Antique English folk art painting of a little girl wearing a large feathered hat riding her large dog. Titled "Little Jockey" at lower right. Oil on canvas. Frame measures 17.25 x 15 inches.
Joichi Hoshi (1913-1979) wood cut print of a turquoise blue tree on a gold leaf ground, 1973. The gold leaf frame measures 17.5 x 17.75 inches and the print measures 9.5 x 9.75 inches. Excellent condition. Signed and numbered. Joichi Hoshi had worked as a teacher in Taiwan for 13 years. With the end of World War II the Japanese occupation of Taiwan ended (Taiwan had come to Japan at the end of the Sino-Japanese war of 1894/95). Joichi Hoshi returned to Japan in 1946 and began to study oil painting at Musashino College of Fine Arts. When he graduated he was nearly 50 years old. In the early 1970s the artist began to specialize in images of trees. This is what he is most famous for. Collections: Tokyo Museum of Modern Art, Japan. Also: • Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA. • National Museum of Far Eastern Art, Berlin, Germany. • Art Institute of Chicago, IL, USA. • Haifa Museum, Israel. • Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
Antique oil on board painting of a man blowing soap bubbles for a fascinated little boy. This is probably a student copy of the 1735 original work by French artist Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, who painted 3 versions of this scene. The first version hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the other two are in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the National Gallery. Canvas measures 16 x 20 inches. Frame measures 18.75 by 22.75 inches. Excellent condition circa 1910-20.
American artist A. Bross, Jr. (1922-2013) landscape oil painting on rag paper titled "Toward the Gap". Signed at lower right. The frame measures 8 x 10 inches and the painting measures 4 x 6 inches. Excellent condition. Known for his land and seascapes, Albert Bross, Jr. is a painter from New Jersey. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with Frank V. DuMond and George Bridgman and exhibited at the Newark Museum, the Hudson Valley Art Association, the Montclair Museum of New Jersey and the Springfield Museums, MA. He was a life member of the Art Students League and a member of the Hudson Valley Art Association and the Academy of Artists.
Charming ink and watercolor of four roosters, signed at lower right Audrey Swanson. The frame is 12.5 x 16 inches, and the image is 7.5 x 10.5 inches.