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Modern Landscape Paintings

MODERN STYLE

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Color:  Brown
'Red Glider', Large California Modernist oil, Modesto Urban Landscape, Airplane
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Keith Longcor' (American, 1944-2015) and dated, '2002'; additionally titled verso, 'Airplanes from a Parking Garage- Modesto CA'. A substantial Modernist landsc...
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Lower Manhattan Cityscape American Artist WPA Era NY School c. 1930 Henry Ensol
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern 1930's oil painting by WPA era American artist Henry Ensol. This work comes in a period frame likely original to the piece.
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Misty New York"
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...
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1920s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Mountain Layers and Cherry Blossom Shadows
Located in Mexico City, MX
This acrylic painting was done on wood, the artist was inspired by the strength of mountains and mother earth. Flowers and leaves are represented with nails that were each prepared w...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Wood, Acrylic

Abstract Painting, Acrylic, Red, Green, Brown colors by Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Partha Pratim Deb - Untitled - 30 x 30 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on canvas Inclusive of shipment in a roll form. Style : He expresses his art through many different medium incl...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Early Evening Walk"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Landscape - Original Oil on Cardboard by Corrado Cagli - 1932 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Signed lower left. On rear: "Corrado Cagli Via Ludovico Muratori 27 Roma o Via Imbonati 17 Milano" "Paese" - hand written by the artist. Painting in which Corrado Cagli, a key exponent of the so called "Scuola Romana...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Harvest
By Ketut Liyer
Located in Roma, IT
Harvest is an acrylic painting on canvas. With frame. It is signed “Kt. Lijer. Pengosekan. Ubud. Bali” on the lower right corner. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"New York Backyards Study"
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...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

View of Jerusalem, Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown XXth Century Title: View of Jerusalem Medium: Oil on canvas, signed and titled in Hebrew Image Size: 19.5 x 26.5 in. (49.53 x 67.31 cm) Frame Size: 25 x 32 inches
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"A Village High Street" by Sir Herbert Tripp
Located in Mere, GB
"A Village High Street" by Sir Herbert Tripp. Sir Herbert Tripp c.b.e 1883-1954 was a painter poster artist draughtsman illustrator and writer. Regular exhibitor Royal Academy. Assis...
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19th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Impressionist Texas Coastal Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Seascape with low-hanging clouds, dark waters, a bird and a pier end. Painted sometime in the 1970's by known Texas artist Chester Dixon Snowden. Artis...
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

“Solar Sunset”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting by the Russian/ American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right. Circa 1950. Unframed. Condition: Good. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Nahum Tschacbasov’s paintings are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Philadelphia Museum, the Pennsylvania Museum of Fine Art, as well as numerous college and private collections. His work was shown at ACA Gallery in New York, as well as Perl’s Gallery and John Heller...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Artists Sketching (California)" is an American Modernist scene of three artists working with mountains in the background. Gouache on paper, signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin. Housed in a custom frame with all archival materials measuring 25.5 x 37.5 x 1.5 inches; image dimensions measure 20.25 x 29.75 inches. Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Frederick Shane About the artist: Painter and printmaker, Missouri regionalist Frederick E. Shane specialized in genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes and portraits executed in a variety of media: oil, watercolor, mixed media, gouache, tempera and lithography. Fundamentally a realist, his work also contains some abstraction, expressionism and surrealism used in treating his subject matter. In the summers of 1925-26 Shane studied with Randall Davey at the recently-founded Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs. The Academy was established in 1919 by Spencer and Julie Penrose, prominent philanthropists and art patrons, who donated their family residence for the creation of a local art institution. In the 1940s and early 1950s Shane maintained his contact with Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (the successor institution to the Broadmoor Academy in 1936). He participated in a number of its annual Artists West of the Mississippi exhibitions and also became a close friend of Boardman Robinson, the Center’s director, and visiting artist Adolph Dehn...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

Cotopaxi II (Modern Landscape Oil Painting of Sunset Over Volcano in Andes)
Located in Hudson, NY
49 x 79 inches framed, thin black painted wood frame 48.5 x 77.5 inches unframed oil on canvas $9,000 Modern, horizontal landscape oil painting of a large volcano, Cotopaxi, in...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lionel Bulmer The Edge of the Field Oil on board c. 1950
By Lionel Bulmer
Located in London, GB
Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) 'The Edge of the Field' Signed c.1950s Oil on board 17" x 20" (43 x 51cm) Lionel Bulmer (1919-1992) attended Clapham art school before war intervened; after the war he started again at the Royal College of Art which had been relocated during the conflict to Ambleside in the Lake District. Here he met his lifelong partner Margaret Green...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Marseilles Harbor, Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003) Title: Marseilles Harbor Year: circa 1960 Medium: Watercolor, signed Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm)
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

"Cityscape at Dusk"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right John Bradley Storrs (1885 - 1956) Born and raised in Chicago, John Storrs was a pioneer modernist sculptor known for his precisely executed, solid, non-objectiv...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Route 1, Bridgewater Conn.
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel Size: 20.00" x 40.00" This illustration "Route 1, Bridgewater Conn." by American artist John Ford Clymer (1907-1989) was used in magazine advertisements. ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Opening No. 50 (Abstract Landscape Painting on Canvas in Romanticist Style)
Located in Hudson, NY
Contemporary, abstracted landscape reminiscent of Hudson River School & Romanticist painters oil on canvas 40 x 48 inches Romantic (yet modern) Hudson River oil landscape painting of a vast field in the foreground with a red and blue sunset sky in the background. This painting is of a horizontal orientation and is finished with an olive green border painted directly onto the canvas. The edges are finished with the same color, so no additional frame required here. Once a hard edge realist painter, the artist eschews those details, letting the stroke of his brush and moody palette leave an abstract implication of the landscape. In the Openings series, Palmer integrates the frame into the painting. This element contributes to the narrative, suggesting the viewer is inside looking out. We are not a part of the landscape, rather we are a peaceful witnesses to nature that will transcend even our own existence and continue to change with the seasons long after we have passed. We are romanced by Leigh Palmer's unique ability to pare down and find the true essence of the landscape, gently veiled through his own soul. We are proud to have exhibited his work since the inception in 1991. Artist Statement: My paintings are based on observation of the landscape in the Hudson River Valley where I live, and are improvised in the studio; the images are found or discovered in my memory of familiar places and developed during the painting process. Human beings do not appear, but their presence is felt in the marks left on the ground (furrows, fence rows, roads), and sometimes in the air (smoke, haze). About the artist: In 1987, Leigh Palmer moved with his family from suburban Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Tivoli, New York, a quiet town on the Hudson River, north of New York City. His subject matter shifted to the sprawling hills and countryside of the Hudson Valley. “I wanted to respond to the new landscape I was seeing, to catch something of the feeling I had just before dark,” says Palmer. “I took a lot of photographs, but I was happier with the paintings I created from memory.” Leigh Palmer has been represented by Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY for over 25 years. Resume: EXHIBITIONS 2013 - 2017 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2011 Graficas Gallery, Nantucket MA 2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2009 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT 2008 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT Four Starr Gallery, Stonington CT 2007 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 2005 Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Kent CT 2004 Segalas Gallery, Bernardsville NJ 2003, 04 Bachelier-Cardonsky, Gallery Kent CT 2000, 01, 03 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 1999 Barbara Singer Fine Art, Cambridge MA 1999, 98 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY 1997 The Main Street Gallery, Nantucket MA 1996 Randall Tuttle Fine Arts, Woodbury CT 1995 James Cox...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lobester Fishers, Concarneau, Brittany
Located in Fairfield, CT
Oil on canvas
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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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...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

L.A. Zoo
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- From Robertson's Artist Statement, "Growing up on the plains of west Texas, I understood the notion of wide, open spaces. The tablet...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Builders at the Kolkhoz
Located in New York, NY
Born in Ukraine in 1897, Ryback lived in Moscow in 1919 and 1920 and worked closely with the artists of the Russian avant-garde, in particular with El Lissitsky...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil

1970s "Biplane" Dreamy Oil Painting Award Winning Illustrator Bill Shields
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields "Biplane" 1975 Oil on masonite Artist's wood frame 24.5"x2"x24.5" Signed and dated in paint lower right Excellent Condition - Minor wear consistent with age and history. CV EDUCATION: Chicago Academy Of Fine Art San Antonio Art Institute MAJOR FIELDS OF PROFESSIONAL ENDEAVOR: Freelance graphic design and illustration Instructor of painting and illustration Landscape, figurative and abstract painting ART RELATED EMPLOYMENT: (Professor of Art) California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Art Institute San Jose State University AWARDS FOR ILLUSTRATION, Gold Medals: New York Society of Illustrators Los Angeles Society of Illustrators San Francisco Society of Illustrators Dallas-Fort Worth Art Director's Club Houston Artist's Guild BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feature articles in: American Artist, Communication Arts, Print, North Light. Architectural design featured in: Better Homes and Gardens, American Home, Sunset Magazine, Architectural Digest. ILLUSTRATION CLIENTS: Oil Companies: Champlin Oil Company, Mobil Oil Company, Continental Oil Company, Standard Oil Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company. Industrial: Hughes Tool Company, General Electric, United States Steel, Phelps Dodge, Sylvania Television, Texas Gulf Sulphur, Litton Industries, Houston Lighting and Power Company, International Business Machines. Institutional: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, United States Air Force, United States Department of the Interior, American Petroleum Institute, New York Stock Exchange, National Broadcasting Company, American Iron and Steel Institute, CBS Broadcasting Company, Vanguard Recording Company, Diners Club, Stanford Research Institute, Victoria Station, Neiman Marcus, Bank of America, Automobile Club of Southern California, Airlines: TWA, British West Indies Airlines, Pan American Airlines...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Zarafshan River, Russian Modern Landscape
Located in Austin, TX
By Yuri Ivanovich Zorkin 10" x 13.5" Oil on Board
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Gamcheon Village at Sunset
Located in New York, NY
In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Inspired by her upbringing in a small neighborhood in Korea and her experiences with Habitat for Humanity, she seeks to immortalize disappearing places by creating works of art that connect and preserve memories. Her three-dimensional compositions are created using newspaper...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Plexiglass, Paper, Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil

The City View from Brooklyn
Located in New York, NY
In the hands of Yeji Moon, ordinary materials are transformed into beautiful and complex collages that powerfully recall childhood nostalgia and the rapidly changing world. Inspired by her upbringing in a small neighborhood in Korea and her experiences with Habitat for Humanity, she seeks to immortalize disappearing places by creating works of art that connect and preserve memories. Her three-dimensional compositions are created using newspaper...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Newsprint, Color Pencil, Plexiglass, Paper

Landscape - 20th Century, Oil on board by Keith Vaughan
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right. From the later 1950s, Vaughan painted landscapes without figures that verged towards complete abstraction: works in which colour is tessellated into compositions ...
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Georgia O'Keeffe . "Cottonwood Tree (Near Abiquiu), New Mexico" is a modern art oil on canvas by American female artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe was among the most influential figures in Modernism, best known for her large-format paintings of natural forms, especially flowers and bones, and for her depictions of New York City skyscrapers and architectural and landscape forms unique to northern New Mexico. Provenance: An American Place, New York Mr. and Mrs. Max Ascoli, New York, 1944 Descended in family Harold Diamond, New York, c. 1975 Gerald Peters...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

San Quirico d'Orcia I - 20th Century, Oil on canvas by Joe Tilson
Located in London, GB
Signed and dated 1956 lower left Also signed, titled, dated 1956 and inscribed verso Sand has been incorporated into the pigment
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Deserted Gravel Pit - 20th Century, Oil on board by Prunella Clough
Located in London, GB
Signed lower right Provenance: Austin Desmond Fine Art, London Private Collection France
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Tending the Garden
Located in Missouri, MO
Robert Elton Tindall (1913-1983) "Tending the Garden" (Girl with a Hoe) c. 1940 Egg Tempera with Resin Oil Glazes on Panel Signed Lower Left Site: 10 x 9 inches Framed: 15 x 14 inch...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Egg Tempera, Wood Panel

Land Where Men Forget the Past, The Coconut Pearl
Located in Missouri, MO
Original Oil on Canvas Illustration for Hearst/Cosmopolitan Aug. 1925 "Land Where Men Forget the Past, The Coconut Pearl" Caption: " 'Anyone who's knocked ...
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1920s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape (Spetses, Greece) - 20th Century, Mixed media on paper by John Craxton
Located in London, GB
Mixed technique on paper. Dated lower left in ink: "10.10.46" and signed.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Mixed Media

Untitled
Located in Kansas City, MO
“Untitled” 2019 Porcelain Unfired Poplar Wood, Plex Size: 8 in. x 8 in. Danielle Weigandt explores the construct of events in time and their role in our lives. Time cannot be seen, ...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Clay, Porcelain, Plexiglass, Wood

Le Train de Banlieue
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Listed in the Jules Cavailles archives as # L_13_011. Signed and titled verso. Jules Cavailles was a well-known, highly regarded, and versatile French painter. He worked in oils, g...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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