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  On this page are more than 60 available Ponsen paintings!

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

Seated Half
                      Nude
Seated Half Nude
40 x 34"  Oil on Canvas
  $8,900 framed

Mallow Rose in Vase of Water
Mallow Rose in Vase of Water
24 x 20"    Oil on Canvas
  $4,200 framed


Arrangement of Apples, Pears and Small
                        Cloth
Arrangement of Apples, Pears and Small Cloth
26 x 20"   Oil on Canvas
  $4,000



Chicago
                        Shoreline
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.     
                                                                  ~ Roy Saper, East Lansing

"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!
Please contact Saper Galleries now with your request to see additional Tunis Ponsen images.  You may specify your request by type of imagery (for example: portraits, farm scenes, skyscapes, landscapes, industrial scenes, interior scenes, florals, still lifes) and define price range preferences.  Images will be sent to you immediately upon request.  It is our pleasure to be able to share with you the estate paintings of Tunis Ponsen.

Autumn
                  Vista Through the Trees
Autumn Vista Through the Trees
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas Panel
$3,000


Fishing at the Three Arch Bridge in Autumn
Fishing at the Three Arch Bridge in Autumn
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$3,200


Path to the Farm
Path to the Farm
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$4,200


Corn
                  Shocks at the Rising Ridge
Corn Shocks at the Rising Ridge
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$4,000

Corn Shocks Drying by the Fenceline
Corn Shocks Drying by the Fenceline
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$3,200

Towering Under a Threatening Sky
Towering Under a Threatening Sky
Recent addition!
 
3
0 x 36"   Oil on Masonite
$4,500

Ponsen
                  J
Fall Farm Scene with Rolling Fields, Fences, and Corn Shocks
Recent addition!
 
24 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
$5,000


Ponsen
                  K
Fields of Corn Shocks and Line of Fall Color Trees
Recent addition!
 
25 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
$4,500
Ponsen
                  L
Trees in Red and Gold
Recent addition!
 
39
x 32"   Acrylic on canvas panel
$3,000
Ponsen
                  M
Chicago, Derrick, Rocks, Sand
Recent addition!
 
32 x 36"   Oil on Canvas
$7,500

Ponsen
                  O
Falling Autumn Leaves
Recent addition!
 
24 x 30"   Acrylic on Canvas
$4,000

Ponsen
                  P
The Granary and Sheds on a Sunny Day
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$4,500
Ponsen
                  Q
Yello House on the Hill
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$4,800
Orange
                  Roof Farm Buildings
Orange Roof Farm Buildings
Recent addition!
 
22 x 26"   Oil on Canvas
$3,200


Autumn
                  Colors Under Cloudy Sky
Autumn Colors Under Cloudy Sky
Recent addition!
 
20 x 24"   Oil on Masonite
$3,000
 

Early Fall Afternoon at the Boat House
Early Fall Afternoon at the Boat House
16 x 20"   Oil on Masonite
Sorry, sold for $1,200
Lemont Stone Quarry Tracks and Carts
Lemont Stone Quarry Tracks and Carts
Recent addition!
30 x 36"   Oil on Canvas
$7,500
Early Fall
                  Highlights
Early Fall Highlights
Recent addition!
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$3,200

Dunes in Autumn
Dunes in Autumn (Study)
Recent addition!
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$3,200
Autumn
                  Highlights
Autumn Highlights
Recent addition!
24 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
$4,500
Ponsen Farm House and Fields
                    in Late Autumn
Farm House and Fields in Late Autumn
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $4,300 framed
(Available but temporarily exhibited elsewhere.)

Dunes in Autumn
Dunes in Autumn
Recent addition!
 
24 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
$4,500
Ponsen Bridge and Stormy
                    Sky
Bridge and Stormy Sky
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
  $5,000 framed
Rolling Farm Scene with Orchard
Rolling Farm Scene with Orchard
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
     $4,000

Autumn Landscape with Falling Tree
Autumn Landscape with Falling Tree
18 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
  $3,750 framed

Field with Trees in Spring Blossoms study
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
Corn Shocks in Field with Wire Fence
30 x 36"  Oil on Canvas
$9,000 framed

Ponsen Rural Homestead With
                    Man Walking
Rural Homestead with Man Walking
25 x 30"  Oil on Canvas
  $8,500 framed
Ponsen Winding Road Through
                    Field With Farmer
Winding Road Through Field With Farmer
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $5,500 framed
Ponsen Gray Red Barn Near
                    Hay Mound
Gray-Red Barn Near Hay Mound
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
$3,800

Ponsen Field With Trees in Spring Blossoms
Field with Trees in Spring Blossoms
24 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
 
$4,500
Ponsen Rolling Fields With
                    Barns
Rolling Fields with Barns
25 x 27"   Oil on Board
  $5,000
Ponsen Two Farm Buildings
                    Near Garden
Two Farm Buildings Near Garden
25 x 30"  Oil on Canvas
$4,600

Ponsen Leaning Gray Barn And
                    Path To Red Barn
Leaning Gray Barn and Path to Red Barn
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $3,200
Ponsen Island Of Trees
Island of Trees
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
  $3,000 or $3,200 framed
Ponsen Autumn Colors
Autumn Colors
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $3,000

Ponsen Crops And Trees On Rolling Hills
Crops and Trees and Rolling Hills
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $3,200
Ponsen Autumn Fields At
                    Harvest
Autumn Fields at Harvest
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
  $3,400
Landscape With Trees And Cloudy Sky
  Landscape with Trees and Cloudy Sky
16 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold
Sand Dunes
                    in Autumn
Sand Dunes in Autumn
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold

Illinois Central (ChicagoTracks)
  Illinois Central (Chicago Tracks)
(A view outside of Ponsen's studio)
26 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold for $5,500 framed

Ponsen Farm Buildings Atop
                    Rolling Hills
Farm Buildings Atop Rolling Hills
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold for $4,200 framed

Silo With Impending Storm
Silo with Impending Storm
24 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold
Ponsen Chickens in the Barnyard
Chickens in the Barnyard
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold for $6,500 framed
Ponsen Farm Buildings On A Hill
Farm Buildings on a Hill
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold for  $4,800 framed

Ponsen Portrait Of An Old Tree In Late Autumn
Portrait of An Old Tree in Late Autumn
  24 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
PonsenRollingLandscapeWithRedAndBlueBuildings20x24-5500.jpg
Rolling Landcape with Red and Blue Buildings
20 x 24" Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold
Ponsen Red And Golden Leaves
Red and Golden Leaves
20 x 24"   Oil on Board
  Sorry, sold

Autumn Landscape
                    with Corn Shocks
Autumn Landscape with Corn Shocks
25 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Fresh
                    Plowed Field Among Rolling Hills
Fresh Plowed Field Among Rolling Hills
25 x 30"   Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold for $7,400 framed
Pair of Old Trees
Pair of Old Trees
25 x 30"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold

Blue Roofs and Church Spire in Autumn
Blue Roofs and Church Spire in Autumn
25 x 30"  Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold
Corn Stacked With Buildings in Background
Corn Stacked with Buildings in Background
20 x 24" Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Hay Stacks in Golden
                    Field
Hay Stacks in Golden Field
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
 Sorry, sold

Fields of Stacked
                    Wheat
Fields of Stacked Wheat
22 x 26"   Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Picking the Crops
Picking the Crops
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Ponsen Terraced Garden by the Tracks
Terraced Garden by the Tracks
30 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
    Sorry, sold for $4,800 framed

Barn and Haystack with Chickens
Barn and Haystack with Chickens
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold for $4,700 framed

Portrait of a
                  Boy
Portrait of a Boy
18 x 16"   Oil on Canvas
  $3,000 framed
(On hold.)

Captain H Barnhardt 1926
Captain H. Barnhardt, 1926
36 x 32"  Oil on Canvas
$9,000 framed
Ponsen Nude Woman Seated On Green
Nude Woman Seated on Green
30 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
$3,200
Standing Female Nude
Standing Female Nude
36 x 32"  Oil on Canvas
  $9,400 framed

Seated Nude with Green Screen
Seated Nude with Green Screen
42 x 36"  Oil on Canvas
  $9,400 framed
Portrait Of
                      Ethel Crouch Brown
Portrait of Ethel Crouch Brown
30 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Man Holding A Bottle
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

PonsenWomanWearingScarfAndTwoNecklaces20x16-4800.jpg
Woman Wearing Scarf and Two Necklaces
20 x 16"   Oil on Canvas
     Sorry, sold for $4,800 framed

PonsenPortraitOfWomanWithBook24x20-4600.jpg
Portrait of Woman with Book
24 x 20"  Framed Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold

PonsenUndressedManWithHandsBehindHead30x24-6000.jpg
Undress Man with Hands Behind Head
Oil on Canvas
 30 x 24"     Sorry, sold



Fishing Nets Hanging Out To Dry
Fishing Nets Hanging Out to Dry
16 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
$4,500 framed

Gaspe Fishing
                      Nets and Boat on Shore
Gaspe Fishing Nets and Boat on Shore
26 x 30"  Oil on Canvas
  $6,500 framed
Fishing Boat At Low Tide Gaspe Coast 1939
Fishing Boat at Low Tide Gaspe Coast, 1939
16 x 20"   Oil on Canvas
  $4,500 framed
Open Bridge Chicago River
Open Bridge Chicago River
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $8,000 framed
Chicago River, Gas Storage Tanks and Bridge
Chicago River, Gas Storage Tanks
and Bridge

20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold for $8,000 framed

Ponsen Chicago River Gas Tank And Boat
Chicago River, Gas Tank and Boat
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
  $5,700 framed

South Chicago
South Chicago
20 x 64"  Oil on Canvas
$5,500 framed
Demolition
                  in Hyde Park (Chicago)
Demolition in Hyde Park (Chicago) 1950s
27 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
$4,800


Ponsen Chicago River And Green Hulled Boat
Chicago River and Green-Hulled Boat
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $5,700 framed 


Landscape with Houses Boothbay Harbor
Landscape with Houses, Boothbay Harbor
20 x 16"  Oil on Panel
  $4,800 framed
Ponsen Chicago Fishermen
Chicago Fishermen
20 x 26"  Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold

Fishing Houses in Gaspe Peninsula
                    Canda 1939
Fishing Houses in Gaspe Peninsula Canada, 1939
30 x 36"  Oil on Canvas
Sorry, sold

Coastal
                    Scene Lighthouse At The Point
Coastal Scene Lighthouse at the Point
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold for $5,000 framed
Gaspe Coast Fishing Houses
Gaspe Coast Fishing Houses, 1939
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
     Sorry, sold for $7,285 framed
Ponsen Sunny Cove With Sailboats And Rowboats
Sunny Cove with Sailboats and Rowboats
24 x 30"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold for $5,745 framed
Pier and Buildings at Provincetown 1926
Pier and Buildings at Provincetown, 1926
24 x 20"  Oil on Board
  Sorry, sold
Incoming Tide Provincetown 1926
Incoming Tide Provincetown 1926
19 x 24"  Oil on Panel
  Sorry, sold for $5,800 framed

Bridge Over the Channel
Bridge Over the Channel
16 x 20"  Framed Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold

Village
                    by the Sea
Village by the Sea
24 x 30"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Ponsen Summer Landscape With
                    Low Clouds
Summer Landscape with Low Clouds
18 x 25"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Arrangement of Sea Shells on a Table
Arrangement of Sea Shells on a Table
Recently added!
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
$4,800 framed

The Open Door Studio Scene
The Open Door Studio Scene
20 x 24"   Oil on Canvas
$6,200 framed
Ponsen Interior Room With Red Screen And
                    Paintings
Interior With Folding Screens and Paintings
30 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $7,800 framed
Ponsen Arrangement of Books Painting And Tube
Arrangement of Books, Painting and Tube
32 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  $7,400 framed

Ponsen Still Life With Bottle Pitcher And Open
                    Book
Still Life with Bottle, Pitcher, and Open Book
25 x 21"  Oil on Canvas
  $4,900 framed
Ponsen Still Life With Sanseviera
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

An Interior Fresh Fruit On Glass Stand
An Interior (Fresh Fruit on Glass Stand)
26 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
  $6,000 framed

Ponsen Geraniums On Blue Cloth
Begonias on Blue Cloth
20 x 16"  Oil on Canvas
  $3,200 framed
Ponsen Ginger Ale Bottle and Lemons on Red
                    Chair
Ginger Ale Bottle and Lemons on Red Chair
26 x 20"  Acrylic on Canvas
 
$5,500 framed
Pitcher On A Blue Draped Table With Fruit
Pitcher on Blue Draped Table With Fruit

24 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
  $6,400 framed

Decorated Pitcher with Green and Red Apples
Decorated Pitcher with Green and Red Apples
20 x 24" Oil on Canvas
$4,200
Stone Quarry
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

Sansavieria Before Window
Sansevieria Before Window
22 x 18"  Oil on Canvas
  $3,000

Pink
                  and white Flowers in Pot
Pink and white Flowers in Pot
Recently added!
Oil on Canvas
20 x 26"    $3,000
White
                  Flowers with Red Stems
White Flowers with Red Stems
Recently added!
Oil on Canvas
30 x 24"    $3,800
Setting Sun
Setting Sun
Recently added!
17 x 24"  Acrylic on Board
  $2,000

Iris Splendor
Iris Splendor
  Oil on Canvas
24 x 20"
Sorry, sold for $3,900 framed


Church With Parked Cars
 Church with Parked Cars and Dirt Road
30 x 26"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Fall
                  Harvest Still Life
Fall Harvest Still Life
Oil on Canvas
20 x 24"
Sorry, sold for $4,400 framed

View of Chicago Through the Birch Trees
View of Chicago Through the Birch Trees
30 x 24"  Acrylic on Canvas
Sorry, sold


Ponsen Studio Scene With Jug
                    And Four Books
Studio Scene with Jug and Four Books
24 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold

Ponsen Studio Scene With Bookshelf And Easel
Studio Scene with Bookshelf and Easel
24 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
Books And Shelf Of Pottery
Books and Shelf of Pottery
24 x 20"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold

Abstraction in Golden Hues
Abstraction in Golden Hues
40 x 32"  Acrylic on Board
  Sorry, sold
Sunbeams Through the
                    Clouds
Sunbeams Through the Clouds
40 x32"   Acrylic on Board
Sorry, sold

Still Life with
                    Pitcher, Apples and Bananas
Still Life with Pitcher, Apples and Bananas
20 x 24"  Oil on Canvas
  Sorry, sold
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