Ashcan School Interior Paintings

Up for sale is a Finely painted American Ashcan School painting of a NYC Symphony by John Newton Howitt (1885 - 1958). Most likely painted in the 1...

Albert Rosenthal (1863 - 1939) Milliner's Shop (In Seal and Sable), 1914 Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches Signed and dated lower right Housed in a E.C Slater Frame Provenance: The artist Gift to the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, 1924 Sotheby's New York, American Art, March 14, 2001, Lot 115 Spanierman Gallery, New York Doyle New York, Doyle at Home, January 15, 2013, Lot 81 Exhibited: New York, Ferargil Galleries, before 1919. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 114th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, February 9 - March 30, 1919 (as Millinery). Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, September 15 - October 31, 1920 (as In Seal and Sable). Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, Tenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists (as The Millinery), April 23 - May 31, 1924. Literature: Marion E. Fenton, "Art," Vogue, 54, November 1, 1919, p. 154, illustrated (as Millinery). A painter, etcher, and expert on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American art, Albert Rosenthal studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Munich, and in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Although his paintings consist mostly of portraits-many depicting historically important American political and military figures-he also rendered modern life images in the realist mode of the Ashcan School, such as Millinery. The subject in this painting tries on one of the large Duchess-style hats popular in the early 1910s, choosing it over the bonnet displayed on the table. Her considered decision-making reflects the importance women once placed on their hats, as statements of social status. (Degas, Manet, and Pissarro also painted this subject.) In 1919, Rosenthal's Millinery was illustrated in Vogue magazine with the caption: "A clever bit of work, spontaneous and vivid and handled with a light sure touch was 'Millinery.'" Rosenthal exhibited the work in the following year with the title In Seal and Sable and gifted it to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1924, after its inclusion in the museum's annual exhibition. Albert Rosenthal was born in Philadelphia in 1863 and was known as a painter, etcher and lithographer. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art under his father Max Rosenthal...

Antique American Ashcan School oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1910. Signed illegibly. Image size, 13L x 10H. Housed in a period Barbizon frame.

A gorgeous early 20th Century ashcan school painting depicting a man in period clothes reading by the light of a window. Just outside the light dappled room and scene an intriguing ...

Louis Henry Charles Moeller (1855 - 1930) Game of Chess Oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Titled, and inscribed "...By Louis Muller [sic], N.A." on the stretcher A native of New York, Louis Henri Moeller became one of America's foremost anecdotal genre painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A favorite subject was distinguished elderly men going about everyday activities in gentile interior settings that reflected Victorian tastes. He was the son of a decorative painter and was initially taught by his father and then attended classes at the National Academy of Design. For six years, he studied in Munich with Frank Duveneck, Ludwig Lofftz, and Feodor Dietz and during this period was part of a group of American artists emulating 17th century Dutch masters. Returning to New York, he opened a studio and did decorative painting while developing the genre style for which he is known. He earned the National Academy's Hallgarten Prize for a small painting entitled "Puzzled" and was made an Associate Member. The genre paintings for which Moeller became known are small in format. Small animated figures vie for the viewer's attention with objects treated almost as independent still-life elements. The objects are often "objects de...

CLYDE KELLEY "AT THE BAR" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1930 15 X 19 INCHES Clyde Kelley 1896-1965 Kelley was born in Alba, IN on No...

DON FREEMAN "NIGHT LIFE" OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED, TITLED AMERICAN, C.1940 29.5 X 21 INCHES Don Freeman 1908-1978 Illustrator, painter and ...