Meet The Artists

ZIKMUND, MADAM–St. Petersburg

  Madam Zikmund, St. Petersburg, oil on board, 16 by 20 inches, signed lower right.  Petrenella Zikmund, or Madam Zikmund, worked in St. Petersburg from 1939 to 1941. She advertised…

SARGENT, RICHARD–Key West

Richard Sargent, watercolor, Rest Beach, Key West. In 1936 Richard Sargent was a member of the Key West Artists Program. In 1934 Eleanor Roosevelt chose Sargent’s painting Magnolia Gardens for…

SMITH, ERIC JOHAN–Key West

Eric Johan Smith, Key West. Drawing from page 52, Key West in Transition, A Guidebook for Visitors.  Published by Key West Administration, December 1934.   Eric Johan Smith was a…

BECK, KLIR–Key West

    Klir Beck, watercolor, Black Angel Fish, Key West Klir Beck was a Mount Vernon, Maine artist who was one of a group of artists who came to Key…

ADRIAN J. DORNBUSH–Key West

       Adrian J. Dornbush, The Coral Isle of Key West. In 1933 the city of Key West was bankrupt. Federal and state officials were attempting to revive the…

RICHARD JANSEN–Key West

Richard Jansen, watercolor Key West Art Gallery Jansen, from Milwaukee, was in Key West in 1934 working as an artist for the Florida Emergency Relief Administration and the Key West…

STANLEY WOOD–Key West

Stanley Wood, watercolor, Ginger Plant, Key West Stanley Wood was a member of the Key West Public Works Art Project 1934-1935. A graduate of the Philadelphia School of Architecture, in…

JOHNSON, AVERY–Key West

 Avery Johnson, Key West, watercolor, Deep Sea Fishing, Key West Born in Wheaton, Illinois, artist Avery Johnson worked on the Jackson, Mississippi diorama at the Chicago Century of Progress in…