Sidney L. Brock was born in 1869 to a family of comfortable means in Missouri. He graduated from Johns Hopkins University and began a career in general merchandising with a partner. He bought his partner out and later sold a successful business to begin raising cattle. He was a success at that, too. In 1905, he moved to Oklahoma City and opened Sidney L. Brock Dry Goods Store on Main Street and became a civic leader. In 1909, he was elected President of the Chamber of Commerce and recognized that Oklahoma City’s manpower, resources and location would be an ideal place for a packing plant. Within months, the Chamber, with Brock as a driving force, had convinced Morris & Co., one of the major meatpackers in the country, to build a plant in Oklahoma City. In October 1910, the plant opened with Brock pressing a button in New York City that started the power to the plant in Oklahoma City. The packing plants — another was built soon after — were major Oklahoma City employers for several decades, and housing additions were built on the southside of Oklahoma City, and the streetcar line was extended to transport workers and their families. It could be said that without the vision of the Chamber of Commerce and the leadership of Brock, the Oklahoma National Stockyards might never have existed, and certainly not on the scale it has achieved. Brock only stayed in Oklahoma City until 1915. When he retired, he sold his store to the predecessor of John A. Brown and moved to Colorado and then to California. He visited often, though, because his daughter and son-in-law and two grandsons lived in Nichols Hills, and the newspaper society writers kept tabs on their activities. He became an artist, and was a charter member of the Oklahoma Art League. When Brock died in 1943 in California, his obituary published in The Oklahoman, March 20, 1943, summed up his life with this statement: “He retired in 1915, and has since lived in Denver, Florida and California, but has always considered Oklahoma City his home.”
$1,975
1930's California Mountain Trail Landscape, Original Oil Painting, Signed
By Sidney L. Brock
Located in Soquel, CA
1930's California Mountain Trail Landscape, Original Oil Painting, Signed A beautiful 1930's landscape titled "Trail into California Mountains" by Oklahoman artist Sidney Lorenzo Br...
Linen, Oil
$5,500
H 15 in W 22 in D 1 in
"The Wild Rose Hip Bush 06.23.2020" contemporary oil painting - impressionism
By Nelson White
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Oil Painting of a rose bush, on a bright sunny day. Crisp blues make up the sky above, the horizon meets distant land across a body of water. bright greens and yellows make up a verd...
Linen, Oil
$35,000
H 66.93 in W 78.75 in
"Fish Shacks, Big" Large Scale Oil Painting of Nova Scotia Harbor
By Tim McGuire
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Framed dimensions: 74.93 x 86.75 inches A large scale oil painting of a harbor of fishing shacks, seen from above, in Nova Scotia. Tim McGuire Born in 1971, Tim McGuire grew up in...
Oil, Linen
$23,600
H 43.5 in W 54.5 in D 2 in
"Big Dome, Point Lobos" oil painting of Northern California Coastline, Big Sur
By Marc Dalessio
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A large oil painting of a California coastline. After painting many sketches in his home state, Dalessio went to his studio and blew up the images he captured while on site. Aside bl...
Oil, Linen
$8,600
H 24 in W 36 in
"Cows and Calves Near Antelope Creek" (2024) By Linda Lillegraven, Oil Painting
By Linda Lillegraven
Located in Denver, CO
Linda Lillegraven's beautiful original oil landscape "Cows and Calves Near Antelope Creek" (2024) depicts a serene moment of a western plain in the afternoon, with a few cows crazing...
Linen, Oil
$16,000
H 22 in W 28 in
"Breathe Deep II" contemporary realist landscape oil painting, California cliffs
By Joe Paquet
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Breathe Deep II" is a contemporary realist landscape oil painting of California cliffs painted en plein air. Blue-green waves roll in toward the foreground filled with sand-colored...
Linen, Oil
Autumn Old Cars
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Carl Bretzke is a representational painter who specializes in urban scenes and plein-aire landscapes. Carl's work has been exhibited extensively in Minnesota and California, includin...
Linen, Oil
$1,800
H 16 in W 22 in D 0.5 in
Landscape View of Cohansey River, Greenwich NJ
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Benjamin Eisenstat (1915-2001). View of Cohansey River, Greenwich NJ, ca. 1960's. Oil on linen canvas 16 x 22 inches. Signed lower right. Signed, titled by artist on verso. Origi...
Linen, Oil
$10,500
H 25.5 in W 31.5 in
"Fishing Hut" contemporary impressionist oil painting boat house, green and blue
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Fishing Hut" contemporary impressionist oil painting boat house in green and blue hues. An oil painting of a small shack in a marina in rich impre...
Linen, Oil
$14,000
H 27.5 in W 35.25 in
"Boat Yard, Lifting Fog" oil painting, American realist, Ben Fenske, framed
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted en plein-air at a marina on Long Island. An old time fishing boat is the central subject, viewed from the bow. A small rowboat rests in the foreground. A couple of fishing sh...
Linen, Oil
$13,000
H 30 in W 40 in
"To Everything There Is a Season" (2025) Winter Landscape Oil Painting
By David Griffin
Located in Denver, CO
David Griffin's "To Everything There Is a Season" (2025) is a beautiful handcrafted oil landscape painting, framed at 27 x 23 inches and is ready to hang. Artist Biography and Stat...
Linen, Oil, Board
$15,500
H 31 in W 39 in
“Sunset with Lavender Sky” American impressionist landscape painting, cool tones
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by Ben Fenske of the sun setting over the sea. Painted with Fenske's thick, urgent brushstrokes in his neo-impressionist style. This oil painting is currently unstr...
Linen, Oil
$10,000
H 27 in W 35 in D 3 in
"Parked Panda" plein air painting of Fenske's Fiat in Tuscan landscape
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Parked Panda" is a plein air oil painting of Fenske's Fiat in Tuscan landscape, where he lives. Frame Dimensions 33 x 41in Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnesota, a...
Canvas, Oil, Linen