Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

"Park Benches" is a 10 x 11 1/2 inches, oil on board impressionist street scene by American impressionist painter and member of the Women's Artists Group "The Philadelphia Ten", Nancy Maybin Ferguson...

Léa Lafugie is a painter who has travelled extensively throughout Asia. She is renowned for her portraits. She studied at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, then at the Ecole de...

Fairy tales, Mixed media on paper, from the artist estate. actual size 19"x23" framed 34"x39" Impressionistic style watercolor, drawing, pastel on paper, from the artist Estate. DeWitt Lockman began painting at the age of four in Brooklyn. By the age of seven, his family had moved to New York, where he worked with the animal painter James H. Beard. He later studied with Nelson Bickford and William Sartain. He was in Europe, principally in France, England, and Holland, from 1891 to 1892 and again from 1901 to 1902. In the years between the two European trips, Lockman painted little, suffering from ill-health. Resuming his artistic activities in the early years of the century, Lockman also served in the Office of Naval Intelligence from 1917 to 1918. He married Evelyn Walker in 1946. Although his oeuvre also includes still life and animal pictures, Lockman was most successful as a portraitist, painting over 500 works in that genre. President Calvin Coolidge, General of the Armies John J. Pershing, and Dr. Nicholas Murray...

Signed and dated oil on canvas riverscape by French impressionist painter Charles-Victor Guilloux. This beautifully painter piece shows a view from the Pont Neuf looking towards the ...

Date: 1923 Medium: Oil on Panel Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00"

Oil on canvas representing a bridge in Venice. The painting is signed Degallaix dated 1926. Very sensitive touch in a watercolor style. DEGALLAIX louis Born in Saint-Quentin, XIX °....

