Original Art from the Grand Age of American Illustration
With irreverent humor, this original oil-on-board painting shows a horned satyr smoking a pipe distracted from his reading by a nude figure in the foreground. Dating to 1929-1930, when Ovid’s Ars amatoria was in the news quite a bit, with the city of San Francisco’s ban of the Ars amatoria in 1929 and its legalization for […]
Artist: Gaspano "Gus" Ricca
A very well executed WPA in aesthetic moody tonalist 1930s to early 1940s fine art oil painting by the Lithuanian-American artist Jack Levitz. The artist was a Jewish immigrant who settled in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens. Levitz’s Social Realist/Ashcan School style recalls George Luks and Everett Shinn. This oil on masonite painting shows a New […]
Artist: Jack Levitz
