Elaine Lisle, Before Breakfast

Before Breakfast, 2021

Oil On Board

Elaine Lisle is an American artist based in Philadelphia, known for her vibrant oil paintings that often depict urban landscapes, everyday scenes, and natural settings. She draws inspiration from her surroundings, including Philadelphia neighborhoods, the Schuylkill River, and her travels to places like France and Ireland. Lisle's work is characterized by bold colors, lively brushwork, and a focus on capturing light and atmosphere.

Jeremy Miranda (USA, b. 1980)

 

 Headlights through the beech leaves 

acrylic on panel 7 x 8 in.

The House with the Magenta Lights (December 2022) 

acrylic on panel

Winter

Near the Culvert (2024) 

acrylic on board 25.4 x 30.5 cm

Jeremy Miranda is an American artist born in 1980. He grew up in Middletown, Rhode Island12. He graduated in 2004 with a BFA in painting from Massachusetts College of Art12.

Miranda’s work is primarily about painting memory and the landscape. He creates complex spatial environments that hover between interior and exterior worlds1. His recent work is rooted in depictions of his changing routine, while keeping sparks of the ethereal within the small details of a moody sunset, or the glow of fireflies on a summer night2.

He lives and works in Southern Maine with his partner, artist Michelle Morin1. He has exhibited with Dianna Witte Gallery since 2014.

Carl Bretzke

 

Highway 1, Oil on aluminum

Carl Bretzke is an American painter and illustrator known for his landscape paintings and portrait commissions. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1948 and received his BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1971. Bretzke has exhibited his work widely in the United States and his paintings are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Racine Art Museum. Bretzke is known for his detailed and realistic paintings of landscapes, cityscapes, and still lifes, and he often works in oil or pastel.

Zoey Frank (USA, b. 1987)

 

Window with Snow, 2017

Laura, 2016

Oil on panel 36x36 inches

Zoey Frank (b. 1987, Boulder, CO) received her MFA in painting from Laguna College of Art and Design after studying for four years with Juliette Aristides at Gage Academy of Art. She has received numerous honors and awards, including three Elizabeth Greenshields grants, the Avigdor Arikha Memorial International Residency Scholarship, the Artist’s Magazine All Media Competition Grand Prize, the Hudson River Fellowship, and scholarships from the Albert K. Murray Foundation, the Stacey Foundation, and the Art Renewal Center. Her work has been featured in publications such as Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Collector, International Artist Magazine, Artist’s Magazine, and Southwest Art. Frank has exhibited in galleries across the United States, England, and The Netherlands. She lives and works in Fort Collins, CO. Zoey is one of the prestigious jurors for The Bennett Prize 3.0.

credits: https://zoeyfrank.com/

Joseph Kleitsch

 

Bathers Along the Seine, Vernon, France

Joseph Kleitsch (1882-1931) was an American painter known for his landscapes and portraits. He was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States as a child. Kleitsch studied art at the Art Institute of Chicago and later moved to California, where he became a member of the California Art Club and the Laguna Beach Art Association. He is known for his bright, colorful paintings of the California landscape, particularly the desert regions of Palm Springs and the Mojave Desert. Kleitsch's work was exhibited widely during his lifetime, and he received numerous awards for his paintings. He is considered an important figure in the California Impressionist movement.

Saul Leiter (American, 1923-2013)

 

Fay, ca. 1955
Gouache and watercolour over silver gelatin print, 17.8 × 12.7 cm

Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was an American photographer and painter known for his street photography and his pioneering work in color photography. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and studied at the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Leiter's photography was characterized by his ability to capture the mood and atmosphere of the city, often through his use of reflections and abstract compositions. He was a member of the important New York School of photographers and his work has been exhibited and collected internationally. Leiter was also a painter, and his work can be found in private and public collections around the world.

Hale Woodruff (American, 1900–1980)

 

Twilight (1926)

Hale Aspacio Woodruff (August 26, 1900 – September 6, 1980) was an American artist known for his murals, paintings, and prints.

Woodruff was born in Cairo, Illinois, in on August 26, 1900. He grew up in a black family in Nashville, Tennessee, where he attended the local segregated schools. He studied at the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Harvard Fogg Art Museum.

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Paul Resika (b. 1928)

“Tower and Moon” (2009)

oil on canvas

Paul Resika (born 1928) is an American painter born and raised in New York City.

He is a former student of Hans Hofmann. Resika began exhibiting his paintings in New York City in the 1940s. He has had several dozen one-man exhibitions in galleries and museums, and his works have been included in hundreds of group exhibitions since the late 1940s until the present.

He chaired the Parsons School of Design MFA program from 1978 to 1990. He is a member of the National Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Resika's work is in the permanent collections of dozens of museums and corporations throughout the United States and the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Academy, the National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC., the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.[2]

He has had solo exhibitions at The Century Association, New York (1982); Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA (1991); Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (1997); and at numerous commercial galleries such as Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA; Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York; and Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Resika

William Davis (American , b. 1952)

 

Stormy Night at Sankaty Head Light    

Oil on panel  , 9 x 12 in.

Born in Somerville, MA, May 4, 1952, Davis grew up in Hyannis Port, MA. 

He is a self-taught artist whose oil paintings typically capture the serene light of sunrise or sunset on the water. He employs many of the techniques traditionally used by American luminist painters to realize his personal vision, showing a marked preference for 19th century subjects. 

https://www.guildofbostonartists

David Kapp (American, b. 1953)

 

COMING OUT OF THE SUBWAY

1998-99. Oil on linen, 152.1 x 152.1cm

Emil Robinson

 

Polar Bear Club 4, 2015

Recline, pastel, 2010

Emil Robinson lives and works in Ohio.

He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati.

www.emilrobinson.com

Ronnie Landfield (USA b. 1947)

In the Smoke

acrylic on canvas 40 x 37 in.

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George Luks

George Benjamin Luks, (1867 – 1933)

Girl in Green (c. 1923)

Upper Manhattan (1915)

George Benjamin Luks, (August 13, 1867–October 29, 1933) was an American realist artist and illustrator. His vigorously painted genre paintings of urban subjects are examples of the Ashcan School of American art.

John Fabian Carlson (USA 1874–1945)

John Fabian Carlson (USA 1874–1945)

Forest Pool, oil on canvas 48⅞ x 58¾ in.

John Fabian Carlson (1874–1945) was a Swedish-American painter known for his impressionistic and tonalist landscapes. Born in Sweden, he immigrated to the United States as a child and later became a key figure in American landscape painting.

Early Life & Education

Carlson studied at the Art Students League in New York, where he was influenced by the American Impressionist tradition and tonalism. He later studied under Birge Harrison at the Woodstock Art Colony, a major center for American Impressionism.

Career & Style

Carlson is best known for his winter landscapes, particularly his depictions of snow-covered forests and countryside scenes. His work is characterized by a soft, atmospheric quality, with a focus on tonal harmony rather than fine detail. He often used a muted palette with subtle gradations of color and light, capturing the quiet beauty of nature.

He was also an influential teacher and wrote Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting, a widely respected book on the subject that is still in use today.

Legacy

• Carlson was a member of the National Academy of Design.
• He won numerous awards, including from the Art Institute of Chicago and the National Academy of Design.
• His work is featured in major collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jane Peterson (USA 1876-1965)

 Jane Peterson (American, 1876-1965)

Reading at a Cafe (ca. 1920)

French Landscape, 1910s

Greetings from Skyscraperland, c.1910

Mausoleum Constantinople

Sunlight and Shadow, Venice

oil on canvas 61 x 45.7 cm

A Landing Along the Grand Canal, Venice

By the Water (after 1930)

gouache on paper 45.1 x 59.1 cm

Jane Peterson (1876–1965) was an American artist. She was known for her impressionistic depictions of landscapes and floral still lifes. She blended traditional approaches to painting with the vanguard art of the Impressionists and Post-impressionists.

Two of her works are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Parade" (Gouache, watercolor, charcoal, and graphite on paper) and "Turkish Fountain with Garden" (from Louis C. Tiffany Estate, Oyster Bay) (1910, Oil and charcoal on canvas).

