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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Period: 1950s
Period: 1930s
Large Signed French Impressionist Ballet Dancer Original Cafe Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 40L x 30H.
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fishermen on Bay of Naples - Large Italian Impressionist Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
This beautiful 1930's Italian impressionist oil on canvas by Luigi De Luca depicts fishermen on the Bay of Naples at dusk, with Capri beyond. The work i...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Tug Boats
Located in West Hollywood, CA
One of the rarest paintings from American artist Ron Blumbergs New York series, "Tug Boats", has just arrived. Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La G...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

View Through Trees - British Post Impressionist 50's art landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Post Impressionist 1950's landscape oil painting is from a collection of Peter L Field paintings acquired from the family. The composition is a view through trees...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Springtime near the Austrian Alps by Paul Kujal
Located in Soquel, CA
Springtime near the Austrian Alps by Paul Kujal Serene depiction looking out over the water with the Austrian Alps in the background by Paul Kujal (Austr...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Cityscape Oil Painting, Fabian Lundqvist - Moonlight
Located in Bristol, GB
MOONLIGHT Size: 51 x 59 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An atmospheric modernist style composition executed in oil onto canvas by the well-established Swedish artist Fabian Lundqvist...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Walk Through Town California Gold Country
Located in Soquel, CA
A Walk Through Town California Gold Country An old town in the California Gold Country, depicting green and blue buildings with brown rooftops and gree...
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1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spring Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Fall Landscape Signed Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Signed Surreal Street Scene Skeleton Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
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1930s Surrealist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstracted River Canyon Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted River Canyon Landscape in Oil on Canvas Dramatic landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Three large cliffs tower over a river, creating a massive canyon. The landscape is represented in colors reminiscent of fauvism - greens, yellows, and magentas. Signed "Honora Berg" at the bottom edge. Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Initialed and numbered "HB 103" on verso Unframed. This piece is on canvas that has been stretched over cardstock by the artist. Board size: 20.5"H x 25.75"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell — David Park's aunt — suggested a move to California in 1951 to study under Park. She exhibited at the 25th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Provenance, Estate of Honora Berg - David Carlson Gallery, Larry Miller...
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1950s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Cardboard, Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Surreal Female Portrait Symbolic Rural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Paris School Nude Female Bathers Double Sided Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist nude woman portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Apple Blossom Tree Park - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Oil by Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999) Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Untitled (Martha’s Vineyard)
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful view of Martha's Vineyard (Depicting Edgartown's main street) by Francis Chapin, from around 1950. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballator, Portland Ore.” provenance includes: J.C. Penney Company, represented by Russell Tether Fine Arts Assoc.; presented in a newer wood frame About the Painting Industry and Commerce is a prime example of WPA Era muralism. Like a Mediaeval alter, this mural study is filled with icons, but the images of saints and martyrs are replaced with symbols of America's gospel of prosperity through capitalism. Industry and Commerce has a strong narrative quality with vignettes filling the entire surface. Extraction, logistics, design, power generation, and manufacturing for printing, chemicals, automobiles and metal products are all represented. To eliminate any doubt about the mural's themes, Ballator letters a description into the bottom of the study. Ballator also presents an idealized version of industrial cooperation, as his workers, lab-coated technicians and tie-wearing managers work harmoniously toward a common goal in the tidy and neatly designed environments. Although far from the reality of most industrial spaces, Ballator's study reflects the idealized and morale boosting tone that many mural projects adopted during the Great Depression. About the Artist John R Ballator achieved success as a muralist, lithographer, and teacher during the Great Depression. Born in Oregon, he studied at the Portland Museum Art School, the University of Oregon and at Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. In 1936, Ballator was commissioned to paint a mural panel for the new Department of Justice Building in Washington DC, an important project that spanned five years with several dozen artists contributing a total of sixty-eight designs. Ballator completed murals for the St. Johns Post Office and Franklin High School, both in Portland, Oregon. He also contributed to the 1938 murals at Nathan Hale School in New Haven, Connecticut. During the late 1930s, Ballator taught art for several years at Washburn College in Topeka, Kanas, where he completed a mural for the Menninger Arts & Craft Shop before accepting a professorship at Hollins College...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Tempera

Vintage Mid-Century Naïve Style Landscape Framed Oil Painting - The Working Farm
Located in Bristol, GB
THE WORKING FARM Size: 48 x 56.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A brilliantly executed mid century modernist landscape composition of a farm, painted in oil onto board. Executed...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Apple Blossom Tree and Dandelions - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Oil
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999) Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Happy California Prune Farmers - Female Illustrator - Mid Century
Located in Miami, FL
Commercial illustration depicting happy California framers for California Prunes. The work is rendered in a charming and highly stylized manner. Unfr...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

Gloucester Houses & Backyards, c. 1935 colorful cubist landscape, female artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964) Gloucester Houses and Backyards, c. 1935 Oil on paper Estate stamp verso, Vixseboxse label verso 23 x 19.5 inches 30 x 26 inches, framed A graduat...
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1930s Cubist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century River Birches Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century River Birches Landscape Watercolor Gorgeous vibrant mid century watercolor on paper painting of river birch trees by artist Eva Collins Marks (American, 20th century),19...
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1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Crepescule - Au Bord de la Seine - Impressionist Landscape Oil - Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on board landscape circa 1930 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts a view of the River Seine at dusk. The moon sits low in the ...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Country Celebration - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Piece of Manor House
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999) Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Place de la République, 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Edouard Léon Cortès
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS French, 1882 - 1969 PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right) oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 36-1/4 inches (65 x 91.5 cm.) framed: 33-1/2 x 44-1/4 inc...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Impressionistic Seascape Oil on Canvas Painting of a Lady and Seagulls
Located in Plainview, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas impressionistic painting featuring a young lady dressed in white and holding a white umbrella while watching the sea and seagulls. The sky shows rainbow col...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Byzantine Fountain" Mary Elizabeth Price, Impressionist Landscape in Europe
Located in New York, NY
Mary Elizabeth Price Byzantine Fountain, circa 1930 Signed "M. Elizabeth Price" lower left, inscribed "M. Elizabeth Price 140 West 57th St. Byzantine Fountain" on stretcher verso Oil on canvas 24 3/16 x 30 5/16 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Southampton, New York Mary Elizabeth Price was born in 1877 in West Virginia, and at an early age she moved with her Quaker family back to the familial farm in Solebury (Bucks County) Pennsylvania. There she received her education at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Arts and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. During her long and active career, Price achieved notable exhibition history including exhibitions at the Corcoran Biennial, National Academy of Design, and in 1927 she won the Carnegie Prize for the best oil painting...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Located in New York, NY
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative Cecil Bell (1906 – 1970) Street Life Under the EL 22 x 30 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1930s Signed upper...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Southern California Foothills oil by Anni Baldaugh
Located in Hudson, NY
Canvas measures 24" x 30" and framed 30" x 36" x 3" About this artist: Anni Baldaugh was the daughter of Anthonius Hendricus Schade van Westrum. With a father who was a naval officer, the van Westrum family spent significant amounts of time in the Dutch East Indies. After returning to Europe, Baldaugh studied art with various teachers in Vienna, Munich and Paris. She and her husband ended up living in Los Angeles, though they suffered financial losses during World War I. While in Los Angeles, Baldaugh joined the California Watercolor Club, the California Society of Miniature Painters, the Bookplate Association International, the Laguna Beach Art Association, and the San Diego Fine Arts Society. She also became a member of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts. During the Great Depression...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage Signed Surreal Black Farming Figures Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist surreal landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Into the Forest - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Landscape by Dorothy King
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Dorothy King was born and lived in London in 1907. She studied at the Hornsey School of Art under JC Moody, then briefly at the Slade School of Fine Art with Randolph Schwabe. She to...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Signed American Regionalist Midwest "Storm in the Valley" Framed Landscape Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Jerusalem Old City Cityscape Israeli Modernist Oil Painting Signed in Hebrew
Located in Surfside, FL
Signed Nathanson. Could be the famous artist Avraham Naton (Natanson) I am not certain. it is a very lovely Modernist Israeli landscape. Avraham Naton (Natanson), Israeli, born in Bessarabia, 1906-1959. Avraham Naton was born in Rani, Bessarabia to a large secular family. In 1935, after Art studies in Romania, he immigrated to the Land of Israel and settled, first, in Givat Haim and later in Ramat Gan. From the 1940s he worked as an Art teacher in Ramat Gan and Givataim. In 1948 he worked as an illustrator at BaMahane Newspaper. He was one of the Founders of New Horizon Group. Between 1952-1959 he was a member of the Milo Club and served as the club secretary. Education 1930-33 Art Academy, Bucharest, Romania Teaching 1940's Ramat Gan and Givataim Awards And Prizes Jerusalem Prize for Painting and Sculpture 1942 Dizengoff Prize 1953 Milo Club Prize New Horizons, The Ofakim Hadashim art movement began with a group of artists who mounted an exhibition in Tel Aviv's Habima national theater in December 1942, under the name "The Group of Eight". The group evolved into a coherent artistic movement only after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. Members of the school included Arie Aroch, Zvi Meirovitch, Avraham Naton (Natanson), Avigdor Stematsky and Yehezkel Streichman. The work of sculptor Dov Feigin also appeared in the catalog of the 1942 exhibition, though it was not displayed. In February 1947 five of the original members of the group joined Joseph Zaritsky...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Istanbul Turkey - Irish Post Impressionist landscape oil painting female artist
By Gladys Nolan
Located in London, GB
This striking oil on canvas painting is by Irish artist Gladys Nolan and was painted circa 1930. This Post Impressionist view is of Istanbul, Turkey with the spires of the iconic Blu...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Factory Worker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Factory Worker, c. 1936, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 18 ¼ x 36 inches; exhibited in City ...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Antique Winding Road Landscape Oil Painting 1957
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3925 Oil on artist board landscape painting Image size 15.5x19.5" Set in a period oak frame
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1950s Landscape Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Industrial Railway Landscape - Scottish 50s art Post Impressionist oil painting
Located in London, GB
This vibrant colourful Scottish Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted Slade School artist and former Director of the Glasgow School of Art Sir Harry Jefferson Barnes. Painted i...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Fauvist Leaf Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3305a French Fauvist Style Landscape,acrylic on board signed by Thiollier set in a light-blue wood frame.Image size 10.5 H x 13.50 w
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1950s Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

