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Period: 1940s
Antique American Winter Landscape Oil Painting of an Old New England Village
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5160 Antique winter landscape oil painting
Framed .
Image size 15.5x19.5"
Signed H.Katz 1945
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940s English Country Cottage Landscape
By Henry T. Harvey
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s genre landscape of traditional English cottage painted in the European style by Henry T. Harvey (English/American, 1908-2000). Signed lower right corner. Presented in...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,156 Sale Price
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Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century 1948 Paris Place de la Concorde
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Place de la Concorde looking towards Rue Royale
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right and dated for 16th September 1948
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet:: 9.5 x 12.25 inches
Very pretty painting by the highly regarded painter, Henri Miloch. It depicts Place de la Concorde with a cyclist making their way through the traffic. The artist was seated immediately by the fountain closest to Hotel de la Marine...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$706 Sale Price
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Lively seaside by Ellis Holy-Björset - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Original silver wooden frame with glass window
52 x 66,5 x 1,5 cm
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$376 Sale Price
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Mauna 'uhane - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaiian Symbolism Figurative & Landscape Oil painting of Mauna Uhane (Mountain Spirit)
Symbolic and surreal landscape with a figure of spirit ascen...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Linen
Boats on the beach oil on board painting spanish seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Nicolás Raurich Petre - Costa Brava - Oil on board
Oil mesures 14x23 cm.
Frame mesures 31x40 cm.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: City Winter Scene
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches
Intriguing painting by the...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Charcoal
$424 Sale Price
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Mosaic II
By Carl Holty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Appropriately called the "Mosaic" period for important historical artist Carl Holty, this is a super example! His color use during this time frame was lively as he always used sky b...
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New England Winter Forest Snow Landscape Silver Frame Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted and highly detailed winter landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape With Blooming Trees
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Landscape with Blooming Trees
Paul-Emile Pissarro 1884-1972 French
Paper size 9.5x12.5 under glass framed 12x16x1 signed, very good condition. The backi...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pastel
Montagny by Adolphe de Siebenthal - Oil on canvas 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wooden frame
60 x 71 x 4,5 cm
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$784 Sale Price
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1947 Abstract Biomorphic Painting by Leo Cahn
Located in New York, NY
Leo Cahn
Untitled, 1947
Oil on board
35 3/4 x 23 3/8 in.
Framed: 42 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 2 in.
Signed and dated lower left
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Canadian Modernist Framed Lake Landscape Rare Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 15 by 17 inches overall and 10 by 12 painting alone.
Category
Modern 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
Costa Brava oil on canvas painting Spain mediterranean art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Mediterranean Village, Catalonia
Artist: José María Vilà Cañellas (Vic, 1914 – Barcelona, 2001)
Date: 1941
Technique: Oil on canvas
Support: Canvas on stretcher
Dimensions (un...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,153 Sale Price
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Quai Gustav- Ador, the Neptune in Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Beige wooden frame
80.5 x 93.5 x 6 cm
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Listed Female Vintage Impressionist Oil Painting Gloucester Sayward Street
Located in Buffalo, NY
Listed vintage oil painting of rolling waves in Gloucester, MA. This work was created by listed female artist Regina Gates.
Regina Martin Gates was born in 1896 in Watervliet, Alban...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Hudson North Creek Landscape 1947
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3821 Antique landscape oil pastel of Hudson North Creek
Image size 10x13.5"
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Six O'Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About the Painting
Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.”
About the Artist
Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,500
agudo clara Paisaje. Acrylic painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Agudo Clará, Ignacio (Zaragoza 1880 – Ibiza 1966) ARTS On May 25, 1936, he married the painter Pura Ortí and with her and her family, he moved to Ibiza, facing the imminent Civil War. Settled in a house in Dalt Vila, he began to teach drawing and painting classes at the School of Arts and Crafts, and it was then that he decided to study Fine Arts, which he would do in Valencia in the 1940s. A little later, he decided to open his house-studio in Dalt Vila to the public, a circumstance that led him to request early retirement from the School of Arts and Crafts, and to dedicate himself entirely to his profession as a painter. As a figurative painter, he cultivated landscape and portrait, greatly influenced by German Romanticism...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Cubist Abstract Expressionist Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract mixed media painting. Oil gouache and crayon on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 24 by 29 inches overall and 15 by 20 painting alone.
Category
Cubist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sundown" Western Shoot Out, Mid Century Figurative Action Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
A dramatic mid-century western figurative action scene depicting a shootout in an old western town by Randy Steffen (American, 1917-1977), 1947. Several ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
$1,200 Sale Price
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"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
Mid Century Colorado River Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century impressionist landscape of Colorado River and hills by Wilfred A. Readio (American, 1895-1961), c.1940. Unsigned; purchased as part of collection of artist's wo...
Category
Tonalist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
Bathers 1940s Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Ashcan
Marion Gilmore (1909-1984)
Bathers
15 1/2 x 19 1/2 inches
oil on canvas boar...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Beautiful View at the End of the Road, c. 1940-50, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
A very beautiful landscape painting by a yet unknown artist signed H.Lövström.
The colours are strong and the three-dimensionality is impressive...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
By A. Mathieu
Located in Soquel, CA
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
In the Hudson River School style by A (K) Mathieu (American, 19th-20th C). Harvest time at the Homestead with a hay wago...
Category
Hudson River School 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Stretcher Bars
$1,480 Sale Price
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Fisherman on the River, Painting by Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Long Island City, NY
Fisherman on the River
Nicolai Cikovsky, Russian-American (1894–1984)
Date: 1949
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm)
Frame Size: 35 x 41 i...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rest of the fishermen in the Golf of Saint-Tropez
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1947 American Winter Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very well painted 1947 winter landscape by E.G. Seifert. I cannot find any information on this obviously talented artist. It is an oil on board measuring 20 inches wide by 16 high. T...
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Gossips"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Richard Wedderspoon (1889 - 1976).
Richard Wedderspoon was an important member of the New Hope Art Colony as both an Impressionist and Modernist painter. Wedderspoon was not only a respected painter, but also a teacher who spent summers at his Bucks County home and the school year at Syracuse University where he was Professor of painting. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey and first studied art at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He continued his studies at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and at age twenty four, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts studying with Henry McCarter and Daniel Garber. While there his roommates were Charles Garner and Lloyd Ney. Wedderspoon began friendships with fellow artists, Charles Hargens, Clarence Johnson and Stanley Reckless...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Desert Landscape -- Adobe House at Black Canyon, Arizona
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful desert canyon landscape of Black Canyon, Arizona featuring Adobe home in foreground by Claire McAnear (American, 1989 - 1986), 1945. Presented in aged gilt-toned wood fram...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard
$520 Sale Price
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China Camp Fishing Village - San Rafael California - Abstract Impressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
China Camp Fishing Village - San Rafael California - Abstract Impressionist
Wonderfully vivid nocturnal of coastal town by Roger Holt (American 1905-1979). Signed faintly lower right (see enhanced image of signature). Condition: good; professionally cleaned; edge wear consistent with age professionally restored; craquelure throughout, New UV-resistant, non yellowing varnish applied.
Unframed.
Image size: 14.25"H x 17.25"W.
Signed indistinctly lower right.
China Camp State Park is a 1,514-acre park in San Rafael, California. The park is known for its scenic views, hiking and mountain biking trails, and open spaces. It also features a historic Chinese American shrimp-fishing village and a salt marsh. By the mid-1880s, Chinese Americans had established a settlement of about 500 people in a village they called China Camp. Many of these villagers were originally from Canton, China, and supported themselves and their families here by shrimp fishing in San Francisco Bay. The village had three general stores, a barbershop, and a marine supply shop at its peak. China Camp was one of about twenty-six other shrimp-fishing villages along the coast that supported Chinese American immigrants fleeing San Francisco due to racial prejudice and persecution.
Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the population of China Camp ballooned as nearly 10,000 residents of San Francisco’s Chinatown fled the destruction and mayhem.
Roger Holt was born in New Haven, Connecticut. After attending Rollins College and St. Paul's School of Art in Minnesota, he traveled extensively through the United States and Europe, forming his educational background.
Hold was the recipient of five major awards, Mr. Holt exhibited in thirteen museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Carnegie Institute and the United Nations Building.
Settling in Jerome, Arizona in 1954, Roger assisted his wife, Shan Holt, in the operation of the Verde Valley Artist's Gallery and concentrated on his work, experimenting with different painting surfaces such as masonite, canvas board and stiff cardboard. His early work identified with the Expressionist school, while his later work tends toward increasing abstraction.
Roger Holt's paintings are included in the collections of Abraham Ribicoff, Vincent Price, John McCloy, Artie Shaw, Burl Ives and numerous universities across the country including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art at the University of New Orleans.
Arizona painter...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art - The Dream & the Dreamers
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with three women in a mystical garden setting walking toward a plaque "The dream and the dreamer are one" by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 190...
