Jeanette Le Grue Impressionist Oil Painting of San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge

Outstanding landscape impressionist oil painting by California listed artist Jeanette Le Grue. The painting is of a beach trail with a city in the background. Possible Santa Barbara?...

Beautiful plein air painting by listed San Diego impressionist artist Bess Gilbert. Dates from the 1930s and is of a mountain range in the back County of ...

Beautiful watercolor painting by listed San Diego impressionist artist Bess Gilbert. Dates from the mid 1930s and is of The Indian Village located at the ...

Original Ken Joaquin abstract oil painting. Listed artist. Beautiful frame colors. Painting is of a car and is on board. Overall measurements framed: 25.5"...

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...

Beautiful abstract oil painting by California Listed Artist Robert Kaess, and dates from 1971. The painting is on masonite board and is of the ocean and cliffs. Probably from Norther...

Pair of oil paintings by Francisco Rodriguez San Clemente (Spanish, 1861-1956): signed bottom right and professionally custom framed. ...

This Mid-Century Modern impressionist paint is very moody and evocative with its dramatic view and bold use of colors. The piece was purchased in Vermont and we believe it is a Vermo...

Captured on canvas with delicate impressionist strokes, this oil painting transports us to the bustling streets of San Francisco. On the left, a vintage blue-green tram glides toward...

A brilliant example of California Impressionist painting, this view of the East Bay hills shimmering in pink, purple, jade and periw...

Impressionist large Philadelphia - A brisk morning walk under the Manayunk bridge. A bundled up man takes a stroll along the canal trail. A historic Philadelphia bridge cascades acro...

Frank Serratoni American, 20th Century "Bay Bridge" Water color on paper Signed lower right 11 by 15 in. w/frame 19 ½ by 23 ½ in.