Folk Art Portrait by Louis Berkowitz

Part of a group of twenty paintings dated from the 1960's - 1970's discovered about 20 years ago.

Sold for $1,000.00 at Carlsen Gallery, Inc.

19th Century Painting of Gluek's Brewery

Auction house description:

American School, Late 19th Century

Gluek's Brewery. Signed and dated "G.S.K.'89" l.r. Oil on canvas, showing the brewery, horse-drawn carriages, a freight train, two Victorian houses, and an extensive group of brewery outbuildings, many of which are identified: the stable, the ice house, and the bottlery, 28 1/2 x 40 in., in a molded wood frame.

Note: Gluek's Brewery was founded in Minneapolis on the banks of the Mississippi River in 1858 by Gottlieb Gluek. He ran a successful business, and despite the hurdles of an 1880 fire, Gottleib's untimely death shortly thereafter, and Prohibition, the Brewery was still operating independently under family control until it was acquired in 1964. Beer was sold under the Gluek label until 2010, and a restaurant named after the venerable brewing family still operates in downtown Minneapolis.

Sold for $3,998.00 at Skinner.

Early 20th Century Folk Art Paintings

Two early 20th century folk art paintings by the same hand.

From the auction house description:
This painting is one of a few folk art landscapes executed by an unidentified artist who worked in the Lake Champlain areas of Vermont, New York State, and Quebec. One work is illustrated on the dust jacket of Folk Painters of America, by Robert Bishop (E.P. Dutton, New York). Another work is held in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum collection. 

Provenance: Walters-Benisek, purchased in 1996.

The Vermont Farm Landscape sold for $35,000 (w/o premium) and the House by the Railroad Tracks went unsold with an estimate of $8,000 - $12,000 at Skinner.

Lincoln

Available here.

Josephine Joy

Magnolia Blossoms

Oil on canvas

36 1/8 x 40 1/8"

Ca. 1935 - 1941 

Aloes

Oil on canvas

30 x 24 1/8"

Ca. 1935 - 1938

Waterbirds Nesting

Oil on canvas

29 7/8 x 24"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

Trysting at Evening

Oil on fiberboard

29 3/4 x 24"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

San Diego Mission

Oil on fiberboard

39 3/4 x 48"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

Prisoner's Plea

Oil on fiberboard

23 7/8 x 28"

Ca. 1935 - 1937

Moufflon - Bobtailed Sheep

Oil on canvas

30 x 24"

Ca. 1935 - 1939

Irish Cottage

Oil on canvas

31 x 36 1/8"

Ca. 1935 - 1938

CCC Camp Balboa Park

Oil on canvas

18 1/8 x 24"

Ca. 1933 - 1937

Biographical information from the Smithsonian American Art Museum:
Josephine Hiett Joy was born near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, in 1869 and soon thereafter her family moved to Peoria, Illinois. After an early marriage that ended in divorce, she went to Chicago and subsequently married Frank Joy. She became interested in painting after they moved to San Diego. A prolific worker, she became a WPA artist in the late 1930s, which led to her first solo exhibition at the St. Etienne Gallery in New York City in 1943. Joy died in Peoria in 1948.

Circa 1880 Cabinet Card of a Folk Art Painting

Available here.

Girl with Flowers

19th century painting by Horace Bundy.

Available here.