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Period: Early 20th Century
1920s Famous Alfred Munnings Oil Painting of his Favourite Hound
Located in London, GB
Sir Alfred Munnings R.A. (1878 - 1959)
'Favourite Hound'
Oil on Wood
Framed 98 x 74 cm
Sir Alfred Munnings R.A. was known as one of England's finest painters of animals and as an ou...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Cows Munching On Grass Under Windswept Tree
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: painting: 13 x 19.5 in...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Post Impressionist Oil Painting - Horse and Hay Cart
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Crochet (French c. 1930), female French Impressionist artist
Title: The Hay Cart
Medium: oil on board, unframed
Size:
board: 9.5 x 13 inches
Provenance: ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Pink Sunset Over Horse and Farmers In Field
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: painting: 12 x 20 inche...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harry Fidler, Impressionist study of a working Horse in farmyard
By Harry Fidler
Located in Harkstead, GB
A super example of Harry Fidler's impressionist studies with characteristic use of heavy impasto. The flamboyant sculpting of the paint surface cannot be fully conveyed in a 2D image...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Hay Kart Outside Country Home
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
dated 1938
Size: painting: 12...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Dotted Cows Munching On Vibrant Green Grass
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: painting: 13 x 19.5 in...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Two Black Horses Pulling A Roller
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed
dated 1940
Size: painting: 12...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Figures Camping In Tipees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: signed painting: 13 x 1...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe, Düsseldorf 1868 – 1939 Ixelles, 'A View of Bruges'
Located in Knokke, BE
Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe
Düsseldorf 1868 – 1939 Ixelles
Belgian Painter
'A View of Bruges'
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Aquarelle
Dimensions: Image size 58 x 75 cm, frame size 71,50 x 88,50 cm
Biography: Gilsoul-Hoppe Ketty, a distinguished Belgian painter renowned for her exquisite watercolor works, was born in Düsseldorf in 1868. She inherited a passion for the arts from her father, Edouard Hoppe, an accomplished engraver. Her artistic journey began at the Bisschoffsheim school in Brussels, where she honed her skills and developed a keen eye for capturing the nuances of light and color.
In 1894, Ketty Gilsoul-Hoppe entered a lifelong partnership with the painter Victor Gilsoul...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage French Oil Painting Two Brown Horses Towing Farmer On Roller
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
dated 1948
Size: signed paint...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walter James - British Pre-Raphaelite landscape oil of Sheep on the Moor
Located in London, GB
WALTER JAMES, 3rd BARON NORTHBOURNE
(1869-1932)
Cheviot Ewes and Lambs on the Moor in Early June
Signed and dated l.l. WALTER JAMES 1920; signed, inscribed with title and the artis...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Otter Hunt, English Hunt Scene, Sporting Art, Hunting Dogs, Dog
By Walter Hunt
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Walter Hunt (English, 1861-1941)
Signed: W. Hunt 1933
" The Otter Hunt ", 1933
Oil on Canvas
10" x 6 3/4"
Housed in a 1 1/2" Ornamented Frame with a 1" Liner
Overall Size: 12" ...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
dinner of the lions
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Zoological Garden
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "Molly Luce 27". In fine condition. A similar painting, The Zoo (1926), is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibited: The Soci...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The fish seller, Geneva 1814
Located in Genève, GE
Woodworking
Golden wooden frame
128 x 96 x 3 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Foxhunting oil painting attributed to Thomas Ivester Lloyd
Located in London, GB
John Ivester Lloyd (1873 - 1942)
Foxhunting
Oil on board
20 x 36 cm
A huntsman and hounds pass through a dark wood.
