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Period: Mid-20th Century
Mid-Century Landscape, by Francis Kughler, Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This Mid-century Oil on Panel Landscape by Francis Kughler measures 28 1/2" x 40 x 1 1/2", and features a gold-colored wood frame. A hilly landscape of trees rendered in fall colors ...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
RENE HUTET (1907-1994) FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL - AUTUMN TREES LANDSCAPE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Rene Hutet (French, 1907-1994)
Title: Autumn
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Size: painting: 7 x 9.5 inches
Provenance:...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Train, Vintage Vibrant Folk Art Oil Painting with Bold Colorful Details
Located in Denver, CO
Discover the vibrant world of Martin Saldana, a talented Mexican-American folk artist known for his captivating rustic and naïve style. This original painting, titled "The Train", wa...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The factory 1961, paper/watercolor, 28.5x40.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The village
1964, paper/watercolor., 20.5x29.5 cm
Herberts Mangolds (1901-1978)
Graphic, army officer.
In 1920 he graduated from the Artillery Cadet School of Latvian and many mili...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$228 Sale Price
20% Off
The street of the steeple of Saint-Sulpice by I. Ch. Goetz - Watercolor 35x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen
Cascades and snow capped mountains over look a blue lake with a successful hunter carrying his trophy deer by Vern Byers (American...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
$1,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist NYC Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,327 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Fjord in Norway Landscape by Lucette Barth Impressionist Blues
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant cool colored landscape of Norwegian Fjords by Bay Area artist Lucette Barth (American, 1894 - 1986), circa 1960. Condition: good, three minor tea...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-Century Santa Cruz Mountains & Stream Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-Century Santa Cruz Mountains & Stream Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Beautiful oil landscape painting of the Santa Cruz Mountains by Santa Cruz, California artist Ann Fuson (America...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Pastoral View of "Gospel Hall, Calais, VT" by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A "Thumb Box" (diminutive) painting of the Gospel Hall in Calais, VT by artist Harold Haydon. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6". Framed size: 9 3/4" x 10 3/4"....
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Riverscape Impressionist Oil Painting by George Thompson Pritchard, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
Untitled Riverscape, an original oil on canvas by George Thompson Pritchard, is a piece for the true collector. An impressively calming nature of this plein-air painting draws you in...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gabicce Mare
Located in Wien, 9
The painterly work of Helga Scholler includes works from a period of more than 40 years and shows a range of uncompromising expressive works of all genres, which represents a further...
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
$1,196 Sale Price
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Rocky Seascape, Oil on Board Painting by American Artist John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rocky Seascape (55)
John F. Leonard
American (1921–1987)
Date: circa 1965
Oil on Board
Size: 16 in. x 20 in. (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper (Two Sided)
Located in Soquel, CA
California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Original watercolor painting of a farmhouse at the top of a hill by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-1992). A small farmhouse si...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$840 Sale Price
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Sailboats on the lake, Switzerland
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in gilded wood
27.5 x 36.5 x 2.5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishing Boats
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Fishing Boats" 1966 is an oil painting on canvas linen by noted Filipino artist Cesar Buenaventura Espinosa, 1919/22-1983. It is signed and dated at the lower left corn...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Bridge
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower left.
Born in Rockport, Massachusetts, impressionist painter William Stevens lived and worked in the area for many years. In the later part of his life, he moved to Co...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Au Revoir October
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: “Beatrice Whitney Van Ness”. From the estate of the artist.
Beatrice Whitney Van Ness, acclaimed painter and art educato...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Sisters, Oregon - Lakeside Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed plein air painting of the Three Sisters mountains in Oregon by L. V. Fritz. In the foreground, lively reflections bounce off the lake...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$460 Sale Price
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"Harvard vs Yale" Charles Green Shaw, Football, Ivy League Sports, Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Charles Green Shaw
Harvard vs. Yale, 1944
Signed and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches
Provenance:
Harvey and Francois Rambach, New Jersey
Private Collection, California
Washburn Gallery, New York
D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, New York
Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was in his mid-thirties. A 1914 graduate of Yale, Shaw also completed a year of architectural studies at Columbia University. During the 1920s Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the theater and café society. In addition to penning insightful articles, Shaw was a poet, novelist and journalist. In 1927 he began to take a serious interest in art and attended Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League briefly in New York. He also studied privately with George Luks, who became a good friend. Once he had dedicated himself to non-traditional painting, Shaw's writing ability made him a potent defender of abstract art.
After initial study with Benton and Luks, Shaw continued his artistic education in Paris by visiting numerous museums and galleries. From 1930 to 1932 Shaw's paintings evolved from a style imitative of Cubism to one directly inspired by it, though simplified and more purely geometric. Returning to the United States in 1933, Shaw began a series of abstracted cityscapes of skyscrapers he called Manhattan Motifs which evolved into his most famous works, the shaped canvases he called Plastic Polygons.
The 1930s were productive years for Shaw. He showed his paintings in numerous group exhibitions, both in New York and abroad, and was also given several one-man exhibitions. Shaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1934, which included 25 Manhattan Motif paintings and 8 abstract works. In the spring of 1935 Shaw was introduced to Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris. Gallatin was so impressed with Shaw's work, he broke a policy against solo exhibitions at his museum, the Gallery of Living Art, and offered Shaw an exhibition there. In the summer of 1935 Shaw traveled to Paris with Gallatin and Morris who provided introductions to many great painters. Shaw regularly spent time with John Ferren and Jean Hélion. The following year Gallatin organized an exhibition called Five Contemporary American Concretionists at the Reinhardt Gallery that included Shaw, Ferren, and Morris, Alexander Calder, and Charles Biederman...
Category
Abstract Geometric Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$28,000 Sale Price
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Riva - Spanish School 1940 Oil, Spanish Street in Summer
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed 'Riva' and dated 1940 in the lower left corner. Presented in a wooden frame with a gilt inner window. On board.
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$342 Sale Price
20% Off
1955 View of Ajax Mountain in Aspen, Colorado by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A small, colorful Modernist landscape painting by Harold Haydon, depicting "Western View from Sun Deck on Ajax Mt., Aspen, Colo.", dated 1955. Image siz...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Vintage American School Framed Modernist Fauvist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
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Italian Modernist Surrealist Architecture Landscape Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977)
Oil on board. Colorful Architectural Italian Landscape. Porto Azzurro, 1964
Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel.
Dimensions: (Frame) H 37" x W 29", (Panel) H 27" x W 19"
Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid Century Modern Boats and Bridge, Abstracted Maritime Landscape Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Boats and Bridge, Abstracted Maritime Landscape Painting
Wonderful mid-century modern abstracted maritime seascape by listed San...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Pekingese Dog Portrait Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American dog portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 8 by 10 inches overall and 6.5 by 9 painting alone.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
New York Harbor
By Guy Wiggins
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Guy Carleton Wiggins adopted the bright palette and lively brushwork of the impressionist movement, and is best known for his New York City snow scenes...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$85,000
Mid Century Figurative Landscape -- Sisters on the Terrazza
By Ingvar Helgi
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century figurative landscape of two sisters on an opulent terrazza, complete with a fountain and villa in the distance by Ingvar Helgi (Swedish/American, 19th- 20th cent...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
A Path Leading to a Hilltop Fortress French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Hilltop Fortress
by Max Toutain (1935-2006)
oil painting on board, unframed
board : 20 x 24 inches
Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from the artists est...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coastal Tree - Mid Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Moody unfinished landscape of a distant shore with cloudy skies and a tree in the foreground, by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Appears to be unfinished. Displ...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$719 Sale Price
20% Off
Countryside. 1950s, cardboard, oil, 26x37 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Countryside. 1950s, cardboard, oil, 26x37 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at s...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$437 Sale Price
20% Off
Realist Landscape Original Oil Painting- Small Green Tonal Midwestern Scene
Located in Marco Island, FL
This is a great American landscape painting by the artist, Clyde Singer. Gorgeous tonal shades of green and grey depict a stormy midwestern landscape.
Framed 16 x 24 inches
Canva...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1946 "Untitled" oil on canvas painting signed and dated by artist Alex Katz.
By Alex Katz
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" oil on canvas painting by artist Alex Katz. Signed and dated A. Katz 46 recto lower right. Painted in 1946, during the period when Katz was studying at Cooper Union in New...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The bare tree Italy by Jean Chomel - Oil on wood 27x35 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Swiss painter
Sculptor, painter and ceramist. Landscape. Wall painting and drawing
Artwork on cardboard
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Royal bridge, Paris by Pierre Desaules - Watercolor on paper 29x44 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
51,5 x 66 x 4 cm
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Autumnal Sierra Mountains, Horizontal Panoramic Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant autumnal impasto painting of the High Sierra mountains by Ruth Frymire (American, 20th century). Signed "Ruth Frymire" lower right. Unframed. Imag...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,031 Sale Price
25% Off
Maria Kincaid "Mountain Village" Original Oil Painting C.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
Maria Kincaid "Mountain Village" Original Oil Painting C.1950
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 11.5" wide x 8.5" high
The distressed period frame measures 19.5" wide x 16.5" high
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"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
Mid Century High Mountain Road Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous California landscape titled, "The By Road" by Myrtle Sue Redford (American, 20th Century). Signed "Myrtle Sue Redford" on verso. Image, 16"H x 12"L.
Myrtle Redford was a Fresno artist whose artwork won her a statewide reputation. She studied with Arthur Hill Gilbert, Abel Warshawsky and Nell Walker Warner. Myrtle was a member of the Carmel Art Association, the Santa Cruz Art League, Central California Art...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
A Charming 1956 Painting of a Red House in Calais, VT by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming 1956 oil on canvas board painting of a red brick house, titled "Corner of the Brick House with Last Snow Bank, Calais, VT" by artist Harold Haydon. The painting is framed...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Abstract Valley - Welsh 1963 art abstract landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Welsh abstract oil painting is by noted artist Thomas John Nash, better known as Tom Nash. It was painted in 1963 and is entitled on a gallery lab...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,995 Sale Price
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J. B. - Mid 20th Century Oil, The French Harbour
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful scene depicting sailboats making their way into a harbour at a French portside town. Painted in an impressionist style using gestural brushwork to capture the scene. Sig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$312 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Impressionist Farm Landscape Chickens Grazing Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted American impressionist chicken grazing landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 9H by 11L.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nikolai Timkov Russian Artist Oil on Board, 1968, “the Kremlin”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Nikolai Timkov (1912-1993) Russian artist. Oil on board dated 1968 in a gold-leaf frame.
Titled and signed twice on the verso. Titled: The Kremlin.
Measures: 13 ½ x 20. Frame size: 2...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paint
Celebration in the Square oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Technical Data
- Title: "Celebration in the Square"
- Artist: Joaquin Tudela y Perales (1891-1970)
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 15.7 x 19.6 in
- Period: Early 20th...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$951 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique American Modernist Seascape Framed Summer Nautical Boat Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist seascape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 14H by 22L.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
River landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Wooden frame and gilded plaster
70 x 86 x 6 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
" Bosco" Olio cm. 67 x 64 1966
Located in Torino, IT
Bosco autunnale
Marroni ,verde,Betulle
Maya KOPITZEVA (Gagra, Georgia 1924 – San Pietroburgo 2005)
Maya Kuzminichna Kopitzeva nasce nel 1924 in Georgia, ma già l’anno successivo la ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dance of the flamingos
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Large Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Signed. Image size 46L x 36H. Framing is available!
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$596 Sale Price
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Signed Spero Large Antique American Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 43 by 33 inches overall and 40 by 30 painting alone.
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Afternoon Pastorale, Post-Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Gilbert Boyd
Located in Long Island City, NY
Afternoon Pastorale
Gilbert Boyd, Irish/American (1896–1981)
Date: circa 1950
Oil on Board, signed
Size: 23.5 x 29.5 in. (59.69 x 74.93 cm)
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape with spanish village oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Juan Gil y Gil (1900-1984) - Landscape with Spanish village - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 38x46 cm.
Frameless.
Painter. He began his artistic training ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$767 Sale Price
45% Off
Brittany Coastal Painting France by Modern French Impressionist Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Brittany Coastal Painting France by Modern French Impressionist Landscape Artist. Douarnenez, Brittany, France, is a rare original Oil Painting by Award Winning French Post-Impressionist Artist, George Charles Robin.
Art measures 21.5 x 18 inches
Frame measures 27 x 23 inches (approx.)
Born in Paris in 1903, Robin was a student of Paul Michel Dupuy...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cotton, Linen
"Spring landscape" oil cm. 28 x 38 1934 green
Located in Torino, IT
Spring landscape, green, 19th century
Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989)
From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
$1,265 Sale Price
69% Off
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
By Louis Bosa
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
Large oil on canvas genre painting depicting laborers working on a railroad, with rural landscape in the...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Around East River, NYC Bridge, City Scene Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Marine Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
Dimensions w/Frame: 20.5" x 24.5"
The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York.
Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist.
Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else.
For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
