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Period: 20th Century
'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
Still Life of Ornate Pottery - Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately still life of terra cotta pottery by A. Peterson. Five pieces of pottery sit atop a table with a tablecloth. Each piece of pottery is decorated with ornate patterns, mostly i...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Laundry" Post-Impressionism French Oil Painting Interior Scene Figure on Board
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young lady washing her laundry in front of a house. This piece was most likely executed in the 1930's, as the colors are darker than Z...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Modernist Oil Painting Card Poker Player Aaron Fink Pop Art Americana
By Aaron Fink
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Hand signed and dated 1986, verso.
The large canvas size measures approx: 72" x 66". This painting is part of the artist's "Images of Gambling" series, amongst his best figural work.
Aaron Fink was born in Boston in 1955. He received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan and Australia, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. He lives and works in the Boston area. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Figurative abstract expressionist art.
In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts.
He was included in the show The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Danforth Museum of Art. An exhibition of Boston Expressionism, a school that embraced a distinctive blend of visionary painting, dark humor, religious mysticism, and social commentary. Historical roots of this movement can be traced to European Symbolism and German Expressionism, but artists living and working in the Boston area from the 1930’s through the 1950’s, were particularly inspired by Chaim Soutine and Max Beckmann. Artists included; Aaron Fink,
Bernard Chaet, David Aronson, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jason Berger, Karl Zerbe, Lawrence Kupferman, Michael Mazur, Sigmund Abeles and Willem de Kooning.
He was included in the show 40 Years of Printmaking: From the Center Street Studio Archives, along other great figural artists Gabor Peterdi, John Walker, Lester Johnson and Nell Blaine.
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
Art Institute of Chicago
Bank of America
Boston Public Library
Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Castelli Collection, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
Citizens Bank, Boston
Coopers & Lybrand
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Danish House of Parliament
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA
Farnsworth Museum, Maine
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
G.E. Corporation
Goldman Sachs & Company
IBM, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Library of Congress
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
United States Department of State
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Awards
Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982
Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984
American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979
Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979
Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine
Color and Line: Expressive Tradition in Boston, Endicott College, Beverly, MA,
Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
MICA Then and Now, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY
Bon Appetit, Concord Art Association
Celebrating Ten Years, Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, Canada
New England Impressions: Exploring the Woodcut, Concord Art, Concord, MA
Go Figure: The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History,
Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
The Unique Print: Six Innovative Approaches to the Monotype, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
Selections from Atelier Mourlot, Hankyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993
70’s and 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1986-1987
Skowhegan Alumni, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine,
Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Miami Collectors, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984
The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1983-84
Jon Abbott, Aaron Fink, Tom Lieber, Chris Wool...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
Modern Yellow Toned Figurative Abstract Painting of a Young Girl Laying on a Rug
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a young girl with a bow in her hair laying on a matching rug. Signed b...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cottage at Sundown - Impressionist Oil, Landscape at Sunset by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated impressionist oil on panel landscape by French painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts a view of a cottage in a rural landscape. Smoke escapes the chimney and contrast...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sicilian Well
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Painting of a well in Sicily, Italy.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Door
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Warm light shines through the door of a home.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sicilian Villa
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Painting of a Sicilian villa.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20thC Oil on Canvas Still Life, Autumn Harvest, Oranges, Hops and Flowers
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century oil on canvas still life of oranges, hops and flowers signed E Pritchard and dated 1904 bottom left, presented in period gilt ...
Category
Romantic 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris : Snow in Montmartre - Tall Original Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Michel Marie POULAIN
Paris : Snow in Montmartre, 1969
Original oil on wood panel
Handsigned in the lower left corner
Signed, dated and titled on ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century French Post-Impressionist Oil - Portrait of Man Writing at Desk
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, signed with initials and fully verso.
Title: Portrait of a Man sitting writing, wearing spectacles and a green jacket/ jumper.
Me...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Abstract 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Preparing the Meal
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Wiscasett, ME
This oil on canvas is signed and date in the upper left and measures 38" x 45.25" including the frame.
Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964). Sam Uhrdi...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vase de Fleurs - Post Impressionist Oil, Still Life Flowers by Marcel Dyf
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Large signed still life of flowers oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. This beautiful work depicts a bouquet of flowers of all vari...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Life's Souveniers, Surrealist Oil Painting by Tito Salomoni
Located in Long Island City, NY
Life’s Souvenirs by Tito Salomoni, Italian (1928–1989)
Date: 1984
Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 25 x 2...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Polish French Jewish Artist Oil Painting Girl with Doll, School of Paris Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 27 X 24 inches
Sight 18 X 15 inches
Walter Spitzer (Polish/French, 1927 - ) born in Cieszyn, Poland. A Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, he made his first drawings in a concentration camp. Walter Spitzer has lived and worked since WWII in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Walter Spitzer has achieved great renown as a painter and printmaker. Whether in his paintings of Biblical subjects or in lithographs of Shtetl scenes, His humanity was inspired by the writings of Sartre, Montherlant and Kazantzakis, Walter Spitzer is occupied with two great, interlinked themes: man’s inhumanity to man, and the humanity of man. He will surely be recognized in the future as one of the great witnesses to the twentieth-century experience. Walter Spitzer was born in Chieszyn, Poland, the son of a Jewish liqueur producer, and attended the German school there. He began to draw and paint at an early age. In 1939 the Spitzer family was forcibly removed by the Germans to the town of Strzemieszyce, which was turned into a ghetto in 1942. When the ghetto was liquidated in June 1943 Spitzer’s mother was shot, and the sixteen-year-old Walter was deported to Blechhammer, a subcamp of Auschwitz. There he painted portraits of Wehrmacht soldiers and fellow inmates in exchange for food. He was one of the few to survive the evacuation march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, where to begin with, in late February 1945, he was held in the Little Camp. To enable him to make drawings documenting life in the camp, the Communists organized his transfer to the main camp. While on a death march in early April he made his escape in the vicinity of Jena and was soon in the hands of the Americans. Spitzer served as an interpreter with an American army unit, and at the same time executed numerous drawings depicting the world of the camps. In June 1945 the Americans took him to Paris, where – following the advice of his father, who had died in 1940 – he began to study art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Par the following year. After completing his training as an artist he produced paintings expressing a critical view of the society of his day. In 1955, in commemoration of the camps and the death marches, he executed a cycle of nine etchings in an edition of thirty, which he gave to various museums in Israel and in France. In the 1960s he established himself as an illustrator of exclusive editions of works by such authors as André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Kessel and Nikos Kazantzakis. The Six-Day War prompted him to begin painting subjects from Jewish and Biblical history; At age 19, he was asked to make the scenery for the Edouard VII Theater in Paris, which was showing The Dibbuk of Ansky. In 1947 the same theater asked him to make the scenery for the Hill of Life ( Max Zveig).
Spitzer has been a member of the Salon d'Automne since 1952. He was the last remaining survivor of the Montparnasse Ecole de Paris. A group of Jewish expats that included Issachar Ber Ryback, Abel Pann, Abraham Mintchine, Isaac Antcher, Alexandre Altmann, Henri Epstein, Mane Katz, Marcel Janco, Gregoire Michonze...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Studio, Large Painting by John Winslow
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large (48 x 48 inch) painting of a scene in the art studio by American artist John Winslow (1938 - ).
Category
American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Seated Woman in Pink Dress & Bouquet of Flowers yellow red blue green rose
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Lovely painting - Unframed
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interno
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Interno" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Umberto Bianchini, 1934-1990. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist and also t...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Delicious Meal, Oswald Poreau, Schaarbeek 1877 – 1955 Waterloo
Located in Bruges, BE
A Delicious Meal
Poreau Oswald
Schaarbeek 1877 – 1955 Waterloo
Belgian Painter
Signature: Signed bottom left, verso inscribed and dated "Préparatifs d'un fin souper" Oswald Poreau...
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1920's French Impressionist Still Life White & Red Flowers in Vase oil on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Charles Frédéric Jung (1865-1936)
Title: White and Red Flowers in vase
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
Size: painting...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Femme du Cirque
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil by French artist Paul Charlemagne, “Femme du Cirque”, an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1930, with an image dimension of 30 x 24 inches.
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Window on the city" Oil cm. 134 x 126, 1968
Located in Torino, IT
Open window to the city in spring, light, roofs, City, Interior
MAYA KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia, 1924 - 2005)
Maya kopitzeva’s works have been acquired by the Russian Ministry of ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bouquet of flowers in a vase Oil on cardboard 70x62 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bouquet of flowers in a vase. Oil on cardboard 70x62 cm
impasto painting in earth color gamma
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Shoe
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is a rare oil painting by Anton Solomoukha from 1990s executed in realistic style. Yet Solomoukha is playing with concepts here by almost extending the shoe's shade outside of c...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Oil - After Hours
Located in Corsham, GB
A fun interior scene in a charmingly naive style, showing a simple tavern room where a man sits nonchalantly, shirt unbuttoned, one leg up on a stool, as...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Theodor Winter (1872-1947) - 1906 Oil, Impromptu Recital
Located in Corsham, GB
A humorous interior scene in oil showing a woman, joyfully playing a lute at a table, where she has been eating with two men. One man watches on with a smile, while the other is stan...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Anna" - Portrait of a Reclining Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored portrait of a woman on a sofa by Nealon A. Mundt (American, 1939-2015). A woman is reclining on a dark blue sofa, with a pink wall in the background. The woman is wearing a white top and a pink skirt, with a red bandana on her hear. Her skin is rendered in a fauvist style, mixing bold yellows and greens with skin tones. There are paintings hanging on the wall behind the sofa.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Titled, signed, and dated on verso.
Presented in a wood frame with a linen fillet.
Canvas size: 24"H x 36"W
Nealon Mundt...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Vase
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern surreal oil painting on linen depicting a vase with one yellow flower and a mysterious almost figural black design. This midcentury work is unsigned and comes housed in a pe...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'Piano And Violin Recital', Paris Salon, Royal Academy, Still Life of Tulips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Alf. Broge' for Carl Harald Alfred Broge (Danish, 1870-1955) and dated '1918'.
Alfred Broge first studied with Helger Gronvold and, from 1889 to 1891, at Denmar...
Category
Academic 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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.
Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Pink & White Roses in Crystal Vase Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate mid century still-life of white and pink roses in crystal vase with a soft, lime green background by listed California artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997)...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunflowers. 1999. Oil on canvas. 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunflowers. 1999. Oil on canvas. 100x81 cm
This depiction of sunflowers shows artist Laimdots Murnieks as a master of nature representation. Colors and decoratively captured flower...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Eva With Violin
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. This painting was procured direct from the artist's studio.
Cornelis le Mair is truly a renaissance ...
Category
Northern Renaissance 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Figure Multiple
Located in Long Island City, NY
Make an offer on the fabulous Figure Multiple painting by Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940).
Date: 1989
Oil on Canvas, signed, dated, and title...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shore V, large colorful red, black & blue mid-century abstract expressionist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Shore V, c. 1964
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
54 x 44 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...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Home Office Interior
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming interior scene by a unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Slanting light enters the room from the viewer's left, illuminating part of the large desk at the center of the ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Modern Painting by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil painting on canvas by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 40 x 24 inches, unsigned. Provenance: O'Hara Gallery, NYC. By the early 1930's Benno had estab...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian 20th Century Signed Oil Painting Blossom Twig in Glass of Water
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: signed lower right corner, Italian School, 20th century
Title: sprig of blossom in a clear glass with water.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size:
framed:...
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting.
Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Antique Dealer
Located in Paris, FR
Bonnier, 20th Century
French
"Chez l'Antiquaire", 1933
Oil on canvas,
Signed and dated lower right
Canvas: 28 3/4" high x 36 1/2" wide
Frame: 36 5/8" high x 43 7/8" wide
Active...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H. L. Robinson (fl. 1905-1930) - Early 20th Century Oil, Old Smithy
Located in Corsham, GB
An unusually stylised oil interior scene showing a rustic smithy in Weeton, Yorkshire. The artist has achieved the naturalistic lighting of a room lit by daylight from an unseen wind...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's FRENCH FLOWER OIL PAINTING - PASTEL SHADES OF PINKS GREENS & GREY COLORS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Jules ROBLIN (1888-1974) French School, circa 1950's, signed to the lower corner.
Title: Still Life of Flowers. Beautiful pastel shades of muted colours.
Medium: oil painti...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nature morte/Still life
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Reference number F1293
Not framed but could be with a natural oak floated frame (add 200 euros)
21 x 44 cm
This work is painted with oil on a board. It is signed in the bottom right....
Category
French School 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
L'étole aux cerises/Blue stole with cherries
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Reference number F186b
Framed with a natural oak floated frame
33 x 35 cm frame included (28 x 30 cm without frame)
This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a boar...
Category
French School 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bit of Blue
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Bit of Blue by Lu Haskew
Oil Painting Still life of Tulips and Lilacs in a vase with two blue stripes.
26x26" image size
26x26" framed size
signed lower left
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Lul...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hotel Interior
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Hotel interior painted using watercolors on paper.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Still life with bottles and an old iron, oil painting in canvas by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Pierre Coquet - Still life with bottles and an old iron
Reference number F287
This is a oil on canvas and wear the stamp of the signature in the bottom right.
The painting is not fra...
Category
French School 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Signed Original Oil Painting Still Life with Fruit & Bottle, Beautiful Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Fruit
by Maria Tort Xirau (Catalan, 1924-2018)
signed lower corner
dated 1990's
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 13 x 18 inches
framed: 18 x 23 inches
Very good...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henry Charles Hannig "Mother and Daughter" Original Oil Painting C.1930
Located in San Francisco, CA
Henry Charles Hannig "Mother and Daughter" Original Oil Painting C.1930
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 15" wide x 18" high
The lightly distressed frame measures 18" wide x 21" h...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antoine and Cléopatre
Located in Genève, GE
Work on panel
Gray and silver wooden frame
85 x 115 x 2.3 cm
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Plugged In, Surrealist Oil Painting by Tito Salomoni
Located in Long Island City, NY
Plugged In by Tito Salomoni, Italian (1928–1989)
Date: circa 1984
Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Frame Size: 28 x 28...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Dogs in a Japanese inspired interior surprising a cat
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very decorative animal scene of two dogs in an interior surprising a cat walking towards them.
Grover Hawking was a late 20th-century painter active in New Jersey and Long Island.
...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fine French 1930's Signed Oil, Interior Scene Elegant Figures Reading in Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Berthe Noufflard, French 1886-1971, signed and dated 1937.
Berthe Noufflard was the favourite pupil of Jaques Emile Blanche
Title: 'Edga...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Interior of Alcazar of Seville", Early 20th Century oil on canvas by F. Liger
Located in Madrid, ES
FERNANDO LIGER HIDALGO
Spanish , 1880 – 1945
"Interior of Alcazar of Seville"
Signed & located "F. Liger, Sevilla " (lower left)
Oil on canvas
2...
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Interior Scene with Figure and Mantel" Post-Impressionism Oil Painting on Panel
Located in New York, NY
A cozy little jewel, we are charmed by the rich choice of color and intimate details throughout this miniature work. This painting depicts a woman in her bedroom near the Mantel with...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil