item name: Still Life With Pineapple Signed By Edwin Steele

item description:

Still Life with Pineapple signed Steel; probably Edwin Steele, British artist 1837-1898. Oil on canvas; 24 inches x 20 inches. Steele was known to sign his name without the final "e". The canvas was relined many years ago and is in good condition, recently cleaned and varnished.

Dimensions: Canvas Dimensions
24" H X 20" W
61cm H X 50.8cm W

item name: Storm On the Coast of Maine By Frederick Ferdinand Schafer (1839-1927)

item description:

Oil on canvas, painted ca. 1880, in fine period frame. Signed lower right. Titled by the artist on the reverse. Schafer was born and trained in Germany and came to America in 1876. He traveled in the Northeast then settled in California. During the following fifty years Schafer became one of the leading artists of the American West. His work is in many leading public collections, including the Seattle Art Museum, the Crocker Art Museum and the Oakland Museum of California. In good condition, recently cleaned and varnished.

Dimensions: Outer Dimensions - Frame
20" H X 30" W
50.8cm H X 76.2cm W

Image Dimensions
11.5" H X 21.5" W
29.2cm H X 54.6cm W

item name: French Farmhouse in Twilight

item description:

Although unsigned, this painting is clearly the work of an accomplished artist, as seen in the treatment of the stones in the wall, the spots of red in the flowering hedge, and the carefully observed diffuse light. Most likely a scene from around one of the art colonies in Brittany or Normandy that were popular with French and American painters, although there is an element of the Munich School in this picture.

Dimensions: Canvas Dimensions
15" H X 18" W
38.1cm H X 45.7cm W

Frame Dimensions
20" H X 23" W
50.8cm H X 58.4cm W

item name: Sailboats On the Hudson River: A Sandpaper Painting

item description: New York State, mid 19th century. Gouache on "sandpaper" ground. One of two pictures from the same hand in our collection, this view shows small sailboats in the middle distance on a placid river. The muted palette is typical of the popular "sandpaper" technique in which the painting is done on a panel prepared with marble powder mixed into the gesso. Some of these pictures were based on prints of the time, although no print source has yet been found for this picture. In original gilt frame and glass. Provenance: From a Schenectady estate.

Dimensions: Overall Dimensions - Image
8" H X 10.5" W
20.32cm H X 26.67cm W

Overall Dimensions - Frame
12" H X 14.5" W
30.48cm H X 36.83cm W