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Vintage Mid-Century Modern Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Tucked in Nature

1950s

COASTAL REVERIE Size: 40 x 42 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A contemporary abstract landscape painting that presents a tranquil yet expressive interpretation of a coastal horiz...

LATE WINTER Size: 35 x 59 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A moody and atmospheric mid-century winter landscape painting, executed in oil onto canvas. Two bare birch trees stand ...

A serene, ca. 1940s, Western landscape painting with horses by artist Francis Chapin. In a brown, wooden frame. Image size: 22" x 28". Framed size: 25" x 31". Provenance: Estate of the artist. 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). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...

W. Benson (American, XIX-XX), Flock of Sheep, Oil on Canvas, early 20th century, signed "W. Benson (?)" lower right, housed in a giltwood frame. Image: 17.75" H x 21.25" W; frame: 24...