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Interior Paintings For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1950s
1890's French Impressionist Signed Oil Still Life Flowers in Vase Beautiful Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, indistinctly signed/ dated 1898
signed and dated
oil painting on canvas, unframed
painting: 13 x 9 inches
provenance: from a private collection, France
condition: over...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Garden of His Eminence, 19th Century Work w/ Gilt Frame
By August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg (Swedish, 1852-1921)
In the Garden of His Eminence
Oil on wood panel
Signed lower left
21 x 25.5 inches
34 x 38.25 inches, framed
August Vilhelm Nikolaus Hagborg was a Swedish painter who spent most of his life in France.
His father was an associate professor. Against the wishes of his parents, he decided on a career in art and, from 1872 to 1874, he studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm with Vicente Palmaroli...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Italian genre painting of 'The Little Model' by Francesco Beda
Located in London, GB
Large Italian genre painting of 'The Little Model' by Francesco Beda
Italian, 1840-1900
Frame: height 111cm, width 168cm, depth 7cm
Canvas: height 96cm, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Rococo Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snow White
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
38.8 x 46.5 x 3.2 cm
Category
1950s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Thanks to the Virgen of San Juan, Ex-Voto, Retablo, Painting on Metal, Mexico
Located in Houston, TX
This retablo was purchased by the gallery in Mexico City. I knew the family that sold the retablo to me. It is dated 1853 because the story on the retablo was passed down for generations and a relative of Lourdes painted it in her memory.
The description on the ex-voto reads:
"Thanks to the Virgen of San Juan de los Lagos that I have a new job with my new bosses. That they like my food and they don't mind what I prepare for them. "
It is in excellent condition. It is framed behind conservatorship glass. The framed size is 14" x 15". The class should only be cleaned with ammonia free cleaner.
An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity; the term is usually restricted to Christian examples. It is given in fulfillment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, "from the vow made") or in gratitude or devotion. Ex-votos are placed in a church or chapel where the worshiper seeks grace or wishes to give thanks. The destinations of pilgrimages often include shrines decorated with ex-votos.
Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. They are not only intended for the helping figure, but also as a testimony to later visitors of the received help. As such they may include texts explaining a miracle attributed to the helper, or symbols such as a painted or modeled reproduction of a miraculously healed body part, or a directly related item such as a crutch given by a person formerly lame. There are places where a very old tradition of depositing ex-votos existed, such as Abydos in ancient Egypt.
Especially in the Latin world, there is a tradition of votive paintings...
Category
1950s Folk Art Interior Paintings
Materials
Metal
J. Forey - Framed 1848 Oil, Pious Daughter
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming interior scene in oil from the mid 19th Century, showing a pretty, blonde haired child kneeling before a painting of the Madonna and Child, hands clasped at her chest in prayer. The scene is far from solemn, despite the pious nature of the subject. The little girl has a warm complexion and a delicate half smile as she gazes in reverence at the Madonna.
The artist has rendered the interior with wonderful exactitude and detail, particularly in the parquet floor...
Category
Mid-19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
English 19th century Victorian Antique portrait of a seated lady in her Interior
Located in Woodbury, CT
English 19th century Victorian Antique portrait of a seated lady in her Interior
Victorian portrait interior.
John Waston Chapman was a pa...
Category
1860s Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th Century genre oil painting of children at a recital
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Jean Pierre Haag
French, (1842-1921)
The Students’ Recital
Oil on canvas, signed & dated 1891
Image size: 26.75 inches x 38.75 inches
Size including frame: 34.75 inches x 46.75 inch...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman reading after Henri Matisse by Claire Ragueneau
Impressionist seated woman reading a book after Henri Matisse by San Francisco artist Claire Ragueneau (American, 1901-1971).
Cl...
Category
1950s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
"At the Door, " Late 19th Century European Realist Oil Domestic Interior Scene
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"At the Door" by C. Colombe is a charming late 19th century European realistic oil of a domestic interior scene capturing the Victorian sense of humor.
Signed lower right.
The pain...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Voyeur chair. Romantic Couple Kissing and Embracing, Mid Century Illustration
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross gives us a voyeur view of an attractive couple kissing and embracing on a couch. Sharpe's radical use of composition is on ...
Category
1950s Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
The Treasured Volume
Located in Washington, DC
Signed and dated '1879' lower right
Exhibited:
Royal Society of British Artists, London, 1880
Category
1870s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cat and Kitten on the Desk
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LE ROY Jules Gustave (1853 - 1922 )
Cat and Kitten on the Desk
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old Frame regilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 58 X 50 cm
LE ROY J...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionistoj Interior View Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed.