Category
Futurist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
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
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
Antique American School New York City Modernist Central Park View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist central park, new york city oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvasboard . Image size, 18H by 24L.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$380 Sale Price
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Monroe Street Bridge, Saturday Evening Post cover, June 12, 1948
Located in Fort Washington, PA
In this iconic Saturday Evening Post cover, the artist paints himself as the solitary fisherman underneath a Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington....
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hellenic Hypotenuse. Nudes among Greek Columns. Mid-Century Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Klett was an in-demand illustrator in the post-war period of the late 1940's and 1950's. and . His work appeared in many of the newsstand magazines at the time.
This work is a pers...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
XX century Spanish school oil on burlap painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil on burlap.
Oil measures 50x65 cm.
Frameless.
Category
Post-War 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Burlap
Antique Canadian Modernist Algonquin Park Signed Exhibited Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian modernist signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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The Running River. Oil painting on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Stephen DENISON
1909 - 1965
Canvas Size: 20 x 24" (50 x 60cm)
Outside Frame size: 27 x 31" (69 x 79cm)
Signed and dated 1948
A wonderful example of Modern British art.
This Englis...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Reclining Girl with Parasol"
Located in Southampton, NY
Signed lower right dated 1944
Signed verso William Malherbe "The Thetford Hill Vermont"
Provenance: Palm Beach Galleries
Framed in a gold frame
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$6,000 Sale Price
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American Fauvist Impressionist New England Gloucestor Fishing BOATS Painting
By Camillo Adriani
Located in New York, NY
Camillo Adriani was born in Massachusetts in the late 19th century. He studied art in Boston.
Adriani was especially well known for his vibrant portrayal of New England snow scenes...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape. 1942. Oil on cardboard, 36.5x47.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. 1942. Oil on cardboard, 36.5x47.5 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University a...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,345 Sale Price
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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
Low Tide - Mid Century Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century seascape of the waves spilling over the rocks into the tide pool by Margaret Esther Rogers (British/American, 1872-1961). Si...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Antique American Modernist "Antiquities Store" Framed Street Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Signed. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a whitewood molding. Exce...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Le Quai Conti - Impressionist Figurative Landscape Oil by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by sought after French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. The piece depicts a view of a crowded stall selling paintings besi...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
By Agnes Hart
Located in New York, NY
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
Agnes Hart (American, 1912-1979)
"Union Square, New York City"
Sight: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
Gouache...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"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
The Racken Group, A Värmland Lake View, 1945
Located in Stockholm, SE
This landscape painting by Ture Ander, completed in 1945, captures the serene beauty of a Värmland lake. The composition is dominated by soft, blue hues that give a tranquil feel, suggesting a calm day by the water. The trees in the foreground, depicted with a delicate blend of pink and earthy tones, add depth and contrast to the expansive lake and distant hills.
Ture Ander was born on September 17, 1880, in Askers socken, Örebro. At the age of 13, he moved to Stockholm to apprentice as a painter. While working during the day, he pursued evening courses at the Technical School, now known as Konstfack, where he graduated in 1903 with high honors in painting.
In 1905, Ander was accepted into the prestigious Artist Association School, studying alongside prominent artists such as Leander Engström, Isaac Grünewald, and Einar Nerman...
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
B.J.O. Nordfeldt - Moon in Mist - monochromatic grays
Located in Miami, FL
Nordfeldt's misty and moody monochromatic modernist landscape is reminiscent of Marsden Hartley. Signed lower right. The plaque reads B.J.O Nordfeldt "Moon in Mist - The painting l...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reclining Nude - Industrial Scene Verso - Scottish 1940's portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This interesting British 1940's oil painting is attributed to Harry Jefferson Barnes. Barnes trained at the Slade School of Art and later went on to become Director of the Glasgow Sc...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,788 Sale Price
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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
Twentieth Century Landscape Oil Goodrich Castle Ruins on the River Wye England
Located in ludlow, GB
Twentieth Century Landscape Oil Painting of Goodrich Castle Ruins by the side of the River Wye England.
Goodrich Castle on the River Wye, Herefordshire
Oil painting on panel, with o...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Village to the top of the mountain by Boris Hellmann - Oil on canvas 25x30 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas with frame.
Total size with frame: 36x42x5 cm
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Chinese Junk Reverse Oil Painting on Glass 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3537 Reverse oil painting on glass with gilt detailing.
Set in a gilt wood frame
Image size 9.5x7.5"
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$350 Sale Price
53% Off
1940's Winter Landscape -- Swiss Chalet at Dusk
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940's Swiss winter scene with snow covered chalet in valley, by an unknown artist, c.1940's. Signature illegible lower right. Presented in period rustic frame. Image size...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off