Luke Swank

Artist: Swank, Luke (American 1890 - 1944) Title: Pittsburgh Street Descending (possibly lower Oakland or The Hill District) with the photographers stamp on the reverse Luke Swank Penn Avenue Pittsbur

LUKE SWANK, House on Street, late 1930s-early 1940s, 5.75x8" Gelatin silver print, Printed late 1930s-early 1940s, Signed in blue ink on mount verso. Known for his architectural and documentary views

Artist: Luke Swank (American, 1890-1944). Title: "West Middleton, Pennsylvania, Cemetery". Medium: Original vintage photogravure. Date: Composed c1938. Printed 1939. Dimensions: Image size: 1

Artist: Luke Swank (American, 1890-1944). Title: "West Middleton, Pennsylvania, Cemetery". Medium: Original vintage photogravure. Date: Composed c1938. Printed 1939. Dimensions: Image size: 1

Untitled – Architectural Study Circa 1940 Vintage Gelatin Silver Print Mounted to Board, Signed and Stamped with artist’s address verso Measures: 10 x 8 inches Untitled – Architectural Detail Ci

LUKE SWANK, Horses, 1930-1944, 7.125x9.25" Gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1930-1944, Artist stamp on mount verso. Luke Swank (1890-1944) was born in Johnstown, PA and attended Penn State Agricultura

18th/19th century, oil on board, depicted standing holding the staff with a globus cruciger set on the table beside, framed in an 18th century or earlier carved, giltwood ‘Auricular’ frame, a type

The sharp shouldered form rising to a tall, strait neck and above a rounded body tapering to the foot and recessed base, incised in low relief with a band of stylized clouds below the rim, the shoulde

Early 20th-century shield (known as a kliau or klebit), Mualang-Dayak people, West Kalimantan, Borneo Island, Indonesia. Honey-colored wood with black and red-brown pigments outlining the features of

Photograph, 2008, limited edition (17/30), from the series “The Wild Horses of Sable Island”, Nova Scotia, signed on verso, face mounted on plexiglass with aluminum backing Property of a New Y

An exquisite crest mask with a female figure standing atop a platform and flanked by two arcs or horns and coming from either the Anang or Ibibio people of southeastern Nigeria. Rendered with stylized

Despite obvious damage and losses, this early Corpus Christi has lost none of its sculptural power. Sensitive - even if slightly archaic - modeling of the elongated form is typical for the region and

Large double-woven "Delhi" coverlet in blue wool and white cotton; center seam and rolled hems. Asahel Amora Phelps (1795-1854, active 1835-1854) and his son, John Benjamin Phelps II (active 1854-60),

19th century, painted with beautiful women standing and dancing in different poses in various elaborate dress beneath a floral ruyi collar draped with knotted tassels, the base with a double blue circ

From the series of small works that the painter John Walker (b. 1939) has produced over the past decade is this single example from 2005, titled "No. 22." Expressive in their nature, the body of work

"A Map of the World Drawn by Hannah Edgerton, Cairo Seminary December 27, 1828. E. Stimson, Preceptress." These hand-drawn and colored "school girl" maps were a far more common in the boarding and fin

Oil on board, the full moon reflecting in the river below amid clouds and shadows of trees. Christies East, New York, Old Master Paintings, 19 October 2000, lot 110 Collection of Dr. Ole H. Ploen, Swe

Sandstone Torso of Buddha Fragment in Sukhothai style, probably 15th century. Draped in a robe falling off the right shoulder, with a layered, narrow garment fold with a decorative edge in low relief.

Bamboo walking stick, Kanak people, New Caledonia, 19th-early 20th century. Engraved with several registers of blackened etched designs that alternate between geometric patterns, natural motifs, scene

20th century, a pink ground robe with light blue border worked in color with silver thread with a butterfly, peony and chrysanthemum motif; a dragon robe worked in blues, yellows and gold thread on a

Walking staff with waist-up figural finial, Tanzania. While ethnic attribution is uncertain, the staff finial (with long arms crossing abdomen, scarified face with peaceful expression and inset bead e

Stylized pair of wooden Yoruba twin figures with tapering heads, high forehead, large diamond-shaped eyes and broad smiles displaying traditionally filed incisors. The features are recognizable as the

Portfolio of seven large format, geometric abstract serigraphs (screen prints) by the artist Jean Leppien, 1971. Titled "7 U.F.O" and modeled after a series of paintings by the artist, this portfolio

Evening landscape painting on panel, inscribed "HM Kitchell, 8x11, 1917" in pencil on verso. Hudson M. Kitchell (1862-1944) is broadly known for this precise type of richly colored evening scene. His