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Item Tag: 1950-1959

Josephine “Jo” Burke, California Listed Artist, Oil Painting on Board, 1959

Josephine “Jo” Burke Original Painting – Oil on Board Signed by Artist LR Frame Size: 24.5″ x 20.5″Image Size: 20″ x 16″ Condition: Painting and Frame in Excellent condition $950.00 Josephine “Jo” Burke Born in Sydney, Australia on Sept. 2, 1904. While a resident of San Francisco in the 1920s/ Her married name was Shaw at the time of her demise in Ukiah, CA on Sept. 24, 1985. Member: Calif. Society of Etchers. Exh: San Francisco Art Association, 1925; Women’s City Club (SF), 1929; Calif. Statewide (Santa Cruz), 1931.Edan Hughes, “Artists in California, 1786-1940″Ferdinand Perret Files; Death record.

GODFREY VESELY PLEIN AIR CALIFORNIA IMPRESSIONIST EARLY LANDSCAPE OIL PAINTING

GODFREY VESELY ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS SIGNED BOTTOM RIGHT AND DATED 1959 CONDITION: CANVAS IN GOOD SHAPE MINOR WEAR. FRAME HAS PAINT LOSS AND CHIPS THROUGHOUT. CANVAS 24 BY 30 INCHES FRAME 29 1/4 BY 35 INCHES A plein-air desert and landscape painter of California, Utah, and Arizona, Godfrey Vesely was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States as a child. By 1919, he was in California where he, who was primarily self taught, studied art briefly with Hanson Puthuff and Conrad Richter. During the 1920s and 30s, he lived in Grass Valley and Long Beach and painted in the neighboring state of Arizona.He exhibited primarily in Long Beach and was a member there of the Art Association as well as in Grass Valley. His work can be found in the National Hotel in Nevada City, California, and the California State Library at Grass Valley. He died in Orange County, California.Memberships include the Long Beach Art Association and the Spectrum ClubSource:Edan Hughes, Artists in California, 1786-1940Peter Hastings Falk, Editor, Who Was Who in American Art Born in Czechoslovakia on Jan. 30, 1886. Vesely came to the U.S. as a child and moved to California in 1919. During the 1920s and 1930s he was a resident of Long Beach as well as Grass Valley. Primarily a self-taught painter, he studied briefly with Puthuff and Richter. He specialized in desert landscapes of Utah, California, and Arizona. Vesely died in Long Beach on Jan. 17, 1966. Member: Long Beach AA; Spectrum Club. In: Ebell Club (Long Beach); Nat’l Hotel (Nevada City); New Deal Cafe (Grass Valley).Edan Hughes, “Artists in California, 1786-1940″Ebell Club Bulletin, 4-22-1940

1950s SAN FRANCISCO CITYSCAPE by CaLiFoRnia REGIONALIST GEORGE POST – MODERNISM

~ Offers Encouraged ~ Vintage SAN FRANCISCO MODERNIST CITYSCAPE Painting by CaLiFoRnia Regionalist George Post Painting is signed lower middle Painting is in excellent original condition. Measures 15″ x 22″ George Post (1906-1997)… Born: Oakland, CAStudied: California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco), Academie Frochot (Paris)Member: American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society.George Post was born and raised in Oakland, spent several years in Gold Hill, Nevada, then returned to California to live in San Francisco. In 1921, he received a scholarship to study at the California School of Fine Arts. His teachers were Gottardo Piazzoni, Otis Oldfield, Ray Boynton, Spencer Macky and Constance Macky.By 1930, Post was married and working as a commercial artist, while privately painting watercolors of San Francisco cityscape subjects. Although he received little instruction in watercolor at art school, he became very interested in this medium while viewing a show of outstanding watercolors by Stanley Wood in 1929. After that he became a committed watercolorist, producing works on a daily basis.When California became known as the center of a new movement in watercolor painting, Post had already produced a large body of work and was prepared to do exhibitions at museum and gallery shows. George presented one-man shows at the San Francisco Art Center, San Francisco Museum of Art, Oakland Art Gallery, Sacramento College Art Gallery, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Sacramento Art Center and in a number of private galleries. His watercolors done for the P.WPA. Art Project were exhibited at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum and a mural he painted in Sonora received positive reviews in the newspaper. As a member of the California Group, George Post’s works traveled in shows throughout America.Post’s watercolors, particularly the geometric abstractionist works done after the war, were well received in art circles throughout California. His style was modern enough to be exhibited in the progressive art shows and representational enough to be included in more conservative ones. His goals were to capture the essence of design and feeling offered by the subject, rather than to produce a realistic picture of the scene. Although many of his watercolors look deceptively simple, they are masterfully composed, spontaneously painted, and have a creative use of shadow and light to establish a definite mood.In addition to his painting career, Post also taught art for many years, in 1947, he was offered a job teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts that only required him to teach two days per week. In the summers, he taught at the Brandt-Dike Summer School of Painting. When they closed the school, he taught summers for the T.H. Hewett Watercolor Workshops at various locations around the world. In 1991, a book titled George Post, which documents his life and art, was published by Hillcrest Press, Inc. FREE SHIPPING to buyers within the Continental United States(PO Box address may be subject to a surcharge) Returns are accepted but buyer will be charged a 25% restocking fee…no exceptions.ALL PAINTINGS sold by CalART.com are GUARANTEED ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC AND AS DESCRIBED Thank You & Best wishes 🙂 CalART.com has been buying and selling Original California & American Paintings through eBay since 1997!

1950’s Original Oil On Canvas Still Life, Norma Cooper Reeves

Signed by Norma Cooper Reeves, this one-of-a-kind piece has a folk art impressionistic style that nicely captured the essence of her subject. This unique and charming oil painting from the 1950s is a pleasing but naively painted still life depicting a compote filled with fruit on a table.