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Karel Appel’s “Untitled” composition is 11 inches by 14 inch oil on photograph and is signed on the lower right “Appel.” On June 10, 1999, this work was acquired by Christie’s in Amsterdam. Appel was a founder of the CoBrA movement. CoBrA is based on freedom of color and form. It has a particular interest in Marxism and in modernism, with strong aversion to surrealism. Appel was also highly influenced by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Jean Dubuffet.
Arman was a French born American artist, best known for his deconstruction and re-composition of objects as part of the Nuveau Réalisme (New Realism) movement. In 1986 Arman began “Slices of Liberty,” a piece of work that celebrated the monument’s centennial. The piece is bronze, measuring 29-5/8 inches by 8-1/2 inches by 11 inches. In May 1995, the piece was obtained by Christie’s New York, where Hirschfeld then purchased it for his own private collection.
Ben Benn was born in Russia, but established himself as a prominent American Modernist. His works are known for their use of intense color and compositions resembling those of Cezanne. Benn’s “Staten Island landscape” was painted in 1920. The piece is oil on a 16 inch by 20 inch canvas. On September 15, 1988, it was acquired by Christie’s New York, where Hirschfeld then purchased it for his own private collection.
Thomas Hart Benton was at the vanguard of the Regionalist movement. The regionalist movement encompassed a natural style of painting, depicting every day scenes of life in the United States with fluidity. Benton’s piece “The Artist’s Show, Washington Square Park” portrays the Washington Square Art Show which happened at the end of every summer in New York. The piece is tempera on paper laid down on board and it is 13-3/4 inches by 16-3/8 inches, signed “Benton ‘45” on the lower left. On May 20, 1987, it was purchased by Christie’s New York. The painting was also included in Bruce Weber’s 2005 book “Paintings of New York,” showcasing various artists such as Georgia O’Keefe, and their interpretations on New York City lifestyle and culture.
Johann Berthelsen, an American Impressionist, was artisically inspired by New York City, depicting it with bright, vibrant colors. Berthelsen’s “New York City in Winter” was painted with oil on masonite, measuring 20 inches by 15-1/4 inches. It was purchased by Hirschfeld from Sotheby’s New York.
Oscar F. Bluemner, a very prominent early American Modernist, mainly focused on industrial building structures in his art. Bluemner’s “New York Cityscape” was created with charcoal on paper sized 4-3/4 by 7-5/8 and is inscribed with the phrase “Look from speedway or from McComb Dam Park down over Harlem River, East; at 160 St. of the suburban RR.” On September 23, 1992, it was acquired by Christie’s New York.
Aaron Bohrod’s early painting style, deemed “Social Realist,” focused on the American scene. His paintings were highly decorative, using the Trompe l’oeil style, a method of painting that creates optical illusions and objects seen in 3-D. Bohrod’s “Monument, Madison Square Park” painting is worked with brush, sepia ink and pencil on 22 by 15 inch board. It was first housed in the Collection of Orbach’s until March 20, 1987, where it was acquired by Christie’s New York.
Bohrod’s “St. Patrick’s Cathedral Under Construction” is worked with brush and sepia ink, ink wash and pencil on a 22 by 25 inch board. This too was first housed in the Collection of Orbach until March 20, 1987 where it was then acquired by Christie’s New York.
Charles Ephraim Burchfield was an American watercolorist, known for pieces that reflect nature and the effect of Industrialism on America. His small-town and industrial scenes put him in the category of the American Scene or Regionalist movement. Some of his paintings can be found in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art. Burchfield has also been described as a Social Critic, Naturalist, master of the watercolor medium and a visionary whose sensitivities are portrayed in his artwork. “Backyards in New York” is a water color on paper. It is 19-7/8 by 14 inches.
Eliot Candee Clark was the son of American artist Walter Clark and Jennie Woodruff Clark. Clark was a child prodigy originally influenced by the Tonalists only to develop a unique landscape style of American Impressionism. His first work was submitted to the New York Water Color Club at the age of nine and by age thirteen was exhibited at The National Academy of Design. In the last year of the nineteenth century, Eliot and his father shared a studio in New York’s Van Dyke Building, where he created the 30 by 25 inch oil on masonite painting, “View from Van Dyke Studios.” Other artist that worked at the Van Dyck Studios, located at 939 Eighth Avenue, included Edith Wharton, Bruce Crane, Cullen Yates, Carl Anderson, and Schilling.
William Merritt Chase arrived in New York in 1869, where he soon enrolled in The National Academy of Design under Lemuel Wilmarth, a student of the famous French artist Jean-Leon Gerome. Chase found Impressionism as a means to convey the emotion in both landscapes and city scenes, although he considered himself a realist. A member of the Ten (Ten American Painters) and a devoted teacher at his New York studio and the Students League, his achievements as an artist and teacher reflect the impact of the Impressionist movement in American culture. William Merritt’s “Gowanus Pier,” painting is oil on an 8-1/4 by 13 inch panel. It is signed by “Wm. M. Chase, l.r.”
