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Style: American Modern
House in Hudson, Ohio, Late 19th Century Painting by Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Ora Coltman (American, 1858-1940)
House in Hudson, OH
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
22 x 26 inches
27.5 x 31.5 inches, framed
21 Aurora Street is locally known as the Isham-Beebe ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Oil Painting Of Cartoony Camouflage Tank in Illustration Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Chwast (born August 18, 1931) is an American graphic designer, illustrator, and type designer.
Chwast was born in Bronx, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Cooper Union in 1951. With Milton Glaser, Edward Sorel...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Board
Cityscape Mid-20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Regionalism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Cityscape Mid-20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Regionalism WPA
Samuel Thal (1903 to 1964)
"Cityscene"
12 x 16 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed verso
Framed: 19...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting w. Female Figures by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figur...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Summer Landscape, Oxbow School, Saugatuck, MI
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Captivating Mid-Century Modern Summer Landscape Painting by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen (Am. 1918 - 1989). Painted during the 1960s while the artist taught at th...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"In Front Of The Fire" - Original 1981 Modernist Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"In Front Of The Fire" - Original 1981 Oil on Canvas
Modern figurative portrait of a nude woman by American painter Patricia Gren Hayes (American, 1932). The woman is laying back in...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,729 Sale Price
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WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Seymour Fogel (1911-1984)
Mural Study, untitled
11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight)
Tempera on board
Provenance:...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
"On Guard" Heavy Impasto Expressionist Figure
Located in Soquel, CA
"On Guard" Vintage Abstract Expressionist Heavy Impasto Figure
Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a man in a button down shirt with a brimmed hat by California artist ...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$2,275 Sale Price
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A Dynamic, 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Concert Violinist
Located in Chicago, IL
A Dynamic, 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Concert Violinist by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Pen was recognized for his unique, Modern style of abstract figure paint...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
The artist;
Collection of Walter Stuempfig, Philadelphia;
Private collection, Massachusetts until 2022
The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant coloris...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$62,500
'Dockside' — Mid-Century Modernism
By Alex Minewski
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Alex Minewski, 'Dockside', gouache on paper, 1953. Signed in the image, lower left. Annotated 'April 1953, Minewski, ‘Dock Side’, verso. A fine, modernist re...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Cover Proposal Baseball c. 1939 Modern Cubist Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Play Ball
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
12 x 8 inches (sight)
Framed 18 1/2 X 14 3/4 inches
Gouache on board
Estate sticker verso
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
A Humorous 1945 Painting Titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A diminutive & humorous 1945 Painting titled "En Route to VT, Hotel Room" by artist Harold Haydon. Haydon called these diminutive paintings "Thumb Box" paintings. Image size: 6" x...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Cubist Musician, Abstracted Figure by American Modernist in France Woman Artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A touch of Chagall and a lot of individuality in this singular work by American modernist artist Genevieve. A free spirit, Genevieve White, born 1913 in Idaho, left home at 14 to mov...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
20th C. Figurative Abstract Painting Cleveland School African American Artist
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Beachwood, OH
Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993)
Untitled
Oil on canvas board
Estate stamped #611 verso
24 x 18 inches
Charles Elmer Harris was born in 1917 in Cleveland, Oh...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"By the Valley" Hoyland Bettinger, Modernist, Snowy Hill, Fall Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Hoyland Bettinger
By the Valley
Signed lower right, titled on reverse of frame
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Hoyland B. Bettinger was born in Lima, NY on Dec. 1, 1890. Bettinger was...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charming Mid-Century Modern Painting, Children in a Soda Shop by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming 1950s Mid-Century Modern painting of two children seated together in a soda shop by the noted Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 15 1/2” x 21"; Framed size: 17...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Delightful Mid-Century Modern Painting of Mother and Child by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Delightful Mid-Century Modern Painting of Mother and Child by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Artwork size: 5 3/4” x 4” (Framed size: 9 3/4” x 8 1/2”)
Estat...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
American West Mountainscape by Gunnar Anderson
Located in New York, NY
Gunnar Donald Anderson (American, 1927-2022)
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Oil on board
Sight: 11 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.
Framed: 20 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 1 1/4 i...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Chief Crazy Horse" Abstracted Fauvist Portrait with Heavy Impasto in Oil Paint
Located in Soquel, CA
Heavy Impasto Portrait of Chief Crazy Horse by Harald Dry Schmidt
Abstract expressionist portrait of a man by California artist Harald "Harry" Dry Schmidt (American, 1933-1979). The...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Tugboat in New York Harbor" Ernest Fiene, Modernist, Cerulean Waterscape
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Fiene
Tugboat in New York Harbor
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
24 1/2 x 34 1/2 inches
Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bearsville, New York" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist New York Wooded Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Bearsville, New York
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
26 1/4 x 32 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940s WPA-Era Abstract Watercolor of Golden Cycle Mill by Charles Ragland Bunnel
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s grayscale watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell captures a semi-abstracted view of the Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rendered in subtle blacks and grays, this striking WPA-era landscape melds industrial subject matter with a modernist aesthetic. The piece exemplifies mid-20th-century American regionalism, blending expressive abstraction with historical significance.
The painting measures 8 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches (sight size) and is showcased in a custom black frame measuring 18 x 19 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches, making it an elegant addition to any collection of American art or industrial landscapes.
The Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company was a vital part of Colorado’s early 20th-century mining boom, located in what is now Old Colorado City. Bunnell’s work documents this industrial heritage through a modernist lens, offering a unique narrative of regional development.
About the Artist:
Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) was a key figure in Colorado’s art scene and a pioneer of American Modernism and abstraction. Trained at Broadmoor Art Academy, he combined American Scene painting with abstract forms. Bunnell contributed to New Deal art...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Standing Pensive Figurative Nude - Heavy Impasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Abstract Expressionist Standing Pensive Figurative Nude - Heavy Impasto
Abstract expressionist figurative composition of a nude woman by California artist Harald "Harry" Dr...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
An Introspective 1930s Modern Portrait, "Acolyte" by Noted Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Dry watercolor on board. Artwork size: 15” x 12” (Framed size: 18 3/4” ...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed pape...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Liberty" Heavy Impasto Expressionist Nude Portrait of a Lady Standing
Located in Soquel, CA
"Liberty" Heavy Impasto Expressionist Nude Portrait of a Lady Standing
Abstract expressionist portrait of a woman standing with one arm raised over her head by California artist Har...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$2,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Blacksmith (Untitled)
By Erle Loran
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Blacksmith (Untitled), 1936, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 28 x 30 inches
Erle Loran was an influential American painter, art historian, and educator, renowned for h...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Nude Woman in Bed with Mirror - Figurative Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Woman in Bed with Mirror - Figurative Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Modern portrait of a nude woman by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). The woman is laying in bed, ...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,202 Sale Price
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Lonely Road (perhaps also known as The Road Home)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lonely Road (perhaps also known as The Road Home), c. 1930s, oil on Masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 30 inches, label verso reads: “Painted CA. 1930s Oil City, PA Sister to Jo (Yvo...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Modernist Oil Painting George Schwacha Brooklyn Street Scene Fruit Market WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed lower left corner
Oil on masonite
Dimensions: Frame H 18.25" x W 22.25". Sight H 11.25" x W 15.25
This is a great scene, vintage Americana. Possibly Crown Heights in Brooklyn New York City. Done in a mid century modern style with great vibrant colors and loose, adept, brushwork. Fruit vendor with ladies shopping.
George Schwacha, Jr. (1908 - 1986) New Jersey artist.
Known for Landscape painting and snow scenes. He studied Arthur W. Woelfle; John Grabach; Edward Dufner and A. Schweider.
George Schwacha was president of the American Artists Professional League and a past president of the Audubon Artists and Art Center of New Jersey. He belongs to the American Watercolor Society, The National Society of Painters in Casein, and the Philadelphia Watercolor Club. His paintings have been shown throughout the country at museums such as the Pennsylvania Academy, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC and the Birmingham Art Museum, The Butler Art Institute in Youngstown, Ohio the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, as well as in leading New Jersey and New York exhibitions, including the American Society of Arts and Letters. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art and International Directory of Arts.
His work is represented nationally in over 30 museums and public collections including the Newark Museum, Montclair Museum, Birmingham Art Museum, the Isaac Delgado Museum in New Orleans, and the Butler Art Institute. Worldwide he is also represented in collections in the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Hong Kong, Israel, Scotland and Switzerland.
Seymour Zayon, Bertram Hartman, Hugh Campbell, Frank Herbst, Joseph Newman, Theodore Valenkamph, Robert John McClelland, Nicolai Cikovsky, Ben Benn, George Howell Gay, Robert Brackman, Vernon Wood...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Gas Station
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Gas Station, c. 1930s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 25 x 20 inches; presented in newer frame
The Gas Station is a rare Southern California urban scene from the Great Depres...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stylish Hawaiian Luau Oil Painting by Listed artist Mario Larrinaga (1895-1979)
Located in Baltimore, MD
Mario Larrinaga was born in Baja California in 1895 and moved with his brother to Los Angeles in 1909. He had no formal training in art, but had natural talent that was noticed by local movie studios. He was hired by Universal Studios as a designer, art director and creator of background scenes. He produced some of the background effects for King Kong in 1933. After a career in set design and illustration he focused on painting for pleasure in California, Mexico and Hawaii. He belonged to local art clubs and exhibited his works often.
This stylized modernist work was likely created around 1960. It is oil on wood panel and of a horizontal format, 18” x 36”. It portrays a procession of seemingly Hawaiian natives...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
A Captivating, Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Standing Female Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Captivating, Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Standing Female Nude Model. Great colors! Painted in the 1960s, this wonderful "Mod" studio scene exemplifies the abstracted Modern ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A ca. 1935 Painting of a Boxing Match in Mexico City by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1935 painting of a boxing match in Mexico by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 12" x 28". Framed size: 15 1/2" x 31 1/2". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Laborer Resting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Laborer Resting, 1930, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower center, 36 x 30 inches, inscribed verso “July – 1930 / Title – A Laborer Resting / Artist – Robert Gilbert / Price - $2...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
William Fisher Classic American Illustration on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
William Fisher (American, 1891-1985)
Untitled, 20th Century
Oil on canvas/illustration
23 3/4 x 29 3/4 in.
Framed: 31 x 37 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed lower right: William Fisher
William Fis...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Distinctive Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Man with Red Necktie, Joe Muldoon
Located in Chicago, IL
A distinctive Mid-Century Modern portrait of a man with red necktie by noted Chicago painter, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Chapin's estate records list the sitter as named Joe Mu...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dreamy Vintage Watercolor of Two Figures by Artist Gertrude Klares Bedell
Located in Chicago, IL
A dreamy watercolor of two figures in repose Gertrude Klares Bedell. Artwork size: 18" x 13 1/2". Framed size: 26 1/2" x 22".
Biography from Askart: An Austrian countess born i...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Diminutive Painting of Sailors in Hanover, NH by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A "Thumb Box" (or diminutive) painting of sailors in fort of a store front in Hanover, NH by artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6". Fra...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Landscape of Shepherdess w/ Sheep & Dog, Munich, Cleveland School
By Henry Keller
Located in Beachwood, OH
Henry George Keller (American, 1869–1949)
Shepherdess with Sheep and Dog, Munich, 1891
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
19 x 24 inches
25 x 30 inches, framed
Keller, a lead...
Category
1890s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Painting, Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s American Modernist gouache painting, "Artists Sketching (California)," captures a dynamic scene of three artists at work against a majestic mountain backdrop. With expressive brushwork and a rich color palette, the piece embodies Frederick E. Shane’s signature blend of realism and modernist abstraction. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin, this remarkable artwork reflects the era’s Regionalist influence and the artist’s keen eye for capturing creative moments in the natural landscape.
The painting is professionally housed in a custom archival frame, ensuring long-term preservation. Frame dimensions: 25.5 x 37.5 x 1.5 inches. Image size: 20.25 x 29.75 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Frederick Shane
About the Artist: Frederick E. Shane (1906-1992)
A celebrated Missouri Regionalist painter and printmaker, Frederick E. Shane was known for his compelling genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, and portraits in a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, gouache, tempera, and lithography. While fundamentally a realist, Shane often incorporated elements of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, adding depth and emotion to his compositions.
During the summers of 1925-26, Shane studied under Randall Davey at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, an institution founded in 1919 by philanthropists Spencer and Julie Penrose. Shane remained closely connected to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Academy’s successor, throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, participating in Artists West of the Mississippi exhibitions and forming lasting friendships with key figures like Boardman Robinson and Adolph Dehn...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Colorful Samurai, Large-Scale Modern Figural Geometric Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful Samurai, Large-Scale Modern Figural Geometric Abstract
Colorful modern figural abstract of a samurai figure fractured into fields of color and pattern by S. Baker (Susan Baker...
Category
1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$2,372 Sale Price
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Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large
Located in New York, NY
Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large
O. Louis Guglielmi (1906 - 1956)
OBSESSIVE THEME
44 x 33 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '48 lo...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cabin in a Snowy Forest by American artist Elizabeth Dailey
Located in New York, NY
Elizabeth Dailey
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Oil on board
Sight: 19 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.
Framed: 21 x 25 x 1 in.
Signed lower right: Elizabeth Dailey
This lovely painting by an American a...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Entertainment, 20th century American family scene watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Entertainment, c. 1955
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
20 x 30 inches
Exhibited: 1955 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art
"The first district schools were log houses...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Stately portrait of Franklin Atwood Park by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British, 1862-1940). Park is sitting for a classical portrait, wearing a suit with a blue bowtie against a dark background. Of particular note are his glasses and moustache, both rendered with expert detail. Park was the VP and Chairman of the Board for Singer Manufacturing Company and Manager of the Singer Division in Scotland when the portrait was commissioned. We show a digital image of a photographic portrait of Franklin.
Signed and dated "A T Nowell. 1922"
Includes paper with biographical information on the sitter.
Frame size: 37.5"H x 32.5"W
Canvas size: 30"H x 25"W
Arthur Nowell (British, 1862-1940) was born at Garndiffath, near Pontypool, and was the youngest of six children born to the Rev. John Nowell and his wife Mary...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$3,600 Sale Price
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Neighbors
By Norman Barr
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Neighbors, 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 22 x 26 inches
Norman Barr was an American Scene painter and muralist known for his poignant depictions of working-clas...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Dichotomy, mid-century figural abstract green oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Dichotomy, 1962
Oil on paper
Signed and dated upper left
20 x 25 inches
Mid-century figural abstract green painting of woman swimming ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Sunrise Landscape - Sandpipers on the Shore in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Sunrise Landscape - Sandpipers on the Shore in Oil on Canvas
Gorgeous landscape of a coastline in warm sunrise colors by San Diego artist Richard Keith (American, 1937-2003)...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,397 Sale Price
35% Off
Lovers - Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovers - Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Acrylic on Paper
Expressive depiction of a nude couple by Byron Richard Rodarmel (American, 1932-2007). A couple is intertwin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Morning" Nude Couple in Bed - Figurative Composition in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and expressive depiction of a nude couple by Byron Richard Rodarmel (American, 1932-2007). A couple is intertwined on a bed, rendered in a soft palette of peach, yellow, pin...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'African Idol' — Mid-Century African-American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Winter Snowy River Mountain Landscape of Canada by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Winter Snowy Mountain River Landscape Oil Painting of La Rivière du Nord in Canada, by 20th Century Canadian Artist, Sydney Berne (1921-2013)
Ar...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
George Pearse Ennis (American, 1884-1936)
"Forging a Gun Tube #1...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Black Cat - Fauvist Nude Figurative on Blue
By Don Klopfer
Located in Soquel, CA
A whimsical modern figurative piece depicting a reclining woman with a black cat on a bright blue background by California artist Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009). Signed on verso a...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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