Thomas Ivester Lloyd (1873 - 1942) was born in Liverpool. During...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Magpie, a Pomeranian
Located in London, GB
Arthur Wardle (1864-1949)
Magpie, a Pomeranian
signed in pencil ‘Arthur Wardle' and inscribed 'Magpie' (lower left and lower right respectively)
oil on canvasboard
10 x 14 in. (25.4 ...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
A comfy lurcher
Located in London, GB
Patrick Fergusson Millard (1902-1977)
A comfy lurcher, 1929
signed and dated 'PF Millard 29' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 ⅛ x 24 ⅛ in. (51.1 x 61.3 cm.) 43.2 x 53.3 cm.)
with frame...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blacksmith
By Louis Henri Deluermoz
Located in PARIS, FR
Oil on metal
145 x 100.5 cm with curved top
Signed lower left
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Metal
Justin McCarthy Painting WHITE FANG , Outsider Art
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Justin McCarthy (American, 1891-1977)
Marking(s); notes: markings
Country of origin; materials: USA; paint on wood panel
Dimensions: 16″h, 24″w
Additio...
Category
Outsider Art Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Board
Gardians In Camargue, Oil On Canvas Signed Henri Emilien Rousseau, 1924
Located in Paris, FR
GARDIANS IN CAMARGUE Oil on canvas signed Henri Emilien ROUSSEAU (1875-1933) and dated 1924.
Orientalist painter, landscapes and horses. Here a Camargue scene depicting herdsmen watching their flocks.
Beautiful original frame.
Canvas has been re-lined.
Canvas size: 73.5 x 100 cm
With frame: 102 x 129 cm
Henri Emilien Rousseau (1875-1933) was a painter who was considered the ‘Last Orientalist’. Born in...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Oil - Kicking Up Dust
Located in Corsham, GB
A dynamic and fun filled early 20th (c.1940) village scene, showing a group of men in a hay cart, being pulled by a handsome horse with elaborate harness. The horse is moving along t...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Impressionist Horse Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Great quality!
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The old granary. Oil on cardboard, 24, 5x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The old granary. Oil on cardboard, 24,5x45 cm
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Chevaux, 1928 - huile sur toile, 54x73 cm.
By Peter Pálffy
Located in Nice, FR
Huile sur panneau par Peter Pàlffy, représentant des chevaux. Dimensions avec le cadre: 77x99 cm
Peter Pallfy est un peintre autrichien du XX siècle que a...
Category
Expressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil painting by Henry Grant “A Woodland Warren”
By Charles Henry Grant
Located in Mere, GB
Oil painting by Henry Grant “A Woodland Warren”. Henry Grant flourished 1868 – 1916. Painter of society portraits and landscapes with animals and still – life. Represented in many pu...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Artist's Grandson - Edwardian Impressionist horse art oil painting
Located in London, GB
An original large oil on canvas/panel by Sir James Jebusa Shannon. The portrait dates to the Edwardian period and depicts a bold British Impressionist painting of his grandson Jeb Ke...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Johann Schuld (1870-1943) Country Landscape With Cattle Oil Painting C.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
Johann Schuld (1870-1943) Country Landscape With Cattle Oil Painting C.1920
Original oil on masonite
Dimensions 25" wide x 15" high
the frame me...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Barnyard Buddies
Located in Missouri, MO
20 x 24 (canvas size)
25.5 x 29.5 (w/ frame)
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Paul Harney (1850-1915)
Born in New Orleans on October 21, 1850, he was a landscape, portrait and still-li...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Otto Dill, "Deer", 1918, oil painting, two grazing fawns.
By Otto Dill
Located in Berlin, DE
Otto Dill, "Deer", 1918, oil painting, two grazing fawns.
Beautiful and rare motif of the world famous artist Otto Dill.
Outstanding painting and colors.
