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
Period: 1940s
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks)
By Harry Lane
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Houses and Railroad Tracks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas board, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coas...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Schneelanschaft / Snowy landscape
Located in Wien, 9
The artwork is signed and dated on the lower right and provided with sticker verso. The frame is a golden showpiece.
Provenance: Private collection Sweden
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"From the Studio, Manhattan"
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 Ben...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
Untitled (Farm in Winter)
By Julius M. Delbos
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Farm in Winter), 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 26 x 30 inches, presented in a...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
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Gouache, Board
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Co...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inch...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited ...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Bearsville NY
26 1/4 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas
Singed lower right, t...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
Located in New York, NY
Waterfall Bearsville NY Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Cubism
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Waterfall, Bearsville NY
40 1/2 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Lake
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Blue Lake, c. 1940s, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 36 inches, label and inscriptio...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
French Polished Brass Frame for Painting, Drawing or Mirror, 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely 1940s French polished brass frame is perfect for paintings, drawings, lithographs, mirrors, or any creative decoration. The frame has a large proportion and can be hung i...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Brass
Gracie Mansion
By Isabella Banks Markell
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Gracie Mansion, c. 1944, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 25 x 30 inches, presented in a ne...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Poster paint on paper, c. 1941
15 ¾ x...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Paint
Vintage Signed American School Cute Illustration Hungry Hippo Animal Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Cute animal portrait!
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Hamptons Polo Field Horse Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid century polo field modernist landscape. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Taxco, Mexico', Paris, Louvre, Who Was Who in American Art, PAFA, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Killgore' (American, 1889-1979) and painted circa 1940. (N.B. the artist's last name variant is 'Kilgore).
Born in Huntington, West Virginia, Charles Ki...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Fiberboard, Oil
American School Modernist Abstract Cityscape Holiday Lights Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Nautical Cityscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage mid century abstract painting. Feels like an abstract cityscape of New York City. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signe...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Landscape Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Framed Signed Exhibited Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibited at the Butler Art Institute.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed 1956 Antique American School Modernist Abstract Indian Space Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive and large mid century abstract painting. Signed and dated illegibly lower right. Oil on canvas.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed
Bio
In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique Italian Impressionist Venice Trompe L'Oeil Flower Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well done and interesting vintage Italian impressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Long Island Hamptons Beach Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Houses Architecture Precisionist NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist WPA Winter Ice Skating Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American modernist winter landscape. Detailed and well painted skating scene. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Ashcan Street Impressionist Nocturnal Cityscape Burlington Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive and well painted street scene by Mildred Bunting Miller (1892 - 1964). Titled Burlington City. Housed in a great giltwood frame. Has the feel of a Hopper!! Oil ...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1944 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Pasture Houses
Located in Bristol, GB
PASTURE HOUSES
Size: 56 x 67.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A richly coloured mid-century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto board and dated 1944.
Featuring ...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Seascape Framed Hamptons Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L. No signature found. Very nicely painted.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Signed American School Post Impressionist Cow Farm Landscape Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist regional cow farm landscape. Really nicely framed and a very impressive painting in person. Signed illegibly.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Parisian Elegance" Monumental Modernist Folk Art Street Scene Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Transport yourself to the heart of Paris during the enchanting 1940s with this exquisite original painting by the renowned artist Moura Chabor (1905 - 199...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame
Unique landscape by Hollywood, California artist Genevieve"Gen" Matucha (American, 1903-1989). The scene dep...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Fountain of Cheseaux, Switzerland
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Finely Painted New York City Market Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Step back in time to the bustling streets of 1940s New York City, where artistry and urban vitality converged in a dazzling display of creativity. This exceptional original oil paint...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Exhibited Ashcan School Nocturnal New York City Brooklyn Bridge Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal view of the Brooklyn Bridge. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
From the kitchen garden view of the church of St François-de-Sales, Chêne-Bourg
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Brown wooden frame
76.5 x 65.5 x 4.5 cm
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape Near Aesch in Basel Country
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
55.5 x 48 x 6 cm
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Modernist New York City Geometric Architectural Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed American Female Modernist Southwest Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 12L x 8H.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"À Troinex, Geneva" by Henri Deluc - Oil on canvas (1942) 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas sold with frame
The frame measures 63x74 cm.
The mountain on the painting is the "Salève" from Troinex, Geneva.
John Henri DELUC is...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Plage a Soorts-Hossegor - Modernist Landscape Oil Painting Maurice Brianchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas coastal landscape by French modern painter Maurice Brianchon who was known as one of the Painters of Poetic Reality. This simple and charming piece depicts a view of the beach at Soorts-Hossegor on a grey day. The figures of two soldiers walk across the sand and others are gathered on the walkway beyond.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 30"x38"
Unframed: 21"x29"
Provenance:
Private collection - Switzerland
As a young man, Maurice Brianchon studied at school in Le Mans before joining the École des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux. He went on to study at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, remaining there from 1917 to 1923 and working under the direction of Eugène Morand. It was here that he met and became friends with Oudot and Legueult. When he exhibited for the first time at the Salon d'Automne he was immediately elected as a member. He received the Blumenthal Award in 1924 and the Carnegie Prize in 1939. He was a founder member of the Salon des Tuileries and was appointed to serve on the committee in 1941. He also exhibited at the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He took part in major exhibitions abroad, including the Venice Triennale, Antwerp, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Madrid, Brussels and Stockholm.
He soon made his mark as a decorative artist, creating stage sets for the Opéra for a production of Griséldis (1922) in collaboration with Legueult, and for Noble and Sentimental Waltzes ( Valses Nobles et Sentimentales) (1938), Sylvia (1941) and The Model Animals ( Les Animaux Modèles) (1944). He created a large, decorative piece entitled Symphony at the Palais de Chaillot, where he worked with Chapelain-Midy, Planson and Oudot. He also decorated the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly with murals. With his wife Marguerite Louppe he produced three large panels commissioned by the state in 1942 for the Conservatoire. The Gobelins and Aubusson tapestry works produced tapestries after his cartoons. He also produced cartoons for stained glass windows at the church of Assy in 1946. He taught at the Estienne school and the École des Arts Décoratifs in 1937 and in 1949 at the École des Beaux-Arts.
He often painted landscapes showing the banks of the Seine, as did the Impressionists, and demonstrated a particular interest in circuses and music halls, as can be seen in Acrobats and French Can Can...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Monumental New York City Brooklyn Bridge Cityscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Monumental antique American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Very impressive painting in person here.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Interesting Tropical Modernist Palm Tree Abstract Vintage Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract tropical oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adobe Church, New Mexico, 1940s Modernist Southwestern Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1930s - 1940s oil painting of an adobe church in New Mexico with a brilliant blue sky and clouds (likely Rancho de Taos), circa 1940. Painted by Denver modernist, Paul K...
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Landscape
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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1940s 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 Modern Landscape Paintings
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Oil, Board
Wedding Day - Norman Rockwell Americana - Female Illustrator
By Lorraine Fox
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
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Oil, Board
American School Modernist Framed Original Sunset Signed Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
Montagny by Adolphe de Siebenthal - Oil on canvas 50x61 cm
By Adolphe DE SIEBENTHAL
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wooden frame
60 x 71 x 4,5 cm
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Countryside villa (1949) - Oil on canvas 49x64 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work signed but artist unknown from the gallery-
Sold with frame, total size with frame is 82x67 cm
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
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