Expressionism Oil Painting By Demetrius Pol.
Colourful expressionistic landscape of the artist: brother Demetrius Pol .A nice example of his works.
The painting has a canvas size of 31. 4 W x 23 H. inches

Colorful abstracted portrait by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). Bold colors and dripping paint create an expressive, dynamic composition. The figure is primarily in warm colors – orange, red, and peach – against a cool, dark background of purple and black.

Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist’s work.
Presented in a new light grey mat.
No frame.
Mat size: 30″H x 24″W
Paper size: 24″H x 18″W

Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century) is a San Francisco Abstract Expressionist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and exhibited at the Bergen Artists Guild in New Jersey.

Large Scale Bay Area Figurative Inspired — The Young Trumpet Player

Compelling Bay Area Figurative Movement inspired painting of a young trumpet player, circa 1990. Unsigned. Unframed.

The Bay Area Figurative Movement (also known as the Bay Area Figurative School, Bay Area Figurative Art, Bay Area Figuration, and similar variations) was a mid-20th Century art movement made up of a group of artists in the San Francisco Bay Area who abandoned working in the prevailing style of Abstract Expressionism in favor of a return to figuration in painting during the 1950s and onward into the 1960s. Spanning two decades, this art movement is often broken down into three groups, or generations: the First Generation, the Bridge Generation, and the Second Generation.

Many of the “First Generation” artists in this movement were avid fans of Abstract Expressionism, and worked in that manner, until several of them abandoned non-objective painting in favor of working with the figure. Among these First Generation Bay Area Figurative School artists were: David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Rex Ashlock, Elmer Bischoff, Glenn Wessels, Wayne Thiebaud, Raimonds Staprans, and James Weeks.

The “Bridge Generation” included the artists: Henrietta Berk, Nathan Oliveira, Theophilus Brown, Paul Wonner, Roland Petersen, John Hultberg, and Frank Lobdell.

Many “Second Generation” artists of this movement studied under the First Generation artists, or were late starters. Among these Second Generation artists were: Bruce McGaw, Henry Villierme, Joan Brown, Manuel Neri, and Robert Qualters.

Many Bay Area schools and institutions were important to the development and refinement of this art movement, including the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of Arts and Crafts, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Marshes and trees in Summer colors by an American (signature illegible) artist. Circa 1970s. Reminiscent of the Florida Highwaymen style. Ruby Velvet liner on a gold painted frame.
Image 20″H x 30″W
Frame,26.5″H x 36″W x 2″D

Frame is very good but included as-is.

Abstracted portrait of a renaissance era woman by Sonia Gichner (20th Century). This piece is painted with splashes of bright colors, contrasting nicely with skin tones and black lines. Textured medium has been added to the paint, creating depth in isolated areas. The woman is looking to the right side of the composition, and appears to be wearing a corset and some kind of head covering.

Signed and dated in the lower left corner (“Sonia Gichner 1989”)
Frame size: 24.75″H x 20.5″W
Canvas size: 24″H x 19.75″W

Stately still life of terra cotta pottery by A. Peterson. Five pieces of pottery sit atop a table with a tablecloth. Each piece of pottery is decorated with ornate patterns, mostly in a floral theme. The pieces are dark orange-red, with green, yellow, and blue patterns. Some of the pottery has impasto texture, adding depth to the piece.

Signed “A. Peterson” in the upper left corner.
Signed “Peterson” on verso.
Presented in a wood frame with a linen liner.
Frame size: 19.5″H x 22.5″W
Canvas size: 16″H x 20″W

Portrait of Man San Francisco Bay Area Figurative Movement

Figurative portrait of a man by San Francisco artist Peter Witwer (American, 1928-1968). Unsigned from a collection of his work. Provenance estate of Peter Witwer, Lost Art Solon.

Image 32″H x 26″W
Frame, 32.5″H x 26.5″W x 1.75″D

Posthumous show of the artists work exhibit card on verso.

Born George Peter Witwer on September 6th, 1928, Peter was the son of a prominent real estate developer in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He attended school in New York City in the late 1940s and moved West in 1958 a part of San Francisco’s emerging gay scene.
While living in New York from 1945-1958, Witwer was a contemporary of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Hans Hoffman and witnessed their massive influence on Post WWII painting first hand. Shortly after Witwer’s arrival to San Francisco in 1958, he exhibited alongside David Park and Elmer Bischoff in the 1959 California Painters’ Annual at the Oakland Art Museum, where the first exhibition of Bay Area Figurative painting took place in 1957. The 1957 show, entitled “Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting” also included seminal works by Richard Diebenkorn, James Weeks, Bruce McGaw and Paul Wonner.
Peter Witwer would never achieve the recognition of the afore mentioned artists. In fact, he spent his life in relative obscurity, working during the day at the Rincon Post Office and City of Paris department store, and painting at night in the studio of his apartment on Waller Street in the Haight. In spite of this, his recently uncovered body of work brilliantly reflects two of the most important art movements of the last 60 years. The collection showcases a newly-discovered artist working on the leading edge of contemporary painting during his time.
Within the Witwer collection, several distinct art movements can be seen. Works from 1961-1963 period show a strong tendency towards the New York school of Abstract Expressionism (Hans Hoffman, Jackson Pollock and others). Highly textured Colour-Field pieces from this early 60s period also reflect the influence of the European Décollage artists that tore into built-up surfaces to reveal the shreds of paper below. Witwer experimented with plaster-like compounds for sculpting under the surface of paintings; house paints; textile and found object collage; and large-scale canvases. As his work progressed through the 1960s, the paintings take-on distinct qualities of the Bay Area Figurative movement. These works merge the human form with painterly abstraction, drawing strong comparisons to the art of his contemporaries, David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Manuel Neri and Nathan Oliveira.
In the Fall of 1968 Peter Witwer was shot dead as he walked home through his Haight Ashbury neighborhood. Since then, his life’s work of nearly a hundred finished paintings has been in hiding for four decades. Reflecting the dynamic evolution of American Mid-Century painting from the Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s/50s into the Bay Area Figurative movement of the 1950s/60s Witwer’s work is a spectacular timeline of the Bay Area art scene.

Gorgeous mid-century Sierra Mountains with lake and Redwoods landscape is by Southern California artist Elizabeth Hubbell (American, 1905-1999), c.1960. Signed lower left. Presented in rustic giltwood frame. Image size: 25″H x 30″W. Framed size: 26″H x 29.50″W x 2″D.

Elizabeth Hubbell was a California artist with a 60 year career who was noted for her landscapes. Elizabeth and her daughter Patricia were excellent artists and Elizabeth was noted for her Redwood tree paintings.

Vintage landscape of a small town back street with cobblestone road and rails that could be any town in America by Jon Nielson (American, 20th Century), 1972.
Signed and dated lower right.
Presented in painted wood frame with linen fillet with tonal aging. Image size: 24″h x 30″W

An exceptionally well done antique oil painting “Portrait of Betsy” by Japanese American artist, active in Massachusetts, Kanji (Kanzi) Nakamura (1887-1932). He was known for portraits. His works are included in the Museums of Fine Art Boston and Harvard Art Museums. Oil on canvas. Signed. This particular piece has extensive gallery & exhibition information on the back. There is a very old auction tag that it dark and hard to read and one that has been mostly torn off. The remaining paper is a card that reads “Oil Paintings Modern, Barbizon, and Old Masters from the Estate of Mrs. Nathan L. Amster Sold by Order of Leonard and James Amster and from others”. There is also a partial page of a gallery catalog that shows that this painting was exhibited alongside a Pablo Picasso. Framed behind glass in a gorgeous gilt wood frame. Wire hanger on the back. The U.S.A., circa 1920s. Excellent condition of the artwork, some loss to the gilt on the frame.

Frame 12.52″W x 1.95″D x 14″H
Painting 7″W x 9″H