Historical Art

An early view of the Monterey Peninsula coast from near the artist's home in Pacific Grove, CA. William Adam was one of the first artists to paint on the Monterey Peninsula.
William Adam
Black and white drypoint etching of a boats resting near the shore at Pea Island with birds overhead.
Frank W. Benson
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Expansive Spring landscape of the green fields and coastal mountains near Morro Bay, California.
Cornelis J. Botke
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Pastoral riparian view of a brook running through a summer landscape with trees and hills.
Maurice Braun
A 1916 view looking up to Mt. Tamalpais from Richardson Bay in Marin County, California. Homes and other buildings dot the landscape at the base of the mountain.
Henry Joseph Breuer
A modernist bronze scupture of an owl. Overall size: 10"H x 7"W x 5.5"D
Beniamino Bufano
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A still life of colorful multi-colored roses and other flowers in a clear vase on a table.
Alice Brown Chittenden
A semi-abstract view of colorful trees in an unknown forest.
William Henry Clapp
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Portrait of the side-facing head of a European woman wearing a bright red scarf.
Linford Donovan
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Still life of colorful flowers in a white ceramic vase against a dark background.
Paul Dougherty, N.A.
Alexander Dzigurski - Cypress and Poppies - Oil on Canvas - 20 x 24
Alexander Dzigurski
An early watercolor view of the coast of San Francisco near the Golden Gate with a steamship at sea in the distance.
A. V. Farnsworth
An expansive mountain landscape in the Sierra mountains of California at twilight.
J. Bond Francisco
Cottonwood and oak trees in fall along a dry creek with golden hills in the background, probably in Carmel Valley, California.
Arthur Hill Gilbert, A.N.A.
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Early tonalist painting of brown and white farm animals grazing in a field, probalby in the area of Oakland or Marin County, California.
Selden Connor Gile
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A colorful plein air landscape of a farm and fileds in fall with hills in the background.
Pam Glover
Ted Goerschner - The Old Wagon - Oil on Canvas - 20 x 24
Ted Goerschner
William Hannum - Along the Coast - Oil on Canvas - 18 x 24
William Hannum
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Cosimo Aiello was a Monetery Fisherman and friend of the artist, Armin Hansen. He died at sea in 1931. Hansen created several posthums portraits of Cosimo, this one with two of his gritty Montrerey fisherman pals. Also known as "Montereyans."
Armin Carl Hansen, N.A.
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A European genre scene from 1885 of two women drinking tea at a small table, in a room with period decorations.
George Hitchcock, A.N.A.
A portait of Jake Stock of the band "Jake Stock and the Abalone Stompers" holding his saxaphone. This was a popular band that played in the Carmel and Big Sur, California area in the late 1900's Painted by Hank Ketcham of "Dennis the Menace" fame.
Hank (Henry King) Ketcham
A still life of a single Bird of Paradise flower on a table covered by a white tablecloth.
Tomi D. Kobara
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An Early California watercolor of fishing boats on a sunny day near the wharf at Monterey, California.
Maurice Logan, N.A.
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A Southern California landscape painted near El Cajon, California, with trees, buildings and water in the foreground and snow-capped mountains rising in the distance.
Alfred R. Mitchell
An pastel of blossoming apple trees in Carmel Valley, California, with golden foothills in the distance. Back in the days when there were numerous orchards and dairy farms in Carmel Valley.
Mary DeNeale Morgan
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Charles Movalli - A Cabin in the Woods - Oil on Canvas/Board - 12 x 16
Charles Movalli
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Frank Harmon Myers - Gray, Green and Blue - Oil on Canvas - 22 x 28
Frank Harmon Myers
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Cliffs, rocks and water along the coast at the old Reamer Point in Carmel, CA. Scenic Road in Carmel now runs along the left edge of the picture plane.
Lillie May Nicholson
Colorful tall pine trees in the Carmel Highlands neigborhood near Carmel, California.
John O'Shea
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A sailboat rest in a European harbor town, possibly St. Tropez, France.
Myron Angelo Oliver
Sailboats in the harbor of a northern European port city, probably Belgium or the Netherlands.
Joseph Raphael
Simple Tonalist landscape with a rising full moon over a pond and field in the foreground with trees in the upper-left. Painted on an old Cuban Partagas cigar box top.
Granville Redmond
Charles Dormon Robinson - Sierra Serenity - Oil on Lined Canvas - 26 x 36
Charles Dormon Robinson
One of Rockwell's most famous images, depicting Stockbridge, MA at Christmas. Signed by Norman Rockwell and purchased from the Norman Rockwell Museum Store in 2000. Orignal invoice accompanies the signed print.
Norman Rockwell
Watercolor portrait of a nude woman sitting in a lily pond.
Donna Schuster
A row of tall eucalyptus trees along the coast with the ocean in the distance at Santa Monica, California.
William Posey Silva
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A gritty period view of boats resting near the underside of a concrete overpass in the back bay of Newport Beach, California.
Russell Swan
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Donald Teague, N.A. - Old Houses - Chartres - Watercolor - 6 x 9
Donald Teague, N.A.
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A partially-clothed woman, perhaps the artist's model, sitting on a bed admiring a group of prints.
Frank Van Sloun
Expansive view of the Ojai Valley, painted around 1912, with the sunny valley stretching beyond sun-dappled oak trees on a hillside in the foreground.
Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel
Sunlit partly-cloudy skies above a high desert landscape in Southern California. Great atmospheric perspective as the hills retreat into the distance.
Robert William Wood
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A woman lying on the sand at a beach near Monterey, California.
S. C. Yuan