A really beautiful Lucille Ryan (Ct/ RI, USA 1935-2021) was a Connecticut-based artist and designer. Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, she studied art at Rhode Island College and the Rhode Island School of Design. She worked as a commercial fashion jewelry designer for The Napier Company and C. Ray Randall in Connecticut. She frequently sold her artwork, including paintings of scenic landscapes and maritime subjects. She was an active member of the Mount Laurel Ski Club in Connecticut, where she applied her design and restoration skills to the interior aesthetics of the club’s mountain lodge.
The painting is a pastel on paper and is signed lower right illegibly and dated 1923. The pastel is very well done. It is displayed in a simple gilt wood molding frame with tan colored mat with hand painted line decoration and is protected behind glass. A beautiful portrait of a lovely Art Deco flapper period woman. Measures; sight size 13 1/2″ x 10 1/2″, framed 21 1/4″ x 18 1/4″ .
William H. Hollis (New England, XX Century) oil on canvas painting of a wood shed with homestead attached in the background, in the forest there is a figure wearing yellow splitting wood on the right. This is a winter scene with snow on the ground aa you can see trees void of their leaves. The painting is signed lower right «William H. Hollis» and is unframed. It has a neat feel to it with the black outlined design throughout. I am sure once framed this painting will really pop. The back of stretcher it is titled «Honey Wild Cherry», the canvas is signed «Painted by William H. Hollis, March 1946». Measures; painting 10 1/8″ x 12 1/16″ .
This is a late 19thC. European landscape painting. it is an oil on thick hard cardboard and depicts a woman at the well with chickens in the foreground. She stands besides a thatched roof house and out building. The painting is signed lower left, I can’t make out the whole signature, the last name ends in «ovich». It is housed in a silvered wood molding frame with tan mat and protective glass front. Measures; sight size 9 1/2″ x 12 1/2″», framed 15 1/2″ x 18 1/2″ .
Adolph Frederick Kleiminger (Massachusetts United States, 1865-1945) Born Chicago, Illinois; died Tucson, Arizona. Addresses: Chicago, Illinois, New York, New Jersey, Non Quitt, MA. He studied with John Vanderpoel; H. Martin; Art Students League. He was a member of; Chicago Society of Artists*, Society of Independent Artists*; New Bedford Society of Artists. He exhibited at; New Bedford Art Club, 1912-1916; Armory Show*, 1913; Art Institute of Chicago, 1913-1925; Artists Guild Chicago, annually until 1914; Paris Salon*; Munich; Edinburgh, Scotland; S. Indp A, 1917. He worked at: Old Dartmouth History Society, taught at Art Institute of Chicago; then went to Paris for further study. Was in New Bedford in the early 1900’s, teaching at Swain Free School of Design. He married Frances E.
