Recent Acquisitions

This is a rare aquatint etching by American artist Philip Kappel.  The title is: Chatham Bar, Cape Cod, created and printed in  1926.  The image measures 7 7/8X9 3/4 inches.  Hand signed and titled in pencil in the lower border.  Kappel made a smaller copy of this subject many years later.  Printed on a buff toned wove type sheet.  Beautiful condition, matted not framed.

This is a hand colored etching by French artist Auguste Louis Lepere.  The title in the plate is Sur La Seine,88.  Hand signed lower right in pencil.  The image measures 9 1/2X12 1/2 inches.  Printed on an "M.B.M." watermarked laid paper.  The upper border is 1/4 inches wide, just enough for proper presentation  A very rich inking and fine use of coloration after the etching was printed.  "It’s 1888 and Paris readies itself for the Exposition Universelle, a spectacular world’s fair staged the following year for the centennial of the French Revolution, which overthrew the monarchy in 1789. The centerpiece would be the Eiffel Tower, under construction on the far side of the River Seine" (Minneapolis Institute of Art)

This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist Charles E. Heil.  This work created for the Print Makers Society of California is titled: Black-Cap Chickadee.  Created and printed circa 1940 in an edition of 200.  The image measures 5 7/8X7 inches, printed with a warm toned ink, nicely framed with the Society information sheet that came with this etching.  Very nice condition.

Etching, image size 8 x 5 3/4 inches, pencil signed l.r. "Warren Davis" on wove paper. Davis studied at the Art Students League in New York and became known for his etchings of idealized female figures. Many were used on the covers of Vanity Fair and Life magazines. Later in his career Davis exhibited in Europe and the United States including the Pennsylvania Academy and the Salmagundi Club.

This is an original etching by French artist Pierre Dubreuil.  The title is: Les Cinq Baigneuses, Five Bathers.  Created and printed circa 1940 this etching is hand signed in pencil and inscribed as "Epreuve d' artiste XVI/XX"  The image mesures 10 1/2X12 1/2 inches.  Nicely framed with a French mat.

This is an original pencil signed and titled etching by American artist Warren Davis.  This image titled: The Echo, was created and printed Circa 1920.  The image measures 6X8 inches.  Printed on a wove type sheet with the Rives B.F.K. watermark.   Warren Davis is best known for his depictions of idealized female figures. He studied at the Art Students League in New York. Davis is particularly well known as a magazine illustrator and many of his depictions of ethereal appearing women adorned the covers of Vanity Fair.  (NVFA)

This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist Warren Davis.  This image is titled After the Bath, created and printed circa 1920.  The image measures 8X6 inches.  Printed on Rives watermarked wove type sheet.   Warren Davis is best known for his depictions of idealized female figures. He studied at the Art Students League in New York. Davis is particularly well known as a magazine illustrator and many of his depictions of ethereal appearing women adorned the covers of Vanity Fair.  (NVFA)

This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist and illustrator Warren B. Davis.  This image is titled: Wind Blown, created and printed circa 1920.  The image measures 8X6 inches, printed on a wove type sheet.  Warren Davis is best known for his depictions of idealized female figures. He studied at the Art Students League in New York. Davis is particularly well known as a magazine illustrator and many of his depictions of ethereal appearing women adorned the covers of Vanity Fair.  (NVFA)

This is an original pencil signed and titled etching by California artist Mildred B Brooks.  This image is titled: The Gateway, created and printed in 1933, numbered as 37/40.  The image measures 12 3/4X10 7/8 inches.  Printed on a light weight wove type sheet.

This is an original oil on canvas painting by American artist De Scott Evans (David Scott Evans)  This portrait was created on a trip to Jamaica which he visited in 1894.  THe painting is clearly signed De Scott Evans, dated Jan 1894, and identified as being in Spanish Town, Jamaica, West Indies.  The painting measures 20X16 inches.  In good shape one tiny puncture, about 1/4 inch in the lower part of her dress. Evan's Jamaican paintings are very rare.  Evans was a well known portrait painter and also  known to have painted several trompe l'oeil works  He usually signed "De Scott Evans" on his works. Four years later while sailing to Paris on the La Bourgogne, the ship sank and Evans and his family  were lost.  Evans studied under  Albert Beaugureau in Cincinnati, and later at the  Académie Julian, Paris with Wm. A. Bouguereau in Paris, 1877.

This is an original oil on canvas painting by American Tonalist, Franklin DeHaven.  The title on the back is: The Swimming Hole, Granby, Con.  This painting was created circa 1890-1910.  Signed lower right the painting measures 24X18 inches and is in a period Hassam style frame.  Franklin DeHaven was born in Indiana in 1856. Around the age of twenty he moved to New York City and studied painting with George H. Smillie, who was then in transition from a second-generation Hudson River School style to the more fashionable Barbizon style. Like many Tonalists, DeHaven probably developed his mature style out of an appreciation for Barbizon painting that he developed early in his artistic training. He is best known for his poetic landscapes of the New England countryside, (Godel)

This is an original portrait painting by American artist De Scott Evans (David Scott Evans)  The painting is signed and dated lower right corner.  This work measures 20X16 inches.  The framed size is 26X22 inches.  Fine condition Evans was a well known portrait painter and also He also is known to have painted several trompe l'oeil works signed "De Scott Evans" Four years later while sailing to Paris on the La Bourgogne, the ship sank and Evans and his family  were lost.  Evans studied under  Albert Beaugureau in Cincinnati, and later at the  Académie Julian, Paris with Wm. A. Bouguereau in Paris, 1877.

This is an an original etching by California artist Mildred Brooks.  This impression is hand signed and titled in pencil.  Cypress of Monterey, created and printed in  1941.  The image measures 8 1/4X8 7/8 inches.  Printed on a thin laid type sheet.

This is a pencil signed and titled etching by California artist Mildred Bryant Brooks.  The title is: The Last Tree, created and printed in an edition of 100 in 1933.  The image measures 11X9 1/2 inches.  A fine expression of the incursion of the modern city on the rural landscape.

This is an original pencil signed and titled etching by Dutch artist Jules De Bruycker.  The title is: Jour de Marche Gand, 1906  (Market Day Ghent)  The image measures 12 1/2X16 inches.Jules De Bruycker was a Belgian graphic artist, etcher, painter and draughtsman. He is considered one of the foremost Belgian graphic artists.