Stuart Davis studied painting and art under Robert Henri, the leader of the early modern art group the Eight. Davis made covers and drawings for the social realist periodical, The Masses, which was associated with the Ashcan School. He was one of the youngest painters to exhibit in the Armory Show where he was exposed to the work of such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso. After visiting Paris, Davis introduced American art to Cubism and committed to Modernism. Stuart Davis’ “New York Skyline,” was created in 1938 by gouache on a 10 by 15 inch board by sight and 15-1/4 by 20 inches in sheet featuring his signature on the lower right. The painting’s provenance was held with Jack Sharp on October 22, 1947, William T. Kemper in The William T. Kemper Charitable Trust in Kansas City, Missouri as well as The Downtown Gallery New York. On December 1, 1989, it was obtained by Christie’s New York.
Preston Dickinson, an American painter, studied at The Art Students League. He was influenced by cubism as well as the work of Cezanne and the Fauves. In the 1920’s, his work took on the style of the Precisionist movement. He mostly painted machinery with geometrical and abstract qualities. “High Bridge” is a 22 by 9-3/4 inch charcoal and ink on rice paper piece featuring Preston Dickinson’s signature. On September 23, 1992, the painting was acquired by Christie’s New York.
Raoul Dufy was influenced by impressionist landscapists, such as Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, and soon directed his interest towards Fauvism until 1909. Dufy developed his own distinctive approach, called stenographic, involving skeletal structures, arranged in a diminished perspective with the use of light washes of color put on by swift brush strokes. Raoul Dufy’s “L’ Entrée de Port de New York,” painting was created in 1950. Dufy’s used watercolor for the 19 by 25 inch painting. The provenance of the painting was in the year 1983, where it was obtained by Galleri Bellman New York and then the Clement Stone Collection. However, on May 12, 1987, it was obtained by Sotheby’s New York.
Dufy’s “Le Pont de Brooklyn” is created from a ball point pen, and it is 9-7/8 by 14-1/2 inches.
Richard Estes is an American photorealistic painter best known for paintings consisting of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is attributed as one of the founders of the international photo-realist movement of the late 1960s, with painters such as Malcolm Morley, Chuck Close, and Duane Hanson. His works have been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. In 1971, Richard was granted a National Council for the Arts fellowship. Created in 1980, the “U-BAN” is an acrylic and oil painting that measures 14 by 20 inches on canvas board. This piece of art’s provenance is Louis K. Meisel Gallery in New York, as well as Sotheby’s New York on November 9, 1989. “U-BAN” has been exhibited Hirschl & Adler Galleries as part of “Picturing Gotham: New York City through the eyes of Its Atists,” from January through February 1996.
Jean Fautrier, born in Paris in 1898, studied in London at the Royal Academy in 1912 where he became a leading figure of the School of Paris, and was seen as a forerunner of Art Informel. He also won the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale in 1960. Fautrier is considered a leader amongst American Abstract Expressionist artists like Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. Jean Fautrier’s “Paysages Americains, The Rockefeller Center” painting was created in 1951. Fautrier’s painting was done on a multiple mixed media on paper laid on a 10-1/4 by 13-5/8 inch canvas.
Lyonel Feininger was a New York City born, cubist and expressionist painter as well as an illustrator, outstanding caricaturist and printmaker. He was best-known for his lighthearted subject matter portrayed in clean, crystalline abstract seascapes and powerful urban scenes. Following in the footsteps of the great Germanic woodcutting tradition, Feininger’s bold and expressive designs adopted a prismatic style, with facets that form three-dimensional objects. Named “Form Master,” Feininger was deeply influenced by Futurists. Lyonel Feininger’s “Mid-Manhattan” was created on July 10, 1955 by watercolor, charcoal and pen, and black ink on 19-1/4 by 12-1/4 inch paper.
Arthur Clifton (A.C.) Goodwin was a self-taught impressionist known primarily for his luscious dock views, landscapes and cityscapes in and around Boston, Gloucester and New York City. First under the guidance of well-known Boston artist, Louis Kronberg,Goodwin also became a follower of the Ashcan School led by Robert Henri. He was a member of the Guild of Boston Artists and the Boston Society of Water Color Painters. A.C. Goodwin’s “New York with Flags (Armistice Day)” was created from pastel on a 21 by 17 inch board.
Edmund W. Greacen was born and raised in New York City where he became a master of American Impressionism.He was well known for shimmering landscape and figure paintings of young women often using vibrant, diffused and muted color. Greacen is noted as one of the founders of the 1924 Grand Central Art School in New York City. Edmund W. Greacen’s “New York Harbor” was created in 1915 from oil on a 16 by 11-7/8 inch board, signed Edmund Graecen, l.r.
William Samuel Horton, an American Impressionist painter, studied under the influences of Benjamin-Constant and Jean-Paul Laurens. A member of The New York Watercolor Club, Salmagundi Club, and American Federation of Arts, Horton also had great friendships with such famous Impressionist artists as Monet, Degas and Derain. Horton’s “Hecksher Tower Sunset” painting is 19-1/8 inches by 25 inches.
Yvonne Jacquette. an American painter, won several awards for her works such as The Andrew Carnegie Prize for Painting National Academy Museum, New York, as well as a Painters Award for American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. Jacquette studied with Robert Hamilton, Robert Roche, Herman Cherry and John Frazier during her four years at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Jacquette is best known for her “Aerial Panoramic Vistas of Cities at Night.” Jacquette’s 1972 “Movie Marquee II (Afternoon)” oil on canvas painting is 69 inches by 80 inches. The view from the painting is the west view from the Jefferson Theater, located at 214 East 14th street.
Wolf Kahn is a German-born American Painter, who studied at Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art. Kahn and a group of younger artists emerged into a group for representational art in the 1950s and 1960s that used abstract expressionist painterly freedom and spontaneity in order to document the life around them. Kahn is well known for using abstract landscape and still life painting. Kahn’s “Yankee Stadium” painting is created in a pastel on 8-3/4 by 11-1/2 inch paper. It was acquired on October 6, 1987 by Sotheby’s New York.
Dong Kingman was an American painter of Chinese decent best known for creating his paintings just with the use of watercolors. While in school, Kingman studied with Szeto Wai, the Paris-trained and head of the Lingnan Academy, who introduced him to European trends and the Impressionists. During his late teens, Kingman was compared to leading artists Charles Burchfield, John Marin and George Grosz. During the Depression, Kingman emerged as one of America’s leading artists as well as a pioneer of The California Style School of Painting. Kingman’s water color painting of the “Bethesda Fountain, Central Park” is 15-1/2 by 22-1/2 inches. On May 29, 1987, its’ provenance was founded at Christie’s New York.
Franz Kline was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, best known for action painting, who became one of the most prominent 20th-century American artists working in abstract and non-objective styles. Kline was associated with large-scale black and white linear abstractions paintings which brought his first notable public attention in New York in1950. Kline’s “Pepper Pot” painting was 8-2/4 by 12-1/2 inches, created on gouache paper with pen and black ink. The painting was a restaurant menu of the same name which is located in New York at the southeast corner of 4th St. and 6th Avenue.
Jacob Lawrence was an African-American Harlem Renaissance painter, who was best known for mod-naive urban genre-figure painting. Lawrence also became known for his narrative series of tempera paintings which expressed black life in America. Lawrence’s vivid collage style canvases typically had bold planes of color and symbolic elements of African-American heritage. Lawrence’s “Harlem Diner” was created in 1938 with gouache on paper, laid on a 12-5/8 by 19-1/8 inch board.
Ernest Lawson was a Canadian-born, American Impressionist painter best known for landscape, floral, genre, and nocturne painting. Lawson was fascinated by the urban environment of early 20th-century New York and also the bucolic landscape of the Hudson River. Lawson’s work was close to Impressionism, and many pieces focsued on human beings’ influence on the natural landscape. Ernest Lawson’s “High Bridge Aqueduct” painting was 20-1/4 by 24-1/4 inches, created from oil and canvas.
R. Hayley Lever was an Australian painter and printmaker, known for town-shore landscapes and still-life painting in a style which combined impressionism with vivid colors and strong lines of realism, as well as post-impressionism. When using color, Lever felt deeply influenced by Vincent Van Gogh and freely explored numerous styles based on impressionism without locking into any particular style. Hayley Lever’s “Queensborough Bridge” was created from a charcoal drawing on 10 by 14 inch paper.
Louis Lozowick was a Russian-born American printmaker, who was known for structure-scape, still life, and graphics. Lozowick however became best known for his lithographs of skyscrapers, construction and machinery series which spanned fifty years. While in New York, Lozowick studied for three years at the National Academy of Design with Leon Kroll. Lozowick’s “Flower Seller” was created in 1945 on 13-5/8 inch by 15-3/4 inch board by brush and black ink, ink wash, and charcoal.
Lozowick’s “Lower Manhattan” created in 1932 by oil on a 24 by 12 inch canvas.
Andy Warhol was an American painter, printmaker and avant-garde filmmaker as well as a leading figure in “pop art,” the visual art movement. Running in diverse social circles, Warhol became a famous icon among the bohemians, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealth aristocrats alike. He also coined the expression “15 minutes of fame.” Andy Warhol’s “The Brooklyn Bridge,” was created in 1983 with four 38 by 38 inch signed silk screen prints for the Special Commission for the Centennial Celebration. It was acquired directly from the artist on February 15, 1984. |
ELIE HIRSCHFELD : Art Passion
To me and many others, New York is the cultural epicenter of the United States. The city’s energy serves as a daily inspiration to the 2 million people who live and work in Manhattan. This same energy is a muse for some of history’s greatest artistic minds who harness its majestic nature in their notable works. As a native New Yorker, my pride and passion for the city is exemplified in my art collection, which is a compilation of original art scenes of New York City. Over thirty years ago, I began my collection with an original painting by Thomas Hart Benton titled “Washington Square Park.” This landscape captured the view from my apartment window during my tenure at NYU law school and therefore holds a special place in my heart. Since then, I’ve developed into an avid collector. With a private collection of hundreds of works of art, it is my goal to share them publically through this website and engage art and New York city enthusiasts alike. So, please feel free to view, enjoy and comment at your leisure. |
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