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Period: Mid-20th Century
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
NYC Cityscape American Scene WPA Modern Realism Mid 20th Century Architectural
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
Cityscape
36 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated 1930. lower right
Provenance
Estate of the artist.
ACA Galleries, New York
Exhibited
New York, Frank Rehn Gallery, Changing Old New York, 1931.
New York, ACA Galleries, Ernest Fiene: Art of the City, 1925-1955, May 2-23, 1981, n.p., no. 5.
BIO
Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923.
Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925.
In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. The first monograph from the Younger Artists Series was published on Fiene in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects.
By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene’s paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene’s paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene’s paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City.
With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled “Changing Old New York,” in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene’s oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well.
Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene’s Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy.
On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes.
Fiene’s landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. Through the fall and winter of 1935-36, Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20thCentury Modernist: Harbour Scene in Morning Light Oil circa 1950's
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine mid 20th Century impressionist harbour scene oil circa 1950's, Signed lower right.
oil on canvas 27cmx 46.5cm
Painted wood frame 45cmx 64cm
Wonderfully painted plein air. Ve...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Oil Painting - Amidst the Bloom
Located in Bristol, GB
AMIDST THE BLOOM
Size: 48 x 57 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A vibrant mid-century abstract composition with bold colours and expressive brushwork, painted in oil onto canvas.....
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marche Aux Fleurs - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on panel circa 1940 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This stunning and wonderfully coloured work depicts a view of a flowe...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Landscape by Philippe Marie Picard, Oil on Canvas, Signed, Dated -46
By Philippe Marie Rene Picard
Located in Stockholm, SE
Philippe Marie Picard (1915-1997) French
French Landscape
oil on canvas
signed Ph m Picard
dated a tergo 16.4 -46
canvas size 12.99 x 22.04 inches (33 x 56 cm )
frame 23.03 x 31.49 inches (58.5 x 80 cm)
Provenance:
A Swedish private collection.
The Artist:
The year was 1915, and Philippe Marie was born in the small village of Neuvy-le-Roi in France. His parents were Albert Picard and Marie Lehoux; he had a total of six siblings. After studying at the Lycée Descartes in Tours, he entered the studio of the artist François Sicard...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Oil Painting of Sunlit Wheat Fields with Cypress Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original Oil Painting of Sunlit Wheat Fields with Cypress Trees
Artist: Roland Pichard
Medium: Oil on oil paper, mounted on card
Size: 10.75 (height) x 13.75 (width), (Incl...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Antique French Avante Garde Abstract Expressionist Surreal Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and finely painted French modernist abstract painting by Jacques Doucet (1924 - 1994) . Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Artist Bio:
Jacques Doucet's work is inextricably bo...
Category
Abstract Mid-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."
Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler.
Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper
French Countryside with Historic Church Lush Green Landscape Abbey of Aubazine
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abbey of Aubazine
signed by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
inscribed verso
watercolor painting on artist paper, unframed
panting: 10.5 x 8.5 inches
condition: This pa...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Le Grand Basin des Tuileries. Oil on canvas, 74x93 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Le Grand Basin des Tuileries. Oil on canvas, 74x93 cm
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large French Oil Painting Paris, Seine River w Bridge, Landscape, Lucien Delarue
Located in Surfside, FL
Lucien Delarue (1925-2011)
Paris Seine River Scene.
"Seine at Paris"
Provenance: Newman Gallery, Phila. Label verso.
Hand signed on Canvas.
Dimensions: H: 25 inches: W: 31.5 inches: Frame: 35 X 41 inches
Artist Lucien Delarue was born in Paris in 1925, and he is known for his spectacular cityscape painting. Post Impressionist painter He studied at the studios of Grande Chaumiere, Paris and was a pupil of Maitre Yves Brayer. He is best know as a French Impressionist. He loved to paint the romantic streets of Paris with its stunning architecture and beauty. Also included in his repertoire is colorful French floral still life paintings, South of France country cottages, harbor views, and river scenes. At a very early age Delarue began taking part in exhibitions. Quickly he was talking medals for his works including first prize and the Vermeil-Medaille at the Salon Violet. Other gold medals include the Salon of Vincennes, and the Salon of Clichy (1973). In 1974 he won the silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Francais, and a bronze medal at the "Arts-Sciences-Lettres" exhibition in Paris. He also exhibited works at the Museum of Ile de France in the chateau of Sceaux. He held exhibitions in New York and in San Francisco in the United States. He was a member of the Salon des Artistes Francais and of the French Watercolor Society.Lucien Delarue excelled in recreating the cottages, harbor views, and expressionist architecture of Paris in his artwork. His watercolor paintings include color-rich representations of France's many scenic rivers. Delarue would eventually become a member of the French Watercolor Society and the Salon des Artistes Francais. He showed with Henk Bos...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Danish Mid-Century Colourfield Oil on Board of Houses and People in a Landscape.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Danish oil on board painting of couples making their way in a landscape, by Poul Møller. Though not signed the painting has a dated artist's label to the side of the frame. Presented...
