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Style: Impressionist
Style: Abstract Expressionist
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century: Wartime Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Wartime Study of Figures Relaxing in Springtime by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) Unsigned watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed Sheet: 12.25 x 9...
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1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Gouache, Graphite, Watercolor

Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer
Located in Wenham, MA
This is an original oil painting by master painter, Donald Jurney. The project was one near and dear to the artist's heart. A lover of books, Jurney rescued a number of old, cloth-bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art

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Linen, Oil

Varied Types
Located in Wenham, MA
This is an original oil painting by master painter, Donald Jurney. The project was one near and dear to the artist's heart. A lover of books, Jurney rescued a number of old, cloth-bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art

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Linen, Oil

Revealing the Tide 2-original abstract floral landscape oil painting- modern art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Revealed by the Tide II" by Magdalena Morey is an original landscape painting that invites viewers to experience the beauty of a natural vista through the artist's unique abstract i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gold Leaf

Landschap
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon LANDSCAPE 1956 Gouache on paper 46,5 x 37 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 56’ Provenance: Pri...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

Dorpsgezicht
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon DORPSGEZICHT 1953 Gouache on paper 42 x 60 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn 53’ Provenance: Pr...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

Through Europe on Two Dollars a Day
Located in Wenham, MA
This is an original oil painting by master painter, Donald Jurney. The project was one near and dear to the artist's heart. A lover of books, Jurney rescued a number of old, cloth-bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Two Gentlemen in Touraine
Located in Wenham, MA
This is an original oil painting by master painter, Donald Jurney. The project was one near and dear to the artist's heart. A lover of books, Jurney rescued a number of old, cloth-bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Vintage Still Life -- Yellow & Blue Floral
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid late 1970's floral still-life featuring a colorful bouquet by Doro (American, 20th Century), 1979. Signed and dated "Doro 1979" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 24"H x 18"L.
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1970s American Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage French Impressionist Pink Roses In Stone Vase In White Stone Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flowers In Vase signed by Louise Alix, French 1950's Impressionist watercolour on artist paper stuck on board, framed. Glass covered frame: 12.5 x 9.75 inches painting: 11 x 8 inche...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

St. Cirque Madelon, 1958
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon CHURCH COURT, ST. CIRQUE MADELON 1958 Gouache on paper 57 x 45 cm. Signed and dated: lower left "Quirijn ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Gouache

Peinzende man
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon PEINZENDE MAN 1945 watercolor on paper 36 x 46 cm. Signed and dated: lower left ‘Quirijn van Tiel 45’ Pr...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

Orchid
Located in New York, NY
Barbara HEPWORTH Orchid, 1970 screenprint, ed. of 60 22 7/8 x 30 3/4 in.
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Screen

Kathedraal, 1959
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon CATHEDRAL 1959 Gouache on paper 64 x 52 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn van Tiel 59’ Provenance: Formal collection P.A. Regna...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

Rajasthan Gypsy Dance. Large Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Paul Wadsworth is one of the UK’s leading exponents of Expressionist paintings. His pieces are heavily worked with layers of richly applied paint, the result is paintings that sing w...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

English Impressionist Oil Painting Artists Nude Model Sat Facing Wall
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Model by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) signed initials oil painting on board, unframed board: 19 x 13 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the paintings...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Birds
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon ROOSTERS 1953 Gouache on paper 40 x 55 cm. signed: lower right
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

Bird
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon HAAN 1947 Gouache on paper 55 x 33 cm. Signed: lower right Provenance: Private collection, the Netherla...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

"Dancing Nature"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
In this abstract floral artwork I experience the world of nature through the bright colors of a summer period. While painting, I sought to capture the beauty of nature which is full...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Acrylic

Windswept - Impressionist Wave Pastel Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Windswept 10.0 x 8.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: “'Windswept' is the fourth painting in my wave series. I love finding the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

The European Tour
Located in Wenham, MA
This is an original oil painting by master painter, Donald Jurney. The project was one near and dear to the artist's heart. A lover of books, Jurney rescued a number of old, cloth-bo...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Peinzende vrouw
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon WOMAN ON RIVER 1951 Gouache on paper 41,5 x 59 cm. Signed and dated: lower right ‘Quirijn van Tiel 51’ P...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

John Van Alstine - Acciaccato VI, Sculpture 2016
Located in Greenwich, CT
Stone and metal,usually granite or slate and found object steel are central in my sculpture. The interaction of these materials is a major focus. On the most basic level the work is ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Slate

