Psychedelic Bucolic Paint By Numbers
Summer Scenes by the Art Award Company (#5KKK). Although it seems improbably psychedelic the colors this is painted with are likely the colors this set was actually shipped with, thereby turning the...
View ArticleSweet Set Of Six Antique Berry Bowls
This is a stunning set of berry bowls. The paint on a couple is a little faded but overall the decorations are fresh and bright and very well executed. I told the donor this and they tried to talk me...
View ArticleModern ‘Outsider’ Abstract Art
This item was donated to us by the artist, Kandy Ratz, and it is signed on the back. Her work is characterized by combining heavy drip and splatter work with visual and textural elements reminiscent...
View ArticleVintage / Antique Kutani Bowl
We were told this Kutani (Japan) bowl was from ‘around’ 1900. Since the bottom is only marked with the Kutani mark we’ve no way of knowing how much ‘around’ there is. My guess is that around is a...
View ArticleA Feline Bo Derek Meets The Reagan Years
An example of late 1970′s or early 1980′s mod-pop art giant-ism* in a mass-produced piece sometimes known as the ‘resting’ or ‘lounging’ cat. Supposedly the original painting was by Antoinette...
View ArticleMatthew Brzostoski Fish
Second piece by Matthew Brzostoski in recent times. Last time it was an apple, this time a fish. It’s sort of surprising that we’d get two pieces by the same east coast artist but that’s the nature of...
View ArticleLusterware Tea Set
Vintage Japanese lusterware* tea set consisting of a tea pot with lid, cream pitcher, lidded sugar bowl and four cups with saucers. It is decorated with an unusual pattern including Mt. Fuji, bamboo...
View ArticleThe Eye Of Ian
There have been two responses to this work: Creepy! or Cool! It is signed IY on the front, and Ian on the back. I’m presuming that Ian was the artist who painted it. Approximately 8 inches by 10...
View ArticleError 404 File Not Found
Lovesick automaton seeks same for binary interface? 11 inches by 21 inches. Illegibly signed. In good condition. Click to view slideshow. Filed under: $16-$20, 21st century, AVAILABLE!, Contemporary,...
View ArticleTo Whit, To Who
A slightly pot-bellied owl contemplates winter and wonders where that belly fat came from. Were there really that many mice? Is this one of the perils of sedentism? This vintage unsigned, hand painted...
View ArticleAntique Fish Plates & Fish Platter
Well [expletive intentionally left out]! I’m torn by these plates and the platter. They’re old, well done and all but three of the plates have some sort of damage. The damage ranges from small chips...
View ArticleAntique Butterfly Plates
Now these are pretty neat. We have 11 of these antique plates, each is hand-painted and features a butterfly amidst foliage. They did a decent job and the painter signed each plate R. Seifert. They...
View ArticleTrippy 1970′s Art
Dated 1970 this is signed by our favorite artist “Illegible”. So, it will have to stand (hang) in its artistic merits alone. There is the image of a hand with some sort of frothy thing going on and an...
View ArticleAntique Hand Painted Bowl With Roses
Painted and signed by Minna Moeller in 1909. We’re not totally sure but it seems like there’s an even chance this is possibly the same Minna Moeller that lived at 116 N 13th St Harrisburg PA in 1904...
View Article‘Pinion Ridge’
Original acrylic painting by Douglas Campbell Smith of Bend, Oregon. Measures about 14 inches by 14 inches and it is signed and dated (1979) on both front and back. In excellent condition. Click to...
View Article“Jack In The Pulpit”
Ain’t that clever? Late 1990′s theo-comic art by Lynn Charles Foster, formerly of Oregon and now a landscape painter in Vermont. About 30 inches by 36 inches in frame. Click to view slideshow.Filed...
View ArticleThe Fly
The average airspeed of the common house fly is 4.5 miles per hour and it buzzes in the key of F. An original painting, signed D R which measures 4 inches by 4 inches and depicts a very handsome...
View ArticleAbstract Painting By Bob Hunt
Here’s an interesting almost landscape-like abstract painting. It is signed in the lower left corner R. Hunt which initially led to the question of which R. Hunt . . . we removed the back and there...
View ArticlePeriscope Perspective
Unusual original marine art work. Great for the sailor who has everything? It measures 16 inches by 20 inches and is unsigned. Filed under: $16-$20, 20th century, 21st century, AVAILABLE!, Eclectic,...
View ArticleThe Smoked Cisco By Phyllis Wiener / Ames / Downs
Original vintage painting by Phyllis Wiener, but from the period between 1939 and 1961 when she signed her work as Phyllis Downs. Wiener was an early and important painter in the abstract art scene in...
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