Impressionist Oil
Can anyone identify artist of oil/acrylic impressionist painting (rain & umbrellas) 4ft x 5ft signed FERRANTE?
Created by the artist who was associated with Artmaster Studios, San Fernando, California. At least 30YO.
Artmaster Studios was a company that produced artwork for the furnishing trade. Ferrante was one of their artists but there is no information about him (it was possibly a pseudonym).
He should not be confused with the Italian/Californian artist Mario de Ferrante.
Ferrante (Artmaster Studios) pictures appear on ebay at prices from $200 to $500.
From;
http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/bulletin.aspx?Artist=115818
"Artmaster Studios produced many paintings signed Ferrante among others (not the same as De Ferrante). I recently saw a painting on an auction site signed Ferrante which the seller represented as Mario De Ferrante, but it was not his signature. (Caveat Emptor is always the rule of eBay.)
I do not know the history of Artmaster but I do know that both Artmaster and Vanguard Studios (which by the way was started in the 60's by Lee Reynolds Burr) were both acquired by Interiors, Inc. of NY.
In the late 90's Interiors, Inc. merged the Artmaster subsidiary into the Vanguard subsidiary. The Artmaster name was dropped in lieu of Vanguard.
I do not have a list of all the artists from Artmaster, but a couple I recall are Ferrante and Huntington. As with many commercial studios, the art is decent quality.
Many of the Vanguard artists from the early days (under the tutelage of Lee Reynolds) went on to their own solo careers."
Impressionist Oil Painting with Photoshop CS5 (Part 1)
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