Caroline Buchanan

'Aegean Dream', Oregon Watercolor Society

1982

Signed lower right, 'Vanessa Stafford' (American, born 1954) and dated 1991. A dramatic, dreamlike townscape showing a minotaur standing at the head of a flight of stone stairs and silhouetted against a cobalt-blue night sky lit by a crescent moon. In the foreground, a figure flees while a beneficent stone statue overlooks the scene. Using soft washes of color over elegant and precise linear outlines, the artist has created an enigmatic and compelling work This California painter and muralist received an Associate Degree in Studio Art from Cabrillo College in 1985 and subsequently studied graphic design and illustration at San Jose State University. She later continued her studies under Dave McGuire and Alice Carter. Vanessa Stafford has exhibited with success nationwide and is the recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards including 1st places at the Santa Cruz County Fair (1994,1998), 1st place in the Art Ability Exhibition, Maoli, PA (2012) and first place for the United Nations Linus Pauling...

Signed lower right, "Croci" for Ron Croci (American, born 1945), and painted circa 1970. A substantial, Social Realist watercolor showing a view of a ramshackle rust-belt landscape ...

Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Victor di Gesu estate stamp. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1979. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Instit...

Cubist gouache figural of a man wearing a sombrero and boots contrasted against a scumbled and dry-brush background of ochre, deep crimson red and umber. Signed lower left, "Jakobse...

Di Gesu Estate (American, 1914-1988) stamp verso and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Chouinard ...

Sunil Das - Color Based Drawings, 13 x 9.5 inches ( Unframed sizes ) Acrylic, Watercolour, Pen &Ink on Handmade Paper, 2003 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Mas...

Sunil Das - Color Based Drawings, 13 x 9.5 inches Unframed sizes Acrylic, Watercolour, Pen &Ink on Handmade Paper, 2002 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master ...

Kartick Chandra Pyne - Untitled - 18 x 29 inches ( unframed size without mount ) Watercolor on rice paper Signed in Bengali Lower right. This would will be shipped mounted without th...

Late Mid Century French watercolour and Gouache on handmade paper of a pair of dancers by Damien Hermellin. Signed and dated bottom right. Pres...

Kartick Chandra Pyne - Untitled - 18 x 29 inches (unframed size) Watercolor on Rice paper Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Style : After g...

Set of Erotic Series - Colour based Drawings II & IV Sunil Das - Untitled -13.5 x 9.5 inches (unframed size) Acrylic, Watercolor, Pen & Ink on Handmade Paper Inclusive of shipment in...