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BREDOW Snow landscape moonlight night German Russian school romantic 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Albert BREDOW
Germany, 1828 – Moscow, 1899
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right "ABredow"
43 cm x 62 cm (67 x 85 cm with frame)
Albert Bredow is a German-Russian landscape painter, lit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Navy blue scene by Sergio Cecchi - Oil on canvas 38x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
This painting by Sergio Cecchi reflects the artist’s signature post-impressionist style with its evocative atmosphere, subtle use of light, and moody color palette. Cecchi often emph...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Barques a St. Florent Corse' . Boats at Saint Florent, Corsica. Pointillism
By Yvonne Canu
Located in St. Albans, GB
Yvonne Canu
1921 – 2008
Canvas Size: 18 x 21.5 (46 x 55cm)
Outside Frame Size: 25.5 x 29" (65 x 74cm)
Yvonne Canu is currently one of the most sought after contemporary pointillis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage California Moonlit Sea Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3457 Moonlit Sea Painting ,oil on canvas displayed in a pale blue wood frame.Signed by E.Mc Cormick April 1966.Image size 15 H x 19 W.
Excellent condition ,wear on the frame
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Attrib. John F. Herring Senior (1795-1865) - 19th Century Oil, Horse & Groom
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine 19th century tondo oil on canvas, attributed to master equine painter John F. Herring Senior (1795-1865). The painting depicts a groom on horseback exercising a small group of h...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking out from Ledwell by Rupert Aker, Impressionist art, Contemporary art
By Rupert Aker
Located in Deddington, GB
Looking out from Ledwell by Rupert Aker [2022]
original and hand signed by the artist
Oil on Canvas
Image size: H:50 cm x W:58 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:50 cm x W:58 cm x...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Barker Original painting on canvas cityscape, Paris street view, Signed, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This painting depicts a classic Parisian street scene, likely from a historical or romanticized perspective. The architecture, with its mansard roofs and ornate windows, is iconic of...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pheasant shooting
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Richard Barrett Davis (1782-1854)
Pheasant Shooting
Oil on board
Painting size - 17 x 21 in
Framed size - 21 1/2 x 25 1/2 in
Provenance
Chrisitie's, Sporting Art, 12th December 2012...
Category
19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vibrant Outdoor Flower Market in Nice French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vibrant Flower Market in Nice
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
oil on thick artist paper
painting : 16 x 20 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France,
Conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Playing Marbles, 1932 Chicago, Street Scene
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Attributed to Randolph LaSalle Coats (American, 1891 - 1957)
" Playing Marbles " 1932
Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
24" x 18"
Housed in a 3" Frame
Overall Size: 28 7/8" x 23 3/4"
...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Exhibited American New Hope PA Impressionist Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American impressionist landscape painting by Blanche Huntington Stanley. Oil on canvas. Exhibited. Signed. Handsomely framed.
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Mid Century French Modernism Abandoned Fiat Automobile Art Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Porcher, French, 1927,
La vieille 'Fiat abandonnée',
Oil on canvas modernist painting
Provenance: verso gallery label "Galerie Drouant-David St Honore Paris"
Hand signed and dated verso and along top to upper left
19 3/4 x 29, framed 22 x 31 1/2
It depicts an antique abandoned Italian Fiat car...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cranberry Bog, Bennet's Store, Duxbury, MA
By Greg Frank Harris
Located in San Francisco, CA
This richly-colored plein air painting is by the noted American artist Greg Frank Harris (1953- ). It is composed of oil on linen and is signed in the lower right. On the reverse, it is signed by the artist and titled, “Cranberry Bog...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water in Oil and Tempera on Paper
Wonderful Bay Area abstract composition by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg ...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Tempera
Large Antique American Signed Abstract Sandy Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted mid century abstract beach scene. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed elegantly.
Category
1940s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Western Landscape Pike's Peak Colorado Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted antique American impressionist western landscape painting; Oil on canvas. Signed. Handsomely framed and ready to hang.
Category
1920s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golden Eagle of Scottish Highlands - Scottish art bird landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning Scottish oil painting is by noted landscape artist Douglas Falconer. Painted circa 1960 the composition is of a seated golden eagle in a mountainous highland landscape....
Category
1960s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Clecy - Le Viaduc - Post Impressionist Riverscape Oil By Hugues Claude Pissarro
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled pastel on paper circa 1970 by French artist Hugues Claude Pissarro. The piece depicts a view of the Viaduct de Clecy - a bridge over the River Orne in Clecy in the ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Boulevard of flowers Barcelona Spain oil on burlap painting spanish urbanscape
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Barcelona - Oil on burlap
Oil measures 73x60 cm.
Frameless..
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Cata...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Gather - original artwork - abstract mixed media painting - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of “Gather,” an orig...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Market Scene After Jacob Lawrence
By After Jacob Lawrence
Located in Pasadena, CA
Oil painting after Jacob Armstead Lawrence .
He was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism," an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Angler Fishing Tranquil River Landscape Bluebell Woods English Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Bluebell Woods
by Paul Morgan, English 20th century
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 22.5 x 30.5 inches
board : 17.5 x 26 inches
Provenance: private collection, Surrey, Englan...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nautical New England Realist Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful seaside boathouse painting by Franklin Shores (1942-2020).
Watercolor on rag paper measuring 22 x 29 inches.
Signed lower right. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Collec...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Emerald Manner - Contemporary Still Life Flowers Fruit Landscape Green, 2024
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary oil painting on canvas, a bright and inviting interior scene is set with a still life arrangement of flowers in a green bottle, painted patterned china and fruit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Village Hillside On Green Rolling Hills Oil Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Verdant Hills
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on artist paper
size: 19 x 26 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This expressive ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Follower of Matisse, 20th Century French Oil Pink House in South of France
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, follower of Henri Matisse
Title: The Pink House.
Medium: oil on board, framed
Framed: 22.5 x 25.5 inches
Painting: 15 x 18 inches...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wild Sensations
Located in THOMERY, FR
"Wild Sensations" – Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70 cm
In this vibrant and sun-drenched piece, freedom takes shape through the fluid movement of a young woman gliding on her skateboard, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Honfleur, original 24x18 French impressionist marine landscape
By Jim Rodgers
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Under a captivating aquamarine blue sky dotted with sumptuous white clouds, the northern sunlight graces Honfleur, France while blessing the generations of artists who have migrated...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Cafe by the Beach in the Summer" Impressionist Oil Painting Canvas with Figures
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon at the Waterfront Cafe in Paris by Jules René Hervé. This piece takes place on a summer day with busy activities of figures l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Clearing Storm (En Plein Air Landscape Painting of Country Mountains & Grey Sky)
Located in Hudson, NY
Modern en plein air landscape oil painting on canvas of countryside mountains and grey sky
'Clearing Storm' by Joseph Rapp
18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas
19...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1953 Mid Century Modern Swedish Vintage Landscape Oil Painting - Rolling Greens
Located in Bristol, GB
ROLLING GREENS
Size: 60 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century modernist landscape painting that features a serene rural scene characterised by geometric simplicity an...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Shire Horse & Man by Woodland River in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Shire Horse & Man by Woodland River in the English Countryside by British Artist, Peter J Greenhill
Art measures 24 x 18 inches
Frame measures 30 x...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Deansgate in the Rain Manchester City Street Scene England by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Deansgate in the Rain - an Original Painting of a City Street Scene in Manchester, England, by British Cityscape Artist Angela Wakefield. It captures the changing nature of Mancheste...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Pillar Point Fishing Dock, Half Moon Bay - Mid Century Landscape
By William Winthrop Ward
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautifully detailed mid-century coastal landscape of Pillar Point Fishing Dock near Half Moon Bay, California by William Winthrop Ward (American, 1901-1985). Signed lower left: "W. ...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Vintage American Beach Scene Monogrammed Nature Study Modernist Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 16L x 20H.
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bastille Paris" Oil on Canvas Parisian Street Scene & Figures Framed Painting
Located in New York, NY
A vibrant and colorful Parisian city scene by Australian Mollie Flaxman. Captured in a very impressionist manner 'The Bastille' which was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the B...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Winter Solstice: pointillist impressionist Winterscape snow landscape painting
By André Bourrie
Located in Norwich, GB
Like every true master painter, André Bourrie had a unique, distinctive style - an inimitable blend of neo-impressionism and pointillism which, while dra...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Framed Modernist Fall Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting by Frank Barry. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 27 by 31 inches overall and 18 by 22 painting alone. Nicely framed in a wood...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beures Saulx, José Salvaggio, 21st Century Contemporary Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
José Salvaggio, pedal artist from France, at Galerie Bonnard! The French artist José Salvaggio finds his subject in the French world around him. You do...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
L'avenue des Champs-Elysees - Impressionist Figurative Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1950 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This stunning and wonderfully coloured work depicts a view of The Av...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Finely Painted Framed Antique American Impressionist Fall Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 20 by 25 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Serene, ca. 1940s, Western Landscape Painting with Horses by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A serene, ca. 1940s, Western landscape painting with horses by artist Francis Chapin. In a brown, wooden frame. Image size: 22" x 28". Framed size: 25" x 31". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doctor Lake, Wisconsin Landscape, Burnett County
By George Raab
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
George Raab (American, 1866 - 1943)
Signed: G. Raab 1912 (Lower, Right)
" Doctor Lake ", 1912
Oil on Canvas
18" x 22"
Housed in a 3" Period Carved Frame in the style of Newcomb ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Style Painting, Signed Brundell
Located in New York, NY
G. Brundell
Untitled, c. Early 20th Century
Oil on canvas
Sight: 10 x 18 in.
Framed: 19 7/8 x 27 7/8 x 2 in.
Signed lower left
Category
Early 20th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antoon De Vaere (1900-1989) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Village View
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming study depicts a back street of a continental town in rich colours and bold forms. The artist has used a impasto technique in the foreground to create a contrast in text...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunlit Fields and Shadowed Peaks in a Mountainous French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunlit Field Landscape
dated 1994
signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary)
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 20 x 25.5 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from a ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Mod Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris, Hotel des Saint Pères - Oil on Masonite by F. De Pisis - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on Masonite realized by the Artist in 1948.
Includes a coeval wooden frame.
Artist paints the Hotel where he used to live in Paris during those years.
Note, title, date ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Paris in the Rain', Large French School Post-Impressionist oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marda' (French, 20th century) and inscribed verso 'Street Scene by Marda #4'.
A substantial, mid-century oil cityscape showing a view of a rainy Parisian boulev...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Misty Bayou" HAZE. ONE OF HIS BEST Dated 1917 Alexander Drysdale (1870-1934)
By Alexander John Drysdale
Located in San Antonio, TX
Alexander John Drysdale
(1870-1934)
New Orleans Louisiana / New York Artist
Size: 20 x 30
Frame: 26 x 36
Medium: Oil Wash? Watercolor?
Dated: 1917
"Misty Bayou" Housed in the original magnificent frame.
Alexander John Drysdale (1870-1934) New Orleans Louisiana / New York Artist
Alexander John (A.J.) Drysdale was an early 20th century Louisiana artist who specialized in landscapes using the technique of oil wash, that gave his works a characteristic of a hazy look. Drysdale made use of this technique by diluting the oil paint with kerosene and applying it with cotton balls. Alexander John Drysdale, born in Marietta, Georgia on March 2, 1870, came to New Orleans at the age of fifteen with his parents. His father, Reverend Alexander J. Drysdale, became the rector of Christ Church Cathedral. Alex received private tutoring from a Professor Mehado and art lessons from Ida Hackell at the Southern Art Union. Later in New Orleans (1887) he studied art under Paul Poincy (1833-1909). The exact date of Drysdale's arrival in New York is unknown, but he enrolled in the Art Students League where he received instruction from Charles C. Curran and Frank Vincent DuMond. Apparently, he remained in New York for about five years and did not go to Europe for further study. After some time, Drysdale began specializing in landscapes, executed in a tonalist manner.
Back in New Orleans, Drysdale was inspired by local subjects, especially swamp or bayou areas and other desolate wetlands. Over a period of many years Drysdale's landscapes evolved to a unique stylistic maturity. In 1909 he received a gold medal from the New Orleans Art Association. It is easy to see the influence of two artists that he admired: Corot and Inness. Working equally well in oil and watercolor (he also did scenes in charcoal), Drysdale usually divided his scene into halves or thirds, typically, a foreground consisting of tall swamp grasses achieved with broad vertical strokes; a middle ground consisting of a backdrop row of trees at the horizon line executed with staccato, jabbing strokes resulting in textural contrast; and a background devoted totally to a tonalist-like moisture-laden sky often hazy with no clouds or only a slight indication of them. This formulaic compositional format rendered with an economy of technique resulted in imagery with repetitious forms and shapes diffused in a nebulous space. In this regard, Drysdale's works are impressionistic; he also tended to use the violets and blues of the impressionist palette. Yet he lacked a specific interest in color and light. Although his expression of the Louisiana scenery is very personal, even mystical, the artist appears to have been very limited in subject matter. One of his last works was a mural for the Shushan (New York) Airport administration building, and shortly before his death he was employed as an artist by the Civil Works Administration.
Drysdale was a member of the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans, and his work was in the permanent collection of the Delgado Museum for many years. The artist worked at his studio at 320 Exchange Place in the picturesque Vieux Carré until his death at the age of sixty-three. Stewart (in Painting in the South, 1983), describes how Drysdale was a shrewd businessman. He would solicit new homeowners who might need a canvas to decorate a wall, or a cotton broker who recently made the headlines. Drysdale died in New Orleans, on February 9, 1934.
Sources:
Louisiana Artists from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. James W. Nelson. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University, 1968; Wiesendanger, Martin and Margaret Wiesendanger, Nineteenth Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings from the Collection of W. E. Groves. New Orleans: W. E. Groves Gallery, 1971, pp. 44-45; Painting in the South: 1584-1980, Exh. cat. Richmond, VA: Virginia Museum, 1983, pp. 106-107, 114, 276; Chambers, Bruce W., Art and Artists of the South: The Robert P. Coggins Collection of American Paintings. Exh. cat. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, 1984, p. 88; Zellman, Michael David, 300 Years of American Art. Seacacus, NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1987, p. 634; Gerdts, William H., Art across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting, 1710-1920. New York: Abbeville Press, 1990, vol. 2, pp. 110-111.
Submitted by Richard H. Love and Michael Preston Worley, Ph.D.
Biography from The Johnson Collection
ALEXANDER JOHN DRYSDALE (1870–1934)
Born in Marietta, Georgia, Alexander John Drysdale was the only son of an ordained Episcopal priest whose ministry required frequent moves to parishes in Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. In 1883, he accepted the call to become dean of Christ Church Cathedral, New Orleans, and was later elected a bishop. Alexander, thirteen years old when the family settled in New Orleans, began his art studies under the instruction of Ida C. Haskell, a California-born artist who was on the faculty of the recently established Southern Art Union. The local academy had been founded by several leading artists, including Andres Molinary, William Henry Buck...
Category
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Spanish landscape oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Landscape of Olot
Artist: Joaquim Marsillach Codony (1905-1986)
Year: 1945
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 23.6 x 28.7 in (60 x 73 cm)
Location: Olot School, Catalonia
Mo...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Company For Supper" - Original Oil on Canvas, After Dale Nichols
By Dale Nichols
Located in Soquel, CA
"Company For Supper" - After Dale Nichols
"Company For Supper" oil on canvas painting by Arlene a mid-west artist (American, 20th Century). Painted by an anonymous artist in the sty...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Stretcher Bars
1996 Modernist Swedish Coastal Landscape Oil Painting - Coastal Tranquillity
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL TRANQUILLITY
Size: 46 X 63 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
This serene composition that captures the essence of a quiet coastal village, executed in oil onto canvas and d...
Category
1990s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist New England Beach Dune Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Well painted mid 1900's impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Impressionist Oil Painting Gustave Cimioti 1875-1969 Marine Monhegan
By Gustave Cimiotti Jr.
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Gustave Cimioti Jr.
Monhegan
oil/canvas board signed LR
15.88 x 19.88 unframed, 21.19 x 25.07 framed
Good original condition in period frame. Possibly original
Biography:
Gustave Ci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas
(1910-1973)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 25 x 30
Frame Size: 34 x 39
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Circa 1950
"Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet
Biography
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973)
Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas.
From
the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained
one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works
remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of
the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the
state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become
widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President
Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam
Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so
enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be
associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio
Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the
Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are
included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art.
Porfirio
Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop,
Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas
(1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a
hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to
give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father
was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the
scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of
the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist.
For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently
to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop,
Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of
pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the
middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as
well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of
Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to
Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family.
As a child growing up in
the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted
incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work
that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later
in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose
textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed."
Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching
artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter,
Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the
most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older,
professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to
leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a
professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a
career with any future for his son.
When Salinas was about
fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met
Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to
work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from
Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was
already an established professional artist, he did not have a great
deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the
academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to
augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas
was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San
Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to
sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the
English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills
outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of
fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of
Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they
changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious
work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in
the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a
1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist
Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in
one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint
them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is
accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent
young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long.
The
formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas
Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the
eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of
paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio
from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring,
the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic
Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the
United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis
Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's
reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River
City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the
area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had
already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their
home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held,
more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers
saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state
and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning
paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young
Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors
- Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in
the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take
several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for
"Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still
on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately,
Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable
endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after
they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make
wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist
Texas collectors.
In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas
hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the
sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner
by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young
artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were
settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert
Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small
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