CUSTOM FRAMED PLATE SIGNED LITHOGRAPH. Framed in brown and double MATTED in white and blue. When Corinne Hartley left the Chouinard Art Institute in 1944 after two years of intensive study she was confident about drawing the figure and had a portfolio to prove it. An opportunity soon opened for her to work in what she calls “the high powered field of commercial art – fashion illustration.” She immediately took the job, and for the next thirty years continued to utilize her drawing skills as a fashion illustrator and, in off hours, as a painter. Her main subjects were women and children. When photography began to inch its way into fashion advertising, she made the transition by exhibiting her work at local galleries gradually establishing a solid career as a fine artist. Immensely popular with the public, her life-like portraits were widely coveted, and she began to feel the pressures of keeping up with her growing number of portrait commissions where children and adults continued to be her subjects.

Over the years Hartley has felt equally at home working in several mediums – charcoal pencil, watercolor, and oil. In the 1990s she began exploring sculpture as well, energetically making it a capstone to a career that spans more than sixty years.

Accepting additional responsibility in her art life, Hartley found teaching a rewarding enterprise and continues today conducting studio classes and plein air workshops where students and teach grow together. She has an immense capacity for work, painting in the day-time hours, sculpting at night, teaching one day a week, and recently has been hard at work writing her very first book on “How to Draw Children.” Though her early records are incomplete, it is estimated she has created over 5,000 Original works in her lifetime.

In an art world that thrives on diversity, and a public with eclectic tastes, Hartley is determined to stay within her genre. Her works are about humanness, the kind of undeniable realism that art can express, even over photography. There’s a certain innocence portrayed in these works – laughing children, smiling teens, serene, thoughtful adults, all done with an overlay of “I see the world like this” exuberance. She believes in the core values of human love, compassion, and joy, and her conviction is that art talent is a gift from a benevolent creator.

“I believe love can be made visible,” she says. “My desire is to bring joy to my audience – to put a smile on People’s faces. When I see that smile I know they’re touched in a special way. That makes me happy.”

Who cannot welcome such a worthy goal in days when art is being continually challenged to illuminate individual thought, express honest emotion, and thereby communicate with a world community increasingly conscious of its oneness.

PLATE SIGNED LITHOGRAPH. CUSTOM FRAMED IN WHITE WITH A SAGE GREEN MAT. FRAME IS SLIGHTLY SCRATCHED- BUT IN OVERALL GREAT CONDITION-SEE PHOTO.When Corinne Hartley left the Chouinard Art Institute in 1944 after two years of intensive study she was confident about drawing the figure and had a portfolio to prove it. An opportunity soon opened for her to work in what she calls “the high powered field of commercial art – fashion illustration.” She immediately took the job, and for the next thirty years continued to utilize her drawing skills as a fashion illustrator and, in off hours, as a painter. Her main subjects were women and children. When photography began to inch its way into fashion advertising, she made the transition by exhibiting her work at local galleries gradually establishing a solid career as a fine artist. Immensely popular with the public, her life-like portraits were widely coveted, and she began to feel the pressures of keeping up with her growing number of portrait commissions where children and adults continued to be her subjects.

Over the years Hartley has felt equally at home working in several mediums – charcoal pencil, watercolor, and oil. In the 1990s she began exploring sculpture as well, energetically making it a capstone to a career that spans more than sixty years.

Accepting additional responsibility in her art life, Hartley found teaching a rewarding enterprise and continues today conducting studio classes and plein air workshops where students and teach grow together. She has an immense capacity for work, painting in the day-time hours, sculpting at night, teaching one day a week, and recently has been hard at work writing her very first book on “How to Draw Children.” Though her early records are incomplete, it is estimated she has created over 5,000 Original works in her lifetime.

In an art world that thrives on diversity, and a public with eclectic tastes, Hartley is determined to stay within her genre. Her works are about humanness, the kind of undeniable realism that art can express, even over photography. There’s a certain innocence portrayed in these works – laughing children, smiling teens, serene, thoughtful adults, all done with an overlay of “I see the world like this” exuberance. She believes in the core values of human love, compassion, and joy, and her conviction is that art talent is a gift from a benevolent creator.

“I believe love can be made visible,” she says. “My desire is to bring joy to my audience – to put a smile on People’s faces. When I see that smile I know they’re touched in a special way. That makes me happy.”

Who cannot welcome such a worthy goal in days when art is being continually challenged to illuminate individual thought, express honest emotion, and thereby communicate with a world community increasingly conscious of its oneness.

Offset Lithograph in a Custom Framed Museum-style ornate Gold Frame.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." Pierre Auguste Renoir was a French artist, and was a leading painter of the Impressionist style. As a young boy, he worked in a porcelain factory. His drawing skills were early recognized, and he was soon employed to create designs on the fine china. He also painted decorations on fans before beginning art school . He moved to Paris in 1862 to study art, where he met Frederic Bazille, Claude Monet, and Alfred Sisley, all great impressionist painters. By 1864, he was exhibiting works at the Paris Salon, but his works went largely unnoticed for the next ten years, mostly in part to the disorder caused by the Franco-Prussian War.

Later, during the Paris Commune of 1871, Renoir was painting on the banks of the Seine River, when he was approached by a number of members from the commune, who thought he was a spy. They threatened to throw in into the river, but he was saved by the leader of the commune, Raoul Rigault, whom he had protected on an earlier occasion. He experienced his first artistic success in 1874, at the first Impressionist Exhibition, and later in London of the same year. In 1881, Renoir began his world travels, voyaging to Italy to see the works of the Renaissance Masters, and later to Algeria, following in the footsteps of Eugene Delacroix. It was in Algeria where he encountered a serious bout with pneumonia, leaving him bedridden for six weeks, and permanently damaging his respiratory system.

In the later years of his life, not even severe rheumatoid arthritis, which left him confined to a wheelchair and limited his movement, could deter Renoir from painting. His arthritis eventually got so bad as to leave a permanent physical deformity of his hands and shoulder, which required him to change his painting technique to adapt to his physical limitations. Before his death in 1919, Renoir traveled to the Louvre to see his paintings hanging in the museum alongside the Masterpieces of the great Masters. He was a prolific artist, created several thousands artworks in his lifetime, and include some of the most well-known paintings in the art world.

PLATE SIGNED OFFSET LITHOGRAPH. CUSTOM FRAMED IN RED AND DOUBLE MATTED.

"TENNIS TOO","BASKET OF LOVE","SITTING HIGH" & "GARDEN OF INNOCENCE" - GROUPING OF 4 PLATE SIGNED CHILDREN LITHOGRAPHS. CUSTOM FRAMED IN BROWN WOOD AND MATTED.