Recent Acquisitions and Available Inventory: Featured Work: Joseph Birren
(1864-1933) Painter and illustratorjoseph Birren was born in Chicago, Illinois on May 14, 1864. Birren studied in Philadelphia, New York, and with Benjamin-Constant, Courtois, and Falguiere in Paris. During the 1920s, he maintained studio-homes in both Chicago and Laguna Beach, California. By 1927 he had moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where his work was well received by the local press. Birren died in Milwaukee, Wyoming on August 4, 1933. Known for his atmospheric landscapes, his work includes depictions of Southern California and Yosemite. Exhibited: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1924. Works held: Monterey Peninsula Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington University; Pasadena Museum; Luxembourg Museum, Paris. .

Frank Desch Frank Desch, Silver Roses, watercolor on paper 20 x 14 inches signed lower left Painter Frank Desch was born in 1873 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lived in Provincetown, Massachusetts and later in New York City. He studied under William Merritt Chase and Charles Hawthorne; and Biloul in Paris. Desch was a member of the Allied Artists of America, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Salmagundi Club, and the Provincetown Art Association. This rare watercolor was included in Cindy Nickerson's  1999 landmark exhibition, A Century of Impressionism on Cape Cod and was also featured on the back cover of the accompanying Cape Cod Museum of Fine Art's catalogue. The show also traveled to the St. Botolph Club in Boston.

Flora Schofield Painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schoenfield (Schofield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. Schoenfield exhibited widely in Paris, Chicago and Provincetow

William Littlefield Find out more about this artist's life and works on the estates page

Doris Lindo Lewis Spring Progress, circa 1934 oil on canvas16 x 22" signed lower right.

New Work from Doris Lindo Lewis Find out more about this artist and environmentalist's life and works on the estates page

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