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Period: 1950s
"Pont de la Concorde" Romantic Parisian Impressionistic Street Scene Framed
"Pont de la Concorde" Romantic Parisian Impressionistic Street Scene Framed

"Pont de la Concorde" Romantic Parisian Impressionistic Street Scene Framed

Located in New York, NY

A stunning depiction a romantic Parisian street scene painted in 1957. We are drawn to the playful use of light and how the rain sparkles on the sidewalk. Figures go about in the day...

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Post-Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Large, Cheerful 1950s American Scene Mid-Century Modern Painting, "The Picnic"
A Large, Cheerful 1950s American Scene Mid-Century Modern Painting, "The Picnic"

A Large, Cheerful 1950s American Scene Mid-Century Modern Painting, "The Picnic"

By Walter Burt Adams

Located in Chicago, IL

A large, cheerful 1950s American Scene, Mid-Century Modern oil painting, "The Picnic" by notable Chicago artist, Walter Burt Adams (Am. 1903-1990). A vibrant, painterly depiction of...

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American Modern 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Greg Carter Signed Vintage American Modernist Framed Porch Scene Oil Painting
Greg Carter Signed Vintage American Modernist Framed Porch Scene Oil Painting

Greg Carter Signed Vintage American Modernist Framed Porch Scene Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist cafe scene oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Gallery label verso. Thick impasto and wonderful color palette. Measuring: 25.75 by 21.75 inches overall,...

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Modern 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tugboat and Ship in New York Harbor, New York City
Tugboat and Ship in New York Harbor, New York City

Tugboat and Ship in New York Harbor, New York City

By James Murray

Located in Grand Rapids, MI

James Murray (American, mid-20th Century) Signed: J. Murray, (lower, right) " Tugboat & Ship in New York Harbor ", circa 1950s Oil on canvas board (Lee's Art Shop Inc., Picture ...

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American Realist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1950s Italian Ottone Rosai Signed Dated and Archived Painting
1950s Italian Ottone Rosai Signed Dated and Archived Painting

1950s Italian Ottone Rosai Signed Dated and Archived Painting

By Ottone Rosai

Located in Roma, IT

‘The Gate’, a masterpiece from 1955 painted on canvas by the Florentine artist Ottone Rosai (Florence 1895 – Ivrea 1957). Ottone Rosai Archive, curated by Dr Giovanni Faccenda Signed...

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Italian School 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Provence - Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Oil on Panel Painting
Provence - Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Oil on Panel Painting

Provence - Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Oil on Panel Painting

Located in Sevenoaks, GB

A beautiful French post-impressionist oil on panel by Jules Merle depicting sunlit buildings with a solitary figure, probably Provence. The work very nicely painted with some lovel...

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Post-Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Mid-Century Balinese River Scene
Mid-Century Balinese River Scene

Mid-Century Balinese River Scene

Located in Soquel, CA

Ink painting of a traditional Balinese river scene attributed to Dewa Putu Lopid. Intricate and dynamic ink wash painting of a traditional Balinese river and village scene. In the f...

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Folk Art 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

"Café de la Paix, Opéra" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting
"Café de la Paix, Opéra" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting

"Café de la Paix, Opéra" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting

By Jean Salabet

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Jean Salabet. Salabet was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His wor...

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Post-Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Le jardin de Daubigny Style of Vincent Van Gogh Daubigny's Garden by S. Goosson
Le jardin de Daubigny Style of Vincent Van Gogh Daubigny's Garden by S. Goosson

Le jardin de Daubigny Style of Vincent Van Gogh Daubigny's Garden by S. Goosson

Located in Soquel, CA

Le jardin de Daubigny Style of Vincent Van Gogh by Stephen Goosson The painting depicts the enclosed garden of Charles-François Daubigny, a French landscape painter whom Van Gogh ad...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

A Machine Age Modern Industrial Scene Painting of a New York City Shipping Crane
A Machine Age Modern Industrial Scene Painting of a New York City Shipping Crane

A Machine Age Modern Industrial Scene Painting of a New York City Shipping Crane

Located in Chicago, IL

A striking Machine Age Modern industrial scene oil painting of a New York shipyard crane by notable American artist, Lessing Whitford Williams (1894-1989). A colorful, dynamic examp...

