Robert Lavin

"Shipyard" Realist Industrial Landscape with Factory Train Bridge Coast Clouds

By Tim Shefelman 20" x 26" Watercolor on Paper

Robert "Bob" Lavin (1919 - 1997) Title: "Building the Space Simulator" Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 27.25" x 23.25" Framed Markings: Signed LR "Bob Lavin" Studying the social realis...

Signature "Hogan" 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas Framed Size: 31.5" x 43.25" This landscape painting depicts a nostalgic Great Depression era farm scene of a barn and silos on a prairie.

George Kovach (b. 1942) Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 24" x 36" Markings: Signed lower right Frame size - 32.5 x 44.5"

William Sharp (1900 - 1961) Factory on the River Oil on canvas 20 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches Initialed lower left: WS Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, New York Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178 Private Collection, New York Colonial Sand and Stone Co., founded by Generoso Pope, was once the country’s largest sand and gravel business, providing the concrete for much of New York City’s skyline, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, airports and subways. William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...

French mid-century gouache painting on paper of industrial skyline with bridge in foreground. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic...

Industrial Landscape Contemporary American Watercolor Magic Realism 20th Century Henry Koerner (1915-1991) J&L Oxygen Plant 18 x 24 1/2 inches Watercolo...

Though born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, artist Ralph Von Lehmden (1908-1970) was the grandson of a German count. He became a noted painter and designer. Lehmden attended the Cleve...