Vernal Pool Springs Forth

Vernal Pool Springs Forth

in the woods behind my home on Fort Ridge, Shapleigh, Maine on April 16, 2024, painted on April 22, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400

Legs High Studies

Legs High Study 1

painted during our Kennebunkport, Maine drawing group on April 19, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

Legs High Study 2

painted during our Kennebunkport, Maine drawing group on April 19, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

Back Beneath

Back Beneath

painted during our Kennebunkport, Maine drawing group on April 19, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

Back to Sitting

Back to Sitting

painted during our Kennebunkport, Maine drawing group on April 19, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

March Avery - Nudes and Self Portrait

March Avery
 Nudes and Self Portrait

Source many various online:
The Avery Style, seen in the works of father Milton (1885-1965), regarded as a major American bridge between Realism and Abstract Expressionism, mother Sally (1902-2003) a working illustrator then full time painter, and daughter March (1932- ), a full time painter, reduces elements to a simplicity of forms, eliminating most details, and developing flattened interlocking shapes with strong colors. March's art includes her usual signature palette of rosy pink, dusty yellow, ochre, and cobalt. While her parents only sketched, March often uses a camera when documenting subject matter, as well as sketching, for initial documentation.
        While growing up, when March Avery showed her father, Milton, a painting, his response was "Paint another one." March Avery believes her father wanted her to become an artist. She said, "I knew no one but artists, so I knew that is all I would ever be." Her mom, Sally, an illustrator, supported their family for years until Milton's art started selling. His art sold well. But Sally didn't really come into her own artistically until her father died and had a long career for her next thirty-eight years.
        March married her college boyfriend Philip Cavanaugh (circa 1932-2022) in 1952 and graduated from Barnard College in 1954 with a degree in philosophy. She supported him for many years until he earned a doctorate in English. Once he had a diploma and a steady job, she quit her city job and continued painting full time. Her gallery exhibitions began nine years later with her first solo exhibition in 1963, continuing today. March and Philip's son, Sean (1969- ), is also a painter, though not in The Avery Style.

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Seated Nude
March Avery (1932- ) American
Oil on canvas, 15" x 20" (w x h), 1964
Hollis Taggart Gallery, New York, New York, Sold
Private collection

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Nude with Upraised Arm
March Avery (1932- ) American
Oil on canvas board, 14" x 18" (w x h), 1973
Bonhams, New York 2023 auction, sold $21,760 USD
Private collection

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Nude
March Avery (1932- ) American
Oil on canvas, 19" x 12" (w x h), 1963

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Resting Nude
March Avery (1932- ) American
Oil on canvas, 42" x 18" (w x h), 1989
Kendall Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, sold 1990
Private collection

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Sleeping Nude
Oil on canvas, 24" x 18" (w x h), 1967
Rago 2021 auction sold $23,750 USD
Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey

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White Nude
March Avery (1932- ) American
Oil on canvas, 36" x 48" (w x h), 1975
Rago 2004 auction sold $15,000 USD
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey

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Self Portrait (17 years old)
March Avery (1932- ) American
Oil on canvas, 16" x 20" (w x h), 1949
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Bequest of Ivor and Augusta Green

Established as a painter, March Avery continued her routine of working winters in her New York studio with trips during the rest of the seasons outside New York City to the Catskill Mountains, Provence in southeastern France, and Paestum, an ancient Greek city in Italy. March's oil paintings, sketches and watercolors depict domestic scenes, portraits of friends and family members, landscapes visited and revisited throughout a lifetime, and more. Today, in her nineties she paints at her home studio in New York.

Avery's work is in public collections, including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME; Long Island Museum of American Art, Stony Brook, NY; Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock, NY; among others.

Laid Back Studies 1 and 2

Laid Back Study One

painted during our Kennebunkport, Maine drawing group on April 19, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

Laid Back Study Two

painted during our Kennebunkport, Maine drawing group on April 19, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400

Milton and Sally Michel Avery Paint

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Milton and Sally Michel Avery
Paint Their Art

Female Painter
Milton Avery (1885-1965) American
Oil on canvas, 40" x 32" (w x h), 1945
Christies auction estimate $1,500,000 $2,500,000 USD

Why I enjoy this painting:

Milton Avery uses orange and blue as important color elements, in a semi-abstract composition. The orange shapes float, the focus of the figure and what she's doing. The blues, two tones, can be seen as one, or two, while creating a background for the upper part of the figure to float, this focusing the eye. The red/pink are there, supporting the rest of the painting, the dark read as an anchor. And the tension of the paintbrush about to touch the canvas. You see that brush's tip as about to touch the canvas, based on the figure, and not pulling away having touched it, don't you? And you can imagine what Sally is painting. See six of Sally's figure painting's below.

Throughout their lives, Milton and his wife Sally Michel Avery shared their studio space together, painting side by side, critiquing each other's work, while developing a shared style using abstracted subjects, color fields, and harmonious unusual colors juxtapositions. Their daughter, March, is a painter, too, and in the same style, still painting at 91 years-old in 2024.

Source: Christies
Sally, Milton's painter wife, explained that he was always more focused on color and form than the underlying subject itself, recounting, "His problem was always a painter's problem, which had nothing to do with actually what he was painting. He really thought in terms of shapes and spaces and colors and things like that. And the subject was just something that he used to start a move on this other journey." (Oral history interview with Sally Michel Avery, 1967 November 3. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution)

What Sally might've been painting... go figure...

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Reclining
Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) American
Oil on canvas board, 20" x 16" (w x h), 1982

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Reclining Nude
Sally Avery
Oil on canvas board, 16" x 12" (w x h), 1981

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Nude
Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) American
Crayon, ink, and graphite on paper,
13" x 16" (w x h), 1989

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Pale Nude
Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) American
Oil on canvas board, 36" x 24" (w x h), 1963

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Nude Asleep
Sally Michel Avery (190218" x 24" (w x h), -2003) American
Oil on canvas board, 1973

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Model Nude
Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) American
Oil on canvas, 35" x 49" (w x h), 1978

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Vernal Spring Pool

Vernal Spring Pool

in the woods behind my home in Shapleigh, Maine on April 16, 2024, painted April 17, 2024 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

Back to Front Go Figure

Back to Front Go Figure

painted on April 17, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400

Contemplating Spring

Contemplating Spring

painted on April 15, 2024, 10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed
$300

Outside Nude Color Full

Outside Nude Color Full

painted on April 8, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150.

Beholding Yellow Tulips

Beholding Yellow Tulips

potted on my deck railing, growing, from the grocery store set on my home railing in Shapleigh, Maine on March 18, 2024, painted March 31, 2024, 14" x 11" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$500

Vintage Brit Figure Models Art

Then and Now
Vintage Brit Figure Models
Art Guide from a Book

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The Bookstore Window
Views of London - Charing Cross Road
Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912-2016) Austrian
Gelatin silver prints, 19" x 20" (w x h), 1935 / 1989

Sothebys, London 2018 auction sold

Wolfgang Suschitzky, B.S.C. (British Society of Cinematographers) (1912-2016), was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer known for his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film, Get Carter.

This photo is from his book:
Charing Cross Road in the Thirties
Photographs by Wolf Suschitzky
The Photo Library 9
Dirk Nishen Publishing, London, UK, 1989

From the "introduction" and various sources:
"Charing Cross Road in the 1930s was far from being a respectable street. It was a nighttime pleasure street, a promiscuous mix of activities. Foyles was the bookstore, a fabled place, "the largest bookstore in the world," all five floors. Also on Charing Cross Road in the 1930s was Zwemmer's, the first serious art booksellers in England, plus the second-hand books shops, the staple of the Charing Cross trade. Pornography was a feature of the Charring Cross trade, the goods sometimes secreted in underground showrooms. Marks, Poole's and Josephs made a specialty of art nudes."
        A brass plaque on the stone pilaster facing Charing Cross Road commemorates the former bookshop, Foyles, and Helen Hanff's charming classic long-distance love affair novel, has the bookstore as a central character in the noted book (1970) and film (1987), starring Ann Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, 84 Charring Cross Road. In the Harry Potter books, the Leaky Cauldron pub is on Charing Cross Road. Author J.K. Rowling chose this road because "it is famous for its bookshops, both modern and antiquarian. This is why I wanted it to be the place where those in the know go to enter a different world."