Amy Londoner Musical Conductor, 1922 Signed and dated lower right Pastel on paper Sight 18 x 23 inches Amy Londoner (April 12, 1875 – 1951) was an American painter who exhibited at the 1913 Armory Show. One of the first students of the Henri School of Art in 1909. Prior to the Armory Show of 1913, Amy Londoner and her classmates studied with "Ashcan" painter Robert Henri at the Henri School of Art in New York, N.Y. One notable oil painting, 'The Vase', was painted by both Henri and Londoner. Londoner was born in Lexington, Missouri on April 12, 1875. Her parents were Moses and Rebecca Londoner, who moved to Leadville, Colorado, by 1880. In 1899, Amy took responsibility for her father who had come to Los Angeles from Leadville and had mental issues. By 1900, Amy was living with her parents and sister, Blanche, in the vicinity of Leadville, Denver, Colorado. While little was written about her early life, Denver City directories indicated that nineteenth-century members of the family were merchants, with family ties to New York, N.Y. The family had a male servant. Londoner traveled with her mother to England in 1907 then shortly later, both returned to New York in 1909. Londoner was 34 years old at the time, and, according to standards of the day, should have married and raised a family long before. Instead, she enrolled as one of the first students at the Henri School of Art in 1909. At the Henri School, Londoner established friendships with Carl Sprinchorn (1887-1971), a young Swedish immigrant, and Edith Reynolds (1883-1964), daughter of wealthy industrialist family from Wilkes-Barre, PA. Londoner's correspondence, which often included references to Blanche, listed the sisters' primary address as the Hotel Endicott at 81st Street and Columbus Avenue, NYC. Other correspondence also reached Londoner in the city via Mrs. Theodore Bernstein at 252 West 74th Street; 102 West 73rd Street; and the Independent School of Art at 1947 Broadway. In 1911, Londoner vacationed at the Hotel Trexler in Atlantic City, NJ. As indicated by an undated photograph, Londoner also spent time with Edith Reynolds and Robert Henri at 'The Pines', the Reynolds family estate in Bear Creek, PA. Through her connections with the Henri School, Londoner entered progressive social and professional circles. Henri's admonition, phrased in the vocabulary of his historical time period, that one must become a "man" first and an artist second, attracted both male and female students to classes where development of unique personal styles, tailored to convey individual insights and experiences, was prized above the mastery of standardized, technical skill. Far from being dilettantes, women students at the Henri School were daring individuals willing to challenge tradition. As noted by former student Helen Appleton Read, "it was a mark of defiance,to join the radical Henri group." As Henri offered educational alternatives for women artists, he initiated exhibition opportunities for them as well. Troubled by the exclusion of work by younger artists from annual exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, Henri was instrumental in organizing the no-jury, no-prize Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910. About half of the 103 artists included in the exhibition were or had been Henri students, while twenty of the twenty-six women exhibiting had studied with Henri. Among the exhibition's 631 pieces, nine were by Amy Londoner, including the notorious 'Lady with a Headache'. Similarly, fourteen of Henri's women students exhibited in the groundbreaking Armory Show of 1913, forming about eight percent of the American exhibitors and one-third of American women exhibitors. Of the nine documented works submitted by Londoner, five were rejected, while four pastels of Atlantic City beach scenes, including 'The Beach Umbrellas' now in the Remington Collection, were displayed. Following Henri's example, Londoner served as an art instructor for younger students at the Modern School, whose only requirement was to genuinely draw what they pleased. The work of dancer Isadora Duncan, another artist devoted to the ideals of a liberal education, was also lauded by the Modern School. Henri, who long admired Duncan and invited members of her troupe to model for his classes, wrote an appreciation of her for the Modern School journal in 1915. She was also the subject of Londoner's pastel Isadora Duncan and the Children: Praise Ye the Lord with Dance. In 1914, Londoner traveled to France to spend summer abroad, living at 99 rue Notre Dames des Champs, Paris, France. As the tenets of European modernism spread throughout the United States, Londoner showed regularly at venues which a new generation of artists considered increasingly passe, including the annual Society of Independent Artists' exhibitions between 1918 and 1934, and the Salons of America exhibition in 1922. Londoner also exhibited at the Morton Gallery, Opportunity Gallery, Leonard Clayton Gallery and Brownell-Lambertson Galleries in NYC. Her painting of a 'Blond Girl' was one of two works included in the College Art Associations Traveling Exhibition of 1929, which toured colleges across the country to broad acclaim. Londoner later in life suffered from illnesses then suffered a stroke which resulted in medical bills significantly mounting over the years that her old friends from the Henri School, including Carl Sprinchorn, Florence Dreyfous, Florence Barley, and Josephine Nivison Hopper, scrambled to raise funds and find suitable long-term care facilities for Londoner. Londoner later joined Reynolds in Bear Creek, PA. Always known for her keen wit, Londoner retained her humor and concern for her works even during her illness, noting that "if anything happens to the Endicott, I guess they will just throw them out." Sprinchorn and Reynolds, however, did not allow this to happen. In 1960, Londoner's paintings 'Amsterdam Avenue at 74th Street' and 'The Builders' were loaned by Reynolds to a show commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910, presented at the Delaware Art Center, Wilmington, DE. In the late 80's, Francis William Remington, 'Bill Remington', of Bear Creek Village PA, along with his neighbor and artist Frances Anstett Brennan, both had profound admiration for Amy Londoner's art work and accomplishments as a woman who played a significant role in the Ashcan movement. Remington acquired a significant number of Londoner's artwork along with Frances Anstett Brenan that later was part of an exhibition of Londoner's artwork in April 15 of 2007, at the Hope Horn...

Oil Painting by Alexander Russell The Sailors Return" 1859 - 1922 painter of domestic figurative scenes, his work can be found in the South Shields museum. Oil on canvas. Signed and ...

End of Autumn in Bruges – Gruuthusebrug Van Der Smissen Leo Dendermonde 1900 – 1966 Bruges Belgian Painter Bruges School Signature: Signed bottom left and dated 1935 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 101,50 x 121 cm Biography: Van der Smissen Leo was born in Dendermonde on June 20, in 1900. He lived in Bruges, and he was a Belgian painter and one of important Bruges School artists. His brother Frans Van der Smissen (1894-1964) was a sculptor. Leo was a painter of town views, sturdy of trees, landscapes, church interiors, still lifes, marines, interiors, portraits, and some nudes. He acts as a colourist, who practices sobriety. His preference, woodland scenes, a genre in which he has climbed to a solid refinement, particularly specific are the depiction of the tree trunks. His works, brushed concisely and boldly, betray a strong hand that bends the colour ranges to his will and he can adapt to all kinds of subjects. Leo studied at the Bruges Academy of Fine Arts (1913 – 1919) with master teacher and artist Flori Van Acker and won several first prizes there. He studied also at Ghent Academy of Fine Arts (1920 – 1921) with master teachers Godron and Karel Tremerie and later at Dendermonde Academy of Fine Arts (1923 – 1924). Initially strongly influenced by the style of Courtens and the Dendermonde School, under the guidance of painter Ferdinand Willaert he evolved towards to Luminism. In 1930 Leo was married and had three daughters, two children died in early age. Leo van der Smissen...

Louis Fortuney (1878-1950), also known simply as “Fortuney”, was a French pastellist. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse and in Paris an...

Victor Wagemaekers Brussels 1876 – 1953 Belgian Painter A Road through a Forest Signature: Signed lower right Medium: Mixed Media Dimensions: Image size 47 x 58 cm, frame size 66 x...

A British Female Illustrator paints a warm and fuzzy scene from a child's imagination, with ducks and teddy bears gazing at a "Mr Willoughby's eyeglass" standing on it's edge as it l...

JAKOB STEINHARDT 1887-1968 Zerków, Germany 1887-1968 Nahariya, Israel (German/Israeli) Title: Jewish Family Wintery Swiss Town, circa 1920/30 Technique: Hand Signed Double-sided ...

Jean Diffre (Toulouse 1864 - 1921) Toros en Arles Oil on canvas 140 x 90 cm Signed lower right Perhaps a poster project Without frame

Charles Verbrugghe Bruges 1877 – 1974 Paris Belgian Painter 'Terrace View dei Cappuccini, Convento di Amalfi' Signature: signed middle right Medium: oil on board Dimensions: image ...

A Scorpionfish Madyol Jacques Brussels 1871 – 1950 Belgian Painter Signature: Signed bottom left, verso inscribed and dated "La rascasse 1935" Expo Ja...

Popularized during the Qing dynasty, reverse glass painting requires an artist to essentially work backwards, starting with details and shading before adding color and form. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effect, this exacting technique doesn't allow for any corrections, and is only revealed to its full effect when the glass pane is turned around. This example dates to the late 19th century and depicts the Taoist immortals He Xiangu...

Seascape with Pier and Lighthouse of Monaco Harbour Daens Antoine Brussels 1871 – 1946 Belgian Painter Signature: Signed bottom right Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 3...

Francisque POULBOT (Saint-Denis, 1879 - Paris, 1946) Poster project for the Bal de la Mode - February 25, 1922 Charcoal and oil on canvas H. 99 cm; W. 91 cm Signed lower right In th...

Antique Orientalist oil painting of a street scene by A. L. Mielich Austrian, c. 1900 Canvas: Height 52cm, width 40cm Frame: Height 66cm, width 54cm, depth 5cm This vivid street sc...

Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 26.00" x 37.00" A hand-written caption at the lower right reads, "Why don't you call him Lauralee and tell...

Paysage by LOUIS HAYET (1864-1940) Oil on paper 33 x 24 cm (13 x 9 ½ inches) Signed lower right Executed circa 1910 Provenance JPL Gallery, London Artist biography: Louis Hayet was...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Piece of illustrative and advertising art done for the offices of Louis Sherry Chocolates. Wonderful example of his work.

World War I scene Story illustration for “Will You Tell Her I’m All Right?” by Catherine Van Dyke for The Ladies Home Journal, published March 1918, illustrated page 11. The full c...

Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame. Nancy Maybin Ferguson (1872 - 1967) A native Philadelphia, Nancy Ferguson wa...

“The Gun-Runners” by Edwin Cole, published in The Youth’s Companion, May 6, 1926, pg. 343. Western illustration Literature: Schoonover, Smith & Dean 1450 Artwork Dimensions: 17.5...

Date: 1919 Medium: Oil on Unstretched Canvas (shipped rolled) Dimensions: 156.00" x 168.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right In Homage to the French People, 1919 Titled lower center: La Croix Rouge Americaine en Hommage au Peuple Français. From the Collection of the American Red Cross

Portrait of an Old Man circa 1900 - 1925 Oil on canvas Signed lower left h: 25 x w: 29 in / h: 63.5 x w: 73.7 cm Private Collection unframed

Kristians Tonny (French, born Holland; 1907-1977) Circus Oil on prepared board, 16 1/2 x 13 inches Framed: 22 x 19 inches (approx.) Inscribed on reverse: (in pencil) "cadre noir/ave...

Sloan, John. SISTERS AT THE WINDOW. Etching, 1923 (M. 208). 5" x 4", signed and titled in pencil and inscribed "100 Proofs," of which only 76 were printed this being one of 25 early ...

Roman Countryside is a modern artwork realized in 1908 by Edoardo Gioja. Mixed media on wood panel. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Includes frame. Edoardo Gioja (Rome, 1862 - Rome, 1937), an Italian painter and artist. He treated the decoration and portrait with Pre-Raphaelite taste. Influenced by Nino Costa, he repudiated genre painting by reproducing marines, countries, plants, animals and painted and drew with simplicity and with very effective results. He decorated several rooms in London and prepared cartoons for stained glass...

Signed with initials upper left

Lazar, Krestin (1868-1938) was an artist famous in the German art world for Judaic genre scenes and his many sober portraits of Eastern European Jews. He was also a noted Zionist. His father was a Talmud teacher. His first lessons were at the drawing school in Vilnius, followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and he was one of the most prominent students of Isidor Kaufmann. He worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before going to Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder, Boris Schatz...

Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Paper Dimensions: 13.50" x 10.75"

Walt Francis Kuhn American, 1877-1949 At the Flower Market Oil on Canvas 15 by 18 in, w/ frame 22 ½ by 25 ½ in Signed lower right A painter and major organizer of the Armory Show, ...

A charming coastal scene depicting the idyllic Cornish beach of Porth, Newquay. In the foreground a beached boat sits by a large house by the sea. Signed, titled and dated. Inscribed...

William Baxter Closson was born in 1848 in Vermont. He went to Boston as an apprentice wood engraver with Samuel S. Kilburn and studied drawing at the Lowell Institute. Closson worke...

Lithograph printed on tan wove newsprint-type paper. Signed in pencil and in the stone. 15 3/4 x 12 3/4". Sheet Size: Image Size 8 1/4 x 6 3/4". Rudolf Bauer (1889-1953) executed hi...

“None but the Brave: A 3 A.M. Melodrama,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published March 31, 1928 Lil awakens at two o’clock in the morning to a ruckus of a cat fight outside ...

Story illustration for “Cobb” by Baroness Von Hutton for The Red Book Magazine, published January 1912, illustrated page 421. Signed lower right, inscribed on stretcher: "Models: Ho...

Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6 Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...

Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4 Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...

Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-3 Pen & Ink on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size) 1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition) Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta. Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...

Pair of oil paintings by Francisco Rodriguez San Clement (Spanish, 1861-1956): signed bottom right and professionally custom framed. Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, Fr...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right

Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua paintings featured exaggerated characters with bright and contrasting colors. Put up around the home to beckon luck and happiness in the coming year, most paintings depicted mythical guardians, scenes from folk operas, or auspicious symbols of good luck. This New Year painting depicts a young woman holding a vase filled with peony blossoms. This combination of motifs is a visual idiom for "may you have peace and prosperity" (ping'an fu gui). The early 20th century painting is from the town of Yangliuqing, one of the leading producers of traditional New Year's paintings known for its combination of woodblock printing...

Signed lower left

This poster from the 1930s draws from a well known Chinese opera scene. It melds the meticulous detail of traditional Chinese painting with the craft of color lithography. These advertisements, influenced by the Art Deco movement in the west, recall the economic boom of early 20th century Shanghai, an international center of business and trade. Layered with imagery of traditional Chinese life, the poster is nonetheless an advertisement for the modern cigarette industry, with several tobacco brands displayed in the top left corner, including Lan Ting, Hong Chun, and Jade Rabbit...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 26.00" x 21.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Hoskins (1887-1962) began his career as a cartoonist working for The Denver Post at age 14. His first ...

Sarah Stilwell Weber's original cover illustration for Alice Turner Curtis's A Little Maid of Virginia, from Turner’s popular “Little Maid” series of historical fiction. This freshly...

Female Illustrator of the Golden Age, Ruth Mary Hallock, paints a sensitive, heartwarming portrait of Mother and Child in a post-impressionist style. Richly saturated hues and gestur...

Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua pain...

Date: 1918 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 13.00" x 14.00" Signature: Unsigned 1921 Hearst International, The Torrent. Nicknamed "The Dean of Illustrators" by his peers. A cartoonist at 18 for Louisville Herald. By 1911 he was in the Chicago Tribune's Art department while studying at the city's Art Institute. In 1915, a student of Harvey Dunn, he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt...

J. A. van Schooten (1870-1933) 'The mint, Deventer' Signed lower left J. v. Schooten Maroufle (oil on canvas on board) Dimensions without frame: 26 x 34 cm. Dimensions with frame: 4...

Alexander Phimister Proctor was an American sculptor with the contemporary reputation as one of the nation's foremost animaliers. Growing up on the f...

Little boy eating bowl of Kelloggs

Medium: Linen Poster Dimensions: 40.00" x 28.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 13, 1928 Great Uncle Ulysses Grant Simpson comes to visit Sandy and Lil and stays for dinner, an event that he considers the c...

American Impressionist