River Gallery
Fine Art
“Helping Hands Safely Ashore” — John Neville (contemporary)
Oil on canvas, 24″ x 36″, signed lower right, dated 2011.
“Dory Fishermen” — John Neville (contemporary)
Oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″, signed lower right, dated 2010.
“Harvesting, Segovia, 1916” — Ernest Lawson (1873 – 1939)
Oil on canvas, 20″ x 24″, signed lower left.
Born in Nova Scotia, Lawson spent his boyhood in Ontario. In 1890, he went to New York to enroll in the Art Students League and spent time in the summers at Cos Cob, Connecticut, with his friends, the American impressionists John Twachtmann and J. Alden Weir. There, he first painted “en plein air.” read more»
“Saint’s Festival, Chioggia — Venice” — Augustus Koopman (1869 – 1914)
Oil on canvas, 28.25″ x 22.83″, signed lower left. Original frame.
Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Augustus Koopman was a painter and etcher of French and Italian subjects. He lived only 45 years and spent most of his short life in Paris where he was a member of an extensive expatriate community in Montparnasse. He also did much painting of marine and figurative subjects at Etaples, along the coast of Normandy, near the Belgian border. He maintained a studio at Etaples. read more»
“Awaiting Survivors” — Jay Hall Connaway (1893 – 1970)
Jay Hall Connaway (1893-1970). “Awaiting Survivors”. Oil on artist’s board, 16″ x 20″, signed lower right.