Stritutis (Abstract, Round, Disc, Circle, Warm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X Stritutis (Abstract, Round, Disc, Circle, Warm) Archival Pigment Print with Archival Inks on 240 gsm Hahnemühle Paper 2024 Size: 19x19in Edition: 75 Signed, dated and number...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Archival Paper, Digital

Hand Painted Vase-original abstract floral painting-contemporary still life art
Located in London, Chelsea
Magdalena Morey's "Hand Painted Vase" is a refreshing exploration of abstract expressionism applied to a figurative study, resulting in a delightful composition. The painting capture...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gold Leaf

Mid Century Floral Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid century floral still-life with impasto in warm, autumn colors by F. Christensen (American, 20th Century). Signed "F. Christensen"...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard, Canvas

Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ms De Pinna was part of the Provincetown modernist art movement and was a student of legendary artist/teacher Hans Hoffman. Vivian (Foster) De Pinna was a suffragist and an abstract...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Oil

Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady Exquisite Drawing Red Lips Blue Shirt
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady original pencil drawing on paper by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below signed inscribed verso piece of paper is...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Art

Materials

Crayon, Pencil

Antibes
Located in Storrs, CT
Antibes. c. 1940. Oil on canvas laid down on board.x 8 7/8 x 9/8 . Fresh, bright colors. Signed E.D. Roth, lower left. Housed in an elegant 12 1/2 x 13 3/4 gold frame. Antibes is a...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Pencil

"PRICKLY PEAR PATH " TEXAS HILL COUNTRY CACTUS Frame Size: 21 x 25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 21 x 25 Medium: Oil Dated 1958 "Prickly Pear Path" Texas Hill Country Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican-American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas are in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910 near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions. While a few of his early works have a soft, tonalist quality, with subtle gradations of sunset colors, most were painted in a style that fits well within the currents of the late American Impressionist style, with solid drawing and a warm, chromatic palette. Like Robert Wood's works of the 1930s, the paintings Salinas produced as a young man were usually well composed and detailed views of the spring wildflowers in full bloom in the Texas countryside. In contrast to Wood's work, however, early Salinas compositions were usually pure landscapes without the pioneer farms or dilapidated fences that Wood often used to add visual interest to his wildflower scenes, and he also painted scenes of San Antonio itself as his mentor Jose Arpa had done. To residents of the Hill Country, Salinas was especially adept at accurately capturing the palette of the region and its unique atmosphere. In 1939 Salinas began working with Dewey Bradford (1896-1985), one of the great characters of Texas art. Bradford was a second-generation dealer whose family operated the Bradford Paint Company in Austin, where they sold art supplies, framed artwork, restored paintings and exhibited paintings by Texas artists. Salinas was struggling when he met Bradford, but the older man took the young artist under his wing and began to sell his work reliably, even though the prices that people would pay for a painting were still low due to the lingering effects of the Great Depression. Bradford was a born salesman with a gift for storytelling, and truth be told, a bit of embroidery. The relationship between Bradford and Salinas was often rocky, but it was to last the rest of the artist's life and give him a modest sense of loyalty and security, things which are all too rare in the art world. While Bradford could be critical of his work, Salinas knew that he had a dealer who encouraged him, believed in him and was not shy about singing his praises to anyone who entered Bradford's store on Guadalupe Street. During the early years of World War II Salinas met a pretty Mexican woman from Guadalajara named Maria Bonillas, who was working as a secretary for the Mexican National Railways office in San Antonio. While he was walking downtown with a painting of a bullfighter under his arm, he started a conversation with the young woman, and things progressed rapidly. The couple were married on February 15, 1942 and settled into life in bi-lingual San Antonio and they eventually purchased a tidy stone home on Buena Vista street that had a detached studio in back. By the time the United States entered World War II, Salinas was starting to make a decent living selling his art and beginning to garner recognition across Texas. However, in 1943, like millions of other young men, he was drafted into the service of his country. Fortunately, as an older Army draftee with special talents, after his training he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, right in San Antonio, allowing him to remain at home while still completing his obligation to "Uncle Sam." Because of his artistic abilities, Salinas was asked to do paintings for the Army as well as a mural for the Officer's Club, which has been re-discovered in recent years. In his spare time he kept working on landscapes and when the war ended in 1945, he was not faced with the same rocky transition from military to civilian life as many veterans. That same year, Salinas became a father as he and Maria celebrated the birth of his only child, Christina Maria Salinas. Like most landscape artists of the era, Salinas was an avid Plein-air painter, and he took his easel and paint box with him on trips throughout Texas and into Mexico. He and his wife traveled deep into her native country, where the artist painted the majestic volcanic peaks of Iztaccihuatl (known as the "Sleeping Woman" because of its unique shape) and Popocatepetl (called the "smoking mountain" because the volcano is still active), south of Mexico City. Salinas also painted studies of rustic villages and their residents. While his most popular paintings were always the scenes of the Texas Bluebonnets and other wildflowers that bloom all over the Hill Country in the spring, he also painted scenes of the twisted Texas oak trees of central Texas, the more arid landscapes of the Texas panhandle and West Texas, and the historic Texas missions; he even sold rapidly executed scenes of bullfights and cockfights for Mexican-American collectors. By the late 1940s, the American economy was finally growing again and wealthier Texans began to collect Salinas paintings, purchasing them from galleries in San Antonio and Dallas and at Dewey Bradford's County Store Gallery in Austin. Salinas also sold work to the Atlanta dealer Dr. Carlton Palmer, who represented Robert W. Wood for many years. In 1948 Palmer sold two large Salinas paintings to the Citizen National Bank in Abilene, Texas. Because Austin was the state capitol, Bradford counted many of the state's elite among his patrons, and due to his interest in history and literature, he played a large role in the cultural history of central Texas. Bradford introduced a number of the major Texas political figures to Salinas' work, including Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), who was then in the House of Representatives and on his way to winning a controversial election that vaulted him in the United States Senate. Johnson became an enthusiastic collector, as did his political mentor, the legendary House Speaker Sam Rayburn (1882-1961). Johnson decorated his Washington offices with Salinas paintings and he brought a number of them home to his vast LBJ Ranch, near Johnson City, Texas. In spite of his important patrons, Salinas went through a fallow and difficult period in the late 1950s. He had a volatile temperament, which made relationships difficult, and it took great patience for his wife to help him manage his career. As Salinas entered middle age his work began to sell steadily, but except for tourists who purchased his paintings in San Antonio, he was known primarily only to Texas art collectors. All that changed in 1961 with the election of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) to the Presidency of the United States and his running mate Lyndon Johnson to the Vice Presidency. Johnson was an expansive, larger-than-life character and his status as a long, tall Texan in a cowboy hat was a large part of his imposing political image. During his storied career in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007) spent their time in Washington in a modest house on the edge of Rock Creek Park, but this home would not do for a Vice President. So, in 1961, the Johnsons purchased a French chateau-styled home in the Spring Valley section of the Capitol. Obtained from the famed socialite and ambassador Perle Mesta (1889-1975), the house came with a fine collection of French furniture and tapestries, and the designer Genevieve Hendricks was hired to meld the French look with objects from the Johnsons' overseas travels and paintings of the flora and fauna of their native Texas. Featured prominently in the foyer were the paintings of Porfirio Salinas. Because of the Johnsons' patronage, his work was mentioned in Time Magazine and other national publications. Lady Bird Johnson loved her landscapes of the Texas Hill Country and told reporters that, "I want to see them when ever I open the door, to remind me where I come from." After President Kennedy's death thrust Lyndon Johnson into the Presidency, he brought his Salinas paintings into the historic halls of the White House, further enhaning the Texas painter's national reputation. At the time of the President Kennedy's assassination, Salinas had completed a scene of a horse drinking titled "Rocky Creek" that was to have been presented to Kennedy during his ill-fated visit to Dallas. Instead, in an effort to memorialize the fallen President, Salinas painted a symbolic work of a lone horse depicted against foreboding clouds. During his tenure in the White House, President Johnson presented a Salinas landscape as a state gift to the President of Mexico, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (1911-1979). During the 1960s, Salinas paintings sold briskly and, thanks to Presidential patronage, for escalating prices. In an interview with a writer from the New York Times, President Johnson enthused about the work of "his favorite artist" and said that, "his work reminds me of the country around the ranch." Salinas was invited to the LBJ Ranch frequently during the Johnson administration and his paintings were hung throughout the ranch, in the President's offices and even in the private quarters of the White House. The connection to President Johnson was a great boon to sales of Salinas paintings, and in 1964, when the demand was at its height, Texas Governor John Connelly (1917-1993) was told that all Salinas'work was sold and that he would have to wait for a painting. In 1960, a half century after his birth, Salinas was honored by his home town of Bastrop, a celebration that touched the modest artist. In 1962 Salinas was given a solo exhibition at the Witte Museum in San Antonio that featured more than twenty of his works. By the early 1960s, sales of reproductions of the artist's landscapes by the New York Graphic Society and other publishers grew rapidly, enlarging his audience throughout the United States. In 1967, Dewey Bradford helped to organize the production of a book of Texas stories titled "Bluebonnets and Cactus" (Austin: Pemberton Press: 1967), which was profusely illustrated with paintings by Salinas. His works were still popular when Salinas died after a brief illness in April of 1973, just a few months after former President Johnson's passing. He was memorialized in the City of Austin by Porfirio Salinas Day, which honored him for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas together with his paintings." Bastrop, Texas, the city of the artist's birth, has been holding a Salinas Art Exhibition annually since 1981. He painted hundreds of scenes of the wildflowers, including the various varieties of Blue Lupin, the state flower, as well as other flowering flora. These show the influence of his artistic mentors Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa Y Perea. Salinas also painted a number of scenes of Prickly Pear Cactus that show the influence of the English painter Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864-1939), who painted many such works during his tenure in Texas. He painted the more arid Texas landscape infrequently and these works are very rare today and sought after by collectors from the Texas Panhandle and West Texas. Salinas also painted many river landscapes along the Guadalupe, Rio Frio, the San Antonio and the Rio Grande. On trips to his wife's homeland of Mexico, he painted a number of scenes of the volcanic peaks as well as scenes of peasant villages and villagers. Figurative paintings are rare among Salinas' works and these scenes of bullfights, fandangos and cock fights are probably the least sought after of his paintings. There are also a small number of modest marines, painted on trips to the Texas and California coast. Salinas paintings are highly prized by collectors of early Texas art, with the paintings of wildflowers in greatest demand. Works by Porfirio Salinas can be found in a number of public collections, including the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas; the Texas State Capitol; the Texas Governor's Mansion; the Lyndon Baines Johnson Ranch; the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum in Bonham, Texas; Amarillo High School; the Witte Museum in San Antonio; the historic Joan and Price Daniel House in San Antonio; the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas; the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, Louisiana; the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado; Texas A & M University and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Salinas has been featured in a number of reference works as well as anthologies devoted to American Western Art...
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1950s Impressionist Art

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Oil

Horse and bird
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon HAAN MET PAARD 1948 Gouache on paper 54 x 40 cm. Signed: lower left Provenance: Private collection, The...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

Still life by Benjamin II Vautier - Oil on canvas 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 70x81 cm Benjamin II VAUTIER is an artist born in Switzerland in 1895 and died in 1974. His w...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Boats at Sunset, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style, French Painter
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This French watercolor dating from around 1930 conveys a serene maritime scene that resonates with the aesthetic principles of the Impressionists. The ...
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1930s Impressionist Art

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Gouache, Laid Paper

The Cutty Sark Large British Marine Signed Oil Painting Famous Maritime Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cutty Sark by Robin Brooks (British marine artist, 1943) signed oil on canvas, framed frame: 29 x 41 inches canvas: 24 x 36 inches provenance: private collection, England conditi...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Autumn silence
Located in Oslo, NO
As the artist, I've poured my soul into this piece, blending impressionistic sweeps with fine art sensibilities in stunning acrylic. I've captured the silent serenity of autumn, wher...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Acrylic, Canvas

'Large Abstract', San Francisco Bay Area, North Beach, Beat, Beatnik, Big Sur
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'K. Sanzenbach' for Keith Sanzenbach (American, 1931-1964) and dated 1956. Additionally signed, verso, and with the artist's Lagunitas, California address. The ...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Masonite, Oil, Gouache

Painting on paper, lyrical abstraction, contemporary, music score
Located in Carballo, ES
Blue Minimal Painting. This is an original artwork realized by TUSET in 2019. We can frame it in natural wood or black on request. The dimensions of the painting are 41 x 29,5 cm. W...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

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Ink, Handmade Paper

Impressionistic sky Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sky Cloud Study
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Morning Sky oil/panel 9 x 12 unframed, 15.5 x 18.5 framed Morning Sky is a new oil on panel painting just completed in the studio. The painting exudes the rich qualities of oil pain...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Sakura in London, St. Paul-Abstract-Rare Large Limited Five only #3/5 -UK artist
Located in London, GB
This is a large Limited Edition, truly brings impact to your space! wowing the visitors and delight your daily life. A Limited Edition of only 5 of the edition were made, it is offered as an alternative to this original piece. About the Painting The painting captures two major spring trees in the artist’s garden, painted plein-air in the garden for three days, later on, Shizico Yi added the important locations of London that are dear to her memories; in this painting St Paul...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Gold

'Near Locranan, Brittany', Paris, Charlottenborg, Bornholm School, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Mogens Hertz' (Danish, 1909-1999) and painted circa 1935. This notable Impressionist first studied with the classically-trained Academician, Laurits Ring and, su...
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1930s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Plywood, Canvas

