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Period: 1940s
Item Ships From: USA
"Lower Manhattan"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed & dated 1940 lower left.
Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984)
He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the S...
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Pond and Hills Oil on canvas board 1930s
By Clyde Eugene Scott
Located in Soquel, CA
"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Oil on canvas board 1930s
Elegant mid century landscape depicting a lake and hillside in summer by well known and collected California artist ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board
'Fremantle Harbor, Perth', Western Australia, Post Impressionist, SFAA, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Byron' for Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999), dated 1947 and titled, 'Aus'.
A dramatic, Post-Impressionist view of the Western Australian port of Fremantle wit...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Pastel
Arroyo Grove, c. 1940s
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Consigned to the gallery by private collectors
Description
Sam Hyde Harris was a tremendous storyteller, a talent he successfully translate...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Masonite
Antique American Signed Abstract Expressionist Museum Size Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting by Arnold Aaron Friedman (1874 - 1946). Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
By Louise Miller Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
1940's Carmel Landscape, Sycamore Grove by Nell Walker Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
1940's Carmel Landscape, Sycamore Grove by Nell Walker Warner
Beautiful, substantial and period painting of Sycamore Grove, Carmel Valley by Nell Walker Warner (American, 1891-1970...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Woodstock in Winter" Cecil Chichester, Modernist Snowy Winter Landscape
By Cecil Chichester
Located in New York, NY
Cecil Chichester
Woodstock in Winter, circa 1947
Signed lower left
Oil on artist's board
12 x 16 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Rhinebeck, New...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Autumn Valley Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century folk art painting of an autumn valley by Farris (American, 20th Century)Signed "Farris" lower left. Tag on verso from Ohio frame shop ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Antique American Impressionist Cody, Wyoming Horse Ranch Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American regionalist modern landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 30"L x 25"H.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century --Fields and Foothills Landscape
By Tarmo Pasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely landscape by Tarmo Pasto. Signed and dated "1948" on the bottom right. Unframed. Image size: 25"H x 30"W.
Dr. Tarmo Pasto was born on July 27, 1906 in Monessen, Pennsylvania, of Finnish descent. Tarmo Pasto was a psychologist and artist, who taught psychology and art through the 1970s at California State College at Sacramento since the schools inception.
He also authored a book on art, The Space-Frame Experience in Art, published in 1964. He, however, was mainly known to the world for introducing the works of one of his psychology patients, Martin Ramirez...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Point Lobos Cove, Carmel California by Adelaide Bartleme
Located in Soquel, CA
Point Lobos Cove, Carmel California by Adelaide Bartleme
Point Lobos Cove circa 1940s by Carmel artist Adelaide Bartleme, (American, 1881-1973). The niece of a well known New York ar...
Category
Post-War 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Pillar Point Fishing Dock, Half Moon Bay - Mid Century Landscape
By William Winthrop Ward
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautifully detailed mid-century coastal landscape of Pillar Point Fishing Dock near Half Moon Bay, California by William Winthrop Ward (American, 1901-1985). Signed lower left: "W. ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Gloucester Harbor New England Fishing Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting by Mabel Silver. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image, 16"L x 12"H.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Visiting Day -- Mid Century California Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming and bright mid century California figurative landscape with a female figure walking down a verdant and inviting path by William Hiller (America...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Village Market, Large Italian Painting by Colucci
By A. Colucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: A. Colucci
Title: Village Market
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Board, Signed l.r.
Size: 32 x 53 inches (81.28 x 134.62 cm)
Frame: 38 x 60 inches (96.52 x 152.4 cm)
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Mid Century Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Watercolor, and pastel on paper. Framed. Signed. Image size, 6.5H by 10L
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940s Original Oil Painting of Boulder Canyon - Colorado Mountain Landscape
By Irene Fowler
Located in Denver, CO
This vintage 1940s original oil painting beautifully captures the essence of Boulder Canyon, showcasing the stunning Colorado landscape with majestic mountains and vibrant Aspen trees in their autumnal glory. The piece highlights the rich fall colors of gold, orange, and red as the Aspen leaves turn, reflecting the serene beauty of Colorado's mountainous terrain. Presented in a custom gold frame, the outer dimensions are 25 ¼ x 21 ¼ x 1 ½ inches, while the image size itself measures 22 ¼ x 18 ¼ inches.
About the Artist:
Irene Fowler (1884-1969) was an influential figure in the development of Denver's art scene. Born in Illinois, she moved to Denver where she became a public school teacher and a founding member of the Denver Artist’s Guild (now the Colorado Artist’s Guild). Throughout her career, Fowler painted stunning landscapes in oil and watercolor, most often working en plein air to capture the natural beauty of Colorado's diverse scenery.
Known for her landscapes of Colorado, Fowler expertly depicted the unique features of the region: towering mountains, quaking Aspen trees, and rustic mining towns. Her work is marked by an exceptional understanding of the thin mountain air and luminous sunshine that make Colorado’s landscape so striking.
Fowler was a prominent figure in the Denver art community, exhibiting her works at major venues such as the Schlier Gallery, Chappell House, the University Club...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Swiss Alps Fauvist Modern Impasto Landscape - Original Oil on Canvas
By Alphons Müller
Located in Soquel, CA
Swiss Alps Landscape - Original Oil on Canvas
Original oil landscape by Alphons Muller (Swiss, 1898-1955) depicting the Swiss Alps. Dark green trees emerge on either side, with a sm...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Paris Opera House', California Artist, Chouinard Art Institute, Crocker Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'A Heinsbergen' for Antoon Heinsbergen (Dutch-American, 1894-1989), inscribed 'Painted in Paris from the top floor of the Grand Hotel Paris' and dated 1941.
A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies.
Painter and theatrical designer, Antoon Heinsbergen immigrated to Los Angeles as a small boy and first studied at the Chouinard Art School and the Otis Art Institute. He subsequently became sought after as a decorator of theaters and, working with a crew of 185, designed and painted wall and ceiling decorations...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charles Harsanyi Modernist Winter Scene, 1946, titled "The Ferry No 2"
Located in New York, NY
Charles Harsanyi (American, 1905-1973)
The Ferry No 2, 1946
Oil on board
40 x 52 in.
Framed: 46 x 58 in.
Signed and inscribed verso
Exhibited:
Grand Central Art Galleries, 1946
Charles E. Harsanyi was born in Tapolcza, Hungary in 1905. He studied at the Royal Academy in Budapest, Hungary with A. Bankhard from 1923 to 1928. Nineteen years later, in 1947, Harsanyi moved to the U. S., settling in Jackson Heights, New York.
The painter and drawing specialist became a member of numerous prestigious art clubs including the Salmagundi Club, The Society of Independent Artists and the Allied Artists of America. Harsanyi served as an awards director and chairman of admissions for the Audubon Artists Association during the 1950s.
Later in life after living in Stephentown, New York and Cape Coral...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
South Street, NYC - Impressionist Oil Painting by Margaretha E. Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Margaretha E. Albers, American (1881 - 1977)
Title: South Street, New York
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Port, 1949
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Consigned to the gallery by private collectors
Description
A prominent watercolorist during the Depression era of the 1930s and early 1940s, Phil Paradise...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Life is But A Dream - Mid Century Hawaii Surreal Abstract Landscape with Boat
Located in Soquel, CA
Life is But A Dream - Mid Century Hawaii Surreal Abstract Landscape with Boat
Symbolic mid century landscape with surreal elements, of a lone row bo...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"TALCO SCHOOL" TALCO HIGH SCHOOL TEXAS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Buck Schiwetz
(1898-1984)
Houston Artist
Image Size: 10.5 x 14
Frame Size: 17 x 20.5
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Dated 1946
"Talco School" High School Talco Texas
Buck Schiwetz (1898-1984)
Edward Muegge Schiwetz was a painter whose work recorded the state of Texas from the country to the city. In addition, Schiwetz was a magazine illustrator, graphic artist, writer, preservationist, and architect.Edward Schiwetz was born and raised in Cuero, Texas and learned to draw and paint under the instruction of his mother. He graduated from Cuero High School (1916) and received a baccalaureate in architecture from Texas A & M college, College Station...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Petit Pont-Neuf - Pont Saint-Michel Paris Bridge at Night Original Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Petit Pont-Neuf - Pont Saint-Michel Paris Bridge at Night Original Oil on Linen
Pont Saint-Michel Paris Bridge at Nigh by an unknown artist, signed illegibly and possibly H. Pierrot ...
