Gratz Gallery and Conservation Studio is again partnering with Invaluable.com to ring in the spring season with its fourth annual Fine American Paintings Sale and Live Online Auction event, beginning at noon Sunday, March 21.
The sale will present almost 100 lots of fine art by American and European artists. Included are a wide selection of impressionist, realist, folk art, modern, abstract and surrealist art, decorative art, as well as a few unknown treasures and gems.
Works included in the sale reflect a wide spectrum of American art genres, from 18th, 19th and 20th centuries’ Hudson River style and American Impressionism, all the way to 20th and 21st centuries’ contemporary and modern art.
Some of the highlights represented are a rare Pennsylvania landscape by famed furniture designer Wharton Esherick, “Kaaterskill Falls,” a landscape by Hudson River painter John Frederick Kensett, an elegant, environmental female portrait by Charles Courtney Curran, and impressionist landscapes by John Pierce Barnes, Emile Gruppe, and Henry Snell.
Included also are bold and colorful autumn foliage paintings by S. George Phillips and classic Bucks County winter snow scenes by Walter Emerson Baum. The sale offers a greatly varied selection of paintings, etchings and drawings of all mediums.
Also included in this sale are paintings by Philadelphia artists and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts students and teachers like surrealist Leon Kelly, abstract painter Leonard Nelson and African American painter Bernard Harmon, who created vibrant, large scale, expressionist portraits of friends and students.
A special cross section of paintings in various mediums is included of the very prolific painter and Pennsylvania Academy student, Albert Van Nesse Greene. It was at the Academy that he studied under and was greatly influenced by the noted Pennsylvania impressionist Daniel Garber.
Last but not least the sale is highlighting a fine collection of paintings by American folk artist David Ellinger, whose life and connection to rural Pennsylvania produced a quintessential representation of Pennsylvania Dutch family and farm life in his works. Visit the Gratz Gallery website for a full auction catalogue link.
This is an online exclusive auction, held in cooperation with the auction platform Invaluable.com. Interested bidders must register and place bids with the gallery’s online auction collaborators. Invaluable.com allows for both absentee and live real-time online bidding. For added convenience, download the Invaluable app to your smart phone. Floor bids are accepted by telephone only.
In-person preview opportunities at Gratz Gallery and Conservation Studio in Doylestown are by appointment only.
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