1960s Landscape Paintings

Vibrant landscape by Vern Hansen (American, 20th Century). A lone outcrop of trees stands proud on the hill, the base of the tree just below the horizon. Rendered in saturated greens and black, the trees contrast against the bright yellow field and the pale mountains. Note the donkey at the base of the tree for scale. Titled "San Gregorio...

'Ghost Town' is a vintage painting with a lone Prospector with his pack mule standing in the ruins of an abandoned mining town, probably set in Colorado, set within a Mountain landscape with late summer, early autumn foliage by Harold Skene (1883-1978). Signed by the artist in the lower right corner, titled and dated by the artist verso. Colors include blue, green, golden yellow, pink, red, brown and white. Oil on board. Presented in a mahogany frame, outer dimensions measure 30 x 35 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches. Image size is 24 x 30 inches. Expedited and International shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. A native of Massachusetts, Harold Vincent Skene graduated from Harvard University School of Architecture in 1906. After relocating to Colorado, he studied at the Denver Art Academy, the Broadmoor Art Academy and served as an assistant to artist, Allen Tupper True.

Vibrant autumnal impasto painting of the High Sierra mountains by Ruth Frymire (American, 20th century). Signed "Ruth Frymire" lower right. Unframed. Imag...

Impressive early American modernist beach scene oil painting by Brooks Kelly (1935 - 2012). Framed. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

This colorful late spring scene is most likely around Erie, Pennsylvania. Artist and teacher Joseph M. Plavcan generally painted around the area in which he lived for over 50 years. Joseph Michael Plavcan was born near Pittsburg, in Braddock. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy in 1926, studying with renowned New Hope artist Daniel Garber. Through a scholarship, he went to Europe to study. He returned to Erie in 1932 and became an art instructor, teaching for the next 38 years. Plavcan went far beyond teaching trade school requirements and instilled a true sense of sophisticated artistry in his students. During his artistic career, he exhibited often in Philadelphia, Washington, New York and Chicago. This painting, oil on canvas, demonstrates Plavcan’s style, utilizing figurative abstraction with a modernist color palette. The paint is not over applied and areas are treated with smooth broad brush strokes. The hint of late blooming leaves are dashes of paint applied in a fast yet confident manner. Plavcan’s sense of light, demonstrated in the distant church tower is spot on. While not signed, there are two official estate stamps on the reverse that attest to the authenticity of Plavcan’s work. The piece measures 16” x 20” and appears to be canvas applied to a back board. This was likely done by the former retailer, Hudson House Galleries in Hagerstown, Maryland. That shop was a fine regional art gallery and antiques shop for decades until its closure about five years ago. The painting is nicely framed in a modernist gold wood frame with a subtle pink liner. The overall framed dimensions are about 20” x 24”. The painting is in very good condition, bright and crisp. There is a very minor vertical crease above the peak of the house that is truly barely noticeable from any distance. Other than that, all is fine with the work and its frame. This strong, colorful work by Joseph Plavcan...

Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr. (American, 1918-1991) and painted circa 1965. A substantial, Modernist oil showing a mare and foal frolicking in a deep chestnut landscape interspersed with foliage and areas of bright color. Born in Los Angeles, Leon D'Usseau began training under the guidance of his father, who was among the earliest fine-art film directors to work in Hollywood. At the age of twelve, Leon was drawing seriously and, at fifteen, received a working scholarship at Chouinard School of Art where he studied under Merrill Gage and Alexander Archipenko. At this early age, he was also employed by Chouinard to teach a line-drawing class. Adopting the anglicized brush-name of Dusso, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1937-40), the California Palace Legion of Honor (1941), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942), the Laguna Festival of Arts, Los Angeles Artists Association (1945), the California Watercolor Society (1946) and the Audubon Association (1945). Leon Dusso...

Signed lower right, 'Caputo' for Antonio "Tonino' Caputo (Italian, 1933-2021) and dated 1962. Born in 1933, Antonio Caputo studied in Rome at the Faculty of Architecture and held hi...

Antonina Aleksandrovna Dolinina (Russian, 1925-2004), "Spring", Oil on Canvas, 1960s, International Art Fund Certificate of Authenticity to verso, giltwood frame. Image: 22.75" H x 3...

Pont Neuf, After Pissarro - Mid-Cent. French Impressionist Paris Street Scene A wonderful mid-century copy of Pissarro's timeless Fr...

Exceptional Impressionist landscape of a road leading past a tree and pond up to a farmhouse, by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Signed by the artist in the lower right corne...

Title: Island View Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 18"" x 26"" Frame Size: 22"" x 30"" Age: 1960s Signature: J. Senberg Jan Senbergs is active/lives in Australia. Jan Senbergs is...

Stylized depiction of a harbor scene in monochrome blues with abstracted elements by Martha Scurlock (American, 20th Century). Signed lower left "M. Scurlock" and on verso in pencil "Martha Scurlock". Rustic, vintage painted frame...

White water rapids in a redwood forest creek and a rocky hillside in the background is beautifully captured by California artist Mildred Vejtasa Fenner (...

Sea Cliffs (54) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Flowers and Plants) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condi...

Mountain Shore (53) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)

Riverside Landscape (50) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 14 in. x 18 in. (35.56 cm x 45.72 cm)

Beautiful American realist view of Pack River in Sandpoint, Idaho by Laura Lindberg (American, 1904-1976). Signed lower right corner "64 L Lindberg". 26 Pack River Laura Lindberg and...

Rocky Seascape (55) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Board Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)

Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 25.5 x 31.5 Medium: Oil "Bluebonnet Path" Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I was always curious about Pedro Lazc...

Industrial Landscape with Trees in Oil on Linen Bold industrial landscape by Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014). A large red building with a water tank and silos above a tree studded road dominates the landscape. The sky is blue-grey and filled with puffy clouds. Signed "Lyons" in the lower right corner and on verso. Canvas size: 24"H x 30"W No frame. Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014) was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, on Oct. 8, 1927, on her grandparents' farm. She was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and attended college at the University of Chattanooga, (now UTC) where she received honors in ar. At U.C. she met her husband Jack Hoover, and the couple moved to Palo Alto in 1954. Doris Hoover became a nationally known fabric artist, teacher, lecturer and co-founder of the Peninsula Stitchery Guild, a leading organization in the Bay Area Crafts Movement of the 1970s. Her beautiful, often playful quilts, soft sculptures and creative stitchings grace homes...

Oil on paper (glued on canvas) sold with frame Wooden frame with glass Total size with frame 56x48 cm Baldo GUBERTI is an artist born in Italy in 1907 and died in 1974. His works h...

"Lazy Day in the Country" - Mid Century Pastoral Farm Landscape with Barn Pastoral mid-century landscape of a farm with an old barn by Shirley Gilman (American, 1924-2008), circa 19...

Sweeping mid century landscape of a lone house in an expansive desert scene with colossal mountains in the distance by Alice M. Fink (American, 1880-1968). Signed "Alice M. Fink" low...

'Mas Pres Eypalieres, Provence' French Landscape, Signed Oil Painting By French artist 'De Tigny', 20th Century, Signed by the artist on the right hand corner, signed, dated '67' and titled verso Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 18 x 24 inches Wonderful oil painting of a scenic view of a village in Provence, with an idyllic crop field in the forefront. This lovely oil painting is such a pretty impression of the French rural countryside, with hilly background and sun kissed houses with terracotta roof tiles...

Nicely painted mid century abstract landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Impressive early American modernist beach scene oil painting by Brooks Kelly (1935 - 2012). Framed. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Signed lower left and lower right "Mary Juergens" (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1960. An Impressionist-style oil seascape showing a dramatic view of azure and jade wate...

Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice period impressionist frame. Signed.

Beautiful tonalist landscape of California foothills and country road. Signed and dated "CKP" and "'69" lower right corner. Presented in rustic wood frame with eggshell mat under nonglare glass. Image size: 18.25"H x 13.25"W. Framed size: 23.5"H x 18"W. California Tonalism was art movement that existed in California from circa 1890 to 1920. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail. Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...

Quaint pastoral landscape of a figure and dog walking down a country lane amongst tall autumn trees with beautiful fall foliage by Cal Donna Zell (American, 20th Century). Signed "Ca...

Autumn Trees, Mid Century Fall Landscape with Orange & Earthtones Lovely late 1960's vintage landscape oil painting of an autumnal scene by Cal...

Old town on the Bay in Baja Mexico Original Oil painting on Linen by Palavicini Old Village in Baja Mexico by unknown Mexico artist Palavicini. (Mexico 20...

Signed lower right, 'Edward Norton Ward' (American, born 1928) and painted circa 1960; additionally signed, verso, and titled 'Heavy Seas, Pt. Lobos'. A substantial evening seascape showing dramatic breakers rolling in towards the the rocky coast near Point Lobos, California. This plein-air Impressionist painter first attended the University of California in Los Angeles and subsequently studied with Joshua Meador. Over the course of a long career, he has exhibited widely and with success and has been the recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards. Edward Norton Ward was a charter member of the Society of American Impressionists; he is also a member of the California Art Club and has served as president of the Carmel Art...

Nicely painted mid century impressionist landscape with billowing clouds. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Plants and Pumpkins) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Cond...

Midcentury impasto landscape of Sierra Mountains with stream in foregrounds snow-covered mountains in background. Signed "Lorie '65". Clown is painted on verso. Presented in carved a...

The Empty Barn - California Country Scene Oil on Canvas American Impressionist oil painting of a vacant wooden barn along the hillside. A wooden barn acts as the focal point, with ...

City Skyline - Mid Century Modern Urban Landscape in Oil on Burlap Vibrant cityscape by S. Craig (20th Century). Several tall, thin buildings rise above a city street lined with tre...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Flowers, Plants and Pumpkins) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 in...

A serene park captured in full blooming color in this landscape by Pauline Merlotti (American, 1909-1997). Signed "P. Merlotti" lower right. Displayed in a wood frame. Image, 12"H x ...

Wonderful palette knife impasto painting of the Matterhorn from the Italian side with Breuil-Cervinia in forefront by Northern California artist Beatrice Ash...

Wonderful luminous sunset landscape coastal painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso. Image size, 14 by 18 inches.

Industrial Landscape with Row Houses in Oil on Linen Bold industrial landscape by Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014). A large red building with smoke...

Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 27.25 x 31.25 Medium: Oil "Hill Country Home" Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I was always curious about Pedro ...

Vibrant with riotous color, a floral garden still-life titled "Spring Mix" by Gabriel Portoles Ascaso (Spanish, b. 1930). Presented in a wood frame. Signed "G. Portoles A." lower rig...

Here we have 1960’s Russ Elliott Florida painting Painting depicts a Park with figures overlooking a canoe with a lilly pad pond Russ Elliott 1960’s signed lower right oil on canva...

