Selected Works

Private Sales · New York

Lois Dodd / Joan Semmel / Gerald K. Geerlings / M.C. Escher / George Morrison / Joan Snyder / Sonia Gechtoff / Lee Gatch

Day Window (Red Curtain), by Lois Dodd, oil on linen, 1972

Lois Dodd

Day Window (Red Curtain), 1972

oil on linen, 48 x 36 inches

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Painted in 1972, Day Window (Red Curtain) is Dodd at her best. The trompe l'oeil scrunch of the curtain fabric gives way to a natural drape of red and creamy white paint, framing a loosely painted landscape in the distance. A vivid example of Dodd's ability to move between fast and slow looking, exacting observation and loose brushwork, the painting was included in Lois Dodd: Framing the Ephemeral, her first European retrospective, at Kunstmuseum Den Haag, and is illustrated full-page in the exhibition catalogue on p. 115.
January Window, by Lois Dodd, oil on masonite, 1987

Lois Dodd

January Window, 1987

oil on masonite, 22 × 12 in

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Dodd's window paintings turn ordinary interiors and seasonal views into compact studies of light, weather, and framing. January Window gives the selection a quiet anchor: an intimate oil on masonite that reads as both observed winter view and formal construction.

Movement, by Joan Semmel, Oil on canvas, 1961

Joan Semmel

Movement, 1961

Oil on canvas, 52 × 60 in

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Painted before Semmel's 1970s feminist figurative turn, Movement belongs to the early abstract phase now increasingly relevant to reassessments of her career. Its all-over energy connects her to postwar abstraction while anticipating the physical intensity of the later work.

Image #1, by Joan Semmel, Oil on canvas, 1961

Joan Semmel

Image #1, 1961

Oil on canvas, 50 × 50 in

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Image #1 offers another view of Semmel's rarely seen early abstraction, made before the self-viewpoint paintings for which she became best known. The work is best understood as early-career abstract painting: direct, physical, and formally ambitious.

Ashen Pink. Ashen Green. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, by George Morrison, Acrylic on canvas on board, 1990

George Morrison

Ashen Pink. Ashen Green. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1990

Acrylic on canvas on board, 6 × 11.75 in

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A compact Red Rock Variation from Morrison's late Lake Superior landscape body, built around the horizon line that became one of his signature structures. The small scale concentrates the meeting of water, sky, and shore into a quiet abstract field.

Native Ground. Solitude. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, by George Morrison, Acrylic on canvas on board, 1997

George Morrison

Native Ground. Solitude. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1997

Acrylic on canvas on board, 4.75 × 15 in

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This late Lake Superior landscape belongs to Morrison's mature horizon vocabulary, where bands of color and surface carry the memory of Red Rock and the North Shore. It reads as landscape through structure rather than description.

Soft Afternoon. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, by George Morrison, Acrylic on canvas on board, 1986

George Morrison

Soft Afternoon. Red Rock Variation: Lake Superior Landscape, 1986

Acrylic on canvas on board, 5.5 × 11 in

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Soft Afternoon is another intimate Red Rock Variation, linking Morrison's modernist abstraction to the specific horizon and light of Lake Superior. Its modest size makes the work especially direct.

Untitled, by George Morrison, Watercolor on paper, 1960

George Morrison

Untitled, 1960

Watercolor on paper, 11 × 13 in

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This 1960 watercolor catches Morrison in a more immediate works-on-paper register, before the late Red Rock horizon paintings but still grounded in abstraction, compression, and atmospheric structure.

Untitled (Linear Composition in Black Purple and Orange), by Joan Snyder, graphite, ink, gouache, and pastel on paper, 1970

Joan Snyder

Untitled (Linear Composition in Black Purple and Orange), 1970

graphite, ink, gouache, and pastel on paper, 19 × 26 in

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A 1970 work on paper by Snyder sits near the emergence of her Stroke paintings, where gridded structure and repeated marks opened abstraction to narrative, autobiography, and feminist content. Here, line and rhythm carry the charge.

Untitled (Chamber VI), by Sonia Gechtoff, Acrylic and graphite on paper, 1982

Sonia Gechtoff

Untitled (Chamber VI), 1982

Acrylic and graphite on paper, 28.00 × 20.00 in.

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Gechtoff was a central Bay Area and New York Abstract Expressionist whose forceful gesture and graphic structure carried into later works on paper. Chamber VI brings that energy into a compact, concentrated format.

The Peach, by Lee Gatch, Oil on canvas, c. 1950s

Lee Gatch

The Peach, c. 1950s

Oil on canvas, 22 1/8 × 11 ¼ in

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Gatch's midcentury painting moved between representation and abstraction, often finding modernist structure in nature and domestic subjects. The Peach reads as an intimate, independent American modernist painting rather than a work tied too tightly to a named movement.

Classic 20th-Century Prints

A focused print section for collectors looking beyond paintings: Gerald K. Geerlings's Machine Age city view and M.C. Escher's impossible-architecture landmark, Relativity.

Jewelled City (Chicago), by Gerald K. Geerlings, Etching and aquatint, 1931

Gerald K. Geerlings

Jewelled City (Chicago), 1931

Etching and aquatint, 15 1/2 × 11 5/8 in

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Geerlings trained as an architect before becoming one of the sharpest American printmakers of modern city architecture. Jewelled City (Chicago) uses etching and aquatint to turn Chicago's illuminated skyline into a Machine Age night view.

Relativity, by M.C. Escher, lithograph, 1953

M.C. Escher

Relativity, 1953

lithograph, image: 10 7/8 x 11 1/2 in (27.7 x 29.2 cm)

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Relativity is one of Escher's defining impossible-architecture lithographs, bringing three gravitational systems into a single stair-filled interior. This impression is signed and numbered in pencil in the lower margin, No. 12/50 II, with Escher's monogram and VII-'53 in the image.

Additional works and supporting material are available on request.