Meet The Artists

Norman Osborne, New Smyrna Street scene, oil Masonite, 17 by 13 3/4 inches.  One of the first artists in New Smyrna Beach, Norman Osborne was partners with illustrator George Varian…

P.R. McIntosh, oil on board, 17 by 23 inches. Signed lower right. P. R. (Pleasant Ray) McIntosh grew up on a farm in southern Indiana, where at the age of…

Reyna Ullman Youngerman, Lady in Red, oil on canvas, 31.5 by 23.5 inches. Signed lower right. Reyna Youngerman, a Yale educated artist from Connecticut, twice the recipient of Tiffany Foundation…

 Oreta Williams, Storm Coming, oil on canvas, 24 by 31 inches. Signed and titled verso. A native of Alderson, West Virginia, Oreta Basham, and Harold Williams graduated from Alderson High…

Chester J. Tingler, Evening Music, oil on wood, 24 1/2 by 30 3/4 inches.  An important Miami artist-muralist, Chester Tingler was born in Sweden and grew up in Buffalo, New…

Newton Merrill, A Florida Shore, oil on canvas, 27 by 33 inches. Signed lower left.  Newton Merrill had talents both as an artist and an actor. In 1908, at the…

Ralph Leon Bagley, oil on canvas, 20 by 24 inches. Signed lower right Ralph L. Bagley. Ralph Bagley’s career in Central Florida spanned almost 60 years. When he was a…

Henry Curtis Ahl, Sand Dune, oil on canvas, 18 1/4 by 22 1/4 inches. Signed lower right, Ahl, Jr. Henry Curtis Ahl, Sarasota Shore, oil on canvas, 8 by 10…

Edmund Bruce Stowe, oil on Masonite, 18 by 36 inches. Signed lower right, E. B. Stowe, 64. Edmund B. Stowe was known as the “Sanford Artist,” famous for his rendering…

Armin Buchterkirch, watercolor, 4 3/4 by 6 3/4 inches. Signed lower right.  After the Ponce de Leon Hotel opened in St. Augustine in 1888, Florida began attracting artists for the…

Vivian Lewis, oil on canvas, 30 by 24 inches. Signed lower left.  A native of Columbus, Ohio, Vivian Lewis began coming to Florida in 1936, but it was not until…

Gladys Wood, Arch Creek, Florida, oil on canvas 28 by 22 inches. Signed lower left, titled verso.  A 5th generation native of New London, New Hampshire, Glady Wood’s mother studied…