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Period: 1940s
Le port de la Chaume. Oil on canvas, 33x41 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Le port de la Chaume. Oil on canvas, 33x41 cm
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Sierra Mountain Lake Landscape
By Lillian Jackson Heath
Located in Soquel, CA
Sweeping mid-century landscape of a lake and snow-capped mountains by Lillian Josephine Heath (American, 1864-1961). A gigantic, snow-covered mountain dominates the upper portion of the composition, rising above the rest of the landscape. In the shadow of the mountain is a valley lake, filled with snowmelt, with several smaller mountains in between.
Signed "Lillian Heath" lower left.
Displayed in a giltwood frame.
Image, 20.5"H x 28"L.
Lillian Heath was one of the Jolly Daubers at the turn of the 19th-century and as a young student, married the senior artist and instructor, Frank Heath in Santa Cruz, California. Artists Frank and Lillian [Heath] by Margaret Koch [transcribed from Santa Cruz Public Library website]….Frank L. Heath courted Lillian Dake Storey during painting trips around Santa Cruz County back in the 1890s.
Those were the years when Lillian was riding a saddle horse daily from Santa Cruz to the Powdermill where she taught school. Today [1974] the Powdermill is Paradise Park.
Frank's actual proposal of marriage was delivered at Rocky Falls, a beautiful scenic place on Carbonero Creek. There he had constructed a painting platform with a perfect view of the rushing waters, and it was there that he asked Lillian in that formal day and age, to be his bride.
Frank was nearly 40 years old at the time, and Lillian was about 32.
She had always been interested in art and had talent to a large degree. She took a year's leave of absence from teaching school to travel alone to New York where she visited relatives and stayed to study china painting and the painting of miniatures which is an art in itself.
‘When I returned from New York I enrolled in the art classes of a Santa Cruz artist who was making a name for himself,’ she once said with a smile.
The artist was Frank L. Heath, and that was the start of their romance, she told me in 1959. She accepted Frank's proposal at Rocky Falls.
At the Heath home on Third Street, Beach Hill, Frank added a wing with a large studio workroom downstairs and several bedrooms upstairs. That was his wedding gift to his bride.
‘The Studio’ had a fireplace and big bay windows that looked out over the town of Santa Cruz and back to the mountains they both loved and painted many times. Lillian painted a set of tiles for the fireplace; they showed darting swallows in the clouds above a stream where song birds perched on tulles and water lilies floated.
In 1897 Lillian and Frank were married in the First Methodist Church and they moved into the home on Beach Hill, a house she continued to live in for 64 years.
Frank's father, Lucien Heath, was the first Secretary of State of Oregon. He came to Santa Cruz from Oregon in 1866 with his wife, Jane, and sons, Frank and Henry. A daughter, Lina, had died in Michigan where the Heaths lived before crossing the plains to Oregon in 1852. [?]
In Santa Cruz Lucien Heath opened one of the early hardware stores on Pacific Avenue in partnership with John Byrne...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rail Crossing: Middletown, NY"
By Jules Halfant
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful oil on linen canvas painting, entitled "Rail Crossing: Middletown, was executed by the esteemed artist Jules Halfant (American, 1909-2001)...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The bare tree Italy by Jean Chomel - Oil on wood 27x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss painter
Sculptor, painter and ceramist. Landscape. Wall painting and drawing
Artwork on cardboard
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
Located in New York, NY
Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Waterfall, Bearsville NY
40 1/2 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gracie Mansion
By Isabella Banks Markell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gracie Mansion, c. 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 25 x 30 inches, presented in a newer frame
Isabella Markell was a painter, etcher, and sculptor, who is best known for ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Mid Century Reflecting Mountains Norwegian Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene mid-century landscape of mountains reflecting over a fjord in Norway by an unknown artist, Circa 1940's. Unsigned. Displayed in a rustic giltwood frame. Image, 20"H x 24"W.
The Norwegian and Antarctic Fjords were carved by a massive sheet of ice...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Pont Alexandre III
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Pont Alexandre III
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet:: 13 x 9.75 inches
Charming painting by ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Ecole de Paris, Mid 20th Century, Three Paris Scenes Eiffel Tower & Parks
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Collection of Three Paintings of Paris Scenes
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
the Eiffel Tower painting is signed front lower right and also inscribed to the back, the Versailles painting...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Ogden, Utah in Spring - Mid Century Mountain Landscape
By Grace Peterson
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century impressionistic landscape of Ogden, Utah mountain foothills by Grace H. Peterson (American, 20th Century), 1944. Signed and dated...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"À Troinex, Geneva" by Henri Deluc - Oil on canvas (1942) 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas sold with frame
The frame measures 63x74 cm.
The mountain on the painting is the "Salève" from Troinex, Geneva.
John Henri DELUC is...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Garden Splendor"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nicolai Cikovsky. Signed lower left. In good unrestored condition. Housed in custom made wood and lemon gold gilt frame. Overal...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Wheat Sheaves Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful landscape of wheat sheaves with modernist vibe by Eleanor Walls Plau (Plaw) (American, 1878-1954).Wood frame. Signed "Plau" or "Plaw" lower lef...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Florida Water Scene Oil Painting by Listed Artist Maurice Van Felix
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a colorful oil painting by listed American artist Maurice Van Felix. It portrays a boat landing or lift along a harbor location. It must be Florida as there is a line of palm...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
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
Antique French Modernist Paris School Signed Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modernist Paris school cityscape street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 27 by 40 inches overall and 26 by 39 painting alone. In excellent...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Colorado Hill Town with Storm Clouds, 1940s Modernist Landscape, Lush Green
Located in Denver, CO
This WPA-era signed oil painting by Paul K. Smith captures a stormy summer landscape in Colorado, featuring houses and lush trees under dramatic storm clouds. Painted in rich shades ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Pond, Landscape with house, New Mexico artist, signed, 1940s, Period frame
By Mabel Dodge Lujan
Located in Doylestown, PA
This painting of a lush, wooden landscape with a house by a lake was painted by New Mexico, female artist Mabel Dodge Luhan in the 1940's. It signed "Mabel Dodge" in the lower left a...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Incredible Vintage Surreal Religious Framed Signed Latin American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
Surrealist 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
The Factory in Châtelaine, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
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
Outdoor View - Original Tempera by Caroline Hill - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Outdoor View is an original painting in mixed media and oil realized in the 1940s by Caroline Hill (1935-1983).
The artwork is hand-signed on the lower left.
Good conditions.
This...
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Exhibited Ashcan School Nocturnal New York City Brooklyn Bridge Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal view of the Brooklyn Bridge. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed.
Category
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
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
By Louis Bosa
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
Large oil on canvas genre painting depicting laborers working on a railroad, with rural landscape in the...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lunch Break” Fletcher Martin, Men Working, Bricklayers, WPA, American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin
Lunch Break, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 37 3/8 inches
When Fletcher Martin died in 1979, the New York Times entitled his obituary “Artist o...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Art Deco Abstract Spot Light Aeronautical Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Day of Rest" San Pedro Harbor Fishing Boats Oil on Linen 1948
Located in Soquel, CA
"Day of Rest" San Pedro Harbor Fishing Boats Oil on Linen 1948
Oil on linen of San Pedro fishing docks, Los Angeles, California by California artist Harry ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, 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
Antique American Modernist Beach Sunset Landscape Original Hampton Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. No signature found. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 20"L x 16"H.
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
Antique American Impressionist New England Beach Bathers Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist bather scene by John Edward Costigan (1888 - 1972). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Post...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Antique American School Modernist Sunset Beach Dune Signed Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school signed original oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 24"L x 18"H.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sketch of a Woman: Hilary Hennes Miller c.1940 English Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, including others by Hennes, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Regent's Park Barrage Balloons 1940 oil painting by Lord Paul Ayshford Methuen
Located in London, GB
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Paul Ayshford Methuen (1886 - 1974...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hermosa Beach Coastline - Watercolor On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Hermosa Beach Coastline - Watercolor On Paper
Watercolor painting depicting the Hermosa Beach coastline by California artist F.J. Whitlock (American, B- 1923 ). Vibrant hues of blue...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
A Picturesque ca. 1940s Farm Scene with a Barn & Silo by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A picturesque ca. 1940s, horizontal farm scene with a barn & silo, created in oil on Masonite, by Artist Francis Chapin. Painting likely depicts Wisconsin or Michigan. Painting is ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Twilight, New York City Oil Painting circa 1940 by M. Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Margaretha E. Albers, American (1881 - 1977)
Title: Twilight
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Board, signed
Size: 12 in. x 16 in. (30.48 cm x 40.64 cm)
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Across the Street
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, Signed lower right
Exhibited:
1) [Solo E...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Pond Reflections Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Pond Reflections, a mid century impressionist watercolor painting by California artist C.G. Standeford (American, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Circa 1940's. Signed o...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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
The Yarn Market, Dunster, Somerset - British 1940's townscape art oil painting
By BERTRAM NICHOLLS PRBA
Located in London, GB
This historically interesting Post Impressionist town landscape oil painting is by noted Slade School trained artist Bertram Nicholls. Painted in 1940, the location is the Somerset t...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
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
Modernist 1945 Abstract Waterfall Watercolor Landscape Painting by Eve Drewelowe
Located in Denver, CO
This striking 1945 abstract landscape watercolor by pioneering modernist artist Eve (Van Ek) Drewelowe, titled "The Champagne Cascades, Crescendos, Crashes," is a bold interpretation...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
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
Sailing Near Santa Barbara, Mid Century Coastal Seascape with Sailboats
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous American impressionist mid century coastal landscape painting of sailboats near Santa Barbara by John Dominque (Swedish/American, 1893 - 1994), 1946. Signed "Dominique" and ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“St. Ives, Cornwall, England”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil painting on artist canvas board by the California artist, Fern F. Cunningham. Signed lower right. Titled in pencil on stretcher verso. Condition is very good. Recently professionally cleaned. Circa 1940. The painting is housed in its original period frame. Overall framed measurements are 14.5 by 17.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota Florida collector.
Fern Cunningham Stone (1889-1975) She was born in Defiance, Ohio on August 4, 1889. A painter, she specialized in impressionist still life works, landscapes, and seascapes of California. Born Fern F. Smith, she married Napoleon Arthur...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Jewish Mexican Avant Garde Fiesta of Guadalupe Expressionist Oil Painting
By Yonia Fain
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract Mexican Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Mexico
Dimensions:
Yonia Fain
Oil, 1947
Although this oil painting’s subject is predom...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Lighthouse View Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist coastal view with a lighthouse. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Bridge Landscape Oil Painting by Will Hollingsworth
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American surreal abstract landscape painting Will Hollingsworth. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period modernist fr...
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Albright Knox Gallery Label Signed Landscape Oil Painting Lake River Nocturnal
Located in Buffalo, NY
A charming painting of a quaint lake at night with the moon reflecting on calm waters.
Bearing an Albright Knox Art Gallery "Art Week" label from 1941 t...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American School Modernist Hay Barn Regionalist Farmer Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist farm landscape painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 25H by 30L.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's Impasto Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous heavily impasto landscape that captures the high summer charm. Unknown artist, (Edda or Edde) Partial illegible signature/inscribed lower r...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
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