Meet The Artists

                        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…

Emmitt Sutton, St. Petersburg. Oil on board, 12 by 18 inches, signed lower left, Emmitt Sutton, 47 Emmett Sutton grew up on the Ohio River in Williamstown, West Virginia, where…

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    STEWART, Horace Floyd, Seabreeze, Daytona Beach. Watercolor, 6.5 by 10.5 inches, signed lower left, H. F. Stewart, 1900. Horace Floyd Stewart was one of the first settlers in…

  YEAGER, S. Franklin, watercolor, 6 by 14 inches, Jacksonville from Pirates Point, Hoyt Estate, FLA., signed lower right, Yeager 1922. Artist, illustrator and writer S. Franklin Yeager said he had…

  William van Dresser. Charcoal on paper, 21.5 by 13.5 inches. Signed lower left William van Dresser, Palm Beach, 1927. William van Dresser was a well-known portrait artist who worked…

  Hugh Walter, Pompano. Charcoal on paper, 19.5 by 13.5 inches. Signed lower right Hugh Walter, Hollywood, Fla. 1934. In 1919, after study at the Art Students League in New…