Joseph Pennell

Joseph Pennell (American 1857 – 1926)

Blue Night, London, c. 1894 - 1909

Watercolour on light blue paper. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Brooklyn Bridge, Lighting Up, circa 1900

Clouds over New York Harbor

Joseph Pennell (July 4, 1857 – April 23, 1926) was an American artist and author.

Born in Philadelphia, and first studied there, but like his compatriot and friend, James McNeill Whistler, he afterwards went to Europe and made his home in London. He produced numerous books (many of them in collaboration with his wife, Elizabeth Robins Pennell), but his chief distinction is as an original etcher and lithographer, and notably as an illustrator. Their close acquaintance with Whistler led the Pennells to undertake a biography of that artist in 1906, and, after some litigation with his executrix on the right to use his letters, the book was published in 1908.

He taught at Slade School of Art. He won a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle (1900), and 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

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Wayne Thiebaud

Wayne Thiebaud (American, 1920- 2021)

Reflected Landscape, 1966-68

Oil on canvas, 40¼ x 40¼ in. (102.2 x 102.2 cm.)

Cloud and Bluffs, 1972 

oil on canvas, 61.3 x 46 cm

Valley River (1995)

oil on canvas 40.3 x 50.8 cm

Flatland River, 1997

Morton Wayne Thiebaud (November 15, 1920 – December 25, 2021) was an American painter known for his colorful works depicting commonplace objects—pies, lipsticks, paint cans, ice cream cones, pastries, and hot dogs—as well as for his landscapes and figure paintings. Thiebaud is associated with the pop art movement because of his interest in objects of mass culture, although his early works, executed during the fifties and sixties, slightly predate the works of the classic pop artists. Thiebaud used heavy pigment and exaggerated colors to depict his subjects, and the well-defined shadows characteristic of advertisements are almost always included in his work.

wiki/Wayne_Thiebaud

Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988)

Man with Cow, St. Maarten (1979)

watercolor on paper 21 x 29 cm

Abstract figures

Watercolor and ink on paper, 66.5 x 51.5 cm.

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter. He worked with many types of media including cartoons, oils, and collages. Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Bearden grew up in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and graduated from New York University in 1935.

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Society of Six: Selden Connor Gile (American, 1877-1947)

Lucas Valley, 1920

Cows and Pasture 

Main Street, Tiburon, with boats, circa 1928

Hay field, sunset, 1928

Gypsy Train, circa 1935

Marsh land

Wharf buildings

Stinson Beach

Selden Connor Gile (20 March 1877 – 8 June 1947) was an American painter who was mainly active in northern California between the early-1910s and the mid-1930s. He was the founder and leader of the Society of Six, a Bay Area group of artists known for their plein-air paintings and rich use of color, a quality that would later figure into the work of Bay Area figurative expressionists.

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Rockwell Kent (American, 1882-1971)

Sun, Manana, Monhegan, 1907

Oil on canvas

Monhegan 1909

Alaska Impression, 1919

Golden Fall, c.1955
Oil on canvas, 28 x 34 in.

Rockwell Kent was an American artist, illustrator, and author who was active in the early 20th century. He was born in 1882 in Tarrytown, New York, and studied art at the New York School of Art and the National Academy of Design. Kent's work ranged from traditional landscape paintings and etchings to more modernist styles, and he was known for his bold, expressive brushwork and his use of bright, vibrant colors.

In addition to his work as a painter, Kent was also a prolific illustrator and designer, and he created book covers, posters, and other commercial graphics. He was particularly well-known for his illustrations of classic literature, and he created illustrations for editions of works by authors such as Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, and Mark Twain. Kent was also an author and wrote several books about art, travel, and his own experiences.

Throughout his career, Kent traveled extensively and spent time in many different countries, including Greenland, Alaska, and Ireland. His travels often inspired his art, and he produced a number of paintings and prints that depicted the landscapes and people of these regions. Kent died in 1971 in Plattsburgh, New York.