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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 1940s
"BLUEBONNET AND HUISACHE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FRAMED 23 X 27
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 23 x 27 Medium: Oil on Canvas "Bluebonnet and Huisache" Texas Hill Country Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I wa...
Category

1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Cypress and Eucalyptus Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century landscape of Cypress and Eucalyptus by Dan Runyan (American, 20th Century), circa 1960. Signed lower right. Presented in rustic painted wood frame. Image size 18...
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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Colorado River Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century impressionist landscape of Colorado River and hills by Wilfred A. Readio (American, 1895-1961), c.1940. Unsigned; purchased as part of collection of artist's wo...
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1940s Tonalist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Mid Century Abstracted Watercolor "Jelly Fish in the Red Sea"
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century watercolor of abstracted jellyfish by Bobbi Merrill (American, 20th Century), 1964. Signed lower left corner. Title "Jelly fish in Red Sea" and dated "4/5/64" o...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Tree by the Bay, Small-Scale Mid Century Coastal Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful small scale mid century landscape of tree, grasses by the bay by unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Heavy textural impasto adds extra interest and depth. Presented in...
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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Coastal Maine River Sunset Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful luminous sunset landscape coastal painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso. Image size, 14 by 18 inches.
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

San Gabriel Mountains in Autumn Landscape California School 1930s
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful California plein air painting of San Gabriel Mountains in autumn with iconic Sycamore tree in foreground. Circa 1960. Unsigned. Presented in vintage gilt-toned carved wood frame. Image size: 10"H x 14"W. The San Gabriel Mountains have inspired many famous plein air painters including Hanson Puthuff, Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, Maurice Braun...
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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

"Sundown" Western Shoot Out, Mid Century Figurative Action Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
A dramatic mid-century western figurative action scene depicting a shootout in an old western town by Randy Steffen (American, 1917-1977), 1947. Several ...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard

“Bouquet by the Sea”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board original painting by the well known American artist, Nicolai Cikovsky. Thick vibrant colors with a vase of flowers, a banjo and a notebook with photographs with a rough sea as the background. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Overall framed in a circa 1960 frame, 23 by 27.25 inches. Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

"LONG VIEW" TEXAS LAKES AND COUNTRYSIDE FRAMED 24.75 X 28.75 Texas Hill Country
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 24.75 x 28.75 Medium: Oil "Long View" Texas Hill Country Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I was always curious a...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American Geometric Abstract Mid Century Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century geometric abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas.
Category

1960s Abstract Geometric Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Before the Race, Painting by Charles Cobelle
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Cobelle, French (1902 - 1994) Title: Before the Race Year: ca. 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed l.r. Size: 24 x 30 inches Frame: 32 x 38 inches
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1960s Fauvist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Force #6
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left. 47.25 x 47.25 inches 48.75 x 48.75 inches (framed) Custom fram...
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1960s French School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Spring Landscape', Paris, Danish Post-Impressionist oil, Charlottenborg Palace
By Ejnar Kragh
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, sunlit landscape showing a fruit-tree in blossom in the foreground with verdant fields receding towards rolling hills beneath turquoise and lavender clouds. Signed ...
Category

1940s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique American Impressionist Signed Still Life Framed Interior Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted American modernist still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 22H by 28L.
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1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Landscape, large mid-century green painting, COBRA art movement
Located in Beachwood, OH
Erik Ortvad (Danish, 1917 - 2008) Abstract Landscape, 1946 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 32 X 37.5 inches 35 x 40.5 inches, framed Born in 1917 in Copenhagen, Erik Ortvad was a surrealist painter and a founding member of the COBRA art...
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1940s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fox hunting oil on canvas painting painted with four hands
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Painted with four hands. Josep Padró Gonzalez (1904-1982) and Pedro Serra Farnés (1890-1974). Oil measurements 47x62 cm. Frame measurements 70x85 cm.
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1940s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still life with flowers and apples. 1964. Cardboard, oil, 63x50.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with flowers and apples. 1964. Cardboard, oil, 63x50.5 cm
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1960s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Period New York Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive and amazing mid 1900s abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Old town on the Bay in Baja Mexico Original Oil painting on Linen by Palavicini
Located in Soquel, CA
Old town on the Bay in Baja Mexico Original Oil painting on Linen by Palavicini Old Village in Baja Mexico by unknown Mexico artist Palavicini. (Mexico 20...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Abstract Fall Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category

1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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1940s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Flowers, Plants and Pumpkins)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Flowers, Plants and Pumpkins) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 in...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Spring Fantasy, Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky (American 1883-1962) Spring Fantasy, 1948 Oil on artist's board Signed lower right and verso 16 x 13 inches 20 x 17 inches, framed Impressionist painter A.G. Warshaw...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Village de l’arrière pays Niçois (Sud de la France) - Huile sur toile, 92x73 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
paysage des colline e village dans l’arrière pays Niçois. Encadré Edouard Planchais : 1909-1985
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
Located in New York, NY
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century Agnes Hart (American, 1912-1979) "Union Square, New York City" Sight: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches Gouache...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

California Spring Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Norma Josephine Shug Rodriguez– American (1906- 2006) Title: untitled - California Spring Landscape Year: ca 1965 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 24 x 36 inches Framed size: 32 x 44 inches Signature: Signed lower left Condition: Very good Frame: framed. Frame in poor condition This painting by Norma Rodriguez is composed of oil on canvas. The painting depicts a spring landscape in the hills of California. The painting is in very good condition. The inexpensive frame is in good condition except there is a stain in the upper right linen liner. Therefore, I am rating the frame in poor condition. Please see the pictures. I will ship the painting only, without the frame unless the buyer specifies otherwise. Born in San Francisco, California on June 14, 1906. Norma Shug began painting in 1923 and studied locally at the California School of Fine Arts, University of San Francisco, and with Maria von Ridelstein. Married in 1926, as Norma Marotto she did botanical illustrations of California wildflowers...
Category

1960s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"BLUEBONNET HILLTOP" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FRAMED 17.25 X 21.25
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 17.25 x 21.25 Medium: Oil "Bluebonnet Hill Top" Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I was always curious about Pedr...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

1940’s Florida Impressionist Beach Scene Artist Federal Housing Commission
Located in New York, NY
James Mcgibbon Brown 1892 - 1974 Oil on Panel 20x24 inches sight 24x28 inch overall signed lower right good Condition Image depicts a wonderful Beach Scene with Palm Trees rare a...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Provence Landscape - Large Mid 20th Century French Cubist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large c.1960 French oil on paper laid on board cubist influenced landscape by Oleg Zinger. The work depicts a summer landscape with white build...
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1960s Cubist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Laid Paper

Sierra Mountain Waterfall, Vintage California Landscape w. Ornate Giltwood Frame
Located in Soquel, CA
Sierra Mountain Waterfall, Vintage California Landscape w. Ornate Giltwood Frame Beautiful large-scale vertical landscape of a majestic waterfall in the Sierra Mountains by Califor...
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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting
By Marguerite Rousseau
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting Marguerite Rousseau was born in 1888 in Belgium died in 1948. She is known​ for her French Impressionist style in her earlier work, she was painting parks...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Carmel Coast', California Plein Air Impressionist oil, Oakland Museum, Stanford
By Francis Harvey Cutting
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'F.H. Cutting' and dated '1932-1948'. Born in Iowa in 1872, Francis Harvey Cutting moved to San Jose, California in 1893 where he st...
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

Tarrasso square. House in the countryside. Original acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Les Guilleries. Original oil on canvas Casimiro Martínez Tarrassó, a painter known simply as Tarrassó. He was trained at the La Llotja School in Barcelona. He completed his studies i...
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1940s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Running River. Oil painting on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Stephen DENISON 1909 - 1965 Canvas Size: 20 x 24" (50 x 60cm) Outside Frame size: 27 x 31" (69 x 79cm) Signed and dated 1948 A wonderful example of Modern British art. This Englis...
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique European Paris School Impressionist Cityscape Framed Early Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European impressionist cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 28 by 33 inches overall and 22.5 by 27.25 painting alone
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boats on the beach oil on board painting spanish seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Nicolás Raurich Petre - Costa Brava - Oil on board Oil mesures 14x23 cm. Frame mesures 31x40 cm.
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

