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Style: Modern
Medium: Board
Female Nude
Located in Wien, 9
The painting was created in 1987, the year of the artist's death and thus a late work. The classically modern nude is depicted with a tendency towards cubism, the colours are luminous.
Category
1980s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
Three Ages of Man, 20th Century Oil on Board Figurative Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 16 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches (42.5 x 26 cm)
This work depicts the three stages of life: infancy, adulthood and old age.
Category
20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"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...
Category
1940s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache, Board
Untitled (Horns and Bow)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Horns and Bow), 1941, oil on board, signed and dated lower right, 15 x 20 1/x inches...
Category
1940s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
20th century English portrait of two Labrador Retriever dogs Sadie & Sophie
Located in Woodbury, CT
20th-century English portrait of two Labrador Retriever dogs Sadie & Sophie
Owning a painting of two English Labrador Retriever dogs by D.J. Holdsworthy from 1988 offers a unique op...
Category
1980s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Board, Oil
Untitled (Biomorphic Composition)
By Dave Fox
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Untitled (Biomorphic Composition), 1948, oil on textured paper mounted on board, signed and da...
Category
1940s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Aswan Vista" Pastel Painting 12" x 22" inch by El Hussein Fawzi
Located in Culver City, CA
"Aswan Vista" Pastel Painting 12" x 22" inch by El Hussein Fawzi
Signed
Circa 1960
EL HUSSEIN FAWZI: (1905-1999). Born in Helmia district, Cairo on 4 September 1905, El Hussein F...
Category
20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase.
Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes.
Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine.
In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi.
Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
Category
1930s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
English mid century oil painting Portrait of cute Corgi dog
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a cute Corgi.
Paintings of this breed are very rare and very collected.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sheep Grazing
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modernist landscape painting by American WPA artist Earle N. Sherm
Category
1930s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
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...
Category
1940s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Wire Haired Jack Russell terrier
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Wire Haired Jack Russell terrier.
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the ...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Ireland Landscape Rocky Cliffs with Castle on the Northern Irish Sea Coastline
Located in Preston, GB
Ireland Landscape Rocky Cliffs with Castle on the Northern Irish Sea Coastline, by 20th Century Irish Australian Artist, Henry McLaughlin.
Art measures 10 x 8 inches
Frame measure...
Category
1980s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of Young Woman', oil on board, German School (circa 1960s). A sensuous mid-century portrait of a young woman painted in the style of expressionists / cubists of the era. Un...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled Cubist Figure
By STM
Located in London, GB
'Untitled Cubist Figure', oil on board, by STM (circa 1970s). A vibrant modern painting inspired by Picasso and Braque, the artist uses angles, lines and...
Category
1970s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ponies at Penlan, 1967.Swansea.Wales.Welsh Pony.Valleys.Equestrian.Hot Sun.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Hazel M. Barnett.
British.
Ponies at Penlan, Swansea, Wales.1967
Oil on Board. Signed.
Image size 17.9 inches x 35.6 inches ( 45.5cm x 90.5cm ).
Frame size 19.7 inches x 37.4 inches...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Untitled"
By Sidney E. Zimmerman
Located in Southampton, NY
Sidney E.Zimmerman
USA (1926-2007) studied at the Brooklyn a Museum of Art after returning from Europe during WWII. In 1950, he studied with Morris Kantor and Vaclav Vytlacil at the ...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lillian Delevoryas 1969 Original Nude & Interior Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Lillian Delevoryas
Untitled (Nude & Interior), 1969
Oil on board
19 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.
Framed: 24 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 1/4 in.
Signed and dated lower righ...
Category
1960s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Marta Becket Acrobat Circus Painting
By Marta Becket
Located in Larchmont, NY
Marta Becket (1925 - 2017)
Untitled, c. 1960s
Oil on board
Sight: 23 x 26 in.
Framed: 27 3/4 x 30 3/4 x 7/8 in.
Signed lower left
Talented as a painter, dancer and pianist, Marta B...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
...
Category
1940s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flowers and Arches, 1943, oil on board, initialed and dated lower left, 4 x 7 1/8 inches, presented in an older, but likely not original frame
This work is part of our exhibition A...
Category
1940s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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...
Category
1940s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
American Modernist Street & Diner Scene, Signed Kittredge
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mystery Artist (Possibly William A. Kittredge, illustrator)
Untitled (Diner), c. Mid-20th century
Oil on board
Sight: 8 x 10 in.
Framed: 9 3/8 x 11 3/8 x 7/8 in.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled (Transcendental Composition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Transcendental Composition), oil on board, 1947, oil on board, signed and dated lower r...
Category
1940s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
English mid century oil painting Portrait of Miniature Black Poodle
Located in Woodbury, CT
English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Miniature Poodle
Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the 20th century. She also painted flower subj...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1990s "Nude With Ball" Female Nude Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Bill Shields
"Nude with Ball"
1990's
Acrylic paint on board
Site measures 10.5"x8.5 wood frame float mount on linen 15.5"x13"
Unsigned came from artist's estate
William Stephens Shi...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Church and Churchyard - Landscape Painting, Mid-20th Century, Oil Paint, Modern
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Joan Gillchrest.
English ( b.1918 - d.2008 ).
Church and Churchyard.
Oil on Board. Signed.
Image size 33.9 inches x 21.8 inches ( 86cm x 55.5cm ).
Frame size 42.3 inches x 30.3 inch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Nude with Cat, Oil on Board, Figural, Interior
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"Nude with Cat" by R. Walker is a charming portrait of a woman and cat posed by a window.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Portrait of a Man”
Located in Southampton, NY
Powerful oil on board original painting of a portrait of a man’s head by the American National Academy artist John R. Grabach. Signed lower left, “John R.Grabach N.A.” Signed verso ...
Category
1950s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Fish & Flowers
Located in Bristol, GB
FISH & FLOWERS
Size: 47 x 62 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas Laid onto Board
A characterful mid-century modernist style still life oil composition, painted onto canvas.
At the h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Furious Embrace
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on panel, 82cm x 62cm (118cm x 98cm framed).
Born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951, the early part of his career was as a choreographer and stage director. Turning away from...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
Oil Painting Interior Scene Chair w Chinese Rug Joseph Solman American Art WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
Joseph Solman (1909-2008),
Chair with Chinese Rug,
oil paint on masonite, initialed JS on recto, titled and signed "J.S." verso,
Dimensions 14" x 10" Framed to 21 X 17
Provenance...
Category
20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Naïve Stye Landscape Oil Painting - Wonderland
Located in Bristol, GB
WONDERLAND
Size: 39 x 43.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A fun and whimsical mid-century landscape composition, painted in oil onto board.
In this uplifting composition, we see...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Wolf Boy
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on panel, 56cm x 61cm, (67cm x 77cm framed)
Born in Newport, south Wales, in 1951, the early part of his career was as a choreographer and stage director. Turning away from ...
Category
2010s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Acrylic
The Harbor, St Michaels Mount, Cornwall. Exhibited 1982. Unique Perspective
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Ken Symonds.
English ( b.1927 - d.2010 ).
The Harbor, St Michaels Mount, Cornwall, 1982.
Oil on Artist’s Board. Signed.
Image size 15.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 39cm x 49.5cm ).
Frame...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Circus Troupe and Saltimbanque after Pablo Picasso
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century gouache work on card of a group of circus performers around a table after Pablo Picasso. The work is dated bottom right.
A charming watercolour and gouache of a tr...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Expressive Seascape Oil Painting - Fishing Port
Located in Bristol, GB
FISHING PORT
Size: 32 x 70 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A serene mid-century seascape composition, executed in oil onto canvas that has been laid to board.
Simple yet effecti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth - Oil Painting - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Woman Lying Down on White Cloth is an artwork realized by an Italian Artist in mid-20th Century.
Oil on cardboard
24x34 cm.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
1950 Vintage Mid-Century Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Landscape Light
Located in Bristol, GB
LANDSCAPE LIGHT
Size: 43.5 x 55 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A beautifully textured and soothing mid-century landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1950.
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Original Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Still Life with Apples and Pitcher Original Oil on Artist's Board
Vibrant still life by C. (Clarence) Leslie Oursler (American, 1913-1987). Classic American impressionis...
Category
1950s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
A Bouquet of Digitalis, Poppy, Iris, Snapdragons, Cornflower, Buttercup, 1936
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ture Ander (1881-1959) Sweden
A Bouquet of Digitalis, Poppy, Iris, Snapdragons, Cornflower, Buttercup. 1936
oil on board
signed and dated Ture Ander 36
board dimensions 24,41 x 18,...
Category
1930s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Nude Figurative Portrait Oil Painting - Angela
Located in Bristol, GB
ANGELA
Size: 69 x 58 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist style figurative nude composition, painted in oil onto board.
The focal point of...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid-Century Modern Landscape Oil Painting by Ture Fabiansson - Nature Hideout
Located in Bristol, GB
NATURE HIDEOUT
Size: 41 x 49 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A wonderfully executed modernist style landscape oil composition, signed and dated 1942 by the established Swedish art...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1964 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - The Bouquet
Located in Bristol, GB
THE BOUQUET
Oil on Board
Size: 51.5 x 68 cm (including frame)
A very unique and vivid mid-century semi-abstract oil composition, painted on board and dated 1964 on the reverse.
In ...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid Century Modern Abstracted Landscape, Big Sur Coast Cliffs
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Modern Abstracted Landscape, Big Sur Coast Cliffs
Colorful mid-century landscape of jagged cliffs along the dramatic Big Sur coastline by an unknown artist. Unsigned. P...
Category
1950s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism
By Maurice Kish
Located in New York, NY
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism. 16 x 16 inches, Oil on board, Signed and dated 1938 lower left.
...
Category
1930s American Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Donald McIntyre. Girl and Chapel, North Wales. Modern British. Rural Welsh Life.
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Donald McIntyre.
English ( b.1923 - d.2009 ).
Girl and Chapel, North Wales.
Oil on card.
Signed with monogram twice lower left.
Image size 12 inches x 15.6 inches ( 30.5cm x 39.5cm ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
1950 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Expressive Landscape Oil Painting - Lakeside Joy
Located in Bristol, GB
LAKESIDE JOY
Size: 58 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
An expressive mid-century landscape composition that captures a carefree atmosphere of a perfect day spent by the lakesi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Llangynidr Bridge over the River Usk in Winter.Powys.Crickhowell.Wales.Landmark
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Anthony Morris.
English ( b.1938 ).
Llangynidr Bridge over the River Usk in Winter.
Oil on Board. Signed.
Image size 6.7 inches x 8.7 inches ( 17cm x 22cm ).
Frame size 10.4 inches ...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Floral Still Life Oil Painting - Floral & Figurine
Located in Bristol, GB
FLORAL & FIGURINE
Size: 50 x 71 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An elegant and serene mid-century still life interior scene, executed in oil on board.
The composition presents a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Framed Oil Painting - Blueprint
Located in Bristol, GB
BLUEPRINT
Oil on Board
Size: 40 x 48 cm (including frame)
An expressive and energetic mid-century still life composition, executed in oil onto board.
The painting presents a black ...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, 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...
Category
1940s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Fiberboard, Oil
1945 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Seascape Framed Oil Painting - Quay Cranes
Located in Bristol, GB
QUAY CRANES
Oil on Board
Size: 61 x 70 cm (including frame)
A brilliantly executed mid-century modernist seascape composition in oil, painted into board and dated 1945.
This nautic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modern British, Interior with an old record player, port decanter and glass
Located in Woodbury, CT
Colin Ruffell is an English painter of interiors, cityscapes, and many other unique subjects.
His styles have varied and include iconic cityscapes of London, New York, Venice, Hong ...
Category
1970s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Cornish Fishing Boats at First Light. Mid-20th Century. Cornwall. Modern British
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Joan Gillchrest.
English ( b.1918 - d.2008 ).
Cornish Fishing Boats at First Light.
Oil on Paper Mounted on Board. Signed with Monogram.
Image size 26.2 inches x 22 inches ( 66.5cm x 56cm ).
Frame size 35.8 inches x 31.3 inches ( 91cm x 79.5cm ).
Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the Cornish artist Joan Gillchrest and dates from around the late 1980s.
The oil painting is presented and supplied in a sympathetic new replacement frame (which is shown in these photographs) that suits the artwork’s color palette and behind non-reflective Tru Vue UltraVue® UV70 glass.
This painting is in excellent condition and presents superbly. It wants for nothing and is ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed with a monogram lower right.
Joan Gillchrest is one of Mousehole’s and Cornwall’s most recognised and celebrated artists. Her vibrant art sits firmly alongside other great artists of the St. Ives School from the 1960s.
She was born Joan Scott in London in 1918 into a wealthy and illustrious family. She was the third of four children. Her father was a pioneer of radiology – and a skilful caricaturist - and her Australian mother was an accomplished pianist. Sir George Gilbert Scott was her great grandfather, who designed the imposing Midland Grand Hotel at St. Pancras as well as countless parish churches. Grandfather, George Gilbert Scott Jnr, is remembered for three Cambridge colleges, Christ’s, Pembroke and Peterhouse. Her uncle Giles, (Giles Gilbert Scott) to whom Joan was close, is best known for his magnificent Anglican Liverpool Cathedral, Battersea Power Station and the iconic and ubiquitous red telephone box. Coming from such a long line of eminent architects it is not surprising that Joan always loved architecture and the churches and chapels of the Penwith peninsula feature prominently in her work. She said that buildings were “in her blood”.
Her early childhood was spent at the family home in Buckinghamshire, but she was a difficult child – the family hired one nanny for her and one for the other three children- and at one point she was sent to Upper Chine School in the Isle of Wright to give her family some peace! She was however the apple of her father’s eye and he encouraged her obvious artistic talent.
In 1934, aged only 15 but encouraged by her parents, she went to Paris to study art and learn the language. There she met Gwen John and studied in various studios, sometimes working as a model.
In 1936 she enrolled at the Grosvenor School of Art and subsequently studied there under Iain McNab, whom she described as a marvelous teacher. Her early artistic career was very promising; she first exhibited at the Royal Academy when she was just 18 and showed works at the New England Art Club in 1937 and the London Group in 1938.
When the Second World War broke out Joan was 21. She took a crash course in nursing and first aid and volunteered as an ambulance driver for Westminster Hospital. She later drove a mobile rescue unit. She was not able to paint much during the war but kept in touch with McNab; when the area around St Paul’s was blitzed, leaving the cathedral relatively unscathed, McNab got Joan and a few others to paint the scene. Her work, created with a thick paint and a palette knife, hung in the art school for many years.
Joan’s painting career stalled in the 1940s. In 1942 she married a barrister and Coldstream Guards officer Samuel Gillchrest, and they soon had a son, then a daughter. With a young family, she had little time to paint, and had to hide the work she did produce as her husband thought that work as an artist was beneath them. Sadly, the marriage broke down and in 1953 they divorced. In leaving a difficult marriage at this time, she forfeited money, security and her previous place in society.
Despite the huge changes in her life, her overwhelming desire to paint remained constant. She ignored the disapproval of her friends and family and started to explore new ways of expressing herself on canvas. She moved to a studio in Chelsea, an area much favored by the artistic community. To support herself, her children and her painting she also found regular work as an artist’s model. She was tall, strikingly good looking and combined elegance with bohemianism. She also carried an air of mystery from her rich and privileged past, and so she became sought after as a fashion model.
In the flat below hers lived an artist who had enjoyed some professional acclaim, Adrian Ryan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Cows in Field
Located in Bristol, GB
COWS IN FIELD
Oil on Board
Size: 38.5 x 52 cm (including frame)
A charming mid-century landscape composition that captures the idyllic beauty of the countryside, executed in oil on...
Category
1960s Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Landscape Framed Oil Painting - Coastal Breeze
Located in Bristol, GB
COASTAL BREEZE
Size: 37 x 45.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A very pleasant and atmospheric mid-century expressive coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto board.
T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Board Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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