Across the street at One Ocean Avenue, the namesake gallery is Brendan Walter’s newest star in the art world.   The gallery reflects signature names in high-art glass, including the inimitable works of Michael Edward Cohn, Molly Stone and premier glass artist Dan Dailey, who blends sophistication with whimsy to create understated humor in style for $75,000-150,000 per piece. The spontaneous, organic quality of Cornelia Goldsmith’s gold and silver jewelry suggests nature, ritual, symbolism and deep meaning. The painterly qualities of Winston Swift Boyer’s fine art photography exude simple beauty.

Chris Winfield runs a tight, namesake gallery at 6th and Dolores, with just enough room for the best in fine art. Jack Zajac balances between abstract and figurative sculpture in compelling bronze imagery grounded in the ancient rituals, symbolism and forms of Western and non-Western society.

Martha Alf uses graphite pencil on Arches paper to transcend the figurative in her still lifes, which emphasize shape and form through the abstraction of light and shadow. Winfield also represents Gwynn Murrill’s languid animal sculptures in bronze and Dan Corbin’s cast-stone life forms.

Dedicated to the creation and presentation of the finest in figurative art, Richard MacDonald, of his namesake galleries (San Carlos between 5th and 6th), offers the discriminating collector a dramatic experience through paintings, drawings and sculpture inspired by his regard for the power and beauty of the human spirit.

The Early American and California Impressionists hold court at William A. Karges Fine Art on Dolores at 5th. The gallery focuses on fine quality, plein-aire watercolors and oils-on-canvas by highly trained historical and contemporary artists. Prices range between $2,500-50,000 for original and rare-find paintings by Percy Gray, Armin Hansen, Granville Redmond, Edgar Payne, Maurice Braun, William Ritschel, Alfred Mitchell, John Gamble and Dennis Doheny.

Robert Pitzer has a penchant for realism, as do most of the artists he represents in Pitzer’s of Carmel, one of the largest, most diverse galleries on the Peninsula located on Dolores near 6th. Pitzer credits celebrated bronze sculptor Kent Ullberg for teaching him how to view both realism and the business of art.

In addition to Ullberg, the gallery represents some of America’s most renowned artists of traditional paintings and limited-edition prints, including William Berra, Curt Walters, Nelson Boren, Luke Frazier and Tucker Smith. Likely one of the country’s most prestigious sources of large sculpture, its bronzes occupy a significant part of the gallery, ranging from quarter-life to monumental, by George Lundeen, Jane DeDecker, Gary Alsum and Cammie Lundeen.

With a presentation of original paintings and sculpture by more than 60 artists from four continents, New Masters Gallery, on Dolores between Ocean and 7th, has been presenting outstanding contemporary art for more than 25 years. S.R. Brennan, located on Dolores Street near 5th, distinguishes itself with the representation of more than 75 nationally and internationally acclaimed American and European artists of original paintings and sculpture.