Category
Color-Field Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Archipelago Landscape From Sweden
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating artwork by Carl Gunne, dated July 10, 1945, portrays a serene archipelago landscape. The painting, executed with a delicate blend of pastel hues, captures the essenc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wedding (Authenticated Clementine Hunter Framed Black Folk Art Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
If you have been watching the prices of Clementine Hunter's work over the past two years, you will know that they have soared to astronomical height...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Framed Vintage Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted American modernist landscape by Anthony Toney (1913 - 2004) . Oil on board. Signed. Housed in a great vintage modernist frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charming, Colorful 1930s Oil Painting of a Woman in Rowboat by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, colorful 1930s oil painting of a young woman in a rowboat by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). This vibrant harbor scene was most likely paint...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Landscape with Boats - Paint by Mustapha Yehya - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by Mustapha Yehya in the mid-20th century.
Hand signed.
In excellent condition, it includes a coeval wooden frame.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Pastel Landscape of Verdant Valleys and Winding River Bright Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Valleys
by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
inscribed vero
pastel painting on artist paper
painting: 15 x 19 inches
condition: This painting is in excellent cond...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Man Driving 1900's Vintage Car
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jean-Pierre Rousseau (French, b. 1939), signed and dated 1963.
Title: The Vintage Car Driver
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed and inscribed verso.
f...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Expressionist Landscape, The Abri at L'Olivette, Cap d'Antibes
Located in Cotignac, FR
A French Expressionist oil on canvas landscape of countryside at L'Olivette, Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera, by Germain Bonel. The painting is signed bottom right and signed, dated and titled to the back of the canvas.
A strong and impactful composition of the trees and forest leading down to the sea wall and then the Mediterranean beyond at the Port (or 'Abri' as it is also known) of l'Olivette on the west coast of Cap d'Antibes, the iconic location in the South of France. This former small traditional fishing port from the beginning of the twentieth century is now converted into a picturesque little marina on Cap d'Antibes, with its rocky cove, its beach, its pine forest, its umbrella pines, olive trees, fig trees, and agaves and its famous 'Villa Aujourd'hui' a modernist residence built by American architect Barry Dierks (1899-1960) in 1938 for socialite Mrs. Audrey Chadwick. L'Olivette has a privileged panoramic view of the Gulf of Juan, and the coastal shores of Cap d'Antibes, Juan-les-Pins, Golfe-Juan, and the Pointe Croisette of Cannes.
Germain Bonel (5 August 1913 – 2002) was a French painter of Catalan origin. From 1967 to 1983, he was a professor of drawing and painting at the Perpignan School of Fine Arts. From 1969 to 1978, he also taught art in the schools of Saint-Cyprien-village and Saint-Cyprien-Plage.
Germain Bonel's painting is both expressionist and decorative. Georges-Henry Gourrier said of him: "Germain Bonel's painting expresses [quite naturally] the singular beauty of forms, the radiant force of colour, the deepening of matter and the tenderness of the things of life. His work appears to be a painting of plenitude."
From 1941 to 1945, Germain Bonel studied drawing at the Municipal School of Fine Arts in Perpignan. He won first prize in 1945. Out of competition, he continued his studies at the same school from 1945 to 1948 and he regularly exhibited his works at the annual exhibition held at the Salle Arago in Perpignan.
Germain Bonel met François Desnoyer in 1950 and introduced him to the Catalan artistic milieu.
He was admitted to the Salon d'Automne in Paris in 1951 and exhibited until 1961, when he became a member of the salon. As early as 1951 a commentary said, "with the canvas hanging...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Norman Carton (1908 – 1980) was an American artist and educator known for abstract expressionist art. He was born in the Ukraine region of Imperial Russia and moved to the United States in 1922 where he spent most of his adult life.
A classically trained portrait and landscape artist, Carton also worked as a drafter, newspaper illustrator, muralist, theater set designer, photographer, and fabric designer and spent most of his mature life as an art educator. Carton showed in and continues to be shown in many solo and group exhibitions. His work is included in numerous museums and private collections throughout the world.