1930's French Gouache Painting Village Church
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist gouache on artist paper, unframed painting: 16 x 21 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this ar...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Gouache

It's time to save the world with magic
Located in Sempach, LU
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior. ABOUT THE ARTWORK In "It's Time to Save the World with Magic" from ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Acrylic

Laufenburg (Switzerland)
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting "Laufenburg" was created in 2021 when, in search of new experiences, I discovered a beautiful medieval city that captured my heart. The colorful houses are reflected in...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Figurative - "Lovers’ Embrace"
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstract Expressionist Painting - "Lovers’ Embrace" Wonderful example of a vibrant abstract expressionist figurative of couple embracing by Ka...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Paper, Oil

Hidden Light 3-original modern abstract landscape painting - Contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Hidden Light III" by Magdalena Morey captures the enchanting play of luminous rays filtering through nature, creating a visual symphony of golden hues bursting through a captivating...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Revealing the Tide 1-original abstract floral landscape painting-modern artwork
Located in London, Chelsea
"Revealed by the Tide I" by Magdalena Morey is an original landscape painting that skillfully captures the essence of a natural vista through abstract forms and a diverse array of me...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Stil life with lilies
Located in Oslo, NO
Creating this piece, I immersed myself in the fusion of impressionism and fine art, using oils to birth vibrant lilies and lush fruits. Every brushstroke embodies vitality, manifesti...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

Vintage Pink Rose and Wine Glass Still Life French Impressionist Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pink Rose signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist watercolour on board, unframed painting: 7 x 8 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work i...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

"GULLWING MERCEDES 300 SL COUPE". PAINTING OF RALPH LAUREN'S ALUMINUM GULLWING
Located in San Antonio, TX
John Austin Hanna Born 1942 Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 24 x 48 Frame Size: 28 x 52 Medium: Oil on Canvas Mercedes Benz 300SL "Gullwing" Coupe Ralph Lauren's personal vehicle Biography John Austin Hanna Born 1942 John Austin Hanna - Fredericksburg, Texas John graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in Advertising Art & Design. As a 20-year illustrator in New York and Dallas he has been published in several magazines such as Automotive Quarterly, Car and Driver, Saga, Town & Country, Flying, Popular Boating, and Popular Science. He has also done work for several large corporations such as Mercedes, Volkswagen, Bell Helicopter, Lockheed Martin, Borden’s, Pearl Beer...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Lace of November
Located in Oslo, NO
With each brushstroke, I aimed to capture the ephemeral beauty of nature's transition during the final embrace of autumn. Utilizing acrylic and ink, my composition dances between fin...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Listening to silence
Located in Oslo, NO
In this oil painting, I've immersed myself in the essence of tranquility, capturing the serene dance of leaves in dappled light. Each brushstroke is a whisper, a gentle hymn to natur...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

village view, 1953
Located in BLARICUM, NL
QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon VILLAGE VIEW 1953 Gouache on paper 38 x 54,5 cm. Signed and dated: lower left
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Gouache

Savoir Vivre - Impressionist Wave Pastel Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Savoir Vivre 10.0 x 8.0 x 1.0, 1.0 lbs Pastel on archival paper Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "This wave looked so elegant as it came in to shore. The left side of i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

Still -life with lilac
Located in Oslo, NO
Imbued with vivacity, each stroke in this oil painting captures the essence of life's evanescent beauty. The lush lilac bursts forth, a symphony of colors speaking to the heart's dee...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue Dryad. Contemporary Floral Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
“Blue Dryad” (120 X 100cm) and like the mythical forest dwellers themselves, this “Dryad” is marvellously at home among the boughs and blooms. Held here mid-flight, the summer-visiti...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Oaliv (Abstract, Round, Disc, Circle, Warm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Agent X Oaliv (Abstract, Round, Disc, Circle, Warm) Archival Pigment Print with Archival Inks on 240 gsm Hahnemühle Paper 2024 Size: 19x19in Edition: 75 Signed, dated and numbered b...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Digital

Vintage Watercolor Still Life -- The Antique Store
By Ross Jones
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor of an antiques store titled "Paradox" by Ross Jones (American, 20th century). Signed "Ross Jones" lower right and on verso. Presented in a wood frame. Image, 22"H x 30"L. ...
Category

1980s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Camomile
Located in Oslo, NO
This picture is very emotional and gentle, it reminds the viewer of a warm summer, of days in nature. In it, acrylic and oil merge to create a deep emotional statement. Abstract and ...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

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