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Period: 20th Century
"Daddy Playing in the Mud" San Antonio Texas Black Folk Artist Johnny Banks
By Johnny Banks
Located in San Antonio, TX
Johnny Banks
(1912-1988)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 13.75 x 20
Frame Size: 20 x 27
Medium: Pen, Pencil, Crayon, Marker
"Daddy Playing in the Mud"
Biography
Johnny Banks (1912-1988)
In my opinion one of the greatest Texas folk artists of all time.
The following information was compiled and submitted by Stephanie Reeves:
John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John
Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora
Lee (McIntyre) Banks, was born on November 7, 1912, near Seguin, Texas.
At the age of five his parents took him to San Antonio, where he
attended Holy Redeemer School until the age of nine, when his parents
were divorced and John returned to his grandparents' farm near Seguin.
From childhood Banks's favorite pastime was drawing pictures on his Big
Chief tablet. He later recalled, "As a kid I used to lie flat on my
stomach, drawing and drawing. . . . My mother had to kick me off the
floor to sweep."
While helping out on his grandparents' farm,
Banks completed the tenth grade before striking out on his own. His
favorite activities during his youth were singing in a gospel quartet
and playing baseball. In his adult years he worked in oilfields and
cotton fields, drove a truck, and tended a San Antonio service station.
During World War II he joined the army; he held the rank of sergeant
and was stationed in the Philippines. After the war he returned to San
Antonio, where he worked as a custodian at Kelly Air Force Base, at Fort
Sam Houston, and at a local television station. Banks married Edna Mae
Mitchell in 1928, and they had five children. The marriage ended in
divorce around 1960. In 1963 he married Earlie Smith.
His
art career began in 1978 while he was recuperating from an illness for
which he had been hospitalized. Banks's wife admired her husband's
drawings and secretly took several of them to a San Antonio laundromat.
There she hung the drawings on the wall, offering them for sale at the
price of fourteen dollars. They were purchased and taken to a gallery
for framing. Quite by chance, a San Antonio physician and collector of
works of art by black artists...
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Folk Art 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Mixed Media
Wooded Landscape - Large Antique British Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large late 19th or early 20th century impressionist oil on canvas depicting a wooded landscape with pond and outbuilding, by Theodore Casimir Roussel.
Roussel was one of...
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Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Greenwich Village NTC antiques shops
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Margaret Layton (20th century). Greenwich Village shops (pair). Oil on board, each measures 6 x 13 inches; 10 x 17 inches framed. Each is signed lower left. No damage or conservation...
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Realist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Indian Creek, Michigan Landscape, Chicago Artist, American Impressionist
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Alfred Juergens (American, 1866 - 1934)
Signed: Alfred Juergens (Lower, Left)
" Indian Creek " (Michigan)
Oil on Board
14 1/2" x 19"
Housed in a 3...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Schmidt Hans, Hamburg 1859 – 1950 Weimar, German Painter, Deer in a Landscape
Located in Knokke, BE
Hans Schmidt
Hamburg 1859 – 1950 Weimar
German Painter
'Deer in a Landscape'
Signature: Signed bottom left, placed Weimar and dated 1941
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: Image siz...
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Realist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Creation Story', Amate, Yale University, Paris, Folk Art, Aztec
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Inocencio Jiménez Chino' and dated 1980.
This indigenous Mexican artist lives in the remote mountains of southern Mexico. He is among a group of self taught fo...
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Folk Art 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
French Watercolor of Les Alyscamps Arles with Church of Saint-Honorat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Les Alyscamps Arles with Church of Saint-Honorat
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, mounted
...
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French School 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Steinbecks Sheep
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
The Road, Mid-century Provençal, Fauvist Landscape. Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century oil on board Fauvist view of a road in a landscape, probably near Nice in the South of France and the surrounding countryside, by Hyppolite Roger...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Listed Antique American Impressionist Indiana Forest Interior Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist forest interior landscape oil painting by William McKendree Snyder (1848 - 1930). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 18H by 24L.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Perfect Day by the Lake" Impressionist Cafe w Figures Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical oil painting depicting a Courtyard Scene with a cafe of figures in France by Luigi Cagliani. As an Italian Impressionist artist, most of Cagliani's works were produced in...
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Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Bridge over Seine, Paris”
By Jonas Gerard
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by the well known artist Jonas Gerard. Signed by the artist lower right “Gerard”. Condition is excellent. Strong, vibrant colors. Circa 1965. Bridg...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Figures on the Beach”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a beautiful oil on wood panel painting of perfect summer beach day by the well known artist, Niek van der Plas. Signed lower right. Condition is exce...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Charles Henry Miller Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Charles Henry Miller (American, 1842-1922)
Untitled (New York Landscape), c. 1900
Oil on canvas laid on foam
6 1/8 x 10 5/8 in.
Signed lower left: C.H.M.
Charles Henry Miller was a noted artist and painter of landscapes from Long Island, New York. The American poet Bayard Taylor called him, "The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island."
Miller was educated at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, and graduated in medicine at the New York Homeopathic Institute in 1864. Before his graduation, he had occasionally painted pictures, and in 1860 he exhibited The Challenge Accepted at the National Academy of Design, in New York City.
