item name: Pair of Realist Still Life By Artist Eliot Candee Clarke [1883-1980]

item description: American born artist who was the son of impressionist landscape painter Walter Clark [1848-1917]. Studied at the Art Students League under John Twachtman (a family friend), under his father, and in Paris in 1904-1906. Eliot Candee Clark taught at the Art Student's League in New York City and New York City College. The pair of paintings are from his studies in Paris (both 1904). The paintings where sold by Clark's family directly and are not signed. the still life are typical period studies for students learning to newly paint (he was 21 when he painted these) and he kept them his whole life to remember his early Paris studies. Most of his later work was of landscape. both paintings have been completely restored, They were relined previously. The paintings have been claned and re-varnished as part of the new restoration.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - unframed (each)
12" H X 8.5" W
30.5cm H X 21.6cm W

price: $5,600

item name: Toys From Japan: Meiji Wood Block Prints

item description: Rare set of wood block prints illustrating Omocha, toys, from the Meiji period. These toys were more than playthings for children. Many were derived from amulets with symbolic content rooted in Japanese folklore.in 1887 Shimizu Seifu (1851-1913) founded the "Hobbyhorse Club" dedicated to "the merry and nostalgic enjoyment of children's toys". Seifu, who was an artist, a wealthy trader and a student of Japanese folklore, assembled a large collection of children's toys and published a series of books cataloging his collection. The series, Unai no tomo (The Child's Friends), numbered ten volumes, six by Seifu and four by the painter Nishizawa Tekiho (1889 - 1965). The prints shown here are from the first edition of volume 6, printed in Kyoto in 1891. Presented in museum mats and ebonized ash frames with non-reflective conservation glass.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
13" H X 10" W
33cm H X 25.4cm W

Overall Dimensions
8" H X 5.75" W
20.3cm H X 14.6cm W

price: $475

item name: Toys From Japan: Meiji Wood Block Prints

item description: Rare set of wood block prints illustrating Omocha, toys, from the Meiji period. These toys were more than playthings for children. Many were derived from amulets with symbolic content rooted in Japanese folklore.in 1887 Shimizu Seifu (1851-1913) founded the "Hobbyhorse Club" dedicated to "the merry and nostalgic enjoyment of children's toys". Seifu, who was an artist, a wealthy trader and a student of Japanese folklore, assembled a large collection of children's toys and published a series of books cataloging his collection. The series, Unai no tomo (The Child's Friends), numbered ten volumes, six by Seifu and four by the painter Nishizawa Tekiho (1889 - 1965). The prints shown here are from the first edition of volume 6, printed in Kyoto in 1891. Presented in museum mats and ebonized ash frames with non-reflective conservation glass.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions
8" H X 5.75" W
20.3cm H X 14.6cm W

Overall Dimensions
13" H X 10" W
33cm H X 25.4cm W

price: $475

item name: Toys From Japan: Meiji Wod Block Prints

item description: Rare set of wood block prints illustrating Omocha, toys, from the Meiji period. These toys were more than playthings for children. Many were derived from amulets with symbolic content rooted in Japanese folklore.in 1887 Shimizu Seifu (1851-1913) founded the "Hobbyhorse Club" dedicated to "the merry and nostalgic enjoyment of children's toys". Seifu, who was an artist, a wealthy trader and a student of Japanese folklore, assembled a large collection of children's toys and published a series of books cataloging his collection. The series, Unai no tomo (The Child's Friends), numbered ten volumes, six by Seifu and four by the painter Nishizawa Tekiho (1889 - 1965). The prints shown here are from the first edition of volume 6, printed in Kyoto in 1891. Presented in museum mats and ebonized ash frames with non-reflective conservation glass.

Dimensions: Image Dimensions
8" H X 5.75" W
20.3cm H X 14.6cm W

Overall Dimensions
13" H X 10" W
33cm H X 25.4cm W

price: $475