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"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
Spring verdure. Oil on canvas, 46.5x62.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956)
Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927).
He took part in exhibitions since 1925.
Artist painted landscapes in different t...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century c. 1930s
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Industrial Modern Lamp Magazine Illustration Mid-Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Oil Terminal
Lamp Magazine, published, c. 1930s.
15 3/4 X 12 inches (image)
18 X 14 inches board
Gouache on board
Signed lower right
unframed
BIOGRAPHY:
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994) began his career as a textile designer. He became a freelance illustrator in 1932 after winning several House Beautiful cover illustration contests.
In addition to 24 Fortune magazine covers, four New Yorker covers, several for House Beautiful, Collier’s, and other magazines he did numerous illustrations for Life magazine from the 1930s – 60s.
‘Tony was Mr. Versatility for Fortune. He could do anything, from charts and diagrams to maps, illustrations, covers, and caricatures,’ said Francis Brennan, the former art director for Fortune.
Over the course of his career, Antonio won several important design awards, designing a U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Steel Industry and designing the Bicentennial Medal...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Thaw. Oil on board, 33x43 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956)
Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927).
He took part in exhibitions since 1925.
Artist painted landscapes in different t...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue Mountains - Original Watercolor on Panel by Marius Carion - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 27 x 35 cm.
Blue Mountains is a beautiful original watercolor painting on panel, realized in 1931 by the artist, Marius Carion (1898 - 1949).
Title and date in bl...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Watercolor
Seaside houses by N. Busnelli - Oil on canvas 47x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 58x67 cm
Signed N. Busnelli, artist unknown from the gallery
Dated 1935
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Charming 1930s Oil on Masonite Painting of Martha's Vineyard by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming & diminutive 1930s oil on Masonite view of Martha's Vineyard harbor by notable Chicago artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 8 3/4" x 11 3/4". Framed size: 12 1/2" x 15 1/2". 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).
A prolific painter, Chapin produced numerous works while traveling in Mexico, France, Spain, Saugatuck and Martha’s Vineyard, where he frequently spent summers and taught at the Old Sculpin Gallery there. Chapin was best recognized for his dynamic and vibrant images of Chicago during the 1930s and 40s. Chapin was a resident of the Old Town neighborhood where he lived and kept his studio on Menomonee Street for many years. Described as a “colorful figure, nearly 6 feet 6 inches tall, and thin, and usually wearing tweeds”, it is easy to imagine Chapin at work observing the busy street life of the city.
In addition to his many exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chapin’s work was shown during his lifetime at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the National Academy of Design, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, among others. Francis Chapin’s paintings are represented in the collections the Art Institute of Chicago; the Friedman Collection, Chicago; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; the Denver Art Museum; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) Vallée de Nafraiture, Oil on panel
Located in Paris, FR
Léon Frédéric (1856-1940)
Vallée de Nafraiture
signed with the estate stamp at the lower left
Oil on canvas transfered on panel
29.5 x 44.55 cm
Certific...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930s Zeppelin Over San Francisco Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
1930s Zeppelin Over San Francisco Landscape
Bright and evocative 1938 painting of burning Zeppelin by Ethel Grace Arpin Harlo Lynn (American 1881-1960). This was original painting w...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Metal
"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
Antique American Texas Impressionist Fall Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist Texas landscape oil painting by Harry Anthony De Young (1893 - 1956). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H. Dedicated by the artist as a wedding anniversary gift.
Artist bio:
Harry Anthony DeYoung was born in Chicago, Illinois, on August 5, 1893. He was a landscape, figure, genre, and portrait painter, muralist, draftsman and teacher. He studied with Edward John Lake...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left.
Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist New York City Ashcan Cityscape Modern Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 15L x 12H.
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting New Yorker Mag Cover proposal. Army Wedding American Scene WPA
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Army Wedding
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
11 1/2 X 8 inches ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"Corse", 1931, Oil on Canvas, Kamesuke Hiraga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kamesuke Hiraga, Japanese (1889 - 1971)
Title: Corse
Year: 1931
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated l.l.
Size: 25 x 21 in. (63.5 x 53.34 cm)
Frame Size: 33.5 x 29...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boatyard
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on board by American artist Julius Richter.
Julius Richter, was a physician, surgeon and educator. He was born Dec. 19,1876, in Alleghany, Pennsylvania. He was educ...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
"Lehigh County Village"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956)
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only members of the New Ho...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Antique American Modernist Street Scene Fauvist Color Palette Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist street scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Very finely painted with excellent color and composition. Ready to hang.
Category
Fauvist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Boats in the Harbor"
By Hayley Lever
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Original Period Frame
Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958)
Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from the shores of his native Australia to those of England, and then the United S...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris roofs. 1930s. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Paris roofs. 1930s. Oil on canvas, 60x80 cm
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Christmas Time, Sellersville"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956).
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only membe...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"The Great Man Comes to Take His Oath" Life Magazine Spread, July 4th, 1960, This epic narrative depicts the celebration of George Washington's inauguration, en route to Federal Hall...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bucks County Mill"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956).
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only members of the New Hope Art Colony actually born in Bucks County...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Easterly Wind, Annisquam Light 1939, Coastal Seascape Scene, Lighthouse
Located in Rockport, MA
"Easterly Wind, Annisquam Light 1939" is a captivating original landscape painting created by the renowned artist Andrew Winter. This piece exudes the be...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1941 Autumn Landscape of Pikes Peak by Charles Bunnell, American Impressionist
Located in Denver, CO
941 Egg Tempera Landscape of Pikes Peak by Charles Bunnell – Autumn in Colorado
This original 1941 egg tempera painting by celebrated Colorado artist Charles Bunnell (1897–1968) bea...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Snowy Mountain Landscape, Impressionist Oil Painting by J. Rieser
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: J. Rieser, Swiss or German XXth Century
Title: Snowy Landscape
Year: circa 1935
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right
Size: 28 in. x 22 in. (71.12 cm x 55.88 cm)
Frame Si...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Impressionist: Sunny Day by The Thames, oil circa 1930's
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine impressionist oil of Chiswick Mall, by The Thames, London circa 1930's-40's by listed artist Josephine Matley Duddle later Matley-Duddle Ghilchik (1890-1981)
oil on canvas la...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Winter Sunlight"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956).
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only membe...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Piazza di Spagna Roma
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Piazza di Spagna, Roma' oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (1933). At the bottom of the Spanish Steps, is one of the most famous squares in Rome. It owes ...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lower Manhattan Cityscape American Artist WPA Era NY School c. 1930 Henry Ensol
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern 1930's oil painting by WPA era American artist Henry Ensol. This work comes in a period frame likely original to the piece.
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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 ...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Russian Impressionist painting of a meadow by Zhukovsky
By Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky
Located in London, GB
Russian Impressionist painting of a meadow by Zhukovsky
Russian, 1938
Frame: Height 68cm, width 67.5cm, depth 4cm
Canvas: Height 48cm, w...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Solebury Spring"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by John Fulton Folinsbee (1892 - 1972).
One of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Rivière by PAULÉMILE PISSARRO - Post Impressionist Landscape Painting, River
Located in London, GB
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La Rivière (The River) by PAULÉMILE PISSARRO (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
92 x 73 cm (36 1⁄4 x 28 3⁄4 inches)
Signed...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Les Roulottes", 20th Century Oil on Wood Panel by Spanish Artist Celso Lagar
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
LES ROULOTTES
signed "Lagar" (lower left)
oil on wood panel
9-1/2 x 13 inches (24 x 33 cm.)
framed: 17-1/8 x 21-1/2 inches (43.5 x 54.5 cm.)
PROVEN...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Rivière et Saules by Paulémile Pissarro - Post-Impressionist river scene
Located in London, GB
Rivière et Saules by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Oil on canvas
46.1 x 55.2 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 21 ³/₄ inches)
Signed and dated lower left Paulémile-Pissarro-1931
Titled on the reverse
P...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Island in the San Francisco Bay, Mid Century Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Island in the San Francisco Bay Landscape by Alexander Nepote
Lovely late 1930's Impressionist watercolor of a Bay Area island by listed California artist Alexander Nepo...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Beached"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
John R. Grabach (1886 - 1981)
John Grabach was a highly regarded New Jersey artist, teacher, and author of the classic text...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Pennsylvania Dutch Village"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956)
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only members of the New Ho...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Study for Long Beach" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
"Study for Long Beach" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Daniel Ralph Celantano (1902-1980)
"Study for Long Beach"
8 x 10 inches
Oil on artist bo...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Searching), circa 1930-40
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, New York
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young man who was someday to be spoken of as showing promise of becoming "one of the greatest etchers of all time". Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts.
However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters.
As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects.
With the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930's and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940's punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Cameron's Cone, Colorado Springs – Framed Sunset Watercolor Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1930s watercolor painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell beautifully captures the majestic landscape of Cameron’s Cone near Colorado Springs...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early Spring, 1930s Impressionist Style Oil Painting of Artist’s Studio Exterior
Located in Denver, CO
This original oil on canvas painting, titled Early Spring (Thompson's Studio), was created in 1933 by renowned Colorado modernist John Edward Thompson (1882-1945). A striking example...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Narrows"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956).
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only membe...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930 French Portrait on Wood signed Marie Yvonne
Located in New York, NY
Marie Yvonne Picard-Pangalos
[French Title Illegible], 1930
Oil on wood panel
25 1/2 x 19 in.
Signed, dated, and inscribed lower left
Exhibition label verso
According to the 1999 "...
Category
French School 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Central London - Early 20th Century Impressionist Oil on Canvas 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
Low Mountain Landscape with Rocks - The mystery of an inconspicuous place -
Located in Berlin, DE
Heinz Roder (1895-1965), Low Mountain Landscape with Rocks, oil on painting cardboard, 30 x 40 cm (visual size), 40 x 50 cm (frame), signed and dated "[19]34" at lower right. In a de...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cardboard
Timeless and Classic Nude Girl at Pool - Academic Artist
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
This painting of a classic nude at a pool, "Hilda at the Pool," is both a portrait and a landscape. Leon Kroll rejected Modernism to triumph in the beauty of Classicism.
During his l...
Category
Academic 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979)
City Street
12 x 14 inches
Oil on board, c. 1930s
Signed lower left
BIO
Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Snow Covered Village"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower left. Complemented by a hand carved and gilt frame.
Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956)
Born in Sellersville, Pe...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Society of Six Street Scene - Figurative Abstract
By Bernard Von Eichman
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning New York City urban modernist watercolor titled "Summer Afternoon Stroll" by Society of Six artist Bernard Von Eichman (American, 1899-1990), 1...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Joseph Edward Knowles (1907-1980)
"Study for Industry Mural, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara, CA"
19 1/2 x 50 1/2 inches
Oil on board, c. 1930s.
Estate stamp verso
Framed: 27 x 60 inches
The completed mural is currently hanging on the wall, part of the building actually, at the Veterans Memorial Building in Santa Barbara. A photo of the work insitu is included in the attached photos.
BIO
Joseph Edward Knowles was born in Kendall, Montana, on June 15, 1907. He grew up in San Diego, California. At age twenty, two years before the beginning of the Great Depression, he moved north to another town on the coast of California---Santa Barbara. There he began studying fine art at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts* (1927-1930), under the supervision of Frank Morley Fletcher, previously director of the Edinburgh College of Art. Fletcher, who was trained in portraiture, landscape painting, and woodblock* printing, was a great influence on young Knowles. It was there that Knowles learned the art of color woodblock printmaking, a medium in which he showed great skill.
Not long after completing his studies with Fletcher, Knowles began teaching art. For a period of thirty years, from 1930 to1960, he taught at the Cate School in Carpinteria, California. In 1934-1935, Knowles traveled throughout Europe, further developing his artistic skills in England, France, and Italy. Upon his return, he continued to teach art at various schools and institutions: Cate School, Crane Country School, extension classes at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA). Knowles also served as an art education consultant for the County of Santa Barbara. In addition, he was founding co-director and president of the Santa Barbara Fine Arts Institute (1969-1972), which later developed a specialization in photography and became the Brooks Institute of Photography. Knowles died at his home in Santa Barbara on September 8, 1980.
Much of Knowles' watercolor work is associated with what has been termed the "California School*," a loose grouping of artists throughout the state that included such figures as Millard Sheets, Phil Dike, Dong Kingman, George Post, and the Santa Barbara painters Dan Lutz and Standish Backus, Jr. The California School artists, including Knowles, were known for their fresh, direct, spontaneous style of watercolor painting. Knowles and other members of the school found inspiration in nature and the built environment alike, emphasizing elements of design in their exuberant, boldly stated, colorful scenes from everyday life. While painting in a representational* manner, Knowles generally avoided photographic realism, preferring subjective interpretation of his subjects. In this, as well as in his experimental approach and vigorous brushwork, he displayed a strongly modern sensibility.
Knowles often used the wet-on-wet watercolor technique as he painted seascapes and landscapes, mostly along the California coast. He also employed dry-brush* techniques in many of his paintings, often leaving some of the white of the watercolor paper exposed. Some of the latter depict trees and other forms in a broken and airy manner that recalls Cezanne.
Knowles' colored woodblock prints are more reserved and exact in their draftsmanship than his paintings. Spare, clean, lyrical lines are drawn to illustrate floral motifs and boat scenes with a touch of asymmetry conjuring Japanese woodblock prints. His murals from the post-World War II period are considerably more modern in their approach and show an emphasis on design and color.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
California Watercolor Society (1940 - 1955)
Santa Barbara Art Association (Vice President - 1952)
ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
Golden Gate International Exposition (GGIE) - San Francisco, California
San Diego Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA) - San Diego, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) - Santa Barbara, California
Cowie Galleries - Los Angeles, California
Gallery de Silva - Santa Barbara, California
Bradley Galleries - Santa Barbara, California
MURALS
Westmont College - Ellen Porter Hall Mural - Santa Barbara, California
Safeway Grocery (now Vons Grocery on West Victoria Street) - Exterior Tile Mosaic -
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara Bank & Trust - Interior Mosaic Panels, Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara Girls Club - Interior Mosaic Mural - Santa Barbara, California
Ernest Righetti High School - Mosaic Mural - Santa Maria, California
Shell Oil Company - Mosaic Panel - California
Beckman Instruments, Corporate Headquarters - Mosaic - Fullerton, California
STAINED GLASS WINDOWS, WALLS and PANELS
Katherine Thayer Cate Memorial Chapel - Cate School, Carpinteria, California
William S. Porter Memorial Chapel - Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, California
La Rinconada Building - Santa Barbara, California
ILLUSTRATIONS
"California's Wonderful Corner: True Stories for Children from the History of the Santa Barbara Region," by Walter A. Tompkins (1962 & 1975)
China Designs:
Two sets of dinnerware for Winfield China...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Alley Fiends"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
John R. Grabach (1886 - 1981)
John Grabach was a highly regarded New Jersey artist, teacher, and author of the classic text...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Rocks Park 1930s Oil Painting – Snow-Capped Mountain Landscape Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
"Red Rocks Park" – an original circa 1935 oil painting by noted Denver artist Eula Ray, capturing a serene winter landscape of the iconic Red Rocks of Colorado. Rendered in oil on bo...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil