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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1920s
Nature morte au bouquet d’animones Still Life Fruit & Flowers Scotch circa 1960
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Jacques Martin-Ferrières Nature morte au bouquet d’animones (Still life with anemones, oranges, lemons, bananas and a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Scotch) Framed Dimensions: 35 x 2...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Figurative portrait interior oil painting Women and child portrait painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique post impressionist Art Deco figurative oil painting by French artist Bernard Py. This large size animated interior painting of two wom...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mill in the marsh, Original Oil on Canvas, Signed, French Expressionist
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame Claude Grosperrin's artwork is a vivid exploration of texture and abstraction, capturing the essence of a rustic landscape with a palpable sense of ene...
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1950s Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life. 20s-30s, canvas, oil, 48.5x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still Life. 20s-30s, canvas, oil, 48.5x70 cm
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1920s Realist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Still Life with Roses in a Vase Large Signed Oil Painting
Located in ludlow, GB
George Leslie Hunter British 1911 - 1969 George Leslie Reekie British 1911 - 1969 Painter in Oils of Still Life mostly featuring Flowers, Fruits...
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1950s Realist Paintings

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Oil

American Impressionist Floral Table Setting Still Life 1950
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3771 Oil on canvas of a still life table setting Set in a hand carved vintage frame Image size 11.5x15.5" Illegibly signed lower left
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas Original oil painting depicting Dutch farm workers in a vibrant gold colored field by Dutch artist Von Hassler (Nethe...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Mid Century Tropical Bonsai Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous still life of a tropical bonsai flower arrangement by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997), circa 1950. Signed lower right corner "Gleiforst." born in Crete, Nebraska, Helen Gleiforst moved with her family to San Diego, California. Her teachers included Nicolai Fechin...
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1950s American Impressionist Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil, Canvas

Antique Dutch Landscape Gathering Storm Clouds Oil Painting 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3744 Oil an artist board of a Dutch landscape before an impending storm Circa 1920's Framed
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1920s Paintings

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Oil

Francisco Bores, Sur la plage
Located in Madrid, ES
FRANCISCO BORES Spanish, 1898 - 1972 SUR LA PLAGE signed and dated "Borès / 29" (middle centre) oil on canvas 21-1/3 x 25-1/2 inches (54 x 65 cm.) framed: 26-1/5 x 30-1/2 inches (66.5 x 77.5 cm.) NOTE: THIS WORK IS ACCOMPANIED BY A CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ISSUED BY “ARCHIVO FRANCISCO BORES”. PROVENANCE Private Collection, Madrid Francisco Bores López (Madrid, May 5, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was a Spanish painter of the so-called New School of Paris. His artistic training originated both in the Cecilio Pla...
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1920s Abstract Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Reclining Nude On A Couch, Art Nouveau Signed Allan Gilbert American artist
Located in Gavere, BE
"Nude Lying On A Couch, Art Nouveau Signed "Allan Gilbert" Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 - April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was a prominent American illu...
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1920s American Realist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Grandpa by Hannes Fritz-München - Oil on canvas 77x91 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 89x102 cm Hannes FRITZ-MÜNCHEN is an artist born in 1886 and died in 1981
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1920s Realist Paintings

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Oil

Violin Still Life Oil Painting 1950
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3903 Colorful oil on canvas unframed of a violin still life
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

Young boy by Hannes Fritz-München - Oil on canvas 64x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 78x87 cm Hannes FRITZ-MÜNCHEN is an artist born in 1886 and died in 1981
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1920s Realist Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Impressionist Oil Painting Coral Gables Miami Florida 1927
Located in Portland, OR
An important American Impressionist oil painting, Walter Bowman Russell (1871-1963), Coral Gables Florida, 1927. Walter Bowman Russell was a very talented & charismatic figure, referred to as a "Creative Genius"; a talented painter, sculptor, author, illustrator & founder of the University of Science & Philosophy and in the early part of the 20th century as a builder who created over $30 Million worth of cooperative apartments. When Russell died in 1963 the celebrated journalist Walter Cronkite call him the "Leonardo da Vinci of our time". Russell's artistic career started when he attended Massachusetts Art School and the Académie Julian in Paris, in 1900 his allegorical painting "The Might of Ages" represented the United States at the Turin International Exhinbition in Italy and won several awards. This very beautiful colorful Impressionisitic painting depicts a Spanish style villa in Coral Gables, Miami, Florida, the stucco building with a pantile roof and striped yellow window awnings...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Panel, Oil

Grand Bouquet de Fleurs - Post Impressionist Still Life Oil - Georges D'Espagnat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed still life oil on canvas circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Georges D'Espagnat. The work depicts a white vase filled with red and white tulips. A beautiful piece in the artist's distinctive hand. Signature: Signed upper left Dimensions: Framed: 33"x28.5" Unframed: 26"x21.5" Provenance: A certificate of authenticity for this work is available from Mr. Jean Dominique Jacquemond upon request Private French collection From the beginning of his career it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagne to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France. In 1903, d'Espagne was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, and was appointed professor in charge of studios at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1934. He illustrated a number of books: Rémy de Gourmont...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Nashville at Sunrise
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nashville at Sunrise Oil on canvas, mounted to archival resin board Signed by the artist lower left Provenance: Estate of the artist By decent A gorgeous Indiana Impressionist oil painting, done "plein air" (on location, outdoors) Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop, Griffith was a member and president of the Chicago Palette and Chisel Club. He made his first trip to Brown County...
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1920s Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Portrait Oil Painting - Portrait of a Troubled Soul
Located in Bristol, GB
PORTRAIT OF A TROUBLED SOUL Size: 65.5 x 54 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas This mid-century expressive and emotive oil portrait delves into the depths of the human psyche with a...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'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 Paintings

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Masonite, Oil, Gouache

“Red Poppies and Grapes”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a circa 1920’s still life of red poppies and purple grapes. Oil on artist canvas board . Signed lower right but artist is unknown. Appears to be “A. ...
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1920s Academic Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique Oil Painting German Town Square 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3824 Antique oil painting on canvas German town square landscape
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1920s Paintings

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Oil

"Bluebonnet Time Hill Country Frame Size: 35 x 41 Bluebonnets, Poppies, Oak Tree
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 27 x 33 Frame Size: 35 x 41 Medium: Oil On Canvas Late 1940s-Early 1950s "Bluebonnet Time" Texas Hill Country Landscape 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 Paintings

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Oil

Impressionist Landscape French Abandoned Village 1950
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3737 Acrylic on artist board set in a vintage wood frame
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1950s Paintings

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Acrylic

Antique Naples Rooftops Harbor Landscape 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3779 Oil on canvas applied to board Set in a custom gilt wood frame Signed Savino 58
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

Impressionist Vegetables in a Basket Still Life
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3886 Vegetable in a basket still life in a gilt wood frame Image size 8.75x11.5"
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

Impressionist Young Female Acrylic Painting Girl at Window Reading
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3909 Acrylic on board set in a gilt wood frame Image size 14.5x10.5
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1950s Paintings

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Acrylic

Still life with Shell
Located in Pasadena, CA
Constantin Font, born January 11, 1890 in Auch (Gers) and died in 1954 in Paris, is a French artist, painter of genre, nudes, landscapes, orientalist, sculptor and engraver. Outstand...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

French nudes painter - 20th century figure painting - Oil on canvas Paris
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (early 20th century) - Female nude. 100 x 70 cm without frame, 109 x 79 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame (some cracks). Condi...
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1920s Art Nouveau Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fall in the California Foothills Original Oil Painting 1950s
Located in Soquel, CA
Fall in the California Foothills Original Oil Painting 1950s Well executed California Oil painting of the Lower Foothills near Santa Cruz, Californ...
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1950s American Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Fall Landscape Framed Oil Painting 1950
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3898 Impressionist oil on canvas set in a hand carved gilt wood frame
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

Tuileries' Garden, facing Place de la Concorde, Paris
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed lower right: “DYF” This item is in our New York City warehouse and can be viewed by appointment.
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

'Seated Nude', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Royal Danish Academy, Expressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Rob Leepin' for Robert Leepin (Danish, 1884-1967) and painted circa 1925. Robert Leepin first studied under Lauritz Tuxen and Viggo Johansen at Denmark's Royal ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique Hudson Valley Landscape 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3822 Hudson river view landscape 1920 Set in a period frame Image size 12x16"
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1920s Paintings

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Oil

"Tropical Scene in Gold and Purple" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sketch collection from Likan's time as a commissioned artist in Argentina between 1950 and 1952. 8.25" x 10.5" A...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Archival Paper, Acrylic

"Monk Parakeet" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan A painting of a green aThis pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sketch collection from Likan's time as a commissioned artist in Argentina between 1950 and...
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1950s Paintings

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Archival Paper, Acrylic

"Trees with Flowers and Fruits" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sketch collection from Likan's time as a commissioned artist in Argentina between 1950 and 1952. 6.5" x 8" Water...
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1950s Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

"People on Horseback" Eva Peron Mural Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan This piece depicts a couple on horseback followed by a man in a red military uniform. A dog runs by the group. This pieces is from the Eva Perón commissioned mural sk...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, Archival Paper

Antique American Modernist Landscape Framed New England FallOil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charming and well painted rural New England modernist landcape by Vern Henry Smith (1927 - 2007. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

White Horse Carousel, 1956 - Original Oil Painting On Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
White Horse Carousel, 1956 - Oil On Canvas Oil painting of an empty carousel ride, a single white horse gleams in the center. Three doorways are seen to the right, with sunlight ema...
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1950s American Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Study of Blue Boy
By Mary Welch
Located in Soquel, CA
Oil painting of a study of "Blue Boy" standing with his hat in his left hand by Mary Welch (American, 1875-1967). Circa 1918. Signed "M. Welch" lower left and gifted circa "1955" on verso. Image: 6"L x 9"H. Mary Welch, born 10 years after the end of the Civil War, was a woman ahead of her time. She signed her paintings M. Welch, hoping that potential buyers wouldn't discover she was a woman. More often than not, when they learned her sex, art dealers lost interest. The Hutchinson artist never married, never had children. But when she died in 1967, she left an impressive body of paintings, many of them familiar Kansas landscapes...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

'Oranges and Apples', Oil on Canvas Still Life Painting
Located in London, GB
'Oranges and Apples', oil on canvas, still life by Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). A magnificent study of fruit and light painted with a deft touch and a delicate brushstroke. The evi...
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1920s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

STILL LIFE OF A CAT, BASKET FLOWERS AND SCISSORS Nantucket Artist Reggie Levine
Located in Brookville, NY
Nantucket artist Reggie Levine, evolved from his figurative work in the 40's-50's to abstract in the 1960's and later to found object art. Interestingly I see his interest in found...
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1950s American Modern Paintings

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Oil

The original poster project in gouache for Jamboree International Londres 1953
Located in PARIS, FR
The original poster project in gouache by Y. Adam for the Jamboree International in London in 1953 stands as a vivid testament to the spirit of camaraderie and international collabor...
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1950s Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Woman with Arms Crossed
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman with Arms Crossed Mixed media collage-painting on stone chip surface, mounted on fabric, mounted on wood support by the artist, 1955 Signed and dated lower center Image size: 1...
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1950s American Modern Paintings

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Other Medium

Stream with Rocks, American Impressionist Summer Landscape, Oil on Board
By Roy C. Kneeland
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Stream with Rocks" is a 19" x 15" oil on board summer landscape by American impressionist painter Roy C. Kneeland. The work is painted in rich, dark colors and energetic brushstroke...
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1920s American Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

“Abstract Sailboats”
Located in Southampton, NY
Fabulous original mid century modern oil on canvas painting by the well known New York artist, William Katz. The painting is done in a colorful abstraction of sailboats and is signed by the artist lower left. The artist has mixed sand into the oil paint to give the painting a highly textured look. Condition is excellent. Circa 1955. The frame is original with a studded gold edge detailing and with natural wood sides. Frame is in fine original condition. Overall framed measurements are 17 by 29.25 inches. Provenance: A Saint Petersburg, Florida collector. William P. Katz (1926-2003) American William Katz was born in New York, studied at The Art Students League and with Sebastiano Mineo of New York City. For five years he worked and lived in the home that was once occupied by the great American sculptor Gutson Borglum. His works are in many private collections in the United States, Norway, England, Canada and Greece. Best known for sculptures, he also created paintings and designed textiles and jewelry. Alexander Kirkland called him an abstract "figurist-fantasist." He has had one-man exhibits at many galleries including: 1964, Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL; 1965, Fordham University...
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1950s American Modern Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Old House, Regional Pennsylvania Impressionist Summer Landscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Summer Day" is a 30" x 36" oil on canvas landscape in Bucks County, by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Emerson Baum. The painting features a rural Buck...
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1920s American Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman at Basin, Picasso Style Portrait of a Female Nude, American Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Woman by Basin" by Philadelphia born modernist and surrealist painter Leon Kelly, is a framed and matted portrait of a female nude. The 22.5" x 17.75" mixed media on artist board i...
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1920s American Modern Paintings

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Mixed Media

Antique Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Handsome Gaucho or Cowboy, American ca 1920
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very striking portrait of a young man with a sombrero and southwest attire that could be either be of a cowboy or gaucho from Mexico or further south. Purchased as a damag...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

La Bevera, Sospel by Paulémile Pissarro - Landscape, oil painting
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. La Bevera, Sospel by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 46 x 55 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed lower righ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still life with flowers and pottery
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 75.5 x 65 x 3.5 cm The Haberjahn family, of Norwegian origin – Habrian or Haberian – had settled in Germany at the beginning of the 19th centur...
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1920s Paintings

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Oil

Tamaqua, Regional Pennsylvania Impressionist Landscape and City Scene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Tamaqua" is a 26" x 30" oil on board city scene in Bucks County, by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Emerson Baum. The artwork is in original condition,...
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1920s American Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Pont Aven
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A very beautiful large signed oil on canvas by Gustave Loiseau depicting figures in the street at Pont Aven in brittany. The work is signed lower left and unlined on its original canvas. This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Gustave Loiseau currently being prepared by Didier Imbert...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Boats in the harbor, Original Painting by Federico Castellon, Spanish Surrealist
Located in PARIS, FR
This oil on paper piece by Federico Castellón exhibits the hallmarks of his artistic style, blending elements of surrealism with a striking, yet subtle, realism. The composition is r...
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1950s Surrealist Paintings

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Oil, Laid Paper

'Moonlight Sonata', Munich School, National Academy, California, Carmel, PPIE
By William Ritschel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Partial signature, lower right, "..chel", for William (Wilhelm) Frederick Ritschel (German-American, 1864-1949) and painted circa 1925 (Graphite landscape sketch...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

French Paris in the Fall Impressionist Cityscape Oil Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2870a A vintage scene of Paris , oil on artist board signed by Soula`, displayed in a white wood frame
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1950s Paintings

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Oil

French Abstract Expressionist Color Field Black and White Painting 1950's
By Jacques Simons
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3422 Black and white acrylic on paper Displayed in black wood frame under glass Image size 8x11.5" French artist Signed Jacques Simons
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1950s Paintings

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Acrylic

R. QUEYRIE, Walking the Streets, Oil on Hardboard, 1950s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on hardboard signed R. QUEYRIE, France, 1950s. "Walking the streets". With frame: 55x47 cm - 21.65x18.5 inches - without frame: 46x38cm - 18.1x15 inches. 8F format. Signed "R. Qu...
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1950s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Panel

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Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs. Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.

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