Jon Blanchette

Autumn Trees, Mid Century Fall Landscape with Orange & Earthtones

1969

Vibrant miniature seascape by Kathleen Murray (American, b. 1958). Signed in lower right corner. Unframed. Image, 8"H x 6"W. Kathleen Murray (American, b. 1958) was born in Los Ange...

Gorgeous winter landscape of trees along a stream in the snow in upstate New York by Virginia H. Cahill (American, 20th Century). Signed and titled "Near Springville, N.Y., 1967" and...

Beautiful plein air landscape of an old Mendocino country house by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Signed "Jon Blanchette" lower right. Presented in a giltwood ...

Wonderful mid century California landscape of Clear Lake's Mount Konocti by Margaret E. Rogers (American, 1872-1961), c.1940. Signed "M.E. Rogers lower right. Titled "Konocti (Clear Lake)", signed "Margaret E. Rogers" on verso. Unframed. Image: 12"H x 18"W. Margaret was one of the original "Jolly Daubers" with Cor DeGavere, Leonora Penniman and Louise Cunningham, Santa Cruz Art League Founding Members. She studied with Frank Heath on many wagon trips to Big Basin...

Beautiful mid-century pastoral landscape by California artist A. Wheeling a 1930s-40s Los Angeles area artist (American, 20th Century). A small house on a dirt road is nestled among yellow grasses and green eucalyptus trees, under the majestic purple San Gabriel Mountains in this classic Southern California landscape scene. In the style of Dana Bartlett...

Beautiful pastoral landscape of an old barn on a country lane by twins Ruth and Rachel McLaughlin (American, b.1932). Signed and dated "Ruth, Rache...

Guy C. Wiggins (1883 - 1962) Locomotive Train in Snowstorm, 1957 Oil on paperboard 8 x 10 inches Signed lower left; signed and dated on the reverse Guy Carleton Wiggins is best known for his impressionistic snow scenes of New York in 1920's. Wiggins lived in Old Lyme and Essex where he operated an art school. The Connecticut country-side was conducive to his impressionist technique of plein-air painting and broken brushwork.  Ironically, although his work includes many fine Connecticut landscapes, he is best remembered for some snow scenes of New York City. Like many other American Impressionists, Wiggins had one foot in the city and the other in the country (Vermont Hillside, South Londonderry).  Wiggins was born in Brooklyn, New York, went to England with his family as a boy, received an English grammar school education, and traveled widely abroad. He was the son of a prominent artist, Carleton Wiggins, a painter in the Barbizon style who studied with George Inness and admired Anton Mauve and Dwight Tryon...

A stunning and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City winter scenes depicting Saint Paul's Chapel in the snow. It was built in 1766 as the chapel building of Trinit...

A wonderful depiction of an Autumn landscape in Kent, Connecticut from the Mid-20th Century with puffed trees by the country side. For this beautiful depiction, we find distinct elements that are unique to the earlier works of George Lawrence...

An impressionistic depiction of a figure in the snow with cars and buildings in the busy City Streets. The Empire State Building is portrayed in the background as the snow filled str...

A stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City scenes. Here we find a Central Park pathway at night and the Manhattan buildings depicted in the far bac...

Henry Charles Hannig (1883 - 1948) The Green Parasol Oil on canvas mounted on board 6 x 7 3/4 inches Provenance: R.H. Love Galleries, Chicago, Illinois Private Collection, Lake Orion, Michigan Hannig, born in Hirschberg, Germany on 27 February 1883, came to America with his parents at the age of seven. He attended school in the southwest suburbs before the family settled in Chicago. Young Henry enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts where Lawton Parker became his mentor. He made ends meet by working in industrial design and illustration. By 1908 he was a pupil in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where students followed the traditional European drawing curriculum, beginning with the copying of master engravings and drawing after plaster casts, then concentrating on the nude figure. Students worked toward the goal of winning various academic prizes. One of Hannig's fellow students was Louis Ritman...