Signed, verso, in Cyrillic, 'Leontev V.E.' for Valentin Nikolaevich Leontiev (Russian, 1912-1984) and inscribed, 'City of Yarolsavl on the River Volga. Painter, Leontev V.E. Showing Ilaskaya Church, symbol of 17th Century architecture'. Painted circa 1965. Accompanied by old framing label bearing title, 'Church of the Prophet Elijah'. Displayed in a burnished gilt-wood frame; framed dimensions: 21.5 H x 17.5 W x 1.5 D inches Valentin Nikolaevich Leontiev; painter, teacher. Honored Worker of Culture of the USSR (1973). Member of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. He was awarded a commemorative medal. Medal "For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia (1947). Chairman of the Board of the Yaroslavl Union of Artists (1961-1964), member of the board until 1982. In 1931 he graduated from the Yaroslavl Art and Pedagogical College (teacher - S.F. Shitov) and continued his studies in Leningrad (teachers - I.I. Brodsky, A.A. Osmerkin, B.V. Ioganson). He was a Stalin scholarship holder. In 1941, from the 6th graduation course of the institute at the Academy of Arts, he volunteered for the front. Participated in battles near Narva and Kingisepp (North-Western Front). When the regiment left the encirclement, he was captured, in April 1945 he was liberated by the allied forces in Germany on the river. Elbe. After his release, he fought on the 2nd Belorussian Front, participated in the battles near Königsberg. In 1947 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. I.E. Repin of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, having defending his thesis - the monumental composition "Meeting of the Winners". After graduation, he taught at the Cheboksary (Chuvash ASSR) art school (1949-1951). In 1951 he returned to Yaroslavl and for 32 years (1951-1983) taught at an art school. There are many well-known artists among the students of Valentin Nikolaevich Leontiev. In addition to many landscapes ( " Morning in Yaroslavl " (1967), " Industrial motive " , " The Church of Elijah the Prophet " (1956), " Hoarfrost "(1979) and others), as well as chamber works in the genre of still life, V.N. Leontiev created several significant thematic canvases, including: " Weekend Morning in Cheboksary " (1950 - Chuvash State Art Museum), " Building Communism " (1951, YAHM). Participant of regional, interregional, zonal, regional, republican and all-Union exhibitions. Personal exhibitions in Yaroslavl: 1972, 1983 and 1997. V.N. Leontiev participated in the work of several congresses of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR and the Union of Artists of the USSR, in the formation of regional exhibitions. Works by V.N. Leontiev are kept in the museum collections of Yaroslavl, in Russian and foreign private collections. From the introductory article to the exhibition catalog "Valentin Nikolaevich Leontiev and his students ” , 2008 Art critic Olga Shikhanova. He was loved by both students and fellow artists. Many even now remember with a smile many funny stories associated with the name of Valentin Nikolaevich Leontiev, one of the most significant painters of Yaroslavl. Many are still grateful to him for the lessons of mastery, for patience and tolerance, for a sincere interest in their first, albeit timid, steps in art and for a personal example of passion for creativity. A native Yaroslavl, Leontiev was born on February 5, 1912. His father was a wagon coupler on the railroad and died when his son was 7 years old. Mother Alexandra Nikolaevna worked all her life as a painter at one of the oldest paint and varnish enterprises in the country - the Victory of Workers plant. An inquisitive and active boy at the age of ten joined the first pioneer detachment on Krasny Perekop and from that time became addicted to drawing. Valentin received his initial art diploma in the then popular working studios of fine arts, and in the Yaroslavl Art School, where he entered in 1928, his teachers were wonderful teachers Sergei Fedorovich Shitov and Pyotr Nikolaevich Shadrikov, who stood at the origins of the Yaroslavl art school. In 1931, after defending his diploma, Leontiev received a referral to the Victory of Workers factory, where he conscientiously performed the usual work for a factory artist: he wrote slogans, drew wall newspapers, designed stands with the results of socialist competitions. Such work could not give real creative satisfaction to a person with his pictorial possibilities. In 1933, Valentin first entered the preparatory classes of the All-Russian Academy of Arts, and in 1935 became a student. Art and creative work carried away, and the names of the teachers I. Brodsky, A. Osmyorkin, B. Ioganson, E. Serov, R. Frentz, A. Zaitsev, who had already entered the history of Russian art, turned their heads. In 1940, for excellent progress, Vadentin was awarded the highest student award - a state scholarship. Even then, Leontiev's leadership qualities appeared, and in 1938 he was elected a member of the Student Youth Council under the Central Committee of the Komsomol. For the diploma, he painted a large-scale painting "Children on the Volga" (headed by A.I. Savinov). These few Leningrad years were the happiest in Leontiev's life. After all, it was there, within the walls of the Academy, that he met a friend for life - Evsey Moiseenko, and there he met his only love, Tanya Edelson. The wedding was played in a student hostel in January 1941. But June 1941, like many young people of his generation, dramatically changed the life that had begun so wonderfully. The terrible word "War!" Leontiev and Moiseenko, academic scholarship holders, on whom great hopes were placed, were completely exempted from military service, but both made the only choice possible for them at that time: instead of defending their diploma, in July 1941 they signed up as volunteers in the people's militia. On a memorable day, a large group of students gathered at the Academy - future historians, artists, musicians - all of whom the slogan "Leningrad is in danger!" also did not leave indifferent. From there, everyone went first to the militia, and then to the front. Private of the 4th Volunteer Division, Leontiev participated in the construction of defensive fortifications around Leningrad. The militias dug the ground, constructing anti-tank ditches and pillboxes. After heavy fighting near Narva and Koenigsberg, some colonel undertook to take them out of the encirclement. And so it happened that led untrained soldiers directly to the Germans. So Leontiev was captured, and soon ended up in Germany. Repeated attempts to escape each time ended in raids and brutal reprisals. Finally, he was given as free slaves to a German farm, where he stayed until the arrival of the Red Army. It was a difficult time for Leontiev's wife, Tatyana: in November 1941, their son Vladik was born in Anapa. She survived nine months of occupation and the inability to learn anything about the fate of her husband. Freed from captivity, Leontiev served in the 128th separate communications battalion of the 24th Army of the Belorussian Front until October 1945, and all this time he tried to contact his relatives. He was considered missing. Finally, Valentin was reunited with his family, and then a wonderful portrait of his son appeared, which the artist painted on the same day - “Vladik. Meeting with my son. Leontiev's graduation work was lost during the war years. Having written under the guidance of B.V. Ioganson and V.A. Serov's new large painting "Meeting of the Winners" (280x350), Valentin in 1947 defended his diploma. The high commission rated...

"The Victorian Sentinel" - Mid-Century Architectural Landscape in Oil on Canvas Helen Landgraf (American, 1916-1999) was a teacher in the San Juan Unified School District. She was...

Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 24L.

Mid century landscape watercolor of a campsite in the forest by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work dire...

Antique American modernist abstract landscape painting by Ann Anderson. Oil on canvas, circa 1961. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 16"L x 20"H.

English mid century beach and landscape scene, with fishing boats and fishermen Ernest Wills was an English painter from the 1930-1960 period in England....

Striking Sierra Mountain landscape by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904 - 1984), circa 1960s. Unsigned, but acquired with a collection of her work. Unframed. Image s...

Les Soeurs (The Sisters) Charles Levier, French (1920–2003) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 29.5 x...

Colorful landscape by American artist Walter F. MacGregor (American, 1890-1979). Dated and signed "1969 Walter F. MacGregor" in the lower right corner. Presented in a dark wood frame...

Exceptionally well painted African landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 22L x 26H.

Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 53 x 69.5 x 4 cm Around the gray frame, golden borders, beige interior