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1949 Vintage Mid-Century Modernist Landscape Oil Painting - Modernist Monuments

1949

ROW OF HOUSES Size: 31 x 35 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas Board An expressive and lively mid-century modernist style composition, executed in oil onto canvas board. Small yet ...

CYPRUS VALLEY Size: 39.5 x 43.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas board A wonderfully painted mid-century modernist style landscape painting of Cyprus, executed in oil onto canvas ...

SKYLINE Size: 29 x 37 cm (including frame) Oil on board A small and vibrant modernist oil composition, featuring a city skyline where rows of tall buildings are set against a striki...

MARKET SQUARE Size: 37 x 42 cm (including frame) Oil onto paper laid to board A richly coloured mid century modernist figure scene, painted in oil onto paper laid on board, by the ...

THE DOCK Size: 49 x 57 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An expressive mid century modernist composition of a dockside, executed in oil onto board. A large white boat that punctu...

WHITE VILLAGE Size: 25 x 50 cm (including frame) Oil on board A charming and expressive mid-century modernist townscape, executed in oil onto board. The composition presents a nigh...

Bold and angular composition with cannas by Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014). Bright red flowers jump out from a saturated green background. Large leaves act as a background, covering the majority of the composition, intertwined with other foliage. This piece is executed on top of a previous composition and the artist has left part of it visible around the edges to act as a border. Signed "Weist" in the lower left corner. Title and artist's info on verso. No frame. Board size: 20"H x 16"W Claire Weist (American, 1930-2014) was an artist known primarily for her watercolor compositions. She won several awards throughout her career, including the jury award for graphics from the Illinois Watercolor Society. Weist was originally from the Boston area and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and then Harvard. After spending time teaching art and as an illustrator, Weist moved to Crete, Illinois and opened her own studio, where she spent the remainder of her professional career. Education: 1949-50 Lomma, Sweden 1951, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA 1953, B.F.A. Degree, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Work: 1953, Commercial Artist, Vincent Edwards Art Agency, Boston, MA 1954-1957, Art Editor and Illustrator, Baby Post Magazine, New York, NY 1960-1964, Painter and Art Teacher, Lynchburg, VA 1965-1971, Book and Magazine Illustrator, Delafield, WI 1972, Studio, Crete, IL Exhibitions and Memberships: 1971 - Alverno Art Fair, Milwaukee, WI 1971 - Elmwood Plaza Art Fair (Best in Show), Racine WI 1971 - Brookfield Square Winter Art Show (First Place, Watercolors), Waukesha, WI 1973 - Marathon County Historical Museum, Wausau, WI 1982 - Park Forest Art Fair, Park Forest, IL Member, Wisconsin Watercolor Society Member, Kettle Moraine...

Duncan Gleason lived in New York and other places for work or studies but it was really Southern California where he felt most at home, and looking at his body of work, that love of ...

Bela De Tirefort (1894 - 1993) New York City Harbor, 1932 Oil on canvasboard 14 x 18 Signed and dated lower left: De Tirefort 32 Bela de Tirefort was born in Eastern Europe, painted...

Beautiful study of a shore bird by a lake by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller Clark" with pallet and two brushes, lower right. Unframed. Image, 24...

This piece came from the collection of the Bezalel Art Gallery on the Lower East Side of New York City. Emmanuil Snitkovsky is an internationally known artist, sculpture and poet. ...

Mid Century Ravello Amalfi Coast Original Oil Painting - Villa Cimbrone La Cripta Wonderful perspective of the Gothic Arches of Villa Cimbrone's Crypt ...