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S. McKinley (b.1920) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, The Last of the Hay

20th Century

A captivating watercolour painting by the well-listed artist George Anderson Short. The scene depicts a countryside view with figures and a horse...

A charming watercolour depicting roaming cattle on open moorland by landscape artist K. M. Broomhead. Signed in graphite below the mount. Presented in a decorative gilt frame with be...

A fine example of a delicate landscape work in watercolour, by the listed British artist Percy Lancaster (1878-1951) RI RBA RIBA. This composition is typical of the artists style, de...

A charming rural scene depicting farm workers burning stubble at dusk. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On paper.

Antique American watercolor painting, landscape harvest farm scene by Frank F. English (1854 - 1922), Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Circa 1900. A very attractive painting by the celebrated Pennsylvania artist Frank F. English, the location is in Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The painting depicts a scene of blue skies with two farmers tossing hay with pitchforks & two horses harnessed to a hay wagon, with barns to the background. The painting signed lower right " Frank F. English", condition is excellent this very charming painting is ready to hang on your wall. Biography Frank F. English was born in Louisville Kentucky in 1854. In the early 1880s, he studied for five years in the evening classes of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His instructors included Thomas Eakins, James P. Kelly and Thomas Anshutz. However, English's reputation primarily rests with his outstanding facility as a watercolorist; most of his known paintings are executed in this medium. English's propensity for its use coincides, appropriately enough, with the watercolor's growing popularity among other American painters. The American Water Color Society brought the medium special prominence by the late 1860s, and acceptance on the level of oil painting in 1876. That same year, the society was invited to display its works at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Its members exhibited 116 watercolors, and their public exposure was enormous. It is safe to assume that during the 159-day Centennial, Frank English was among the nearly 10 million exposition attendees, surpassing attendance records at all preceding world's fairs. At age twenty-two, English, traveled to Philadelphia to see works by the Society's notables such as Samuel Colman, R. Swain Gifford, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Albert Fitch...

Beautiful late 19th-century watercolor landscape in the style of Elmer Wachtel (American, 1864-1929), by an unknown 19th-century artist. This small watercolor...

A beautiful and skillfully painted original watercolor of a rural landscape scene by early 1900s watercolor painter Jessie E. Muntz, a British artist. Research on the painting is pos...

Watercolor landscape framed in a contemporary molding on museum mount under UV glass. American, circa 1930.