Featured Amateur Pen & Brush

I love the home!

I'm always drawn to paintings of charming houses.

I wish I could help, hopefully someone will be able to tell you more.

 

That doesn't appear to be the work of an amateur.

Debora

 

Do you know the state in which your grandparents were living in 1946? Did they ever visit Sunnyside?

Debora

 

there's talent there....& a good eye for detail !!!
Nice find... i need Help !!!

 

Done from a photograph, it says. To show time's passing...

Debora

 

I haven't found a clear match, but multiple possibilities. Not an overwhelming number of possibilities, but more than a couple.

I'm not clear on where your grandparents lived and that info might help.

 

Queens is good. Astoria NY was not getting me anything. Like I couldn't find the town -- my grandparents also lived in Queens, but I don't know the area at all.

 

Not Sunnyside, Queens! Sunnyside is the name of Washington Irving's home in Tarrytown. Your piece might be a souvenir.

Debora

 

That's helpful. So not a souvenir. And more likely a family friend/acquaintance. Scratchboard, apparently, is an engraving technique. Someone would have to be knowledgable to work in that medium.

Debora

 

From wikipedia.org...

"From the 1930s to 1950s, it was one of the preferred techniques for medical, scientific and product illustration."

So not necessarily the work of a fine artist but someone working as an illustrator.

Debora

 

There is nothing about your work that suggests it was done by a skilled amateur. It may not have been done by a fine artist but it was clearly done by someone trained in both drawing and the medium.

Debora

 

I haven't finished researching, but a really likely contender (info from 1941 Army Enlistment):

Name: James Bordonaro
Birth Year: 1919
Nativity State or Country: New York
State of Residence: New York
County or City: Bronx
Civil Occupation: Commercial artists

 

Clever, clever you! He's an excellent contender indeed.

Debora