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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 20th Century
Mid Century Floral Still Life in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Floral Still Life in Oil on Masonite
Bold still life with flowers and foliage by unknown artist "Rishard" (Richard) (20th Century). Yellow, red, teal, and purple flowers are arranged in a large grey pot...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Modernist Interior Kneeling Female Nude Figure Bezael Schatz Israeli Painting
By Bezalel Schatz
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Israeli
Subject: Abstract
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Dimensions: 24" x 20"
Bezalel (nicknamed “Lilik”) Schatz was an Israeli artist, son of Boris Schatz, founder of the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem.
Born in 1912 to Boris Schatz, and his wife Olga, an art critic. From an early age, he demonstrated considerable talent for gymnastics and music, but especially for art. He grew up in a home in which artists were a constant presence, he was introduced to Israel’s most prominent leaders, and the first public exhibition of his artwork coincided with his Bar Mitzvah celebration. He attended the Gymnasia in Jerusalem and at age 14 completed his studies at the Bezalel School.
In 1930, Bezalel joined his father on a fundraising tour of Europe and the United States, where they also exhibited their artwork and that of Bezalel students. Following his father’s death in 1932, Bezalel left Israel for a period of about two decades. He spent the first four years studying at the Grand Chaumiere Academy in Paris. There, given the fairly conservative artistic views he had acquired at home and school – where modernism was denounced – he had to pave his own way as an artist among his peers.
Between 1937 and 1951, Bezalel resided in the U.S. Near the end of WWII, he worked in a California shipyard, and it was there he met his future wife, Louise. He was also introduced to the novelist Henry Miller in California, and their friendship blossomed into a creative collaboration. The artist May Ray...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
April, 1965 - Colorful Man with Kite
Located in Beachwood, OH
Work sold to benefit the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART
Joseph B. O’Sickey (American, 1918–2013)
April, 1965
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
30 x 24 inches
Joseph O'Sickey, born in D...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Bacchanal', Paris Salon Modernist Oil, Royal Academy, Charlottenborg, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ludvig Jacobsen' (Danish, 1890-1957) and dated 1926.
An exceptional early twentieth-century figural work by this notable Danish modernist and follower of Wattea...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century 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
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Mid Century Portrait of Two Children in Traditional Dress
By M. Ray Stancliff
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of two children, a young boy and girl in traditional dress, set in a rustic interior by M. Ray Stancliff (American, b. 1925). Si...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
Vintage Huge Signed Photorealist Southwest Cactus Avocado Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Romantic 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Gouache, Board
Fresco Style Oil Painting on Burlap by Jacques Lamy
By Jacques Lamy
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Oil painting on burlap of a doorway and two columns, executed in an ancient fresco style. Combining a modern simplicity with an age old technique, g...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Red Pumps', Women's Fashion Shoes, Hat & Hatbox, Large Intimiste Oil, Boudoir
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed, twice, lower right, 'A.B' for 'Agnes B'' (American, 20th Century) and dated, twice, 1963. Bearing dedication, verso, dated October 19, 1963 from the artist, Agnes B.
Previously with: Little Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan.
A delicately painted oil still-life in the tradition of Edouard Vuillard and the Intimistes showing a pair of shoes crafted in vivid red calfskin and a silk tapestry hatbox contrasted against a background of rose and blue textiles and drapes.
Established in 1950 by Marguerite DeSalle, the Little Gallery in Birmingham, Michigan was the first gallery in the region to deal in and exhibit contemporary art. Initially ,deSalle primarily handled the work of local artists starting out in their careers, and the work of faculty from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. DeSalle's ex-husband and close friend, artist Zoltan Sepeshy...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Holiday Folk Art Painting Toys Interior James Litz American Naive Rare Christmas
Located in Buffalo, NY
A thoroughly charming original acrylic on canvas painting by American folk art artist James C. Litz. Perfect as a holiday gift or a wonderful adornment for your own home, this impo...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dreaming in Color, Expressionist Reclining Female Figure
Located in Soquel, CA
A vivid, multicolored expressionist depiction of a gracefully reclining female figure by Bay Area artist Rick Rodrigues (American, 20th Century). Signed with the artist's symbol lowe...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Naval Occurrence, orange, blue & green mid-century, abstract geometrical work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Naval Occurrence, c. 1963
oil on canvas
signed and titled verso
24 x 32 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.
Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Warm and Inviting Mid-Century Oil Painting on Board
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Warm and inviting Mid-Century oil painting on board with a peaceful approach to what must have been the artist's humble slant front desk where he sketched. One of six Robert Blanchar...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boy Waiting, Portrait of a Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Boy Waiting" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a young man with somber expression, sitting on a chair. This work features a second environmental portrait on verso. The painting is 41.75" x 35.75" in size and is signed "Harmon" on verso. Figurative expressionism in the style of Alice Neel.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio, Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Bernard Harmon was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1935. Harmon was primarily a portrait painter and a well loved teacher in the Philadelphia area. A graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School and Temples Tyler School of Art, Harmon traveled extensively in Europe and South America. Beloved by many, Harmon taught in the Philadelphia School District for 32 of his 54 years of life. Beginning his career as an art teacher at West Philadelphia High School, in the early 1960s he became one of the district's artists in residence, traveling from school to school to demonstrate for students how an artist works. Returning to the classroom, Harmon joined the art department at Central High School where he taught for 14 years and became an innovator in art curriculum, developing a program offering advanced placement art classes to gifted students. In his final years Harmon became a supervisor, mentoring teachers and overseeing programs in the Philadelphia school systems District #1. During his short life Harmon taught collage preparatory art classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, summer classes at the University of the Arts, and a Saturday program for gifted children at Drexel University. Among Harmon's portraits were commissioned by Philadelphia Jazz organist Jimmy Smith and Mayor Richardson Dilworth. Bernard Harmon was active in promoting African American Artist throughout his life time. He organized many early shows such as the "Afro American Artists 1800 - 1969" at the Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center in 1969. He was considered a Renaissance man by friends and colleagues for his interests not only in art but music and theater as well. He was familiar and friends with many other African American artists such as Doc Thrash, Selma Burke...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed.
BIO
Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School.
In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Portrait Charlotte with Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century portrait of woman named Charlotte by Irinia Belotelkin Roublon (Russian/American, 1913 - 2009), circa 1960. Signed lower right corner and on verso. Unframed. Image size: 14"H x 11"W.
Irina Belotelkin Roublon, née Roudakoff, was born in Elisavetgrad, Ukraine to the Russian noblesse ancienne, descendant of Catherine the Great, she was a student at the Mariinsky Noble Ladies' Institute , Novocherkassk, Russia. She was orphaned at the time of the Russian Civil War after her father, General Paul Roudakoff, was fatally wounded in battle; 5 days later her mother died of typhus.
Still unaware of her parents' death, and after witnessing her two sisters' deaths from starvation, the young Irina, then 8 years old, made her way over 1,000 kilometers, alone and through many privations to Moscow and the Estonian embassy there, with whom her Estonian uncle Volodya Blonsky had made arrangements.
After a year in Moscow, and appeals to the Estonian consul, Irina was aided in a dramatic escape from the Soviet Union, to her aunt Anna Blonsky Lassburg (1882–1940) and her husband Doctor Genrick Lassburg in Tallinn, Estonia. Eventually, after in 1929, traveling through Ellis Island and admitted as a student, of voice studies, she joined her brother who had settled, in 1923, in the United States.
Irina came to San Francisco during the Second World War, Among Irina's devotions were ballet and opera. She often entertained friends Rudolf Nureyev, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Sergei Leiferkus when they were in town. Natalia Makarova and Yuri Possokhov were often guests at Irina's Russian Christmas and Easter parties.
From the early 1960s through the late 1980s, Irina studied and prolifically created still life and portrait paintings in oil and water color, excelling in flower compositions. She held studio and feature exhibitions; she competed and won prizes. Her work is in holdings throughout the San Francisco Bay area, Europe and Russia.
In 1965 she undertook private study with two prominent Russian painters, including Serge Ivanoff; she executed a portrait of her two masters. She cherished her portrait as executed by Serge Ivanoff.
Among her most accomplished pieces are those of iris and the large white Matilija...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naturalistic Vanitas Fruit Still Life Painting of Grapes, Pears, and Apples
By Oliver Clare
Located in Houston, TX
Still life oil painting with grapes, pears, and apples. Set within a gold frame and plated with artist's name.
Canvas Dimensions without frame: 10 in H x 14 in L 1 in D.
Artist Bio...
Category
Naturalistic 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Blue Hat
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: "S. Simkhovitch". Estate stamp on backing board verso.
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Knee Socks Girl, Portrait by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Knee Sock Girl" is an oil on board portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon of a woman, seemingly lost in contemplation....
