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  Joseph Raskin, Seaside scene, Oil on Canvas c. 1920 -1925

  JOSEPH RASKIN   (1897-1981) USA

  Seaside scene  c. 1920 -1925

  Oil on canvas, gold leaf frame

  Signed:  Jos. Raskin  (lower left)

  For more information see: Who Was Who in American Art,
  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 505

  Canvas: 25 1/4” x 21 1/4”
  Frame: 31 1/4” x 26 3/4”

  Price: $35,000

  Born in Nogaisk, Russia, Joseph Raskin made a name for himself as a painter in New York City, where he was also recognized as an etcher, teacher and writer.  He studied at the National Academy of Design and, in 1921, received a fellowship from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.  A member of the American Artists Congress, Raskin’s work was exhibited at the Schervee Gallery (Boston) in 1927, Tricker Gallery in 1939, the Schneider-Gabriel Gallery in 1941, Steinway Hall in 1942, and the American Artists Association in 1945.  Raskin’s work may be found in several museum collections including the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art  and National Academy of Design, both in Washington, D.C.

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  Walter Paul Suter, American Art Deco glazed pottery sculpture 1929

  WALTER PAUL SUTER USA

  AMERICAN ENCAUSTING TILING CO. New York, NY

  Art Deco Seated Female Figure with Draped Skirt and Holding an Art Deco Vase 1929

  Hand-modeled and molded cream glazed earthenware figure with gold and silver details on a separate, but matching black glazed earthenware base.

  Signed: SUTER ‘29 (under glaze on back right hand corner)

  H: 13″ x D: 7 1/2″ x W: 9″

  Price: $14,500

  Walter Paul Suter was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1902 and studied there at the School of Fine and Applied Arts. He moved to the United States in 1924 and settled in New York. He was a member of the American Ceramic Society, as well as the Society of Swiss Painters, Sculptors & Architects. In 1932 Suter won first prize in the Robineau Member Exhibition in Syracuse.   He was a member of the American Encaustic Tiling Company in NYC.

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  Gianni L. Cilfone “After the Rain” Oil on canvas 1928

  GIANNI L. CILFONE (1908-1990) USA

  “After the Rain” 1928

  Oil on canvas, contemporary quarter sawn oak pegged frame with yellow gold filet.

  Signed: Cilfone, 1928 (lower left corner)

  Marks: Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Second Annual Exhibition 1928, Gianni L. Clifone, 905 South Ashland Boulevard, “After the Rain,” $500 (paper label).

  Exhibited: Illinois Academy of Fine Arts, Second Annual Exhibition 1928, Art Institute of Chicago 1928

  For more information see: Who Was Who in American Art (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985) p. 115.

  Canvas: H: 30” x W: 40”

  Framed: H: 38” x W: 48”

  Gianni Cilfone emigrated with his family from San Marco, Italy to Chicago at the age of five. After studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Cilfone took lessons from Hugh Breckenridge and John F. Carlson. His consistently won many prizes from the Chicago Gallery Association throughout the 1930s and 40s. He exhibited at the Hoosier Salon between 1949 and 1958, at the North Shore Arts Association, at the Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors, and at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1919 and 1928.

   

   

   

   

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  Victor Arnautoff, The Felt Hat, Oil on Canvas c. 1930

  VICTOR ARNAUTOFF (1896-1979) USA

  The Felt Hat c. 1930

  Oil on canvas, white gold frame

  Signed: V. Arnautoff, lower right

  Exhibited: Art Center San Francisco, 1931 (see image of the review in the San Francisco Examiner, July 12th, 1931)

  For more information see: The New Deal for Artists, Richard D. McKinzie (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973), Coit Tower, San Francisco : Its History and Art

  Painting: H: 26” x W: 21”
  Framed: H: 32 ½” x 27 ½”

  Price: $60,000

  Victor Arnautoff created paintings and watercolors, focusing on portraits, still lifes and rural landscapes in his early years, and moved to more socially conscious themes later in his career. Arnautoff was a native of Russia, to which he returned during the 1960s after thirty years in the United States. He came to San Francisco from Russia via China, bringing his wife and children with him, and studied at the California School of Fine Arts studying with Ralph Stackpole and Edgar Walter before going to Mexico. There he worked as an assistant to the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. During the 1930s, Arnautoff worked as project director and one of the artists selected to create the famed Coit Tower murals, he played a key role in determining the political and social content of the frescoes painted in the San Francisco landmark. His own contribution, City Life, appears to be a lively, non-political melding of downtown San Francisco scenes; however, closer study reveals two leftist newspapers on the newsstand, while the city’s most mainstream daily, the San Francisco Chronicle, is strangely missing. Arnautoff also painted frescoes in the Military Chapel at San Francisco’s Presidio, in the Anne Bremer Library of the San Francisco Art Institute, and in high schools and other buildings in the Bay Area. He was a professor of art at Stanford University from 1939 until his retirement in 1963.