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Period: Mid-20th Century
A Pair of 1940s Diminutive Paintings of Vermont by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A Pair of 1940s "Thumb Box", oil on paper paintings depicting stone wall menders in Thetford, Vermont. Image size: 4 1/2" x 6 each. Framed size:
6 1/2" x 7 3/4" each. Estate st...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Very Thickly Painted Oil Painting Provence Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, indistinctly signed
Title: Provence Landscape, very thickly painted in oil
Medium: oil on board, unframed
Board: 13 x 17.5 inches
Pr...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Davenport Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful rustic seascape of calm waves along the rocky coast in Davenport by California artist Esposito (American, 20th Century). Signed "Esposito '59" lower right. Presented in rus...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
View of Church Street, Isleworth, England (Framed Mid-Century Landscape)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A charming English scene - a pretty row of homes along the river in Isleworth, in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. The painting is signed "Moore" but I haven't been abl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$396 Sale Price
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Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Abstract Stream Painting by Gibbs C.1968
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 10" wide x 25" high
The rabbet measures 15.5" wide x 30.5" high
Please note: The rabbet is i...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Albright Knox Gallery Label Signed Landscape Oil Painting Lake River Nocturnal
Located in Buffalo, NY
A charming painting of a quaint lake at night with the moon reflecting on calm waters.
Bearing an Albright Knox Art Gallery "Art Week" label from 1941 t...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Village of Iseh, Bali (1948)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
View of the Village of Iseh, painted from the house of Theo
Signed and dated 48 Theo Meier lower left
Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 50 cm
In original frame carved by the artist.
Note:
Theo Meier arrived in Bali in 1936 with the intention of going on to Tahiti where he had been before. However Bali turned out to be the paradise he had been searching for in his dreams and he had no desire any more to move elsewhere. Bali at that time was still a very traditional place where society lived according to an acient religious system and in a luscious tropical setting the modern world was ignored. Here he met Walter Spies...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Rosewood, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Cityscape Bridge View Rare WPA Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist bridge landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 28 by 36 inches overall, and 20 by 28 painting alone.. In excellent original cond...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
20th Century Seascape Italian Signed Remo Testa Painting Fishermen at Sunset
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, glued on cardboard, depicting Seascape with boats and fishermen at sunset, in impressionist style, of good pictoria...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Le Cheval Blanc"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting by the Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed middle right and dated 1955. It depicts a white stallion riding on a wooden raft in rough seas with...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
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Mid Century Impressionist Autumn Rolling Hills Landscape
By A. Verbitski
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely mid century fall landscape with rolling hills in beautiful autumnal tones by A. Verbitski (translated) ( Russian, 20th Century), c.1950s. Signed in the lower left corner. No f...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Fauvist Oil on Board ca 1930 by Richard H Bassett
Located in Exton, PA
Exquisite and brilliantly colored oil painting on canvass laid to board by Richard Horace Bassett (1900-1995). This is a Fauvist rendition of lands...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$520 Sale Price
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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
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Coastal Landscape Oil Painting - Moonlit Sea
Located in Bristol, GB
MOONLIT SEA
Size: 34 x 47 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
An atmospheric mid-century abstract coastal landscape, executed in oil onto board.
The composition presents a seascape w...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Japanese Tea House in the Mist - Mid Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century landscape of a Japanese tea house and trees in a misty valley in autumn, by an unknown artist (Japanese, 20th Century). Circa ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Mid Century Pond Reflections Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Pond Reflections, a mid century impressionist watercolor painting by California artist C.G. Standeford (American, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Circa 1940's. Signed o...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
European Street Scene
By Theodore Van Oorschot
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
European Street Scene
Artist signed.
Theodore Van Oorschot 1910-1989 Dutch.
The artist lived and worked in Schijnde, Netherlands. A student o...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$1,890 Sale Price
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"My Angel's Paradise" - Mid Century Landscape
By Franklin D. Stanley
Located in Soquel, CA
Restful landscape of a river running through a valley lightly dusted in snow and snow capped mountains in the background by Franklin D. Stanley (American, 20th century). Signed "F. D. Stanley" lower left. Signed, titled "My Angels...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Vintage Palm Springs Area Canyon Landscape Oil Painting by Suzanne Dallons
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is an unusual painting of a canyon in the Palm Springs area of Southern California. In the foreground is a blooming native plant, with a nice close up view. Think of it as a p...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century 1950s French Post-Impressionist Oil Green River Gorge Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Green River Valley
signed by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
dated 1952
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 13 x 16 inches
condition: the painting is in very...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Landscape by I. Ch. Goetz - Watercolor on paper 24x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$224 Sale Price
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1935 Snowy Town Grove Winter Landscape Oil Painting - Vintage Winter Art
By Robert Amick
Located in Denver, CO
This original circa 1935 oil painting by acclaimed Colorado artist Robert Wesley Amick captures a serene winter scene in a quiet town grove. The composition depicts a peaceful moment...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
David R Buchanan 'Men at Work' oil circa 1930
Located in Frome, Somerset
David R. Buchanan 20th Century British. 'Men at Work' circa 1930's
oil on canvas 45cmx60cm
good quality gallery frame 61cmx76cm
A dymanic scene of a gang of road workers laying mains...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$822 Sale Price
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1930s Zeppelin Over San Francisco Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
1930s Zeppelin Over San Francisco Landscape
Bright and evocative 1938 painting of burning Zeppelin by Ethel Grace Arpin Harlo Lynn (American 1881-1960). This was original painting w...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Metal
Winter Walk - Mid 20th Century France French Town Naïf Landscape Oil Painting
By Jean Fous
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century French naïf oil on board depicting figures in a snow covered town, by Jean Fous. Titled "Winter Walk" in French on the reverse.
The work is signed lower...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modern Swedish Expressiv Landscape Oil Painting - The White Cottage
Located in Bristol, GB
THE WHITE COTTAGE
Size: 33 x 36 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A small but impactful mid century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
This painting is a...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Located in New York, NY
Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF
Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979)
City Street
12 x 14 inches
Oil on board, c. 1930s
Signed lower left
BIO
Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Picnic in the Park - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Albert Genta
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century figurative landscape of a a group of figures, sitting on the lake shore with a guitar by Francis Albert Genta (French, 1901-1989), c.1950. Signed "A. Genta" lower right. Unframed. Image size: 18"H x 24"W.
Albert Genta was born in Paris, France in 1901 and is primarily known for painting female portraits and landscapes. Albert Genta (Francis Albert Genta) is a painter French specialist naked , born 13 September 1901 in Paris 12th and died on 5 September 1989 in the 20th, Paris .
He was a female nude painter...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil, Paper
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
$9,393 Sale Price
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English Mid Century Oil The Horse Show Jumping Event Gymkhana with Judges
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, mid 20th century
The Showjumper
oil on canvas board, unframed
16 x 20 inches
private collection, France
condition: The painting is in overall sound condition though ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"La diga di Chebourg" Olio cm. 73 x 54 1938
Located in Torino, IT
Bellissimo paesaggio del paese della Normandia dove è avvenuto lo sbarco degli americani nel 1944
Spiaggia,Barche,Mare del Nord
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,774 Sale Price
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"Village near St. Petersburg" cm. 66 x 71 Oil 1959 Countryside, Party, Summer
By Gleb Savinov
Located in Torino, IT
Countryside, Party, Summer,Green,
Shipment included in the price
GLEB SAVINOV (Charkev, 1915 – St. Petersburg, 2000)
Works by Gleb Savinov can be found in various private collecti...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Watering Hole" CALIFORNIA LANDSCAPE
Located in San Antonio, TX
George Devoss
California Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 29.5 x 41.5
Medium: Oil
"Watering Hole"
Resident of Los Angeles in 1928-37.
Edan Hughe...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Monaco - Monte Carlo
Located in Sheffield, MA
Johannes Schiefer
Dutch-American, 1896-1979
Monaco - Monte Carlo
Oil on canvas
25 ¼ by 30 ⅛ in, w/ frame 33 ½ by 38 ½ in
Signed lower right, titled lower left
Johannes Schiefer, pa...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vibrant 20th Century Folk Art Oil Painting of Girl, Sheep & Car in Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
"Girl with Sheep and Car" is a captivating mid-20th century oil on board painting by self-taught folk artist Martin Saldaña (1874-1965). This vibrant landscape features a whimsical F...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Seascape - "The Coming Storm"
By Ray Radliff
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic seascape by California artist Ray Radliff (American, 1900-1974). Signed "Ray Radliff" in the lower left corner. Title and artist's name on verso ("THE COMMING [sic] STORM by ...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Female Modernist Precisionist Street Scene Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene oil painting by Elaine Wesley (1923 - 2007). Oil on board. Estate stamped verso.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Night Express"
Located in Astoria, NY
John Schweikhard (American, b. 1937), "Night Express", Gouache on Board, signed lower right, signed and titled to verso, blue painted wood frame. Image: 23.5" H x 20.25" W; frame: 25...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Golden Lake
Located in Bristol, GB
GOLDEN LAKE
Size: 56 x 64 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A striking and uplifting mid-century landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas.
The painting presents a serene ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th century figurative landscape oil painting pastoral scene farm field cow
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This early work by American artist Sylvia Spicuzza is an excellent example of Regionalism: in the foreground, a farmer in blue stands before a herd of cattle. Beyond the fence of the...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
La Plage a Girolato
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Levier
French, 1920-2004
La Plage a Girolato
Oil on Canvas
30 by 40 in, w/ frame 38 ⅝ by 49 in
Signed lower left, titled verso
Charles Levier was born in 1920 from a French...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Country Celebration - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Piece of Manor House
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
"Spring Ploughing" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist American Farmed Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Spring Ploughing
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
34 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Midcentury California Mountain Landscape, after Carl Sammons
Located in Soquel, CA
A classic mid-century California mountain scene of Payne Lake near Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra Nevadas, by Clare Shipton Mayhew (Mrs. J.O. Harvey)....
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Behind the barn 1950s. Oil on cardboard. 42.5x49.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Behind the barn
1950s. Oil on cardboard. 42,5x49,5 cm
"Behind the Barn" is likely to be a captivating and nostalgic artwork that celebrates the beauty of rural life and the tranquility of the countryside. Through the careful composition and skillful use of oil paints, the artist aims to transport viewers to a simpler and idyllic time, where nature and agriculture coexist in harmony.
Aleksandra...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,725 Sale Price
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River. 1960, watercolor on paper, 43x61 cm
Located in Riga, LV
River. 1960, watercolor on paper, 43x61 cm
Janis Brekte (1920.15.VIII – 1985.27.XII)
Janis Brekte his first artistic education got in drawing courses of K. Brencens (1936 – 39).
He ...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sea Coast. 1958, canvas, oil, 50x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sea Coast. 1958, canvas, oil, 50x70 cm
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$670 Sale Price
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Large Polish French Paris Scene Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Moulin Rouge
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Wonderful scene of the Moulin Rouge cabaret nightclub at Place Pigalle in Paris. Painted in wonderful moody blue and red colors.
Size includes frame.
Abram Abraham Krol was born Jan...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterfront - British 1960's art Abstract Expressionist exhibited oil painting
By Helen Hale
Located in London, GB
This stunning abstract expressionist oil on canvas is by artist Helen M Hale. Painted in the 1960's this abstract landscape has strong brushwork and blocks of colour. Labelled verso...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
New York Skyline the West Side with Hudson River - Vintage New York
By Frank S. Hermann
Located in Miami, FL
Rooftop view of the upper West Side Manhattan as it looked in the 1930s. There is a rough indication of a billboard and a glimpse of the Hudson River. The cluster of buildings depic...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
Antique American Plein Aire Impressionist Farm Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1920. Unsigned. Image size, 16L x 13H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Off Boulogne, French Harbor Scene, Chicago Artist, Large 1950s Abstract Oil
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Alfred Cohen (American, 1920 - 2001)
Signed: A. Cohen (Lower, Right)
Stamped: Atelier Alfred Cohen (on Canvas Verso)
" Off Boulogne ", circa 1950s
Oi...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Large oil of a Mediterranean Town circa 1960's well listed artist
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine, large oil by Modern British artist Peter Collins (1923-2001).
Mediterranean Village scene circa 1960's
oil on canvas 51cmx76.5cm
Good quality giltwood frame 66cmx90cm
View of a Mediterranean coastal town with a Chapel and palm tree lined streets.
The colour palette suggests a hazey morning light, lemon yellows, greens and orange browns.
Figures and a donkey walk along a side road.
Most likely painted en plein air. Wonderful technique and paint surface.
Signed lower right
Good condition.
Peter Collins' large oils make up $9,600 USD hammer price at auction.
Viewing available in our town centre gallery. Worldwide shipping
Peter Colins' painting career started soon after the war when he became a part-time tutor at St Martin’s School of Art before winning a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where he studied from 1947-50. In 1961 he opened Balcome Studios in Sussex, where, apart from his own paintings, he showed work by Freud, Sickert and Matthew Smith...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940's French Impressionist Signed Oil Atmospheric Moody River Scene & Boats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Quiet River
French Impressionist, signed and dated 1940's
oil on canvas, framed in original French frame.
signed and dated
framed: 35.5 x 36 inches
canvas: 24 x 29 inches
Prove...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kisezers port. Canvas, oil, 47x62 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Arijs Skride (1906.24.IX Madonna parish – 1987.22.XI Riga), painter.
Arijs Skride was born into a farmer's family. Wife Gundega Vaska – graphic artist.
At the age of 15, he passed ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,683 Sale Price
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American Impressionist Panoramic Mountain Sketch Landscape & Sky Study Painting
By George Browne
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American oil painting of panoramic mountain range by George Browne (1918 - 1958). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 1...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Avenue de L'opera, Paris France
By Jean Salabet
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Jean Salabet’s Avenue de l’Opéra, Paris, France captures the charm and energy of mid-century Paris through his signature impressionistic style. The painting depicts the bustling aven...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Glasco Landscape" Albert Heckman, circa 1940 New York Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Glasco Landscape, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 39 1/2 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after graduating from high school and landing a job at the Meadville Post Office. In 1917, at the age of 24, Heckman enrolled part-time in Teachers' College, Columbia University's Fine Arts Department to begin his formal art education. He worked as a freelance ceramic and textile designer and occasionally as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1920s, at the age of almost 30, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers College. He was especially impacted by his instructor at Columbia, Arthur Wesley Dow.
After graduating, he was hired by the Teachers' College as a Fine Arts instructor. He stayed with Columbia Teachers' College until 1929, when he left to attend the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Isami Doi (1903-1965), who was born in Hawaii, was arguably his most impressive student at Columbia. Doi is now regarded as one of the most prominent artists hailing from Hawaii. Heckman became an active member and officer of the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York in the 1920s as part of his early commercial art career. The Society's mission was to share knowledge and showcase textile and ceramic design exhibits.
In 1922, Heckman married Florence Hardman, a concert violinist. Mrs. Heckman's concert schedule during the 1920s kept Albert and Florence Heckman apart for a significant portion of the time, but they spent what little time they had together designing and building their Woodstock, New York, summer house and grounds. A small house and an acre of surrounding land on Overlook Mountain, just behind the village of Woodstock, were purchased by Albert and Florence Heckman at the time of their marriage. Their Woodstock home, with its connections, friendships, and memories, became a central part of their lives over the years, even though they had an apartment in New York City.
Heckman's main artistic focus shifted to the house on Overlook Mountain and the nearby towns and villages, Kingston, Eddyville, and Glasco. After returning from the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1930, Mr. Heckman joined Hunter College as an assistant professor of art. He worked there for almost thirty years, retiring in 1956. Throughout his tenure at Hunter, Mr. Heckman and his spouse spent the summers at their Woodstock residence and the winters in New York City. They were regular and well-known guests at the opera and art galleries in New York. Following his retirement in 1956, the Heckmans settled in Woodstock permanently, with occasional trips to Florida or Europe during the fall and winter. Mr. Heckman's close friends and artistic career were always connected to Woodstock or New York City. He joined the Woodstock art group early on and was greatly influenced by artists like Paul and Caroline Rohland, Emil Ganso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andre Ruellan, and her husband, Jack...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
