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Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - White Trees

1950s

BOATHOUSE Size: 54 x 48 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A soothing and restful modernist style river landscape composition, executed in oil and dated 1971. The composition pres...

CITY STROLL Size: 44 x 66 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A very pleasant modernist oil street scene composition, painted by the established Swedish artist Stig Wernheden (1921-1...

DRAMATIC COAST Size: 30 x 44 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A richly textured and coloured modernist seascape in oil, painted onto canvas and dated 1985. The artist has very ef...

WATCHING THE WAVES Size: 66 x 58 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas An expressive and beautifully textured mid-century seascape composition, painted in oil onto canvas. Executed i...

Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946) Tree, Trunk, and Roots, Bronx, New York, circa 1924 Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches inscribed in another hand Joseph Stella/Estate and bears Joseph Stella Estate stamp (on the reverse) Provenance: The Estate of the Artist Rabin & Kreuger, New Jersey Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, March 14, 1968, Lot 147 ACA Galleries, New York Thence by descent Stella was born June 13, 1877 at Muro Lucano, Italy, a mountain village not far from Naples. He became painter laureate of Muro Lucano when he was in his teens with a representation of the local saint in the village church. Stella immigrated to America in 1896 and studied medicine and pharmacology, but upon the advice of artist friend Carlo de Fornaro, who recognized his undeveloped talent, he enrolled at the Art Students League in 1897. Stella objected to the rule forbidding the painting of flowers, an indication of his lifelong devotion to flower painting. He also studied under William Merritt Chase in the New York School of Art and at Shinnecock Hills, Long Island in 1901-1902, displaying the bravura brushwork and dark Impressionist influence of Chase. Stella liked to paint the raw street life of immigrant society, rendering this element more emotionally than the city realists, the Aschcan School headed by Robert Henri. Stella went through a progression of styles--from realism to abstraction--mixing media and painting simultaneously in different manners, reviving styles and subjects years later. The "Survey" sent Stella to illustrate the mining disaster of 1907 in Monongah, West Virginia, and in 1908 commissioned him to execute drawings of the Pittsburgh industrial scene. Steel and electricity became a major experience in shaping his responses to the modern world, and Stella succeeded in portraying the pathos of the steelworkers and the Pittsburgh landscape. Stella went abroad in 1909 at the age of thirty-two, lonely for his native land. He returned to Italy, traveling to Venice, Florence and Rome. He took up the glazing technique of the old Venetian masters to get warmth, transparency, and depth of color. One of Stella's paintings was shown in the International Exhibition in Rome in 1910 and was acquired by the city of Rome. The influence of the French Modernists awakened his dormant individuality. His friendship with Antonio Mancini, a Futurist, also played a role in his new style. At the urging of Walter Pach...

Vivid mountain Landscape by Antioqueño, Medellín painter Humberto Valencia Chaves (Columbian, 1891-1971). Signed "Valencia Chaves" lower left. Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Ima...

A dynamic landscape featuring a beautiful sunrise reflecting on storm clouds above the quiet shoreline by Santa Cruz artist Don Hannan (American 20th c). An Airplane flies into the s...