Category
1950s Abstract Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Party To The Castle in 18th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A Party To The Castle in the 18th Century
Oil on canvas with a signature G.Weiss low left
Old frame regilded
Dim canvas : 46 X 38 cm
Dim frame : 66 X 58 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Antique French Oil on Wood Panel, Medieval Elegant Figures Interior Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 19th century
Title: Elegant Figures within an interior, with music instruments.
Medium: oil on wood panel, framed
framed: 10.5 x 14.5 inches
board...
Category
19th Century Baroque Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Surprise Visit
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 32 x 45 inches
Framed size: 35.5 x 50 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century Oil - The Family
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming late 19th Century interior scene with later over painting. The scene shows a father (wearing a linen smock often worn by working men over their ...
Category
Late 19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Old Men with Kittens - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Interior by J F Raffaelli
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A wonderful oil on panel by French impressionist painter Jean-Francois Raffaelli depicting two old men seated in an interior. One is reading his paper as the other naps and there are several kittens on the floor. Painted in the artist's distinctive style. The work is accompanied by a certificate from Brame & Lorenceau and is included in the catalogue raisonne of the painter.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 9.5"x8"
Unframed: 5.5"x4"
Provenance:
Private collection - United States
Original artists label verso
Jean-François Raffaëlli's father was a failed Italian businessman and Raffaëlli himself was, among other things, a church chorister, actor and theatre singer. He then studied under Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He travelled to Italy, Spain and Algeria and on his return to France settled in Asnières.
In 1876, on a trip to Brittany, he first saw the potential of realist subject matter, if treated seriously. He became involved in meetings of artists at the Café Guerbois, where the Impressionist painters used to gather. As a result, Degas, contrary to the advice of the group, introduced Raffaëlli to the Impressionist exhibitions - according to one uncertain source as early as the very first exhibition, at the home of Nadar, and certainly to those of 1880 and 1881.
In 1904, Raffaëlli founded the Society for Original Colour Engraving. He first exhibited at the Salon de Paris in 1870 and continued to exhibit there until he joined the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881, where he earned a commendation in 1885, was made Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1889 and in the same year was awarded a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle. In 1906 he was made Officier of the Légion d'Honneur. He was also a member of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. In 1884, a private exhibition of his work cemented his reputation.
He contributed to several newspapers such as The Black Cat (Le Chat Noir) in 1885 and The French Mail (Le Courrier Français) in 1886 and 1887. He published a collection entitled Parisian Characters, which captured his favourite themes of the street, the neighbourhood and local people going about their lives. In 1880 he participated, with Forain, on the illustration of Joris Karl Huysmans' Parisian Sketches (Croquis Parisiens). He also illustrated Huysman's Works. As well as working as an illustrator, he also made etchings and coloured dry-points.
His early attempts at painting were genre scenes, but once he was settled in Asnières he started to paint picturesque views of Parisian suburbs. From 1879 onwards, his subject matter drew on the lives of local people. These popular themes, which he treated with humanity and a social conscience, brought him to the attention of the social realist writers of the time such as Émile Zola. In addition to his realist style, Raffaëlli's dark palette, which ran contrary to the Impressionist aesthethic, helped to explain the opposition of those painters to his participation in their exhibitions. More concerned with drawing than colour, he used black and white for most of his paintings. Towards the end of his life, he lightened his palette, but without adopting any other principles of the Impressionist technique.
After painting several portraits, including Edmond de Goncourt and Georges Clémenceau, he returned to genre painting, particularly scenes of bourgeois life. Later in his career, he painted mainly Breton-inspired sailors and views of Venice. His views of the Paris slums and the fortifications, sites which have almost completely disappeared, went some way towards establishing a genre in themselves and perpetuated the memory of the area: The Slums, Rag-and-Bone Man, Vagabond, Sandpit, In St-Denis, Area of Fortifications. His realistic and witty portrayal of typical Parisian townscapes accounts for his enduring appeal.
Born in Paris, he was of Tuscan descent through his paternal grandparents. He showed an interest in music and theatre before becoming a painter in 1870. One of his landscape paintings was accepted for exhibition at the Salon in that same year. In October 1871 he began three months of study under Jean-Léon Gérôme at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; he had no other formal training.
Raffaëlli produced primarily costume pictures until 1876, when he began to depict the people of his time—particularly peasants, workers, and ragpickers seen in the suburbs of Paris—in a realistic style. His new work was championed by influential critics such as J.-K. Huysmans, as well as by Edgar Degas.
The ragpicker became for Raffaëlli a symbol of the alienation of the individual in modern society. Art historian Barbara S. Fields has written of Raffaëlli's interest in the positivist philosophy of Hippolyte-Adolphe Taine, which led him to articulate a theory of realism that he christened caractérisme. He hoped to set himself apart from those unthinking, so-called realist artists whose art provided the viewer with only a literal depiction of nature. His careful observation of man in his milieu paralleled the anti-aesthetic, anti-romantic approach of the literary Naturalists, such as Zola and Huysmans.
Degas invited Raffaëlli to participate in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1880 and 1881, an action that bitterly divided the group; not only was Raffaëlli not an Impressionist, but he threatened to dominate the 1880 exhibition with his outsized display of 37 works. Monet, resentful of Degas's insistence on expanding the Impressionist exhibitions by including several realists, chose not to exhibit, complaining, "The little chapel has become a commonplace school which opens its doors to the first dauber to come along."An example of Raffaëlli's work from this period is Les buveurs d'absinthe (1881, in the California Palace of Legion of Honor Art Museum in San Francisco). Originally titled Les déclassés, the painting was widely praised at the 1881 exhibit.
After winning the Légion d'honneur in 1889, Raffaëlli shifted his attention from the suburbs of Paris to city itself, and the street scenes that resulted were well received by the public and the critics. He made a number of sculptures, but these are known today only through photographs.[2] His work was also part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In the later years of his life, he concentrated on color printmaking. Raffaëlli died in Paris on February 11, 1924
Museum and Gallery Holdings:
Béziers: Peasants Going to Town
Bordeaux: Bohemians at a Café
Boston: Notre-Dame; Return from the Market
Brussels: Chevet of Notre-Dame; pastel
Bucharest (Muz. National de Arta al României): Market at Antibes; Pied-à-terre
Copenhagen: Fishermen on the Beach
Douai: Return from the Market; Blacksmiths
Liège: Absinthe Drinker...
Category
1890s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Reading
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
83 x 101.5 x 3.5 cm
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Watercolor of Orientalist Indoor Scene by Amedeo Simonetti
Located in New York, NY
Title: Middle Eastern Indoor Scene
Artist: Amedeo Simonetti (1874 - 1922)
Origin: Italian
Date: 19th Century
Medium: Watercolor
Signature: Signed ‘Amedeo...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Bronze
Fine Victorian British Oil Painting Elegant Figures in Sumptuous Interior Room
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: David Wilkie Wynfield (1837-1887) British
Title: Elegant Figures in an Interior
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed. Indistinctly Ins...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil Painting Frederick Johnston “The Reading Lesson”
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting Frederick Johnston “The Reading Lesson” 1855- 1868. London painter of domestic genre scenes. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, Royal s...
Category
1860s Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Musical Performance oil on panel by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
Located in New York, NY
The Musical Performance by Antonio Ermolao Paoletti
An italian genre painting showcasing two boys playing a trumpet and a guitar for their sist...
Category
19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Board
Still Life Bouquet with Calla Lilies and Amaryllis in Chinese Vase
Located in Soquel, CA
Elegant still life with calla lilies and amaryllis by an unknown artist. Completed in a classical style, two calla lilies and two amaryllis flowers sit in a vase with Chinese designs...
Category
Late 19th Century Romantic Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting by Antonio Ermolao Pauletti "Shared Confidences"
Located in Mere, GB
Oil Painting by Antonio Ermolao Pauletti "Shared Confidences" 1834 - 1912 Italian painter of costume drama scenes, lived and worked in Venice where he painted for a number of houses...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Discussion - Oil on Board - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Discussion is an original oil on canvas realized in the 19th Century by an italian artist.
Original oil tempera on board.
Gilded wood Frame is included. 30.5 x 34.5 x 34.5 cm
...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Historic English Chapel Interior, ' by Unknown, Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed and matted 16" x 19" watercolor painting by an Unknown artist depicts an historic English chapel interior. The interior of the church features the large stained glass window pane...
Category
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Partida de Tresillo", Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas by José Jiménez Aranda
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ JIMÉNEZ ARANDA
Spanish, 1837 - 1903
PARTIDA DE TRESILLO
signed, located & dated “J. Aranda / Madrid. 1893.” (lower right)
oil on canvas
31-1/2 x 39-1/3 inches (80 x 100 cm)
framed: 40-1/3 x 48 inches (102.5 x 122 cm.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- This picture being mentioned and illustrated in “LA ILUSTRACION ESPAÑOLA Y AMERICANA”, Madrid, September 15, 1895
- José Jiménez Aranda, 1837-1903: Centro Cultural El Monte, Seville, October 2005, illustrated p. 102
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, USA
José Jiménez Aranda (7 February 1837 – 6 May 1903) was a Spanish painter and brother of the painters Luis Jiménez...
Category
1890s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
!9th century English Pub interior , with Huntsmen and figures drinking
Located in Woodbury, CT
Attributed to Randolph Caldecott, a well-known English painter, and illustrator of English Pub interior scenes.
The scene is great fun, as we can see di...
Category
1890s Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Quiet Afternoon, " Enoch Wood Perry, Genre Scene Mother and Child at Fireplace
By Enoch Wood Perry Jr.
Located in New York, NY
Enoch Wood Perry, Jr. (1831 - 1915)
A Quiet Afternoon, 1876
Oil on canvas
15 1/4 x 21 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Born in 1831 in Boston, Enoch Wood Perry, Jr, is internatio...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Letter, " Frederick Boston, Woman Reading, American Impressionism Figurative
By Frederick James Boston
Located in New York, NY
Frederick James Boston (1855 - 1932)
The Letter
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Signed lower left
The first instructor of art at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Frederick ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior Oil Painting of a Family Inside their Home by Charles James Theriat
Located in New York, NY
Title: Interior
Artist: Charles James Theriat (1860-1934)
Origin: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimension: 13 1/2 x 16 1/4 inches
Signature: Sig...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Modern Sumptuous Interior Scene Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist interior scene with a kitchen still life by Johannes Gecelli (1925 - 2011) . Oil on board. Signed and dated lower right and verso. 24 3/8 x 32 1/8. Nicely framed.
Category
1950s Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Still-Life with Green Drape
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid century still-life of a green drape with vase, by W. Gray (American, 20th Century). Dated and signed by the artist lower right, "57 W. Gray." ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Pittore Toscano da Rutilio Manetti, Mosè e Aronne
Located in Balerna, TI
Pittore Toscano da Rutilio Manetti
Mosè e Aronne
Inizio Sec. XIX
Olio su tela, cm 77x56; con cornice cm 99x77
Il dipinto raffigura Mosè e Aronne che studiano le sacre Scritture. Come...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Oil on Alabaster Painting Pompeian Interior Scene in Ormolu Frame
Located in Firenze, IT
This Italian 19th century oil on alabastrer painting depicts an opulent interior in full ancient neoclassical Pompeian style with people festing.
The figurative inner scene is painted on a rectangular alabaster slab and housed in a wonderful giltbronze frame resting on casted arrow feet.
This is a single section of a bigger surtout de table. You can now use it as a decorative centrepiece on a table or on a console or turn it into a wall decoration. We can provide framing options in this case.
The characters enjoy a rich banquet in an elaborate interior, the room renderings...
Category
19th Century Italian School Interior Paintings
Materials
Alabaster, Bronze
Circle of George Armfield (1808-1893) Terrier Dogs Ratting in Barn- 19th C Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School/ Date:
English School, mid 19th century, circle of George Armfield (1808-1893)
Title:
Terriers ratting in barn interior
Medium & Size:
oil painting on canvas: 9.5 x ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior of a House - Oil Paint - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Interior of a House is an original oil painting realized during the 19th Century by anonymous italian artist.
Includes frame: cm 39 x 0.1 x 47.5 ...
Category
19th Century Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large scale 19th Century historical genre oil painting of a group of musicians
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Robert Alexander Hillingford
British, (1828-1904)
The Duke’s Musicians – A Reminiscence of Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 40 inches x 59 inches
Size including frame: 47.5 inches x 66.5 inches
Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1883, no. 844
Exhibited at the Yorkshire Institute
A large-scale Royal Academy painting...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Marriage Proposal (Family Gathering), " Leo Schutzman, Jewish Folk Art
Located in New York, NY
Leo Schutzman (1878 - 1962)
The Marriage Proposal, circa 1958
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
Signed lower left
Leo (Kyle) Schutzman (1878-1962) developed ...
Category
1950s Folk Art Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting 19th century French School Genre Scene Interior Portrait
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
French School 19th century
Close to François Xavier FABRE (1766-1837)
The Princess and The Chaperone
Oil on canvas
One can read on the reverse "Fabre Fecit" and the name and address of the canvas dealer shop...
Category
1850s Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with a Cigars, Playing Cards and Delft Plate, Artist 19 - 20 Century
Located in Bruges, BE
Still Life with a Cigars, Playing Cards and Delft Plate
Artist 19th - 20th century
Influenced by 17th Century
Dutch Still Life Painters
Signature: Not signed
Medium: Aquarelle
Dime...
Category
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
An Interior of a Hunter, Franz Poledne, Vienna 1873 – 1932, Austrian Painter
Located in Bruges, BE
An Interior of a Hunter
Poledne Franz
Vienna 1873 – 1932
Austrian Painter
Signature: Signed bottom right
Medium: Aquarelle
Dimensions: Image size 2...
Category
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mother and Child
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful original painting by French artist, Alexandre de Valentini (1787-1887). Pencil and gouache on paper, 14 x 18.5 inches; 19 x 23.5 inches matted. Signed and dated with Paris...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Gouache
By the Dawn's Early Light, mid-century abstract black, red, yellow oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Green Shaw (American, 1892-1974)
By the Dawn's Early Light, 1955
Oil on masonite
Signed lower left, dated and titled verso
35.5 x 23.75 inches
38 x 26.25 inches, framed
Provenance: The estate of the artist to Charles H. Carpenter
Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was in his mid-thirties. A 1914 graduate of Yale, Shaw also completed a year of architectural studies at Columbia University. During the 1920s Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the theater and café society. In addition to penning insightful articles, Shaw was a poet, novelist and journalist. In 1927 he began to take a serious interest in art and attended Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League briefly in New York. He also studied privately with George Luks, who became a good friend. Once he had dedicated himself to non-traditional painting, Shaw's writing ability made him a potent defender of abstract art.
After initial study with Benton and Luks, Shaw continued his artistic education in Paris by visiting numerous museums and galleries. From 1930 to 1932 Shaw's paintings evolved from a style imitative of Cubism to one directly inspired by it, though simplified and more purely geometric. Returning to the United States in 1933, Shaw began a series of abstracted cityscapes of skyscrapers he called Manhattan Motifs which evolved into his most famous works, the shaped canvases he called Plastic Polygons.
The 1930s were productive years for Shaw. He showed his paintings in numerous group exhibitions, both in New York and abroad, and was also given several one-man exhibitions. Shaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1934, which included 25 Manhattan Motif paintings and 8 abstract works. In the spring of 1935 Shaw was introduced to Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris. Gallatin was so impressed with Shaw's work, he broke a policy against solo exhibitions at his museum, the Gallery of Living Art, and offered Shaw an exhibition there. In the summer of 1935 Shaw traveled to Paris with Gallatin and Morris who provided introductions to many great painters. Shaw regularly spent time with John Ferren and Jean Hélion. The following year Gallatin organized an exhibition called Five Contemporary American Concretionists at the Reinhardt Gallery that included Shaw, Ferren, and Morris, Alexander Calder, and Charles Biederman...
Category
1950s Abstract Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
An Old Man Pointing at Pocket Watch, Artist 19th Century, European School
Located in Bruges, BE
An Old Man Pointing at Pocket Watch
Artist 19th Century
European School
Signature: Signed bottom left
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: Image size 46 x 55,50 cm
Category
19th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fanny Mearns (fl.1870-1881) - 1880 Oil, The Bosom Of The Family
Located in Corsham, GB
A heartwarming oil interior scene by the British painter, Fanny Mearns. The scene shows the rustic interior of a farmhouse kitchen. The father has seated himself in a chair, still ho...
Category
19th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Coro de monaguillos ensayando", 19th Century Oil on Wood Panel by José Gallegos
Located in Madrid, ES
JOSÉ GALLEGOS Y ARNOSA
Spanish, 1857 - 1917
CORO DE MONAGUILLOS ENSAYANDO
signed, located and dated "JGallegos / Roma 1883" (lower right)
oil on...
Category
1880s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Fine 19th Century Interior Scene Baronial Hallway Children Playing on Staircase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Country House Interior
British School, 19th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 21 x 17 inches
framed: 24 x 20 inches
conditon: very sound, presentable and good. Frame...
Category
19th Century Victorian Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blue Wall, mid-century abstract expressionist, geometric blue, black & pink work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Blue Wall, c. 1959
oil on canvas
signed and titled verso
42 x 60 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art.
The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery.
In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting.
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings
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Oil
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