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Early Still Life with Coffee Pot" Modern Abstract Green Toned Interior Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract brown, green, and yellow toned still life by Houston, TX artist David Adickes. The work features a central arrangement of bottles and a coffee pot set...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harry McCormick "The Artist Studio" Original Oil Painting c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Harry McCormick (New York, b. 1942) "The Artist Studio" Original Oil Painting c.1970s
Magnificent realist painting by New York artist Harry McCormick.
Harry McCormick is a painter ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
High Rolls, New Mexico, 1940s Southwestern Landscape, Desert Church with Trees
By Andreas Storrs Andersen
Located in Denver, CO
"High Rolls, New Mexico", is a oil on canvas by Andreas Storrs Andersen (1908-1974) of a wooden church along a dirt road in the mountains with clouds in the background. Painted in a ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century 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
Abstract 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alexander Hamilton at His Desk
By Herbert Paus
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Bouquet - Horizontal Floral Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrantly colored floral still-life of a dazzling and detailed spring bouquet including irises, cherry blossoms, roses, and other beautiful blooms by Barbara Wilson (American, 20th C...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Still Life of Fruit and Flowers, " Oil on Canvas, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This impressionist still life by French painter Léon Garraud depicts a table set with a plate of peaches and a vase of pink peonies and delicate white flowers. The warm palette of or...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Female Impressionist Still Life Signed Framed Oil Painting
By Irene Stry
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist still life painting by Irene ( I. Stry) Stry (1899/1904 - 1963). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size, 24L x 20H.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nuns at the Museum
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nuns at the Museum" c.1950 is an oil painting on hardboard by Australian artist Joan Wilkie, 1903-? It is signed at the lower right corner by...
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
After the Chores comes Cold Lemonade Milking Stool Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
After the Chores comes Cold Lemonade with Milking Stool Still Life
Country Style Milk Stool and Hay Fork with the reward of cold lemonade after all the chores are done. P. Etheridge, a Pacific Grove art...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Chrysanthemums in Deco Vase Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant mid-century floral still-life of a bouquet of Chrysanthemums in a classic Deco style trapezoid vase by C.A. Wilkenson (American, 20th C), c.1960. Signed "C.A. Wilkenson" lowe...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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
Folk Art 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'In the Potting Shed', Large Floral Oil, California College of Arts and Crafts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'DeVee' for Robert DeVee (American, 1940-2017) and painted circa 1995.
Robert DeVee first studied painting at the California College o...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Canary
Located in Dallas, TX
The overall dimensions including the frame are 70 x 42 inches.
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Voge...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of Cat in Living Room with Balcony in Background
By Mike Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Portrait of cat in living room with balcony in background, circa 1970s. Represented by numerous art galleries and auction houses in the U.S.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Two Bottles" American Scene Realism Mid 20th Century Female Artist WPA 1940's
By Helen Clark Oldfield
Located in New York, NY
"Two Bottles" American Scene Realism Mid 20th Century Female Artist WPA 1940's
Helen Clark Oldfield "Two Bottles," 1943. Signed “Helen Oldfield” lower right. Oil on canvas board, 18 x 14 inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist.
Helen Clark Oldfield was born in Santa Rosa. Her father, James E. Clark, invested in local hops farms. He was a director of the first Santa Rosa Bank.
Oldfield lived at 547 Mendocino Avenue, in one of the finest custom-built homes in town. She was the oldest child of the family. They spent summers in their beach cabin at Jenner-by-the-Sea.
She was a good student and graduated from DeWitt Montgomery High in Santa Rosa with college standard grades. Unfortunately, this idyllic situation tumbled down suddenly. due to a fraud scandal at the Bank, her father forfeited most of his assets in order to make good on his client's losses.
At the time when her high school friends were going east to college, Oldfield followed her family to a new life of farming. She found this life frustrating as there was little time for her interests after conclusion of her daily duties. Here she developed her natural gift for sophisticated needle work. At the time she also took a correspondence course in industrial design and became an expert tailor.
Her family was not happy with the farming arrangement. They decided to move to Oakland. In 1921 they purchased a home at 318...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Summer Floral Still Life - Zinnias, Delphiniums, Corn Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Summer Floral Still Life - Zinnias, Delphiniums, Corn Flowers
Substantial and gorgeous early 20th Century still life of summer flowers in cream bowl with Zinnia, Delphiniums, and Corn Flowers with pink candle by Volney...
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Idle Hour, Impressionist figurative Garden landscape
Located in Greenwich, CT
Idle Hour is an intricately painted Impressionist depiction of woman with her pets on her veranda. It is exquisitely framed in a French Gold Leaf frame of quality and value. Paint...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Old Shoemaker" Ashcan 20th Century Modernism 1924 California WPA Realism Worker
By Otis Oldfield
Located in New York, NY
"Old Shoemaker" Ashcan 20th Century Modernism 1924 California WPA Realism Worker. Signed “Otis Oldfield” lower left. 14 x 12 inches.
Exhibited: Galerie des Beaux Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1925
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Born in Sacramento, CA on July 3, 1890, Otis Oldfield left high school at age 16 to work in a local print shop. In 1909 he arrived in San Francisco and enrolled at the Best Art School. After working for two years as a bellhop at the Argonaut Hotel and as a hat check boy at the Cliff House, he had saved enough money for further studies in Paris. In 1911 he sailed for France and enrolled at Académie Julian. Caught up in the activities of wartime Paris, he was an apprentice for a book...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Caribbean Balcony', Post Impressionist Oil Still Life, Jamaica, West Indies
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Van Pitterson' for Lloyd H. Van Pitterson (Jamaican, 1926-1997) and created circa 1985. Additionally, inscribed, verso, 'Pink Balcony'.
Born in Jamaica in the West Indies, Lloyd van Pitterson worked in the rum industry for twenty-two years while studying and painting in his spare time. In 1965, he decided to fully commit himself to a career as a fine artist and first studied with Edna Manley, the leading West Indian sculptor...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Three Engineers, " Albert Pels, Men at Table with Compass, WPA, American Realism
By Albert Pels
Located in New York, NY
Albert Pels (1910 - 1998)
Three Engineers, circa 1935
Oil on board
10 x 13 1/2 inches
Signed lower right
Albert Pels was an art educator and painter of figures, genre scenes, urban ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Spring Garden Still-Life Peonies and Garden Gloves
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous and vibrant mid century spring garden still life of a vase of pink peonies with a pair of garden gloves in the foreground by listed artist Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-19...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Geometric Abstract Pop Art Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract painting titled "Praying Mantis". Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Image size, 12L x 16H. Housed in a period wood frame.
Category
Abstract 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abundance of Blossoms
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Abundance of Blossoms by Lu Haskew
Oil Painting Still life of Tulips and Lilacs in a purple vase. Overall colors are multiple hues of purple, violet
14x11" image size
22x19" framed ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Origin: How God and I Created the World
By Tony Smith
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Origin: How God And I Created The World" acrylic on canvas, 45.5 x 61.5 inches (unframed), $9,500
Tony Smith’s paintings are works in motion. They are tho...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Beech House
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Cozy, warm interior of a home.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman Ironing', Paris Salon Modernist, Royal Academy, Charlottenborg, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Ludvig Jacobsen' (Danish, 1890-1957) and painted circa 1915.
Previously with: Arnbaks Kunsthandel, Bredgade 24, Copenhagen, from label verso.
Framed dimensions: ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Still Life -- Wine Bottle with Apples
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage still life in earthy hues of a wine bottle with two golden apples and a copper mug by California artist Friedel Riise (American, 20th century). Sign...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Interior with Chair and Vanity" circa 1918 by Ricardo Gomez-Gimeno (1892-1954)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Interior with Chair and Vanity" circa 1918
Ricardo Gomez-Gimeno (Spain/France 1892-1954)
Oil on cardboard
Signed
17 1/4 x 14 1/4 (22 1/2 x 19 1/2 f...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"A Marro" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
"A Marro" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan. Signed lower right. Verso, label of Walker Galleries New York and signed in pencil and titled, A Marro....
Category
American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1940's Still-Life with Pussy Willows and Blue Drape
Located in Soquel, CA
Elegant 1940's still-life of pussy willows in a white vase with a rich royal blue drape by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned and unfram...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Pansies" Watercolor Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant floral still life by Marilyn Simandle (American, b.1946). Splashes of color and white petals pop out against a dark background and glossy blac...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Pieces Collage, vibrant mid-century abstract. expressionist black, pink & red
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Pieces Collage, c. 1965
collage on paper
14 x 18 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.
Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lilies with Seashells
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Lilies and Seashell by Lu Haskew
Oil 30x24" image size
Floral Still life
ABOUT THE ARTIST: Lu Haskew 1921-2009
"Life is good to me. Being able to go to my studio five days weekly...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Man in Armchair, Mid Century Short Story Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Excellent figurative oil painting of a man seated in an armchair with papers strewn about the interior space by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). A working illustration pai...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Abstract expressionist blue, black & green mid-century geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Untitled, c. 1949
oil on canvas
18 x 32 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.
Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil