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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
1977 Charming Mountain Campsite Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Campsite, 1977 Oil on canvas 14 x 18 1/2 in. Framed: 21 1/2 x 25 1/2 x 7/8 in. Initialed & dated lower right: 'J 77' Inscribed verso: 1977 Campsite
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Morning call
Located in Lafayette, LA
here is an original work by Francis X Pavy. The work was done in 2014 and is part of his 3rd coast suite of paintings and multimedia work. the piece is mixed media on paper (unframe...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Nantucket Steamer
Located in Chicago, IL
A gem of a painting depicting a Nantucket lighthouse by Francis Chapin, from around 1950. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Coney Island" Brooklyn NYC Amusement Park Mid-century American Scene WPA Modern Ludwig Bemelmans (1898 – 1962), “Coney Island" 35 x 27 inches Oil on board Signed lower left Origin...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

K. Bernath Outdoor Snow Scene Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Plainview, NY
A landscape snowy scene by K.Bernath. The day snowy scene depicts a house / cabin in the middle of the snowy woods with a blue sky. The painting is framed. Dimensions Framed: 17.75...
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Yacht KITSKAD Off Catalina Island
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Duncan Gleason lived in New York and other places for work or studies but it was really Southern California where he felt most at home, and looking at his body of work, that love of ...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Stars
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right: DALE NICHOLS 1953; on stretcher bar: “STARS” by Dale Nichols
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Northwoods, Mixed Media Enamel on Aluminum Painting
By Tom LaDuke
Located in Surfside, FL
Northwoods, 2001. Signed and dated Military Enamel, Watercolor, Glitter, Decal, Aluminum Paint on Aluminum. Bears a label from Angles Gallery verso. Tom LaDuke (born 1964) is an Am...
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Enamel

Vintage Mid Century Modernist Industrial Abstract Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist industriala oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Vineyard Harbor)
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful view of Martha's Vineyard by Francis Chapin, from the 1930s. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington & Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). A prolific painter, Chapin produced numerous works while traveling in Mexico, France, Spain, Saugatuck and Martha’s Vineyard, where he frequently spent summers and taught at the Old Sculpin Gallery there. Chapin was best recognized for his dynamic and vibrant images of Chicago during the 1930s and 40s. Chapin was a resident of the Old Town neighborhood where he lived and kept his studio on Menomonee Street for many years. Described as a “colorful figure, nearly 6 feet 6 inches tall, and thin, and usually wearing tweeds”, it is easy to imagine Chapin at work observing the busy street life of the city. In addition to his many exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chapin’s work was shown during his lifetime at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the National Academy of Design, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, among others. Francis Chapin’s paintings are represented in the collections the Art Institute of Chicago; the Friedman Collection, Chicago; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; the Denver Art Museum; the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Large Edward Ben Avram Israeli Bezalel School Jerusalem Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Jerusalem Israeli landscape cityscape with the Har Habayit, The Temple Mount. Size includes frame. canvas is 37.5 X 42.5 Edward Ben Avram (born 1941) is an Indian - Israeli artist w...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vineyard Light
Located in Chicago, IL
A painting depicting a lighthouse in Martha's Vineyard by Francis Chapin, from around 1950. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, w...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

The Happy Farmer oil painting by Gregorio Prestopino
Located in Hudson, NY
Provenance: The Artist. Menikoff collection (friends of the artist) About this artist: Born in Little Italy in 1907, Gregorio Prestopino first set out to become a sign painter as th...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage Oil Painting on Canvas of a Tropical Bayscape
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Transporting oil painting on canvas of a tropical bayscape with a boat, houses and palm trees on a sunny day highlighting light and shadow. Signed J. Drooks in the lower right and pr...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"The Arno" Italian Village by the River Oil Painting by Bruce McCracken
Located in Pasadena, CA
This oil painting from the 65s by California Artist Bruce McCracken derives its title and inspiration from the mythical Arno River in Tuscany. Dividing the historic city of Florence into two distinct parts, the Arno has long captivated the collective imagination and continues to be a subject of exploration for many contemporary artists. Set against the backdrop of the Arno's picturesque banks, the artist likely sought inspiration from the vantage point of the Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) in Florence. The painting is divided into two distinct horizons. The upper section showcases architectural buildings poised upon a medieval arch...
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Oak Bluffs, Mass. (Martha’s Vineyard)
Located in Chicago, IL
A view of Oak Bluffs, MA on Martha's Vineyard by Francis Chapin, from around 1950. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Coastal Scene, 20th Century Seascape, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967) Coastal Scene Oil on canvas Signed lower left 19 x 23 inches 21.5 x 25.5 inches, framed A major painter of American scene subjects, Georg...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Yellow Sky at Menemsha
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful view of Menemsha in Martha's Vineyard by Francis Chapin, from around 1950. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Who's the king?
Located in Nashville, TN
Melissa Sims’ work utilizes motifs from collage and pop art, in that several different images are combined into one cohesive but surreal landscape. Sims c...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Resin

Vintage Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
An elegant vintage impressionist oil on canvas painting signed by artist Tasica -1977. The painting features a street scene in the...
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Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modernist Landscape 'Portugal' Watercolor Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Landscape Medium: watercolor Surface: Paper Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 23.75" x 30.75" Maurice Freed (1911‑1981), a native of Pottsville, PA ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

1980's Oil on Canvas Impressionistic Beach Scene Painting, Framed & Signed
Located in Plainview, NY
This is an oil on canvas painting depicting a group of people, seaside. The gilt frame is finely hand carved. The piece is from the 1980s and is signed Dimensions: Framed 18" H, ...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Man Dog and Crow , blue stormy waters series
Located in Lafayette, LA
This is a one-of-a-kind small painting, it was a study for a larger series of patterns and color studies. Measuring 8x10, entitled “ Field of marsh grass “. The medium is oil on canv...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Sheltered Harbor oil painting by Philip Reisman
Located in Hudson, NY
Dimensions are 18.25" x 22.25" and framed 29.5" x 34" x 2". The painting is signed "philip Reisman" on the lower right recto, and signed and titled verso. Provenance: acquired dire...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Fauvist Israeli Landscape, Going to Synagogue Judaica Oil Painting
By Melitta Schiffer
Located in Surfside, FL
Melitta Schiffer, painter. b. Trieste, Italy. In her youth, moved to Weimar, Germany with her parents. Studied at Art Academy, Weimar, Germany; Advanced studies with artist Mildan; 1...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Abandoned (Colorado) - Oil on Canvas, American Modern Landscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'Abandoned (Colorado)' is an oil painting by William Sanderson (1905-1990) depicting an abandoned house in green grass hills. Presented in a custom frame measuring 13 ¼ x 16 ½ inches; image size measures 8 ½ x 11 ¼ inches. Painting is in good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. About the Artist: Born Latvia 1905 Died Colorado 1990 The elder son of a construction engineer, he was born Wilhelm Tsiegelnitsky in a seaside resort near Riga, Latvia, then part of the Russian Empire. His father, Grigori Mojesevich (later Anglicized to Gregory) was of Russian-Jewish heritage, while his mother Berta (Bertha) came from a German-Jewish background. Because preference in awarding construction contracts at that time were being given to members of the Russian Orthodox Church, his father had the whole family baptized in that church which he kept a secret from Sanderson’s grandparents. His father’s profession took the family to a number of cities in various parts of the Russian Empire including Warsaw, Kharkhov, Kiev, and Samarkand in Asia. To his mother’s annoyance, he scribbled on anything within easy reach, deciding by age ten that he would make art his lifetime goal. During the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 the family lived with relatives in Rostov-on-the-Don where his mother enrolled him in the local Chinyenov Art School, marking the first step in his art career. Feeling that they would have no place in the new Communist political reality, in 1921 the family left Rostov for Kiev, emigrating to Italy and Greece on short-term visas before arriving in New York two years later, sponsored by Gregory’s relatives in New Jersey. The Tsiegelnitsky surname was changed to the more pronounceable Siegel. Experiencing the frustration shared by most immigrants seeking to establish themselves in a new, unfamiliar environment, Sanderson sufficiently mastered English by 1924 to attend the Fawcett School of Industrial Art in Newark (later the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art) where he studied with Ida Wells Stroud, herself a student of William Merritt Chase and Arthur Dow and part of the early twentieth-century Arts & Crafts Movement. Seeking a more challenging curriculum, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan (1924-1927), studying painting with Charles Hawthorne, etching with William Auerbach-Levy, and life drawing with Charles L. Hinton. Sanderson won the Suydam Medal for Life Drawing, First Prize in Composition, and Honorable Mention in Etching. He also briefly attended the Art Students League in New York in 1928, studying lithography with Charles Locke who in 1936 taught a summer course in the medium at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. However, Sanderson quit the League when he could no longer afford the tuition. With his art studies behind him, he began a successful career in illustration in New York. Briefly associated with the Evening Graphic, he maintained a decade-long affiliation with the New Masses, honored to be in the company of such established artist-contributors as Jean Charlot, Stuart Davis, Adolf Dehn, Louis Lozowick, Reginald Marsh, Jan Matulka and Boardman Robinson – some of whom later were affiliated with the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in the 1930s and 1940s. As a young immigrant he came to share some of the popular views of the left-wing intellectual community in American in the 1920s and early 1930s; but in 1936 he severed his connections with the New Masses because he did not like the direction it had taken by that time. In 1929, the year of the stock market crash and the onset of the Great Depression, he began doing commercial book illustration in New York which he continued until being drafted during World War II. However, his steady income disqualified him from participation in the Works Progress Administration (WPA)-era art projects. A barometer of his success was his inclusion in the Fifth Exhibition of American Book Illustration in 1935 sponsored by American Institute of Graphic Arts whose jurors included Edith Halpert of The Downtown Gallery in New York. Among the book titles he illustrated were: Marian Hurd McNeeley, The Jumping Off Place; P.N. Krasnoff, Yermak the Conqueror; Joe Lederer, Fanfan in China; Fay Orr, Freighter Holiday; and The Cavalcade of America. His images of a covered wagon and a Daniel Boone prototype in the last-named publication anticipate subjects he later explored more fully in his easel painting in Colorado with likenesses such as The Woman of the Plains and Hombre. In the 1930s and early 1940s he also produced illustrations and covers for leading American magazines such as The New Yorker, Esquire, Cue, and Harper’s. In 1931 he became a naturalized U.S. citizen in Manhattan and by 1936 began informally using Sanderson as his surname, making the change official in 1941. In 1937 he was given a solo show at the American Contemporary Art (A.C.A.) Gallery in New York. The following year he became art director at the McCue Ad Agency in New York where he worked until after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Looking forward to the day when he could give up illustration for the fine arts, his career change was set in motion when he was drafted into the U.S. Army in March 1942. After basic training at Kessler Field near Biloxi, Mississippi (where the Tuskegee Airmen also trained) he shipped out at his own request to Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, becoming part of the Army Air Corps and taking an instant liking to Colorado. At Lowry his humorous drawings of barracks life were published in the base newspaper, The Rev-Meter. In the summer of 1943 he had his first solo exhibition in Colorado at the Denver Art Museum-Chappell House that consisted of black-and-white drawings of army life. He also began painting watercolor scenes from memory of his previous life in the East. His two visits to Vance Kirkland’s studio in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, while stationed at Lowry, occasioned a lifelong friendship and professional association. On Sanderson’s excursion in 1943 to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center he met his future wife, Ruth Lambertson from Cedar Falls, Iowa, whom he married eight weeks later, initiating a union lasting forty-seven years. His fluency in Russian landed him an assignment as an interpreter with the American ground forces meeting up with the Soviet Army marching westward toward Berlin in the last months of World War II. His impressions and photos of the bombed-out city formed the basis of his montage, Berlin 1945, painted in Denver in 1947. Its palette and collage-like quality and that of some of his other paintings from this period reflect the influence of American modernist, Stuart Davis. Following his military discharge and some brief design work for the Kistler Stationery Company and the A.B. Hirschfeld Press in Denver, Sanderson swapped commercial art for academia in 1946 when Vance Kirkland hired him as Assistant Professor of Advertising Design at the University of Denver, which subject he taught until retiring in 1972. Along with Kirkland and other faculty artists, he became a charter member of the 15 Colorado Artists. Founded in 1948, the group comprised some of the state’s leading contemporary artists seeking to distance themselves from much of the traditional imagery then being produced and exhibited in Denver and elsewhere. Reflecting the viewpoint of his fellow charter members Sanderson said, "I’m very taken with the nature scenes in this region, but it’s not the function of the artist to paint them when there are photographers around." Paraphrasing Picasso, the leading representative of contemporary art at that time, he added: "The painting is the artist’s representation of what nature is not." The financial security and stability of his teaching position at the University of Denver (DU) gave him the freedom to develop his easel painting. He produced a large body of oils and watercolors in both stylized Realism and Surrealism depicting, respectively, Colorado-inspired subject matter and social criticism of modern life and industrial civilization. One of his first canvases, Steamship Ruth, titled in honor of his wife and incorporating elements remembered from the port of Rostov in Russia has large, precisely-arranged areas of flat color with crisp edges seen in many of his Colorado paintings in the 1950s and 1960s. Similarly, Mountain Rhythm employs a bright palette and undulating lines conveying his fascination with the overall composition of irregular mountain and cloud shapes. Trailer Park, near the foothills west of Denver, provided abundant material for a geometric form study, while Composition with Fried Eggs in the Denver Art Museum’s collection essentially is a semi-cubistic arrangement of interlocking planes and spaces that was reproduced in the August 25, 1952, issue of Time Magazine. His work was also shown in group exhibitions outside Colorado at the Dallas Fine Art Museum, Museum of New Mexico (now, New Mexico Museum of Art) in Santa Fe, Joslyn Memorial Museum in Omaha, San Francisco Art Association, Salt Lake City Art Center, and the Cedar City Art Museum Association in Utah. The positive notice accorded his work in the early 1950s earned him a commission from the Ford Motor Company to illustrate an article, Fort Garland, by Marshall Sprague in the June 1954 issue of Ford Times. (Similar commissions were also given at that time to Denver’s Vance Kirkland and Richard Sorby.) In the mid-1950s Sanderson also executed several murals in different techniques for secular and religious buildings in Colorado, reminiscent of artists’ commissions under the Federal Arts Projects (FAP) during the Depression era: the Graland School lobby and the Colorado Tobacco Building, both in Denver; St. Joseph’s School, Salida; Mesa Elementary School, Cortez; as well as the Andrew Jackson Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee. Sanderson’s life in Europe and illustration work for the New Masses in New York made him very aware of ethnic and racial prejudice. He said, "I believe the artist is first of all a human being with the ability to see and depict the hope, aspirations and the despair of other human beings." In the 1950s he recorded the political movement for Black racial equality in paintings such as Noon Hour, Whites Only...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Seascape Oil Painting Tel Aviv Harbor
Located in Surfside, FL
In this artwork the artist uses the medium spontaneously .The paint has been applied thickly to the surface. The resulting work emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of the artist. size is with frame. Motke Blum was born in Racacun, Romania in 1925. Early in his childhood, the Blum family moved to Bukarest where they settled in a house situated near a circus. The circus would become young Blum's greatest love. He befriended several of the clowns and other performers and, when not painting or playing in clay, Blum could be found enjoyoing the company of these spirited entertainers. These experiences would later become a recurring theme in many of his works of art. In 1938, he was taken by the Romanian Iron Guard. When the Germans invaded Romania, Blum was taken to a forced labor camp. Even during his imprisonment, he continued to create art, painting on the walls of the camp. He escaped the camp in 1944 and boarded an immigrants' ship to Israel. One of the three ships in the convoy was sunk by a German torpedo. Motke later incorporated shipwrecks, boats, and other maritime subjects into several of his paintings. Over the course of his long and fruitful career, Blum showed internationally at over fifty one-man-shows with exhibits in Israel, Holland, England, Belgium, the United States, France, Australia, and more. His art has been commissioned for public buildings and by prominant figures in Israel and around the world, and a series of posters were commissioned by the Justice Ministry and the Ministry of Tourism. Giving back to the community has been a focus throughout his life. After establishing a studio at Chutzot Hayotzer, Motke welcomed schools and both adults and children with special needs, using painting...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Blue Landscape' Original Signed Painting
By Antonio Joseph
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'Blue Landscape' is an original painting by the master of Haitian art Antonio Joseph. In the painting, Joseph works with magic realist themes: The landscape is a deep and saturated blue, with greens and yellows covering the Haitian mountains as they emerge out of the sea. The mountains are likewise dotted with the colorful houses so emblematic of Haitian vernacular architecture. The viewer looks out toward at these features while seemly contained within a set of sea walls. In the immediate foreground, pushed up against the picture plane, a mysterious vine grows out of the hard industrial ground, with nearly a dozen different flowers bursting from the same vine. The impossibility of these flowers perhaps relates the artist's work to the strong Latin American surrealist artists, like Frida Kahlo and Remedios Varo, while also referencing Haitian folk culture and spirituality. caesin on masonite 23.88 x 36 inches, artwork 26.38 x 38.25 inches, frame signed "Antonio Joseph" lower right and dated 53 inscribed "172" in green ink, on reverse, center inscribed "380- 91-150" in white chalk, on reverse, center left inscribed "13" in graphite, on reverse, center right Overall good condition; some dust accumulation to surface; tidemarks on reverse; some scratches and surface losses to vintage frame. Presented in a mid-century modern profile wood moulding with gold leaf bevel and 1-inch linen liner. Antonio Joseph was born on April 15, 1921 in Barahona, Dominican Republic to Haitian parents. In his youth he was trained as a tailor and also attended Varones' "La Escuela Graduata" and studied at the Santa Cecilia Music Academy. When he was seventeen, at the time of the "perejil" massacre where thousands of Haitians were murdered, he was smuggled out of the Dominican Republic with his mother, brother and sister. When he arrived in Haiti, he first lived thanks to the practice of tailoring. In 1944, he was the first student and member registered at the Art Centre upon the official opening of the institution. There he studied geometric design and watercolor with DeWitt Peters, who recognized his potential as the Centre's first "discovery" and an asset to the nascent institution. He also practiced sculpture with Jason Seley, ceramics with Edith Wegard, and silkscreen printing with Franck Jacobson. He learned the first notions of composition and perspective with the French sculptor Pierre Bourdelle, who came to Haiti to oversee the creation of the murals of the Cité de l'Exposition in Port-au-Prince. From 1945 to 1949, he worked with Bourdelle on the enormous state-funded project, conceived as part of the festivities commemorating the bicentenary of the founding of the city of Port-au-Prince. In 1952, Paul Keene, an artist from Philadelphia taught and exhibited at the Art Center. While there, he passed on to Antonio Joseph the techniques of casein painting, which combine the virtuosity of oil painting with the possibilities of watercolor. This discovery was instrumental in Antonio Joseph’s career, and he then entered an intense production phase. He at that time produced a series of paintings for which, in 1953, the Guggenheim Foundation awarded him a prestigious research and development grant. He was the first Haitian artist to receive this scholarship in the field of "creative painting...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Twilight of History, Figurative American Modernist Oil Painting, Gold Green Red
Located in Denver, CO
"Twilight of History" is an original oil on board painting by Frederick Shane (1906-1992) from 1947. Shane's reflection of the twilight of our existence is shown with three creatures...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Board, Oil

Vintage Southwest (California?) Impressionist Painting, Lily S. Converse ca 1940
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a very stylized Southwest landscape that appears to document a small church that existed at one time, perhaps in the Palm Springs or Santa Fe area. It is very reminiscent of...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Antique American School Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Early Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 22L x 28H.
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Country Landscape with Figures)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Modernist landscape painting with figures by artist (William) Davenport Griffen. His paintings tend to be rare. (William) Davenport Griffen was born in 1894 in Millbrook, NY. He graduated from Iowa State College in Ames, IA in 1918 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering; however, Griffen’s true love was painting. In 1919, he enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and subsequently studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1923-1928. In 1926, he was awarded the American Travel Scholarship and began painting in Provincetown, MA. In 1928, he was awarded the John Quincy Adams Scholarship and spent six months painting in Paris, France. Griffen also painted in the U.S. Virgin Islands for 11 months between 1930-1931. Griffen had one-man exhibitions of his Virgin Islands paintings...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Blue Flock -- ( PASTEL COLORS )
Located in Lafayette, LA
this 2018 Painting by Francis X. Pavy depicts a flock of migrating birds, characteristic of all of southwestern Louisiana, where there are many migrating flocks of ducks, cedar, waxw...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

'Abstract Landscape', California WPA, Corcoran, Whitney, AIC, GGIE, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Graham' for Ellwood Graham (American, 1911-2007) and painted circa 1985; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'View Study'. This early California Modernist ...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, 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 Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Abstract Landscape with Palm Tree Judaica Gouache Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mane-Katz (1894-1962) Landscape with palm tree. Gouache on paper, signed lower right. Dimensions: (Frame) H 37.5" x W 31", (Sight) H 24.5" x W 18" Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כ...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

"COASTLINE" WATERCOLOR SAN ANTONIO ARTIST CIRCA 1960s
Located in San Antonio, TX
Margaret Flowers San Antonio Artist Image Size: 9.75 x 13 Frame Size: 14 x 17.5 Medium: Watercolor and Ink "Coastline" Margaret Flowers Study Art Pottery under Harding Black. Painte...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Factories, Mexilhoeira (Portugal)
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower right: “Jason Berger 2001”. Inscribed verso: “Factories / Mexhloiera”. From the estate of the artist. Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger began visiting Portugal in the early half of the 1970s and would return for a part of almost every summer for the next twenty years, before moving there permanently in 1994. Berger painted mostly in the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost region known for its beautiful beaches and sparkling water...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Wedding Day - Norman Rockwell Americana - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Recently, women artists have been soaring in price to millions of dollars. In many cases, many of these women were quite obscure. For example, recently acknowledged Gertrude Abercrombie, a naive surrealist artist, has recently seen her paintings rise to the area of $400K. Lorraine Fox, who is a consummate female artist/ illustrator whose work rivals any of the recently anointed female stars is still an unknown quantity. She has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and she is a member of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut along with Norman Rockwell, Today she is relatively unknown and completely off the radar of the so-called art establishment. Wedding Day is a wonderful example of her mid-century, somewhat naive style. The work is signed lower right and was exhibited at the Brandywine River...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Evening Shadows - Dusk at Wrigley Field, Chicago, Acrylic & Ink on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale Evening Shadows acrylic and ink on paper 24h x 18.50w in 60.96h x 46.99w cm PKV006 See What I See Why are Chicago and baseball so perfect for each other? What is it ab...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper

Postcards from Portugal
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower right: “jason berger 2003”. From the estate of the artist. Boston Expressionist painter Jason Berger began visiting Portugal in the early half of the 1970s and would return for a part of almost every summer for the next twenty years, before moving there permanently in 1994. Berger painted mostly in the Algarve, Portugal's southernmost region known for its beautiful beaches and sparkling water...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School 1960s Street Art Abstract Framed Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 22L x 28H.
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Votive
Located in Chicago, IL
“… look into the stains of walls, or the ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud … you may find really marvelous ideas. The mind of the painter is stimulated to new discoveries … various ...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Underglaze, Oil, Wood Panel

Vermont Landscape
Located in Chicago, IL
A "Thumb Box" (Diminutive) painting of Vermont by Harold Haydon. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in 1909. Haydon came ...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vintage Exhibited Modernist Abstract Maine Seascape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist Maine landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 40L x 36H.
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Early Spring, 1930s Impressionist Style Oil Painting, The Artists Studio
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on canvas painting, titled 'Early Spring' (Thompson's Studio) painted in 1933 and signed by John Edward Thompson (1882-1945). Impressionist style portrayal of the artists studio ...
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1930s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mott Street - NYC Street Scene on Bright Orange Paper, Original, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale Mott Street acrylic and ink on paper 20h x 28w in 50.80h x 71.12w cm PKV002 Artist Patrick Vale garnered international attention in 2012 whe...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper, Ink

German Modernist Oil Painting LOWER RHINE
By Carl Barth
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed oil on linen, ''Lower Rhine,'' by Carl Barth (German, 1896-1976), signed ''Barth'' lower left, bears Hearst Art Gallery, Moraga, California label verso, overall: 26''h x 30''w. Provenance: Deaccession of Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California Carl Barth was a German visual artist who was born in 1896. Carl Barth has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Galerie Remmert und Barth. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including 'Mythos' sold at Ketterer Kunst Munich 'Old Masters & Modern Art/ Marine Art ' in 2003. There have been many articles about Carl Barth, including 'Getty Brings Together Over 40 Drawings Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 Carl Barth: Works 1920 - 1970, Galerie Remmert und Barth, Germany, Düsseldorf Selected Group Exhibitions 2016 Overview 2016, Galerie Remmert und Barth, Germany, Düsseldorf 2014 Überblick 2014, Galerie Remmert und Barth, Germany, Düsseldorf Watercolors: Emil Nolde to Otto Dix and Beyond, Galerie Remmert und Barth, Germany, Düsseldorf 2011 Spirit of an Age: Drawings from the Germanic World, 1770–1900, J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, USA, Los Angeles Overview 2011, Galerie Remmert und Barth, Germany, Düsseldorf which included artists August Macke,Carl Barth, Conrad Felixmuller, George Grosz,Hannah Hoch, Oskar kokoschka and others CARL BARTH 1896 to 1976 The Rhine painter CARL BARTH has created a work rich in developmental stages that stretches from the 20s to the 70s of the last century. After late-Expressionist beginnings in the 20s, he created in the early 30s, probably the most-respected part of his work, those strictly built, color-sparing tempera images that are the New Objectivity and the Magic Realism assigned, Barth's paintings of the early 1930s seem to express the loneliness of man in the face of a colder and more threatening social situation. The constructivist rigor of these works is transformed in the American paintings of 1936 into a more painterly style with a richer modeling of the subject matter, without abandoning the theme: the images reflect the loneliness and emptiness of the not only American "way of life" - they became repeatedly compared to works by Edward Hopper. Select Exhibitions: 1925 First exhibition of watercolors and printmaking in Munich. Return to the Rhineland. Initially own studio in his parents' house in Haan. In the fall admission to study at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. 1926 Exhibition with the group "The New West". 1927 First study trip to southern France (via Paris and Chartres). Master student with Heinrich Nauen. 1928 First exhibition with the artist group "Das junge Rheinland" 1933 Solo exhibition in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. 1936 Travel to the USA at the invitation of his uncle Ferdinand Kortlücke. Origin of the series of "American" images based on motifs in New York and Long Island. 1940 Solo exhibition of the "Roman pictures" at Galerie Alex Vömel in Düsseldorf. 1948 The monograph "The Painter Carl Barth" by Hans Peters appears. Exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein together with Gerhard Marcks and Peter Herkenrath. 1951 Solo exhibitions in Wuppertal, Marl and Duisburg. The Museum Münster shows the exhibition "Carl Barth - Otto Pankok...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Vintage Rockwell Kent Copy of "Vermont Winter 1921" Oil on Canvas Painting, 1960
Located in Baltimore, MD
This large painting is a ca. 1960 copy of a famous Rockwell Kent painting that was executed in Vermont in 1921. The work is oil on canvas and well represents the original image, tho...
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled Abstract Landscape Oil Pastel Painting Figurative Abstraction
Located in Surfside, FL
John Evans (American, b. 1945), Untitled oilstick on paper, signed in pencil lower center, gallery label (Allan Stone Gallery, New York) affixed verso, sheet: sight size is 22"h x 3...
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1990s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel

"Sunset with Palm Trees" Modern Blue Toned Pointillist Tropical Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Modern blue toned tropical landscape painting by Texas born artist Clark Fox. The work features an abstract depiction of a sunset behind palm trees using pointillism, the practice of applying small strokes or dots of color to a surface so that from a distance they visually blend together. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a light wood floating frame. Dimensions Without Frame: H 24 in. x W 30 in. Artist Biography: Clark V. Fox was born in Austin, TX, in 1946. His father in the Army Air Forces, Clark spent the first five years of his life in Honolulu before the family moved to several cities throughout Texas, including Galveston, Houston, Corpus Christi, Hereford and Amarillo. In 1960 just before Clark entered high school, the family settled in Washington, D.C. Clark attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia, a period during which he had a studio with fellow classmates, David Lynch and Jack Fisk. Clark studied with Japanese art master Unichi Hiratsuka at the Japan-American Society of Washington, D.C. (1964-1965). Clark spent his first year of college at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York (1965-66) with part-time stints at Andy Warhol’s “The Factory” studio, after which he returned to D.C., where he received his BFA in 1969 from the Corcoran School of Art. He soon became involved with the Washington Color School of Painting, where he apprenticed with artist Tom Downing...
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1980s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Western View from Sun Deck on Ajax Mt, Aspen, Colo.
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. This pain...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Wyeth-Style American Farmhouse Painting, Dated 1971
Located in Larchmont, NY
Unknown Brandywine / Wyeth School Artist (Stuart G. Scott) #27 Remember The Good Times, 1971 Oil on board 11 x 15 in. Framed: 16 x 20 in. Signed lower right: Stuart G. Scott Inscribe...
