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Period: 1930s
"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
Trout Rock- American Impressionist
Located in Miami, FL
This stunning work features Mr. Dumond's trademark green.
Trout Rock
Signed lower left: F. V. Dumond
Titled on stretcher with artist's estate stamp: Trout Rock
From a Texas Estate.
Frank Vincent Dumond was an artist, illustrator, and painter of the Tonalist school...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"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
Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night, 1934, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 16 inches; original label verso has title and address
Margit Varga was an artist,...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Morning Light, Mt. Shasta, California, c. 1932
Located in Pasadena, CA
Description
Alfred Mitchell’s plein air oil paintings often measured sixteen by twenty inches, the size that fit his sketch box, and could be easily ca...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Masonite
French Impressionist Barbizon School Landscape, The Gorge Chateau
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of a river gorge by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is signed bottom right and also signed top right to the back...
Category
Impressionist 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
“Sailboat at Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original large scale oil painting on board of a large sailing ship in sunset. The artist is Frederick Leo Hunter. Signed by the artist lower right and dated 1933. Condition is goo...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Painting Early 20th Century Landscape Garden and Characters
By Jeanne Lourier-Dreyfus
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LOURIER-DREYFUS Jeanne (1873-1955)
Gardeners at Saint Cloud's Park
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame by Gault : (Paris Fbg St Honoré)
Dim canvas : 81 X 100 cm
Dim frame : 109 x 129 cm
LOURIER-DREYFUS Jeanne (1873-1955)
French School 20th century
Post-impressionist
Disciple of Pierre Eugène Montézin, Jeanne Lourier was a pupil of workshop who assimilated the features and environment of the Master.
Her artistic education also passed by the workshop of Jules Adler...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Railway Station
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Railway Station, c. 1934, oil on canvas, signed lower right, titled verso and noted "34"; illustrated Kaufman, Jeffrey, Brush with Life: The Art of Being Edward Biberman...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Harbor Scene With Sailboats Seascape
Signed lower left, canvas 20x20, about 1930-40.
Emile Albert Gruppé was born 1896 in Rochester, New York. He lived the early years of his life in...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Magnificent Mountain View from Hålland, Åre, Sweden
Located in Stockholm, SE
Mountain View from Hålland, 1931 by Ante Karlsson-Stig
We are delighted to present a painting titled "Mountain View from Hålland" by the Swedish artist Ante Karlsson-Stig. This artw...
Category
Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Notre Dame de Paris - Seine River Banks circa 1935
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
MICHEL A. (1911-NC)
Notre Dame de Paris - Seine River Banks
Oil on canvas signed low left
New golden wood frame
Dim canvas : 95 X 76 cm
Dim frame : 114 X 95 cm
MICHEL A. (1911-NC)
2...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's Pebble Beach Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1930's seascape of Pebble Beach by M.C. Richardson (Late 19th/Early 20th Century), 1932. Attribution on verso with notes of exhibition (Legion of...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large view of Treignac in Corrèze - France
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Robert DESSALES-QUENTIN
(Brantôme 1885 - 1958)
Large view of Treignac - Corrèze
Oil on wood
H. 82.5 cm; L. 123 cm
Signed lower right
Provenance: Private collection, Périgueux
Rober...
Category
French School 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
Mediterranean Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Mediterranean Landscape', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of Prov...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$664 Sale Price
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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
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
$1,980 Sale Price
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Waldorf Astoria Art Deco Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Artist Charles Perry Weimer employs thin black horizontal lines that intersect with thin black vertical lines. The result is a triumph of design w...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Pen
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
$92,000 Sale Price
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Lively Geneva street
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
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
"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
Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) A Summer landscape, Oil on panel signed
Located in Paris, FR
Léon Frédéric (1856-1940)
A Summer landscape
signed at the lower left
Oil on canvas transfered on panel
29 x 44 cm
Framed : 39 x 54.5 cm
in good condition, However, there is a c...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Trees Along the River"
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
Les arbres by Paulémile Pissarro, 1930 - Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Les arbres by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Oil on canvas
60 x 72 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₈ inches)
Signed and dated...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Landscape
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Hayley Lever
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$35,000
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
$6,076 Sale Price
20% Off
Before the Deluge, Republican Headquarters before Landon lost to Roosevelt.
Located in Marco Island, FL
In 1936, Alfred Landon and Frank Knox were the Republican candidates for President and Vice President. They were defeated in a landslide by Franklin Roosevelt. Clyde Singer captures ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Fresh Fish"
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
A Cheerful, 1930s American Scene Landscape Painting with Church and Country Road
Located in Chicago, IL
A Cheerful, 1930s American Scene Landscape Painting with Church and Country Road by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A gem of a painting, exemplifying ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Early 20th century Impressionist Dutch River Landscape, oil on canvas
Located in Woodbury, CT
Herbe was a Dutch painter from the early 20th century. He painted landscapes and seascapes mostly in oils. His work was exhibited in London during the 1930s-50s with Mitchell’s the i...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,560 Sale Price
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Town Landscape with Figures - British 1930's Post Impressionist oil painting art
Located in London, GB
This interesting British 1930's Post Impressionist town landscape oil painting is by noted Liverpool born artist Edwin Glasgow. Painted in 1936 and signed lower left, the painting wa...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"White Horse" Frederick Lester Sexton, Bucolic Barn, Farm Scene, White Horse
By Frederick Lester Sexton
Located in New York, NY
Frederick Lester Sexton
White Horse
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Provenance
Part of a Collection received from the Lyme Art Association.
Frederick Lester Sexton received a lot of reviews and exhibitions in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, when he was at the height of his career. Because it captured the personal view of many people's wish to ignore national issues and simply live their lives in their homes, his work was favorably welcomed. The rise of modernist styles like Abstract Expressionism, which started to take over the American art scene in the 1950s, also contributed to Sexton's fall in popularity. As collectors and regular spectators discover once more that realism is a valid component of American art because it speaks directly and clearly to the beauty they perceive in their surroundings, many artists, like Sexton, are experiencing a renaissance.
Cheshire, Connecticut, was the birthplace of Frederick Sexton in 1889. His father, J. Frederick Sexton, was the Rector of St. Peter's Church in Cheshire and a well-known Episcopal clergyman. The mother, Mary Louise Lester, was an amateur painter and came from a pretty well-known Hartford family. Frederick was killed in an open-hearth fire when he was eighteen months old. His right hand was badly burned and was never to be opened again. The father kept the family together after his mother passed away when he was nineteen.
Sexton's mother taught him art, and he went to public schools in New Haven. He received the prestigious Winchester Prize for a year of study in Spain while attending the Yale School of Fine Art, where he studied under Augustus Tack...
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
$13,836 Sale Price
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Boy in a landscape, large art deco period painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This luminous landscape is perfectly capturing the light of early spring. A boy is climbing over wooden farm gates, with a backdrop of rolling hills. The painting has a gloriously fr...
Category
French School 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Chisholm Trail"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Charles Hargens (1893 - 1997)
Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania artist and illustrator Charles was born in Hot Springs, South Dakota. As a young boy he loved to draw cowboys, Indians and ranch buildings. By age ten, he was “a commercial success” selling drawings of neighbors’ barns and houses for $25. When he grew older, his parents consented to enroll him at the Pennsylvania Academy (1913-20) where he studied with Daniel Garber, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, and William Merritt Chase. At Garber’s invitation, Hargens occasionally came to visit his Lumberville studio to paint with him. A lifelong friendship resulted. In 1915, the Pennsylvania Academy awarded Hargens its Cresson Traveling Scholarship and he went to Paris to study at the Academie Julian and the Academie Colarossi.
Hargens was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy and a member of the Society of Illustrators, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923 awards) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1915 prize, 1917 prize, 1918 award). By the early 1920s, he began to produce illustrations for book jackets, books, magazines and advertisements. His career took off and soon his illustrations of cowboys, Indians, Western life, Revolutionary War action and boy scout themes appeared in, or adorned the covers of The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty, McCall’s, Boy’s Life and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. His work also appeared on billboards and advertisements for Stetson hats and Coca-cola. It was conditioned by Hargens that all of his original art was returned to him after being published. His entire body work remained in his studio until his death in 1997; this is largely the reason his paintings have not yet commanded the high prices of his contemporary Saturday Evening Post illustrators (i.e. Rockwell, Leyendecker and N.C. Wyeth).
At first he and his wife worked from their studio in Philadelphia. In 1940, they purchased a property at the intersection of Aquetong and Sawmill roads in Carversville. They commuted to Philadelphia regularly and stayed in South Dakota every summer. Eventually, he set up a studio next to his Carversville home. After moving to Carversville, Hargens began a lifelong friendship with George Sotter. Hargens’ Carversville home was the subject of many of George Sotter’s paintings long before and during the time Hargens lived there. Hargens also studied with Henry Rand...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soleil sur la Neige
Located in Paris, FR
Ivan Fedorovitch Choultsé
1874-1939 Russian
"Soleil sur la Neige", 1933
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
Canvas: 21 1/4" high x 24 3/4" wide
Frame : 31 1/2" high x 35 3...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Early Evening Walk"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, 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
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
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
$796 Sale Price
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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
Corsican Chestnut Trees
Located in London, GB
'Corsican Chestnut Trees', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1933). The artist, Kvapil, has many artworks which depict scenes in nature such as this one....
Category
Expressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,527 Sale Price
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Impressionist Barbizon School Oil on Board, The Port With Sailboats
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view a port by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is not signed but was acquired with a collection of other signed paint...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
untitled (French Townscape with Clouds and Mountains)
By William S. Gisch
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (French Townscape with Clouds and Mountains)
Oil on masonite
Signed with the estate stamp verso (see photo)
Hand painted frame by the artist. (see photos)
Image eize: 24 x 2...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Park - Paint by Henri Hamm - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Park is a modern artwork realized by Henri Hamm in 1937.
Oil on wooden Panel.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"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
$1,080 Sale Price
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Colorful, 1930s American Scene Painting "House with Gable" by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant 1930s American Scene painting of a sunlit Victorian house by noted American Modern painter Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Very reminiscent of Edward Hopper's artwork, the...
Category
American Modern 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Óleo sobre tela - Calle con arcada
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior
Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra
Medidas obra: 73 cm. de altura x 60 cm. de ancho
Estado de conservación bueno el de la obra...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
North on West Street (West Side Highway NYC Cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). North on West Street , 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15 x 22 inches. Framed measurement: 27 x 34 inched. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC
De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium"
Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village.
Early Life
De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website.
At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers.
As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later.
In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno).
Artistic career
In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting.
Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe.
Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound
During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter.
In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa.
Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that:
the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment.
Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow."
It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day.
In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel.
Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings.
While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends."
Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York.
With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting.
In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works.
In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation.
"The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit]
Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond.
To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness."
He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller.
Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance.
The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation.
The writer and television personality Alexander King said
I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean.
King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets."
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