Meet The Artists

    Riley F. Napier, St. Petersburg. Oil on canvas,18 by 24 inches, signed lower right and on back Thrill Hill Bridge, St. Petersburg, Fla. Stamped Frames Riley F. Napier…

      Frances Carlberg King, Stuart, Palm Beach, Pompano. Watercolor, 11 by 15 inches, signed lower right Frances Carlberg King.  KING, Frances Carlberg         Stuart, Palm Beach, Pompano Beach A…

      George W. Willis, Ocala, Williston. Oil on board,12 by 18 inches. On back, “Everglades, painted by Dr. Willis of Ocala.” WILLIS, George W.          Ocala, Williston Many years…

  Phineas E. Paist, Mermaids, oil on board, 48 by 60 inches. Signed lower right Phineas E. Paist 1932. In January of 1916, Paul Chalfin was in trouble, James Deering…

   Dottie Comfort, Sunday Afternoon Cedar Key, watercolor. Dottie Comfort lived and worked on Cedar Key in the 1940’s, 50’s and 60’s. For many years a Michigan school teacher, Comfort…

Thompson, Walter Whitcomb, The Jungle, St. Petersburg, December 1925. Oil on board, 6 1/4 by 9 inches. Signed lower left. Walter Thompson grew up in Jacksonville; some of his first…

                        Russell Smiley, oil on canvas, 36 by 30 inches, signed lower left Russ Smiley. Commercial artist Russell Smiley…

William Teschner, Tampa. Oil on canvas, 21 by 28 inches, a portrait of two children at a Tampa homestead, circa 1915. Signed lower right W. Teschner. Painting needs cleaning and…

  Charles Lyle Holley, Pensacola. Oil on artist board 12 by 15 inches. Titled Through the Rigging, with Florida Federation of Art 9th Annual Exhibition,1935 on back. Painting needs cleaning. …

  George Franklin Higgins, Florida Retreat, oil on canvas, 12 by 16 inches, sighed lower right, G. F. Higgins  Boston’s George Franklin Higgins was one of the first New England…

    Lorraine Newton, Punta Gorda, Fort Myers. A Seminole Woman, oil on Masonite, 20 by 16 inches. Signed with monogram lower right.   A well-known artist, copper plate designer,…

  Andrew R. Janson, Tallahassee, Hollywood, Hollywood Hills, 1926. Andrew Janson worked as an artist and naturalist for the state of Florida for over twenty-five years. An Eagle Scout from…