FANTASTIC VINTAGE MID CENTURY MODERN FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON BOARD BY NOTED PAINTER HELMERS. (CIRCA 1949). THIS WORK DEPICTS A WILD, CINEMATIC “DANCE PARTY” COMPOSITION CAPTURING FIGURES SPINNING THROUGH A VORTEX OF FIERY COLOR. THE SCENE FEELS LIKE A SURREAL DANCE FLOOR WHERE EMOTION TAKES OVER THE BODY — LAUGHTER, SHOUTS, AND MOTION BLEND INTO PURE PAINT. SIMPLY AMAZING. SIGNED AND DATED 1949 BY HELMERS. PERHAPS YOU RECOGNIZE THE ARTIST? EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS INCLUDING THE FRAME: 23” W x 29” H DIMENSIONS WITHOUT THE FRAME: 16” W x 22” H
Sorry about the photos,I only have my phone and i could not get photos without the blue glare, tried, was in the shade still glare, it is clear and clean, i have had this hanging for 40 years,I hunted whitetails now for 63 years. I believe this to be 18909-1920 era and most likely an illustration, I believe published somewhere. 19×27 canvas. frame antique original 24×32
1900s Japanese Watercolor on Rice Paper. Condition is Used. Shipped with USPS Ground Advantage.
In 1949, Fenton exhibited a ferry boat scene at the PAFA. The pictures above are from books I have including the PAFA Annual Exhibition Records Vol. This monotype represents a nice piece of PAFA / Philly Modernism history.
Mildred Bunting Miller, American Modernist, Pennsylvania Impressionist 1892-1964A student of Daniel GarberA beautiful and charming mid-century modernist/impressionist landscape scene of Mildred’s back yardOil on PanelUntitledArt: 12″ x 16″Framed: 18″ x 22″Signed lower right Mildred Bunting Miller was born in Philadelphia and attended Lafayette College, John Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1910-15) and studied with Thomas Anshutz, Hugh Breckenridge, Daniel Garber, and Violet Oakley.Miller was also a resident artist, instructor and co-director at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Art’s summer school in Chester Springs, where she taught alongside Henry McCarter. Later in her life, she moved to California where she was an instructor in the state education program. Miller has exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Phillips Memorial, National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and many other locations in California and the Midwest.
