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Period: 1910s
The Valley of Silent Men
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00"
Signature: Signed and Dated 'Dean / Corn / well '19' (Lower Right)
This work was originally used as an illustratio...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Easter, Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 24.75" x 18.63", Framed 34.00" x 18.50"
Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 23, 1918
Exhibited: Christie's New York, I...
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1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Good Housekeeping cover. Christmas: Child Praying
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The acc...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid, Paperback Cover
By Dean Morrissey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1991
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
DEAN MORRISSEY (American, 20th Century) The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid...
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1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study for World War I Soldier Collier's Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Quilting
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1911
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Wooden Board
Dimensions: 22.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Center
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Story illustration: “Painless Extraction”, Author: Octavus Roy Cohen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 35.50" x 23.00"
Signature: Signed
Story illustration: “Painless Extraction”, author: Octavus Roy Cohen, Saturday Evening Post, March...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Playing Store"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1915
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40.00" x 28.00"
Cream of Wheat ad
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Life Magazine Story Illustration
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1915
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 22.00" x 20.00"
Story Illustration- Life Magazine ca. ...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Ink, Pen
Stern News After Dinner
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed and Dated
illustrated:
JVJ Publishing, Jim Vadeboncoeur; The Vadeboncoeur Collection of Images...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled, Harper's Monthly 1917
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Harper's Monthly, 1917.
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Scuffle
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator working in a painterly, narrative style as N. C. Wyeth, Howard Pyle, Dean Cornwell from the Golden Age Of Illustration. Surface quality is post impressionist with hea...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man with Bandaged Head, Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918
Medium: Oil on Mounted Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 24.70" x 18.20"
Illustration from “The Fire Flinger’s” written by William J. Neidig, featured ...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Baseball Magazine Cover, July 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 31.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
From the Collection of James "Rip" Collins, former member of the Gashouse Gang.
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Entente', Salon d’Automne, French Post-Impressionist Equestrian Figural Drawing
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Henry Ottmann' (French, 1877-1927) and painted circa 1915.
Born in 1877 in the Loire Valley, Henri Ottmann first exhibited in the Salon de la Libre Esthétique ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Pencil, Paper
"Saturday Shoppers, Provincetown"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Nancy Maybin Ferguson (1872 - 1967)
A native Philadelphia, Nancy Ferguson wa...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil Painting on Wood 1919, "Three Bereaved Women" by Fritz Burmann
By Fritz Burmann
Located in Berlin, DE
Fritz Burmann ( 1892-1945 ) Germany. Oil on wood, 1919. Signed and dated lower right: Fritz Burmann 1919. Framed.
Height: 27.17 in ( 69 cm ), Width: 35.04 in ( 89 cm )
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
After The Storm
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional impressionist beachside scene with figures and powerful clouds by American artist Augustus B. Koopman (1869-1914). Koopman was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, initi...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman, 1913, by Danish Artist Heinrich Dohm
By Heinrich Dohm
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Portrait of a Gentleman, 1913" by Heinrich Dohm is a striking example of the Danish artist's mastery in capturing the essence and character of his subje...
Category
Realist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Male Nude in a Landscape
Located in London, GB
Male Nude in a Landscape, 1918, Oil on paper, signed and dated (lower right), 58cm x 41cm, (66cm x 49cm framed). The work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
A...
Category
Art Nouveau 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Summer Idle
Located in Missouri, MO
Edward Cucuel (American, 1875-1954)
Summer Idle, 1918
Signed Lower Right
35 x 43 inches
43 x 51 inches with frame
Born in San Francisco, Edward Cucuel was an Impressionist painter o...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Poitillist (Pointillism) Northern Landscape, 1913
Located in Stockholm, SE
Anders Loman (1879–1953) Sweden
Northern Landscape, 1913
oil on canvas
signed and dated And.Loman 1913
canvas dimensions
framed 67.5 x 120 cm
unframed 56.5 x 109 cm
Essay:
In the realm of early 20th-century Swedish art, Anders Loman may not have been the most widely recognized name, yet his talent is evident in this painting that echo both traditional Scandinavian motifs and avant-garde techniques.
