Impressionist Figurative Paintings
IMPRESSIONIST STYLE
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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Style: Impressionist
Period: 1930s
Trout Rock- American Impressionist
Located in Miami, FL
This stunning work features Mr. Dumond's trademark green.
Trout Rock
Signed lower left: F. V. Dumond
Titled on stretcher with artist's estate stamp: Trout Rock
From a Texas Estate.
Frank Vincent Dumond was an artist, illustrator, and painter of the Tonalist school...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Paris Street Scene, Notre Dame
By Maurice Falliès
Located in Norwich, GB
Notre Dame Cathedral by Maurice Falliès (French, 1883-1965), an artist who specialised in Paris street scenes. His work was recently shown at the Musée...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Cameron's Cone, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Framed Colorado Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Watercolor on paper painting of Cameron's Cove outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado by Charles Ragland Bunnell from the 1930s. Scenic mountain landsc...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Watercolor
Oil on Canvas "Pascal", ca. 1931 by Albert Rigaux
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on canvas by Albert Rigaux, ( Schaerbeek 1897-1981 Brussels ) Signed lower left: Alb. Rigaux. Titled by hand verso.
Provenance: estate of the artist Measurements: 19.69 x 15.75...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938
By Neysa McMein
Located in Miami, FL
Pastel on board - Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938 - Reproduced version looks better because the Saturday Evening Post Art Director retouched the plates before printing and strengthened the colors to give it more newsstand appeal - From Wiki : as an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Pastel
French 20th century Impressionist harbor, with fishing boats at sea, landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
French 20th-century Impressionist harbor, with fishing boats at sea, with landscape beyond.
20th-century French impressionist harbor scene.
The artist has achieved a very decorati...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
On the River - French Impressionist Oil, Boat on River Landscape - Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on panel by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting a man in a small boat on the river, with trees and reeds on the bank in the foreground. Signed lower left and dated...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Panel, Oil
'Study of a Young Woman', California Woman artist, Art Institute of Chicago
By Sarah Hobson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and dated, '1936'.
A delicately modeled, gouache and watercolor study of a young woman with copper hair.
Sarah Villarette Hoover Hobson studied...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Taxco, Mexico - 1930's Figurative Village Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A vintage watercolor capturing a daily scene in the Spanish colonial town of Taxco, Mexico by Theodore Ernest Langguth (German-American, 1861-1952). Titled, dated and signed lower ma...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Early 20th century Impressionist Dutch River Landscape, oil on canvas
Located in Woodbury, CT
Herbe was a Dutch painter from the early 20th century. He painted landscapes and seascapes mostly in oils. His work was exhibited in London during the 1930s-50s with Mitchell’s the i...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Hebrew School
By Bernd Werner
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernd Werner
Title: Hebrew School
Year: circa 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed
Size: 10.5 x 12.5 in. (26.67 x 31.75 cm)
Frame Size: 14 x 16 inches
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Girl Playing Cards
Located in London, GB
ISTVÁN CSÓK 1865-1961
Pusztaegres 1865-1961 Budapest (Hungarian)
Title: Portrait of a Girl Playing Cards, ca. 1930's
Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Panel
size: 60 x 5...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's Wintry American Modernist Flat Iron NYC street scene
Located in New York, NY
New York City Wintry Street Scene of the Flat Iron Building from the 1930's by Margit De Corini (1897-1982). Oil on Canvas. Signed lower right. D...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Southwest Indians at Shore and New Mexican Village, two-sided painting
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present artwork is an unusual example of the paintings of Fritzi Brod. It is painted on both sides: on one side, an image of three Native Americans on ...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mother and Child with Goldfish
By Peggy Dodds
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A whimsical pastel featuring a Mother with her Child on her lap that just pulled a goldfish from it's bowl.
A charming large work that is exquisitely framed.
