Meet The Artists

LA BREE, GUY–Dania, Arcadia

  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…

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…