Meet The Artists

Violet Schoenberg, Lafayette Street Bridge, Tampa, oil on canvas, 20 by 24 inches. Signed lower right. As a young woman of 24, in the summer of 1918 Violet Schoenberg represented…

Jules Andre Smith, Maitland, Florida,  *Jules Andre Smith was born, of American parents, in Hong Kong, 1880. He came to the United States at the age of ten and attended…

Russell Robinson, Dead End at Sanibel, oil on canvas, 30 by 48 inches. Signed lower right, dated 1975. Russell Robinson was eleven years old when his family moved to Clearwater…

Albin Polasek (Czech/American, 1879-1965), Man Carving His Own Destiny, 1917. Bronze, cast signature. Height 19 ¾”, width 12 1/2”, depth 7”. The following is by Debbie Komanski, Executive Director, Albin…

Betty Parsons, untitled, oil on paper, 1950’s, 17” by 14.” inches. Quoting Wikipedia, “Betty Parsons was an American artist, art dealer, and collector known for her early promotion of Abstract…

Arnold Hicks, oil on canvas, 23 1/2 by 35 1/2 inches. Signed lower right.  A Canadian, Arnold Hicks studied at the Montreal Royal Academy and at art institutes in New…

Artemis Skevakis Jegart, Railway Express, polymer tempera on board, 48 by 35.75 inches. Signed, dated and titled, verso. Artemis Skevakis Jegart was named by her father, a native of Greece,…

Ann Eckert Keenan, Primping, Miami Daily News, July 20, 1952.  Ann Eckert Keenan was a popular member of Miami’s professional artist colony in the 1950’s. Her work, initially realistic watercolors…

S Stanley Escudero, Florida Panther, oil on canvas, 30 by 36 inches. Signed lower right.  The Orlando Sentinel, August 24, 1958, called Stanley Escudero “New Smyrna’s Painting Policeman.” In 1928…

Edith Walker Oliver, Sponge Exchange, Tarpon Springs, Fla, watercolor, 8 1/4 by 11 1/2 inches. Signed lower right, E. Walker, 34. Edith Walker had a studio in Highland Park, a…

William Krondorf, Vails’ Point, watercolor postcard, 5.125 by 7.06 inches.  William Krondorf, a fixture in the St. Augustine art community for years, was born in Bavaria, Germany, immigrating to the…

   Emile Gruppe, Pier from 13th South, oil on canvas, 24 by 19.75 inches. Sighed lower right, titled verso.  Emile Gruppe was a noted American artist and art educator whose…