Looking at the book covers on display in
the windows led to this book:

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Studies of the Human Figure
with Some Notes on Drawing and Anatomy
G.M, Ellwood and F. R. Yerbury
B. T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1919

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This copy was acquisitioned by the
Boston Medical Library, January 1927
See and flip though
Studies of the Human Figure online HERE

I painted two quick sketches from the book's suggested plates.

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XLVI, Model No. 5, "Waking," a beautiful recumbent pose, with useful detail in the foreshortening of the right arm and thighs, and the finely modelled left arm and shoulder. A painter's or moddler's subject, and an interesting anatomical study.

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XLVI (Plate 66), Model No. 5
7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for
light fastness and permanence, and Uniball
waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs.
Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white
watercolor paper,
framed,
$150

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XXXVIII, Model No. 1, A wonderful pose expressive of hope and vitality. The foreshortening is extremely well caught, and an anatomical rendering of the pose is an interesting task.

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XXXVIII (Plate 39), Model No. 1
7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam,
and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for
light fastness and permanence, and Uniball
waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs.
Fabriano Artistico cold press rough
100% cotton extra white
watercolor paper,
framed,
$150.

The Art of Tulip Conversation

The Art of Conversation

between yellow tulips, potted, from the grocery store set on my home railing in Shapleigh, Maine on March 18, 2024, painted March 31, 2024, 14" x 11" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$500

Pink Tulip Five & and One Nestled

Pink Tulip Five & and One Nestled

from the grocery store in a pot in my Shapleigh, Maine yard on March 24, 2024 painted on March 31, 2024, 10" x 8" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300

Tulip to the Sun

Tulip to the Sun

from the grocery store in a pot in my Shapleigh, Maine yard on March 24, 2024, painted on Mar 29, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

A Splash of Pink Tulips

A Splash of Pink Tulips

painted on April 2, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$300

Matisse and the Girl with Tulips

Matisse and the Girl with Tulips
They're pink tulips...

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Girl with Tulips
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)) French
Oil on canvas, 29" x 36" (w x h), 1910
Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

Source State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia notes edited:
The interaction between the flowers and the human figure forms the central theme. The strong stems of the tulips forcing themselves upwards in an expression of the coming spring, the thick green color of the sharp leaves, everything carries within it the energy of growth. Nature and human together form a harmonious whole.
        Jeanne Vaderin, the model for this painting, was in convalescence at Issey-les-Moulineaux, where Matisse rented a house in 1910. Matisse and his wife affectionately called her Jeannette. In this painting there is something gentle and melancholy, something fragile and refined in the face and slightly asymmetrical figure of Jeanette. "My models, the figures of people, are never static elements in an interior. They are the main theme of my work," wrote Matisse in 1908, two years previous to this painting. Jeannette was also his model for a number of other works, including a series of bronze heads.

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Girl with Tulips
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)) French
Charcoal on paper, 23" x 29" (w x h), 1910
MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

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Jeannette (I) - frontal
Henri Matisse (1869-1954) French
Bronze, 13" x 9" x 10"
1910 winter to spring at Issy-les-Moulineaux

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Jeannette (I) - profile
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)) French
Bronze, 13" x 9" x 10"
1910 winter to spring at Issy-les-Moulineaux

Source" MOMA notes edited:
In the process of creating five busts of Jeanne Vaderin, affectionately known to Matisse and his wife as Jeannette, between 1910 and 1916, Matisse radically reconfigured traditional representation of the human face. Jeannette I and II were created directly from the model, which is evident in their characteristic, hawk-like profiles.
        These two works then served as templates for Jeannette III, IV, and V. As he progressed with the series, Matisse dramatically abstracted his subject, organizing the head into increasingly simplified chunks. In 1908 he'd explained that his goal in portraiture was not to achieve visual precision but rather to reveal the "essential qualities" of his sitters, qualities, he felt, that physical imitation could not capture.

