A wonderful gouache of a lush hillside in Taxco, Mexico by Francisco Cornejo dated 1931. Art measures 19" x 20" Francisco Cornejo (1892 - 1963) was born in La Paz, Mexico. In 1911 he moved from Mexico City to Los Angeles, where he resided until 1930. He lectured on ancient American art to San Francisco public ...
Another great watercolor by Jorge B. Murillo of a group of people packing up their goods for a long trip home. Watercolor measures 28" x 14 1/2". Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in ...
A wonderful Mexican market scene watercolor by Jorge B. Murillo. Watercolor measures 29" x 13 1/2". Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require ...
VINTAGE RUEHL HECKMAN 1940 FLYING OVER AVALON ART DECO AVIATION CATALINA PRINT. Born in Wisconsin on April 8, 1890. By the early 1920s Heckman had moved to southern California. He had homes in Pasadena and Laguna Beach until he died in an auto accident on April 20, 1942. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, ...
A portrait of Leo Carrillo by Joseph Mason Reeves. Done in Conté crayon on paper. Conté: Invented in France in 1795 by Nicolas-Jacques Conté especially for drawing and sketching, Conté Crayons are made from a blend of natural pigments, kaolin clay, and graphite. The Conté crayon has been used by many of the world’s greatest artists, ...
A wonderful two-sided World War II Invasion map. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for those transactions we require wire transfers. Please feel free to enquire about ...
A beautiful watercolor by Jorge Murillo depicting a Mexican religious festival procession leading up to a mission: Perhaps, Dia de la Virgen de Guadalupe. Art measures 26" x 10". On this day people from all parts of Mexico make their way to Mexico's chief religious center at the Basilica of the Virgen of Guadalupe, located in ...
A Jorge Murillo watercolor titled, Corriendo y Volando por Jorge B Murillo: Translates to, Running and Flying. This was purchased by Oliver La Farge (Santa Fe----he wrote Laughing Boy among other things) on a trip to Mexico 40's?? Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have ...
A wonderful work by Al Ybarra dated 1933, and measuring 15 x 12. Neighborhood houses in Mallorca, Spain. Born in Los Angeles, CA on March 26, 1905. Ybarra first worked in an architecture firm in New York City before opting for an art career. After a brief art study in Europe, he returned to Los Angeles ...
A superb 1938 watercolor of boats in a harbor, measuring 15" x 22" Born in Los Angeles, CA on March 26, 1905. Ybarra first worked in an architecture firm in New York City before opting for an art career. After a brief art study in Europe, he returned to Los Angeles in the mid-1930s. He found ...
A quaint etching by Joe D. Reed of a Spanish House, measuring 5" x 16". Joe Reed (1916 - 1963) Self taught, he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1943. His home was a large structure that later became the Morning Star gallery. He was closely associated with other Santa Fe artists including Josef Bakos, Charles Reynolds, Horace ...
A large painting with a huge impact, from the Golden Age of American illustration. Whoever this painter is, he (or she) can stand comparison to N.C. Wyeth and other masters of the craft. A picture full of life and movement, painted with incredible brio, absolutely entrancing. Painting measure 40" x 30", framed 46" x 36". Call for ...
Ultra amusing take on people seen as toys, but of course seen as super sleek deco toys celebrating Thanksgiving, it would seem, by one of the great stylists and illustrators of the deco era. It's not often that a beer gets such sophisticated treatment. Hans Flato (23 Oct 1887 - 6 Sep 1950) Born in Germany, immigrated to ...
A visually stunning lithograph, poster size at 25 " x 30", bold in its coloration, subtle in its gradations of tone, that brings out the essential truths about the California landscape, with its naturalized and native plants and its eternal deserts and valleys, sunlight and mists under a high sky. Unsigned, with some surface grime and ...
Dedicated to Everett Maxwell, Director of the Museum of History, Science and Art in Los Angeles 9 that was later split into the Natural History Museum and LACMA, dated August 1, 1930. Executed in red chalk on paper, this is a fluent, lively and assured piece of work. Painter, illustrator. Born in San Francisco, CA on Feb. ...
A dynamic and animated scene of a family in a covered wagon getting under way to join a wagon train and leaving home, by one of America's most influential and admired illustrators. All the elements of story-telling are effortlessly put in play, every person is emotionally alive and engaged in their private drama... the new ...
Sam Hyde Harris is among the celebrated group of Southern California painters of the 1920s to 1970s that included William Wendt, Jack Wilkinson Smith, Clyde Forsythe, Edgar Payne, Hanson Puthuff and Orrin White. Sam Hyde Harris led a fascinating, complex life. He was a fine artist, he operated a successful commercial art business, and he ...
"Little Heralds of the Wonders of the Exposition". 37 poster stamps. The poster stamp was an advertising label, a little larger than most postage stamps, that originated in the mid-19th century and quickly became a collecting craze, growing in popularity up until World War One and then declining by World War Two until they are now ...
Estate stamped and signed (and hand-lettered) by the artist, Sam Hyde Harris. The great California plein air painter was an equally prized commercial artist as evidenced by this ink work on board for the California Bonds Company. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we ...
Estate stamped and signed (and hand-lettered) by the artist, Sam Hyde Harris. The great California plein air painter was an equally prized commercial artist as evidenced by this ink work on board for the California Bonds Company. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we ...
Estate stamped and signed (and hand-lettered) by the artist, Sam Hyde Harris. The great California plein air painter was an equally prized commercial artist as evidenced by this ink work on board for the California Bonds Company. Call for pricing.. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we ...
Estate stamped and signed (and hand-lettered) by the artist, Sam Hyde Harris. The great California plein air painter was an equally prized commercial artist as evidenced by this ink work on board for the California Bonds Company. Call for pricing.. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we ...
Commercial art at its most appealing, skillfully executed in the most flamboyant deco style, this watercolor original for a Standard Paper Box Corporation of Los Angeles promotional calendar for 1937 is one of two we have acquired (the other being P620). Absolute knockout example of American Streamline. Artist unknown. The nightmare quality of the repeated identical ...
Beautiful ink rendering of a classic twenties Los Angeles house. Very in the Paul Williams/Wallace Neff/Austen Pierpont mode. Dated 1929. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority Mail, but for larger pieces we employ two freight companies we have found to be careful, cost effective and timely in delivery. We also ship worldwide, and for ...
Brilliantly executed in inks and watercolor the drawing is as charming as the house. The project was for Mrs A E Webb and is dated June 14,1928. The style brings to mind the work of Austen Pierpont, a frequent associate and contemporary of Wallace Neff, or even Paul Williams. Call for pricing. We ship using UPS and Priority ...