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Medium: Masonite
A Charming, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted near the artist's studio and summe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Surfers on the Shore, Contemporary Painting
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary figurative painting of two men with a surfboard standing on a shoreline by Mark Beard/Bruce Sargeant.
Signed
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
84 x 48 inches
$10,0...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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Still Life with Calla Lily - Oil on canvas by Ugo Celada da Virgilio - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with Calla Lily is an oil painting on masonite realized by Ugo Celada da Virgilio.
Hand-signed on the lower left.
Provenance: Galerie Sigfrid O...
Category
1940s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Rocky Outcropping and Bathers at the Swimming Hole - Landscape
By Tyler Micoleau
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly textured landscape, with thick impasto illustrating a glorious scene of figures swimming in calm waters near large rocks and swaying trees, by Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001). Signed and dated "Tyler Micoleau 1968" in the lower left corner. Presented in a gold colored wood frame. Image size: 12"H x 16"W
Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001) was born in Rhode Island but spent most of his life in Nevada County, California. He was a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and an instructor at Brown University. Micoleau moved to Nevada City...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
A Compelling '50s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Compelling '50s Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman by Francis Chapin. Titled "Red Dress", the painting is oil on Masonite and dates circa 1950. A very well executed, co...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Charming Vintage Horse Riding Lesson Painting w. Young Girl by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, Vintage Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Horse Riding Lesson with a Young Girl by Noted Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. A wonderful equestrian scene dating from the 1940...
Category
Mid-20th Century Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Portrait of a Young Boy in Red
Located in Stockholm, SE
Olle Hjortzberg (1872-1959) Sweden
Portrait of a Young Boy in Red
oil on board
signed with monogram OH
unframed 41 x 31.5 cm (16 1/8 x 12 3/8 in)
framed 51 x 41.5 cm (20 1/8 x 16 ...
Category
1930s Realist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Rowers, Early Morning Practice
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Rowers, Early Morning Practice
n.d.
Signed in red, u.r.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
38 x 82 inches (96.5 x 208.3 cm)
$10,000 + $900 framing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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Mid Century Portrait -- Freckled Red Head Boy
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a red-haired boy with freckles by Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Rendered his signature style, this portrait is clean and vibrant. The subject is looki...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Paris, Hotel des Saint Pères - Oil on Masonite by F. De Pisis - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on Masonite realized by the Artist in 1948.
Includes a coeval wooden frame.
Artist paints the Hotel where he used to live in Paris during those years.
Note, title, date ...
Category
1940s Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Study of a Moor', Post-Impressionist Figural Oil, Othello, Moroccan, Tunisian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American school, Signed indistinctly lower right and dated 1988.
A bravura, psychologically-penetrating oil study of a man, shown wearing a turban and contrasted against a scumbled ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
A Charming, Colorful 1930s Painting of a Young Woman Knitting by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, colorful 1930s painting of a young woman knitting by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. A harmonious palette of cheerful yellows, reds and blues, where a young...
Category
1930s American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
By Purvis Young
Located in New York, NY
"Cars, Buildings People" Contemporary Outsider Folk Art African American Urban
The painting measures 65 x 48 inches. We love that in the middle of ...
Category
1990s Outsider Art Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Post Impressionist Portrait Painting with Antique Frame
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Donald Purdy (1924 - 2016).
Oil on masonite
Measures 25"L x 23"W.
Work is behind glass and comes with exceptional antique frame.
Acquired from the Schoneman Gallery in NY...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,688 Sale Price
24% Off
A Fashionable 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait, "Young Woman in Yellow Sweater"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fashionable, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Portrait, "Young Woman in Yellow Sweater" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 11” x 11 1/4” (Framed size...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a painted Tiffany Blue background, black abstract portrait with many ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
$464 Sale Price
45% Off
'Portrait of a Young Woman', Gold Earring, Silk Scarf
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910.
A psychologically-penetrating portrait of a young woman shown in profile, wearing a gold earring and a polychrome silk headscarf...
Category
Early 1900s Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Figurative -- Boys Playing Dice
By R. Hauslar
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptional detail in this painting of boys playing dice by R. Hauslar (German, 20th Century). A Hausler interpretation of a work by the famous Bartolome ...
Category
1950s Romantic Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,760 Sale Price
29% Off
'Young Man in a Yellow Brocade Waistcoat', Paris, Munich, Danish Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed lower right, 'DM' for David Monies (Danish, 1812-1894) and dated 1849.
Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter, Peter Andreas Löser (1834–1857).
Framed in a su...
Category
1940s Realist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
“Fleet Week”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting of Fleet Week with sailors flirting with young women on the dock by the American artist, Sarah Pace Carothers Rhode. ...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
$2,400 Sale Price
33% Off
Many Umbrellas, Impressionist beach scene
Located in Greenwich, CT
This marvelous, colorful and light filled work is a desirable work by the painter. It is in an impressionist style carved and leafed frame. Illustrated in the book by the artist "A...
Category
1990s Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Figural of Two Women and Child by Harold Kitner Kent State
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive Mid-Century figural painting of two women and child in pastel hues by Harold Kitner (American, 1921 - 2004).
Image, 33"H x 48"W
Walnut frame, 34"H x 49"W x 2"D
Harold Kitner was born on May 18, 1921 in Cleveland, Ohio and was the son of Isaac and Frieda Kitner. He obtained his MA from Case Western Reserve University in 1947. Kitner was a postgraduate from Cleveland Institute, Ohio University, Cleveland College, Washington and Lee University. He obtained his Doctorate from Kent State University. Exhibition: Harold Kitner - Active / Figure / Exaltation at Kent State School of Art Gallery in Kent, Ohio in 2014.
Harold Kitner taught for over 30 years at the Kent State University School of Art.
Harold Kitner began teaching art and art history at Kent State University in 1947. During his career, he served as Director and Chairman of the Fine Arts Division. Kitner played a significant role in creating the Art School’s core program, organizing the Kent State Arts Festival, and the Blossom Festival School. He also served as President of the Kent chapter of the American Association of University Professors, and was an art critic for the Akron Beacon Journal. In 1967, Kitner became Kent State University’s first Faculty Ombudsman, officially titled Dean for Faculty Counsel. He held this position until 1974. At the time of the Kent State shootings, Kitner’s position as Ombudsman meant that he was involved in many of the decisions regarding University administration in the weeks and months following the Kent State shootings. Kitner began a partial retirement in 1980, and left Kent to become the director of the Institute of the South Florida Art...
Category
1950s Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Against the Glass
Located in London, GB
Alkyd-oil on Masonite board, 102cm x 83cm, (124cm x 104cm framed). The painting comes directly from the artist.
Michael Leonard is most probably most famous for his portrait of HM ...
Category
Early 2000s Post-War Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Alkyd
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man with Ladders and Ropes, Queer Figure Painting
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
This painting by Mark Beard depicts a man climbing ladders and ropes.
The listed price includes the cost of framing.
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Modern Portrait, "Alida Valli" Black & White
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive and raw large-scale modernist portrait of the timeless film actress Alida Valli (Italian, 1921-2006) by contemporary Barcelona artist Mariona Mi...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Acrylic
A Captivating Modern Seated Nude in a Studio Interior by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating, Modern painting of a female nude seated in a quiet studio interior by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrayal of a female...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Mid Century Female Nude Figure, Sea Cliff Beach
Located in Soquel, CA
Female nude figure at the beach by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Jon Blanchette" verso. Image size, 24"H x 18"W.
Jon Blan...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Single Rower in Cattails
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Signed in red, u.l.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York City.
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Man with Ropes and Rings
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
Signed in red, u.r.
$7000.00 + $350.00 framing
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
“Bruce Sargeant is a mythic figure ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
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[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men with Rope and a Tree, Contemporary Painting
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Signed, u.r.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
80 x 32 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men Throwing, One Running
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Men Throwing, One Running
n.d.
Signed in red, u.l.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
35.75 x 59 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New Yo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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Portrait of Woman with Bouquet
By Isolda Hermes da Fonseca
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Isolda Hermes de Fonseca
Brazilian, 1924–2004
Portrait of a Young Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1970.
Oil on masonite panel, 24 x 36 inches. Framed Dimension: 34 x 46 inches.
Signed lo...
Category
1970s Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Candlelight Service Mexico Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming painting of church in Mexico during Holy Week attributed to Orrin A. White (American, 1883-1969). Circa 1940. Canvas laid on Masonite then pa...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting-- "An Oblation to Shells"
Located in Soquel, CA
A dymanic mid century abstract expressionist painiting with geometric shapes in cool tones and two figures by Leslie Luverne Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Oil on masonite. Titled "...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
North Shore: abstract painting evoking a night ocean landscape w/ blue & purple
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an abstract acrylic painting on masonite board evoking a night time seascape or ocean landscape. Predominant colors are blues and purples. Signed "Jomac" lower right, also s...
Category
2010s Abstract Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
A Beautiful Modern Figure Painting, Two Bathers in a Boathouse by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful Modern figure painting of two bathers in a boathouse by noted Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted at the Ox-Bow School of Saugatuck, Michigan ...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Back Road" California Redwoods Santa Cruz County Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
"Back Road" California Redwoods Santa Cruz County original Oil Painting
Oil painting of the California Redwoods by Gorman Woody (American, 1907-2000). the scene is a country road ...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Female Model
Located in Chicago, IL
An Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Female Model by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. Painted in the 1960s, the painting exemplifies the stylized, ab...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Landscape Scene of Mexican Villagers" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1971 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his landscape paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout.
Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners.
In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Body 003
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
((Approx 150 lb these are made on 3 hollow closed doors special brackets provided allow them to “ float “ on the wall ))
Harrison Storms’s artwork confronts the spectator with who they are and what it means to be human. Through his process of building up and stripping down his renderings of the human figure, Storms unlocks the synergy between the object and its environment, and between the physical and the metaphysical. Drawing influence from Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pieta and Crucifixion drawings, Italian fresco, and Ken Wilber’s philosophical inquiries, Storms creates images that portray the inevitability of change and its consequences.
Basing his images on the Kouros, a classic Greek male figure...
Category
Early 2000s Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Limestone
Oil on Masonite Painting Titled "Lobster Shack", by Aaron Bohrod, 1938
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992
Lobster Shack, 1938
Oil on masonite
16 x 20 inches
Signed and dated ower left: Aaron Bohrod 1938
Bohrod-3
Provenance:
Private estate, Rhode Island, 2004
Am...
Category
1930s Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Summer Landscape Painting w. Bathers by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figurative w...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Large, Sensational Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Showgirl, Burlesque Dancer
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Sensational Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Chicago Night Club Showgirl. Painted in the 1950s, this is a large, vertical, abstracted portrayal of a standing Burlesque danc...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Huge topical Black History slavery painting Jamaica Morant Bay 1865 rebellion
Located in Norwich, GB
Uprising - a huge and incredibly powerful and topical painting by Jamaican master painter Barrington Watson (1931-2016).
It depicts the 1865 Moran...
Category
1960s Realist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Inevitable Day – Birth of the Atom oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Bibliography
Art in America, April 1951, p.78
About this artists: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
"New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 upper left. The colors of the painting are extraordinarily vibrant. The white gold frame, signed Richard Tobey...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Single Rower
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Single Rower
n.d.
Signed in red, u.r.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
37.25 x 71.5 inches (94.6 x 181.6 cm)
$8,500 + $800 framing
This work is off...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
![[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Single Rower](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/mark-beard-paintings-bruce-sargeant-1898-1938-single-rower-for-sale/a_9323/1658517900800/Beard_Single_Rower_master.jpg?width=240 "bruce roaland")
A Large Exceptional Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Chicago Night Club Showgirl
Located in Chicago, IL
A Large, Sensational Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Chicago Night Club Showgirl. Painted in the 1950s, this is a large, vertical, abstracted portrayal of a standing Burlesque danc...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"The Walk Back Home" A Monumental "Exhibition" Painting by Carl Lasch
Located in Queens, NY
Carl Lasch (1822-1888 German) "The Walk Back Home" A Monumental Exhibition Painting,
Oil on canvas laid to masonite in original gilt-wood frame.
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Category
19th Century Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Cyclists and One Runner
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Cyclists and One Runner
n.d.
Signed in red, u.l.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
35.75 x 58 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
![[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Cyclists and One Runner](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/mark-beard-paintings-bruce-sargeant-1898-1938-two-cyclists-and-one-runner-for-sale/a_9323/1642284097217/Beard_Bruce_Sargeant_1898_1938_Two_Cyclists_and_One_Runner_master.jpg?width=240 "Mark Beard - [Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Cyclists and One Runner")
"A Walk Through the Dunes" - Oil Landscape Painting on Masonite, 2023
Located in Denver, CO
Nanette Fluhr’s "A Walk Through the Dunes" is a captivating landscape painting that brings viewers into the tranquility of a coastal path surrounded by windswept vegetation. This int...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Nocturnal Train In The City Abstract Expressionism
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of train and town at night by Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 8"H x 6"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$420 Sale Price
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From a Balcony, French Quarter, New Orleans
By Wayman Adams
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Wayman Elbridge Adams (1883-1959).
From a Balcony, New Orleans, French Quarter, ca.1930.
Oil on masonite panel, 12 x 16 inches; 17.5 x 21.5 inches framed.
Excellent condition. ...
Category
1930s Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$8,400 Sale Price
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Sailors and Mermaids
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Ralph Cahoon Jr.'s whimsical paintings are not only lighthearted and charming, they are also the hallmark of his creativity and imagination. His playful approach to painting and info...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Two Sided Painting -- Male Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Double sided figurative abstract by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016). San Francisco bay area abstract expressionist and landscape artist du...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
La Mujer Isla Surrealist Painting
By Enrique Chavarría
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Island Woman (La Mujer Isla)
Artist signed and titled.
Enrique Chavarría (1927-1998) was a Mexican painter and neo-surrealist, whose fantastic imagery carries forward the work of the Mexican Surrealists. He created hundreds of easel-sized oil paintings on masonite and numerous smaller works. For four decades his principal patron was Bryna Prensky, an American gallery owner from Florida who moved to Mexico City in 1954. She bought most of Chavarría’s known works for her gallery and her own collection.
Prensky said she often found Chavarría in his pajamas at mid-day. He read widely and painted dreamlike images that reflect his wide-ranging scholarly interests. Much of his work is thought to have been inspired by poetry, especially the writings of André Breton, Paul Éluard, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Valéry; by the classic surrealism of Salvador Dalí; and by the paintings of Mexican neo-surrealist artists Remedios Varo...
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1980s Surrealist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Figurative Nativity Scene w Hummel Figurines, Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Located in Soquel, CA
Nativity scene on an architrave of a cathedral, done in the style of Hummel figurines by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" in t...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Striking Hollywood Regency Portrait of a Red Haired Lady by Kughler 1932
Located in Rochester, NY
Hollywood regency portrait painting of a young woman by Francis Kughler (American 1901-1970). Oil on canvas board. Circa 1932. Unframed.
Born in New York City in 1901, Francis Vandeveer Kughler attended Cooper Union, the Mechanics' Institute, and the National Academy of Design School of Art where he met Charlotte Livingston, an artist, whom he was later to marry.
During this period he was the winner of a Tiffany scholarship, which provided him a summer of landscape painting at the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate at Oyster Bay, L.I.
In the 1940s, Kughler became the President of the Salmagundi Club, a well-known art club in Washington Square in New York City.Well-known as a muralist, society portrait painter and lithographer, he was a prolific painter who made cityscapes, landscapes, and nudes. He and his wife, Charlotte Livingston, lived and worked in Bronx, New York.
mid century modern wpa impressionist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Original Oil Painting Pickup Crossing Gregory Sumida California Artist Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Gregory Sumida (American, b.1948)
'Pick-Up Crossing'
Oil paint on masonite board.
Hand signed lower right
1976
Depicting a rural landscape and buildings, in a linen-lined pickled w...
Category
20th Century American Realist Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Presque Isle (Day 25) August 16
Located in Denver, CO
Primary Hughes' "Presque Isle (Day 25) August 16" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an ocean landscape of waves coalescing around a ro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Masonite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
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