Irving Manoir

California Landscape with Hay Shocks - 1940s Oil/Board - Trees & Mountains

circa 1940s

Lundbohm grew up in Fritsla, Sweden where his father was a fisherman. Sixten Lundbohm graduated in Gothenburg in 1913, and studied art history at the University of Gothenburg and at the same time studied at Valand's evening school. In the spring of 1914 he also attended Valand's painting school with Axel Erdmann as a teacher and started the autumn of the same year at Wilhelmson's paint school in Stockholm. Throughout his career, Lundbohm made a large number of painting trips in Europe, primarily to France and Spain, but also Norway and Denmark . His southern landscape and architecture motifs have a strict and monumental structure, akin to Ivan Aguéli...

Edmond Petitjean was born July 5, 1844, in Vosges. He made his debut at the Salon of 1874 and became a member of Salon of French Artists in 1883. He exhibited in Munich from 1890. H...

Gorgeous mid century Arts & Craft landscape of rolling Indiana farmland with haystacks, trees, and verdant hills in the distance by Harry E. Wood, Sr. (American, 1879-1951), 1948. Signed lower right; letter of provenance provided. Exhibited in New York's Salmugundi Art Club in 1948. Presented in gilt-toned frame. Image size: 14"H x 20"W. Framed size: 18"H x 23.50"W. Harry E. (Emsley) Wood, Sr., was born 26 September 1879 near Lexington, Illinois, the third child of Emsley Harrison Wood, Jr., and Florence Robinson Wood. The family moved to Indianapolis shortly after Harry was born. Florence Robinson Wood died around 1882 and Emsley Wood married Sallie Bunger Lewis eleven months later. Emsley Harrison Wood worked in various jobs, including real estate sales and as a grocery clerk. Harry E. Wood attended public schools in Indianapolis until about 1889 when he contracted Scrofulous, a strain of tuberculosis. The condition, coupled with his family's poverty, disrupted his formal education. He attended Manual Training High School in 1899 and worked as a cartoonist for the Indianapolis Star in 1900. Wood illustrated Our Public Servants, a column of political satire written by Kin Hubbard. Wood's affiliation with Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) as an educator began in fall 1900 when he returned to Manual Training High School as an assistant art instructor under Otto Stark...

Summer during the hay harvest Middle of the 1940s, oil on cardboard, 40,5x53 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of app...