Antoine Ponchin Art

Beautiful early 20th century plein air-style landscape by Margaret Wherry Ziegler (American, 1909-1989), c.1930. Trees, rocks, and meadow grass and flowers bask under a blue sky in this sunny summer landscape scene. Signed and dated 1930 on verso stretcher bar. Presented in a vintage wood frame. Image size: 14.25"H x 12.25"W Ziegler was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1909 At a young age she traveled with her parents to the Philippines, Japan, India, Italy, Greece, and Europe. She studied art at the Cincinnati Art Academy, Minneapolis Art Institute, the University of the Philippines, and the California College of Arts and Crafts. While in Japan she studied Japanese brush painting...

Wonderful mid-century desert landscape of Sherman Rocks, Utah, featuring an impressive rock formation in an arid setting under blue skies by John Wilcox (A...

Bold oil painting of a sunset over mesas in the American Southwest by Jesse Don Rasberry (American, b. 1940). Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Presented in a deep red ...

Bright painting of flowers growing around a window by an unknown artist "A. Marquez". Signed "A. Marquez" in the lower right corner. On verso is written "Ventana / Oleo a espatula". ...

Beautiful landscape of a village in Tuscany, with visual texture from use of color and impasto, by B. Ignacio, c.1950. Signed "B. Ignacio" lower right. Presented in a wood frame. Ima...

Gorgeous plein air oil painting of Pacific Ocean as viewed from top of Santa Cruz Mountains, showing the tree-line and distant ocean in the soft t...

Vibrant coastal landscape of Pescadero, California by San Francisco artist Weston Rose (American, 20th century). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Weston Rose" lower right. Image,...

Colorful mid century desert landscape with beautiful cacti by Vina McPheeters (American, 1892-1964). Signed "Vina McPheeters" in the lower right corner. Presented in an antiqued bronze-colored frame. Image size: 20"H x 24"W. Vina Pearl McPheeters (American, 1892-1964) was born in Iowa on October 7, 1892. Vina was the wife of Robert Guy McPheeters. By 1930 she had settled in southern California into a home in Montebello (Los Angeles County). Exhibited in her home town of Van Nuys California, studied with Hanson Puthuff, Jack Wilkinson Smith and Bennett Bradbury...

Serene plein air landscape in oil of Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz, California, by Brian Rounds (American, b. 1968). Signed in the lower right corner by...

A beautiful vintage oil painting of a canyon and river. Signed "C. Leo" in the lower left. Oil paint on canvas. Unframed. Image, 16"H x 20"W.

Sweeping Big Sur landscape of rolling hills in beautiful pastel colors illuminated with sunlight, by California artist Kathleen Murray (American, 1958). Oil on artists canvas board (...

Gorgeous landscape of a farmhouse and other buildings by Thomas (Tom) Theodore Craig (1909 - 1969) . Unsigned. Presented in a modern wood frame. Image size: 14"H x 18"W. One of two with one signed T. Craig on wood stretcher on verso (this one is unsigned). Born in Upland, California, Tom Craig became a landscape, portrait and figure painter whose early career was in illustration but whose later focus was fine-art painting. He became a major figure in The California Style* of watercolor painting. As a young student, Craig studied botany at the University of California at Berkeley, and living in Los Angeles, continued botanical studies at Pomona College. With a persistent interest in art, he studied briefly at Chouinard Art Institute* with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Millard Sheets and Barse Miller. In 1928, when he was 21, he got tuberculosis, and for his health, moved for several years to Palm Springs, California for the dry desert climate. During this period, he became a serious fine-art painter, and returning to Los Angeles, studied with Frank Tolles Chamberlain and Clarence Hinkle...