Michael Banning

Light on Door

Valley House Gallery is honored to present a selection of paintings from the estate of American artist, John Hartell (1902-1995). John Hartell taught two disciplines at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: freshman architecture and graduate painting. He was a much-loved professor there from 1930 until his retirement in 1967; one of his most illustrious students is the architect Richard Meier. As an artist, Hartell's first solo exhibition was in 1937 at Kleeman Gallery in New York. He exhibited at Kraushaar Galleries in New York for four decades, beginning in 1943. The Hartell Gallery at Cornell University, under the Sibley Dome, is named for him. In describing John Hartell, the artist Michael Boyd...

Linda Pochesci paints light filled interiors. While spotlighting many architectural elements, such as tiled floors, windows, and white walls in her works, she maintains airy composit...

Please note that the dimensions listed refer to the unframed work: 70 x 70 cms / 27 ½ x 27 ½ inches. Should you require any further information, such as artist details or framed meas...

Diptych, oil on canvas.

Born in 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, Ira Barkoff’s paintings feature empty, Zen-like landscapes whose stillness reflects a location’s essence. Barkoff seeks to “portray a sense of vas...

oil on canvas

The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in ...

Nicolas Martin's "Leaving the House" is a secondary market work with one previous owner.

Available at George Billis Gallery. Susan Stillman holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She spent a ye...

“Hengrave, where I live and work, is nestled in the heart of the River Lark valley, in Suffolk. We help manage a couple of acres of ancient woodland that is surrounded by beautiful w...