“People have the power to redeem the work of fools.”
Sale $275 (+$20 s/h)
12x16” acrylic on canvas was $975
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"Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.” — Dorothy Parker
SALE $100 (+15 s/h)
9x12” oil on board was $550
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Dorothy Parker (1893 – 1967) was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit and wisecracks.
"Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."
12x12 Oil on panel $550
SALE $150 (+20 s/h)
11x14” Acrylic on Panel was $750
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“Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.”
—Ruth Asawa
SALE $150 (+20 s/h)
12x12” acrylic on panel was $550
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Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) American artist known for her abstract wire sculptures, many of which were displayed suspended as mobiles. She later turned to large public projects and community activism.she first leaned about art making in the Japanese interment camps in California where her family was placed during WWII.
“The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.”
—Pearl S. Buck
SALE $125 (+20 s/h)
9x12” oil on elevated board/wood sides was $550
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Pearl S. Buck (1892 – 1973) was an American writer and novelist. The daughter of missionaries, she spent the first 40 years of her life in China so she was perfectly posed to describe the thus-hidden life of China to the west through her novel The Good Earth , which became was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. Later she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
After returning to the United States in 1935 as an immensely famous figure, she became an outspoken advocate for the rights of women and minority groups. Pearl also campaigned for the rights of Asian and mixed-race orphans, who were considered un-adoptable by existing adoption services. She established Welcome House, the first international inter-rational adoption agency and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which provides sponsorships for thousands of Asian children overseas.
SALE $200 (+20 s/h)
11x14” oil on canvas was $750
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“In my inner soul, life and art are inseparable.”
SALE $150 (+20 s/h)
9x12” Oil on raised Panel was $550
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Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s. Sadly, she died of brain cancer at 34, but she left a very important mark on modern art history in her short life.
"I feel somewhat like the keeper of a little lighthouse, the beam of which goes farther than I know, and illumines for others more than I can see."—Agnes Pelton, Artist
SALE $175 (+20 s/h)
12x12” oil on canvas block $175
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Novelist , poet, critic, playwright, and art collector
Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a German-born American painter who, like so many others, only came to be known after her death. She studied under the same mentor as Georgia O Keefe, who she has been compared to in her the way they both could spiritualize natural form through paint. Her greatest support came from artists in the short-lived Transcendental Painting Group of New Mexico (active between 1938 and 1941), who shared her belief that abstract art could be a vehicle for transporting viewers to enlightened realms.
“In the camps, I had the opportunity to study the human race from the cradle to the grave, and to see what happens to people when reduced to one status and one condition. Cameras and photographs were not permitted in the camps, so I recorded everything in sketches, drawings and paintings.” -Miné Okubo
SALE $100 (+s/h)
9x12” Oil on Panel $550
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Miné Okubo (1912-2001) was an American artist and writer. She is best known for her book Citizen 13660, a collection of 189 drawings and accompanying text chronicling her experiences in Japanese American internment camps during World War II. Still in print, it was the first book on the camp experience to be written by an internee. It remains a widely cited document in histories of the Japanese in America.
“I am a realist with a creative mind. I hope that things can be learned from this tragic episode, for I believe it could happen again.”
SALE $150 (+s/h)
12x12” Oil on canvas block was $650
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SALE $250 (+25 s/h).
14x14” oil on canvas painting, 2013
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Sale $150 (+$15 s/h)
11x14” oil on canvas
