Jane Wooster Scott

American Female Modernist Folk Art Street Scene Rare Illustration Oil Painting

1950

An original oil on canvas painting by American female artist Enid Smiley. Enid Smiley (1924-2004) American New York. Born as Enid Ginsberg and later the family name changed to Gilb...

Antique American modernist New York City dock scene. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period modern molding. Excellent condition, ready to...

Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting by Ralph Von Lehmden (Born 1908). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 15 by 22 inches overall and 13 by 20 painting alone.

Impressive early American modernist carnival scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 14H by 18L.

This mid 19th Century, 25" x 30", oil on canvas, Folk Art hunting scene was painted in 1852, and signed and dated by an illegible artist. It is framed in a reproduction wood frame.

19th century English Folk Art Landscape with Cottage. This charming English Victorian 19th-century folk art landscape is a delightful portrayal of pastoral life, blending a quaint t...

Streeter Blair Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois, 1949 Signed, titled, and dated lower left Oil on canvas 8 x 10 inches Primitive painter St...

A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art. It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life. Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15. Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins. Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night. He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art. Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years. He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...