"Northern Landscape" from 1913 is a prime example of this juxtaposition. At first glance, the canvas is dominated by imposing evergreens in the foreground. Their detail is painstakingly rendered, providing a stark contrast to the background. Beyond these trees lies a tranquil lake and distant mountains, but it is here that Loman's boldness in technique is most apparent. Inspired by the Pointillism movement, the background is rendered using short brush strokes, with the waters shimmering in shades of pink and lilac, and the mountains painted...
Category
Pointillist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Tornado by Swedish Artist Pelle Swedlund, Early 1900s, Oil on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
We have a stunning painting by the Swedish artist Pelle Swedlund (1865-1947) that is available for sale. The painting depicts a dramatic scene with a to...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Opium Smoker; The Opium Eater
Located in Greenville, DE
The Opium Smoker; The Opium Eater by N.C. Wyeth was created in 1913. The painting is signed upper right. Dedication lower left that reads "To Swayne / Fro...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Woman Ironing', Paris Salon Modernist, Royal Academy, Charlottenborg, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ludvig Jacobsen' (Danish, 1890-1957) and painted circa 1915.
Previously with: Arnbaks Kunsthandel, Bredgade 24, Copenhagen, from label verso.
Framed dimensions: ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a man, an expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy
By László Moholy-Nagy
Located in PARIS, FR
This recently rediscovered expressionist drawing by László Moholy-Nagy is part of a small group of drawings made by the artist early in his career, in Vienna and Berlin. The use of interlaced curves, typical of the artist's technique, gives this hieratic portrait a magnetic radiance, while the absence of any connection with the rest of the body evokes a profane Holy Face.
1. From Hungary to Chicago, the ardent life of László Moholy-Nagy
Moholy-Nagy was born in Borsod, now known as Bácsborsód in Southern Hungary, in July 1895. He studied law in Budapest in 1913, when he was drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army to serve as an artillery officer on the Italian and Russian fronts. While serving at artillery observation posts, Moholy-Nagy was able to execute numerous drawings, recording his traumatic war experience, on the reverse of military-issued postcards which he could easily carry with him. In 1917, he was seriously wounded and hospitalized. The following year (around 1918 at the age of 23), he abandoned his plans to become a lawyer in favour of a career as an artist, with the encouragement of his friend, the art critic Iván Hevesy.
The drawings executed in those early years reveal Moholy-Nagy's powerful Expressionist lines. In his autobiography of 1944, Abstract of an Artist, Moholy-Nagy explained his early figurative style, writing that contemporary art in those days was too chaotic and that and all the '-isms' were incomprehensible and puzzling to him.
He was, however, experimenting with Dadaist compositions already in 1919 and then moved to Vienna and later to Berlin, where he would soon make his first works in his Constructivist style of the early 1920s.
In Berlin he met photograph and writer Lucia Schultz who became his wife the next year. In 1922 he met Walter Gropius. During a vacation on the Rhome with Lucia, she introduced him to making photograms on light-sensitized paper. Walter Gropius invited him to teach at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1923 where he replaced Paul Klee as Head of the Metal Workshop. The Bauhaus became known for the versatility of its artists and Moholy-Nagy was no exception: throughout his career, he became proficient in the fiels of photography, typography, sculpture, painting, printmaking, film-making and industrial design.
In 1928 Moholy-Nagy left the Bauhaus and established his own design studio in Berlin. He separated from his first wide Lucia in 1929. In 1931 he met actress and scriptwriter Sibylle Pietzsch. They married in 1932 and has two daughters, Hattula (born 1933) and Claudia. After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, he was no longer allowed to work there. He moved his family to London in 1935. In 1937, on the recommendation of Walter Gropius, Moholy-Nagy moved to Chicago to become the director of the New Bauhaus, but the school closed in 1938. Moholy-Nagy resumed doing commercial design work, which he continued for the rest of his life.
In 1939 Moholy-Nagy opened the School of Design in Chicago, which became in 1944 the Institute of Design, becoming part of the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1949. Diagnosed with leukemia in 1945, Moholy-Nagy died of the disease in Chicago in 1946.
2. Description of the artwork
This drawing presents us with a frontal representation of a man in his thirties, whose penetrating gaze seems to stare at us. The face is highly symmetrical and is modelled by curved black lines. The very high forehead and the slightly dilated left pupil reinforce the very expressive character of the face.