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Jeannette (IV) -profile
Henri Matisse (1869-1954)) French
Bronze, 24" x 11" x 11"
September 1910 or February to
mid-July 1911 at Issy-les-Moulineaux

April Fools Tulip

April Fools Tulip

painted appropriately on April 1, 2024, 5" x 7" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

Tulip Family Three

A Twelve Minute Painting

Tulip Family Three

Timed from start to finish, 12 minutes, of potted tulips from my grocery store, outside at home in Shapleigh, Maine on March 18, 2024, painted March 22, 2024, 7" x 5" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$150

Tulip Intimacy

Tulip Intimacy

blooming in a pot from the grocery store set on my home railing in Shapleigh, Maine on March 18, 2024, painted March 21, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence, and Uniball waterproof fade proof ink on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400

Tulips Going Up

Tulips Going Up

live and growing, from the grocery store, set on my home railing in Shapleigh, Maine on March 18, 2024, painted March 20, 2024, 12" x 9" (w x h), Daniel Smith, Schmincke Horadam, and Winsor & Newton watercolors, selected for light fastness and permanence on 140 lbs. Fabriano Artistico cold press rough 100% cotton extra white watercolor paper, framed.
$400

Art of Yellow Tulips Part I of II

The Art of Yellow Tulips
Part I of II

A blooming collection as seen and painted by artists
from various centuries, various countries,
various backgrounds and both genders.

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Parrot Tulips and Leaves Design
Arthur Ewart Brown (1906-1981) British, Scottish
Gouache on off-white laid paper, 12" x 19"(w x h), 1933
Gift of Dr. Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, MA, 1934,
who was Director of the MFA Boston for 33 years.
The Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Source various online:
Arthur Ewart Brown was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1906 and completed his journey through life in London, England in 1981. He painted botanical art, four originals in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums.

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Illumination
Heidi Woodhead, Australian
Oil on canvas, 48" x 48" (w x h), 2023
$6,000 AUD / $3,900 USD, sold, private collection
Handmark Gallery, Hobart, Australia

Source various, Handmark, Artist website, and more:
Heidi Woodhead, a photo-realist oil painter, trained and worked as a forensic crime scene examiner with the Tasmanian Police Force for 11 years. She gained an eye for detail, and an understanding of the shades of life and the fleeting nature of beauty, themes she explores in her art. "I return to floral and botanical themes because I see them as a metaphor for life: exquisite, but often imperfect beauty that is impermanent, transient, tenuous. I strive to capture that beauty before it decays, and to find the glimmer of light in the darkness." Heidi is a self-taught artist, exhibiting since 1998. She lives in South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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Yellow Tulips
Alex Katz (1927- ) American
Silkscreen, Limited Edition of 50, 77" x 48" (w x h), 2014

Source Wiki edited:
Alex Katz's 50 edition screenprint was made in 2014. It's based on his Tulips 4, 16" x 10" (w x h), his huge oil painting painted by him when he was 86 years-old. It's in the collection of MOMA, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. It's huge size is typical of Alex Katz. He is well known for his large paintings, whose bold simplicity and heightened colors are considered as precursors to Pop Art. Since 1951, his work has been the subject of more than 200 solo exhibitions and nearly 500 group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally.

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Still Life of Tulips
Poul Nielsen (1920-1998) Danish
Oil on canvas, 28" x 23" (w x h), 1954
$6,000, Charish, San Francisco

Source Charish edited:
Poul Nielsen first studied painting at the Freiberg Technical School in Germany. After WWII he studied at the Danish Royal Academy of Art in Copenhagen. He subsequently painted and studied throughout Europe and, later, as his palette continued to lighten, spent more time in Egypt and Greece. Nielsen exhibited widely with success and was the recipient of many medals, prizes and juried awards. His works are held in private and public collections including the Oddsherreds Art Museum, Asnae, Denmark.

