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Style: American Modern
Mid Century Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco by Garrett Price (American, 1896-1979). Signed "Garrett" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 11.75"H x 15.25"W. G...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board
A pastoral mid-century landscape with a red farmhouse on the banks of a beautiful river valley by J. Anderso...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Twin Cypress
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Mary Deneale Morgan. "Twin Cypress" is a modern American landscape painting, gouache on paper in an earth-tone palette by femal...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Farm in Autumn with Pumpkins in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Farm in Autumn with Pumpkins in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Colorful landscape of a farm in autumn with pumpkins by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (Americ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Pittsburgh Alleyway
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pittsburgh Alleyway, c. 1946, oil on gouache on paper on “prestwood” (Masonite), 9 x 12 inches, signed lower middle, Bohrod’s original label verso from his gallery at 4811 Tonyawatha...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Original Sierra Mountaintops Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Original Sierra Mountaintops Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Significant California School painting of a Sierra mountain landscape b...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Mid Century --Fields and Foothills Landscape
By Tarmo Pasto
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely landscape by Tarmo Pasto. Signed and dated "1948" on the bottom right. Unframed. Image size: 25"H x 30"W.
Dr. Tarmo Pasto was born on July 27, 1906 in Monessen, Pennsylvania, of Finnish descent. Tarmo Pasto was a psychologist and artist, who taught psychology and art through the 1970s at California State College at Sacramento since the schools inception.
He also authored a book on art, The Space-Frame Experience in Art, published in 1964. He, however, was mainly known to the world for introducing the works of one of his psychology patients, Martin Ramirez...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Vibrant, Expressive, Mid-Century Mountain Village Painting by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Expressive, Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Mountain Village by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. An open and expansive European landscape painting depicting a hilltop ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Head to Sea, Modernist sailing scene
Located in Greenwich, CT
A vibrant and yet romantic sailing scene which was a favorite series by Della-Volpe. His compelling colorist approach has made his works desirable as he was one of the few artists post-war to be representative in style like Milton Avery and Wolf Kahn. Head to Sea has the hallmark intense and lovely coloration for which Della-Volpe is known. He came out of Abstract Expressionism in the New York school but then pivoted, like Milton Avery to representational, colorist work. The frame is a silvered gold leaf float frame of quality and has a rubbed, antiqued surface...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Venetian Canal Cityscape, Italian-American artist
By Louis Bosa
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981)
Venice Canalscape, c. 1950
Oil on board
Signed lower right
11.75 x 21.75 inches
19.75 x 29.75 inches, framed
Born in Codroipo, a small village only ...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Autumn"
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 Benj...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Doledrum ( Industrial Environmental Pollution
Located in Miami, FL
Out of many come one. A huge back mountain is formed out of scores of gas spewing smokestacks. The foreboding back mass fills most of the pictorial area. As one gets closer to the canvas, the complexity of the mass if revealed in low on contrast as we see the diverse variety of the stacks with accompanying petrochemical architecture. Above the stacks, plums of air pollutants like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides rise gracefully into the atmosphere. The artist focuses less on the by-product of the stacks and more on his giant pollution machine that he has so astutely rendered. The work is mostly monochromatic but the artist has indicted a red tonality of a sunset/sunrise that offsets the charcoal blacks and grays.
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Submitted by Tamarind Institute
Ian Davis...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
American Pastoral
By John Koch
Located in Greenwich, CT
John Koch is a beloved American realist painter who depicted people in their everyday lives. Here we see a slightly different approach where he has put a painter out in a rural town...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sheepshead, Brooklyn, Long Island" Oscar Bluemner, Modernist Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner
Sheepshead, Long Island, 1907
Signed with the artist's conjoined initials "OB" and dated "4-30 - 5 - 30" / "Aug 3, 07"
Watercolor on paper
6 x 10 inches
Provenance:
J...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bird in Cage
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on board, 20 x 24 in.
Signed (at lower right): Atherton
Painted about 1940
RECORDED: Art News (May 11, 1940), illus. [clipping citation]
EXHIBITED: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1940, The International Watercolor Exhibition, no. 156, illus. on cover as Bird in Cage...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Wood Panel
Urban Landscape The New "Hamms Brewery Blue" San Francisco Oil on Canvas 1981
Located in Soquel, CA
Urban Landscape "Hamms Brewery Blue" Building in San Francisco Oil on Canvas 1981
Bold Urban landscape featuring the TMG redesigned of the former Hamm's Brewery building by William (Bill) Jefferson (American, B-1956). Currently a New York artist.
Image, 55"H x 42.5"W x 2.5"D
After graduating from college ( BA in history), I moved to San Francisco to pursue a career in the arts. Again, I never stopped. San Francisco in the ‘70’s was a magical place, and was the perfect canvas for me. I began drawing, all of the time, everywhere. By 1980 I had begun translating my drawings into paintings.
By the time I moved to New York in 2007, my art had matured and my purpose was clear: I mean for my paintings to give the viewer a sense of calm, and wonder at the beauty of the world around us, and to serve as an antidote to the pain and suffering we all experience in life.
William Jefferson...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Original German Impressionist Painting of Forest Interior
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Original Impressionist Landscape Painting of German Forest Interior
A fine example of a German impressionist landscape of autumnal forest interior by Elisabeth v...
Category
1910s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"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
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
'Any Day in America', Social Realist, Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg
By Ron Croci
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Croci" for Ron Croci (American, born 1945), and painted circa 1970.
A substantial, Social Realist watercolor showing a view of a ramshackle rust-belt landscape ...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
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
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"One Thousand Words" - Surreal Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold figurative work by Richard Cronin (American, b. 1952). Two figures stand on a patio, turned away from each other. The figures and scene are rendere...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Charming, ca. 1950s Painting Titled "Vineyard Light" by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming 1950s painting depicting a lighthouse in Martha's Vineyard, titled "Vineyard Light" by notable artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 8" x 9 1/2". Framed size: 9" x 10 1...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Abstract Sailboats”
By William Katz
Located in Southampton, NY
Fabulous original mid century modern oil on canvas painting by the well known New York artist, William Katz. The painting is done in a colorful abstraction of sailboats and is signed by the artist lower left. The artist has mixed sand into the oil paint to give the painting a highly textured look. Condition is excellent. Circa 1955. The frame is original with a studded gold edge detailing and with natural wood sides. Frame is in fine original condition. Overall framed measurements are 17 by 29.25 inches. Provenance: A Saint Petersburg, Florida collector.
William P. Katz (1926-2003) American
William Katz was born in New York, studied at The Art Students League and with Sebastiano Mineo of New York City. For five years he worked and lived in the home that was once occupied by the great American sculptor Gutson Borglum. His works are in many private collections in the United States, Norway, England, Canada and Greece.
Best known for sculptures, he also created paintings and designed textiles and jewelry. Alexander Kirkland called him an abstract "figurist-fantasist."
He has had one-man exhibits at many galleries including: 1964, Miami Museum of Modern Art, Miami, FL; 1965, Fordham University...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
California Lake Landscape Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
California Lake Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Serene landscape by Donna N. Schuster (American, 1883-1953). The viewer stands at the edge of a lake, under a few trees. At the far ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
1940s Modernist Trees Watercolor Painting, Framed Vertical Earth Tone Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating Modernist watercolor painting of a serene forest scene by Richard Sorby (1911-2001) beautifully captures the essence of nature through a minimalist and expressive lens. Painted in the 1940s, the piece features stylized trees in bold, dark hues of green, blue, and black, complemented by earthy tones of brown, orange, and white. The watercolor on paper is signed by the artist in the lower right corner and beautifully framed with archival materials. The outer dimensions of the piece measure 26 ½ x 18 ½ x 1 inches, with the image size itself being 22 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches.
About the Artist:
Richard Sorby, a Colorado-based artist, was renowned for his distinctive modernist style, blending abstraction with representational themes. Sorby earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in 1937 and went on to study under influential mentors, including Vance Kirkland and William Joseph Eastman...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas
Colorful mid century desert landscape with beautiful cacti by Vina McPheeters (American, 1892-1964). Colorful cacti are dotted throughout the foreground, lush with yellow and pink blooms. In the distance, dramatic mesas rise to meet a cloud-filled sky.
Signed "Vina McPheeters" in the lower right corner.
Presented in an antiqued bronze-colored frame.
Frame size: 25.75"H x 29.75"W
Image size: 20"H x 24"W
Vina Pearl McPheeters (American, 1892-1964) was born in Iowa on October 7, 1892. Vina was the wife of Robert Guy...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
From a Balcony
Located in Miami, FL
Exhibited: New York Society of Artist
Sid Deutsch
Owings-Dewey Fine Art
It's Skyscraper City: 1918. The artist depicts a simultaneous interior and exerterior view..
Based on Cole...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
When Tilling Was Over
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel by American artist Ginny GC Williams. It was painted en plein air. Celebrating the agricultural heritage of her New England town, the artist has captured the patchwork of color that comprises a farmscape. The piece is beautifully framed in a handmade maple floater frame with contrasting spline joints at the corner. a beautiful presentation. The overall framed dimensions are approximately 11x11 inches.
GC Williams has a degree in art history which gave her an understanding of, and appreciation for, not only the art of the past, but the historical events and ideologies that fostered various aesthetics, movements, and styles.
She has studied at several classical ateliers, including three years at Boston's Academy of Realist Art. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the US and is included in public and private collections. She maintains a studio on the north shore of Massachusetts.
"My work is about the little moments of beauty that comprise our existence: the greening of the landscape in early spring, the glint of light on an object; growing things and made objects. I enjoy creating interesting interactions, and making up narratives. I love the way light animates objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape, Modern Painting by Philip Pearlstein
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Philip Pearlstein, American (1924 - )
Title: Landscape
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 12 in. x 26 in. (30.48 cm x 66.04 cm)
Frame Size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Glassblowers" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City WPA
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
"Glassblowers" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City WPA
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
Glass Blowers
28 x 23 inches
Oil on canvas board
Signed and dated 1944 lower...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lobester Fishers, Concarneau, Brittany
Located in Fairfield, CT
Oil on canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Summer
Located in Dallas, TX
Lloyd Goff studied at the Art Students League, and has work in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, and T...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Oil Painting, South Lake Tahoe in Winter
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century South Lake Tahoe in Winter Landscape Original Oil Painting
Snow-capped stone pillars with split-rail fence framing iconic South Lake Tahoe valley in winter. A crisp blue...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
“Oil Tankers”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on cardstock painting of oil tankers docked in port along with people dockside on a bright clear day by the Long Island American artist, Whitney Myron H...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Boulder and Tree
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lois Dodd’s Boulder and Tree beautifully captures the harmonious simplicity of nature, highlighting her distinctively expressive approach to landscape painting. This 1990 artwork eng...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Poland's House in Fog
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lois Dodd’s "Poland’s House in Fog" encapsulates the quiet poetry of the everyday, a hallmark of her celebrated approach to landscape painting. This 1990 piece invites viewers into a...
Category
1990s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Countryside Home - 2018 Original Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Countryside Home - 2018 Original Oil on Board
Vibrant landscape depicting a small white home in the countryside by an unknown central California coast artist Maria Pavao Hadsell (Po...
Category
2010s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"You're Sunday Shot" Early Modern Original Ad Layout for Foley's with Airplane
Located in Houston, TX
Early modern original watercolor and gouache ad layout for Foley's by Houston portraitist Robert C. Joy. The work features a German military aircraft flying over a pile of tin cans t...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
A Charming 1950s Martha's Vineyard Street Scene Painting by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A large & delightful oil on Masonite, ca. 1950s, Martha's Vineyard street scene painting by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 24" x 36". Framed size: 27" x 37". In a painted woo...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Venetian Canal, Early 20th Century Landscape Scene, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Venetian Canal, c. 1910-11
Tempera on board
Signed lower right
24 x 30 inches
30 x 36 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, ...
Category
1910s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Church in Trees
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 13 x 9 inches, Signed lower left
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
23rd and 2nd Ave, New York City - Impressionist Oil Painting by Ben Benn
By Ben Benn
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ben Benn, Polish/American (1884 - 1983)
Title: 23rd and 2nd Ave, New York City
Year: 1924
Medium: Oil on board, signed l.r.
Size: 14 x 11.5 in. (35.56 x 29.21 cm)
Frame Size:...
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jersey Shore III
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Jersey Shore III
Casein on Masonite, 1967
Signed lower right (see photo)
Initialed, dated and titled verso
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Virginia Dehn (the artist's widow)
Dehn Quests
Created on location on the Jersey Shore. The Jersey Shore was the main playground for thousand to escape the summer heat of New York. This small painting shows Dehn's mastery of patterning color to depict movement and recreation. Part of a suite of paintings done on this theme. Within a year of it's creation, Dehn dies from a heart attack.
Casein on Masonite
Condition: Excellent
Image: 6 x 11"
Frame: 9 3/8 x 14 1/2"
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Park Scene (Chelsea, Manhattan)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Park Scene (Chelsea, Manhattan)
Oil on artist's board, c. 1947-49
Signed lower right (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Dehn Heirs
Condition: Good, needs a light cleaning
Original wormy chestnut frame
Painting size: 9 1/4 x 12 inches
Frame size: 14 1/4 x 17 inches
One of the earliest know Virginia Dehn paintings after her marriage to Adolf in 1947. The lived in Chelsea at 433 West 21st St.
Inscription by artist verso:
Virginia Dehn
443 W. 21 St.
New York City
V.70
Virginia Dehn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Virginia Dehn
Virginia Dehn in her studio in Santa Fe
Virginia Dehn (née Engleman) (October 26, 1922 – July 28, 2005) was an American painter and printmaker. Her work was known for its interpretation of natural themes in almost abstract forms. She exhibited in shows and galleries throughout the U.S. Her paintings are included in many public collections.
Life
Dehn was born in Nevada, Missouri on October 26, 1922.] Raised in Hamden, Connecticut, she studied at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri before moving to New York City. She met the artist Adolf Dehn while working at the Art Students League. They married in November 1947. The two artists worked side by side for many years, part of a group of artists who influenced the history of 20th century American art. Their Chelsea brownstone was a place where artists, writers, and intellectuals often gathered.
Early career
Virginia Dehn studied art at Stephens College in Missouri before continuing her art education at the Traphagen School of Design, and, later, the Art Students League, both located in New York City. In the mid-1940s while working at the Associated American Artists gallery, she met lithographer and watercolorist Adolf Dehn. Adolf was older than Virginia, and he already enjoyed a successful career as an artist. The two were married in 1947 in a private ceremony at Virginia's parents house in Wallingford, Connecticut.
Virginia and Adolf Dehn
The Dehns lived in a Chelsea brownstone on West 21st Street where they worked side by side. They often hosted gatherings of other influential artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. Among their closest friends were sculptor Federico Castellón and his wife Hilda; writer Sidney Alexander and his wife Frances; artists Sally and Milton Avery; Ferol and Bill Smith, also an artist; and Lily and Georges Schreiber, an artist and writer. Bob Steed and his wife Gittel, an anthropologist, were also good friends of the Dehns. According to friend Gretchen Marple Pracht, "Virginia was a glamorous and sophisticated hostess who welcomed visitors to their home and always invited a diverse crowd of guests..." Despite their active social life, the two were disciplined artists, working at their easels nearly daily and taking Saturdays to visit galleries and view new work.
The Dehns made annual trips to France to work on lithographs at the Atelier Desjobert in Paris. Virginia used a bamboo pen to draw directly on the stone for her lithographs, which often depicted trees or still lifes. The Dehns' other travels included visits to Key West, Colorado, Mexico, and countries such as Greece, Haiti, Afghanistan, and India.
Dehn's style of art differend greatly from that of her husband, though the two sometimes exhibited together. A friend of the couple remarked, "Adolf paints landscapes; Virginia paints inscapes." Virginia Dehn generally painted an interior vision based on her feelings for a subject, rather than a literal rendition of it.] Many of her paintings consist of several layers, with earlier layers showing through. She found inspiration in the Abstract Expressionism movement that dominated the New York and Paris art scenes in the 1950s. Some of her favorite artists included Adolf Gottileb, Rothko, William Baziotes, Pomodoro, and Antonio Tapies.
Dehn most often worked with bold, vibrant colors in large formats. Her subjects were not literal, but intuitive. She learned new techniques of lithography from her husband Adolf, and did her own prints. Texture was very important to her in her work. Her art was influenced by a variety of sources. In the late 1960s she came across a book that included photographs of organic patterns of life as revealed under a microscope. These images inspired her to change the direction of some of her paintings. Other influences on Dehn's art came from ancient and traditional arts of various cultures throughout the world, including Persian miniatures, illuminated manuscripts, Dutch still life painting, Asian art, ancient Egyptian artifacts...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
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Oil
Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
By Theresa Berney Loew
Located in Surfside, FL
Swimmers and sun tanners at the local watering hole.
Her birth name was Theresa Berney. At the time of her passing she was known as Theresa Loew.
Birth place: Baltimore
artist, blo...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
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Oil, Board
Handmade Wool Tapestry Abstract American Modernist Arthur Dove Aubusson Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Original hand made, hand woven wall hanging modern art tapestry.
Manufactura de Tapecarias de Portalegre (Portugal) (TMP Fino) tapestries are woven by hand on vertical looms.
Arth...
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20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
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Wool
Ocean Sunset Landscape
By Don Klopfer
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored sunset seascape by California artist Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009). Signed and dated in the lower left corner ("Klopfer 12-98"). Canvas laid down on Masonite. No frame. Board size: 7.5"H x 9.5"W
Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009) attended the National Art School in Washington D.C. and the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California. Klopfer was a life-long, passionate visual artist who worked in a variety of mediums, including oil paints, wood and bronze. His gallery "The Flair" was on Pico Blvd West Los Angeles from 1954 to 1980 was a gathering place for artists, friends and collectors.
He was recognized for the use of brilliant color in his paintings and for leaving drawings everywhere he went. Klopfer's painting "My Old House" is on permanent exhibition at San Luis Obispo Museum of Art (SLOMA). He has also exhibited at The Los Angeles County Art Museum, Esther Robles Gallery, Third Street Gallery, Westwood Art Association, Barnsdale Park, and Robert Pyle Gallery.
Selected Exhibitions:
1990 - Wild Horse Gallery - San Luis Obispo, CA
1991 - “South County Journey” - El Camino Arti Association Gallery - Pismo Beach...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Canvas
A Lovely ca. 1930s Watercolor of Summer Nocturne Moonrise by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A lovely 1930s watercolor on paper of a summer nocturne moonrise by artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 11" x 14". Archivally 8-ply matted to to 14” x 18”. Estate stamped on rev...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
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Paper, Watercolor
Pipeline, 1955 Signed Gouache on Paper by Clarence Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
Pipeline
Clarence Holbrook Carter
American (1904–2000)
Date: 1955
Gouache on Paper, signed l.r.
Size: 8 x 11 in. (20.32 x 27.94 cm)
Frame Size: 16 x 19.5 inches
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1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Wally's Pond" Rural Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Wally's Pond" Rural Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Idyllic rural landscape by Richard M. Bacon (American, 20th Century). A small pond is reflecting the nearby surroundings - birch tr...
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Early 2000s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid-Century Painting of a Car Driving Through a Mountain Pass by A George Miller
Located in Chicago, IL
A fantastic Mid-Century painting of a car driving through a mountain pass by artist & Photographer
A. George Miller. Artwork size: 15" x 22". Framed size: 21" x 28". Handsomely...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Catskill Mountains" Georgina Klitgaard, Country Landscape Modernist Hills
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Catskill Mountains
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artist...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Agustin - Zacatecas (From Azotea of Hotel)
By Loren Mozley
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Mozley" at lower right
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Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Rockport, Mass, Oil Painting by Stanley Sobossek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Sobossek, American (1918 - 1996)
Title: Rockport, Mass.
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r., signed and titled verso
Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 c...
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1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coral Reef Original Abstracted Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Abstracted Composition of Coral Reef by Dave Francis
Unique and vivid abstracted composition of coral reef by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018)...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Laid Paper
Mr. and Mrs. Charles and Allison Coolidge (Belmont)
Located in Boston, MA
Dated and titled on stretcher: "'37/ Mr + Mrs Chas. Coolidge/ Allison/ -Belmont".
In 1929 Molly Luce and her husband, Alan Burroughs, moved from Garden St...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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