Anton Weiss (Yugoslavia/Tennessee, 1936-2019) acrylic on canvas expressionist winter landscape painting likely set in Middle Tennessee, 1970. Two red-roofed buildings reflect onto a pond from behind a stand of leafless trees and before a distant mountain range, 1970. With both pallette-knife and brushwork along with passages of impasto throughout. Signed and dated lower right. Housed in a metallic frame […]

Cornelius Haly Hankins (Mississippi/Tennessee, 1863-1946) oil on canvas still life painting depicting a basket of fruit, nuts and nutcracker beside a frosted fruitcake and a bottle of wine, set against a dark, indistinct background. Signed “Cornelius Hankins” lower right and dated “Xmas 1897”. Housed in a giltwood Aesthetic Movement style frame. Sight: 23 1/2 in H x 15 […]

Carl Gutherz or Guthers (Tennessee/Missouri, 1844-1907) oil on canvas painting, “Man with Cyclamens,” 1889. A bearded gardener stands in a greenhouse filled with red, pink, and white flowering plants, 1889. He wears a straw hat and blue work coat with overalls and smokes a pipe while he examines a potted plant. Signed, dated, and inscribed “Paris,” lower […]

James Guy Evans (American / Louisiana, 1809/10-1859) oil on canvas maritime painting titled “The Eleanor Jane… in a Stiff Blow Near Cape Henry [Virginia]” depicting the ship in choppy waters heading into a dark storm cloud. Flags flying from the masts include an American ensign. Other unidentified vessels are visible in the distance. Signed “Evans […]

Portrait miniature attrib. to Isaac Brownfield Alexander (South Carolina, 1812-1884), watercolor on paper, depicting a middle-aged man with dark hair and high forehead seated on a chair and wearing a dark blue suit and tie with printed vest, gold pin and white shirt. Indistinct background. Signed lower right “I.B. Alexander Pt”. Hand-painted oval border, with the sheet housed […]

John Adams Spelman (Minnesota/Illinois, 1880-1941) impressionistic oil on canvas fall landscape painting titled “In the Alleganies” and depicting a view of the Allegany Mountains from a valley with a large, open field and homestead in the fore- and middle-ground and the mountains under a blue sky in the background. Signed and dated “Spelman, 1917” lower right. Additionally […]

Noel Rockmore (New York/New Orleans,1928-1995) oil on masonite portrait of trumpet musician Andrew Anderson, from Rockmore’s Preservation Hall series of paintings. Illustrated under the entry for Andrew Anderson in “Preservation Hall Portraits: Paintings by Noel Rockmore” by Larry Borenstein and Bill Russell, Louisiana State University, 1968 (no page numbers). Simple woodgrain frame with linen mat. […]