Meet The Artists

  Wells M. Sawyer, Mangrove Islands Near Marco, 1896, watercolor, 9 by 12 inches. Born in 1863, Wells Moses Sawyer, was the descendant of American pioneers, one of whom fought…

  Helen Sawyer, Sarasota, oil on canvas, 20 by 24, signed lower left Helen Sawyer. Helen Sawyer was one of Florida’s most gifted artists. Her father, artist Wells Sawyer, encouraged…

  Jerry Farnsworth, Circus Lady, oil on canvas, 30 by 20 inches. Signed lower left, Farnsworth.  Jerry Farnsworth and his wife Helen Sawyer Farnsworth were both Florida artists with national…

Hugh McKean, Unfinished Portrait of Gennette McKean, oil on canvas, 23 3/4 by 27 3/4 inches. The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Art, Winter Park, FL. The Charles Hosmer Morse…

    Hugh McKean, Where the Mockingbird Sings, oil on canvas 25 by 30 inches. The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art, Winter Park, FL. The Charles Hosmer Morse…

    Clark, Christopher, The Crap Shooters, oil on canvas, first prize, Best Painting, Florida Federation of Art Annual 1936, reproduced, Sunday New York Times Magazine, May 1936 and exhibited,…

    Emma Louise Dana, St. Petersburg. Oil on artist board 11.5 by 15 inches, signed on back, Emma Dana, Wharf at St. Petersburg, 1925. Emma Dana was the daughter…

  Amelia Watson, Pines and Palms, watercolor, 10 3/4 by 12 3/4 inches, signed lower left. Born in 1856 in Connecticut, Amelia Watson first studied with her mother, an amateur…

  Guy LaBree, Dania, Everglades Transportation, oil on canvas board, 8 by 10 inches, signed lower right.  In the first grade at Dania Elementary School Guy Labree’s best friends were…

Franz Joseph Bolinger, Self Portrait, oil on canvas, 36 by 34 inches, signed lower right.  Franz Bolinger moved to Ft. Lauderdale with his family in 1905. In 1919 the family…

Memphis Wood, Jacksonville, Changing Classes, oil on panel, 24 by 18 inches, sighed upper left. In the 1920’s Memphis Wood was teaching art in North Carolina as a traveling art…

LeRoy Nichols, Sarasota, Bradenton, oil on canvas, 15 by 30 inches, signed lower right and dated 1988. The descendant of two generations of career U. S. Army officers, Roy Nichols…