Primo Dolzan, Landscape with parish church
Located in Tricase, IT
Primo Dolzan is an Italian painter born in Tezze Sul Brenta in Veneto. Painter of landscapes and still lifes. Exhibited at the Salon of Artists in Paris between 1933 and 1935. The p...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spring Passage - Scottish art Abstract Expressionist oil painting Cobra Paris
Located in London, GB
This stunning Scottish Abstract Expressionist oil painting is by noted Scottish artist William Gear. Painted in 1950 it is an early and significant painting which dates to the early ...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Large Antique T. BAILEY Original Oil Painting on canvas, Seascape, Framed
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale gorgeous original Nautical oil painting on canvas, signed by the mysterious Artist "T. Bailey" (American, 19th/20th). The painting depicts a nautical scene. A classic d...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Large American Modernist Abstract Framed New York School Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1950s Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Signed American School Modernist Landscape Framed Starlit Night Harbor
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal starlit harbor painting. Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed.
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Framed Oil Painting - Coastal Sunset
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL SUNSET Size: 55 x 77 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A restful and soothing large mid-century coastal landscape painting, executed in oil onto canvas. This scenic compos...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Autumn in Barrington County, Illinois Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning autumnal landscape titled "Fall at Barrington, Illinois", a suburb of Chicago, by Kathleen Buehr Granger (American, 1902-1999), 1938. Signed lower left "K. Buehr Granger" an...
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Central London - Early 20th Century Impressionist Oil on Canvas by Gwen Collins
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Gwendolyn Collins was a wealthy painter who did most of work between 1922 - 1933. She lived in a Mount Street in Mayfair and did not join any art groups or societies. When her st...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Hanni Bay (Swiss, 1885 - 1978) Alpine Forrest Switzerland Oil painting on board
By Hanny Bay
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Hanni Bay (Swiss, 1885 - 1978) Arvenwald im Graubünden - Pine Forests in the Swiss Grisons • Oil on artist board, ca. 26.5 x 35 cm • Frame, ca. 41 x 49 cm • Verso illegibly titled • Signed lower right Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Johanna / Hanni Bay was a Swiss feminist artiste; a strong woman, single mother to three children, who compromised rarely when it came to her art. She studied in Paris, as well as under the famous Cuno...
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1930s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979) City Street 12 x 14 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s Signed lower left BIO Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Vintage Signed Nude Tropical Women Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintgae signed tropical nude landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 29H.
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century Eugene Savage (1883 – 1978) 1939 World’s Fair Mural Study 45 x 30 inches Oil on Canvas Signed lower right The painting is part of a 1,000 piece collection of art and objects from the 1939 World’s Fair. The collection as a whole is available. Savage created the mural for the facade of the Communications Building. An image of the completed mural, along with a published postcard, is part of the listing. Note the center top female figure, she resembles the figure in the offered painting. BIO Eugene Francis Savage was born in Covington, Indiana 1883. He underwent various forms of art training in the early years. He was a pupil of The Corcoran Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, and was later awarded a fellowship to study in Rome at The American Academy. While under the spell of that ancient city the young artist began to render historic figures that were suitable for the classic style needed for mural painting in the traditional manor. During this period he was able to study and observe Roman and Greek sculpture, although much of the academic training was accomplished by using plaster casts along with the incorporation of live models. This method survived and was used efficiently throughout Europe and the United States. After leaving the Academy, Savage was commissioned to paint numerous murals throughout the United States and Europe. This artist received acclaim for the works he produced while under commissions from various sources. This young master was a contemporary of Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). In this period he was to show the influence of his contemporaries in formulating a modern style. Savage also played a vital role in the WPA Federal Art program, and he was a member of The Mural Art Guild.. Savage was elected an associate member of The National Academy of Design in 1924 and a full member in 1926. From 1947, he held a professorship at Yale University where he taught mural painting, and some of his students went on to significant positions. By this time the artist had painted large-scale murals at Columbia, Yale University, Buffalo N.Y., Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Indiana, along with other commissioned works. He also achieved recognition for a series of murals commissioned by the Matson Shipping Line and completed around 1940. For this commission, Savage made many exacting studies of customs and folkways of the Hawaiian natives. However, the award-winning murals were not installed as planned but were put in storage during the war years when the ships were used for troop transportation and were in danger of attack. However the mural images were reproduced and distributed by the shipping company including nine of the mural scenes that were made into lithographed menu covers in 1948. The American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded certificates of excellence for their graphic production, and the Smithsonian Institute exhibited the works in 1949. Today Savages' Hawaiian Art production is held in high regard by collectors of Hawaiian nostalgia. In later years the artist focused his attention on a theme that dealt with the customs and tribal traditions of the Seminole Indians of Florida. He produced many variations of this theme throughout his lifetime, and the pictures were usually modest scale easel paintings, precise and carefully delineated. Many of these pictures incorporate Surrealistic elements and show some minor stylistic influences of the painters Kay Sage...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Framed Signed American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 18H. Circa 1960. This painting has a nice period frame and stong co...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Cavern 1950 painting by John Atherton
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed lower right: "Atherton", inscribed "John Atherton Original Tempera 7/28/50" on verso. Artwork measures 16" x 20" and framed 20" x 24" x 2 ½" About this artists: John Atherton (1900-1952) did not show an early aptitude for art; rather, his first love was nature and the activities he relished there, mainly fishing and hunting. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1900, he learned to fish with his father from the age of four. Later the family moved to Spokane, Washington, and when he was old enough, Atherton worked at a variety of jobs to help support his family. One such job, in the sorting plant of a lead and silver mine, paid $4.25 a day—a good wage, though he never had time to spend his money, since he worked seven days a week. After serving in the Navy for a year during World War I, Atherton was determined to get an education. He worked as a sign painter and played the banjo in a dance band, finally accumulating enough money to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Once there, he worked like a fiend, attending classes both during the day and at night, getting the best training available. Though he had always intended to be a fine artist, Atherton’s first jobs were for commercial art firms. In 1929, using the prize money won for a painting he entered in an art competition, Atherton and his wife moved to New York City. Though the economic situation was difficult in those years, he managed to keep going by taking commissions for magazine illustrations, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post. In 1938, an artist friend suggested that he use the same flat, decorative style as his commercial work for his gallery paintings. This was a breakthrough for Atherton; soon afterwards he held a one-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and his paintings began to be collected by museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Atherton’s reputation increased to a national scale when he designed the art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 World’s Fair that strikingly depicted Earth and its atmospheric layers in the lap of Liberty. Atherton was highly influenced by the magic realist...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Tempera, Masonite

NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) Cityscape 36 x 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed and dated 1930. lower right Provenance Estate of the artist. ACA Galleries, New York Exhibited New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Changing Old New York, 1931. New York, ACA Galleries, Ernest Fiene: Art of the City, 1925-1955, May 2-23, 1981, n.p., no. 5. BIO Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923. Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925. In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects. By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City. With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well. Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy. On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes. Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Côte d'Azur Harbor - French Impressionist Saint-Tropez Riviera Provence Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
This beautiful large impressionist oil on canvas by French artist Charles Cermak was painted in the 1930's. The work depicts colourful sailing boats in a harbor on the Côte d'Azur, m...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tony's Fruit Market Antique Folk Art Figurative Oil Painting 1930
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3787 Antique folk art oil painting Image size 17x23.5" Folk art wood frame
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1930s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

English Rural Country Village Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3823 English country landscape painting Image size 15.5x19.5"
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1950s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

'Provencal Panorama' Landscape Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
'Provençal Panorama', oil on board, by Anna Costa (circa 1950s). This is a unique landscape painted by the artist in vibrant colours in an Impressionist style. A traditional home sit...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Old Farmhouse, 1935
Located in Franklin, MI
A fine example of the magic realism of this Detroit artist whose work is included in the Whitney Museum of Art
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1930s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Seascape Framed Female Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 20H.
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.

The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.

The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).

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