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American Modern 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Funfair - 1950's French Expressionist Mid Century Oil on Canvas Painting
Funfair - 1950's French Expressionist Mid Century Oil on Canvas Painting

Funfair - 1950's French Expressionist Mid Century Oil on Canvas Painting

By André Beaucé

Located in Sevenoaks, GB

A wonderful 1950's French expressionist oil on canvas depicting figures at a busy funfair, by Parisian artist André Beaucé. Excellent quality work painted with thick impasto brush work. Signed lower centre. Artist: André Beaucé (French, 1911-1974) Title: Funfair Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 25.5 x 21 inches (65 x 54 cm) André Beaucé was a French painter born on May 23, 1911 in Rennes and died on January 2, 1974 in Paris . A pupil of the School of Fine Arts in Rennes, a graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts where he was admitted in 1932, André Beaucé was a pupil in the workshops of André Lhote and Simon, with Yves Brayer . He won the Abd-el-Tif prize in 1946 and was a regular at the Salon d'Automne. After having lived for several years in Algeria, and in particular at Villa Abd El Tif where he was a scholarship holder from 1946 to 1948, André Beaucé returned to France in 1949 and resumed his teaching at the Schools of Paris. His painting is then powerfully expressionist, free from any system. In the 1950s, we notice vigorous, uncompromising, intense portraits, captured in an almost caricatural way. The tones, always very mounted, are opposed with force in a composition cut with vigor. After the dark years of the war, Beaucé’s art reflects a violent vision of a certain reality that is always brutal and yet magnificent. Exhibitions Paris, 1936 to 1945, Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts . Tunis, 1946, Exhibition of French Africa. Algiers, 1947, Abd-el-Tif. Paris, 1948, Letourneur gallery. Paris, from 1950 to 1960, Salon d'Automne and Salon Comparaisons . Paris, 1962, Roy's gallery. Paris, May 1963, Exhibition organized on the occasion of the Estates General on Disarmament , Cercle Volney. First Salon Biarritz - San Sebastian: School of Paris - Painting, sculpture: André Beauce, Georges-André Klein , Adrienne Jouclard , Jean Joyet , Robert Lotiron , Roland Bierge , Andrée Bordeaux-Le Pecq , Henri Hayden , Franck Innocent , Germaine Lacaze...

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Expressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage New Orleans Courtyard Framed Impressionist Signed Oil Painting
Vintage New Orleans Courtyard Framed Impressionist Signed Oil Painting

Vintage New Orleans Courtyard Framed Impressionist Signed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage New Orleans courtyard scene. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 17 by 21 inches overall, and 16 by 20 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Category

Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Autumn" Colorful Mid-20th Century American Oil Painting Landscape with Tress
"Autumn" Colorful Mid-20th Century American Oil Painting Landscape with Tress

"Autumn" Colorful Mid-20th Century American Oil Painting Landscape with Tress

Located in New York, NY

A wonderful depiction of an Autumn landscape in Kent, Connecticut from the Mid-20th Century with puffed trees by the country side. For this beautiful depiction, we find distinct elements that are unique to the earlier works of George Lawrence...

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American Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

NYC in Pink
NYC in Pink

NYC in Pink

Located in North Clarendon, VT

Wonderful little mixed media painting by New York City artist Gilbert M. Walker. Faintly initialed lower right and inscribed on reverse. Gilbert M. Walker (born 1927) was an America...

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American Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Carbon Pencil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Large Oil Painting
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Large Oil Painting

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Large Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Unsigned. Measuring: 46 by 58 inches overall, and 45 by 57 painting alone.. In excellent original condition...

Category

Abstract Expressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Mid Century Signed Landscape -- Old Country Cottage with Chickens
Mid Century Signed Landscape -- Old Country Cottage with Chickens

Mid Century Signed Landscape -- Old Country Cottage with Chickens

Located in Soquel, CA

Charming mid century country landscape with cottage with thatched roof and chickens foraging. Signed "H. H." and dated "1955." Condition: good; some edge and corner wear consistent w...

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American Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock
Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock

Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in oil on Heavy Cardstock

By Honora Berg

Located in Soquel, CA

Trees in Bloom Along the River Landscape in Oil on Heavy Cardstock Bold oil landscape by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). Trees with pink and white blooms line the bank of a river. The river is shown in streaks of pink, green, and yellow, reflecting the surrounding landscape. At the far edge of the river, bright green mountains sharply rise from the bank. Acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Stamp from the Larry Miller Fine Art on verso. Unframed. Board size: 14.75"H x 22"W Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985) was an Abstract Expressionist and Bay Area Figurative School artist who studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff and James Budd Dixon...

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Abstract Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Untitled California Landscape
Untitled California Landscape

Untitled California Landscape

By Carl Thorp

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist: Carl Thorp – American (1912-1989 ) Title: Untitled, California landscape Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on canvas Image size: 24.5 x 29.5 inches Framed size: 27.5 x 32.5 inches Signature: Signed lower right Condition: Very good This artwork is untitled. It looks like a scene in California. There is a sun-dappled, partially shaded foreground, a dark shaded row of trees mid-ground and a sunny hillside or mountainside as background, showing in the upper right of the composition. The painting is composed of oil on canvas. It is signed in the lower right corner by the artist. It is framed in a wooden gold frame. The painting is in very good condition. The frame is in good condition with a small 1/8" dent. Please see pictures. About the artist: Carl Thorp (1912–1989) was an American artist who became known for Impressionist landscapes of California, sometimes referred to as California Scene Painting, as well as New York City, Boston and New Orleans Cityscapes. He was born in Lubbock, Texas on November 14, 1912. Active in California between 1928 and 1957, Carl Thorp studied at the Academy of Fine Art in San Diego with Maurice Braun and Alfred Mitchell...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting

Vintage American Abstract Expressionist Framed Modernist MCM Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 31 inches overall, and 18 by 26 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Nicely fram...

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Abstract Expressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Broadway
Broadway

Broadway

By Jean Dominique van Caulaert

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Broadway (?), 1952, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left, 15 x 18 inches, inscription verso may say "Broadway", presented in its original frame Jean Dominique van Caulaert w...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting of Woman with Umbrella, Framed
Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting of Woman with Umbrella, Framed

Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting of Woman with Umbrella, Framed

Located in Douglas Manor, NY

5-3170a Rare and finely painted American Colorful Pointillist landscape oil painting of a woman with an umbrella.Signedn Baxter Set in a vintage wood frame

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1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Bluebonnets Texas Hill Country"
"Bluebonnets Texas Hill Country"

"Bluebonnets Texas Hill Country"

Located in San Antonio, TX

Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 29 x 33 Medium: Oil Signed Lower left "Bluebonnet" Biography Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) A painter of realistic landscapes reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood (not to be confused with Robert E. Wood) is reportedly one of the most mass-produced artists in the United States. His painting became so popular he was unable to meet all of the demands, and many of his works were reproduced in lithographs and mass distributed as prints, place mats, and wall murals by companies including Sears, Roebuck. He was born in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England near Dover, the son of W.L. Wood, a famous home and church painter who recognized and supported his son's talent. In fact, he forced his son to paint by keeping him inside to paint rather than playing with his friends. At age 12, Wood entered the South Kensington School of Art. As a youth, he came to the United States in 1910, having served in the Royal Army, and he never returned to England. He traveled extensively all over the United States, especially in the West, often in freight cars, and also painted in Mexico and Canada. His itinerant existence took him to Illinois where he worked as a farmhand, to Pensacola, Florida where he married, briefly in Ohio, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In 1912, he was in Los Angeles, and in the late 1920s and early 1930s, in San Antonio, Texas, where he lived and in 1928 exhibited in the "Texas Wildflower Competition." From San Antonio, he gained a national reputation for his strong colored, dramatic paintings. Some of that prestige has been credited to his association with Jose Arpa, prominent Texas artist. Wood also gave art lessons, and one of his students was Porfirio Salinas. During this period, Wood sometimes signed his paintings G. Day or Trebor, which is Robert spelled backwards. In 1941 he went to California and painted numerous desert and mountain landscapes and coastal scenes. He lived in Carmel for seven years, and then moved to Woodstock, New York, but he soon returned to California, settling first in Laguna Beach, then San Diego, and finally in the High Sierras, where he and his wife built a home and studio near Bishop and lived until his death in 1979. Robert Wood was born March 4, 1889, in Sandgate, England, a small town on the Kentish coast not far from the white cliffs of Dover. His father, W. J. Wood, was a successful painter who recognized Robert's unusual talent. At the age of twelve, his father enrolled Wood in art school in the small town of Folkstone. He then attended the South Kensington School of Art. While attending art school, Wood won four first awards and three second awards, one each year, a record. In 1910 after service in the Royal Army, nineteen-year-old Wood and his friend, Claude Waters, immigrated to America. Initially, he settled in Illinois and worked as a hired hand on a farm belonging to Water's uncle. He would then strike out on his own, living the life of an itinerant painter. Wood traveled as a hobo, hopping freight trains and selling or bartering small paintings to support him along the way. When times were hard, he worked at whatever job was available. In this manner, he saw most of the United States and fell in love with rural America. By 1912, Wood visited Los Angeles for the first time, arriving on the day of the Titanic tragedy. Later that year, he had met, courted and married young Eyssel Del Wagoner in Florida. The couple moved to Ohio where a daughter, Florence, was born. During World War I, the family moved to Seattle where a son, John Robert Wood, was born in 1919. In the early 1920's, the young Wood family was almost constantly on the move. They stayed for short periods in Kansas, Missouri, California and for a longer time in Portland, Oregon, where Wood's friend Claude Waters had settled. Wood's seemingly endless wanderings disrupted his family life and delayed his development as a painter. However, through his travels he developed an appreciation for the American landscape that would inspire him for the rest of his career. Although aware of the current movement away from traditional realism in American art, he elected to travel that solitary path and remain true to his own vision of American’s grandeur and beauty poetically translated through his landscape and seascape paintings. In 1923, the Wood family discovered the beautiful city of San Antonio, Texas and it was there that he and his family would finally settle. He studied briefly at the San Antonio Art School with Spanish colorist Jose Arpa y Perea (1860-1952), who had arrived in San Antonio that same year. In the latter part of the 1920’s, Jose Arpa’s influence quickly became evident. Wood after several years of experimentation was becoming fine easel painter, capable of great subtlety with a new mature original style. Like Texas painters Robert Onderdonk (1853-1917) and his son Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), Robert Wood concentrated on the distinctive Texas landscape with its Red Oak trees and wildflowers that covered the hill country landscape. He developed a reputation for his scenes of Blue Bluebonnets, the state flower. In the spring, the Texas prairie is covered with wildflowers, especially in the hill country surrounding San Antonio and Austin. Wood incorporated native stone barns and rough wood farmhouses that added authenticity and romance to his compositions. In 1925, Wood was divorced from his wife. In 1932, he moved to the famous scenic loop on San Antonio's outskirts. While still living in Texas, he took extensive western sketching trips that brought him to California. It is evident that his 1930’s California...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

A Contemplative, Mid-Century Modern Neighborhood Scene, New York City, Brooklyn
A Contemplative, Mid-Century Modern Neighborhood Scene, New York City, Brooklyn

A Contemplative, Mid-Century Modern Neighborhood Scene, New York City, Brooklyn

Located in Chicago, IL

A Contemplative, Mid-Century Modern Neighborhood Scene of New York City. A quiet, autumn street view of city front steps and Brownstones, likely depicting a scene in Brooklyn, Green...

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American Modern 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"California Summer" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite
"California Summer" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite

"California Summer" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite

Located in Soquel, CA

"California Summer" Mid Century Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite Serene landscape by Andrew Bennett (British, 20th Century). A herd of cows are gathered under oak trees in th...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Antique American School Summer Beach Scene Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Antique American School Summer Beach Scene Framed Impressionist Oil Painting

Antique American School Summer Beach Scene Framed Impressionist Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American impressionist seascape beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 18L x 14H.

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Impressionist Landscape Signed Lake Scene Framed Oil Painting
Vintage American Impressionist Landscape Signed Lake Scene Framed Oil Painting

Vintage American Impressionist Landscape Signed Lake Scene Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 17 by 20 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone. Handsomely framed in wide moder...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Autumn Trees - Mid Century Small-Scale Landscape, Signed Oil Painting
Autumn Trees - Mid Century Small-Scale Landscape, Signed Oil Painting

Autumn Trees - Mid Century Small-Scale Landscape, Signed Oil Painting

By Helen Enoch Gleiforst

Located in Soquel, CA

Autumn Trees - Mid Century Small-Scale Landscape, Signed Oil Painting Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 19...

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American Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Antique Italian Impressionist Capri Italy Signed Large Crashing Surf Seascape
Antique Italian Impressionist Capri Italy Signed Large Crashing Surf Seascape

Antique Italian Impressionist Capri Italy Signed Large Crashing Surf Seascape

By Guido Odierna

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique Italian impressionist seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 30 by 42 inches overall, and 24.5 by 36.5 painting alone. In excellen...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Bluebonnet Creek"  Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
"Bluebonnet Creek"  Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!

"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!

By Porfirio Salinas

Located in San Antonio, TX

Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 39 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1957 "Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas are in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Framed Fauvist Town Art Fair American Modernist Framed Original Oil Painting
Framed Fauvist Town Art Fair American Modernist Framed Original Oil Painting

Framed Fauvist Town Art Fair American Modernist Framed Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 30 inches overall, and 18 by 24 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

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Fauvist 1950s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Villiers le Bel
Villiers le Bel

Villiers le Bel

Located in Paris, FR

PRESSEMANE Joseph 'Villiers le Bel'. Oil on board. Signed. 47 x 21 cm. Titled and signed on the back. Biography Born Jozef Presman in 1904 in Berestechko, Ukraine, he studied at th...

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Expressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

French school Landscape luminous naturalist oil painting Signed
French school Landscape luminous naturalist oil painting Signed

French school Landscape luminous naturalist oil painting Signed

Located in Zofingen, AG

➡️ Landscape Luminous naturalistist⬅️ ⏩It is signed Degoul 1936⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐35.1x52.6cm /13.8x20.7 i...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

American Impressionist Sunset Sailboat Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting
American Impressionist Sunset Sailboat Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting

American Impressionist Sunset Sailboat Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American seascape oil painting . Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 19 by 16 inches overall, and 16 by 12 painting alone. Signed verso. Excellent condition, ready to hang and...

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Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Riverside Fishing Camp

Riverside Fishing Camp

By Chuck Fee Wong

Located in Buffalo, NY

A modern impressionist painting by American artist Chuck Fee Wong featuring his signature use of bright colors. This work is a wonderful landscape with an interesting perspective per...

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American Impressionist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Israeli Large Vibrant Surrealist Flowers Oil Painting
Israeli Large Vibrant Surrealist Flowers Oil Painting

Israeli Large Vibrant Surrealist Flowers Oil Painting

By Milia Laufer

Located in Surfside, FL

Milia Laufer, born Romania. From 1951 lived and worked in Safed. Together with her husband opened one of the earliest galleries in Israel, in Tiberias. Worked in watercolors and oils...

Category

Surrealist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Signed, through the Mountains
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Signed, through the Mountains

1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting Signed, through the Mountains

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) Signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper , mounted on card, unframed Size: 13.75 x 12.75 inches Condi...

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1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Autumn Landscape
Autumn Landscape

Autumn Landscape

By Robert Vickrey

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Autumn Landscape, by 1958, tempera on Masonite, 24 x 36 inches, signed lower left, exhibited: 1) 133rd Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY, February 20 – March 16, 1958 (Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize); and 2) Henry Ward Ranger Centennial Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, September 25 - October 12, 1958, #133 (see Levin, Meyer, Illustrative Paintings Gathered for Ranger Show at National Academy, St. Petersburg Times, October 13, 1958 (“There’s a warm, low-keyed picture of golden fields, with distant structures, called “Autumn Landscape,” by Robert Vickrey, whose magic realism is felt in so “regular” a subject.”), literature: 1) Watson, Ernest William, Composition in Landscape and Still Life, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1959, pp. 24, 155 and 157 (illustrated); and 2) Vickrey, Robert and Cochrane, Diane, New Techniques in Egg Tempera, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1973, p. 111 (illustrated); ex collection National Academy of Design Reflecting on his art, Robert Vickery...

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American Realist 1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Egg Tempera