About WILLIAM A. Karges FINE ART

Since 1987, William A. Karges Fine Art gallery in Carmel has been internationally known as one of the premier fine art galleries specializing in historically important, museum quality Early California paintings executed between 1870 and 1950. California Impressionist, post-impressionist, tonalist, and modernist works by artists such as Armin Hansen, William Wendt, Edgar Payne, Selden Gile, Millard Sheets, Birger Sandzen and Granville Redmond can be found in the gallery's holdings. We also handle fine American paintings by artists such as Robert Vonnoh and Childe Hassam, the color woodcuts of Gustave Baumann, and original oil paintings by important Taos, New Mexico artists including Oscar Berninghaus, Leon Gaspard, Nicolai Fechin, Joseph Henry Sharp and E. Martin Hennings. Karges Fine Art also specializes in early Philippine paintings by Fernando Amorsolo, Fernando Zobel, Anita Magsaysay-ho, and many other Filipino artists.

Additionally, Karges Fine Art offers paintings by several award-winning contemporary painters, including the plein-air landscapes and seascapes of Dennis Doheny and Cindy Baron.

The gallery is also known for its superior level of scholarship and the museum quality publications produced over the years. We take pride in forming personal relationships with our clients, getting to know them, their unique tastes, their concerns and priorities, while gaining extensive knowledge about artworks in their existing collection. Our clients gain reassurance that they're making the right decision based on our familiarity with their individual taste and budget. Our knowledgeable, professional staff provides customized service that is specifically tailored to suit the client's individual needs. We realize that ours is a customer service business, not just a sales opportunity. Concierge service is our specialty and we go out of our way to make our collectors feel valued and appreciated.

William A. Karges Fine Art also purchases quality paintings and we encourage you to contact us about works that you would like to sell or acquire. Our galleries handle consignments on a personal and private basis and we have guaranteed the authenticity of every object that we sell.

Karges Fine Art actively buys and sells early California and American paintings by artists such as Maurice Braun, Guy Rose, Percy Gray, Paul De Longpre, John Gamble, Marion Wachtel, Elmer Wachtel, Joseph Kleitsch and many others. Our gallery is the exclusive representative of the estates of Cornelis Botke and Rinaldo Cuneo and also represented the estate of Jessie Arms Botke.

Visit our Paintings Wanted Page to see a full listing of artists we buy and sell.

For additional information about the history of William A. Karges Fine Art, please visit our Wikipedia page.

You are also welcome to call us at 1-800-833-9185 or E-Mail Us for inquiries or additional information.

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