"The Partridge", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist Benjamín Palencia
Located in Madrid, ES
BENJAMÍN PALENCIA Spanish, 1894 - 1980 THE PARTRIDGE signed & dated "B. Palencia, 66" (lower right) oil on canvas 25-3/4 x 21-3/8 inches (65 x 54 cm....
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1960s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Pacific Surf, San Diego', Worcester Art Museum School, San Bernadino College
By Richard Gabriel Chase
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Richard Gabriel Chase' (American, 1919-2007) and painted circa 1960. Born in Massachusetts, Chase first studied at the Worcester Art Museum School, later earning his degree from Massachusetts College of Art. He subsequently studied privately with Ernest Major...
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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Graphite

Village view by Baldo Guberti - Oil on paper and canvas 38x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on paper (glued on canvas) sold with frame Wooden frame with glass Total size with frame 56x48 cm Baldo GUBERTI is an artist born in Italy in 1907 and died in 1974. His works h...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sea Cliffs, Oil on Board Painting by American Artist John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sea Cliffs (54) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)
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1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Dover
By James Twitty
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed "Twitty" at lower right
Category

1960s Abstract Geometric Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Linen

Mid Century Rocky Stream Impressionist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape painting of large boulders in a rushing stream by listed California artist James Russell Ford (American, 1888-1963). Signed lower right: "J.R. Ford." ...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Fiberboard, Canvas

Along the Seine, Modern French Cityscape Painting by Jacques Pergel 1968
Located in Long Island City, NY
French Cityscape by Jacques Pergel, French (1924) Date: 1968 Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm) Frame Size: 31 x 43 inches
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mutual Admiration" Flower Mid-Century Modern Oil Painting Monterey Artist Mid-Century Modern painting of a little blonde girl in a white apron adoring her flowers by Monterey Artist Rose Marie (Smith) Ansel, (American, 1921-2012) Rose Marie was born and lived in the Monterey area all her life. She volunteered in various city government associations and founded the Parade of Nations in 1970 which celebrated the many ethnic cultures on the Monterey Peninsula...
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1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Still life. 1964. Oil on cardboard, 61x78 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life. 1964. Oil on cardboard, 61x78 cm
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1960s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

1969 Listed Italian Artist Araldo Ariano Large Oil Painting, Genre Scene, 1969
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original oil painting on canvas by Listed Italian Artist Araldo Ariano (XX century). The painting depicts a picturesque scene set in a historic European town, char...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

'The Artist's Garden', Munich Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, PAFA, Corcoran
By Julius Moessel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Moessel' for Julius Moessel (American, 1872-1960) and dated 1943; additionally titled verso, 'In the Artist's Garden'. A substantial, mid-century horticultural oi...
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1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century French Street Scene Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful French street scene by Ruth Williams Brickner, (American, 1926-2015). Signed "Ruth Brickner" lower right and verso. Williams above lower and Ruth Williams on verso. Circa 1950's. Image size, 16"H x 20.75"L. Impressionist painter from Los Altos...
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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed lower right watercolour and gouache painting on ar...
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

Antique American Modernist Framed New York City Street Scene Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely framed early American modernist cityscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 16 by 20 inches.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Vibrant Taos New Mexico Desert Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully vibrant Taos, New Mexico landscape painting by unknown artist , Circa 1940. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size: 6"H x 8"W.
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Cardboard

Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 15H x 23L.
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1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Spring Landscape', Paris, Modernist Oil, Danish Royal Academy, Charlottenborg
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Rorup' for Viggo Julius Rorup (Danish, 1903-1971) and dated 1966. A large and lyrical spring landscape showing white apple-blossoms contrasted against a cora...
Category

1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Cityscape 1960 Oil Painting Signed Chait Expressionist NYC City Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a bold, abstracted city scene. It appears to be New York City, It could be any large metropolis with skyscrapers and a bustle to it. It is signed S. Chait and signed with ini...
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1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Mountain Lake - Mid Century Modern Landscape with Heavy Impasto in Oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Mountain Lake - Mid Century Modern Landscape with Heavy Impasto in Oil Idyllic landscape by L. Hutchings (20th Century). Dramatic mountains rise over a blue lake, partially reflecte...
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1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

"Landscape Scene of Mexican Villagers" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1971 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his landscape paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout. Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.” By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners. In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
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1960s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Antique American Modernist Framed Flower Girl Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist portrait and landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 18H by 14L.
Category

1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

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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