Like the Holy Face which appeared on the cloth stretched out to wipe Christ's face by Saint Veronica, only the model's face is represented on the cardboard piece. The curved lines that define the face, hollowing out the temples, the eyelids, the cheeks and the area around the mouth, create a kind of magnetic radiation around a median point located between the eyebrows.
In some respects, this face may evoke one of the most famous representations of the Holy Face: the extraordinary engraving by Claude Mellan...
Category
Expressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax Crayon, Cardboard
"The Artist's Wife at the Loom, " Harry Hoffman, Bright American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Harry Leslie Hoffman (1871 - 1964)
The Artist's Wife (Beatrice Pope) at the Loom, circa 1915
Oil on canvas
30 x 32 inches
Housed in a period Newcomb-Macklin frame
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Private Collection, Massachusetts
This painting depicts the artist's wife at the loom, producing textile versions of Hoffman's underwater paintings. The screen shown behind Bea is an underwater scene also painted by Hoffman. The study of this painting is held in the collection of the Wolfsonian Museum in Florida.
Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania's Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien.
In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists' colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony.
In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman's antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910 Hoffman...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA
Located in New York, NY
WWI American Scene Ashcan Modern 20th Century Historical Realism Industrial WPA
"Constant Driving Will Win the War," 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed and dated 1918 lower right.
In 1905, Gerrit Beneker began his art career as an illustrator. He married Flora Judd, his high school sweetheart from Grand Rapids and they moved to Brooklyn, NY. Gerrit's early passion was to create an art that would inspire and provide honor to the workingman. As such, he had no interest in painting portraits of pretty women, which were so often seen on the magazine covers of the day. Rather he wanted to seek out workingmen on the bridges, tunnels and skyscrapers of NYC, and paint them in their environments. He completed over 150 magazine covers, numerous ads including many for Ivory Soap...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English Early 20th Century impressionist, man fishing by river landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
English early 20th century, Impressionist river landscape with fisherman.
Ernest Charles Walbourn was born on 16 February 1872 at Dalston, Middlesex. The second of five children, he...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Original Illustration for The Red Cross
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
19.875" x 14.00" Each Panel
1 of a 4 Part Illustration used as a promotional poster
Poster for The Red Cross—Watching...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Central Park Autumn
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul Cornoyer
“Central Park Autumn” c. 1910
Oil on Canvas
Framed Size: approx 29 x 35 inches
Canvas Size: approx 22 x 26.5 inches
Provenance: The Artist to Private Collection, St. Louis thence by Descent
Conservation report: Excellent condition. On original canvas, not relined. No in-painting.
Paul Cornoyer was born in 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied there at the School of Fine Arts in 1881. His first works were in a Barbizon mode, and his first exhibit was in 1887. In 1889, he went to Paris for further training, studying at the Academie Julien, and returned to St. Louis in 1894.
By the early 1890s, his work was more lyrical and Tonal, and he applied this style to subjects such as cityscapes and landscapes. In 1894, he painted a mural depicting the birth of St. Louis for the Planters Hotel in that city. His activities during the next six years were not particularly profitable, however, and the whereabouts of his St. Louis paintings are scarcely known. One exception is the triptych, A View of Saint Louis, with its strong urban realism. It shows the Eads Bridge...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Prometheus
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel
Sight Size 31.00" x 21.25", Framed 36.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Maxfield Parrish began his career at age 25 as an illustrator, painting magazin...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Croix de Guerre, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00;" Framed 36.00" x 29.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 29, 1918
Exhibitions:
It's a Man's World,...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
L'irreparable
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 – 1949), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, ge...
Category
Symbolist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Brothers
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An original oil on canvas by Hungarian artist Gertrude Klaris. Klaris worked in oils but pramrily in mixed media works on paper, much of her style is akin to her love of stained glas...
Category
Symbolist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Sorcieres
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Soricieres, depicts a covenant of witches as they convene at the top of a fabled mountain in Germany, the Broeken. The legend states that on a single night of the year, St. Walpurgis...
Category
Symbolist 1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Gehenne
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, generally depicting the constant struggle of good vs. evil. This is consistently reflected by images of beautiful women interacting with skeletons, gargoyles and demons.
An original oil on panel, Gehenne depicts two cowering skeletons as they languish at the gates of hell...
Category
1910s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil