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Period: Mid-20th Century
Style: Modern
"February 21st - Red" Abstract Expressionist Landscape by William Morehouse
Located in Soquel, CA
"February 21st - Red" Abstract Expressionist Landscape by William Morehouse
The image shows an abstract landscape painting by William Paul Morehouse (American, 1929-1993), titled "February 21st - Red". The painting has a textured application of impasto, in oil on canvas, with dominant earth tones and a contrasting red section at the top. The composition is divided into geometric shapes and lines, suggesting a stylized representation of a landscape. The colors and textures evoke a sense of the Northern California coastal prairie, a recurring theme in Morehouse's work. The painting is signed, titled, and dated 1960 on the reverse., and WM '60 center bottom of painting.
Image, 34"H x 20"W x .5"D
Signed center at bottom, Signed and dated on verso, with exhibition label and title.
Post War California artist, William Paul Morehouse studied at the California School of Fine Arts (1947-1950) receiving his BFA.
Not long after graduation from the CSFA he joined the Army during the Korean War. He became a Master Sergeant and was released with a Purple Heart in 1953, at which point he enrolled in courses at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts). A transfer to the San Francisco Art Institute the following year led to his Bachelors in Fine Arts, and in 1954 he enrolled at San Francisco State University where in under two years he earned his MFA. He traveled to New York that same year to participate in the Young American Painters exhibition at the Guggenheim, along with Diebenkorn, deKooning, Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock. He soon began dividing his time between the two coasts.
Morehouse eventually settled in Bodega Bay permanently, where he continued to paint as part of the group the "Sonoma Four"
Selected Group Exhibitions: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; University of Illinois; Fort Worth Museum; Los Angeles County Museum; National Academy; Oakland Art Museum; Rotunda Gallery, San Francisco; Denver Art Museum; Fourth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, California Palace of The Legion of Honor 1951; First Pacific Coast Biennial Exhibition, Santa Barbara Museum of Art & California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco 1955; PACIFIC COAST ART...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Summer in Town
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Summer in Town, 1943, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 13 ¾ x 22 inches, titled and dated verso, exhibited: 1) 139th Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Hydrangeas, " Walter Inglis Anderson, Mississippi Southern Illustrator, Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Walter Anderson ( American, 1903 - 1965)
Hydrangeas, circa 1950
Mixed media on paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Luise Ross Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New Jersey
Acquired from the estate of the above, 2021
Walter Anderson firmly believed that quality art was an important part of life and should be made available to everyone. As he said, "There should be simple, good decorations, to be sold at prices to rival the five-and-ten." Noticing that only poor quality art was available in stores and little was available for children, he resolved to make art which could be reproduced easily and sell inexpensively — linoleum block prints. This technique enabled him to provide affordable, quality art.
The technique of linoleum block printing is a simple concept; however, it requires much skill and talent to actually produce memorable art. Anderson purchased surplus "battleship linoleum," thicker than ordinary linoleum with a burlap backing for better support, to create his blocks. During the mid-1940s, he created almost 300 linocuts working in the attic of the sea-side plantation house, Oldfields, his wife's family home in Gautier. Masses of linoleum chips accumulated at the foot of the attic stairs as he often worked night and day. He began with sketching out a design directly on the linoleum. Once he had carved the image into the surface, he used the back of faded, surplus stock wallpaper that a friend sent him, laying long strips on top of the inked linoleum. A roller made of sewer pipe filled with sand served as his press. When the print was completed, he often colored it by hand with bold strokes and vivid colors. The prints were sold at Shearwater Pottery, the family business, for a mere dollar a foot.
But "what about a well-designed fairy tale for a child's room?" he asked himself. Since there was a lack of affordable art for children, much of his work with linoleum blocks focused on subjects for children. He depicted fables and fairy tales ranging from Arabian Nights, to Germany and the Grimm Brothers' Rapunzel, to the French story of The White Cat, to the Greek tales such as Europa and the Bull, and to tales from China, India, and other cultures. Anderson also created "mini" books featuring the alphabet and Robinson Cat. The blocks are not only alive with the story being depicted, but they are also filled with designs taken from Best-Maugard's Method for Creative Design. Swirls, half-circles and zig-zag lines fill every available space on the linoleum block making them come alive and capture their audience.
But fairy tales, children's verses and the "mini" books, consisting of about 90 blocks, were not the sole subject of Anderson's linoleum block prints. In total, he created approximately 300 linoleum blocks with subjects ranging from coastal flora and fauna, coastal animals, and sports and other coastal activities. Anderson even created linoleum blocks to be used to print tablecloths and clothing, some worn by his own children. Color and subjects of the linoleum block prints were not the only things that got them noticed.
In 1945 when Anderson was creating these prints, the standard size of linoleum block prints was only 12 by 18 inches. These small dimensions were due to the common size of the paper available and the restrictions made by national competitions. Since Anderson used wallpaper...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
“First Tracks at Courchevel, French Alps” by Marius Chambon (French, 1876-1962)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“First Tracks at Courchevel, French Alps”
Marius Chambon (French, 1876-1962)
Gouache on paper
Signed lower right.
16 1/2 x 10 1/2 (24 x 18 frame) inches
Capturing the moment in the...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Collioure Harbour, French 1950's Modernist Colorful Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Collioure, France
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 13 x 19.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
provena...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American Impressionist Framed Young Woman Portrait Exhibited Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted early 1900s American impressionist portrait painting by Alexander Oscar Levy (1881 - 1947). Oil on canvas, lain to board. In excellent original condition. Hand...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Antique Canadian Modernist Framed Lake Landscape Rare Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 15 by 17 inches overall and 10 by 12 painting alone.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Painting, Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s American Modernist gouache painting, "Artists Sketching (California)," captures a dynamic scene of three artists at work against a majestic mountain backdrop. With expressive brushwork and a rich color palette, the piece embodies Frederick E. Shane’s signature blend of realism and modernist abstraction. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin, this remarkable artwork reflects the era’s Regionalist influence and the artist’s keen eye for capturing creative moments in the natural landscape.
The painting is professionally housed in a custom archival frame, ensuring long-term preservation. Frame dimensions: 25.5 x 37.5 x 1.5 inches. Image size: 20.25 x 29.75 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Frederick Shane
About the Artist: Frederick E. Shane (1906-1992)
A celebrated Missouri Regionalist painter and printmaker, Frederick E. Shane was known for his compelling genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, and portraits in a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, gouache, tempera, and lithography. While fundamentally a realist, Shane often incorporated elements of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, adding depth and emotion to his compositions.
During the summers of 1925-26, Shane studied under Randall Davey at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, an institution founded in 1919 by philanthropists Spencer and Julie Penrose. Shane remained closely connected to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Academy’s successor, throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, participating in Artists West of the Mississippi exhibitions and forming lasting friendships with key figures like Boardman Robinson and Adolph Dehn...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Large, 1950s, Oil on Masonite Painting of a Michigan Harbor by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A lovely summer day in a ca. 1950s Lake Michigan harbor, perhaps in Saugatuck, Douglas or at Oxbow! This is a large oil on Masonite painting by notable artist Francis Chapin that is...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Country House Portrait Faringdon House Oxfordshire Grade 1 Listed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Faringdon House, Oxfordshire
English School, mid 20th century
inscribed to label verso
oil on board, framed
framed: 19 x 23 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition:...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sicilian Farmhouse
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Sicilian Farmhouse', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). A dedicated lover of Mediterranean countries and their varied landscapes, this charming and diminutive work by the ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mini Mid-Century Modern Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Fresh Fields
Located in Bristol, GB
FRESH FIELDS
Size: 24 x 29 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A lively mid-century post-impressionist landscape composition, executed in oil onto board.
Small yet impactful, the pai...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Summer Landscape, Oxbow School, Saugatuck, MI
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Captivating Mid-Century Modern Summer Landscape Painting by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen (Am. 1918 - 1989). Painted during the 1960s while the artist taught at th...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Painting of a Red Barn & Mill Scene by Illinois Artist Stan Dudek
Located in Chicago, IL
A Brightly-colored, Mid-Century painting of a red barn & mill scene by notable Illinois artist Stan Dudek.
After years of driving from his home in the far west suburbs to his job as...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures In The Forest Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour on artist paper, unframed
size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
p...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950's French Village Hillside On Green Rolling Hills Oil Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Verdant Hills
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on artist paper
size: 19 x 26 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This expressive ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Villajoyosa, Spain #2 by Alexandre de Spengler - Oil on canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Alexandre de Spengler (1893–1973) was a Swiss painter and engraver active in Geneva and Paris.
He is known for his land and seascapes, as well as...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Forest Landscape Oil Painting by 20th Century Post War Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of River Forest Landscape in Ireland by 20th Century Post War Irish Artist, Tobias Everet Spence
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures in...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mountain Lake - Mid Century Modern Landscape with Heavy Impasto in Oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Mountain Lake - Mid Century Modern Landscape with Heavy Impasto in Oil
Idyllic landscape by L. Hutchings (20th Century). Dramatic mountains rise over a blue lake, partially reflecte...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Fabulous 1950 Painting Titled "47th & Woodlawn Ave in Chicago, ILL" by EC Nieman
Located in Chicago, IL
Make it yours! A fabulous painting titled "47th & Woodlawn Ave in Chicago, ILL" by EC Nieman and dated 1950. It depicts a Walgreen's Drug Store, a horse pulling a milk truck, a new...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Vintage American Modernist Cityscape Framed Fauvist Palette Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30H by 24L.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Palm Springs Oil Landscape Painting
By Alice Spoonemore
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Palm Springs Desert and Mountains Landscape Painting
Vibrant Palm Springs, California desert landscape by Alice Spoonemore (American, 1888-1956), circa 1950. Iconic red...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Large colourful modernist abstract landscape painting Vietnamese American artist
By Ngoc Dung
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking, bold colourist painting by Vietnamese artist Ngoc Dung (1931-2000), dating from circa 1960.
His highly individualistic art is hard to categorise. In the artist"s own wor...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Fauvist Field
Located in Bristol, GB
FAUVIST FIELD
Size: 43 x 73 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A bright and vividly coloured mid century landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1963.
Characteri...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Woodstock in Winter" Cecil Chichester, Modernist Snowy Winter Landscape
By Cecil Chichester
Located in New York, NY
Cecil Chichester
Woodstock in Winter, circa 1947
Signed lower left
Oil on artist's board
12 x 16 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Rhinebeck, New...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mountain Landscape by Henri Weissenbach - Oil on Canvas - 46x55 cm
By Henri Weissenbach
Located in Geneva, CH
Théobald Charles Henri Weissenbach (1891–1966) was a Swiss visual artist known for his contributions to painting.
Born in Fribourg, Switzerland, and later active in Geneva, Weissenb...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Subtle, Atmospheric, Mid-Century Modern Dune Landscape Painting by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Wonderfully Subtle, Atmospheric, Mid-Century Modern Dune Landscape Painting by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen. Most likely painted in the 1960s along the shores of Lake Mich...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Social Realist Street Scene Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Mid 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures an architectural street scape...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Coastal Clouds Sunrise Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
A dynamic landscape featuring a beautiful sunrise reflecting on storm clouds above the quiet shoreline by Santa Cruz artist Don Hannan (American 20th c). An Airplane flies into the s...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
"6th Avenue El"
12 1/4 x 14 1/4
Oil on canvas board, c. 1940s
Signed lower righ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Backlight at Belmont by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on Canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernest Voegeli is an artist who has found his path through a combination of solid technique and a clear, insightful approach to color, form, and composition. While his work is primar...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Modernist Old Lyme Connecticut New England Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist New England barn oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed illegibly. Image size, 24L x 20H. Framed in a period f...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Nestled Houses In Autumnal Riverside Landscape French Oil Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Riverside Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on artist paper
size: 18.5 x 15 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This pai...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Halleluja, A story
Located in Greenwich, CT
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Föhn Wind Weather by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on Canvas 38x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernest Voegeli is an artist who has found his path through a combination of solid technique and a clear, insightful approach to color, form, and composition. While his work is primar...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Israeli Modernist Street Scene Framed Cubist Early 20th Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Israeli modernist street scene painting by Jacob Eisenscher (1896 - 1980). Gouache and watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 20 by 25 inches overall and 13 by 19 pai...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Large Mid Century French Oil Three Figures Seated Picnic Conversation
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Deep in Conversation
by Pierre Georgeot (French mid 20th century)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 25 x 30 inches
canvas : 24 x 29 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Conditio...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid-Century Modernist Watercolour On Paper, Trees At Buckfast Abbey
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 1960s work on paper of a group of trees at Buckfast Abbey in Devon, England, by Alban Atkins. Signed bottom left, titled and dated to the reverse. There is also a collection or accession number to the backboard.
Atkins has captured the sculptural nature of the tree trunks as they have grown in the landscape giving the work a feeling of living, writhing things as well as an abstract feel in the composition.
Atkins was one of the group of important artists chosen and commissioned by Sir Kenneth Clark...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Ink, Watercolor
Greece by Edouard Arthur, Oil on canvas 38x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 48x71 cm
Edouard ARTHUR is an artist born in 1917 and died in 2002. His works have been sold at public auction 12 times, mainly ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School New York City Modernist Central Park View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist central park, new york city oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvasboard . Image size, 18H by 24L.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Blue Moon" Modern Teal & Pink Abstract Night Landscape Painting of a Cactus
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Cubist inspired landscape painting by the iconic Houston based artist David Adickes. The work features a large crescent moon intertwined with an abstracted cactus set against ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Oil Landscape of Santa Clara Valley Before Silicon Valley
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Oil Landscape of Santa Clara Valley Before Silicon Valley
1947 Original oil painting depicting a landscape of Santa Clara Valley orchards, prior to the Silicon Valley bo...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Rockwell Kent Copy of "Vermont Winter 1921" Oil on Canvas Painting, 1960
Located in Baltimore, MD
This large painting is a ca. 1960 copy of a famous Rockwell Kent painting that was executed in Vermont in 1921. The work is oil on canvas and well represents the original image, tho...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
St Tropez Harbor France Large 1970's French Modernist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
St Tropez
French Modernist artist, indistinctly signed
circa 1970
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 13 x 37 inches
canvas: 12 x 36 inches
provenance: private collection, France
conditio...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mediterranean Costal Town (South of France)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Charles Evans (1907-1992)
Mediterranean Costal Town, 1932.
Gouache and watercolor on paper.
Sheet measures 8.5 x 10 inches; mounted in frame measuring 8.5 x 10 inches.
Signed and dated lower left.
Charles Evans was a modernist known for his abstract style of painting. He studied at New York's Art Students League and Parsons School of Design, and later in Paris with Fernand Lger at the Acadmie Moderne. In 1930, Evans and his wife spent a year living in what was Paul Cezanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence, France. The following year, Evans purchased the old silk mill in New Hope and became involved in the area's modernist movement, joining the Independents in 1932. By 1935, he began to work collaboratively with Louis Stone, whom he had met in 1929 while studying with Hans Hofman in Saint Tropez, and with Charles F. Ramsey, teaching art classes and working on the Cooperative Painting Project. Every week, the three were joined by the abstract painter, Lee Gatch, in discussions at Ledger's Inn in Lambertville. In 1948 Evans co-founded the New Hope Gazette with Walter M. Teller. The same year he created set designs for St. John Terrell's Lambertville Music Circus. He also designed sets for the Bucks County Playhouse and Philadelphia's Playhouse in the Park. He later served as Set Designer for the Fred Miller...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Cruise Ship Rolls In" Mid 20th Century American Contemporary Modern Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Cruise Ship Rolls In" Mid 20th Century American Contemporary Modern Realism
This is one sensational painting. And we can even identify the artist, but can't find anything about the...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting w. Female Figures by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figur...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Six O'Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About the Painting
Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.”
About the Artist
Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Houses Architecture Precisionist NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Missouri American Modernist famous in Europe - abstracted mid century Venice
Located in Norwich, GB
Meet the genuinely exciting modernist William Einstein, who is probably better known in Europe, where numerous publications on his work have been written, than in his native US!
Eins...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brittany : The Red Roofs - Original Oil on canvas, Handsigned
By Henri d'Anty
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri d'Anty
Brittany : The Red Roofs
Original oil on canvas
Handsigned bottom left
On canvas 60 x 73 cm (c. 24 x 29 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Elm Trees in Autumn Landscape in Antique Newcomb-Macklin Frame
By Mary H. Brubaker
Located in Soquel, CA
Elm trees in autumn at the edge of Salt Creek, Illinois, by Mary H. Brubaker (American, b. 1891). Signed and dated "Mary H. Brubaker 35" in the lower left cor...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Mid Century Serene Lakeside Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene mid century lakeside landscape by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Presented in a rustic giltwood frame. Image: 9"H x 12"W. Framed: 11.25"H x 14.25"W.
Excellent w...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
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 Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Bay Area Mountains Autumnal Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Bay Area Mountains Autumnal Landscape Oil Painting
Beautiful plein air oil painting of Bay Area mountains in autumn by Charles Eades (A...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
By Agnes Hart
Located in New York, NY
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
Agnes Hart (American, 1912-1979)
"Union Square, New York City"
Sight: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches
Gouache...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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