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On Sunday, June 5, 2005
Saper Galleries opened its major 2005 exhibition Tunis
Ponsen: Oil Paintings and Watercolors.
Many paintings are still on display along with others
that have since been pulled from the estate collection
to be made available for acquisition! Please feel
free to check availability with us of your preferred
paintings before scheduling your trip to East Lansing.
The exhibition featured more than 100 paintings by the Dutch-born artist, 10 percent of those discovered in his estate after he died in Chicago in 1968. After having been researched, cleaned and framed in-house by the Saper Galleries framing professionals, many of the paintings were exhibited for the first time since the 1920s and 1930s! On Sunday, November 3, 2013 in the north room of the west gallery, a selection of Tunis Ponsen artwork including framed paintings, watercolors, lithographs, and rare linocuts were put on display. Plan a trip to East Lansing, Michigan to see this largest display of Ponsen paintings ever! For more information or to request assistance in planning your visit, please contact us now! The photographs shown
below represent a very small selection of the
estate paintings of artist Tunis Ponsen. We
would be pleased to share with you information about
and images of other Ponsen paintings on canvas, watercolors,
single-color lithographs and
linocuts.
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 Hidden House by River's Edge Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,500 framed Click here to read a very well-written review of the Ponsen exhibition by Lawrence Cosentino from the June 1, 2005 Lansing CityPulse! Enjoy Kathleen Lavey's excellent story on Tunis Ponsen, from the Lansing State Journal of July 20, 2005. |
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 Arrangement of Apples, Pears and Small Cloth 26 x 20" Oil on Canvas $4,000  Chicago Shoreline 25 x 30" Oil on Canvas $6,000 |
Saper Galleries, East Lansing, Michigan, is proud to have earned the honor and distinction of managing the estate paintings of the Dutch born painter Tunis Ponsen. On site and available for your viewing and acquisition are more than 400 works of art created between 1926 and 1967. They include oil paintings on canvas, watercolors, and an extremely limited number of single-color lithographs and linoleum block prints. Saper Galleries is having all the oil paintings restored and is framing the Ponsen collection at its East Lansing location. Please plan a trip to East Lansing to view and enjoy the "Lost Paintings of Tunis Ponsen"! Tunis Ponsen was born in 1891 in the Netherlands. He emigrated to the United States in 1913 and settled in Muskegon, Michigan where, at age 30, he had his first solo exhibitions. Ponsen's success as a traditional painter strengthened when he relocated to Chicago in 1924 where he painted until a slip on the winter ice and complications from surgery resulted in his death in 1968. Between 1924 when Ponsen entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and 1938 Ponsen's work was included in 34 important museum exhibitions. Critics regularly praised his work which found strong followings at the Detroit Institute of Art, Toledo Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Flint Institute of Arts, Muskegon Museum of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, among others. More recently the rediscovered Tunis Ponsen has been the focus of considerable interest among collectors and scholars. A traveling exhibition of 52 Ponsen paintings between 1994 and 1996 set attendance records at seven midwest museums. A selection of those exhibited paintings along with hundreds more are now being made available as Saper Galleries also reveals to the public the hidden studio paintings of Tunis Ponsen -- many being viewed for the first time since they were painted up to 70 years ago. From the 1920s to 1967 Tunis Ponsen's paintings and watercolors were included in hundreds of exhibitions and he won many awards and prizes. Although he exhibited widely and sold many paintings during his lifetime, at the time of his death in 1968 his niece, Angenita Morris, discovered and inherited more than 1,000 paintings and watercolors from Ponsen's studio. Those oil paintings, a few acrylics, and an unexpected collection of woodblock prints and black and white lithographs have now been inherited by the children of Angenita Morris. Saper Galleries has accepted the honor and responsibility of serving the Ponsen descendants by allowing these rare Ponsens -- hidden for 30 years -- to be made available for acquisition by collectors and museums. The exhibited Ponsen estate paintings have been cleaned and restored as necessary to their original pristine condition. The paintings illustrated here have all been properly framed in extraordinary museum frames. Photos with frame details are available. Ponsen painted images that captured his heart and now evoke an almost nostalgic emotion. From landscapes depicting the verdant rolling fields of western Michigan and eastern seaboard water scenes, to still lifes and florals, compelling portraits, and personal interior scenes, Ponsen's imagery conveys visually what may be the artist's diary of life. Never married, his true loves were his painting and sister and niece. At a 1938 solo exhibition of Ponsen's paintings at Chicago's Drake Hotel it was observed that "there is a kind of Dutch honesty in a painting by Tunis Ponsen. ...Ponsen's paintings 'grow' on you. At first they may strike you as a trifle harsh, perhaps a bit too blunt. But go back to the creations again and you will appreciate that while Ponsen's method is conscientiously abrupt, it is far from crude. You begin to feel the downright integrity of the artist. These paintings are not color poems, mood symphonies or anything of the sort. This is prose, straightforward and deliberate...shorn of all superlatives, done by a man well trained in the grammar of art." May the love of
Tunis Ponsen's paintings be shared by all
those who now have the opportunity of enjoying
them.
"The Lost Paintings of Tunis Ponsen" catalog of the 1994-1996 traveling exhibition of 51 Ponsen paintings is available at $15 plus $5 shipping. Please contact us now for more information and to have one sent to you!
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 Autumn Vista Through the Trees Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Panel $3,000 |
 Fishing at the Three Arch Bridge in Autumn Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,200 |
 Path to the Farm 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $4,200 |
 Corn Shocks at the Rising Ridge Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,000 |
 Corn Shocks Drying by the Fenceline Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,200 |
 Towering Under a Threatening Sky Recent addition! 30 x 36" Oil on Masonite $4,500 |
 Fall Farm Scene with Rolling Fields, Fences, and Corn Shocks Recent addition! 24 x 30" Oil on Canvas $5,000 |
 Fields of Corn Shocks and Line of Fall Color Trees Recent addition! 25 x 30" Oil on Canvas $4,500 |
 Trees in Red and Gold Recent addition! 39 x 32" Acrylic on canvas panel $3,000 |
 Chicago, Derrick, Rocks, Sand Recent addition! 32 x 36" Oil on Canvas $7,500 |
 Falling Autumn Leaves Recent addition! 24 x 30" Acrylic on Canvas $4,000 |
 The Granary and Sheds on a Sunny Day Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,500 |
 Yellow House on the Hill Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,800 |
 Orange Roof Farm Buildings 22 x 26" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Gaspe Coast with Boats on Shore, 1939 30 x 36" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Autumn Colors Under Cloudy Sky Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Masonite $3,000 |
 Early Fall Afternoon at the Boat House 16 x 20" Oil on Masonite Sorry, sold for $1,200 |
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 Early Fall Highlights Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,200 |
 Dunes in Autumn (Study) Recent addition! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,200 |
 Autumn Highlights Recent addition! 24 x 30" Oil on Canvas $4,500 |
 Farm House and Fields in Late Autumn 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,300 framed (Available but temporarily exhibited elsewhere.) |
 Dunes in Autumn Recent addition! 24 x 30" Oil on Canvas $4,500 |
 Bridge and Stormy Sky 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $5,000 framed |
 Rolling Farm Scene with Orchard 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,000 |
 Autumn Landscape with Falling Tree 18 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,750 framed |
 Field with Trees in Spring Blossoms (study) 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,500 unframed or $3,750 framed |
 Corn Shocks in Field with Wire Fence 30 x 36" Oil on Canvas $9,000 framed |
 Rural Homestead with Man Walking 25 x 30" Oil on Canvas $8,500 framed |
 Winding Road Through Field With Farmer 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $5,500 framed |
 Gray-Red Barn Near Hay Mound 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,800 |
 Field with Trees in Spring Blossoms 24 x 30" Oil on Canvas On hold |
 Rolling Fields with Barns 25 x 27" Oil on Board $5,000 |
 Leaning Gray Barn and Path to Red Barn 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,200 |
 Island of Trees 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,000 or $3,200 framed |
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 Autumn Colors 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,000 |
 Crops and Trees and Rolling Hills 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,200 |
 Autumn Fields at Harvest 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,400 |
 Landscape with Trees and Cloudy Sky 16 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Sand Dunes in Autumn 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Illinois Central (Chicago Tracks) (A view outside of Ponsen's studio) 26 x 20" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $5,500 framed |
 Farm Buildings Atop Rolling Hills 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $4,200 framed |
 Silo with Impending Storm 24 x 30" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Chickens in the Barnyard 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $6,500 framed |
 Farm Buildings on a Hill 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $4,800 framed |
 Portrait of An Old Tree in Late Autumn 24 x 20" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Rolling Landcape with Red and Blue Buildings 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Red and Golden Leaves 20 x 24" Oil on Board Sorry, sold |
 Autumn Landscape with Corn Shocks 25 x 30" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Fresh Plowed Field Among Rolling Hills 25 x 30" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $7,400 framed |
 Pair of Old Trees 25 x 30" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Blue Roofs and Church Spire in Autumn 25 x 30" Oil on Canvas |
 Corn Stacked with Buildings in Background 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Hay Stacks in Golden Field 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Fields of Stacked Wheat 22 x 26" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Picking the Crops 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Terraced Garden by the Tracks 30 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $4,800 framed |