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1970s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Social Realist Street Scene Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Mid 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures an architectural street scape...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Canadian Snowboarder
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This is not one of McMackin's widely available reproductions. This is the actual oil painting of the Canadian Snowboarder. Arrives framed. One cannot appreciate this beautiful painting on a computer screen. In real life, it is fantastic. Snowboarding is a recreational and competitive activity that involves descending a snow-covered surface while standing on a snowboard that is almost always attached to a rider's feet. It features in the Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games. Snowboarding was developed in the United States, inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing, and skiing. It became popular around the world, and was introduced as a Winter Olympic Sport at Nagano in 1991 and featured in the Winter Paralympics at Sochi in 2014.2 As of 2015, its popularity (as measured by equipment sales) in the United States peaked in 2007 and has been in a decline since. The first snowboards were developed in 1965 when Sherman Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughters by fastening two skis together and attaching a rope to one end so he would have some control as they stood on the board and glided downhill. Dubbed the "snurfer" (combining snow and surfer) by his wife Nancy, the toy proved so popular among his daughters' friends that Poppen licensed the idea to a manufacturer, Brunswick Corporation, that sold about a million snurfers over the next decade.5 And, in 1966 alone, over half a million snurfers were sold. Modern snowboarding was pioneered by Tom Sims and Jake Burton Carpenter, who both contributed significant innovations and started influential companies. In February 1968, Poppen organized the first snurfing competition at a Michigan ski resort that attracted enthusiasts from all over the country.7 One of those early pioneers was Tom Sims, a devotee of skateboarding (a sport born in the 1950s when kids attached roller skate wheels to small boards that they steered by shifting their weight). In the 1960s, as an eighth grader in Haddonfield, New Jersey, Sims crafted a snowboard in his school shop class by gluing carpet to the top of a piece of wood and attaching aluminum sheeting to the bottom.8 He produced commercial snowboards in the mid-70s.9 Others experimented with board-on-snow configurations at this time, including Welsh skateboard enthusiasts Jon Roberts and Pete Matthews developed their own snowboards to use at their local dry ski slope. Also during this same period, in 1977, Jake Burton Carpenter, a Vermont native who had enjoyed snurfing since the age of 14, impressed the crowd at a Michigan snurfing competition with bindings he had designed to secure his feet to the board. That same year, he founded Burton Snowboards in Londonderry, Vermont.12 The "snowboards" were made of wooden planks that were flexible and had water ski foot traps. Very few people picked up snowboarding because the price of the board was considered too high at $38 and were not allowed on many ski hills, but eventually Burton would become the biggest snowboarding company in the business.13 Burton's early designs for boards with bindings became the dominant features in snowboarding. The first competitions to offer prize money were the National Snurfing Championship, held at Muskegon State Park in Muskegon, Michigan.14 In 1979, Jake Burton Carpenter came from Vermont to compete with a snowboard of his own design. There were protests about Jake entering with a non-snurfer board. Paul Graves, and others, advocated that Jake be allowed to race. A "modified" "Open" division was created and won by Jake as the sole entrant. That race was considered the first competition for snowboards and is the start of what became competitive snowboarding. Ken Kampenga, John Asmussen and Jim Trim placed first, second and third respectively in the Standard competition with best two combined times of 24.71, 25.02 and 25.41; and Jake Carpenter won prize money as the sole entrant in the "open" division with a time of 26.35.15 In 1980 the event moved to Pando Winter Sports Park near Grand Rapids, Michigan because of a lack of snow that year at the original venue. In the early 1980s, Aleksey Ostatnigrosh and Alexei Melnikov, two Snurfers from the Soviet Union, patented design changes to the Snurfer to allow jumping by attaching a bungee cord, a single footed binding to the Snurfer tail, and a two-foot binding design for improved control. As snowboarding became more popular in the 1970s and 1980s, pioneers such as Dimitrije Milovich (founder of Winterstick out of Salt Lake City, UT), Jake Burton Carpenter (founder of Burton Snowboards from Londonderry, Vermont), Tom Sims (founder of Sims Snowboards), David Kemper (founder of Kemper Snowboards) and Mike Olson...
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Modernist French Harbor Scene by Woman Artist Helen Young
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Helen Young (American, 1888-1968[?]) French Harbor Scene Oil on canvas, 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches; Framed: 35 x 30 Signed at lower left: “Helen Young” H...
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1920s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Sunset)
Located in Chicago, IL
A "Thumb Box" or diminutive painting by Harold Haydon depicting a mountain at sunset. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada in...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vienna Beef Guy - Chicago's Wrigley Field Hot Dog Vendor, Ink on Paper, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Patrick Vale Vienna Beef Guy ink on paper 24h x 18.50w in 60.96h x 46.99w cm PKV005 See What I See Why are Chicago and baseball so perfect for each other?...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper

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