Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Anne Millay Bremer

The Highlands


Monday, August 25, 2014

Harriett Randall Lumis

Harriett Randall Lumis (American, 1870 - 1953)


View of Gloucester

Allen Tucker




Mount Desert Island, Maine (1914)



Passaconaway, 1915


The Rise (undated)


 House and Wind, circa 1920


 Baker’s Island (Massachusetts) 1921


Red Barns 1923


Allen Tucker (1866–1939) was an American artist.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1866 and graduated from the School of Mines of Columbia University in 1887 with a degree in architecture and worked as a draftsman at McIlvaine and Tucker. In 1908, he exhibited with Robert Henri, George Luks, George Bellows and others, contemporary with The Eight.
Tucker was active in organizing the 1910 first exhibit of the Independents, and was responsible for the catalog of the Armory Show of 1913. One of his landscapes appeared on the postcard announcement.
From 1921 through 1926 he served as an instructor at the Art Students League of New York.
His work appears in many major American museums and collections.

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Abraham J. Bogdanove - Fish Houses, Monhegan


Fish Houses, Monhegan circa 1925-1935

Abraham Jacob Bogdanove (September 2, 1888 – August 1946) was an American artist, mural painter, and teacher best known for his seascape paintings of the Maine coast, particularly around Monhegan Island.
Bogdanove was born in Minsk, (Russian Empire now Belarus), on September 2, 1888, and moved with his family to New York City on December 25, 1900. For the next ten years he studied, first from 1901 to 1903 at Cooper Union, then from 1903 to 1911 at the National Academy of Design, and also at Columbia University School of Architecture from 1908 to 1910, while simultaneously painting advertisement displays and drafting for the New York Journal. From 1909 to 1911 he received prizes for his paintings in National Academy exhibitions.

William Sommer


William Sommer (American, 1867-1949)
Landscape with Yellow Clouds, c. 1915. Oil on board, 60.96 x 76.2 cm.

A Norwegian artist: Willie Midelfart


Willie Midelfart (Norway 1904-1975) - “Ut över Aardal”