Fine Art Collection
EUROPEAN PAINTING & SCULPTURE
HD Fine Art Collection focuses on European Painting and Sculpture from 1900 through the latter part of the 20th Century. Both landscape and figurative work are depicted in a more realistic manner including turn of the Century Symbolism and the naturalism of the art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts eras, aswell as stylized imagery of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Carlos Schwabe and Alfred Meyer-Bernburg lead the way into the 20th Century with symbolic and mythological themes. Roger Georges Andre Duval references the beginning of Cubist Modernism and Art Deco stylization is evident in the work of Eugene Pougheon. Surrealism makes a unique statement in the work Rotislaw Racoff. In bronze sculpture the curve of the Art Nouveau line, the zig-zag of tribal themes and the stylized forms of Art Deco merging with natural forms is represented by Sophie Burger-Hartmann, Andree Flamant-Ducany Gide, Jan & Joel Martel, Dujam Penic and Andre Vincent Becquerel among many others.
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AMERICAN PAINTING & SCULPTURE
HD Fine Art Collection focuses on American Painting and Sculpture from 1900 through the latter part of the 20th Century. Both landscape and figurative work are depicted in a more realistic manner including turn of the Century Impressionist works and naturalism of the Arts & Crafts era, stylized imagery of the 1920’s and 1930’s with Precisionism, Social Realism and works from the WPA (Works Progress Administration). Louis Berneker and Edmund F. Ward stylistically lead the way into the 20th Century while Harold Christopher Davies and Joseph Raskin represent a Naturalist spirit. Zygmund Sazevich shows the beginnings of Cubist Modernism and New Realism is evident in the work of Virginia Armitage McCall and Otis Oldfield. WPA artists, Gerritt V. Sinclair and Robert Schellin depict Midwest city life during the Depression Era and Victor Arnautoff features a still-life reminiscent of his San Francisco Coit Tower mural project. The beginning of Post-War abstraction is depicted in the work of Michiel Gloeckner and Duval Eliot, stylized sculptures with contrasting themes of two female figures by Walter Suter and Gertrude Burgess Murphy.
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