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Period: Mid-20th Century
Style: Modern
Sunset English Lake District Cattle Watering Waters Edge Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'High Crag & High Stile, Buttermere'
British School, early 20th century
signed lower corner
oil on board, unframed
board: 7 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound condition
High Crag is one of the fells in the English Lake District...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Storm Over Victor, Colorado – 1940s WPA Era Oil Painting of Mountain Town
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) titled Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape wi...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Mid 20th Century
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century
Mervin M Jules (1912-1994
"The Money Lender"
15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed lower left
F...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Fremantle Harbor, Perth', Western Australia, Post Impressionist, SFAA, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Byron' for Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999), dated 1947 and titled, 'Aus'.
A dramatic, Post-Impressionist view of the Western Australian port of Fremantle wit...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Pastel
Antique Israeli American Folk Art Modernist Figural Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Israeli American modernist folk art landscape by Malcah Zeldis. Mixed media painting on paper. Framed. Signed. Measuring 18 by 22 inches overall and 11 by 14 painting alone....
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Landscape - Oil Painting by Armando Cermignani - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized by Armando Cermignani (1888-1957) in 1930s.
Hand signed and dated.
Excellent condition.
Armando Cermignani was an Italian painter, engraver, ceramist and p...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
NOLA's French Quarter in Exuberant Impasto
Located in San Francisco, CA
The vibrant French Quarter is brilliantly depicted in "Bourbon Street in New Orleans" by California-based artist Pablo Cucaro in a rich palette of chestnut, Tiffany Blue and black. S...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
La Voile Rouge
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Lapchine
1885-1951 Russian
"La Voile Rouge"
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Canvas : 19 5/8" high x 39 3/8" wide
Frame: 26 3/4" high x 46 1/2" wide
Georges LAPCHINE : Russian painter, born in Moscow in 1885. Died in 1951. Painter of figures, landscapes, post-impressionist. A pupil of Fernand Cormon and Léon Lhermitte...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Afternoon in the city - Oil on canvas with frame
Located in Paris, IDF
Caroline Burnett (1877-1950)(attributed to)
Afternoon in the city
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
On canvas 50 x 60 cm (c. 20 x 24 in)
Presented in a gilded carved wooden frame 66 x 76 cm (c...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Society of Six Street Scene - Figurative Abstract
By Bernard Von Eichman
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning New York City urban modernist watercolor titled "Summer Afternoon Stroll" by Society of Six artist Bernard Von Eichman (American, 1899-1990), 1...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
'Montmartre, Place du Tertre', Paris, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965.
The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Assoc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"À Troinex, Geneva" by Henri Deluc - Oil on canvas (1942) 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas sold with frame
The frame measures 63x74 cm.
The mountain on the painting is the "Salève" from Troinex, Geneva.
John Henri DELUC is...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Across the Street
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, Signed lower right
Exhibited:
1) [Solo E...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Honfleur Harbor Scene Mid-Century Modernist French Oil Painting Thickly Painted
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Honfleur
by Henri Auguin (French b. 1934)
titled verso
signed oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 27.5 x 31.5 inches
Canvas: 22 x 26 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Looking Into a Neighborhood - Ginger Bread Houses - Women Illustrators
By Lorraine Fox
Located in Miami, FL
Looking Into a Neighborhood , Dear Paul
This is an intriguingly charming work by an overlooked and brilliant mid-century female artist - illustrator, and educator. Lorraine Fox. ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mid Century Modern Vintage Original Landscape Oil Painting - Coastal Cafe
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL CAFE
Size: 41.5 x 51 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A very atmospheric mid century modernist composition in oil, painted onto board.
This painting depicts a sunlit café ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Modern Vintage Street Scene Landscape Oil Painting - By the Arches
Located in Bristol, GB
BY THE ARCHES
Size: 36.5 x 76 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A striking and very well executed mid century modernist composition in oil, painted onto board by by Swedish artist E...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pair of French Mid Century Drawings, 'Ligne Claire' after Hergé, Grasse and Nice
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pair of French mid 20th Century drawing in the style of Georges Remi, dit Hergé. The works are not signed but both are titled and dated. Presented in modern frames under glass.
The first is a charming street view of Cannes on the Cote D'Azur in the south of France, an area now internationally famous for its annual film festival. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine stone buildings with their blue and green shutters towering over the scene. Next to it fine trees so characteristic of French streets are just coming in to leaf. Two men go about their business, one is walking towards a cafe. Cars and a red delivery truck animate the scene.
The second an equally charming view of the chapel at the Nice Chateau cemetery on the Cote D'Azur in the south of France. The artist has captured the imposing nature of the fine colourful stone buildings with their arches, cupolas and finials. Surrounding the buildings are trees and bushes and to the foreground cars of typical 1960s design. The style of the artist is clearly inspired by the animations of Georges Remi, dit Hergé which were so popular at this period.
Georges Remi, more commonly known as Hergé created his own clean, expressive style of drawings known as ligne claire...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Crayon
'Mougins', Côte d'Azur, School of Paris, France, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Denis Paul Noyer' (French, b. 1940), titled, 'Mougins' and dated 1968.
