Meet The Artists

Alfonso Toran, Flamingoes, oil on Masonite,10 by 8 inches. Signed lower right. A painter, decorator, designer, lecturer, writer, and teacher, Alfonso Toran received awards for his work in Italy, France,…

Herbert Gallie, Hillsborough River, watercolor, 10 by 7.5 inches. Signed lower right.  Herbert Gallie, a Scotsman who studied at the Royal Academy in London, was one of Tampa’s foremost artists…

Jean Wagner Troemel, By the Costume Tent, oil on Masonite, 24 by 30 inches. Signed lower right, dated “55”. Written on frame verso, Jean Troemel, By the Costume Tent Ringling…

Richard Merrick, Something of the Past, watercolor, 15 by 21 inches. Exhibit label below. Richard Merrick was the younger brother of the founder of The City Beautiful, Coral Gables. Richard, …

Harold Maddock, Castle de San Marco, oil on board, 12 by 16 inches. Signed and dated 1958, verso. Born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Harold Maddocks, helped organize the Rockport Art Association.…

Eugene White, New Pass Bridge, oil on board, 15.5 by 19.5 inches. Signed lower right, titled verso. Eugene White was an Ohio farmer when, sometime late in the 1940’s, he…

Lucile Blanch, Myakka Jungle, oil on canvas 22 by 30 inches. Wichita State University Museum label on verso.  Lucile Lundquist grew up in Warren Sheaf, Minnesota with an early talent…

Vivian Davis, Fort Pierce, oil on board, 16 by 20 inches.  Vivian Davis taught art in Fort Pierce for 57 years. A student of history, Davis served as president of…

Stanley Wingate Woodward, Florida Nude, watercolor, 19.5 by 15.5 inches. Titled on verso with exhibit label from Audubon Artists Annual, National Academy Gallery, New York.  A life-long resident of Rockport,…

  Louise Zaring, Venetian Pool, Coral Gable, oil on canvas laid on board, 14 by 18 inches. Signed lower left.  Louise Zaring was a gifted impressionist who spent half of…

Nunzio Vayana, Farm-House-in-Spuds-Florida, oil-on-board, 16 1/4 by 20 inches. Signed lower right with characteristic red paint.  In 1903 Nunzio Vayana immigrated to the United States from Italy, settling in Hartford,…

D Donald Blake, watercolor, 20 by 14 inches. Signed lower right, Donald Blake.  A Florida native, Donald Blake was born in Bushnell in 1889, moving to Tampa at the age…