 Barn and Haystack with Chickens 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $4,700 framed |
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 Portrait of a Boy 18 x 16" Oil on Canvas $3,000 framed (On hold.) |
 Captain H. Barnhardt, 1926 36 x 32" Oil on Canvas $9,000 framed |
 Nude Woman Seated on Green 30 x 24" Oil on Canvas $3,200 |
 Standing Female Nude 36 x 32" Oil on Canvas $9,400 framed |
 Seated Nude with Green Screen 42 x 36" Oil on Canvas $9,400 framed |
 Portrait of Ethel Crouch Brown 30 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Man Holding a Bottle Illustrated in catalog and in "Lost Paintings of Tunis Ponsen" exhibition 1984-86. 32 x 36" Oil on Canvas Sorry sold |
 Woman Wearing Scarf and Two Necklaces 20 x 16" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $4,800 framed |
 Portrait of Woman with Book 24 x 20" Framed Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Undress Man with Hands Behind Head Oil on Canvas 30 x 24" Sorry, sold |
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 Fishing Nets Hanging Out to Dry 16 x 20" Oil on Canvas $4,500 framed |
 Gaspe Fishing Nets and Boat on Shore 26 x 30" Oil on Canvas |
 Fishing Boat at Low Tide Gaspe Coast, 1939 16 x 20" Oil on Canvas $4,500 framed |
 Open Bridge Chicago River 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $8,000 framed |
 Chicago River, Gas Storage Tanks
and Bridge 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $8,000 framed
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 Chicago River, Gas Tank and Boat 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $5,700 framed |
 South Chicago 20 x 64" Oil on Canvas $5,500 framed
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 Demolition in Hyde Park (Chicago) 1950s 27 x 20" Oil on Canvas $4,800
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 Chicago River and Green-Hulled Boat 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $5,700 framed |
 20 x 16" Oil on Panel |
 Chicago Fishermen 20 x 26" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Fishing Houses in Gaspe Peninsula Canada, 1939 30 x 36" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Coastal Scene Lighthouse at the Point 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $5,000 framed |
 Gaspe Coast Fishing Houses, 1939 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $7,285 framed |
 Sunny Cove with Sailboats and Rowboats 24 x 30" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold for $5,745 framed |
 Pier and Buildings at Provincetown, 1926 24 x 20" Oil on Board Sorry, sold |
 Incoming Tide Provincetown 1926 19 x 24" Oil on Panel Sorry, sold for $5,800 framed |
 Bridge Over the Channel 16 x 20" Framed Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Village by the Sea 24 x 30" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Summer Landscape with Low Clouds 18 x 25" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Arrangement of Sea Shells on a Table Recently added! 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,800 framed |
 The Open Door Studio Scene 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas |
 Interior With Folding Screens and Paintings 30 x 24" Oil on Canvas $7,800 framed |
 Still Life with Bottle, Pitcher, and Open Book 25 x 21" Oil on Canvas $4,900 framed |
 Still Life with Sansevieria Illustrated in catalog for and in "Lost Paintings of Tunis Ponsen" exhibition 1984-86. 30 x 24" Oil on Canvas $7,500 framed |
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 An Interior (Fresh Fruit on Glass Stand) 26 x 20" Oil on Canvas $6,000 framed |
 Begonias on Blue Cloth 20 x 16" Oil on Canvas $3,200 framed |
 Ginger Ale Bottle and Lemons on Red Chair 26 x 20" Acrylic on Canvas $5,500 framed |
 Pitcher on Blue Draped Table With Fruit 24 x 20" Oil on Canvas $6,400 framed |
 Decorated Pitcher with Green and Red Apples 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas $4,200 |
 Stone Quarry Illustrated in catalog (#23) and in "Lost Paintings of Tunis Ponsen" exhibition 1984-86. Framed as exhibited in various museums for that exhibition. 32x26" Oil on Canvas $9,000 framed |
 Sansevieria Before Window 22 x 18" Oil on Canvas $3,000 |
 Pink and white Flowers in Pot Recently added! Oil on Canvas 20 x 26" $3,000 |
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 Setting Sun Recently added! 17 x 24" Acrylic on Board $2,000 |
 Iris Splendor Oil on Canvas 24 x 20" Sorry, sold for $3,900 framed |
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 Church with Parked Cars and Dirt Road 30 x 26" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Fall Harvest Still Life Oil on Canvas 20 x 24" Sorry, sold for $4,400 framed |
 View of Chicago Through the Birch Trees 30 x 24" Acrylic on Canvas |
 Studio Scene with Jug and Four Books 24 x 20" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Studio Scene with Bookshelf and Easel 24 x 20" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Books and Shelf of Pottery 24 x 20" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
 Abstraction in Golden Hues 40 x 32" Acrylic on Board Sorry, sold |
 Sunbeams Through the Clouds 40 x32" Acrylic on Board Sorry, sold |
 Still Life with Pitcher, Apples and Bananas 20 x 24" Oil on Canvas Sorry, sold |
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