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Medium: Masonite
'The Water Carriers', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Académie des Beaux-Arts, New York
'The Water Carriers', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Académie des Beaux-Arts, New York

'The Water Carriers', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Académie des Beaux-Arts, New York

By Jean Pierre Serrier

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Signed lower right, 'J. P. Serrier' for Jean Pierre Serrier (French, 1934-1989) and dated 1966 Jean-Pierre Serrier was born in Montparnasse and attended the Académie des Beaux-Arts ...

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1960s Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

"Vincent"
"Vincent"

"Vincent"

Located in Astoria, NY

Robert Dandarov (Macedonian/American, b. 1959), "Vincent", Oil on Masonite, circa 1984, signed and titled verso, unframed. 69.5" H x 46.25" W x 2" D. Provenance: From a New York Ci...

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1980s Surrealist Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Striking Hollywood Regency Portrait  of a Red Haired Lady by  Kughler 1932
Striking Hollywood Regency Portrait  of a Red Haired Lady by  Kughler 1932

Striking Hollywood Regency Portrait of a Red Haired Lady by Kughler 1932

By Francis Vandeveer Kughler

Located in Rochester, NY

Hollywood regency portrait painting of a young woman by Francis Kughler (American 1901-1970). Oil on canvas board. Circa 1932. Unframed. Born in New York City in 1901, Francis Vandeveer Kughler attended Cooper Union, the Mechanics' Institute, and the National Academy of Design School of Art where he met Charlotte Livingston, an artist, whom he was later to marry. During this period he was the winner of a Tiffany scholarship, which provided him a summer of landscape painting at the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate at Oyster Bay, L.I. In the 1940s, Kughler became the President of the Salmagundi Club, a well-known art club in Washington Square in New York City.Well-known as a muralist, society portrait painter and lithographer, he was a prolific painter who made cityscapes, landscapes, and nudes. He and his wife, Charlotte Livingston, lived and worked in Bronx, New York. mid century modern wpa impressionist...

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Mid-20th Century Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego

The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego

By Julio de Diego

Located in Hudson, NY

Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.” To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.” Exhibited 1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2" About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism. The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman. De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...

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1940s American Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Tempera

"Rushelle in the Garden"
"Rushelle in the Garden"

"Rushelle in the Garden"

By Gershon Benjamin

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...

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1940s Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Father Rushing Home with an Armload of Gifts, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Father Rushing Home with an Armload of Gifts, Saturday Evening Post Cover

Father Rushing Home with an Armload of Gifts, Saturday Evening Post Cover

By Joseph Christian Leyendecker

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Father Rushing Home with an Armload of Gifts, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 4, 1909. A charming original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 4, 1909,...

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Early 1900s Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Masonite

Colorful Abstract Portrait Painting on Board-  Rainbow Showers by Peter Keil
Colorful Abstract Portrait Painting on Board-  Rainbow Showers by Peter Keil

Colorful Abstract Portrait Painting on Board- Rainbow Showers by Peter Keil

By Peter Keil

Located in Hudson, NY

This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a taupe background, black abstract portrait and showered with many colors. Here you certainly see the P...

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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic, Board

Shoo the Moos, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Shoo the Moos, Saturday Evening Post Cover

Shoo the Moos, Saturday Evening Post Cover

By Stevan Dohanos

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Date: 1950 Medium: Oil on Masonite Dimensions: 25.75" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, July 1st, 1950. The Post des...

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1950s Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Pilgrims going out for the feast of St. Anne on Horseback
Pilgrims going out for the feast of St. Anne on Horseback

Pilgrims going out for the feast of St. Anne on Horseback

By Philomé Obin

Located in Miami, FL

After Hector Hyppolite, Philomé Obin may be Haiti's most significant painter. Les pèlerins sortant à la fête de Ste. Anne As with most Haitian painters, this work has a thin applicat...

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1950s Outsider Art Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil
Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil

Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil

By Peter Keil

Located in Hudson, NY

This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a painted grey background, black abstract portrait with many colors. Here you certainly see the Picasso...

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Late 20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic, Board

2 Barns

2 Barns

By Marina Stern

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This work is part of our exhibition Marina Stern Luminary, the first retrospective of the artist since 2007. Marina Stern was a multifaceted New York-based artist whose works ranged...

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Early 2000s American Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Landscape 147 by Jean Krille - Oil on Masonite 100x100 cm
Landscape 147 by Jean Krille - Oil on Masonite 100x100 cm

Landscape 147 by Jean Krille - Oil on Masonite 100x100 cm

By Jean Krille

Located in Geneva, CH

Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...

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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Contemporary landscape oil painting cows pastoral mountain field grassland sky
Contemporary landscape oil painting cows pastoral mountain field grassland sky

Contemporary landscape oil painting cows pastoral mountain field grassland sky

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Sheridan Herd" is an original oil painting on masonite by Heather Foster. The artist initialed the work in the lower right. This painting depicts a herd of cows in a yellow hilly me...

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Early 2000s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego

St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego

By Julio de Diego

Located in Hudson, NY

Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.” To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.” Exhibited 1950 University of Illinois at Urbana "Contemporary American Painting" 1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 36" x 2". About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism. The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman. De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...

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1940s American Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Tempera

A Large, Compelling Mid-Century Modern Figurative Painting- Equestrienne & Clown
A Large, Compelling Mid-Century Modern Figurative Painting- Equestrienne & Clown

A Large, Compelling Mid-Century Modern Figurative Painting- Equestrienne & Clown

By Gerrit Hondius

Located in Chicago, IL

A Large, Compelling Mid-Century Modern Figurative Painting by New York Artist, Gerrit Hondius, Titled "Equestrienne & Clown". Artwork size: 30 x 24 inches (Oil on Masonite); Frame...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Untitled-006 abstract painting by Fred Martin
Untitled-006 abstract painting by Fred Martin

Untitled-006 abstract painting by Fred Martin

By Fred Martin

Located in Hudson, NY

Exhibited: 2003 Oakland Museum of California "Fred Martin Retrospective" A native Californian, Fred Martin was born in San Francisco in 1927, and received both his BA (1949) and MA (1954) from University of California, Berkley. At the San Francisco Art Institute Martin studied with Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and David Park...

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1970s American Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Pastel, Acrylic

"Landscape Scene of Fisherman by Lake" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
"Landscape Scene of Fisherman by Lake" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite

"Landscape Scene of Fisherman by Lake" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite

By Michael Baxte

Located in New York, NY

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1963 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his figures in water landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout. Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.” By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners. In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...

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1960s Expressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Untitled

Untitled

By Joan Nelson

Located in New York, NY

JOAN NELSON UNTITLED, 1984 egg tempera on masonite 24 x 18 in. 61 x 45.7 cm. signed and dated on verso landscape castle

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1980s Contemporary Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Egg Tempera

Transendental Abstraction by William Schwartz Titled Impressions of the West #7
Transendental Abstraction by William Schwartz Titled Impressions of the West #7

Transendental Abstraction by William Schwartz Titled Impressions of the West #7

By William S. Schwartz

Located in Chicago, IL

A Transendental Abstraction by famed Chicago Modernist, William S. Schwartz titled "Impressions of the West #7". Anecdotally, Schwartz's notable "Impressions of the West" series wer...

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1940s Abstract Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

"Early Evening Walk"
"Early Evening Walk"

"Early Evening Walk"

By Gershon Benjamin

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...

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1930s Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Mid Century South African Mountain Landscape
Mid Century South African Mountain Landscape

Mid Century South African Mountain Landscape

By Victor F. Simmonds

Located in Soquel, CA

Wonderful mid century landscape and figurative of farmers guide a cart pulled by cows along a dirt path, a majestic mountain is their backdrop; a scene from South Africa. Signed "V...

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20th Century Impressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Wig City, 1969 New York City American Scene, Oil on Masonite, Signed Painting
Wig City, 1969 New York City American Scene, Oil on Masonite, Signed Painting

Wig City, 1969 New York City American Scene, Oil on Masonite, Signed Painting

Located in Marco Island, FL

Wig City by Clyde Singer New York City scene of a woman stopping to look in the window of Wig City in 1969. American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, where he depi...

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1960s American Realist Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Tarus"

"Tarus"

By Joseph Meierhans

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed Lower Right Joseph Meierhans (1890 - 1980) Joseph Meierhans is one of the most important modernist painters associate...

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20th Century Abstract Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

1970s Modern Figurative -- Madre del Mundo
1970s Modern Figurative -- Madre del Mundo

1970s Modern Figurative -- Madre del Mundo

By Rodrigo Ramirez Pimentel

Located in Soquel, CA

Evocative modern figurative painting of a mother and family in a calming but somber palette by Rodrigo Ramirez Pimentel (Mexican, b. 1945), 1973. Imprimatura and impasto reveals artist's first take had mother looking out at world (can be seen when viewed at side angle) with artist ultimately deciding to have mother looking down at what she's carrying with family behind her and one figure looking like angel of death. Signed and dated "R. P. -73" lower right corner. Unframed. Image size: 36"H x 24"W. Born in Zináparo, Michoacán in 1945, Rodrigo Pimentel is one of the most talented Michoacan artists whose career is well known to many specialists in Mexican art. His work is part of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City and other important collections in Mexico and the world. Rodrigo Pimentel studied at the ENAP, and became a pupil of several teachers who were still struggling for classical academic education: Santos Balmori, Francisco Moreno Capdevila...

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1970s Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Gondola In Venice, 1947
Gondola In Venice, 1947

Gondola In Venice, 1947

By Tom Lovell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed Upper Left Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine Excellent Condition This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...

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1940s Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

'Mt. Rundle, Canada', Alberta, Prix de West, National Academy of Western Art
'Mt. Rundle, Canada', Alberta, Prix de West, National Academy of Western Art

'Mt. Rundle, Canada', Alberta, Prix de West, National Academy of Western Art

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Signed lower right, 'Wayne E Wolfe' (American, born 1945), dated 1979 and titled verso, 'Mt. Rund'. Framed dimensions: 20 x 2 x 22.75 inches A mountain landscape showing a view of the Vermilion lakes before Mt. Rundle in the Canadian Rockies. Son of western artist Bryon Wolfe, Wayne Wolfe...

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1970s Impressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Etude III (abstract expressionist painting)
Etude III (abstract expressionist painting)

Etude III (abstract expressionist painting)

By Fredric Karoly

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Fredric Karoly (1898-1987). Etude III, 1950. Oil on masonite panel measures 18 x 24 inches. Unframed. Signed, titled, dated on reverse. Good condition with minor paint loss at edges. Biography: An abstract painter, Karoly was born in Hungary and studied painting in Paris, architectural eingineering in Berlin, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1926. He began a successful career as a fashion and fabric designer. In 1948 he was working as a fashion director for Simplicity Patters, when he had a solo exhibition of of his oil paintings, wire montages, dry-pen drawings and abstract photography. Solo Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery (Alexandre Iolas) New York 1948; Gallery Mai. Paris 1949; New Gallery (Eugene Thaw) New York 1950; Museu de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1951; Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, Florida 1959; Loft Gallery, New York City, 1966.Group Exhibitions: Hugo Gallery, New York 1947; Salon des Realities Nouvelles, Paris 1949-1953; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Annual) 1951-1953, 1963; Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1951; International Independent Exhibition, Tokyo, 1951; Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1959; The Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1960; Stuttman Gallery, New York, 1960; The Art Institute of Chicago (Annual), 1960; International Watercolor Exhibition, Brookyln Museum, 1961; Westchester Art Museum, White Plains, NY, 1963; Whitney Museum, Annual, NY 1963; Cleveland Art Festival, Park Synagogue, Cleveland, 1963; Whitney Museum, Sculpture Annual, NY, 1964.Works in Institutional Collections: Museu de Arte, San Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; New York University, New York; Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri; Finch College, NY; Barnard College, NY; Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL. Awards: National Council Arts Awards, 1968. Frederic Karoly died on December 15, 1987 at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Manhattan, where he had made his home for many years. Fredric Karoly was born in Budapest in 1893. According to Karoly’s own vitae, his exhibition history began in New York in 1947, when at the age of 54 he took part in a four-person group show at Hugo Gallery. His involvement with visual art however was apparently life long. In a brief introduction to his solo show at Galerie Mai in Paris in June of 1949, Jen Luc de Rudder, reports that Karoly began painting at the age of 12 in Budapest. After several years of studying, then working in London, Paris and Berlin, Karoly emigrated to the United States in 1925 or 1926 (he probably first came to the US on a work visa in 1925). In New York, Karoly worked in women’s fashion as a designer. In 1948 Karoly worked in a manner than was clearly influenced by the work of such European surrealists as Max Ernst, creating spiked automatic bi-chromatic paintings. His style progressed into a progressively more biomorphic vein, similar to explorations by Theodore Stamos, Daphnis, Milton Avery and Mark Rothko around the same period. He was supported with patronage during this period by Mrs. Mimi Baliff, who apparently supported the “Industrial Design Workshop” that she helped open to feature Karoly’s designs in 1948. By the early 1950’s (1951) Karoly started experimenting with the drip and splatter process as well. Drip paintings dominated his process until the late 50’s-early 60’s, when linear compositional elements began to reemerge. By the late 50’s multi-layered drip grid motifs asserted a masque of spatial organization over looser washed fields and splatters of paint that Karoly worked off of. This development was consistent with concurrent explorations into the grid by artist Agnes Martin and others. By the mid-50’s Karoly’s style began another transition into a more surface concerned “Color Field” style of painting. There are elements still reminding one of Abstract Expressionist concerns as such painters as Clifford Still. But the works that began to emerge from Karoly’s studio in 1958 presaged the Morris Lewis fan motifs and Friedl Dzubas’s epic and romantic color spewing expanses of canvas. In 1959 Karoly began experiments using washes of turpentine diluted oil paint directly onto raw linen, and all of these subsequently suffered the consequences of oil oxidation and acidity upon the surfaces. However, many of Karoly’s washes in color field happily occurred on lightly prepared primed canvas surfaces as well. By 1960 Karoly began reintroducing imagistic references to his visual content. There were also various references to Japanese and Zen influences. He experimented with a variety of processes that included mixed media and marbleized surfaces achieved by the intermixture of oil and water mediums. A calligraphic element also enter Karoly’s work in the early 60’s. Then in 1961 glued and assembled objects begin to show up in Karoly’s work in earnest. The influence of early POP artists, particularly Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, become apparent. From 1961-63, a series of the assemblage works transition from canvas to the sculptural to pieces obviously intended for full scale installation. Many of these pieces were among the most fragile of his works primarily due to their reliance upon the of gluing of objects such as plastic or paper cups on flexible surfaces of stretched linen or canvas. In the mid-60’s Karoly apparently produced a number of photo-silk screened series of Picasso, De Kooning and other significant artists of his generation. These were executed in a style somewhere between Rauschenberg’s and Roy Lichtenstein’s, primarily because of their reliance upon half tones and Ben-Day dot effects. Then Karoly began a series of paintings conflating his drip and grid styles with super imposed and painted over string. In the late 60’s Karoly embarked upon a series of multi-paneled stretched linen constructions often with slits and fiber optic back-lit elements that were prescient of the work of Dan Flavin and others. It was this body of work that was shown at Hofstra University’s Emily Lowe Gallery, and it was these works that suffered perhaps the most irreparable damage from a steam/water infiltration in a space where they were being stored. The late professional start that Karoly had into the art world was balanced by his long life span and early immersion into the design issues of modernism as it emerged in turn of the century Europe and later evolved in America. He was clearly an artist who subscribed to the ethos of the new in abstraction and was obviously impressionable and in some instances prescient with regard to various trends in abstraction. Several noteworthy and influential collectors and institutions during his 40 years of professional engagement acquired his work. The Whitney Museum of American Art had and may still own a large Karoly canvas from 1960, but this is doubtful as the artist failed to list it on the vitae he filed with MoMA in 1965. His work was recognized and honored by the Whitney with its inclusion in four of their annual survey shows (1951,1953, 1963 and 1964). The artist’s surrealist influenced paintings from 1948-1950 were the focus of a solo exhibition held of his work by the Museo de Art in Sao Paulo and eight years later a ten year survey of his work was the focus of a solo show at the Miami Museum of Modern art. The Sao Paulo Museum in Brazil, and the Museo de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina each acquired Karoly paintings for their collections in the 1950’s. One of Karoly’s surrealist pieces was apparently purchased by Christian Zervos, Picasso’s designated chronicler, who apparently also wrote a piece on Karoly in Cahiers D’Art in 1949. A 60’s piece of Karoly art that is in the New York University’s permanent collection is included in the MoMA Library’s catalog...

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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

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Oil, Masonite

1940s Small Foothill Town
1940s Small Foothill Town

1940s Small Foothill Town

By Lura Eva Pursell

Located in Soquel, CA

Charming folk-art inspired landscape of small hillside town that reminds one of Americana and a simpler time. By Lura Eva Pursell (American, 1875-1965), circa 1940. Signed lower left...

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1940s Folk Art Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Barbados View from Cherry Tree Hill
Barbados View from Cherry Tree Hill

Barbados View from Cherry Tree Hill

Located in Fredericksburg, VA

Marjorie Portnow's "Barbados View from Cherry Tree Hill" is a vibrant and captivating aerial impressionist landscape that captures the breathtaking beauty of the island from a unique...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Mid Century Female Nude Figure, Sea Cliff Beach
Mid Century Female Nude Figure, Sea Cliff Beach

Mid Century Female Nude Figure, Sea Cliff Beach

By Jon Blanchette

Located in Soquel, CA

Female nude figure at the beach by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Jon Blanchette" verso. Image size, 24"H x 18"W. Jon Blan...

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1950s American Impressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Two Strings

Two Strings

By Marina Stern

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This work is part of our exhibition Marina Stern Luminary, the first retrospective of the artist since 2007. Literature: Marina Stern Paintings and Drawings, privately published (20...

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Early 2000s American Modern Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

Back of Provincetown
Back of Provincetown

Back of Provincetown

By Malcolm Humphreys

Located in Milford, NH

A colorful impressionist Cape Cod landscape by American artist Malcolm Humphreys (1892-1963). Humphreys was born in Morristown, New Jersey, graduated from Princeton University, and p...

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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Ring" Textured Abstract Geometric Composition in Oil on Cradled Masonite Panel
"Ring" Textured Abstract Geometric Composition in Oil on Cradled Masonite Panel

"Ring" Textured Abstract Geometric Composition in Oil on Cradled Masonite Panel

By Devon Brockopp-Hammer

Located in Soquel, CA

"Ring" Textured Abstract Geometric Composition in Oil on Cradled Masonite Panel Abstract composition by California artist Devon Brockopp-Hammer (American, b. 1986). This piece is hi...

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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art by Medium: Masonite

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Black on Black No. 3"
"Black on Black No. 3"

"Black on Black No. 3"

By Lloyd Raymond Ney

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964) Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...

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1950s Abstract Art by Medium: Masonite

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Masonite, Oil

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