He lived in Queens at the summer estate, Queenslawn, originally purchased by his parents. He went abroad in 1864 and again in 1867, and was a pupil in the Bavarian Royal Academy at Munich under the instruction of Adolf Lier.
After the 1874 death of his father, Jacob Miller, who was a wealthy architect and builder, Miller received a large inheritance that allowed him to paint as an independent artist for the remainder of his long life. He worked seriously and exhibited regularly, including at international exhibitions.
The majority of his oil paintings depict Long Island subjects, especially those in and around Queens Village. Fed up with the development of the eastern part of Queens (present-day Nassau County), he began to spend part of his summers in East Marion, Long Island, c. 1910. Here he spent his time sketching and painting the surrounding areas.
In 1885 he published The Philosophy of Art in America, using the pseudonym Carl De Muldor (he was descended from the De Muldor family).
His work was recognized: in 1873, he was elected an associate of the National Academy of Design and an academician in 1875. He served as president of the New York Art Club in 1879 and of the American Committee at the Munich International Exposition in 1883.
Legacy and honors
• In 1910 Miller founded the Queens Borough Allied Arts & Crafts Society.
• A New York City public school, Queens P.S. 33, was once named for him.
• 1878, gold medal awarded by the Massachusetts Charitable Association
• 1885, gold medal at the World's Exposition in New Orleans.
Following is a list, which includes many of his known exhibitions:
• National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 1860-61, 1865-67, 1870-1921
• Brooklyn Art Association, Brooklyn, NY, 1872-84, 1891-92
• Artist's Fund Society, New York, NY, 1874 (exhibition & sale), 1886 (exhibition & sale)
• Century Association, New York, NY, (1874-1917)
• Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA, 1876 (prize)
• Society of American Artists, New York, NY, (1878-1882)
• Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, Boston, MA, 1878 (prize)
• Paris International Exposition, Paris, France, 1878, 1889
• American Water Color Society Exhibition, New York, NY, 1879
• Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia , PA, 1879-99
• Boston Art Club, Boston, MA, 1880-1907 (prize)
• Union League Club, New York, NY, 1880
• Lotos Club, New York, NY, 1880, 1896, 1899-1900, 1906
• Salons of Paris, Paris, France, 1882
• International Exhibition, Munich, Germany, 1883 (president & exhibitor)
• New Orleans Exposition, New Orleans, LA, 1885 (prize)
• Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1888-89, 1891, 1894-98, 1904
• Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, New York, NY, 1889 (exhibition & sale)
• World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, 1892
• Frederick A. Chapman Gallery, New York, NY, 1898 (solo)
• Miller Studio...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Foam, Oil
Summer at the Harbor 1996 Large Acrylic Painting
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Tom Perkinson
Summer at the Harbor
1989
Large Acrylic Painting
Canvas 50.5 x 40.5 inches
Framed Size 55.5 x 45.5 inches
Tom Perkinson was ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Santa Cruz Mountains at Twilight, Pacific Ocean View California Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous plein air oil painting of Pacific Ocean as viewed from top of Santa Cruz Mountains, showing the tree-line and distant ocean in the soft t...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Charming Village Scene with Spired Church
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Charming Village Scene with Spired Church
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 7.25 x 9.75 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, u...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Garda lake Italy oil painting european art seascape urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Garda Italy - Oil on canvas on cardboard
Oil measurements 41x33 cm.
Frame 46x38.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Antique American Modernist Framed Male Portrait New England Flannel Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicey painted American modernist portrait oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 8H by 10L.
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ajaccio: Heart of Corsica
By René Gaston Lagorre
Located in London, GB
'Ajaccio: Heart of Corsica', oil on cardstock, by René Gaston Lagorre (circa 1960s). Ajaccio, nestled on the west coast of Corsica, graces the shores of one of the island's most beau...
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20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Repos dans un champs de coquelicots - Pointillist Landscape Oil by Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed pointillist oil on panel figures in landscape by French neo-impressionist painter Yvonne Canu. This stunning piece depicts a couple resting under a parasol in a field of wildf...
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Pointillist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Impressionist Fall in Maine Nicely Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting by Arthur E. Ward (1863 - 1928). OIl on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century French Signed Oil Boats Moored on White Cliff Beach Coastal Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Boats on the Beach
French School, mid 20th century
signed N. Hauvette
signed oil on board, framed in original frame.
framed: 22 x 28 inches
board: 18 x 24 inches
Provenance: private...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figures on the Frozen Lake Traditional Dutch Winter Scene Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Winter Sports
Dutch School, 20th century
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 14 x 18 inches
board: 13 x 17 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound co...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking Down at the Ranch, Abstract Expressionist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Heavily textured, 1962 abstracted landscape by Humbolt area artist Alma B. Leamey (American, 1901-1996). The viewer looks out over a valley, with a ranch at the focal point. In the d...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water in Oil and Tempera on Paper
Wonderful Bay Area abstract composition by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Tempera
Tranquil Serene American Framed Original Vintage Modernist Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sandra's Blackbirds
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
James Edward Berrington (1896-1989) - 1947 Oil, Sloot by the Weir
Located in Corsham, GB
This evocative landscape painting captures a serene rural scene, with a tranquil stream reflecting the moody sky and surrounding foliage. The composition skilfully balances the dark,...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Maritime Oil Painting Called Breakers at Utö, 1928
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite painting by the Swedish artist Otto Lindberg, titled "Bränningar vid Utö" (Breakers at Utö). Completed in 1928, this stunning piece ...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Sailing Yachts Regatta Blue Sea Panorama
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Regatta
by Jean-Emile Podevin (French 1925-2011)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 20 x 40 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Paris
Condition: Great condition
For more...
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Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Group by the Sea" - Abstracted Impasto Seascape by Richard Lofton
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful and expressive abstracted seascape with thick impasto dynamically swirling together by California artist Richard Lofton (American, 1908-1966). Signed and dated "RICHARD LOFT...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Burlap
Antique European Summer Impressionist Bustling Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive European impressionist summer beach scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20H by 24L.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le port de Marseille, le quai et les cargos by Henri Martin
By Henri Martin
Located in New Orleans, LA
Henri Martin
1860-1943 French
Le port de Marseille, le quai et les cargos
Signed Henri Martin (lower left)
Oil on canvas
Exemplifying the masterful synthesis of Post-Impressionis...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Children Fishing by a River with Wild Flowers & Farmhouse in English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Children Fishing by a Riverside with Wild Flowers & Farmhouse in the English Countryside by British Artist, Les Parson
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame me...
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Realist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Horse in a Field. Oil on Canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Wright BARKER
1864 - 1941
Canvas Size: 24 x 30" (61 x 76cm)
Outside Frame Size: 31 x 37" (79 x 94cm)
Oil on Canvas
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Exhibited : 1885 - 1935
He was a figure and animal painter who was based originally in Bradford, where he lived until 1885, when he moved to Edwinstowe, near Mansfield, Nottingham. In 1901 he moved to Hampstead and then back north to Harrogate where he stayed until his death. In his later years he became a picture dealer, but in his will he referred to himself as ‘animal painter’.
Barker became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1896. Although he called himself an animal painter he is also known to have painted ‘Roman Maidens...
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Victorian 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century French Picture Frame original Montparnasse Period Shabby Chic
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French mid 20th century
Wood and plaster picture frame
Internal measurement (to house painting or mirror): 15 x 21.25 inches
Overal outer measurements: 29 x 23 inches
Provenance: fro...
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Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Wood
'Abstracted Cityscape', Modernist Abstract Oil, David Rockefeller Estate
By Max Gunther
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Max Gunther' (German, 1934-1974); additionally signed verso, dated 1958 and titled 'Cité Décomposée'.
Provenance: Estate of David Rockefeller...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Zocalo #4" Mexico City Square 1960 Exhibited Piece
By Bill Condon
Located in San Antonio, TX
Bill Condon " Mexico City Square "
(1923-1998)
Houston Artist
Image Size: 14.5 x 20.5
Frame Size: 23 x 29
Medium: Watercolor and Ink
Dated 1960
Zocalo #4
Biography
Bill Condon (19...
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Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French 20th Century Abstract Bright Geometric Fiery Orange Grid Pattern
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924)
signed, inscribed verso
dated 70'
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 16 x 31.5 inches
condition: overall very good, a few minor surface scuffs from being stored in the artists studio
provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from the artists estate, Paris, France.
Description:
This vibrant abstract oil painting is a striking study of geometric pattern and color, featuring a richly textured grid in warm shades of orange, red, and yellow. The painting is centered around a rectangular motif composed of carefully aligned squares and rectangles in earthy hues, bordered by lines of teal, green, and soft pastels that create a stunning contrast against the surrounding warm tones. The artist has skillfully used varying shades to create depth and rhythm within the grid, giving each square a...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Canyelles Sitges Spain landscape original oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep María Vila Cañellas (1914-2001) - Canyelles Sitges Spain - Oil on board.
Oil measures 14x18 cm.
Frame 30x34 cm.
Josep María Vilá Cañellas (Vic, Osona, 1914 - Barcelona, 2001)....
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape Cloud Dr. 064
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil
Erma Zago (Venetian vedutist painter) - 20th century landscape painting - Genoa
By Erma Zago
Located in Varmo, IT
Erma Zago (Bovolone 1880 - Milan 1942) - The port of Genoa.
24.5 x 35.5 cm without frame, 50 x 61 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid Century Fauvist Gold Country Home Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century fauvist style landscape of California Gold Country home by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century) c.1960. Unsigned. Presented in ru...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Antique American Modernist New York Cityscape Pink Hotel Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 30H by 26L.
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC
Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition.
From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings.
De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium"
Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village.
Early Life
De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website.
At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers.
As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later.
In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno).
Artistic career
In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting.
Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe.
Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound
During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter.
In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa.
Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that:
the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment.
Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow."
It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day.
In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel.
Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings.
While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends."
Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York.
With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting.
In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works.
In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation.
"The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit]
Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond.
To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness."
He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller.
Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance.
The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation.
The writer and television personality Alexander King said
I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean.
King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets."
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