Henry Martin Gasser

Henry Gasser Watercolor Italian Subject Venice

Beautiful gouache of the shoreline by Dutch artist Gerard Hordyk (Hordijk) 1899-1958. The work is in excellent condition with strong bright color and is signed lower right. Bathers c...

Unframed watercolor painting by Russian/New York artist David Burliuk (1882-1967) Beautiful vivid color, in excellent condition and signed lower left. Inscribed and dated 1947 on the...

Early Watercolor of West Palm Beach by Southern Woman Artist Grace Martin (Frame) Taylor. The work is in excellent condition and nicely framed under glass. Painting measures 11"h x 14"w. The frame is 19 5/8"h and 22"w. The watercolor is signed and dated lower left and also titled and dated in graphite as well. Grace Martin Frame Taylor (1903-1995), a native of Morgantown, West Virginia, launched a nearly forty-year affiliation with the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts, now part of the University of Charleston in West Virginia. In 1921, Taylor enrolled at the University of West Virginia in her hometown; disappointed by the art curriculum, however, she left after just one year to attend the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She returned to the University of West Virginia in 1924 to finish her bachelor’s degree, selecting English as her major, with an emphasis on journalism; she eventually earned a master’s degree there in 1929. Following her graduation, Taylor went to Provincetown, Massachusetts, and renewed her interest in art under the guidance of her distant cousin Blanche Lazzell. Both Provincetown and Lazzell had gained a significant reputation for a particular kind of color woodblock printmaking known as the white line method. Grace Taylor embraced this approach wholeheartedly; for twenty-eight summers she returned to Provincetown to advance her printmaking skills with Lazzell and Heinrich Pfeiffer. In the ensuing decades, she also studied under Hans Hofmann whom she called her “very favorite modern master.” Taylor traveled to other destinations to further her education. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, she spent time at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh; closer to home, she studied at the Old White Art Colony in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and took lessons in portraiture in the capital city of Charleston...

Original watercolor on paper, circa late 1940's by Lowell D. Houser (1902-1971). Subject: Cuba. Framed and in excellent condition. Signed lower left. Measures 10 x 17 inches. Frame ...

Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1980. Hand signed lower left. Date on rear, Excellent condition.

Emilio Sanchez was born in Camagüey, Cuba in 1921. He began his artistic training at the Art Students League in 1944 when he moved to New York City where he lived until he died in 19...

Venice is an amazing colored watercolor on paper realized in the early years of the XX century by the Italian artist, Antonio Guidotti (1881-1958). Signed in black ink on lower left margin. This modern artwork representing the most famous square of Venice Piazza San Marco...

Watercolor on heavy paper realized by Carlo Ravagnan in 1974. Hand signed lower right. Date on rear. Excellent condition. Carlo Ravagnan was born in Udine on September 4, 1911, di...