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Period: 1930s
Mediterranean Sea, Impressionist Seascape, Original Vintage Oil on Canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This oil on canvas by Louis Jacques Vigon captures the essence of Impressionism, a movement originating in France in the 1860s. Impressionism is charac...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Evening in Paris - 20th Century Oil, Figures in Cityscape at Night - Louis Hayet
By Louis Hayet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A wonderful oil on canvas by Louis Hayet depicting figures in a cityscape at evening time. Signed and dated 1932 lower left.
Louis Hayet had a difficult and itinerant childhood, due to the instability of his father, an amateur artist. He began to draw and produce watercolours from the age of 12. By the age of 20 he produced works with great skill, as demonstrated by his pen drawing Boulevard, Evening, Paris. He made a living in Paris doing various jobs more or less to do with painting. He associated with Camille and Lucien Pissaro...
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Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Antique West Indies Landscape oil Painting" Flying Duck In The Sunset" 1938
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3044 West Indies ,Culebra island of Puerto Rico ,oil on artist board, displayed in a wood frame, signed backward by Ericson 1936.
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
ROBJ, Large Oil on canvas, Wall Panel, Couple near the Pound, 1930
By ROBJ
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas signed ROBJ, France, 1930s. Couple near the Pound. with frame - 134.6x107x7 cm - 53"x42"x2.75" ; without frame - 116x89 cm - 45.7x35 inches. 50F format. Signed "Robj" l...
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Art Deco 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Tabac" Charles Green Shaw, Tobacco, Smoking, Park Ave Cubist, AAA
Located in New York, NY
Charles Green Shaw
Tabac, circa 1935
Signed on the reverse
Oil on canvasboard
5 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
Provenance:
Washburn Gallery, New York, 1982
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's, The Collector, October 20, 2021, Lot 307
Private Collection, Scarsdale, New York (acquired directly from the above)
Literature:
Hilton Kramer, "Charles Shaw: In the Minimal Tradition," New York Times, February 21, 1982, Section 2, p. 25.
Charles Green Shaw was born in 1892 to a wealthy New York family. He lost both his parents at a very young age; his mother died when he was just three years old. Despite the early loss of his parents, Shaw lived the whimsical life of a New York socialite. As a beneficiary to an inheritance based in part upon the Woolworth fortune, he was brought up surrounded by the well-bred, well-groomed and well-moneyed citizens of New York’s elite social class. His social status as an adolescent was cultivated while spending summers in Newport and attending Christmas balls at Mrs. W.K. Vanderbilt’s. At age six, Shaw began to take an interest in drawing, and by nine, he was known to have a fondness for sketching historical costumes.
After graduating from Yale University in 1914, Shaw spent a year studying at Columbia University’s School of Architecture. Subsequently he served for eighteen months as a Lieutenant in World War I. After his service, Shaw returned to New York and tried his hand as a businessman selling real estate, but his attempt was short lived.
In the early 1920s, Shaw began his career as a journalist and novelist. He achieved professional success, writing consistently for magazines such as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Smart Set. Shaw’s writing was a record of his approvals and disapprovals of the social crowd to which he belonged. His profession along with his social pedigree, brought him in contact with a number of the most significant figures of the 1920s such as, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, George Gershwin, George Jean Nathan and the American artist George Luks. Some of his profiles included celebrity caricatures used as illustrations, these were the publics’ first look at Shaw’s artistic ability. In 1928, a collection of Shaw’s articles and interviews were published in one volume titled, The Low Down.
Just previous to the stock market crash and the end of the Jazz Age, Shaw left New York and traveled to Paris and London. He arrived in Paris in 1929. In an autobiographical note Shaw suggests it was on this trip when he first began to paint seriously. London also acted as a great source of motivation for the budding artist. He began to sketch everyday in St. James’s Park, making large pastels of its vistas in the style of Cezanne. When he returned to New York in 1932, Shaw considered himself a painter.
Success for Shaw came quickly with his first solo exhibition mounted at the Valentine Gallery in 1934. The following year Albert Eugene Gallatin included works by the artist in an unprecedented solo exhibition at his Gallery of Living Art at New York University. Shaw further cemented his reputation as an artist through his association and friendship with fellow abstract artists Morris and Gallatin. The trio soon was regarded as ‘the Park Avenue Cubists’.
As a founding member of the American Abstract Artists, Shaw became an impassioned defender of the style. His 1938 essay in the American Abstract Artists yearbook, “A Word to the Objector”, acted as a defense against those who failed to see the illustrative quality of abstract art and scolded those who disregarded American artists as serious Abstractionists. He was also an influential force at the Museum of Modern Art, where he sat on the Advisory Board from 1936 to 1941.
In the later years of Shaw’s life he continued to produce abstract paintings, yet in a more private manner. He was known to be a reserved man— a ‘gentleman’; not much is known about his personal life in these later years. During this time he maintained his career as a writer, publishing the well-known children’s book, It Looked Like Spilt Milk in 1940 and two books of poems in 1959 and 1962.
In 1974, Shaw died...
Category
Cubist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Two Wagons, Bucks County, PA 20th Century Farm Landscape
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905–1981)
Two Wagons, Bucks County, PA, 1934
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
20 x 24 inches
30 x 34 inches, framed
Born in Codroipo, a small villag...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lovely little painting of a Dutch winter landscape with icescaters and church
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Johannes Petrus Franciskus 'Piet' Kraus (1909 - 1974)
Dutch winter landscape with icescaters and church
Signed lower right, but difficult to read, attributed to Piet Kraus by a Dutch...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
View of Venice, Original Antique Oil on Canvas, Impressionist, Large, Signed
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This maritime scene is reminiscent of the Impressionist fascination with water, light, and atmosphere. The painting features a lighthouse and architect...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mazots and Matterhorn
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gondolier on a Canal - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Antoine Bouvard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1930 by French painter Antoine Bouvard Snr. The work depicts a gondolier sailing a gondola on a Venetian Canal. The last light of t...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981)
Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Fighter Planes
17 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Gouache, Airbrush and Ink on Illustration Board, 1938
Signed A. Ross lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist.
BIO
Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure.
In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood
and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935.
He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2.
It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war.
Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959.
He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job.
Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955.
They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross.
He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Board
La Senna a Parigi Olio cm. 42 x 34 1930
Located in Torino, IT
Piccolo olio che raffigura un angolo di Parigi, La senna e una piccola Chiatta
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venezia Olio su tavoletta cm. 30 x 19 1930
Located in Torino, IT
Veduta di Venezia dal Canal Grande,si vede campanile e piazza San Marco
Piccola opera olio su tavoletta in legno del pittore Milanese Del Bon
Pittor...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
La Porte Saint Denis, Paris - Post Impressionist Cityscape Oil by Lucien Genin
By Lucien Génin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on original canvas figures in landscape circa 1930 by French post impressionist painter Lucien Genin. The work is centred around the Porte Saint-Denis - a triumphal arch located in Paris, France. The street is bustling with city-goers and cars pass by the tall buildings painted in red, yellow and white.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 27"x31"
Unframed: 20"x24"
Provenance:
Private French collection
Lucien Génin came from a family of stone-cutters. He first studied at the art school in Rouen, then in 1919 entered the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. He settled in Montmartre early in the 1920s, and in 1936 moved to the Latin Quarter. Although he had received a thorough training, he created his own completely spontaneous technique aiming at approaching his subjects with a fresh look. Beside a few views of Rouen, Lorient, Dinan and Villefranche-sur-Mer, Génin specialised in the popular theme of views of Paris. He worked swiftly, making rapid jottings, and thus could produce many paintings. At auction his pictures were sometimes sold in lots. He painted both in oils and in gouache.
Lucien Génin showed work at the Salon d'Automne in 1926 and 1930. His work featured at the Marcel Aymé and the Painters exhibition, Galerie Roussard...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Country Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A serene impressionist landscape with wonderful use of colors.
Fernand Toussaint was born in Brussels 1873. He is remembered for his still-lifes and figurative subjects.
Framed size ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Capri
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
58.5 x 48.5 x 3 cm
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
English Impressionist mid 20th century view of Piccadilly Circus, trams London
Located in Woodbury, CT
Pietro Sansalvadore was active during the early to middle of the 20th century.
He painted in an Impressionist manner and on a small scale.
Acquiring a late 19th-century Impressionist painting of Hammersmith Bridge by the Italian painter Pietro Sansalvadore is an opportunity to own a captivating piece of art that transcends both time and cultural boundaries. Sansalvadore's unique perspective, influenced by the Impressionist movement, infuses this painting with a luminous quality that captures the atmospheric essence of Hammersmith Bridge in a way that only a skilled artist with an international perspective could achieve.
This masterpiece not only showcases the artist's mastery in capturing light and movement but also represents a harmonious fusion of Italian artistic sensibilities with the iconic English landmark. The play of colors and the subtle brushstrokes transport the viewer to the late 19th century, offering a glimpse into the allure and dynamism of that period.
Owning this painting is not just acquiring a visual delight; it's investing in a historical and cultural artifact...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Impressionist mid 20th century view of Trafalgar Square, Nelsons Column London
Located in Woodbury, CT
Pietro Sansalvadore was active during the early to middle of the 20th century.
He painted in an Impressionist manner and on a small scale.
Acquiring a late 19th-century Impressionist painting of Hammersmith Bridge by the Italian painter Pietro Sansalvadore is an opportunity to own a captivating piece of art that transcends both time and cultural boundaries. Sansalvadore's unique perspective, influenced by the Impressionist movement, infuses this painting with a luminous quality that captures the atmospheric essence of Hammersmith Bridge in a way that only a skilled artist with an international perspective could achieve.
This masterpiece not only showcases the artist's mastery in capturing light and movement but also represents a harmonious fusion of Italian artistic sensibilities with the iconic English landmark. The play of colors and the subtle brushstrokes transport the viewer to the late 19th century, offering a glimpse into the allure and dynamism of that period.
Owning this painting is not just acquiring a visual delight; it's investing in a historical and cultural artifact...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Bailing Hay
42 x 40 inches
Oil on paper c. 1930s
Signed lower right
Unframed
Our gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, "Jo Cain: Echoes of an Era," a tribute to the enduring legacy of Joseph Lambert Cain and a celebration of his art that transcends time and remains relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are available on 1stDibs.
BIO
JOSEPH LAMBERT CAIN (1904–2003)
A painter, muralist, and art educator, Joseph Cain...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Impressionist mid century view of Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames London
Located in Woodbury, CT
Pietro Sansalvadore was active during the early to middle of the 20th century.
He painted in an Impressionist manner and on a small scale.
Acquiring a late 19th-century Impressionist painting of Hammersmith Bridge by the Italian painter Pietro Sansalvadore is an opportunity to own a captivating piece of art that transcends both time and cultural boundaries. Sansalvadore's unique perspective, influenced by the Impressionist movement, infuses this painting with a luminous quality that captures the atmospheric essence of Hammersmith Bridge in a way that only a skilled artist with an international perspective could achieve.
This masterpiece not only showcases the artist's mastery in capturing light and movement but also represents a harmonious fusion of Italian artistic sensibilities with the iconic English landmark. The play of colors and the subtle brushstrokes transport the viewer to the late 19th century, offering a glimpse into the allure and dynamism of that period.
Owning this painting is not just acquiring a visual delight; it's investing in a historical and cultural artifact...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Arley - Staffordshire Heights England Landscape and Meadows by Melin
Located in Soquel, CA
Arley - Staffordshire Heights England Landscape and Meadows by Melin
Wonderful landscape of Arley in Staffordshire Heights by A. Melin (English, 19th-20th C.) English Country road in...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Impressionistic View over Strandvägen, Stockholm
Located in Stockholm, SE
This painting by Bernhard Oscarsson (1894-1977) is a captivating visual narrative of Stockholm's serene beauty. Oscarsson, a student of Caleb Althin's painting school and the Royal S...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Outer Banks North Carolina - Fishing Boats Oil on Canvas 1930s
Located in Soquel, CA
The Outer Banks North Carolina - Fishing Boats Oil on Canvas 1930s
Oil painting depicting two wooden canoes on the Outer Banks North Caroli...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Canvas, Oil
"Ferme cauchaise" Tempera cm . 44 x 32 1930
Located in Torino, IT
Luminoso paesaggio della Francia del Nord
Tipica casa della regione della Normandia
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Cloth Fair - City of London Pre-War English Street Scene Oil on Board Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine c.1935 oil on board by Rex Vicat Cole which depicts a pre-war view down Cloth Fair, close to West Smithfield and St. Bartholomews Hospital, in the City of London. John George...
Category
Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Through The Redwoods - California Impressionism Circa 1930s
Located in Soquel, CA
Through The Redwoods - American Impressionist
American Impressionist oil painting depicting a forest of California redwood trees. A giant red...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rockport Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful 1931 painting by American artist, Giovanni Martino (1908-1997). Oil on canvas measures 25 x 30 inches. Measures 35 x 39 inches framed. The scene depicts what is definitivel...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1938 Chester Springs / Bucks County Modernist / - "Spring 1938" Woman artist!
Located in Exton, PA
Beautiful modernist / impressionist landscape by Marian Butler Ewald. The painting is oil on canvass measuring 24" x 27". Framed dimensions 31.5" x 34.5". The painting is signed en v...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with hermitage on board painting spanish Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Juan Gil y Gil (1900-1984) - Landscape with hermitage - Oil on panel
Oil measurements 27x35 cm.
Frameless
Painter. He began his artistic training in Paris, which he later continued ...
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Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape. 1937, oil on cardboard, 34x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. 1937, oil on cardboard, 34x40 cm
Reinhold Kasparsons (born 13/9/1889 in Cēsis, died 14/1966 in Riga), painter.
Born in a craftsman's family. Studied at Nītaure school, a...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Instow from Appledore, Oil Landscape, Signed and Dated 1938
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed and dated '38' bottom right
Original title inscription and date 'Nov 19th 1838' verso
Image size: 30 x 24 inches (76 1/4 x 61 cm)
Contemporary style hand made f...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mouth of Hermance by John Henri Deluc - Oil on canvas 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
John Henri DELUC is an artist born in Switzerland in 1868 and died in 1958. His works have been sold at public auction 17 times, mainly in the Paintin...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Road to Mount Whitney Landscape
By John Coultrup
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant mid century landscape of Mount Whitney by John Alfred Coultrup (American, 1888-1982), Signed/inscribed in the paint "Coultrup" lower left. Presen...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Sam's Breaghy Co Donegal - Scottish Impressionist 30's art oil painting Ireland
Located in London, GB
This stunning Impressionist oil painting is by Scottish artist Thomas Campbell Mackie. Painted shortly prior to 1934 the view is a street nocturne in County Donegal with a cart and h...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
PONCHARTRAIN Louisiana New Orleans Beach AMUSEMENT PARK Ferris Wheel CARNIVAL
By Laurence Edwardson
Located in New York, NY
Laurence Edwardson (1904-1995) was a prolific artist born in New Orleans
He painted modernist landscape, figures and portraits. His work includes many Louisiana landscapes, portrai...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"TEXAS HILLS AND VALLEYS" HILLCOUNTRY
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas
(1910-1973)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 9 x 7
Frame Size: 18 x 22.5
Medium: Oil
Circa late 1930s early 40s
"Texas Hills & Valleys"
Porfirio Salinas was a self-tau...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Park in Marrakesh - Ukrainian Russian Art
Located in London, GB
This is an original Oil Painting by the Ukrainian artist Elie Anatole Pavil.
It is hand signed by the artist at the lower right corner.
The reverse bears a label with the title and d...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Whitehall Building, July 1939 - Harbor Seascape with Tugboat in Watercolor
Detailed harbor landscape by Ernest Clegg (British, 1976-1954). The Whitehall Building towers over the sce...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lake View With Water Reflections by Swiss Artist Ernst Suter, Oil on Board, 1930
Located in Stockholm, SE
Presented here is a distinctive landscape by the Swiss artist Ernst Suter, a creator primarily known for his sculptural works, making this painting a noteworthy and rare acquisition....
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Peasants by the Farm - Ecole de Paris
By Isaac Pailes
Located in London, GB
This oil painting is signed by the artist "I Pailes" at the lower left corner.
The work was painted in circa 1930's.
Provenance: The Issachar Ber Frydman collection.
Acquired in Fr...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Chanctonbury Ring - Scottish Glasgow Boy art RA exh 1933 landscape oil painting
By George Henry
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish Impressionist Royal Academy exhibited landscape oil painting is by noted Scottish Glasgow Boy artist George Henry. He influenced the Glasgow School towards a ric...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishermen - Russian French
Located in London, GB
This oil painting is signed by the artist "I Pailes" at the lower right corner.
The work was painted in circa 1930's.
Provenance: The Issachar Ber Frydman collection.
Acquired in F...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Entombment - British art 30's oil painting religious landscape Jesus angels
Located in London, GB
A huge British adaptation of The Entombment. Oil/Tempera on panel by E G Tucker. The scene depicts Jesus being wrapped whilst the angels look on. The work was executed for The Roma...
Category
Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset Coastal Landscape - British Impressionist 1930s art seascape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted Royal Academician artist Sir Walter Westley Russell CVO, RA. As a landscape painter he painted mainly in Yorkshir...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Early 20th Century Modernist Male Lovers Gay Erotic Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed modernist nude male landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 14H.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Street (Untitled)
By Hananiah Harari
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Abstract Street (Untitled), 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 12 x 32 inches; provenance includes a private collection in Venice, California; presented in what is likely the artist's original handmade frame
About the Painting
The present work is the culmination of a series of mainly horizontal urban abstractions Harari completed between 1937 and 1939. Deeply influenced by Stuart Davis, Harari’s New York streetscapes began with clearly recognizable objects and landmarks as in Into New York (1937 - Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art), New York Harbor (1937), Up and Downtown (1938), and his other mural proposals for the Nurses Home on Welfare Island (1937) and the Williamsburg Housing Project (1938). At the end of the series, Harari’s vistas became increasingly abstract with broad planes of color representing buildings and streets, the slightest cross-hatching forming a bridge or elevated train track and the vague suggestion of a streetlight looping in the right center of the composition. Figures, birds, and a street vendor’s cart are reduced to pictograms scratched into the surface of the canvas. Abstract Street (Untitled) is among Harari’s most spare works of the 1930s and 1940s and calls to mind the seemingly childlike, but deeply sophisticated works of Paul Klee from the 1920s. It serves as an excellent reminder of why Harari was heralded as one of the earliest members of the American Abstract Artists.
About the Artist
Hananiah Harari was an artistic polyglot who was equally at home working in styles as diverse as Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Hard Edged Abstraction and trompe l’oeil Realism. A native of Rochester, New York, Harari initially studied as a child at the Memorial Art Gallery in his hometown and later as a scholarship student at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1932, Harari left for Paris where he befriended Nahum Tschacbasov, Benjamin Benno and John Graham and studied at the ateliers of Lhote, Leger and Gromaire. He also studied fresco painting at the Ecole de Fresque. By 1933, Harari had completed enough work and gained a sufficient reputation to have a solo exhibition at the American Club in Paris. The following year, Harari and his childhood friend and fellow artist Herzl Emanuel traveled to Palestine, where the artists worked hard in the orchards and fields of Kibbutz Deganiah, but produced little art. After returning to New York, Harari married Emanuel’s sister, Freda, and set out on the development of what noted scholar Gail Stavitsky has called an “original synthesis of the old and new." Harari became an early member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), an organization formed to give modernists exhibition opportunities. Harari was also a member of the socially conscious Artist’s Union and the American Artist’s Congress. From 1936 through 1942, Harari worked on the Federal Art Project and assisted Marion Greenwood on a project as part of the Mural Division, but to his disappointment did not lead his own project. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Harari completed a series of paired paintings with the same subject matter depicted in a Cubist manner and in trompe l’oeil Realism. Harari was acclaimed by Clement Greenberg and six of the artist’s works were selected for the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists. During World War II, Harari served in the US Army Air Corps. Following the war, Harari continued to produce fine art while also producing commercial art. During the McCarthy Era, Harari’s progressive politics and leftist leaning art...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism
By Maurice Kish
Located in New York, NY
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism. 16 x 16 inches, Oil on board, Signed and dated 1938 lower left.
...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial
Located in New York, NY
WPA Scene American Modernism 20th Century Workers Strike Realism Industrial "Pawns" 16 x 20 inches,. Oil on board, c. 1930’s. Signed lower left.
Stowell Sherman...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Jardin Parc de Saint-Cloud - Large French Paris Naïf Garden Park Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very beautiful 1930's oil on canvas by French artist Jean Busquets depicting the garden of the Parc de Saint-Cloud on the outskirts of Paris. Excellent...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse), c. 1930s, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, signed lower right; presented in a newer silver painted frame
About the Painting
Writing about an exhibition of Charles W. Adams’ work at the Eighth Street Art Gallery in the mid-1930s, Emily Grenauer observed in The World-Telegram that the artist’s paintings were “distinguished for their solid form, well organized design and sumptuous color” and the art critic for The Herald Tribune found Adam’s work “a strong, formal realization of his subject . . . he paints with vital emphasis on structure and composition.” Although we do not know which works these critics referenced, it is likely they were writing about paintings like Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse). With its carefully designed reality, strong angles, solid forms, and well-disciplined puffs of smoke in the background, Adams presents a highly structured version of the Greenwich Village landmark, the Jefferson Market Library, which was a courthouse at the time Adams completed this work. The Jefferson Market Library was a prized subject for downtown painters, including the Ashcan School painter, John Sloan, the modernist, Stuart Davis, and the precisionist, Francis Criss...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Seaside Resort of Dieppe' Vintage Oil Painting
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'The Seaside Resort of Dieppe', oil on board, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Located on the scenic French Alabaster Coast, Dieppe has a long and fascinating history of seafaring, kno...
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1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Winters Day in Kensington - Early 20th Century Impressionist Oil 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...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Country House Landscape oil Painting 1939
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3604 Oil on artist board
Set in a gilt frame
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Landscape with figure of horse, driver and wagon
Medium: Oil
Surface: wood Board
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicen Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born. His father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel Glicenstein Romano and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the WPA Federal Art Project creating murals. ( there were many jewish artists active with in the WPA period. notably Chaim Gross, Ben Shahn, Isaac and Moses Soyer, Abraham Rattner and many others. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicenstein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Christmas Morn" Sleigh in the Snow after W.C Bauer, London Oil on Linen 1937
Located in Soquel, CA
"Christmas Morn" Sleigh in the Snow after W.C Bauer, London Oil on Linen 1937
Christmas Morning and a sleigh ride by Mrs. J.B. Anthony (American, 19th-20th C.)...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Tug Boats
By Ron Blumberg
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...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harvesting Plums - Scottish 1930's Glasgow School art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish Glasgow Girl 1930's portrait oil painting is by noted female artist Jessie M. McGeehan. McGeehan studied at the Glasgow School of art, enrolling at the age of 15 in 1888 and her last recorded attendance was in 1895. While at Glasgow School of Art, Jessie associated with prominent Scottish artists including Margaret Macdonald and Frances MacDonald of the Glasgow Four. She also later studied in Paris. This gorgeous vibrant Scottish School style portrait is just superb. The composition is of a young girl in a blue dress, her sleeves rolled up to her elbows. She has little gold hoops in each ear and a bow in her dark hair. She is gazing at the artist/viewer with dark eyes. She is sat in the foreground with a large wicker basket of purple plums and a couple of heads of garlic clasped on her lap. Above her are branches of a tree, laden with fruit. A line of slender silver tree trunks lead past a bed of orange pumpkins to a whitewashed cottage with a woman standing in the doorway. The sunshine is illuminating the scene and casting strong shadows. The brushwork is bold, the colours vibrant and the dark outlines typical of the Scottish School artists. This is a really charming oil painting by a noted female Scottish artist and one of the best examples of her work.
Signed and dated (19)32 upper right.
Provenance. Yorkshire estate.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 21 inches by 18 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a light ornate frame, 28 inches by 25 inches, in good condition.
Jessie Mary McGeehan (1872–1950) was a Scottish artist renowned for her painting and mosaic work, often depicting genre scenes, landscapes and figures. McGeehan was born in Airdrie and her father Patrick was a carriage hirer. An artistic family, Patrick exhibited a painting Royal Scottish Academy in 1879 and the artist Aniza McGeehan (1874–1962) was Jessie's younger sister. Both sisters studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Jessie being enrolled at the age of 15 in 1888 and last recorded as attending in 1895. Their younger sister Mary Catherine (1877–1960), later known as Sister Callista, also attended Glasgow School of Art from the age of nine. Jessie McGeehan also studied in Paris after leaving Glasgow School of Art. McGeehan's work included paintings, pastels, stained glass, mosaics and tapestry designs. She was active from 1892 and exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy from 1895 with the work Sweet Idleness until 1916. From 1897 McGeehan lived and had a studio at 134 Bath Street, Glasgow, which was shared with Aniza until 1899. By 1936 she had moved to 152A Renfrew Street as advertised in the 'Glasgow Observer'. In 1901 McGeehan exhibited the work The Victorian Era at the Royal Academy in London. McGeehan's 1929 oil portrait of her sister Aniza is in the North Lanarkshire Museums collections. This was one of two oil paintings exhibited in the 1929 Walker Art Gallery Autumn Exhibition. Jessie McGeehan created a glass mosaic panel for St Augustine’s Church in Langloan, Coatbridge. She also created a glass mosaic in fourteen panels depicting the Stations of the Cross for St Aloysius...
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Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA
Jo Cain (1904-2003)
The Drama of the St. Louis Great River
23 1/4 x 25 ½ inches
Gouache on board c. 19...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board