Meet The Artists

Frank Moore Jeffrey, Palm Beach. On the Palm Beach Ferry-Boat, oil on board, 8 by 9 inches. Inscribed lower right, On the Ferryboat Palm Beach. An amateur artist from New…

  Jesse Whitsit, Miami. Oil on board, 10 by 14 inches, signed lower left Jesse Whitsit 1953. Jesse Whitsit had a remarkable career as an educator and artist, a career…

William Corbett moved to Fort Lauderdale from Louisville, Kentucky in 1950.  When he died at the Coral Gables Veteran’s Hospital in 1960, the Miami Herald referred to him as the…

James T. Robe, Tampa. Thunderstorm at Tampa County Fair, 1964, acrylic on board, 21 1/2 by 47 inches. It seems a bit strange that an artist like James Robe would…

  Louise Jordan Liddell Hemenway, Tampa. On the Road to Shore Acres, oil on canvas board, circa 1930. Signed lower right and boldly inscribed in ink on back, Florida landscape,…

Elmer Harmes, Sarasota, Ringling School of Art.  On back stretcher, Sally Marlow, Circus Equestrienne, signed lower right, E Harmes, 43. Oil on canvas, 22 by 27 inches. Sally Marlow was…

  Belle Weeden McNeer was the first artist working in Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida, advertising in the Florida Gazetteer and Business Directory of 1895 as an artist. Belle Weeden was…

  Frog Smith, Everybody is Happy Happy While Mother Cooks Without Gas, Electricity or Even a Stove. Mixed Media, 14 by 18 inches.  Ernest “Frog” Smith’s colorful depictions of cracker…

Faye Henthorne. Clearwater Beach, 1944. Oil on artists board, 18 by 24 inches. Signed lower right Faye Henthorne, 44. Here is a particularly poignant portrait of two young people, likely…

  Schick, Paul R. Palms Along the Sea. Oil on canvas, 24 by 30 inches. Society of the Four Arts exhibition label on back, March-April 1940. Paul R. Schick made…

The Pool at the Biltmore Hotel, 1926. Oil on canvas, 30 by 40 inches, signed lower left. Here is a painting by Walter Bowman Russell, The Pool at the Biltmore…

Harvest Moon Sugar Cane, Hillsborough County. Watercolor, tempera, 16 by 24 inches.  Born in Georgia, Norman Borchardt grew up in Tampa, graduating with honors from Hillsborough High School in 1908.…