Category
Post-War 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1940s Yorkshire, England Landscape of Whitby Abbey Ruins
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking and atmospheric painting of North Yorkshire’s Whitby Abbey ruins by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Whitby Abbe...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Arroyo Seco, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southwest Oil Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign a...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Noah's Ark', Argentine Outsider artist, Buenos Aires Modern of Modern Art, Peru
By Liber Fridman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A stunningly original mixed-media collage showing an Ark containing various life-forms and a dove resting in the waves. Fridman has used oil paint, papyrus and pre-columbian textiles...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Textile, Canvas, Acrylic
A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas by A. Whipple
Located in Soquel, CA
A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas
Oil painting depicting a river flowing through a grove of trees. Vibrant green trees surround the river, hues of deep greens make up the trees to the l...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Period Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Rare Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American modernist cubist abstract by Anita F. Plumb. Framed. Pastel and gouache on paper. Signed. Image size, 20H by 26L.
Category
Cubist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
"Union Square"
24 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c.1940s
S...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Coastal Cottages', Mid-century Massachusetts Woman Artist, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Swinson' for Marjorie E.G. Swinson (American, born circa 1904) and painted circa 1955; additionally signed, verso, 'Marjorie E. G. Swinson'.
Marjorie Swinson...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huakai Hui - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaiian Symbolism Figurative & Landscape Oil painting of Huakai Hui (Journey Together)
Symbolic and surreal landscape of a female and male figure ascending stairway flanked by to...
Category
Futurist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Antique American School Modernist WPA Winter Ice Skating Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American modernist winter landscape. Detailed and well painted skating scene. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Fantasy, Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky (American 1883-1962)
Spring Fantasy, 1948
Oil on artist's board
Signed lower right and verso
16 x 13 inches
20 x 17 inches, framed
Impressionist painter A.G. Warshaw...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1946 "Untitled" oil on canvas painting signed and dated by artist Alex Katz.
By Alex Katz
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" oil on canvas painting by artist Alex Katz. Signed and dated A. Katz 46 recto lower right. Painted in 1946, during the period when Katz was studying at Cooper Union in New...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening on the Pier looking into the Tunnel - Mid Century Abstract Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Evening on the Pier, a stunning landscape by Marguerite Louis Blasingame and Frank Blasingame (American, 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and Frank were two of five artists in H...
Category
Tonalist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Halleluja, A story
Located in Greenwich, CT
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Vibrant Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting by Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 24H by 18L.
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Artists Country Home Rodgau Germany Original Oil on Linen 1944
Located in Soquel, CA
The Artists Country Home Rodgau Germany Original Oil on Linen 1944
Oil painting of the German Countryside circa 1944 by an anonymous artist. (German, 19th-20th C).
Well painted of a...
Category
Post-War 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Antique European Impressionist Framed Cityscape Signed Panoramic Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted European impressionist cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Brighton Beach" Nathan Hoffman, New York, Sunny Day Landscape Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman
Brighton Beach, July 31, 1946
Signed, dated, and estate stamped on the reverse
Oil on artist's board
10 x 13 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Esta...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Glassblowers" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City WPA
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
"Glassblowers" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City WPA
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
Glass Blowers
28 x 23 inches
Oil on canvas board
Signed and dated 1944 lower...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois" Streeter Blair, 1949 Painting
Located in New York, NY
Streeter Blair
Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois, 1949
Signed, titled, and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Primitive painter St...
Category
Outsider Art 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monhegan Headlands
By Jay Hall Connaway
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Although born in Liberty, Indiana, Jay Hall Connaway (1893-1970) was fascinated by coastal life and marine scenery, an attraction that had profound effects on his life and artwork. A...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Down By The Rio Grande" Texas Cowboy Western Dallas Artist Fred Darge 1900-1978
Located in San Antonio, TX
Fred Darge (1900-1978) Dallas Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 32 x 38 Medium: Oil, "Down By The Rio Grande"
Biography
Fred Darge (1900-1978)
Friedrich Ernst Darge Born: March 1 1900 Rendsburg, Germany Died: April 10 1978 Dallas, Texas Entered the U.S. ; Jan. 14 1923 at Port Arthur, Texas. By 1924 he was in Chicago painting under the W.P.A. Artists policy and attending the Art Institute of Chicago from where he graduated. While in Chicago he painted and made model sail boats...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Suburb (in Winter)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 20 x 15 inches, Signed lower right
Exhibited:
1) Portrai...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Desert" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Desert Landscape With Waning Moon
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Desert
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
18 x 30 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists to members...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Knight’s Lodging
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Knight’s Lodging, 1941, oil on canvas panel, signed and dated lower left, 16 x 20 inches, exhi...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Pastoral
By John Koch
Located in Greenwich, CT
John Koch is a beloved American realist painter who depicted people in their everyday lives. Here we see a slightly different approach where he has put a painter out in a rural town...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bucks County, Country Lane - Mid Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful, soft mid-century landscape of a country lane winding through the countryside of Bucks County by Pennsylvania artist Cora W. Best (American, 1874-1958). In the style of her...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
1940s Symbolist Figurative -- Her Holy Visions
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic figurative of woman having visions with religious themes and icons (cross, bride, salamander, crown, meeting Christ) while reading by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Futurist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Home Corral" Very early Wieghorst California Western Painting awesome colors
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olaf Wieghorst
(1899 - 1988)
California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist
Image Size: 20 x 24
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33
Medium: oil
1946
"Home Corral" California Olaf Wieghorst
Without a doubt one of if not the most colorful Wieghorst paintings ever done. Signed lower left. Titled on verso. Dated on verso.
In very nice condition. Has been professionally cleaned. Has very fine craquelure in the tree branches and a small spot below the horse that is really only visible if you are extremely close to the painting or with magnification. One of his finest paintings. Also please view my other Wieghorst from the same estate. I have included close up photos as well as photos taken in natural light, spot light and fluorescent lighting.
Olaf Wieghorst
(1899 - 1988)
California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist
Image Size: 20 x 24
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33
Medium: oil
"Home Corral"
Dated 1946
Biography
Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988)
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting.
In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons").
He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel.
In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion.
He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man.
Source:
Kathleen Wade
Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899-1988)
He arrived in the U.S. in 1918, joining the U.S.
Cavalry, & patrolled the Mexico border in New Mexico & Arizona . When he mustered out of the army, he drifted, ending up as a wrangler on
the Cunningham Ranch near Alma, New Mexico.
By the mid-twenties,
Wieghorst was in New York City, working as a mounted policeman - his
relationships with the many horses that were a part of his life became
the common denominator of his paintings. Living in California by the end
of WWII, he began a career that spiraled to success, in part due to his
engaging personality.
His paintings have appeared in numerous solo
& retrospective exhibitions including the National Cowboy &
Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City (1974), The Tucson Museum of Art,
Arizona (1981), & the San Diego Historical Society, California
(2002).
His work was the subject of the 1970 biography, "Olaf Wieghorst"
by William Reed...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Church in Trees
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 13 x 9 inches, Signed lower left
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape in Provence Watercolor Painting by Francois Pascal
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely watercolor painting on Arches paper features a landscape view in Provence. This typical Mediterranean country house in the south of France has a veranda and the Saint Victoire...
Category
Academic 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Mediterranean Port and Boats Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Charming painting of a Mediterranean town, two men untangle a fishnet while beach goers frolic on the shore, circa 1940.
Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of art on paper displaye...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache