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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1910s
French Watercolour Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Floral Display
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summer Floral Display in a Green Jug by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed lower right and dated 1947 watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed sh...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Antique American Rare Alaskan Artist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 24H x 30L. Signed.
Category

1940s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Taxco, Mexico', Paris, Louvre, Who Was Who in American Art, PAFA, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Killgore' (American, 1889-1979) and painted circa 1940. (N.B. the artist's last name variant is 'Kilgore). Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Charles Ki...
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Fiberboard, Oil

Red Landscape with trees, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This French artwork from around 1940 exhibits a vivid, expressive style, reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh's post-Impressionist works. The robust, swirli...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache, Laid Paper

Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Neapolitan Sea Captain Portrait Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3703 Oil on artist board Set in a vintage wood frame Image size 13x9.5"
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1940s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Winter's Snowy Tatra Mountains with Pines and Stream
Located in Soquel, CA
Winter's Snowy Tatra Mountains with Pines and Stream Beautiful post-war winter snowy scene with mountains and pine by Laszlo Neogrady (Hungarian, 1896-1962), circa 1940. Lovely textu...
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1940s Post-War Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Christian Berg, Pair of Goosander Birds On Ice Floes.
Located in Stockholm, SE
A female and male Goosander bird on ice floes. In the center of the painting there is a smaller opening in the ice covered waters. This painting, by Christian Berg (1893-1976) is quite interesting and unusual for his works. It is signed "Ch. Berg" and dated 1918. Berg is mostly famous for his sculptures which was to become his signum works later in his life. He is known primarily for his abstract artworks. He was educated at the Technical School and Althin's painting school in Stockholm 1911–1914. In the years 1914–1917 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and started with animal painting in the spirit of Bruno Liljefors. Our painting is from this period just after he finished his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. In 1921, he studied in Berlin and Dresden which was followed by a trip to Egypt in 1925. In the same year he moved to Paris and had a studio on rue Guénégaud. He studied with André Lhote and his interest in cubism was awakened. Made sketch drawings at the free academies Colarossi and La Grande Chaumière and in 1927 he met the Swedish artist Erik Olson...
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1910s Naturalistic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique French Post Impressionist Modern Kitchen Seafood Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted French modernist still life. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Figurative Oil Pastel Painting"Resting Mother with Child"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2620 Vintage original colored pastel on paper displayed in a gilt wood frame under glass.Arist unknown
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1940s Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Stirling River Landscape Scotland - Scottish Impressionist 1910 art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Scottish Stirlingshire Impressionist landscape is by noted artist Joseph Morris Henderson. Painted circa 1910 the composition is a river landscape with the river in the foreground and cows in the fields beyond. In the distance one can see some dwellings and hills beyond those, all beneath a summers sky. The impressionistic brushwork and colouring are just lovely. This is an excellent large example of Henderson's work and of Scottish landscape art...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Bouquet de fleurs" Pastello cm. 36 x 45 1910 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Eccezionale Pastello Liberty , colori luminosi, bellissima cornice decò Lucien Victor GUIRAND DE SCÉVOLA (Sète, 1871 – Parigi, 1950) È allievo ...
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1910s Jugendstil Paintings

Materials

Paper, Crayon

E. Gordigiani. Year 1947. Still life with sea bream, red mullets and diospyro.
Located in Firenze, IT
The painting "Large Still Life with Diospirus and Fish" by Edoardo Gordigiani, executed in oil on canvas, is a captivating still life that unmistaka...
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1940s Post-Minimalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Flower Still Life Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

John JG Blundell, Study Of Man In Profile, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-20th-century oil painting by English artist John JG Blundell (1927-2016) depicts a middle-aged man in profile. Every now and then we discover a special piece by an unknown ...
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1940s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pantheum Moonlight, Early 20th century surrealist landscape, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Ferdinand Burgdorff (American, 1881-1975) Pantheum Moonlight, 1916 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 16 x 24 inches 21.5 x 29.5 inches, framed Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Ferd...
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1910s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Homestead, Regional American Landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Homestead" is a regional, American landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Harry Leith-Ross. The painting is a 14" x 19" watercolor on paper, signed "Lei...
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1940s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Antique English Oil Painting on Wood Panel "The Middle Age Trial"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2984 Lawbreaker Painting Plaque,scene of Middle Ages court ,vintage English oil on wood panel.Signed E.B /2
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1940s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil On Canvas "nude With A Fan" Attribution Henri-camille Danger (1857-1937)
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas "nude With A Fan" Attribution Henri-camille Danger (1857-1937)" Henri-Camille Danger was a French impressionist and modern painter born in 1857. The artist died in 193...
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1910s French School Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Henry H Parker, Highland Loch With Cattle, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by British artist Henry Hillingford Parker (1858-1930) depicts a Highland loch with cattle, track and mountain. Parker adored the natural world ...
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1910s Naturalistic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Signed American School Modernist Nude Woman Cubist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing and rare 1946 American school painting. Super modern and well painted. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Knud Sinding, Kitchen Interior With Mother & Child, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming early-20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Knud Sinding (1898-1947) depicts a kitchen interior with mother and child. A gentle br...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique American Abstract Cubist Still Life Large Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted vintage American modernist still life. Cubist composition with great color. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category

1940s Cubist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Castle at riverside, Original French Watercolor, Impressionist style
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This French watercolor from around 1940 captures a picturesque view reminiscent of the Impressionist penchant for natural light and landscape scenes. ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"Man on First" James Chapin, Baseball Sports, Figurative WPA, American Scene
Located in New York, NY
James Chapin Man on First, 1948 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 28 x 24 inches Provenance: D. Wigmore Fine Art Co., New York William L. Gladstone Collection Exhibited: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Zoellner Arts Center, Baseball Art from the Gladstone Collection, March 14 - June 10, 2001. Concord, Massachusetts, Concord Museum, The Art of Baseball, April 17 - September 20, 2015. Literature: Shelly Mehlman Dinhofer, The Art of Baseball: The Great American Game in Painting, Sculpture & Folk Art, New York, 1989, fig. 56, illustrated. Michael Ruscoe, Baseball: A Treasury of Art and Literature, Southport, Connecticut, 1993, pl. 46, p. 139, illustrated. Joseph Stanton, "Painting Baseball," NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, University of Nebraska Press, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2016. James Ormsbee Chapin was born in West Orange, New Jersey, on July 9, 1887. When he was sixteen, he took a job in a New York bank. In the evenings, he attended drawing classes at Cooper Union and later at the Art Students League. Six years or so later, with a small but sufficient sum of money to sustain him, Chapin left the bank to study in Europe. He distinguished himself as an award-winning student at the Royal Academy in Antwerp, Belgium, before leaving for Paris where he was influenced by the work of Cezanne. Chapin returned to the United States in 1912 to alleviate family debts by working at various illustration jobs. In 1915 or 1916 he met Robert Frost at his publishers, Henry Holt & Co., for whom he designed books. This friendship lasted over 30 years. After several years working as a commercial artist, Chapin found he was greatly dissatisfied. In 1924 he fled New York, settling in the quiet mountains of New Jersey. There he rented a log cabin on the farm of the Marvin family for four dollars a month. Chapin spent the next four and a half years painting the Marvin family as he saw them day by day. In 1935 Chapin accepted a one-day-a-week job at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts as instructor to the advanced portrait class. In the late 1930s, he accepted a teaching position in California. There he met and soon after married Mary Fischer...
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1940s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Nautical Cityscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage mid century abstract painting. Feels like an abstract cityscape of New York City. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signe...
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New England Winter Forest Snow Landscape Silver Frame Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted and highly detailed winter landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame Unique landscape by Hollywood, California artist Genevieve"Gen" Matucha (American, 1903-1989). The scene dep...
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Board, Acrylic

South of France, Original Oil on Card, Post Impressionism, Signed and Dated
Located in PARIS, FR
*The dimensions include the frame This oil on cardboard scene is steeped in the warmth of the South of France, its style nodding to the Impressionists with a touch of Post-Impressio...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Antique American Modernist Abstract Houses Architecture Precisionist NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970) Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight Oil on Canvas Signed lower left 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed Bio In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
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1940s American Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique American School Modernist Landscape Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring sunny day. Cardboard, oil, 29. 5 x 36 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Spring sunny day. Cardboard, oil, 29.5 x 36 cm Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1...
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1940s Realist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Antique Impressionist Moon Light Forest Landscape Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3491 Forest oil on canvas applied to a board, displayed in a gilt-wood frame Signed by Crossetti lower right. Image size 19.50 H x 23 W
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1940s Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Large Impressionist Flower Still Life Woman Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist flower still life painting. Nice detail and thick impasto. Oil on canvas. Housed in a stunning gold leaf Paul Carter Goodnow frame.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Seine at Saint-Cloud
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian artist, Constantin Terechkovitch. Done on the bank of the Seine River with a leisurely couple taking a stroll in the forground and the use of a ...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

"A Glowing Day South West Texas" Date: 1910. Exquisite Sky in this Texas piece
Located in San Antonio, TX
Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 6 x 9 Frame Size: 10.75 x 13.75 Medium: Oil Dated 1910 "A Glowing Sky" SW Texas Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) Known as...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Antique American School Signed Framed Abstract Expressionist Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 36L x 16H.
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionist landscape, Original Antique Oil on Canvas Washerwomen at the river
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This painting by Émile Gauffriaud vividly embraces the en plein air technique, a hallmark of Impressionist work, where artists paint outdoors to captur...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"New England Autumn" Philip Leslie Hale, American Impressionist Landscape House
By Philip Leslie Hale
Located in New York, NY
Philip Leslie Hale New England Autumn, 1910 Pastel on canvas 25 x 30 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Sotheby's New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 24, 1990, Lot 125 R. Anne McCarthy Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts (gift from the above) Private Collection, Massachusetts Exhibited: Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tenth Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, November 10 - December 15, 1912, no. 13. Painter, teacher and writer, Philip Leslie Hale is recognized for his decorative paintings of the female figure and for his interior scenes with figures as well as for his progressive approach to painting. However, his career went through several phases that included sporting scenes, figural studies of women including nudes, portraits, and allegorical works reflecting the overwhelming forces of nature. Of the Boston painters of his time, he seemed the most fully committed to Impressionism, and his technique suggests the influence of French impressionist Edgar Degas. In most of his paintings, the landscape was more important than the figure. He was a prolific writer in local newspapers and periodicals about the contemporary art scene, discussing the work of his Boston colleagues. He also wrote numerous books on art and art history including a study of Vermeer that was published in 1913. Among his writings are 1892 newspaper columns for Arcadia Magazine titled "Letters from Paris", art criticism for the Boston Herald from 1905 to 1909; and art criticism for the Boston Evening Transcript. He argued for the Boston School of Art as led by Edmund Tarbell whose style was based on Impressionism with elements of Realism, especially figure painting. Hale was born in Boston in 1865, the son Reverend Edward Hale, a Boston clergyman and a relative of Nathan Hale. He studied with Ellen Day Hale, his sister, and Edmund Tarbell at the Boston Museum School, with J. Alden Weir at the Art Students League in New York City, and then went to Paris for further studies at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He remained in France for fifteen years, returning to America about 1895. During that time, from 1888, he spent summers at Giverny, France with his good friend, artist, Theodore Butler, and became well acquainted with Claude Monet. Traveling throughout Europe, Hale visited the major museums, and copied the works of Ingres, Vermeer, Watteau and Michelangelo. Hale married Lilian Westcott Hale...
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1910s American Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Pastel

Vintage Vibrant Taos New Mexico Desert Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully vibrant Taos, New Mexico landscape painting by unknown artist , Circa 1940. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size: 6"H x 8"W.
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1940s American Impressionist Paintings

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Cardboard, Gouache

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: City Winter Scene by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches Intriguing painting by the...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache, Charcoal, Watercolor

Antique American School Fall Cat Still Life Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life with a cat. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique Indian Landscape Figural Gouache
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5031. Antique gouache Indian painting on paper Image size 9x6"
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1940s Paintings

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Gouache

Antique Italian Impressionist Venice Trompe L'Oeil Flower Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well done and interesting vintage Italian impressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life
Located in Chicago, IL
A large and wonderful Modernist still life of a cast iron pot, squash and ladle by artist Flora Schofield. Framed to 24" x 26". A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”. Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...
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1940s American Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Monumental Vintage American School Modernist Landscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large and impressive modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
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1940s Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas by A. Whipple
Located in Soquel, CA
A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas Oil painting depicting a river flowing through a grove of trees. Vibrant green trees surround the river, hues of deep greens make up the trees to the l...
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1940s American Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Signed Unknown Vintage Fruit Still Life of Oranges, Lemon, and Nuts
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed vintage fruit still life of oranges, lemon, and nuts. Mystery artist, signed illegibly lower right. Oil on board, framed.
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1940s Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Vintage American Pointer Dog Hunting in Landscape Oil Painting 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3302 Dog Hunting oil on canvas applied to a board ,displayed in a wood frame ,signed by Geyer. Image size 10.25 H x 13.50 W
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1940s Paintings

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Oil

Still Life
Located in Chicago, IL
A diminutive and charming painting of a porcelain pitcher by French/American Artist Andre Delfau. The painting is framed to 11 3/4" x 13 1/2". Born in Paris, France in 1914, Andre ...
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1940s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel

The Thames near Bell Lock, a river landscape
Located in St. Albans, GB
Carl BRENNIR A classic opportunity to buy a premier piece painted by Carl Brennir. It is oil on canvas and the canvas is in very good condition. It is not relined and is titled and ...
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1910s Victorian Paintings

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Oil

Antique French Female Figurative Oil Painting " Farm Girl Gathering Fruit" 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3893 French Impressionist oil on artist board set in a gilt wood frame Image size 14.25x14.25"
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1940s Paintings

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Oil

Antique American School Modernist Framed Signed Exhibited Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibited at the Butler Art Institute.
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Modernist WPA Winter Ice Skating Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American modernist winter landscape. Detailed and well painted skating scene. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Outsider Art Sigend Modernist Dog Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Interesting and well done American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Outsider Art Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Japanese Pagoda Woodblock Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3722 Japanese Woodblock on paper set in a vintage wood frame Image size 9x10.5"
Category

1940s Paintings

Materials

Ink

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