Fabric Paintings

Signed lower right, 'Kinji Tagawa' (Japanese, born 1909) and painted circa 1955. Additionally signed in Kanji, verso, and titled, 'Still Life' with further inscription. Accompanied b...

Antique American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

William Fisher (1891 - 1985) William Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1891. He studied at the Brooklyn Institute of Art and Science and at Pratt Institute. Following service as an ambulance driver in WWI, he remained in Europe after the war and studied painting in Rome, Italy for one year. Upon his return from Rome, to New Jersey, he pursued his painting and began to teach small art classes. In the 1920's Fisher became a successful illustrator. His work appeared in Saturday Evening Post, Mc Calls, Harpers and other popular magazines. He later did pen and ink sketches for the Villager, a weekly Greenwich Village newspaper. Microfilmed pages of the Villager are preserved in New York University's Washington Square Library. His sketches also appeared on the cover of the Gotham Guide, which was sold Fridays at news stands in Manhattan. In partnership with Margaret Kilburn, an artist and crafts person, Fisher opened an art gallery and school at 33 West 8th St in NYC during the 1930s. They also opened a summer art gallery and school in 1949 in Kennebunkport, Maine, which ran for many years, and, after the NY gallery closed (around 1952), they made a full time commitment to living and working in Kennebunkport, Maine. Fisher was the recipient of over 100 awards. His work was widely exhibited in Philadelphia, Pa., Montclair, Trenton, and Newark, NJ, the Currier Gallery in New Hampshire and the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine. William Fisher and Margaret Kilburn were familiar and beloved figures in Kennebunkport. They taught generations of local children, and they participated in numerous exhibits with other artists, both in the Kennebunkport area and throughout Maine. Mr Fisher always insisted on marching in the local Memorial Day parade, until he was well in his 90's, because he didn't want to ride in a car provided for older veterans. Many homes in the Kennebunks have his works, including members of the Bush family, and they were purchased by numerous out of state and Canadian summer visitors. There are several examples of his works in the Kennebunkport Town Offices and in local churches. Fisher loved to paint "big" canvases, usually local Maine scenes...

Antique American school abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 25L x 47H.

Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 31H.

"White on White Blue" is a monochromatic, interior still life by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 20" x 16" oil on canvas painting is framed and signed "B ...

Antique American school artist portrait painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 16L x 24H.4

'Self-Portrait of the Artist', oil on canvas, by Lilian E. Whitteker (1952). This may be the only self-portrait (or portrait) of Lilian Whitteker as her favourite subjects to paint w...

Antique French impressionist signed still life oil painting by Leon Detroy (1857/59 - 1955). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 13L x 10H.

Rafael Durancamps (1891-1979) - Landscape - Oil on canvas Oil measures 38x46 cm. Frame measures 58x66 cm. Rafael Durancamps i Folguera (Sabadell, March 29, 1891 [1] - Barcelona, Jan...

Antique American abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.

'Composition in Red and Blue' is a vintage abstract expressionist original oil painting on board by Charles Bunnell (1897-1968) from 1951. Signed and dated by the artist in the lower left corner. Abstract composition painted in shades of white, cream, blue, red, and tan. Presented in a vintage frame, outer dimensions measure 28 ½ x 22 ½ x 1 inches. Image size is 24 x 18 inches. About the Artist: Charles Bunnell developed a love for art at a very young age. As a child in Kansas City, Missouri, he spent much of his time drawing. When he was unable to find paper he drew on walls and in the margins of textbooks for which he was often fined. Around 1915, Bunnell moved with his family to Colorado Springs, Colorado. He served in World War I and later used his GI Training to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (later renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) during 1922 and 1923. In 1922, he married fellow student, Laura Palmer. He studied with Ernest Lawson in 1927-1928 and, in the winter of 1928-1929, he served as Lawson’s assistant. In the late 1920’s, the Bunnell’s settled just west of Colorado Springs and 1928, they welcomed the first of their three children. Their one-acre homesite, which they referred to as “Old Home Place”, was situated between two sets of railroad tracks at the foot of Pike’s Peak. Charlie converted an old railroad boxcar into his studio, where he later gave lessons. Beginning in 1931, Bunnell spent a year and a half studying under Boardman Robinson. The two men clashed constantly due to a generation gap and markedly different philosophies. Robinson encouraged his students not to stray from realism and though Bunnell mastered Robinson’s preferred style of American Scene painting, he regularly irritated his professor with his abstract sketches. Bunnell taught at the Kansas City Art Institute during the summers of 1929, 1930, 1940, and 1941. Between 1934 and 1941, he painted and taught under federal projects which included assisting Frank Mechau on murals for the Colorado Springs Post Office. However, he did not take to mural making and, after criticism from Boardman Robinson about his use of “heavy daubs which have no place in mural work,” he abandoned mural-making altogether. By the late 1930’s, Bunnell’s work departed from the American Scene/Modernist style he was trained in towards abstraction. This is marked by his “Black and Blue” series, consisting of 83 abstracted ink and watercolors. Affected by the Second World War and the loss of his 10-year old son, Bunnell’s work of the early 1940’s took on a Transcendental and Surrealist tone. The works from this period are moody and readily reflect the political and personal turmoil experienced by the artist. In the late 1940’s, Bunnell began experimenting with Abstract Expressionism. He alone is credited with introducing Colorado Springs to the new style as it was excluded from the Fine Art Center’s curriculum by Boardman Robinson. Bunnell excelled in Abstract Expressionism and continued to evolve in the style through the 1950’s continuing to his death in 1968. He was recently recognized as a premier American Abstract Expressionist by his inclusion in the book American Abstract Expressionism of the 1950’s: An Illustrated Survey. Solo Exhibits: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, 1930; Santa Fe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1947; University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 1948; University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1949; Taos Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, 1951; Carl Barnett Galleries, Dallas, Texas, 1952; The Bodley Gallery, New York, 1955; Amarillo, Texas, 1955; Haigh Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1955; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1956; Dord Fitz Art Gallery, Amarillo, Texas, December 1956 – February 1957, 1959, 1969 (retrospective). Group Exhibits: Carnegie Institute, 1927-1928; Colorado State Fair, 1928 (1st prize); Artists Midwestern, Kansas City, Missouri, 1929 (Gold Medal); Art Institute of Chicago, 1947 (the exhibit traveled to ten major museums in the United States); “Artists West of the Mississippi”, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado (7 times); Denver Art Museum Western Annual, Denver, Colorado (5 times); Mid-America Annual, Kansas City, Missouri, 1958; First Provincetown Festival, 1958; Southwestern Annual, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Winter 1957-1958; Central City, Colorado; Cañon City...

Antique American modernist framed oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 13L x 12H.

Oil on canvas board. Framed

Antique American impressionist seascape beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 18L x 14H.

BOATS AT THE JETTY Size: 34 x 70 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A restful and very confidently executed mid-century coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto canvas. ...

Antique American impressionist signed dog portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.

American artist Hellier (20th Century) designed this stunning post-cubist constructivist oil on canvas painting. This painting named "Ste Augustine" features a skillful composition a...

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso.

MOONLIGHT Size: 51 x 59 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An atmospheric modernist style composition executed in oil onto canvas by the well-established Swedish artist Fabian Lundqvist...

Antique American impressionist California landscape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 14H.

Oil on board Image size: 12 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (31.75 x 40 cm) Contemporary style handmade frame Exhibitions 1952 Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition, Gallery no. VII, no.429. This forest scene invites the viewer into a multi-sensory event where the cool, damp shadows of the foliage can almost be felt and the rich bouquet of the forest floor recalled. Here, Sherlock has chosen a somewhat unusual angle and composition, dissecting each truck and tree form so that only a part can be seen. Furthermore, as we look into the depths of this space it becomes clear that we are stood gazing down into a valley that is in the distance, behind this wooded area. Indeed, instead of giving us an uninterrupted view of this vista, as perhaps would be expected, this view is deliberately blocked and our focus is directed instead towards the organic forms in the foreground. The Artist  Marjorie Sherlock was born at Fir Tree Cottage, George Lane, Wanstead, Essex, on 3 February 1891, the elder child of the civil engineer, Henry Sherlock, and his wife, Alice (née Platts), who was born in Benares, India. By 1901, the family was living at ‘The Limes’, 121 Mill Road, Cambridge, and Marjorie received an education locally. In 1918, she entered into marriage with her cousin, Major Wilfrid Barrett, though this proved unsuccessful and they later divorced (he remarrying in 1941). She then continued to live at the family home until the Second World War. During the First World War, Marjorie Sherlock studied at Westminster Technical Institute under the Camden Town School painters, Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman. She exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1917, when she showed a powerful view of the interior of Liverpool Street Station (Government Art Collection) (to which the current etching [202] relates). In time, she would exhibit at the International Society, the New English Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists, the Society of 207 Graphic Art and the Women’s International Art Club (becoming a member of the last two). She also showed work internationally. Developing as a printmaker as well as a painter, Sherlock studied etching under Malcolm Osborne at the Royal College of Art in 1925. She published her etchings in four series, the titles of which indicate her love of travel: ‘English Etchings, ‘Egyptian Etchings’ (both 1925), ‘German Etchings’ (1929) and ‘Indian Etchings’ (1932). During this period, she also visited the united States. More admiring of Continental painters than British ones, she furthered her studies, in 1938, by working in Paris under André L’Hôte and André Dunoyer de Segonzac. During the Second World War, Sherlock moved to East Devon and settled at Oxenways, a Victorian hunting lodge...

Oil measures 50x61 cm. Frameless. Signed down on the left. restored.

Signed lower right, "Cucaro" for Pascal Cucaro (American, 1915-2003). An icon of the Beat years in San Francisco's North Beach, Pascal Cucaro was the winner of numerous medals and a...

Lafuente - Grape harvester - Oil on canvas Spanish school signed "Lafuente". Oil measures 61x50 cm. Frameless.

Jacques Martin-Ferrières was born on August 6, 1893 in Saint-Paul, France. He studied under the French academic painter Frederic Cormon (1845-1924) and with his father, the notable F...

Antique impressionist nude interior portrait painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 14L x 20H.

Oil on canvas board. Signed and dated lower left. Unframed. Born in Mexico, Salvador de Regil came to America in the 1930s. As his artistic expression developed, he became known fo...

PAUL Size: 58.5 x 53 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A striking and expressive mid-century portrait painting, executed in oil onto canvas. The composition depicts a male figure ...

Antique American abstract expressionist signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 26L x 20H.

SUBURBAN SERENADE Size: 46 x 59 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An uplifting modernist composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1951. The artwork portrays a suburban l...

Vintage American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H. Great color and a nice period modern wood frame. Ready to hang.

View over the French Riviera French Post Impressionist painter, circa 1950’s oil painting on canvas, unframed painting: 13.5 x 9.5 inches provenance: private collection, France con...

Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 20H.

Antique American modernist signed still life oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 12L x 9H.

Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.

Antique American modernist framed oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 13L x 12H.

Antique American modernist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed on verso. Framed. Image size, 30L x 15H.

Signed lower right Agnes Hart was born in Meridan, Connecticut. She studied at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida; at Iowa State University with Josef Presser, Paul Burlin and Lucile...

Modernist Mid Century Forest by Anany Alexeevich Verbitsky Beautiful mid century forest landscape depicting a clearing in the dense evergreen trees by Verbitsky Anani Alexeevich (Russian, 1895-1974) Signed in the lower right corner "А. Вербицкий" (translated). "A Verbitski". No frame. Image size: 27.5"H x 22.5"W. EXHIBITIONS: PORTRAIT OF VASILI SCHUKIN, The brilliance of Russian painters“ from the collection of Vladimir Peshich, The Russian House in Belgrade, May 12 – September 14, 2022. Listed: Russian Federation Artists Trade Union...

HOUSES AT SUNSET Size: 44 x 62 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A stunning mid century modernist oil landscape painting depicting rows of houses at sunset. The rooftops of the ho...

Vintage American abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18L x 24H.

Rare Mid Century Judaic figure of a Jewish rabbi at prayer. signed A. Einstein.

THE ENSEMBLE Size: 29 x 37 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A small yet very striking mid century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas. The artist has used the exp...

Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Jane Lapey. Oil on canvas. Exhibition label verso. Framed. Image size, 28L x 22H.

'The Port of Grau Du Roi', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). Le Grau-du-Roi was a fishing village but now is a resort on the French Mediterranean coast, between the histor...

Signed expressionist oil on canvas portrait by French painter and engraver Gen Paul. This charming work depicts a seated musician wearing a green suit with a black bow tie playing the double bass. This beautiful example of Gen Paul's work dates to the 1950's when he painted numerous studies of musicians playing various instruments in jazz such as the saxophone, violin and the double bass. His interest in this was likely based upon his father's career as a cafe musician. Signature: Signed upper right Dimensiosn: Framed: 30"x21" Unframed: 22"x13" Provenance: Private French collection Gen-Paul was born in the Rue Lepic, at the heart of Montmartre. His mother was an embroiderer, and his father was a café musician. Gen-Paul began painting from a young age. An apprentice interior decorative artist, he looked about him in the wealthy apartments where his work took him and observed the pieces collected by art lovers, and he learned anatomy by getting to know surgeons and going with them into operating theatres. He also attended the École des Beaux-Arts. He painted on discarded cigar boxes using...

A painting of a jockey in a green shirt riding a horse with the number 8 on its saddle. The composition is cropped fairly close, cutting off everything but the back of the horse wher...

Original oil on canvas depicting a deep sea fishing sailfish painting by Marshall Anderson signed (lower right) in a custom silver gilt frame. It ...

Signed lower right: Irving R. Wiles

Mid-Century Italian Impressionist view of the Church of the Madeleine in Martigues, France. A fantastic view in the classical Italian 20th-century Impressionist style of the famous ...

Antique American impressionist signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 28H.

Wonderful mid-century modern oil painting of wheat and fruit by Wanda Faust (American, 20th century), c.1950. Signed lower left corner "Faust." Displayed i...

Antique American school signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 19L x 13H.

A painting of a jockey in a red shirt riding a horse as seen from behind. The composition is cropped fairly close, cutting off everything but the rear of the horse. This piece is nicely framed and features a signature by the artist on the front. Red Jockey...

Antique American signed modernist flower still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 30H.

Genre: Modern Subject: Other Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions: 44" x 27" x 3/4" Dimensions w/Frame: 52" x 35" Born (Stella) Molly Friedman to Carlaman a...