19th Century Painting of a Woman in Lace

An unusually luminous oil portrait of a woman in black lace.

Available at Anonymous Works.

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.

Portrait of Estelle the Rebel

Available here.

Sisters

Circa 1850 oil on canvas by William Stamms Shackleford. 35 x 27 in.

Sold at Brunk Auctions for $21,000.00 (w/o premium).

Magic Realism

Circa 1940's anonymous relief painting of a woman.

Available at Anonymous Works.

Portrait of an Architect

Available at Blair Gordon.

Steve Harley: An Original Life

Steve Harley (1863-1947) was a Michigan native, who moved to the Pacific Northwest in the 1920s. He painted a series of obsessively detailed landscapes of the mountains, valleys and rivers that enthralled him. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum owns every known work of his, which only amounts to five paintings.

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum at Colonial Williamsburg through January 2014.

Leopards

Available here.

Pigeon Painting

Folk art painting of a pair of pigeons in winter, by John Fleigerbauer of Altoona, PA, dated 1971.

Available at Cottage + Camp.

Vintage Pin-up

Circa 1930's vintage pin-up illustration painting by Harold Van Gorder.

Available here.

Symbolic Indians

Circa 1940's oil pastel painting of two American Indians with a charming symbolism. Painted on board with original frame. This is one of several naive paintings found at an Oakland, CA swap meet.

Available at Anonymous Works.

Children at Play

Available here.