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A Winter Scene - Snowy 1930's Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene winter landscape of a snow covered hills with a frozen creek and far off house in the distance by Frederick Wagner (American, 1864-1940), c.1930's. Signed "F. W." lower right....
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of Talloires
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on canvas. Estate of the artist.
Leon Dabo (1865-1960) enjoyed widespread acclaim in a career that stretched nearly a century. He was one of the primary students of Whistler and his work was a “virtual international style by 1910." He was an artist "who created works of decorative and spiritual abstraction that became icons of their age.” (David Cleveland, A History of American Tonalism...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
River landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Wooden frame and gilded plaster
70 x 86 x 6 cm
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Pastel Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract pastel and watercolor painting. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 14L x 18H.
Category
Abstract 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Pebble Beach Landscape Pastel
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautifully vivid early 20th century Pebble Beach, Carmel landscape. Signed illegibly lower right. Condition: Good. Presented in vintage frame with new mat. Image size: 7"H x 10"W.
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Fall
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Silver wooden frame
38.5 x 52 x 3 cm
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Park Street Church, Boston, " John Whorf Impressionist Watercolor WPA Cityscape
By John Whorf
Located in New York, NY
John Whorf (1903 - 1959)
Park Street Church, Boston, circa 1930-45
Watercolor on paper
21 x 15 inches
Signed lower right
Housed in its original frame
Provenance:
Milch Gallery, New ...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Country Cottage at Sunrise
Located in Soquel, CA
Country Cottage at Sunrise
Cottage in the morning on a winding path by an unknown American artist. Circa 1930-40.
Image 18"H x 15"W
Frame, 21"H x 17...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monticello Bridge - Napa - Putah Creek Landscape by Frank Willson Judd
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene landscape of the Putah Creek Bridge (now submerged, also known as Monticello Bridge) by Frank Willson Judd (American, 1864-1940). The Putah Creeks flows beneath an old Closed-spandrel red stone arch bridge 1896-1957 submerged intact beneath Lake Berryessa in 1957. When built this bridge was reputed to be the longest stone arch bridge in California and quite possibly the largest West of the Rockies.
Signed and dated "Frank Willson Judd 1937" in the lower left corner.
Presented in an antique, distressed frame...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Spring Thaw
Located in Washington, DC
Following two decades of successful impressionistic landscape painting, Wilson Henry Irvine became known for a new experimental style in the 1930s. In 1930, Irvine began making prismatic paintings—landscapes and still-lifes rendered as though seen through a glass prism. The effect accentuated the play of light on the edges of objects. Irvine remained committed to this style of prismatic painting throughout the 1930s, winning the best-picture award in 1934 for a picture of a life-sized nude at the annual exhibition of the Lyme Art...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trewinnard Farm, Cornwall, Landscape, Oil on Canvas, American Impressionism
Located in Rockport, MA
A beautiful example from Walter Elmer Schofield's Cornwall period. Thick impasto and bright colors. Painted on board; this painting is in excellent original condition and as a bonu...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Tropical Woman Portrait Artist Studio Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Great color and thick impasto. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 17.5L x 14.5H
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Gouache American Modernist Powerline
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes.
Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine.
In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi.
Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil, Board
The Spring Waves, Monhegan Island
Located in Washington, DC
Following two decades of successful impressionistic landscape painting, Wilson Henry Irvine became known for a new experimental style in the 1930s. In 1930, Irvine began making prismatic paintings—landscapes and still-lifes rendered as though seen through a glass prism. The effect accentuated the play of light on the edges of objects. Irvine remained committed to this style of prismatic painting throughout the 1930s, winning the best-picture award in 1934 for a picture of a life-sized nude at the annual exhibition of the Lyme Art...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
House in the Forest, Mid-Century German Landscape with Trees, 1937
Located in Soquel, CA
House in the Forest, Mid-Century German Landscape with Trees, 1937
Verdant mid-century landscape of a small mountain house nestled in thickly wood...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Le Vesle
By Leon Dabo
Located in Lawrence, NY
Oil on canvas. Estate of the artist.
Leon Dabo (1865-1960) enjoyed widespread acclaim in a career that stretched nearly a century. He was one of the primary students of Whistler and his work was a “virtual international style by 1910." He was an artist "who created works of decorative and spiritual abstraction that became icons of their age.” (David Cleveland, A History of American Tonalism...
Category
Tonalist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Off Bass Rocks”
By Henry Hammond Ahl
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a very well executed and vibrant original oil on canvas painting of bass rocks by Henry Hammond Ahl. Bass Rocks is lo...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Emmanuel Aubain (1872-1965) A Landscape, signed oil painting
Located in Paris, FR
Emmanuel Aubain (1872-1965)
A Landscape
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas transefered on cardboard panel
In quite good condition, some abrasions in the r...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Plage aux Andelys, oil on board by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Landscape
Located in London, GB
La Plage aux Andelys by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871 - 1961)
Oil on board
23.7 x 32.9 cm (9 ⅓ x 13 inches)
Signed lower left, Manzana Pissarro
Executed circa 1930
Provenance
Priva...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'The Garden at Knudsminde Farm', Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Elizabeth II, Russian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Olga' for Her Imperial Highness, Olga Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia and painted circa 1935. Additionally inscribed in Danish, verso, 'Malet af Storfyrstinde Olga, Rusland der senere bosatte sig i Ballerup. Emma Davidsen' (Painted by Grand Duchess Olga...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Remparts De La Ville De Saint-malo Signed Othon Friesz
Located in ROUEN, FR
Very beautiful oil on canvas painting representing the ramparts of the city of Saint-Malo from the national fort. It is signed by OTHO FRIEST (1879-1949).
Dimensions : W: 105 cm H: 9...
Category
French School 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Signed Swiss Modern Mountain Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Swiss impressionist painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Framed. Signed. Image size, 10L x 16H.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Theatre de Sara Barnhardt", Edouard Cortes, 13x18, Oil on Canvas, Impressionism
Located in Dallas, TX
Theatre de Sara Bernhart et Place de Chatelet by Edouard Cortes was painted circa 1935-40 and signed lower right. It is an oil on canvas measuring 13x18...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the banks of the Rhône, near Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Alpine Cottages”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas painting of Alpine cottages by the German artist, Karl Schaette. Signed lower left “Schaette, Muchen”. Condition is very good. Slight crazing in the trees. Tiny repaired puncture in the sky. Circa 1930. The painting is framed in its original Newcomb Macklin gold leaf frame. Overall measurements framed are 36.5 by 36.5 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate.
Carl Schaette (1884 - 1951) was active/lived in Germany. Carl Schaette is known for Landscape painting and belonged to the Munich school...
Category
Academic 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jardin Marco Polo, Oil on cardboard, 40x48 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V)
Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15).
He was called into the army in 1916 and continued studies after the war in Latvia Art ...
Category
Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fitzhugh Mine, near Leadville, Colorado, Mountain Mining Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on mounted paper, Colorado modern mountain landscape painting by early 20th Century female artist, Eldora Pauline Lorenzini (1910- 1993) from 1937....
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
Cart and barrel in the barn
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Gray wooden frame
80 x 69 x 5 cm
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Claude Muncaster (1903-1974) RWS, ROI, RBA. Chap Wells, Cumbria oil c1936
Located in Frome, Somerset
Claude Muncaster ( 1903-1974) PRSMA, RWS, ROI, RBA British. Chap Wells and Chap Fell, Cumbria (The Lake District). Oil on board circa 1936. Signed , and old London...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"House on a Hill, " Clara Bell, Female Artist Landscape, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Clara Louise Bell (1886 - 1978)
House on a Hill, circa 1935
Gouache on artist board
7 1/4 x 9 7/8 inches
Clara Louise Bell (Mrs.Bela Janowsky) was b...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Smokestack at the Refinery - Realistic Industrial Illustration in Gouache
Located in Soquel, CA
Industrial illustration of a smokestack by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). A large tower and holding tanks are rendered in exquisite detail, especially considering the size of the illustration. The smokestack towers above the landscape, with stairs running up the outside. Two large green holding tanks sit next to the tower. At ground level, there are a few small figures, indicating the enormous scale of the refinery. possibly a sketch for Colliers or The Saturday Evening Post Magazine.
Unsigned, but was acquired with other signed estate works by the artist.
Presented...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard, Watercolor
Pathway to the Lake, 1930s Mountain Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant late 1930's landscape painted in a colorful spectrum of a pathway leading through trees to a glassy lake framed by distant mountains and a multicolored sky by A. Griffin (Ame...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Countryside - Russian Art Ukrainian Culture
Located in London, GB
MICHEL ADLEN 1898-1980
(Saki, Ukraine) 1898-1980 (Paris) [Ukrainian/Russian/French]
Title: House in Landscape, 1939
Technique: Original Signed Oil pain...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique European School Modernist Village Landscape Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European modernist landscape painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Image size, 20.5L x 17.5H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Crashing Waves" Impasto Oil Painting GALVESTON TEXAS SEASCAPE OIL ON CANVAS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Paul Schumann Has been professionally cleaned and framed.
1876-1946
Galveston Artist
Image Size: 9 x 12
Frame Size: 13.75 x 16.75
Medium: Oil
"Crashing Waves"
Paul Richard Schumann (December 13, 1876 – April 29, 1946) was a Texas...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cottage in the mountains
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
55 x 63 x 3.5 cm
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Place Pigalle
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Place Pigalle', oil and gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Pigalle is well known to tourists who want to experience "Paris by night". It is home to some of Paris' most famous cabarets such as the Moulin Rouge which was immortalised by artist Toulouse-Lautrec. Lautrec's studio was here as was Picasso's, Vincent Van Gogh's and that of Andre Breton. In 1928 Josephine Baker opened her first nightclub next door to Breton's apartment. It is certainly a historical landmark of Paris and well known to so many visitors of this beautiful city. Génin painted Paris and Parisians and this is another one of his charming works among many held by this gallery. Please feel free to peruse them all on this platform. In good overall condition. Newly framed and glazed with anti-reflective glass. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Gouache
"New York City Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), " Leon Dolice, East River, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York Harbor (Brooklyn Bridge), circa 1930-40
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, New York
The romantic b...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"In the Catskills"
By Paul Wesley
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting by the American artist, Paul Wesley. Signed lower right. Titled and signed verso. Circa 1930. Condition: excellent. Provenance: A private estate, East ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Winter Landscape, Central Park, New York City, " Snowy December Christmas
Located in New York, NY
Bela De Tirefort (1894 - 1993)
Winter Landscape, Central Park, New York City, 1934
Oil on board
12 x 17 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower left: De Tirefort 34
Bela de Tirefort was b...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Monterey Customs House and Sailboats on the Bay
Located in Soquel, CA
Monterey Customs House and Sailboats on the Bay by unknown California artist (American, 1930+-)
Some age wear to paint. frame is contemporary with slight wear and included at no cost...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Boat and Fjord Scandinavia by Jorgen Hansen Denmark
Located in Soquel, CA
Boat and Fjord Scandinavia by Jorgen Hansen Denmark
Dramatic skies and well boat along a Fjord by Jorgen Hansen (1862 - 1937) was active/lived in Denmark...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape With Ducks by Swedish Artist William Gislander, Oil Painting on Canvas
By William Gislander
Located in Stockholm, SE
William Gislander (1890-1937) Swedish
Title: Landscape With Ducks
oil on canvas
signed and dated William Gislander 1934
canvas dimensions 25.98...
Category
Naturalistic 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Southern School Civil War Cannon Modernist American Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice quality modernist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Surreal Street Scene Unsigned Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Image size, 24L x 20H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape Pond Tree
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
Thes...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pikes Peak, 1940s Colorado Mountain Landscape in Autumn, Tempera Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Original vintage 1941 Colorado landscape painting with autumn leaves and Pikes Peak blanketed in snow by Charles Bunnell (1897-1968). Inscribed verso, "To Laura, November 22, 1941", egg tempera on board. Signed by the artist in the lower left corner and titled verso. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 15 ½ x 19 ¼ x 1 ¼ inches. Image size is 7 ¾ x 11 inches
About the Artist:
Artist and teacher, Charles ("Charlie") Bunnell worked in a variety of styles throughout his career because as an artist he believed, "I’ve got to paint a thousand different ways. I don’t paint any one way." At different times he did representational landscapes while concurrently involved with semi- or completely abstract imagery. He was one of a relatively small number of artists in Colorado successfully incorporating into their work the new trends emanating from New York and Europe after World War II. During his lifetime he generally did not attract a great deal of critical attention from museums, critics and academia. However, he personally experienced a highpoint in his career when Katherine Kuh, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, personally chose one of his paintings - Why? - for its large exhibition of several hundred examples of abstract and surrealist art held in 1947-48, subsequently including it among the fifty pieces selected for a traveling show to ten other American museums.
An only child, Bunnell developed his love of art at a young age through frequent drawing and political cartooning. In high school he was interested in baseball and golf and also was the tennis champion for Westport High School in Kansas City. Following graduation, his father moved the family to Denver, Colorado, in 1916 for a better-paying bookkeeping job, before relocating the following year to Colorado Springs to work for local businessman, Edmond C. van Diest, President of the Western Public Service Company and the Colorado Concrete Company. Bunnell would spend almost all of his adult life in Colorado Springs.
In 1918 he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the 62nd Infantry Regiment through the end of World War I. Returning home with a 10% disability, he joined the Zebulon Pike Post No. 1 of the Disabled American Veterans Association and in 1921 used the benefits from his disability to attend a class in commercial art design conducted under a government program in Colorado Springs. The following year he transferred to the Broadmoor Art Academy (founded in 1919) where he studied with William Potter and in 1923 with Birger Sandzén. Sandzén’s influence is reflected in Bunnell’s untitled Colorado landscape (1925) with a bright blue-rose palette.
For several years thereafter Bunnell worked independently until returning to the Broadmoor Art Academy to study in 1927-28 with Ernest Lawson, who previously taught at the Kansas City Art Institute where Bunnell himself later taught in the summers of 1929-1930 and in 1940-41. Lawson, a landscapist and colorist, was known for his early twentieth-century connection with "The Eight" in New York, a group of forward-looking painters including Robert Henri and John Sloan whose subject matter combined a modernist style with urban-based realism. Bunnell, who won first-place awards in Lawson’s landscapes classes at the Academy, was promoted to his assistant instructor for the figure classes in the 1928-29 winter term. Lawson, who painted in what New York critic James Huneker termed a "crushed jewel" technique, enjoyed additional recognition as a member of the Committee on Foreign Exhibits that helped organize the landmark New York Armory Exhibition in 1913 in which Lawson showed and which introduced European avant-garde art to the American public.
As noted in his 1964 interview for the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Bunnell learned the most about his teacher’s use of color by talking with him about it over Scotch as his assistant instructor. "Believe me," Bunnell later said, "[Ernie] knew color, one of the few Americans that did." His association with Lawson resulted in local scenes of Pikes Peak, Eleven Mile Canyon, the Gold Cycle Mine near Colorado City and other similar sites, employing built up pigments that allowed the surfaces of his canvases to shimmer with color and light. (Eleven Mile Canyon was shown in the annual juried show at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1928, an early recognition of his talent outside of Colorado.) At the same time, he animated his scenes of Colorado Springs locales by defining the image shapes with color and line as demonstrated in Contrasts (1929). Included in the Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition in Kansas City in 1929, it earned him the gold medal of the Kansas City Art Institute, auguring his career as a professional artist.
In the 1930s Bunnell used the oil, watercolor and lithography media to create a mini-genre of Colorado’s old mining towns and mills, subject matter spurned by many local artists at the time in favor of grand mountain scenery. In contrast to his earlier images, these newer ones - both daytime and nocturnal -- such as Blue Bird Mine essentially are form studies. The conical, square and rectangular shapes of the buildings and other structures are placed in the stark, undulating terrain of the mountains and valleys devoid of any vegetation or human presence. In the mid-1930s he also used the same approach in his monochromatic lithographs titled Evolution, Late Evening, K.C. (Kansas City) and The Mill, continuing it into the next decade with his oil painting, Pikes Peak (1942).
During the early 1930s he studied for a time with Boardman Robinson, director of the Broadmoor Art Academy and its successor institution, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1930 to 1947. In 1934 Robinson gave him the mural commission under the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) for West Junior High School in Colorado Springs, his first involvement in one of several New Deal art...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Early 20th Century Redwood Forest Sunset Reflections Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th century landscape of sunset over redwood forest stream by William Lemos (American, 1861-1942). Unsigned. Presented in the original ...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Emile Gauffriaud (1877-1957) French Impr 'Cliffs of Normandy' Large oil c1938.
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine large oil on canvas by the well listed French Impressionist Emile Gauffriaud. (1877-1957). Fine Salon piece of Normandy/ Brittany chalk cliffs and headlands in summer. Superb...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Maine Coast, Ogunquit, " Ernest Albert, American Impressionism, Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Albert (1857 - 1946)
Maine Coast, Ogunquit, 1937
Oil on canvasboard
18 x 20 inches
Signed and dated lower right; titled on a label on the reverse
A distinguished theatrical and scenic designer who also became a landscape painter and muralist, Ernest Albert worked in New York, St. Louis, and Chicago.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1857, and showing early talent, received the Graham Art...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Waiting for the Tide to Rise, " Emile Gruppe, Boats at Dock, Cape Ann School
By Emile Gruppe
Located in New York, NY
Emile Gruppe
Waiting for the Tide to Rise, circa 1930s
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
40 x 32 inches
Provenance:
Newman Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (as Waiting for Sunrise).
Acquired directly from the above.
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
Emile Gruppe was an unusually prolific artist. He was at his easel almost every day and created thousands of paintings over a career that lasted 60 years. At his peak, he was completing almost 200 oil paintings a year. Yet he has never failed to find an audience for his depictions of New England in autumn and winter, or his harbor scenes of Rockport and Gloucester in Massachusetts.
Gruppe was born in 1896 in Rochester, New York to an artistic family--his father, brother, sister and nephew were all artists. Emile spent his youth in Katwyk an Zee, a fishing village in Holland, where his father, Charles Gruppe, worked as both an artist and an art dealer. Emile lived in the Netherlands until he was 17, when the family returned permanently to the United States to avoid World War I.
In New York City, Gruppe attended classes at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Students League, where he studied under Charles Chapman and George Bridgman. He also studied with John Carlson in Woodstock, New York, where he gained an appreciation for outdoor painting. Carlson “turned me into a painter,” he later said.
Gruppe helped found the Rockport Art Association in 1921, but he is most closely linked to Gloucester where he lived from about 1940 until his death. He operated the Gloucester School of Painting from the 1940s into the 1970s and helped turn the Rocky Neck area of East Gloucester into a world-famous art colony. The school boasted an impressive faculty but Gruppe’s own exuberant plein-air demonstrations were often the highlight of the week.
Gloucester, with its fleet of whimsically painted fishing vessels, crowded wharf buildings and shacks, and picturesque inhabitants, never ceased to fascinate Gruppe. He also helped popularize Rockport’s famous fishing shack known as Motif #1, sometimes called “the most often-painted building in America.”
By the 1940s, Gruppe was one of the most prominent of the Cape Ann artists...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“A Summer’s Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a bucolic summer’s day. Beautifully executed with warm, rich tones and wonderful water reflections. The painting was painted circa 1935 by the well known artist, George Thompson Pritchard. Signed by the artist lower left. Condition is good; recently professionally cleaned. The painting is framed in its original gold leaf over carved wood period frame in very fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 34 by 39 inches. Provenance: Delray Beach Florida estate.
Born in Havelock, New Zealand on April 11, 1878, George Thompson Pritchard studied in Auckland, New Zealand at the Academy of Art, at the Elam School of Art, and at the Melbourne Academy of Fine Arts in 1901. Upon arriving in San Francisco in 1906 in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake and fire, he produced many paintings during his three-year stay in the city. He then spent a few years in Milwaukee before journeying on to Paris for further art study at Académie Julian, and at the Vanderheldt Academy in Amsterdam from 1911 to 1914. During World War I, Pritchard lived in Canada, New York City, and Richmond, VA. In addition, he lectured and exhibited at colleges and universities throughout the Southern United States. In 1935, he settled in Southern California and had studios in Glendale and Santa Monica. He taught art at his studio and exhibited regularly with the Glendale and Santa Monica Art...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stockholm
By Jean Dufy
Located in ZEIST, UT
Jean Dufy- Stockholm
Aquarel and pencil on paper
Paper Size; 43.0 x 25.0
Signed in pen
Good condition with bright colors.
Provenance: Lilla Bukowskis- August-2003
Framed with museum...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Antique American School Modernist Winter Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
By Rosario Urbino Gerbino
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape abstraction. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 30L x 25H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Mare et les Vieux Saules by Paulémile Pissarro, Post-Impressionist riverscape
Located in London, GB
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La Mare et les Vieux Saules by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
46 x 55 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ⁵/₈ i...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sueno del Caballo or Expressive Cranium, Southwestern Horse Skull Oil Painting
By José García Narezo
Located in Denver, CO
"Untitled (Sueno del Caballo/Cranium or Expressive Cranium)", is a oil on board by Jose Garcia Narezo (1922-1994) of a horse skull and cloth in a wi...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"June Day at the Sound, " Walter Farndon, American Impressionism, Sailboats
Located in New York, NY
Walter Farndon
June Day at the Sound
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Living and working in an era of passionate and often controversial changes in the art world, Wal...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Salève mountain, Geneva by I. Ch. Goetz - Gouache on paper 36x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache