Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist

View Similar Items

Hank Ketcham - 'Portrait of a Young Man', Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney, Figural Oil

Jan Hoowij - 'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum

Anton Schroder - 'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding

Robert Childers - 'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil

David Mayernik - 'Young Woman in a Turban', American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame, FRSA

Unknown - "Modernist Portrait, Boy Seated " Mid Century Oil Painting on Board

Rodrigo Ramirez Pimentel - 1970s Modern Figurative -- Madre del Mundo

Luigi Christopher Veggetti - Portrait #51. From the Portraits series

Luigi Christopher Veggetti - Portrait #1. From the Portraits series

Luigi Christopher Veggetti - Portrait #13. From the Portraits series

Luigi Christopher Veggetti - Portrait #50. From the Portraits series

Luigi Christopher Veggetti - Portrait #3. From the Portraits series

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 9

Maurice Kish
Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
1955

Name: Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
Brand: Maurice Kish
Rating: 4.9 (105 reviews)

$4,000List Price

About the Item

Genre: Modern Subject: Fiddler on the roof Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass factory where he painted floral designs on vases. During the Depression, Kish became a WPA painter in the Federal Art Project (FAP). FAP artists were given a mandate to create works that celebrated labor. The artists tended to be socially progressive, as Kish certainly was. Kish's work from this period, with its dark colors and rolling clouds, reveals the influence of Social Realists like Thomas Hart Benton. Apparent, too, is Kish's interest in the urban monumentality of Charles Sheeler. Kish's structures, however, lack Sheeler's almost dehumanized precision. Rather than the soulless, sleek machines of a typical modern urban dystopia, Kish's factories are shaggy old beasts as worn out as the laborers who troop through their doors. In End of Day's Toil, now at the Smithsonian, the viewer feels some affection for that rambly grandfather of a building all the tired small workers are leaving behind. Much of Kish's work, for the FAP and elsewhere, undermines received truths in a similar way. Some early works with themes from Yiddish culture are overtly humorous: a painting of a big jolly wedding guest, looking invitingly over her shoulder; a big fiddler on a small roof. Later, the humor becomes more ironic and reflective. In another work, the rather imposing organ grinder of the late 1930s looms above a child, yet his intermediary the cockatoo is bright and appealing, and offers the girl a fortune with his beak. This could read as an allegory for capitalism as easily as a straightforward colorful street scene. A small painting of a snowy day in Washington Square gives a bird's eye view of people bent against the wind walking alone or in pairs. The huge triumphal arch at the middle of it has no connection to their movements or their lives. Kish makes its size and centrality a quiet joke about the futility of grandiose gestures. Like the buildings in his FAP works, the arch has a personality. It is a landmark that looks a bit lost. A favorite location for Kish was Coney Island. For the laborers of the city, this was a place of great freedom and possibility. There were no bosses! Anyone could go to ride the rides and swim in the sea. For Kish, Coney Island, and especially Luna Park, became a place richly symbolic of workers’ rights. For the dreamlike paintings he set there, Kish looked past the Social Realists to the Expressionists. His colors are brilliant and his lines are wild. These images, joyfully unrestrained, give full voice to an anarchic vision merely hinted at in other works. If the structures of the earlier pictures came further out of the background than expected, these Coney Island structures completely take over the scene. Kish made several variations on the theme of the carousel as a site of revolution. In the moonlight, the horses have broken from their poles and spin away from the calm center. The workers have come to manic life, have released themselves from the yoke of labor and have abandoned their master, the merry-go-round. They escape to different corners of the pleasure park, dance together and ride the ferris wheel. One horse pretends to be a ticket seller. It is another allegory, one that depicts a worker's holiday paradise in carnival fashion. A painter who embraced ambiguity, Kish was himself a man who occupied many worlds simultaneously. Even during the period when he had shows at prestigious galleries and belonged to several artists' groups, he identified most strongly as an outsider, a Yiddischer. He wrote poetry in Yiddish throughout his life. In 1968, he published a volume of fifty years of these poems, Di Velt ist Mayn Lid (The World is My Song) in Yiddish, with no English translation, for his peers. Kish also translated English-language poetry into Yiddish and acted as a guide to help other Yiddish writers. Long after the art organizations ceased to provide meaning and fulfillment, Kish was a devoted member of the Yiddish Culture Association. In addition to painting and poetry, Kish was a dancer who taught during the summers at various Jewish resorts in the Catskills. Small but lithe, he also spent some years as an amateur boxer. Well into his eighties, Kish was proud of the quality of his handball game. By the 1940s, Kish’s career was going well, but his descriptive style of working began to fall out of fashion, supplanted by a more formal Abstraction. Kish was never able to support himself solely through his art, yet in the midst of all of his other activities, Kish continued to create his distinctive images of an immigrant's New York. He departed far from the mainstream, and in later years, seldom showed his work, preferring to keep it for himself (although he sometimes traded paintings for rent). Of making art, Kish said, "It is a sacred mission to enrich, to elevate and to make our lives more complete." His works, though frequently playful, encourage a second look at ordinary things. His irreverence elevates by revealing flaws where his audience, all workers and outsiders of a kind, can get a purchase. Kish's art fondly celebrates the beauty of the irregular.

Creator:
Maurice Kish (1895-1987, American)
Creation Year:
1955
Dimensions:
Height: 20.5 in (52.07 cm)Width: 16.5 in (41.91 cm)
Medium:
Oil
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Condition:
minor wear.
Gallery Location:
Surfside, FL
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3822798871

More From This Seller

View All

Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist

By Simka Simkhovitch

Located in Surfside, FL

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Simka Simkhovitch
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist, c.1930's

$1,200

Modernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples

By Ervin B. Nussbaum

Located in Surfside, FL

In this painting, Nussbaum portrays a Rabbi, or Rebbe outside the synagogue The vibrant colors used in this painting seem to overlay each other without being previous mixed. Ervin B...

Category

20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Ervin B. Nussbaum
Modernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples

$2,600

Oil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris

By Jean Jansem

Located in Surfside, FL

Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013 Hand signed upper left corner Dimensions: 14 X 9.5 Framed 21 X 16.75 Jean Jansem (Hovhannes Semerdjian) 1920-2013 Bursa, Ottoman Turki...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jean Jansem
Oil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris

$8,500

Large French Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Seated Figure Claude Weisbuch

By Claude Weisbuch

Located in Surfside, FL

WEISBUCH, Claude. Oil on Canvas Framed size: 39” H x 28” W Canvas, without frame: 32” high x 21 ¼” wide. Carved wooden frame with antique gold-leaf finish Claude Weisbuch, 1927-2014 French painter, draftsman and engraver. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) in Nancy and upon graduation became a professor of engraving at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de of St. Etienne. His first solo exhibition was in 1957. In 1968 , he became a full member of the Society of French Painters-Engravers . In 1997 he was awarded the Legion of Honor His work is essentially devoted to engraving, by which he likes to translate, thanks to the line, the life, movement and character of his characters: Punchinels, harlequins, musicians or equestrian scenes. He practices various techniques ( lithography, drypoint etching etc.) that he puts to use in the illustration of bibliophile books. Claude Weisbuch is also a painter and draftsman. His favorite colors are ochres, browns and whites, with which he seeks to introduce the effects of light by compositions where the line and finesse of the drawing preserve the life found in his engravings. His precise and dynamic line delivers a moving and swirling work on themes he loves: theater, opera, equestrian, musicians, card players, Kabuki dancers and many portraits. His works have the appearance of unfinished sketches mixing few colors but a great vivacity of the line. He illustrated many limited edition signed fine art books. Alon with Christo, Arman and Cesar he is considered among the great post war French artists of the last generation. Exhibitions 1957: Saint Placide Gallery, paintings and engravings 1958: Galerie de Presbourg, Paris, paintings - Saint Placide Gallery, Paris, paintings - Galerie des Arts, Nancy, etchings 1960: Galerie Hervé, "Extraordinary Pantomimes", Paris, paintings 1961: Salon of the young painting and painters witnesses of their time 1962: O'Hanna Gallery, London , paintings 1963: Galerie Hervé, "Portrait Of Man", Paris, Paintings - Nichido Gallery, Tokyo, Paintings 1965: Hervé Gallery, "100 Drawings", Paris Dresdener Gallery, Toronto, paintings 1966: Dantesca Gallery, Turin , paintings, engravings, drawings 1968: New Vision Gallery, Paris, engravings 1969: Galerie Hervé, Paris, paintings - Galerie Reflets, Brussels , prints, paintings - Galerie Dresder, Montreal , paintings 1970: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - Sagot Gallery - The Garrec, Paris, etchings - Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris ARC, Paris, prints 5 1971: War Gallery, Avignon , etchings Biennial of Engraving, Epinal 1972: Dantesca Gallery, Turin Festival, Sarlat , paintings 1973: Wayss Gallery, Nancy , paintings, engravings, drawings Auguste Comte Gallery, Lyon , paintings, engravings, drawings Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - New Vision Gallery, "Homage to Rembrandt", Paris, etchings 1974: Esthetika Gallery, Kortrijk, engravings - Galerie Hervé Odermatt, Paris, paintings Ésthetika Gallery, Kurne, prints - Galerie Wayss, Nancy, engravings, drawings, pastels Dietesheim Gallery, Neuchâtel , engravings - Grafikhuset Gallery, Stockholm , prints, drawings 1975: Schwarzer Gallery, Vienna , engravings, paintings, drawings Fogola Gallery, Turin, drawings, pastels Sotheby-Parke Benett, Munich, engravings, drawings Hervé Odermatt Gallery, Paris, drawings Joly Gallery, Washington , engraving 1976: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - Wayss Gallery, Nancy, engravings, drawings - Tabula Gallery, Tübingen, engravings, drawings - New Vision Gallery, "The horse-The painter and his model", Paris, drawings, engravings 1977: Grafikhuset, Futura, Stockholm - Jivô Gallery, Vänersborg Pigalle Gallery, Norrköping Celsius Gallery, Uppsala Möbius Gallery, Gothenburg - New Vision Gallery, Jerusalem - Cultural Center of Sainte-Menehould Castle, retrospective, engravings 1978: David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee , engravings, drawings Orangery Gallery, Cologne , engravings, drawings, pastels Grafikhuset Futura, Stockholm, paintings, drawings Les Cordeliers, Châteauroux, engravings, drawings, paintings House of Culture, Montbéliard, engravings House of Culture, Chelles , engravings, paintings, drawings 1979: L'Empreinte Gallery, Strasbourg, prints, drawings - Galerie Reflets, Brussels, prints, drawings - Galerie Bon à tirer, Los Angeles , prints, pastels 1980: Hervé Odermatt Gallery, Paris, "Calligraphy of the figure", paintings - E. Gollon Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1981: European Biennale of Engraving, Baden-Bade Galerie The Art Shop, Nice Galerie Hélène Trintignant, Montpellier Martine Remy Gallery, Strasbourg 1982: Vallen Gallery, Stockholm - Sagot Gallery - The Garrec, Paris - Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - New Vision Gallery, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, etchings 1983: Hélène Trintignant Gallery, Montpellier 1984: Perrine Museum, Laval , etchings - Music Festival, Quimper , etchings Etchings, Moscow - Presence Gallery, Brussels, paintings, etchings 1985: Galerie Moyon-Avenard, Nantes, paintings - Taménaga Gallery, Paris, paintings - New Otani Hotel, Ōsaka, realization of murals 1986: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - Greenhouse of the School of Fine Arts, Saint-Étienne , paintings, engravings 1988: Retrospective paintings, Château de Chenonceau Retrospective engravings, Artothèque Museum Montpellier Taménaga Gallery, Paris, drawings, pastels New Vision Gallery, Tokyo, engravings 1989: Galerie Taménaga, Paris, paintings Exit of the book Weisbuch , texts of Jean-Denis Bredin of the French Academy, preface by Jean-Marie Tasset. 1990: Taménaga Gallery, Paris, paintings 1992: Retrospective, Sarlat - Taménaga Gallery, Paris, drawings 1993: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo and Osaka 1994: Paintings for the second international meetings of the cello ensemble, Beauvais - Elegance Gallery, Taipei - Sanbi Gallery, Tokyo, graphic works - Mitsukoshi, Tōkyō 1995: Taménaga Gallery, Ōsaka - Exhibition of the Gobelins Municipal Circle, Paris 13 th 1996: 2nd Music Trades Fair, Premonstratensian Abbey , Pont-à-Mousson , paintings - Ginza Spring, Tokyo, paintings - New Otani Museum, Tokyo, paintings 1997: Galerie Raugraff, Nancy, paintings, pastels, drawings, engravings, lithographs - Theater Gallery, Besançon, paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs 1999: A retrospective "Weisbuch, 50 years of prints", 230 works exhibited in Strasbourg under the direction of its publisher, L'Estampe Éditions 3 - Taménaga Gallery, Paris, Tōkyō 2000: Retrospective Château de Vascœuil , by L'Estampe - Theater Gallery, Besançon , paintings, drawings, engravings, pastels, lithographs - Retrospective Chamber of Commerce, Strasbourg - engravings (retrospective), Jacques Brel cultural center, Thionville - engravings (retrospective ), chamber of commerce, Nancy 2001: Retrospective Orangerie of Madame Élisabeth, Versailles , paintings 2002: Taménaga Gallery "Movements", Paris 2003: L'Estampe Gallery, in partnership with the Theater Gallery - prints and paintings, Besançon 2004: Taménaga Gallery "Prometheus presenting the secret of fire to humans", Paris Crid'Art Gallery, L'Estampe Gallery, Amnéville-les-Thermes , paintings, prints, drawings, prints - Galerie des Arts, Nîmes , paintings 2010: Galerie125, Argancy , recent works, exhibition of 100 recent works by the artist. 2012: Exhibition at the Château de Malbrouck . More than 150 works by the artist. Organized by the General Council of Moselle and L'Estampe (editor Claude Weisbuch). 2012: Print, Strasbourg, paintings, engravings, drawings 2012: Exhibition at the House of wines of Graves de Podensac in Gironde. 150 works by the artist Event organized by Course N ° 3. 2013: Galerie125, Argancy, "Weisbuch, major works", exhibition of drawings, engravings, lithographs and oils on canvas 2014: Galerie125, Argancy, "Weisbuch, from 1947 to 1960", exhibition of 100 ancient engravings...

Category

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Claude Weisbuch
Large French Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Seated Figure Claude Weisbuch

$9,500

Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art

By Abram Tromka

Located in Surfside, FL

Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York ...

Category

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Abram Tromka
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art

$1,600

Polish Jewish Chassidic Rabbi Judaica Art Oil Painting Konstantin Szewczenko

By Konstanty Szewczenko

Located in Surfside, FL

Konstanty Szewczenko (1910-1991), signed oil Judaica Oil Painting, Chassidic Rebbe, Polish. Frame: 17 X 15.25 Image: 11.5 X 9.5 Konstantin Shevchenko studied at the Institute of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the years 1927 - 1928. Then, in 1932 he studied painting under the guidance of Kowarski and Pruszkowski at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Practiced easel painting, mostly judaic hassidic rabbi portraits, genre scenes. Among others, a portrait Moscicki, Rydz - Rydz, and after the war Rokossowski.He worked as a set designer. In the years 1934 - 1935 was production designer Variety Theatre. He collaborated with publishing houses with illustrations. He exhibited in Warsaw, Poland, Vienna, Austria and New York. In 1947 he took part in Exhibition Independent Artists Group) and abroad (solo exhibition at the Gallery G. Tomalsky in New York, 1964) . He is one of many great Jewish Polish artists that included Leopold Gottlieb, Maurycy Gottlieb, Henryk Hechtkopf, Leopold Pilichowski, Isidor Kaufmann, Lazar krestin, Alois Heinrich Priechenfried and Itshak Holtz. His works are in the collection of the Museum of the Polish Army. He was an Polish, Austro-Hungarian painter of Jewish themes...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Konstanty Szewczenko
Polish Jewish Chassidic Rabbi Judaica Art Oil Painting Konstantin Szewczenko, 20th Century

$1,800

1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hank Ketcham
'Portrait of a Young Man', Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney, Figural Oil, 1990

$3,650

'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum

By Jan Hoowij

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

An elegant oil portrait of a young Arab woman shown wearing a veil and gazing with candor and interest directly towards the viewer. Signed lower left, "Jan Hoowij" (Dutch-American, ...

Category

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Jan Hoowij
'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Circa 1960

$2,750

'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Initialed lower left, 'A.S.' for Anton Schroder (Danish, 1893-1965) and dated 1953. A substantial, modernist oil painting of a young woman, shown seated and gazing to her left with ...

Category

1950s Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Anton Schroder
'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding, 1953

$7,500

'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil

By Robert Childers

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Signed center right, in the 53 stub, 'Childers' for Robert Childers (American, 1924-1984) and dated 1954. Robert Childers first served in the U.S. Navy for six years after graduating from Medford High School in 1941. Following World War II, he studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art where he was the recipient of a gold medal and, upon graduating from the Museum's school, was the recipient of a Cresson scholarship and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he received his Masters degree. Childers continued his education with classes at Fleisher Memorial and performed for two years with the Philadelphia Dance Theater. Following his studies, he worked in fabrics, film production, toys and illustrations for publishers with du Pont in New York City. At the same time he maintained a studio and old twine factory over the Cherry Lane Theater. He lived in Greenwich Village for 19 years before accepting a position developing new products for American Greetings Inc. While there he designed the Hobbie Holly cloth doll...

Category

1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Robert Childers
'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil, 1954

$2,450

'Young Woman in a Turban', American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame, FRSA

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Faintly signed lower right, 'D. Mayernik' for David Mayernik (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1985. A period, Post-Impressionist style study of a woman in a turban looking proudly upwards. A warm and engaging piece by a bravura hand. Artist, design architect, author and educator David Mayernik studied fresco painting with restorer Leonetto Tintori and has painted frescoes for the TASIS campus in Lugano, churches in Ticino and Tuscany, and the Palio...

Category

1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

David Mayernik
'Young Woman in a Turban', American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame, FRSA, Circa 1985

$2,750

"Modernist Portrait, Boy Seated " Mid Century Oil Painting on Board

Located in New York, NY

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1950's of a Boy seated with a bowl of fruits. Comes displayed in a distressed wood frame, signed lower left illegibly. Art measures 1...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Modernist Portrait, Boy Seated " Mid Century Oil Painting on Board, Mid-20th Century

$1,800

Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist

View Similar Items

Maurice Kish
Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
1955

About the Item

More From This Seller

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Simka Simkhovitch
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist, c.1930's

20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Ervin B. Nussbaum
Modernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Jean Jansem
Oil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Claude Weisbuch
Large French Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Seated Figure Claude Weisbuch

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Abram Tromka
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Konstanty Szewczenko
Polish Jewish Chassidic Rabbi Judaica Art Oil Painting Konstantin Szewczenko, 20th Century

You May Also Like

1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

Hank Ketcham
'Portrait of a Young Man', Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney, Figural Oil, 1990

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Jan Hoowij
'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Circa 1960

1950s Modern Portrait Paintings

Anton Schroder
'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding, 1953

1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Robert Childers
'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil, 1954

1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

David Mayernik
'Young Woman in a Turban', American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame, FRSA, Circa 1985

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

"Modernist Portrait, Boy Seated " Mid Century Oil Painting on Board, Mid-20th Century

Recently Viewed

Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist

View Similar Items

Maurice KishFiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist1955

About the Item

More From This Seller

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Simka SimkhovitchSimka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist, c.1930's

20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings

Ervin B. NussbaumModernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples

Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Jean JansemOil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris

20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Claude WeisbuchLarge French Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Seated Figure Claude Weisbuch

1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Abram TromkaRare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Konstanty SzewczenkoPolish Jewish Chassidic Rabbi Judaica Art Oil Painting Konstantin Szewczenko, 20th Century

You May Also Like

1990s Modern Figurative Paintings

Hank Ketcham'Portrait of a Young Man', Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney, Figural Oil, 1990

1960s Modern Portrait Paintings

Jan Hoowij'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Circa 1960

1950s Modern Portrait Paintings

Anton Schroder'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding, 1953

1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Robert Childers'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil, 1954

1980s Modern Figurative Paintings

David Mayernik'Young Woman in a Turban', American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame, FRSA, Circa 1985

Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

"Modernist Portrait, Boy Seated " Mid Century Oil Painting on Board, Mid-20th Century

Recently Viewed

Maurice Kish
Fiddler on the Roof Modern Judaica Shtetl Oil Painting WPA Jewish artist
1955

Simka Simkhovitch
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist, c.1930's

Ervin B. Nussbaum
Modernist American Judaica Painting Gaon and his Disciples

Jean Jansem
Oil Painting Woman Portrait French Armenian Modernist Jean Jansem Ecole De Paris

Claude Weisbuch
Large French Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Seated Figure Claude Weisbuch

Abram Tromka
Rare Polish American 1930s Oil Painting Painting WPA Russian Babushka Jewish Art

Konstanty Szewczenko
Polish Jewish Chassidic Rabbi Judaica Art Oil Painting Konstantin Szewczenko, 20th Century

Hank Ketcham
'Portrait of a Young Man', Dennis the Menace, Walt Disney, Figural Oil, 1990

Jan Hoowij
'Young Woman', Grande Chaumière, Hague Academy of Fine Arts, Brooklyn Museum, Circa 1960

Anton Schroder
'Woman in Blue', Danish Royal Academy, Brooklyn Museum, Kolding, 1953

Robert Childers
'Blue Eyed Girl', PAFA, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania Artist, Trompe L'Oeil, 1954

David Mayernik
'Young Woman in a Turban', American Academy in Rome, Italy, Notre Dame, FRSA, Circa 1985