Peggy Dodds Williams
...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Archival Paper, Pastel
"Beached"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
John R. Grabach (1886 - 1981)
John Grabach was a highly regarded New Jersey artist, teacher, and author of the classic text...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Dutch Family in the Forest
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming figurative genre painting of Dutch family in the forest. Signed illegibly lower left. Presented in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 27.25"H ...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
The Castle, Signed Watercolour painting by Norman Lindsey
By Norman Lindsay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Castle
By Norman Lindsay (1879-1969),
Watercolour painting on canvas mounted on board and framed
signed to lower right
painting measures: 30.5cm x 23.5cm
framed: 77.5cm x 70.5cm
...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Watercolor
Farmstead Lane - 1930's Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
1930's Figurative landscape oil painting of a woman walking down a path through a country farm by S.E George (American, 20th Century). Possibly a Wichita, Kansas artist...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Wilda Leiner
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful portrait of a woman named Wilda Leiner, a pianist (1908-1994) by longtime Santa Cruz, CA resident Cor de Gavere. Signed "Cor de Gavere" lower right. Provenance listed on ...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Woman Carrying Wood, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
By Enrique Brocco
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th century figurative landscape of a woman carrying a basket of wood kindling by a rushing river, high in the Italian hills by Enrique Brocco (Italian, 20th Century...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Board, Oil
Cuernavaca Procession 1935, Figurative Landscape
By Goldie Anita Powell Harding
Located in Soquel, CA
Early work of figures moving along the street in Cuernavaca to the Cathedral in Mexico by Goldie Anita Powell Harding (American, 1892-1974). Circa 1935. Tempera on Masonite. In a per...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Tempera, Masonite
Candlelight Service Mexico Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming painting of church in Mexico during Holy Week attributed to Orrin A. White (American, 1883-1969). Circa 1940. Canvas laid on Masonite then pa...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Masonite, Canvas, Oil
"Construction Workers, " Lydia Freeman Cooley, oil, figurative, ca 1930's
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in 1906, Cooley settled in New York City where she studied at the Arts Student League with John Sloan. Her genre paintings of women, children and the working class are in the As...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Board, Oil
Man Running with Dog - No Thorough Fare, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right. Titled verso on stretcher, Artist to the current owner's Aunt.
unframed
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Central Park Picnic, " Lydia Freeman Cooley, New York, figurative, ca 1930's
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in 1906, Cooley settled in New York City where she studied at the Arts Student League with John Sloan. Her genre paintings of women, children and the working class are in the As...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Old House at Capistrano, Laguna Beach Figurative Landscape, CA Pioneer Artist
By Daisy A. Newell Kearns
Located in Soquel, CA
Old House at Capistrano, Laguna Beach Figurative Landscape by California Pioneer Artist Daisy A. Newell Kearns
Substantial and historic mid-1930's period...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Suzanne Eisendieck Oil on Canvas "Á la plage" ( On the Beach )
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on canvas, ca. 1930. Signed lower right: Suzanne Eisendieck. Framed.
Dimensions: Height 26.77 in ( 68 cm ), Width: 36.61 in ( 93 cm )
Suzanne Eisendieck was born 1906 in Danzi...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
"SILVERIO" THE BULLFIGHTER / MATADOR MEXICO MEXICAN BY PORFIRIO SALINAS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas
(1910-1973)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 24 x 20
Frame Size: 30 x 26
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Silverio" The Bullfighter
Silverio Pérez (20 June 1915 — 2 September 20...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Church Paris Oil Painting by Emil Kosa Jr.
Located in Pasadena, CA
Emil Kosa, Jr., N.A. (1903-1968) Born: Paris, France; Studied: Academy of Fine Arts (Prague), Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris), Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles); Member: National Academy of Design, American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society, Philadelphia Water Color Club, New York Water Color Club. Emil Kosa, Jr. received art instruction and music lessons at a very early age. When he was in his late teens, he had to decide between being a professional musician or artist. He chose art, but his family and instructors believed he could have been a famous musician had he chosen that occupation.
In the 1920s, he moved to California, but returned to France several times to continue his art education. He received traditional painting instruction from Pierre Laurens and studied non-objective painting with Frank Kupka. After settling in California in 1928, he worked as a mural artist and operated a business with his father that produced decorative art for churches and auditoriums. When that line of work was slow, he took on portrait commissions and sold fine art paintings through local galleries.
In the early 1930s, Kosa became friends with Millard Sheets and with Sheet’s encouragement, began aggressively pursuing a national reputation as a California watercolor artist...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
English mid- 20th century portrait of a Jazz Musician, circa 1930-40
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding mid-20th-century portrait of a Jazz Musician.
Harold Wilfred Yates, was born at West Ham, London on 26 June 1916, son of Wilfred David Yates (7 August 1890-1 April 1958), an amateur artist who worked as a cartoonist for the trade press, and his wife Elizabeth née Biggs (7 March 1890-3 September 1959), who married at West Ham in 1915. Harold studied for 18 months at Portsmouth School of Art 1930-1931 after which he joined a commercial studio as a figure painter but became disillusioned with the disciplines and began to paint abstract works in his spare time. He exhibited with the Artists International Association and the London Gallery...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
The Bure Valley
By Edward Seago
Located in Missouri, MO
Edward Brian Seago (1910-1974)
"The Bure Valley" 1938
Oil on Artist's Board
Monogrammed and Dated Lower Right
Estate Stamped and Titled Verso
Panel: approx 11 x 14 inches
Framed: a...
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1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
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