Paul Chojnowski

Dusk: Approaching Storm

2003

An fine period watercolor, dated 1910, an illustration by Charles Edmund Brock (English, 1870-1938). This, from a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray, "The Newcomes, Memoirs of the Most Respectable Family." The novel was published in 1855. Below this image are two characters from "The Newcomes, Chapter XI". Presented in a rustic giltwood frame. Signed "C.E. Brock" and dated "1910" lower left. Image size, 10"H x 7.5"W. Charles Edmund Brock was a widely published English painter, line artist and book illustrator, who signed most of his work C. E. Brock. He received his first book commission at the age of 20. He became very successful, and illustrated books for authors such as Jonathan Swift, William Thackeray, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and George Eliot. Brock also contributed pieces to several magazines such as The Quiver, The Strand, and Pearsons...

Nurhan Gokturk is an artist and urban designer. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, Gokturk immigrated to New York City at the age of three. Raised in Queens and Brooklyn and educated in the p...

Katsuito Nishikawa Untitled (Geometric Construction Drawing) Edition: Unique Size: 19.9 × 15.0 on 24.4 × 24.4 inches COA provided Born: 1949; Tokyo, Japan Nationality: Japanese Art Movement: Minimalism Genre: installation, sculpture Field: painting, sculpture, design, drawing, installation Katsuhito Nishikawa , born in Tokyo in 1949 is a Japanese visual artist . He studied at Keio University (Japan), Tokyo University (Tokyo), then at the Munich School of Fine Arts (Germany) and at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts (Germany). ). He taught for many years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg (Germany) and the School of Art and Design in Reims (France). He currently lives in Neuss (Germany). After having come to settle partially in Europe in the early 1980s , he is exposed in Japan, the United States, South Korea, Germany, Italy, Brazil, Great Britain and France where he signs twenty or so public commissions in the urban space. The work operates in cycles of white sculptures inspired by nature as architectural achievements, playing on the concept of different scales and varied materials. Let's mention "Innercouryard of Sintra" (1992), "Aqua" (2000), or the emblematic cycle of Physalis , begun in 1998. The Color as shadow cycle, made up of colored plexiglas screens, was shown in Europe and Asia . In 1999, he exhibited a work entitled Physalis Hanging on the Champs-Elysees as part of the international exhibition The Fields of Sculpture . This work, produced by the Caisse des Depots et Consignations was then offered to the Musée des Beaux- Douai Arts (Northern France). It is now installed permanently on the banks of the Scarpe, Douai. In particular, he inaugurated December 15 , 2006 Physalis Partitura , historic public commission in the courtyard of the University Hospital of Lille , with grants from the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the ERDF. The 5,500 m 2 work consists of the creation of a pacifying esplanade planted with magnolias and 24 sculpture...

Intimate still-life of firewood and tools by the hearth by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work directly ...

oil on linen on mounted board outsider pastel on archival paper *ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking f...

Delicate floral still life in the style of a botanical drawing of magnolia flowers in a glass vase with a figurine of a duck by Alexina Chamberlain (American, 20th Century). Presente...