Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings

Frank Myers Boggs Nogent-le-Roi Signed and titled lower left Graphite and watercolor on paper 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches The Impressionist Frank Myers Boggs spent his formative and mat...

This French early 20th Century folding screen is made up of four canvases entirely painted with textured tempera featuring a marine l...

G F Nicholls Early 20th century view of Oxford Gouache 36 x 28 cm Signed to lower left George Frederick Nicholls (1857–1939) was a British painter renowned for his topographical artworks, particularly those depicting the landscapes of Cornwall, the Cotswolds, and Oxford. His works are characterised by strong technique and his ability to capture light and typically depict picturesque views over rural England. His art continues to be appreciated today for its detailed representation of early 20th-century British landscapes. Nicholls painted this gouache of All Souls...

"Couple on Bench at the Beach" is an original pastel drawing on paperboard by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist signed the piece in the lower left. This drawing depicts two figures sitting on a bench in front of a body of water. The artist used mostly pastel colors for this piece. 6 7/8" x 9 7/8" art 18 1/2" x 21 3/8" frame Francesco J. Spicuzza, born in Sicily on July 23, 1883, came to America at the age of 8. He supported himself as a fruit peddler until a newspaperman gave him $4 a week to go to school. He attended classes at the Milwaukee Art Students League, where he studied under Alexander Mueller. There he learned to paint in the then-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza completed eight grades in four years, and then in 1911, three businessmen advanced him enough money to allow him to study in New York under artist and teacher John Carlson. It was during this time that Spicuzza changed his style of painting, developing an impressionistic use of color, form and atmospheric renditions. After a period of grinding poverty, one of Spicuzza's pictures won a major New York competition. It was the first of 60 wins, both in the U.S. and Paris. He became a fashionable painter, and many of the leading collections have his work. Spicuzza's typical works were beach scenes, still life, landscapes and portraits done in pastels, oils, ink, charcoal and watercolors. Much of his work traced the history of Milwaukee in the early 1900s. He was probably best known for his scenes of women and children splashing in the waves...

Walter Griffin (1861 - 1935) Eleventh Century Romance Oil on canvas 34 x 36 inches Signed lower right; signed on the reverse and titled on the stretche...

Oil Painting by Pieter Cornelis Dommersen "On the Isle of Ameland, Holland" 1834 - 1908 Popular Dutch Artist from Utrecht who came to London in the 1850s. Painter of fine quality mar...

A colorful impressionist townscape with women walking along a road with houses by American artist Pauline Lennards Palmer (1867-1938). Born in ...

An original oil painting of Lake Hintersee, by German artist Anso Weise. Gigantic peaks can be seen, located at the foot of the Reiter-Alm. The Lake's dramatic beauty continues to at...

Work on wood Golden wooden frame 23 x 25 x 3 cm

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Mid Century View of Bridgnorth Shropshire an oil painting of river and tower and a view of Ludlow Castle with the Shropshire Hills in distance. "Looking down towards Ludlow Castle" and "View of Bridgnorth" Oils on Canvas laid on board 9 by 12...

Boats at the Nieuwpoort Harbour Clesse Louis Brussels 1889 – 1961 Belgian Painter Signature: Signed bottom right, verso signed and titled "Barques de por...

Piazza del Popolo, Rome is an original painting realized in the half of XX century by Alessandro Battaglia. Mixed colored oil painting on cardboard. Hand signed on the lower right...

Nicely painted European cityscape painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 20H by 16L.

Laura Hoernig New Mexico Landscape with Houses and Figures Original Oil Painting c.1930s Original oil on canvas Dimensions 20" wide x 16" high The distressed frame measures 22.5" wide x 18.5" high Unsigned / Undated The frame is included in "as is" condition The canvas has been stretched over a newer stretcher (as found) The painting is in good vintage condition. The upper left shows some possible over-painting. Please see all images. This is a rare painting by this talented artist. A great find! Laura Hoernig was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1872. She lived at 22 West 58th Street in Kansas City during the 1920's. Hoernig studied and sometimes traveled with artist George Sass...

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Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 41 x 51 x 6 cm

Work on canvas Molded frame in plaster and gilded wood 82 x 70 x 5 cm

Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910. Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance' (images included were taken prior to lay down). Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame; framed dimensions: 27.75 x 33.75 x 1.5 inches. Born in London, England, William Emerson...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 39.5 x 51 x 3 cm

Work on canvas Gray wooden frame 70 x 81 x 5 cm

Work on canvas Plaster and gilded wood frame 68.5 x 80 x 4 cm

Work on wood Wooden frame with gold edges 37 x 52.8 x 3 cm

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Beautiful large scale landscape of Yosemite with Half Dome and El Capitan above the Merced River by William Lemos (American, 1861-1942). Rendered in cool grays and blues, Half Dome r...

Wonderful impressionist Paris street scene by the famous French artist and designer Rene Sim Lacaze (1901-2000). Oil on board 60cm x 68cm Good gallery ...

Georgina Klitgaard Catskill Mountains Signed lower right Oil on canvas 24 x 30 inches Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artist...

Illegible signature Artwork on canvas

Work on canvas Dimensions with frame : 56 x 64.5 x 2.5 cm This captivating work depicts a peaceful lakeside landscape, Geneva lake, skilfully captured by a soft, nuanced palette. The...

Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting of Roseworthy Valley, Cornwall from the St Ives School painter. On the stretcher it is inscribed view of home, so it really was a subject very ...

German-Israeli artist ARYE LEO PEYSACK (1894-1972). Peysack was born in 1894 and trained in Germany. He immigrated to Palestine in the early 1920s, traveled extensively around the co...

George Lambert (1863-1946) * Alternate title for painting is "Stonington Lighthouse". Signed lower right. Beautiful example of Lambert's best work. Painted very much in the style and...

Titled and signed on stretcher top left: "Maine Coast / C.A. Slade". With estate stamp verso, on stretcher. Inscribed verso: "View of Prout's Neck Maine". ...

Elisee MACLET Alsace : Haut-Kœnigsbourg Castle, c. 1930 Original oil on canvas Handsigned bottom left Authenticated by the artist on the back On canvas 41 x 33 cm at view (c. 16 x 1...

Pretty and well-painted, View of Vevey on the north shore of Lake Geneva. Dating from the early 20th century this painting would have been painted for one of the many visitors who w...

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 47.5 x 65.5 x 2 cm

Adolphe Crespin Brussels 1859 – 1944 Belgian Painter 'Lady in the Garden' Signature: Signed lower left Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: Image size 6...

Charles J. McLaughlin (American, 1888 - 1964) Signed: CJM (Lower, Right) " Auqaduct e Saltillo ", c. 1930s (Titled on Verso) Oil on Canvas 23 1/2" x 28" Housed in a 3 1/2" Fram...

Work monogrammed A.G. Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 40 x 49.5 x 5.5 cm

This work captures with remarkable finesse a misty, nostalgic urban panorama. The eye is immediately drawn to the striking contrast between the imposing black chimneys of the moored ...

Artist: Henry Rollet (British, 1881-1916) Title: Rue De Village Breton Year: c. 1910 Medium: Oil on canvas Canvas size: 12 x 18 inches Signature: Signed lower right Conditi...

Work on cardboard Beige wooden frame 48 x 40.5 x 3.8 cm

A fine New Hampshire landscape painting by American artist William Jurian Kaula (1871-1953). Kaula was born in Boston, MA and studied at the Ma...

A fine early 20th Century view in oil, showing an imposing building in the heart of the beautiful city of Stockholm. The artist has signed and dated to the lower left corner and the ...

Vintage Oil Painting Luminous Mountain Landscape by F.A. Millard c.1925 Original oil on panel Panel dimensions 10" wide x 15" high The frame measures 12.5" wide x 17.5" high Sign...

William Leslie Rackham 1864 - 1944. Lived in Thorpe Hamlet, Norwich, from where he painted atmospheric views of Norwich and the Broads. In 1927 he published "Everybody's Broadland" ...

Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 45 x 53 x 4 cm Self-portrait of the artist on the back of the work

Work on wood Brown wooden frame 40 x 31 x 4 cm

Eugène Laurent Vail (1857 - 1934) Soir de Novembre, Dordrecht Oil on canvas 19 1/4 x 25 3/4 inches Signed lower left; titled in two places on the stretcher with various other inscriptions, stamped "MADAME G:VAIL A" and inscribed "177" in ink and "#43" in pencil on a partial label from Garde-Meuble Maple affixed to the stretcher Eugene Vail (Saint-Servan, France September 29, 1857 - Paris, December 28, 1934), the son of a French mother and an American father, Lawrence Eugene Vail, studied at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey (where Alfred Stieglitz was born in 1864) and graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering in 1877. Then he became a student of William Merritt Chase and J. Carroll Beckwith at the Art Students League before returning to France. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1882 where he was instructed by Alexandre Cabanel, Raphaël Collin, and Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929), known as an extreme naturalist. When Bastien-Lepage died in 1884, Dagnan-Bouveret became the leader of the Naturalist School. He definitely made an indelible impression on Vail. According to Louise Cann, Vail soon became an independent painter working at Pont-Aven and Concarneau. It is difficult to determine when he separated from his teachers since he is listed as a student whenever he exhibited at the Paris Salon — that is, until 1899 when he dropped the mention of élève. A picture of a peasant girl, Seulette was his Salon debut painting in 1883, the same year that he sent two scenes of Brittany to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts' exhibition, which documents his stay in that region. The next year he exhibited in the Salon: Fishing Port, Concarneau, which went to the Luxembourg Museum (it is now in the Musée Municipal of Brest). It has the Naturalist brown and gray palette and tonalist atmosphere but already shows that Vail had direct experience with scenes of life in coastal villages: "So convincing was his familiarity with the French coast that the critic Thiébault-Sisson claimed him as a Frenchman and declared that no American marine painter could touch his skill." (Maureen C. O'Brien, in Blaugrund, 1989, p. 218). In 1885, Vail exhibited Inner Port at Dieppe and in the following year On the Thames (Private collection), which later won him the Grand Diploma of Honor from an international jury in Berlin in 1891. Widow, the title of Vail's entry in the Salon of 1887 (unlocated), is a striking image of a woman standing on a beach, looking out to the expanse of the ocean where her husband obviously met his end. The innocent child who looks at us may have the same fate in store for him. Then in 1888, Vail completed his masterpiece, Ready, About! a "wall-size" 94 x 125½ inch canvas. The painting won a first-class gold medal in the Salon of 1888, then at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889, Vail won another gold medal. The first precedent that comes to mind is Théodore Géricault's colossal Raft of the Medusa of 1819 (Louvre), the celebrated romantic image of castaways about to be rescued after being lost at sea. But while Géricault presents a massive, sculpturesque group of figures struggling on a raft just beyond our designated viewing space, Vail pulls the viewer into the picture, or more exactly, extends the diagonally rocking boat into the spectator's area, vividly anticipating the effects of cinematography. There is no more effective way to engage the spectator's attention and sympathies, and the illusionism is especially effective in this life-size picture. Vail's vigorous brushwork — a uniform use of rectangular strokes — adds to the motion-filled, dynamic actuality of this image, and the overall green-gray tonalities evoke the constantly menacing, cold and wet travails in the life of the fishermen in the Atlantic's rough waters. Theodore Child (1889, p. 518) wrote about this painting: "very beautiful in color, and amongst the very strongest and best pictures of this kind in the Exhibition." Dordrecht (unlocated) was Vail's painting exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1892, and in the following year he showed Fisherman — The North Sea at the Paris Salon, the same year in which he re-exhibited Dordrecht and On the Thames at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Vail won the coveted Légion d'Honneur in 1894. Some of his paintings found their way to European museums, for example, Soir de novembre (Odessa Museum) and Soir de Bretagne (Museo d'Arte Moderna, Venice). The latter was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris. Also there was Voix de la mer (Voices of the Sea), which we identify as the painting that appears in an interior view of the American section, just to the right of a doorway (fig. 20 in Fischer, 1999), a simple marine painting. Some time after 1900, Vail turned to both impressionism and post-impressionism but no one seems to have charted this course. His Autumn near Beauvais, illustrated in International Studio (1902, p. 211), The Flags, St. Mark's Venice (1903; National Gallery of Art), and Grand Canal, Venice, ca. 1904 (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design) demonstrate an impressionist technique with broken color. Mandel (1977, p. 202) wrote on the latter: "applied in short strokes juxtaposing brilliant hues of orange, blue, white, black and red, with a strong interplay between the warm pink tones of the walls and the green shadows of the black boats which are silhouetted against them." Cann (1937) believed that in Venice, Vail "found his true self." The Flags forecasts the Armistice Day pictures by Hassam and others, painted fifteen years later. Vail became involved in the Society of American Artists in Paris and the Société Internationale de Peinture et de Sculpture, whose membership included Frank Brangwyn, Charles Cottet (1863-1924), the famous Naturalist sculptor Constantin Meunier (1831-1905), Frits Thaulow...

Idyllic depiction of a house by a stream in winter by Frederick A. Pawla (British, 1876-1964). Signed "F. Pawla" in the lower right corner. Presented in a wood frame with gilded edge...

Signed lower left: "Olive P. Black" Olive Parker Black uses many of the compositional devices of French Barbizon landscape painting. Her style also incorporates Impressionist techni...

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Rare scene of the industrial period in Paris By Remond Besse- "Paris, et la periode industrielle". Excellent overall Conditions, original canvas with no restoration to be identified...

Figurative landscape of Wood Fairies kissing in a forest by Carl F. Ruhnau (German, c.1876-1940). Signed “C. Ruhnau” in the bottom right corner. Signed and ...

Olive Parker Black (1868 - 1948) Verdant Summer Landscape Oil on canvas 20 x 30 inches Signed lower left An accomplished landscape painter, Olive Black ...

Gio Colucci (Italian 1892-1974) Untitled: Abstract Figure and Leaves. Gouache on paper laid down on matt board. Archival framing under glass. Originally from the Con-Agra Corporat...

The Mills in Montmartre, Paris, 1907 Oil on wood panel signed (illegible) and dated "07" on the lower left 18 x 20 cm in good condition : a small inpainting visible on the left borde...