Meet The Artists

Vivian Lewis, oil on canvas, 30 by 24 inches. Signed lower left.  A native of Columbus, Ohio, Vivian Lewis began coming to Florida in 1936, but it was not until…

Gladys Wood, Arch Creek, Florida, oil on canvas 28 by 22 inches. Signed lower left, titled verso.  A 5th generation native of New London, New Hampshire, Glady Wood’s mother studied…

Langston Moffett, Short Cut, oil on canvas, 18 by 24 inches. Signed lower right, titled verso. Born in Orange, New Jersey, just west of the Hudson River and New York…

Clara Prince, San Juan Del Porto Mission, Jacksonville. Watercolor 14 by 10 inches. Signed lower left.  A native of Michigan, Clara Prince always wanted to be an artist. In an…

Violet Schoenberg, Lafayette Street Bridge, Tampa, oil on canvas, 20 by 24 inches. Signed lower right. As a young woman of 24, in the summer of 1918 Violet Schoenberg represented…

Jules Andre Smith, Maitland, Florida,  *Jules Andre Smith was born, of American parents, in Hong Kong, 1880. He came to the United States at the age of ten and attended…

Russell Robinson, Dead End at Sanibel, oil on canvas, 30 by 48 inches. Signed lower right, dated 1975. Russell Robinson was eleven years old when his family moved to Clearwater…

Albin Polasek (Czech/American, 1879-1965), Man Carving His Own Destiny, 1917. Bronze, cast signature. Height 19 ¾”, width 12 1/2”, depth 7”. The following is by Debbie Komanski, Executive Director, Albin…

Betty Parsons, untitled, oil on paper, 1950’s, 17” by 14.” inches. Quoting Wikipedia, “Betty Parsons was an American artist, art dealer, and collector known for her early promotion of Abstract…

Arnold Hicks, oil on canvas, 23 1/2 by 35 1/2 inches. Signed lower right.  A Canadian, Arnold Hicks studied at the Montreal Royal Academy and at art institutes in New…

Artemis Skevakis Jegart, Railway Express, polymer tempera on board, 48 by 35.75 inches. Signed, dated and titled, verso. Artemis Skevakis Jegart was named by her father, a native of Greece,…

Ann Eckert Keenan, Primping, Miami Daily News, July 20, 1952.  Ann Eckert Keenan was a popular member of Miami’s professional artist colony in the 1950’s. Her work, initially realistic watercolors…