Signed and dated. Dimensi...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
French Oil Painting Two Brown Horses Pulling A Figure Through Green Field
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: painting: 13 x 20 inches
Prov...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Blue Sky Mountain Reflection Onto Lake
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: signed painting: 13 x 2...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting White and Brown Cows Munching On Grass
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: painting: 13 x 20 inch...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Horse and Cart Trotting Through By Corn Field
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed
dated 1944
Size: painting: 13...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Great War - Impressionist Oil, Figure & Horse in Landscape by Andre Devambez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Wonderful oil on panel circa 1920 by French impressionist painter Andre Devambez. The work depicts a soldier leading his horse along a dirt track during...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Trompe L’Oeil with a Two Partridges, Louis Clesse, Brussels 1889 – 1961, Belgian
By Louis Clesse
Located in Knokke, BE
Trompe L’Oeil with a Two Partridges
Clesse Louis
Brussels 1889 – 1961
Belgian Painter
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: Image size 50,50 x 40 cm, frame size 64 x 53,50 cm
Biography: Clesse Louis Liévin Théophile was born on June 15, 1889 in Ixelles (Brussels). He was a Belgian Post-Impressionist and Realist painter of landscapes, seascapes, still lifes and portraits.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. He received advice and encouragement from master teachers and artists Alfred Bastien...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Attending the hounds, dogs being feed after the shooting
Located in London, GB
Gilbert Joseph Holiday (1879–1937) was born on January 29, 1879, in London, England. He was the son of Sir Frederick Holiday and the nephew of artist Henry Holiday, a painter and st...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Oil Painting by George Wright "Exercising the Path"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by George Wright "Exercising the Path" 1860 - 1942 Leading painter of coaching and hunting scenes, he exhibited at the Royal Academy. Many works of his were illustrated ...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Toros en Arles - Bulls in Arles
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean Diffre (Toulouse 1864 - 1921)
Toros en Arles
Oil on canvas
140 x 90 cm
Signed lower right
Perhaps a poster project
Without frame
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A noble bulldog
Located in London, GB
Walter Herbert Wheeler (British, 1868-1960)
A noble bulldog
signed ‘WH Wheeler (lower right)
oil on board
7 ¾ x 7 ¼ in. (19.7 x 18.3 cm.)
with frame 10 x 9 ¾ in. (25.4 x 24.8 cm.)
...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Landscape with Two Roosters, Hoess Eugen Ludwig, 1866 – 1955, German Painter
Located in Knokke, BE
A Landscape with Two Roosters
Hoess Eugen
Immenstadt 1866 – 1955 Langenwang
German Painter
Signature: Signed bottom right and dated 27
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image size 72 x 94 cm
Biography: Hoess Eugen Ludwig was born in 1866 in Immenstadt, Germany. He was a painter of landscapes and hunting scenes. He painted not only oil paintings but also watercolours and made etchings.
Hoess passed the entrance examination at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He was a student of master teachers and artists Kirchbach, Raupp, v. Hackl and Ritter v. Herterich. In 1889 he moved to Frankfurt and in 1891 he returned to Munich. In 1898 he went on study trips to Sweden, Austria and Italy and returned to his hometown. Two years later he had his first exhibition in Munich with paintings of hunting scenes...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fisherman unloading their catch at Scheveningen Beach, Louis Reckelbus, Signed
Located in Knokke, BE
Fisherman unloading their catch at Scheveningen Beach
Reckelbus Louis
Bruges 1864 – 1958
Belgian Painter
Bruges School
Signature: Signed bottom right
Dimensions: Image size 38 x 25...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
In the Farmyard
By Nellie E. Brown
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Nellie E. Brown was a British artist who flourished in the late 19th century to early 20th century. Brown participated in exhibitions at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and Royal...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cow Watering in Italian Countryside Impressionist Landscape (blue, green, yellow
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Alberto Zardo, Italian Impressionist painter.
Born in 1876, died in 1959.
Framed (12.75 x 16.75 inches)
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"A Triumphant Cockerel Crowing Over His Victory" Melchior Hondecoeter (after)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Victor (A Triumphant Cockerel Crowing Over His Victory...)"
After Melchior de Hondecoeter (Flemish, 1636-1695)
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
40 1/2 x 34 1/4 (frame) inches
This much copied painting is a masterfully executed portrait of a strutting and triumphant rooster painted...
Category
Old Masters Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Pekingese (Le Pékinois), drawing of a dog by Georges Manzana Pissarro
Located in London, GB
Le Pékinois by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Charcoal on paper
41 x 49 cm (16 ¹/₈ x 19 ¹/₄ inches)
Signed lower centre, Manzana Pissarro
This work is accompanied by a cer...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Street Scene, early 20th Century by HARRY BARR (1896-1987)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Street Scene, early 20th Century
by HARRY BARR (1896-1987)
Large early 20th century English School street scene, oil on canvas by Harry Barr. Good quality and condition example of...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Cockatoo Bird Portrait
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Alfonso T. Toran is a Florida artist from the late 19th early 20th century. His works display bold animal portraits, mostly in birds and fish. Later on in his painting career, he mov...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Original Oil on Canvas c1929 by Edward Herbert Miner of "Petee Wrack"
Located in Bristol, CT
Original oil on canvas entitled: Petee Wrack thoroughbred winner of the 1928 Travers Stakes at Saratoga by Edward Herbert Miner (1882-1941) elegan...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Equesterian Animal Oil Painting "Three Wild Horses" 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4031 Oil on canvas in a octagonal wood frame of 3 horses in black and white
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Western River Crossing Equestrian Landscape Oil Painting circa 1910
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6012 to River Crossing Equestrian painting, a 1910"s black and white oil on canvas , signed lower right by Clarence Rowe 1910.
Age wear
Unframed
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique European Young Italian Boys With Dog Figurative Oil Painting 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3756 Oil painting on canvas of Italian boys having a feast
unframed
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Horse and Seated Rider Painting on wood Titled The Sentinel 1908
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3882
Antique equestrian with seated rider oil painting on wood panel
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Arab Horse Moscow
Located in London, GB
Henri Émilien Rousseau
French 1875 – 1933
Portrait of the Arabian Horse Moscow
Oil on board, signed lower left
Image size: 15 x 18 inches
This splendid rendition of the horse b...
Category
Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
" The Littlefield Murals " 3 MURALS OF THE XIT RANCH IN TEXAS. PAINTED Ca. 1910
Located in San Antonio, TX
Major George Washington Littlefield died in 1920. He commissioned E. Martin Hennings around 1910 to do six large paintings of scenes from his 235,000-acre ( part of the XIT ) ranch to hang in his bank in Austin.
I am not sure, but the bank possibly went under sometime in the 197s-1980s. All of the art and antiques were stored, and they had a sale. We have 3 of the six murals that were commissioned by Littlefield.
I have about 40 pages of info on Littlefield and the murals. Too much to enter now but I will be scanning that info later this week.
The Littlefield mansion is still in Downtown Austin. At one time he was the richest man in the state. He was UT's biggest donor for several years prior to his death.
The paintings are
34 x 130
35 x 144
35 x 119
Two are hanging in my friend's ranch house. The other is of a large herd of Hereford Cattle. It is actually pictured
on the cover of the Biography of George Washing Littlefield.
Littlefield, George Washington (1842–1920). George Washington Littlefield, cattleman, banker, and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, son of Fleming and Mildred Terrell (Satterwhite) White Littlefield, was born in Panola County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1842. The family moved to Texas in 1850 after a confrontation between Fleming Littlefield and his wife's family. In marrying Fleming, her overseer, after the death of her first husband, Mildred in her family's eyes had married beneath her station, an action to which her family objected. George grew to young manhood on the family plantation near Belmont, Gonzales County, helping his mother to manage the place after Fleming's death in 1853. George received a basic education in Gonzales College and Baylor University, 1853–55 and 1857. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 George enlisted in Company I, Eighth Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers), which fought in the Army of Tennessee. Before his military career was ended at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, on December 26, 1863, by an exploding cannon shell, George rose to the rank of company commander, the youngest in his regiment, and fought at Shiloh, Perryville, and Chickamauga. At Mossy Creek he was promoted to major, a title by which he was addressed after the mid 1880s. Back in Texas after being discharged in 1864, he took control of a plantation belonging to himself and his brother, and "went to work to make the best, as he thought, of a miserable life, having to carry his crutches everywhere." During the war, on January 14, 1863, George married Alice Payne Tillar, with whom he had two children, both of whom died in infancy. In his business ventures thereafter, George Littlefield, who had a highly developed sense of family, utilized nephews and the husbands of nieces as managers.
George's first year's farming after the war ended in disaster caused by three years of worm infestation and flood. Even the road-side store he opened, which prospered because George accepted barter, in particular cattle, could not make up for the losses. In 1871 he gathered a herd of cattle, half of which were his and the rest belonging to his brother, bought more, and drove the herd to Abilene, Kansas, where he sold the animals for enough to discharge all of his debts and leave him with $3,600 "to begin business." Over the next several years entrepreneur Littlefield opened a dry goods store in partnership with J. C. Dilworth in Gonzales, bought and trailed cattle, bought ranches in Caldwell and Hays counties, and developed his plantations. In the trailing business, Littlefield commonly bought his cattle, rather than, as most trailing contractors did, trailing them for a fee. He took the greater risk but reaped the greater reward in their sale. In 1877 Littlefield bought water rights along the Canadian River near Tascosa and established the XIT Ranch which he sold in 1881 for $248,000. Littlefield rejoiced that he had obtained "far more money than he had ever expected to have" and thought of retiring at thirty-nine years of age. But he did not retire, as "he learned. . .that the more money a man makes, the more he has to make, that a man's world opens up a little bit wider with each deal and demands become heavier."
In 1882 Littlefield followed the advice of his principal ranch manager, half-nephew J. Phelps White, and purchased water interests sufficient to control some four million acres of land in New Mexico east of the Pecos River between Fort Sumner and Roswell, on which he established the Bosque Grande Ranch. In 1883 he bought the site of the first windmill on the New Mexico plains at the Four Lakes north of Tatum and developed the Four Lakes Ranch with windmills and barbed wire to control access to water and permit upgrading of stock. His cattle after 1882 carried his LFD brand on their right side. In 1887 Littlefield began acquiring land in Mason County, which soon spread over some 120,000 acres in adjacent Kimble and Menard counties, a ranch he put under management of half-nephew John Will White. In the 1890s Littlefield assembled acreage that came to be known as the LFD Farm in Roswell, New Mexico, on which he established an apple grove, grew forage for cattle, recruited his horses prior to the spring round-up, and maintained the pure-bred bulls that he used to upgrade his herds. Littlefield climaxed his ranching operation in 1901 with the purchase for two dollars per acre of 235,858 acres of the Yellow House (southern) Division of the XIT Ranch in Lamb and Hockley counties. To reach the prevailing wind above the escarpment at the ranch headquarters, Littlefield put up a windmill 130 feet tall to the top of the fan, claimed at the time to be the world's tallest windmill. In 1912 he established the Littlefield Lands Company under Arthur Pope...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Pasture
By Oscar Edmund Berninghaus
Located in Missouri, MO
Oscar E. Berninghaus (American, 1874-1952)
"Winter Pasture"
Oil on Canvas
Unframed: 20 x 24 inches
Framed: 25.5 x 29.5 inches
Provo: Noonan-Kocian Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, Dec. 23, 1954 (Copy of Original Receipt Included)
* Will be included in Kodner Gallery's upcoming Oscar E. Berninghaus Research Project on the artist
A founder in 1898 of the Taos Society of Artists, Oscar Berninghaus excelled at drawing animals and figures in contemporary garb in Southwestern landscapes. Many of his early paintings were Impressionistic, "suffused with color and light". (Gerdts 254)
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri and developed an interest in art through his family's lithography business. He attended night classes at the St. Louis School of Fine Art. In 1898, he was on an illustration assignment for "McClure's" magazine, which took him for the first of many times into New Mexico and Arizona. He had heard of the special beauty of Taos and there met Bert Geer Phillips, who was already a resident, and Phillips invited him to return.
This visit began a tradition of spending the winter months in St. Louis and the summers in Taos. He remained active in both communities, and for many years designed the costumes and floats for the Veiled Prophet parade, a famous annual event in St. Louis.
He also did a series of western scenes commissioned by the Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association to promote a manly, ruggedness theme in their products and to enhance their image as good Americans, an image that was being attacked by suffragettes. In this capacity and without visiting the area, Berninghaus did a painting titled "Old Faithful, Yellowstone" in 1914, which was used as a calendar illustration in the series.
Berninghaus was a sketch artist for the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad to depict landscape of Colorado...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Where are the Clams?
By Gerhard Morgenstjerne Munthe
Located in Missouri, MO
Searching for Clams with the Horse Cart
By. Gerhard Munthe (German, 1875-1927)
Signed Lower Left
Unframed: 11" x 14"
Framed: 19" x 23"
Born in Dusseldo...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel