The Nahan Collection
Artful Home is pleased to offer an estate collection spotlighting works by late-career and deceased American masters, guided by Peter Hastings Falk, one of this country’s leading experts on American art. Here we feature these notable and accomplished artists—each with a fascinating life story.

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"Holiday Fantasy" lithograph print by William Baggett
William Baggett
Referred to as the "delicate surrealist," Baggett’s alluring imagery subtly steps just outside reality. His work charms the viewer with a palette dominated by light earth-toned pastel colors.

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"Red Gate" serigraph print by Elena Borstein
Elena Borstein
Inspired by her many trips to Greece, Borstein finds beauty in the visually rich landscape and the play of light on the very simple geometric white houses, whose brightly painted gates accentuate a dreamy atmosphere.

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"Bouquet" lithograph print by Oscar de Mejo
Oscar De Mejo
Since 1949, when he immigrated from Italy to the United States, de Mejo has won acclaim as a naive surrealist. His vibrant mixture of naiveté, wit, and whimsy invite viewers to relax and enjoy the often incongruous elements of his irrational images.

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"Autumn Tapestry II" lithograph print by Roland Golden
Roland Golden
A master watercolorist who has enjoyed more than one hundred solo exhibitions in galleries and museums across the United States, Golden’s work has been described as offering "a new way of seeing and understanding the places we inhabit."

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"Transformations" serigraph print by Ken Kenan
Ken Kenan
Ken Kenan’s imagery reflects inspiration from primitive and pre-Colombian art to contemporary masters such as graffiti artist Keith Haring. The resulting images are both playful yet mysterious, whimsical yet lyrical.

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"Graceful Dream of Poetic Glory" serigraph print by Rafal Olbinski
Rafal Olbinski
An internationally recognized surrealist often considered successor to Salvador Dali and Magritte, Olbinski and his work have been featured on the covers of publications from Time to The New Yorker.

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"Four Seasons" serigraph print by Arthur Secunda
Arthur Secunda
In a career that has spanned six decades, Arthur Secunda’s works are in the permanent collections of many major museums across the country. Secunda is a master of the abstract landscape, evoking what he calls "symbolic memories."

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"Traveler" terragraph print by Zhou Brothers
The Zhou Brothers
Working as a unique collaboration, the Zhou brothers were the first artists permitted by the Chinese government to publicly display abstract art, and have won awards both within China and across the globe. The artists have lived and worked in the United States since the 1980s.

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