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Yellow Tulips in a Tall Vase
Gary Bukovnik (1947- ) American
Watercolor on paper, 22" x 30" (w x h), 2018
Private collection

Source artist website and Steven Scott Gallery edited:
Born and educated in Cleveland, Gary Bukovnik has lived in San Francisco for more the last thirty ply years. Primarily using watercolor, monotype, and lithograph, he creates floral and culinary images. Bukovnik's watercolors and monotypes are the subject of a book by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1990. The New York Metropolitan Opera commissioned him to create a poster commemorating their 1990-91 season. In the early 2000s he was Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome was an artist-in-residence at the Michigan Institute of Arts in Kalamazoo in 2010.
        Bukovnik's work is in public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Brooklyn Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; the Library of Congress; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
        Solo exhibitions of Bukovnik's work have been mounted by the Brooklyn Museum, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, and the Gallery at Lincoln Center, New York, among others.

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Tulips (Flower Study)
Myra Butterworth (1899-2002) American
Watercolor with graphite on wove paper, 9" x12" (w x h), 1933
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Source various edited (listed in at the National Gallery as no know biography for artists in the collection):
Myra Butterworth Newswanger (1899-2002) of Philadelphia was an accomplished artist, her style compared to Mary Cassatt. Her art is in collections of the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, and the national Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. She was married to Vernon Kiehl Newswanger (1901- 1980) from Fairfield, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, known for Amish theme painting. Although the Newswangers' talent took them around the world, they returned to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania where their family lived since the 1700's. Their son, Christian (Xtian) Newswanger, who turned down scholarships to Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania to study art with his father, a professor at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, later, received a prestigious Fulbright scholarship to study at the National Art Academy in Dusseldorf, Germany.

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Yellow Tulips
Le Pho (1907-2001) Vietnamese
Oil on canvas, 29" x 21" (w x h), 1998 in Paris
Sotheby's 2021 Hong Kong auction
sold $945,000 HKD / $121,000 USD

Source: Wiki edited:
Le Pho (1907-2001) was a Vietnamese painter. From 1925 until 1930, Le Pho studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Hanoi. He earned a scholarship to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he studied for the next two years under the instruction of Victor Tardieu, a friend and companion of Henri Matisse. Upon returning to Vietnam he taught at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.
        In 1937 he gave up his professorship to return to Paris as a part of the International Exposition in Paris as both a delegate and a member of the exposition's jury. In 1938, he had his first one-man show in Paris, a show which marked the beginning of his successful artistic career in Europe. He would go on to show his art across France in Paris, Nice, Lyon, and Rouen, as well as in Morocco, Brussels in Europe, and in New York.

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Tulips
Victoria Huntley (1900-1971) American
Color lithograph, 10" x 13" (w x h), 1931
Printed by George C. Miller (American, 1894-1965)

Source Wiki edited:
Victoria Ebbels Hutson Huntley (1900-1971) was an American artist, and printmaker. She grew up in New York City, and studied at the New York School of Fine and Applied Art and the Art Students League of New York. She was awarded First Prize in Lithography in the International Graphic Art Show at the Chicago Art Institute. In 1933 her lithograph, Koppers Coke, was awarded First Prize in Lithography in the National Exhibition of the Philadelphia Print Club.
        She taught at the Birch Wathen Lenox School, a college prep school in Manhattan, from 1934 to 1942. Later in the 1940s she was Resident Artist at the Pomfret School college prep school in Connecticut. In 1939, she painted a mural, The Packet Sails from Greenwich, at the post office in Greenwich, Connecticut, and another, Fiddler's Green, in Springville, New York as part of the Treasury Section of Fine Arts.
        Her papers are held at the Archives of American Art. In 1942 she was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Associate Academician. Her work is represented in the New York Public Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Chicago Art Institute, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum.