-size figural representations of personalities and satirical characters, carved from wood or cast in resin or cement. This sculpture is of 'Hawes' from his butler series, cast in a small editio...

Churchill Ettinger (American, 1903-1984) original watercolor painting titled "Powder at Diavolezza". Circa 1965. Size: 14 inches x 19.5 inches (sight). Churchill Ettinger is recognized for his many illustrations, etchings and paintings of sporting subjects. He studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League in New York City, and also taught at the New York School of Industrial Art. He became a commercial artist and, being an avid outdoorsman and sportsman, was attrac...

Antique early American Chippendale period tall chest in tiger maple with ten graduated drawers supported on an ogee bracket base. This beautiful chest features an unusual drawer configuration of three small drawers, over two side by side drawers, above five finely graduated drawers. Older replaced brasses. Size: 55.25 inches ht. x 38.25 inches wide x 19.5 inches deep. Circa 1780.

An early Windsor diminutive size bench or settee. Circa 1810. Size: 40 in. length x 31.5 in. ht. x 20 in. deep. A rare size and with fine faux bamboo turned spindles to back and arms, and with a single board pine plank seat.

Paul Augustin Aizpiri (French, born 1919 -) original watercolor painting of the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. Watercolor and gouache on paper (affixed to cardboard). Circa 1950s-60s. Painting size: 17.5 inches x 27 inches. An attractive portrayal of the Grand Canal, Venice, with gondolas and the church of Santa Maria della Salute visible on the right. It is signed in the lower right and offered in the original frame, which bears the label of Galerie Paul Petrides, Paris. Petrides maintained a...

Pair of patinated bronze argand lamps by John B. Jones of Boston, MA. Each lamp has a floral finial and an urn-form fluid reservoir. Circa 1830-40s. These lamps have been electrified but have not been drilled. One of the wheel-cut glass shades has a minor chip and line at the top rim. Dimensions: 19 inches ht. x 11 inches length x 5 inches depth. Excellent condition. With label of John B. Jones.

Thomas R. Curtin (American, 1899-1977) "Mt. Mansfield View", oil on canvas board, circa 1965, 12 inches x 16 inches. Estate stamped lower left and on reverse, together with estate inventory #127. In this panoramic landscape painting, Thomas Curtin has rendered a view of Mount Mansfield in the distance, silhouetted against a sky filled with cumulus clouds highlighted in pink by a setting sun. A shady brook meanders its way through a valley, drawing the observer's eye to the mountain beyond. T...

"Twilight November" impressionist landscape painting by Charles E. Buckler (American, 1869-1953), oil on canvas, 22 inches x 28 inches. Signed lower left and titled and dated on reverse "Twilight November, WPA 1937". Buckler was an impressionist landscape painter in New England. Born in Nova Scotia in 1869, he relocated to Massachusetts where he spent most of his life. He was influenced by Claude Monet and was a member of the Boston Art Club where he exhibited his paintings. He also made tr...