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Period: Early 20th Century
Antique American School Impressionist Flower Still Life Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower still life signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 25.5L x 21.5H.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Karl Larsson, Swedish, New York, and New Mexico Artist, Abstract Watercolor
By Karl Larsson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Karl Larsson (1893-1967) non-objective abstraction
Original watercolor, circa 1920s-1930s
In excellent condition. Archivally Matted - not framed.
Measures...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE - art, colourful cubist oil painting by Modern master
Located in London, GB
Ville by LÉOPOLD SURVAGE (1879-1968)
Oil and graphite on canvas
73.4 x 60 cm (28 ⁷/₈ x 23 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Survage 24
This work is an early 1924 painting...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Winter Scene with a Creek
Located in Houston, TX
Winter Landscape scene of a creek with a bare tree dominating the painting. A fence line runs along behind the tree and there are distant shapes in the background.
Dimensions withou...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golden Color Lake Landscape Beautiful French Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, early 20th century
Title: Golden colors
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 7.75 x 13 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
C...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Abstract Interior of Room" Myron Lechay, Colorful Early Geometric Abstract
By Myron Lechay
Located in New York, NY
Myron Lechay
Abstract Interior of Room, 1923
Signed upper right corner and dated upper left corner
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Spanierman Gallery, ...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Neo-Romantic Surrealist Painting "Circus" by Kristians Tonny
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Kristians Tonny
(French, born Holland; 1907-1977)
Circus
Oil on prepared board, 16 1/2 x 13 inches
Framed: 22 x 19 inches (approx.)
Inscribed on reverse: (in pencil) "cadre noir/ave...
Category
Surrealist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American California Impressionist Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist California oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 12H by 9L.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fauve Still Life with Flowers - Early Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This colorful painting by Eleanor Parke Custis is in the spirit of Louis Valtat and the Fauves. The subject of flowers in the foreground is repeated in the backdrop. It straddles the line between abstraction and representation. Signed lower right - Work is framed.
Eleanor Parke Custis studied in Corcoran School of the Arts and Design under Edmund C. Tarbell and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Henry B. Snell. Initially, she began her art career as a painter, creating watercolors. Custis created illustrations for Scribner's Magazine, Harper's, Doubleday, Harcourt. She started to take photographs in her youth, using a Brownie camera...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Flying Gulls on the Surf
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Flying Gulls on the Surf
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Provincetown (Cape Cod landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). At the Weir Trap, ca. 1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margi...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
COMPOSITION
Located in Aventura, FL
Original oil painting on canvas. Unsigned. Canvas size 23.875 x 16.75 inches. Custom framed as pictured.
Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included....
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Abstract 1926 - Scottish Abstract art modernist oil painting
Located in London, GB
Scottish artist William Johnstone OBE painted this stunning abstract oil painting. It is a superb important piece of Scottish Art History and early twentieth century abstraction. An early modernist work, dated 1926 so way ahead of its time and other abstract artists. At the forefront of the Scottish Renaissance and European modernism this painting pre dates the abstraction and Abstract Expressionism of the later mid twentieth century. Earlier than Arshille Gorkuy who was, in the thirties, a bridge between European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism, Johnstone was inspired and influenced by ideas surrounding the surreal and the subconscious and this painting appears to have elements of this thought process within its key abstract passages.
Signed and dated 1926 verso.
Provenance. William Hardie...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mallorca Spain (Spanish Mediterranean landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Mallorca, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14.5 x 19 inches. Signed lower margin.
J...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Composition on Violet Background
By Etienne Beothy
Located in London, GB
ETIENNE BEOTHY 1897-1961
Heves, Hungary 1897 - 1961 Paris (Hungarian/French)
Title: Composition on Violet Background, 1927
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Dated Gouache Paintin...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Antique Japanese Dancer Figurative Painting On Silk 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4084 A vintage Japanese male dancer
Painting on silk set in a red mat and displayed in a gilt wood frame under glass.
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Large Scale Abstract Geometric Oil on Canvas, Artist's Lay Figures at Play.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Large abstract geometric oil on canvas of artist's lay figures at play by British artist Derek Carruthers. Signed and dated 2004-5 to the reverse. Presented in black textured frame.
...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sea Birds in Surf
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful seascape painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Seabirds, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
SHIPS ROLLED. Matting removed.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Figure with Guitar II
By Henry Fitch Taylor
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York;
Collection of Jeptha H. Wade and Emily Vanderbilt Wade, Boston, until 2025
Exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, Art for Collectors, 1971...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressions of Maine (fishermen)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20.5 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist ...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Antique Modernist Coastal Seascape Framed Fauvist Large Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist landscape painting by Jan Matulka (1890 - 1972). Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 24 by 28 inches overall and 15.5 by 19.5 painting alone.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Provincetown (Cape Cod landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful ca.1930 double-sided abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). On the Docks, Sunset. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20.5 inches. S...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Composition 22 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 22 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard (42x52).
Image Dimension...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Canadian Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20.5 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Fauvist Ocean Wave and Sunset, 1920's Seascape
By John Henry Ramm
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling fauvist seascape with boldly colorful ocean waves and glowing sunset by Northern California artist John Ramm (American, 1879-1948), 1929. Impasto brush strokes add depth and interest to high voltage color palette. Signed lower right corner and dated on stretcher "29" . Condition: Good; minor edge losses professionally restored/in-painted. Signature slightly augmented to enhance readability. Image size: 22"H x 28"W.
The son of German immigrants, John Henry Ramm was the son of German immigrants, and his father had been a Duke in his native land. Ramm moved to San Francisco in 1893 and worked as an apprentice to a photographer. He married Nettie Hoist in Sacramento and they lived in San Francisco. He was a close friend of painter Manuel Valencia...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Newfoundland Landscape (Canada)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Abstract Composition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Provenance: Barry Friedman Gallery, Modernism Fine Arts, New York.
Estate Stamped.
Thilo Maatsch (1900-1983)
Thilo Maatsch has an epiphany at age 16 when, having been taken to Berlin’s prestigious Avant Garde art gallery Der Sturm, he’s mesmerized by the work of Franz Marc, and determines to be an artist. Eleven years later, he’ll one day recall with pride, his work exhibits there.
Born and raised in 1900 Braunschweig, Germany, Maatsch by age 18 forms "Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst" (Society of Friends of New Art) with Rudolf Jahns and Johannes Molzahn. Its members include soon-to-be-famous Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, who promotes Maatsch and becomes something of a father figure. Introductions to collector Otto Ralfs in Braunschweig and the esteemed painter Heinrich Vogeler in Worpswede over the next two years influence his expanding body of work.
By 1922 Maatsch has a growing family to support, and as his art fails to provide this he begins training to be a teacher, a vocation he’ll fall back on repeatedly throughout his life. His first assignment is that of primary school teaching in Holzminden.
1924 sees Ralfs purchasing a Maatsch work and hanging it alongside the now well-known names of Mondrian, Kandinsky and Klee. The following year Ralfs launches an entire exhibition of the Society of Friends of New Art.
Because of his day job, Maatsch is unable to realize his wish to study at the Bauhaus, the avant garde epicenter in Weimar and later, Dessau. But thanks to Kandinsky, Klee and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, he’s allowed to occupy their studios and study with them during school holidays. His befriending of Kurt Schwitters during this time explains why Maatsch is often included in the so-called Schwitters Group.
In 1925 he joins the Novembergruppe (November Group) and exhibits annually in the renowned Große Berliner Kunstausstellung (Great Berlin Art Exhibition...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition 15 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 15 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 48...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Newfoundland Landscape (Canada)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Mallorca Spain (Spanish Mediterranean landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Mallorca, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
Ships rolled with matting removed.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson and the Waughs. About 1940, Clymer moved to New York City, and in 1946, he and his family settled in a home on Schunnemunk Mountain in New York (close to Newburgh, New York, in the Hudson River Valley). He lived there until circa 1978, when he moved to his granddaughter's house near Schenectady, New York, where he later died.
Clymer worked with ease in the mediums of watercolor and oil painting, much like James Fitzgerald...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Tharrats abstract Red Black Gold original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
colors- abstract original acrylic painting . frame
Original paper by the famous Spanish artist Josep Tharrats.
Acrylic on paper. Perfect condition.
Certificate of originality
THARR...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Mallorca Spain (Spanish Mediterranean landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Mallorca, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
Ships rolled with matting removed.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer, Edwin Dickinson...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Abstract composition by Ninon Bourquin - oil on canvas 60x73 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas sold without frame.
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Visionary" - Abstract Expressionist Oil on Board
By Hamilton Achille Wolf
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Visionary" - Oil on Board
Abstract expressionist painting titled "The Visionary" by Hamilton Achilles Wolf (American, 1883- 1967). Shades of red consume the canvas, as a mans ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Angle and Nude - Lithograph by E. M. G. Van Offel - Early 1900
Located in Roma, IT
Angle and Nude is a splendid lithography engraving realized by the Belgian artist Edmond Marie Gabriël Van Offel.
Signed on the plate on the lower left.
