Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Arthur G Rider - American


The Spanish Boat


Bringing in the Boats

Checking the Traps 18 x 24 inches

Rider painted these scenes in Spain. the curve of sails and hulls creates great visual interest.

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Jack Wilkinson Smith


Summer Seas 17 x 15 inches
J. Smith 1873 - 1949

Batavia Shipwreck - Engraving





Interesting compositions for oil painting

Monday, August 11, 2008

Ralph Feyl - American, contemporary


12 x 16 inches


Gullrock, 8 x 10 inches


Late Afternoon Light, 20 x 24 inches

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Gerhard Richter


Seascape 2m x 2m 1969

Thomas Birch - American 1779-1851


Shipwreck, 1829. Oil on canvas,
27 3/16 x 39 1/16 inches (69 x 99.2 cm).
Brooklyn Museum



Andre Gisson


12 x 16 inches

Edward Hopper - American


The Bootleggers

Groundswell


Hopper doesn't capture water as well as he does buildings, but his paintings have a wonderfully unified style, an iconic simplicity, and a sense of heightened reality.

Mauritz F.H. de Haas


The Coast of Maine

Montague Dawson


Night Suspect, 40 x 50 Inches

Frank Harmon Myers - American 1899 - 1959


California Coast, 16 x 20 inches



The Golden Path, 24 x 30 inches, circa 1940's

Sunday, August 3, 2008

John Beard - Australian


Wynne landscape prize winner 2006
(probably oil on canvas)

Neil Taylor - Australia


Acrylic on Canvas, 137 x 168 cm, $16, 000


North Coogee, Acrylic on Canvas 61 x 92 cm




Neil uses Acrylic, not oil, but his work has wonderful
poetic, abstract qulaities.

Saturday, August 2, 2008