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  Louis F. Berneker, The Three Graces, Oil on Canvas c. 1910

  LOUIS F. BERNEKER  (1872-1937)  USA

  “The Three Graces”   c. 1910

  Oil on canvas, gilt Arts & Crafts style frame

  Signed:  Louis F. Berneker  (lower left)

  For more information see: Who Was Who in American Art
  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985) p. 50

  Canvas: H: 25 1/8” x W: 30 1/8”
  Frame:   H: 35 5/8” x W: 40 5/8”

  Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Louis Berneker first began his art training at the St. Louis School of Fine Art.  From 1903 to 1904, he studied at the prestigious Académie Julian in Paris under J.P. Laurens.  Upon his return to the United States, he lived primarily in New York City and later in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he died in 1937.  An accomplished painter in oils and watercolors, he was a member of the New York Watercolor Club, American Watercolor Society, the National Arts Club, and an associate member of the National Academy of Design.  In 1930, the painter won prizes for works exhibited at both the National Academy of Design and Allied Artists of America’s juried shows.  Berneker exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1910 to 1914 and again in 1921, as well as at the National Academy of Design in 1930 (prize), Art Institute of Chicago, and the Society of Independent Artists.  His works are housed in the Church of St. Gregory the Great, New York City; the Belmont Theatre, both in New York City, the Chicago Theatre, and the Dallas Art Academy.

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  Roger Georges Andre Duval, “La Chambré” Oil on canvas 1924

  ROGER GEORGES ANDRÈ DUVAL (1901-?) Meudon (Seine-et-Oise), France

  La Chambré 1924

  Oil on canvas

  Signed and dated: ROGER DUVAL XXIV(lower left)

  Exhbited: Paris, Salon des Indépendants, 1926, no. 1122

  For more information see: Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Vol. 4, E. Bénézit (Paris: Librairie Gründ, 1976).

  Painting: H: 23 2/3” x W: 36 1/5”

  Framed: H: 35” x 47 5/8”

  Roger Duval painted in a modernist figurative style and beginning in 1920 regularly exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. In 1925 he was awarded a prize by Paul Poiret for a painting entitled Conversation and again in 1926 for another painting entitled Bal Musette. Also in 1926, La Chambrée (1924) was exhibited in Paris at the Salon des Indépendants. By 1928 Duval’s technique had evolved into a moderninst/cubist style and a group of his paintings were featured in an Exposition of Painting and Sculpture in Boston, MA.

   It is interesting to note Duval’s shared vision with Picasso in their depiction of peasant figures in repose. Their full-bodied, voluptuous and sensual forms illustrate both artists’ sculptural approach to painting in the early 1920s. However by the mid-1920s Duval and Picasso’s painting styles evolved from these softer, rounded shapes into more angular, abstracted forms.

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  Arthur N. Colt, “The Wrestlers”, Oil on canvas c. 1938

  ARTHUR N. COLT (1889-1972) USA

  The Wrestlers c. 1938

  Oil on canvas

  Signed: A. N. Colt in lower right corner

  For more information on Colt see: Who Was Who in American Art (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985). p.125. Hove, Arthur, ed. Wisconsin Alumnus Vol. 61, No. 9 (January 1960), “Portrait Patterns” Art Digest v. 9 (December 15, 1934) p. 7

  Canvas:   H: 29 ½” x W: 34”

  Framed: H: 38 ½” x W: 43”

  Arthur Colt studied painting at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Paris. He was not only an important Wisconsin painter but also an influential teacher. He taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, founded a summer art colony at Black River and Devil’s Lake, WI and went on to form the Colt School of Art. Arthur Colt exhibited at the Madison Salon of Art Exhibition in 1934.

   

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  Oscar B. Erickson, “Early Morning Rockport”, Oil on canvas c. 1940

  OSCAR B. ERICKSON (1883 – 1970) American

  Early Morning Rockport c. 1940

  Oil on canvas

  Marks: Original exhibition label verso: THE NORTHWEST ART LEAGUE,

  INC., Oscar B. Erickson, Early Morning Rockport, oil

  For brief bibliographical listing see: Who Was Who in American Art,

  (Madison, Conn.: Sound View Press, 1985), p. 189.

  Canvas (sight): H: 21” x W: 23”

  Frame: H: 26 1/2” x W: 28 1/2”

  Oscar Erickson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He studied painting and printmaking at the Milwaukee Art League and later at the Herron Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibited at the Chicago Academy of the Fine Arts, the Hoosier Salon from 1927 to 1942, the Illinois State Museum, and the Norwegian Club.