Th...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
1950s "Abstract #4" Ink and Gouache Painting Univ of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Abstract #4"
c.1950s
Ink & Gouache on paper
10.5x19.5" brown, ripple, wood frame 11.5”x1”x20.75”
Signed in pencil lower right with label on reverse
Came from artist's e...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
"The Kiss" Oil on Canvas French Art Nouveau School circle of T. Steinlen
Located in Pistoia, IT
"The Kiss," oil on canvas, French Art Nouveau school of the late 19th century, follower of Théophile Alexander Steinlen.
Extremely modern and striking painting, in which the painter ...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Signed European Framed Village Signed Orientalist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract village painting. Oil on board. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 12H. Signed.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tharrats Constellation. original abstract acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Constellation. original abstract acrylic painting
Original paper by the famous Spanish artist Josep Tharrats.
Acrylic on paper. Perfect condition.
Certificate of originality
REF 253...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cardboard
Mountains - Drawing by Paul-Maurice Chevalier - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Mountains is a drawing on paper realized in the mid-20th Century by Paul-Maurice Chevalier. (1898-1984).
Ink, Charcoal, and Watercolor on paper.
Hand-signed on the lower.
Good con...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Modern Grey and Orange Geometric Abstract Leaf Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern grey and white geometric abstract leaf pattern composition with orange accents by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 27.13 in. x W 31.5 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Composition 9 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 9 is a painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 43.5x31 cm.
...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Composition 20 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 20 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera, in very good conditions and mounted on a cardboard (49x34).
Image Dimension...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Antique American Impressionist in Paris Signed Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist in Paris oil painting by Harold T. Bowler (1903 - 1965). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Composition Tempera Painting Russian Soviet Avant Garde Ksenia Ender
By Ksenia Ender
Located in Surfside, FL
Dimensions:
25.5 X 20.5 Frame. Artwork measures 23.25 X 18.25
Ksenia Vladimirovna Ender ( Russian Ксения Владимировна Эндер , also Xenia Ender and Kseniia Ender. born 1895 in Sluzk , died 1955...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
- Early 20th Century Oil, Rustic Chalet
Located in Corsham, GB
A charmingly rustic oil scene showing a man and woman in a lane, outside a run down chalet. The painting is unsigned and presented in a contemporary gilt frame with foliate molding. ...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nura Ulreich Musical Dreamscape Original Oil Painting c.1930
By Nura Ulreich
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nura Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) Musical Dreamscape Original Oil Painting c.1930s
Absolutely wonderful dream-like oil painting with a touch of vintage ...
Category
Surrealist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique Exhibited American Impressionist 1921 Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist still life oil painting by Kathryn Logan Luke. Oil on canvas, circa 1921. Housed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 24L x 26H.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jean POUGNY born Iwan Albertovich PUNI (1890–1956), "The Ace of Clubs"
By Jean Pougny
Located in Paris, FR
Iwan Albertovich Puni (also known as Jean Pougny) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Suprematism, Cubo-Futurism) who later became French. He evolved towards Lyric Primitivism, influen...
Category
Abstract Geometric Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Gloucester Docks" Impressionist Boat Seascape
Located in Houston, TX
Impressionist oil painting of a boat sitting at the dock by Harriet Randall Lumis.
A perfect piece for your shore/beach house! The painting is framed and has the artist's name and t...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morningside Park, Old New York - Cathedral of St. John the Divine
By Lucille Corcos
Located in Miami, FL
Corcos paints what appears to be the northern part Central Park from an elevated view looking northwest. The artist used a restricted palette of warm browns and grays with heavy outl...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Jean POUGNY born Iwan Albertovich PUNI (1890–1956), "The Ace of Diamonds"
By Jean Pougny
Located in Paris, FR
Iwan Albertovich Puni (also known as Jean Pougny) was a Russian avant-garde artist (Suprematism, Cubo-Futurism) who later became French. His style evolved towards Lyric Primitivism...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Flower - Vintage Tempera on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Flower is an original painting in tempera on paper realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
Good conditions, aged margins.
The artwork represents a beautiful flower in da...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Industria Landscape - Post-Impressionist Brush Strokes
Located in Miami, FL
Three engines sit in a wasted landscape described in a palate of warms grays, browns and ochers in broad quickly applied brush strokes.
Quick and confident brush strokes describe th...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Henri PFEIFFER (1907-1994), "Step of two"
Located in Paris, FR
Henri Pfeiffer joined the Bauhaus at the age of 17, where he became a student of Paul Klee. He created numerous abstract works with a renewed vision of color use and perception. From...
Category
Bauhaus Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Maize, " Original Oil on Panel by School of/Student of David Alfaro Siqueiros
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Maize" is an original oil painting on panel done by a member of the school of, or in the style of David Alfaro Siqueiros. The abstract image depicts a figure holding an ear of corn ...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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