Norman Carton was born in the Dnieper Ukraine territory of the Russian Empire in 1908. Escaping the turbulence of civil war massacres, he settled in Philadelphia in 1922 after years of constant flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper artist for the Philadelphia Record from 1928 to 1930 in the company of other illustrator/artists who had founded the Ashcan School, the beginnings of modern American art. From 1930 to 1935, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Henry McCarter, who was a pupil of Toulouse-Lautrec, Puvis de Chavanne, and Thomas Eakins. Arthur Carles, especially with his sense of color, and the architect John Harbison also provided tutelage and inspiration. Following his time at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton studied at the Barnes Foundation from 1935 to 1936 where he was influenced by an intellectual climate led by visiting lecturers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell as well as daily access to Albert C. Barnes and his art collection.
Carton was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1934 which allowed him to travel through Europe and study in Paris. There he expanded his artistic horizons with influences stemming from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Chaim Soutine, and Wassily Kandinsky. While at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton was also awarded the Toppan Prize for figure painting as well as the Thouron Composition Prize. He received numerous commissions as a portrait artist, social realist, sculptor, and theatrical stage designer as well as academic scholarships. During this time, Carton worked as a scenery designer at Sparks Scenic Studios, a drafter at the Philadelphia Enameling Works, and a fine art lithographer.
From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist. He collaborated with architect George Howe. The WPA commissioned Carton to paint major murals at the Helen Fleischer Vocational School for Girls in Philadelphia, the Officers’ Club at Camp Meade Army Base in Maryland, and in the city of Hidalgo, Mexico. Throughout the 1940s, Carton exhibited and won prizes for his semi-abstract Expressionist and Surrealist paintings. He socialized with and was inspired by Émile Gauguin and Fernand Leger. During World War II, Carton was a naval structural designer and draftsman at the Cramps...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1944 Mid-Century Modern Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Vibrant Fields
Located in Bristol, GB
VIBRANT FIELDS
Size: 46 x 54 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A captivating mid-century landscape painting that presents a vibrant and expressive interpretation of the countryside...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Milford Zornes Original Watercolor - From Dana Point
By James Milford Zornes
Located in Phoenix, AZ
California Image by well known watercolorist Milford Zornes (1908-2008).
This work in mint condition, is signed lower right “Zornes,” and dated ‘67.
The watercolor is also signed on ...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paul Strisik Original Watercolor - Massachusetts Farmhouse with Lobster Cages
By Paul Strisik
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Beautiful image by Maine/Massachusetts/New Mexico artist and master watercolorist Paul Strisik (1918-1988). This original watercolor of a farmhouse is beautifully executed in bright ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape in Haute Loire - French Impressionist Hay Bale Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1930's French impressionist oil on canvas depicting a landscape in the Haute Loire region with hay bale and hilltop village, by René Aubert.
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Portrait Painting Gathering Flowers Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage impressionist oil painting by Pierre Eugène Duteurtre (1911 - 1989). Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Expressionist Signed Original Sunset Horse Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist expressionist sunset oil painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 27.5L x 20H. Signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Highrise)
By Karl Benjamin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Highrise), 1954, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 20 x 20 inches, presented in its original frame
Karl Benjamin was a California-based artist who is best known...
Category
Hard-Edge Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting Framed, Signed
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5149 Antique French Impressionist oil painting landscape
Signed lower left
Image size
22x18"
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
River Seine Paris Tug Boats Moored 1960’s French Post Impressionist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Banks of the Seine
signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001)
dated 1959 or 1960
framed oil painted on canvas, beautifully painted.
very good conditio...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
" Bluebonnets San Antonio Texas " Texas Ranch Scene Texas wildflowers
By Charles Harvi Altheide
Located in San Antonio, TX
Charles Harvi Altheide
(1874 - 1951)
San Antonio Artist Texas, Kansas, Missouri
Image Size: 11 x 15
Frame Size: 23.5 x 27.5
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dated 1941
"Bluebonnets San Antoni...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel of Sailboat and Lighthouse at Port
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Pastel of Sailboat and Lighthouse at Port
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Pastel on unframed paper
Size...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Bathers by Lake Vintage French Oil Painting in Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bathers by Lake
French School, second half 20th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 23.5 x 31 inches
canvas: 20 x 28 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good a...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Parisian Boulevard
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed in the lower right featuring a vibrant street in Paris. Henri Alexis Schaeffer (1900-1975) was born in Paris, France in e...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Western Oil Painting Arizona Abanded Mining Camp 1930
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6021 Antique oil of an abandoned Arizona mining town
Framed Signed verso
Image size 17.5x23.5
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paris, Hotel des Saint Pères - Oil on Masonite by F. De Pisis - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on Masonite realized by the Artist in 1948.
Includes a coeval wooden frame.
Artist paints the Hotel where he used to live in Paris during those years.
Note, title, date ...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Edgartown Harbor, Martha’s Vineyard Oil Painting; James King Bonnar 1960
By James King Bonnar
Located in Baltimore, MD
This painting, by listed artist James King Bonnar (1884-1961), is a lovely scene of Edgartown Harbor, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. It dates to ca 1960, towards the end of his career. There is a lot of action and detail presented, as the harbor is busy, likely in full summer season. The variety of boats, men working them and an abundance of rigging fill the composition. Bonnar, however, left enough of the foreground water clear to show off his skills of reflection and slight movement to the water. Full sail boats glide past in the background. A hillside of Edgartown is depicted beyond, with a few of its buildings highlighted. The sky is blue with just a hint of high clouds...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionsit Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 16H by 24L.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Harbor Scene, Oil on Board Possibly Cape Cod by Albert R Thayer, ca 1950
Located in Baltimore, MD
This harbor scene oil painting is by noted Massachusetts artist Albert Rufus Thayer. Thayer was born in Concord in 1878 and studied in Boston and New York before returning to his hom...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Midnight Blue Forest Landscape 20th Century British Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Midnight Blue Abstract
by John Horwill, ARCA (British, 1927-1997)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 15 x 19 inches
canvas : 12 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, the Cots...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Paris School Nude Female Bathers Double Sided Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist nude woman portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fauvist Leaf Landscape
By Thiollier
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3305a French Fauvist Style Landscape, on board signed by Thiollier set in a light-blue wood frame.Image size 10.5 H x 13.50 w
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Fun Day At The Beach In A Hot Summer Day Thick Impasto Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Beach Landscape
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
stamped verso
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 18 x 25.5 inches
Colors: Blue colors, yellow, beige, red, white and brown
Very good condition
Provenance: from the artists estate, France
Josine Vignon (1922-2022) was a French artist living on the Rue Beautreillis in the Marais district of Paris. She painted with a beautiful style, largely influenced by the Impressionist and Post Impressionist techniques, but adding her own distinctive style and technique to each painting. Vignon's works carry tremendous energy and enthusiasm, often painted with very thick impasto oil...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Signed Large Modernist Abstract Textural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract textural painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, 42 by 46 inches.
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vibrant Modernist Landscape with Lush Green Foliage and Rolling Hills
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vibrant Modernist Landscape
Suzanne Vattier, French 1901-1996
signed gouache painting on artist paper, framed
size: 8 x 10.75 inches
Suzanne Vattier (1901-1996) was a pupil of the ...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Fisherman in Scottish Highlands Loch Maree Signed British Oil Painting Framed
By Donald Ayres
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fishing on Loch Maree
by Donald Ayres (Briths b. 1936)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 22 x 18 inches
board: 16 x 22 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Condition: ve...
Category
English School Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage European Impressionist Seascape Greek Fishing Harbor Signed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted and impressive European seascape. Appears to be Greece. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 18.5H by 21L.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century California Mountaintops Forest Landscape by Joseph Frey
By Joseph Frey
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century California Mountaintops Forest Landscape by Joseph Frey
Beautiful and serene mid-century landscape of snowy California mountaintops by listed California artist Joseph Fr...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lake and Canoe by Adolphe De Siebenthal - Oil on Canvas - 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Adolphe de Siebenthal (1895–1958) was a Swiss painter known for his classic landscapes rendered in cool tones.
His works have been featured in n...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Orientalist Dance in a Harem - Oil Paint by Miloslava Vrbova-Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil Painting on board realized by Miloslava Vrbova (1909-1991) in the mid-20th century.
Good condition, framed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vintage California Moonlit Sea Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3457 Moonlit Sea Painting ,oil on canvas displayed in a pale blue wood frame.Signed by E.Mc Cormick April 1966.Image size 15 H x 19 W.
Excellent condition ,wear on the frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Modernist Nude Portrait Surreal Signed Ancient Style Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and well painted modernist nude composition. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18H by 24L inches.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Impressionist Oil Sketch on Board Farmhouse in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Farmhouse
French Impressionist artist, circa 1930's
oil on thin board, unframed
board: 8 x 9.5 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition,...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Geometric Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract geometric oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quiet Sunlit Grand Plaza Square in Nice France Vintage French Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nice Grand Plaza
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
watercolour on artist paper
painting : 13 x 17 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France,
Condition: very go...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American School Modernist WPA Winter Ice Skating Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American modernist winter landscape. Detailed and well painted skating scene. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bastille Paris" Oil on Canvas Parisian Street Scene & Figures Framed Painting
Located in New York, NY
A vibrant and colorful Parisian city scene by Australian Mollie Flaxman. Captured in a very impressionist manner 'The Bastille' which was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the B...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Large 20th Century French Expressionist Signed Oil View over Paris River Seine
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Bridges over the River Seine
French Expressionist artist, 20th century
indistinctly signed/ titled verso
oil on board, framed
framed: 22 x 26 ...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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