A mid-century, stylized painting of the Place du Commandant Lamy in Mougins leading to a ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pen
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Mountain Village, Rooftops
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Modern Painting of a European Mountain Village, Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. . An brilliantly colored, expansive European landscape...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pennsylvania Modern Oil Painting, Susquehanna River Scene - View of York County
Located in Baltimore, MD
Born in 1916 in Lima, Ohio to a Mennonite family, John Landis Lehman was educated locally. He moved to Chicago in 1942 and enrolled at the Art Institute. By 1954 he had moved to Penn...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Early Evening Walk"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Seascape : Storm is Coming - Original Oil on canvas, Signed
By Marcel Mouly
Located in Paris, IDF
Marcel MOULY
Seascape : Storm is Coming, 1957
Original Oil on canvas
Signed and dated bottom right
On canvas 65 x 81 cm (c. 26 x 32 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night Life in the City - Figurative Cityscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Night Life in the City - Figurative Cityscape
Mid 1960s cityscape by an unknown artist. Oil on artists board.
Image, 16"H x 20"W
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
River Sunrise - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene mid century landscape of a golden sun rising over a wooded forest stream with a small figure in a canoe by an unknown artist. Unsigned. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image si...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Painting - The Lake, Tenerife Landscape
Located in Bristol, GB
THE LAKE
Size: 40 x 35 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A charming mid century landscape view of Tenerife, executed in oil onto canvas.
This small yet striking painting is filled with details, and encourages the viewer to look further into the distance. In the front of the painting, we see a house and beautiful flora taking space on left and right corners of the painting. As our eyes study the piece further, we can spot 2 figures facing a lake, seemingly in conversation and enjoying the nature view...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Oil Painting Big Sur, Monterey California Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful American Impressionist oil seascape of the rugged Big Sur coast, Carmel California by Virginia Shackles (American, 1921-2020). The composition is pleasing with an interes...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Wheat Sheaves Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful landscape of wheat sheaves with modernist vibe by Eleanor Walls Plau (Plaw) (American, 1878-1954).Wood frame. Signed "Plau" or "Plaw" lower lef...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oval Watercolor Mirror Painting Landscape Framed with Decorative Border
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Oval Watercolor Landscape
watercolour on artist paper, stuck on black paper
painting: 12.75 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Modernist Watercolor Landscape with Horse, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867–1949)
Spring Beauty
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
12.5 x 17 inches
18 x 22.75 inches, framed
William Sommer is seen as a key person in bringi...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Colorado Mining Town, Early Sunday Morning - Modernist Mountain Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating original mountain landscape by the talented Paul K. Smith brings to life the beauty and historical charm of Colorado’s mining heritage. Painted in the 1930s-1950s, the artwork likely depicts one of Colorado's iconic historic mining towns...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Framed Lake Erie Summer Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted modernist landscape by Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2002). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed Image size, 22 by 29 inches. In excellent original condition. ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
1940's French Signed Oil Sacre Coeur Montmartre Paris Street Scene View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Georges F. Michel, French 1942, signed, dated verso
Title: Montmartre, Paris
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Size: 22 x 15 inches
Colors: Grey colors, blue, white...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Rural Landscape" by G. Schneider - Oil on Board - 60.5x93 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (80.5 x 109.5 cm)
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Purple Sky Landscape" Mid Century Abstract Landscape Painting
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Bearnice Fisher
"Purple Sky Landscape"
1978
Gouache on paper
30" x 22.5" unframed
Signed and dated lower right in pencil
Bearnice Fisher lived and worked in NYC
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks)
By Harry Lane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coas...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Three Chimneys
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Three Chimneys, 1956, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left, 18 x 36 inches, titled verso, presented in its original frame
Three Chimneys is a prime example of Ethel Margolies’ Precisionist-influenced industrial scenes. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Margolies made a name for herself by painting the Northeast’s factories, foundries, and manufacturing plants. Although this subject matter is often associated with male artists, Margolies is part of an important lineage of female modernists who depicted symbols of America’s industrial might. Starting with artists like New Jersey’s Elsie Driggs and Chicago’s Yvonne Deluc Pryor, Margolies is part of a through line of women Precisionist painters that also included the West Coast’s Vanessa Helder. Whereas these artists tended towards a stark and pristine realism, Margolies seems to have been influenced by the 1920s and early 1930s work of Charles Demuth’s and Charles Sheeler’s highly designed paintings from the same period, as both adopted a cubo-futurist oriented brand of Precisionism.
Ethel Polacheck Margolies was a Connecticut painter...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Street View in France, Oil on Canvas Painting by Renzo Gori
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian artist Renzo Gori (1911 - 1998) designed this oil on canvas painting which features an animated urban street scene in France. The artist's signature is in the bottom right co...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Thickly Painted French Mid Century Oil Painting Busy European City Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Busy City Square
French School, mid 20th century
indistinctly signed oil on board, framed
framed: 15 x 19 inches
board: 8 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very g...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960)
New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Searching), circa 1930-40
Pastel on paper
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Spanierman Gallery, New York
The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young man who was someday to be spoken of as showing promise of becoming "one of the greatest etchers of all time". Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts.
However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters.
As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects.
With the encouragement of new found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan.
A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930's and devote some ten years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new found favor in the 1940's punctuated his career.
In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or in spirit.
Dolice's works are in a number of notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; The New York Public Library Print Collection; The New York Historical Society; Georgetown University Lauinger Library; The Print Club of Philadelphia and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra Museum, Long Island, NY; with the Montauk...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
A Unique Mid-Century Modern 1960s Chicago Harbor Scene Watercolor by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Unique, Mid-Century Modern 1960s Chicago Harbor Scene Watercolor by Noted Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Artwork is formatted in a trapezoid shape, an innovative compositional device for...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Rue dans la banlieu de Paris (Street scene on the outskirts of Paris)
By Roger Lersy
Located in Chicago, IL
This exuberantly-painted Parisian street scene is typical of Lersy's colorful and energetic style. His work combines mid-century Modern abstraction with subjects beloved by the Impre...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Southern School Guitar Musician Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting portrait. Oil on canvas board. Signed verso. Framed. Measuring 22 by 26 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1950's Modernist Painting Bright Watercolour Chateau In Green and Blue Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper
size: 13 x 16 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: the art...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Stunning Mid-Century Modern Cubist Watercolor, Harbor Scene & Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A vivid European harbor scene, depicting the whitewashed buildings ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Watercolor
Yosemite High Sierra Sunrise - Midcentury Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous mid century landscape of the sun rising in the Yosemite High Sierras by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Unframed. Image siz...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Study for « Paysage de Fribourg » - 1943 a drawing by Balthus (1908 - 2001)
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Frédérique Tison, Château de Chassy (Burgundy-Franche Comté - France)
Bibliography: J. Clair, V. Monnier Balthus, catalogue raisonné of the complete works, Gallimard, Pa...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
1950's British Modernist Oil Painting Cumberland Lake District Dramatic View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: E.Johnson, British, signed & dated 1951
Title: "Cumberland". A most dramatic and captivating view of this Lake District landscape, the hill tops covered in snow.
M...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Goats in the mountains
Located in Genève, GE
Unsigned work
Work on paper
Carved brown and gold wood frame with glass window
68.5 x 53 x 2 cm
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Emile Albert Gruppe Important Fall Landscape 40x30
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978)
Fall landscape
Oil on canvas laid to canvas
Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe
Canvas: 40" H x 30" W Inches
Framed: 48.25 x 38.25 Inches
Very large ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Restoration Day on December 31, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
46 x 38 x 3 cm
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's Blue Roof Rustic Village Scene with a Central Church Countryside
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rustic Village Scene
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on card
size: 19.75 x 25.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This oil pa...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's Bright Green and Blue Landscape of Hills and Fields French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Harmonious Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on artist paper
size: 23 x 20 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This impr...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Hamptons Polo Field Horse Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid century polo field modernist landscape. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Cavern 1950 painting by John Atherton
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed lower right: "Atherton", inscribed "John Atherton Original Tempera 7/28/50" on verso.
Artwork measures 16" x 20" and framed 20" x 24" x 2 ½"
About this artists: John Atherton (1900-1952) did not show an early aptitude for art; rather, his first love was nature and the activities he relished there, mainly fishing and hunting. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1900, he learned to fish with his father from the age of four. Later the family moved to Spokane, Washington, and when he was old enough, Atherton worked at a variety of jobs to help support his family. One such job, in the sorting plant of a lead and silver mine, paid $4.25 a day—a good wage, though he never had time to spend his money, since he worked seven days a week.
After serving in the Navy for a year during World War I, Atherton was determined to get an education. He worked as a sign painter and played the banjo in a dance band, finally accumulating enough money to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Once there, he worked like a fiend, attending classes both during the day and at night, getting the best training available.
Though he had always intended to be a fine artist, Atherton’s first jobs were for commercial art firms. In 1929, using the prize money won for a painting he entered in an art competition, Atherton and his wife moved to New York City. Though the economic situation was difficult in those years, he managed to keep going by taking commissions for magazine illustrations, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
In 1938, an artist friend suggested that he use the same flat, decorative style as his commercial work for his gallery paintings. This was a breakthrough for Atherton; soon afterwards he held a one-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and his paintings began to be collected by museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Atherton’s reputation increased to a national scale when he designed the art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 World’s Fair that strikingly depicted Earth and its atmospheric layers in the lap of Liberty.
Atherton was highly influenced by the magic realist...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera
Mid 20th Century French Post Impressionist Painting Coastal Track To Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
watercolour on artist paper, unframed
painting : 15 x 16.75 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and soun...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1946 Mid-Century Modern Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Rural Tranquility
Located in Bristol, GB
RURAL TRANQUILITY
Size: 60.5 x 72 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A tranquil mid-century landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1946.
The painting captures a...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage American Modernist Street Scene Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive modernist street scene painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period giltwood molding. Excellent condition,...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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