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Medium: Masonite
Mid Century Autumn Reflections Oil Paint Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Peaceful landscape of a calm stream winding through an autumnal forest by Lorenz Griffith (American, 1889-1968). Signed "Lorenz Griffith" lower left. Titled "Autumn Reflections - Virginia" and dated 1958 on verso. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 35.5"W.
Lorenz E. Griffith was born in Indiana; he was active/lived in North Carolina, Florida, Indiana and many places across the United States. Lorenz Griffith is known for luminist landscapes and portraits. He painted in the style of the Florida Highwaymen...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Building Backyard, Painting by Joan Nelson
By Joan Nelson
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting by Joan Nelson depicts a sepia-toned scene placed behind the walls of a dark brown building. Potentially depicting a rooftop or a balcony, a way further into the buildi...
Category
1980s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Egg Tempera, Plaster
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - 5"x7", Original Art, White Dress Painting, Feminine
Located in Mississauga, Ontario
In this delicate dress painting on masonite, the combination of paint, pencil and embellished mixed media build up a textured, figurative composition. A blend of detail and loose bru...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Pencil
"Pacific Grove Glory" - Rocky Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Signed and dated "Coraly '06" in the lower right corner.
Titled, dated, and signed "Pacific Grove Glory 2006 Coraly Hanson" on verso.
Board size:...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Linen
"Landscape Scene of Mexican Villagers" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1971 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his landscape paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout.
Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners.
In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Cyclists and One Runner
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Two Cyclists and One Runner
n.d.
Signed in red, u.l.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
35.75 x 58 inches
This work is offered by ClampArt in New York...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Canvas, Oil
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Trompe l'Oeil Still Life and Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Trompe l'Oeil Still Life and Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Still life in the trompe l'oeil style by Richard M. Bacon (American, 20th Century). A still life with a bottle, fishbow...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Candlelight Service Mexico Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming painting of church in Mexico during Holy Week attributed to Orrin A. White (American, 1883-1969). Circa 1940. Canvas laid on Masonite then pa...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Canvas, Oil
1970s Feminist San Francisco Abstract Expressionist Figurative (Two Sided)
By Audrey E. Gabrielson
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid and evocative feminist abstract expressionist figurative painting of woman and the many facets of her life, represented by multiple female figures engaged in various activities throughout the chaotic and colorful abstract expressionist canvas, by Audrey E. Gabrielson (American, 1932-2018), 1976. Verso has an abstract portrait with signature. Unframed. Image size: 29.75"H x 31.50"W
Audrey Gabrielson was an artist, poetess, sculptor, whom lived in San Francisco. She was born in Canada in 1932 and drew, colored, modeled in clay when very young. She studied at Reed College, Portland, studying with famous West Coast artist, Louis Bunce. in San Francisco she painted with artists Cucaro, Alexander E. Anderson, and Raymond Howell. She had shown in North Beach, Modesto, Gualuala Hotel, Sausalito, Abbey Party Rents (S.F.) and many more. She had ongoing exhibits at Alberta Art, Red Deer and Uglies, Lacombe. Her art was collected by national and international collectors such as authors C.Y. Lee (“Flower Drum Song”), Alfred Coppel (“34 East”); musical promoter, Ilka Pardinas, FLY, Los Angeles. Additionally, she worked in bronze, studying under S.F. sculptor C.B. Johnson. Her art was influenced and inspired by German Expressionists, Van Gogh, Lautrec, Picasso, Klimpt, Schiele, Tamayo, Conners, Park – and many more.
Obituary:
Born in Alberta, Canada, Audrey passed away at her home in San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood, surrounded by loved ones. Gabrielson was an artist, poet, sculptor, photographer, muse and an integral part of the San Francisco art scene of the late 1950s to late 1970s. She was a friend and contemporary of artists such as Benny Bufano...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
'Surrealistic Nude Figures, ' by Leonard Kaplan, Painting, c. 1960s
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 20" x 14" painting in a surrealist style by artist Leonard Kaplan depicts three nude figures crowded together, sitting and standing with a white bird obscured by the dark shadows. Predominant colors are red, orange, black, and cream. The painting is on paper and masonite framed behind glass in a silver metal frame.
Leonard Kalan is known for surrealism and figure paintings. He died in California in 2008. Leonard was born January 15, 1922 in New York City and won a scholarship in 1940 to study at the Art Student League under Reginald Marsh and William Pair. He won an art scholarship to New York University in the late 1930's. He studied art at the Henry Street...
Category
1960s Surrealist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Chalk, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Boxstrip Monument
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Abstract expressionist landscape created with jewel tones portraying architectural elements is this early and important mixed media: acrylic, dry pigment, ink, pencil on archival boa...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Acrylic
Instead (Colorful Gestural Geometric Abstract Painting on Panel)
By Anne Francey
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful abstract painting with geometric details in bright hues of blue, red, green, and yellow, against a black background
"Instead", painted by Anne Francey in 2017
Mixed media on Masonite
10 x 10 x 2 inches, sides reveal raw wood
Excellent condition, signed verso
Ready to hang
Anne Francey has been working with subject matter inspired by nature for most of her artistic career. Since the pandemic, this focus has become ever more apparent as her new acrylic paintings on paper demonstrate her intuitive process of reinterpreting literal subjects like leaves, flowers, birds, or bugs into vibrant worlds of layered color. She begins by drawing from life but then allows fluctuating colors, traces of the hand, and evidence of the physical medium to be introduced as the composition evolves and finds its final imprint on the surface. The spontaneity of her process welcomes the unknown, she explains: “The things that moved me first…might have become by now just a faint whispering. But I know that a story is being told, even if I don’t understand yet all the words.”
About the artist:
Anne Francey was born in 1956 in Grandson, Switzerland. She attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (ECBA) from 1976 to 1981, where she received a diploma of Fine Arts in painting. In 1981, she moved to New York where she attended the School of Visual Arts and the graduate program of Fine Arts at Hunter College. She graduated in 1987 with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA).
EDUCATION
1983-1987 Hunter College: Master of Fine Arts, New York
EXHIBITIONS (Most recent)
2021 Le Comptoir des Motifs, Artefactory, Geneva, Switzerland, fabric design, group show
2018 Eric Laffer Gallery, Upstate Invitational, 3 person show, Schuylerville, NY
The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Configurations, one person show, Troy, NY
Carrie Haddad gallery, Ebb and Flow, Hudson, NY
Saratoga Arts, Then and Now, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
2017 Byrdcliffe Kleinert/James Center, The Ritual of Construction, group show, Woodstock, NY
Carrie Haddad gallery, Summer, group show
Thompson Giroux gallery, En Masse, group show
Eric Laffer gallery, Winter Show, Schuylerville, NY
2016 Saratoga Arts, 30th Anniversary Invitational, Saratoga Springs, NY
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Summer Color, Hudson, NY
Laffer Gallery, 5th Annual Juried Group Show, Schuylerville, NY
2015 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Paper, group show, Hudson, NY
2014 Luminarté, Contemporary Islamic Art, group show, Dallas, TX
Spring Street Gallery, Where are you from? 3 persons show, Saratoga Spgs, NY
Albany Institute of History and Art, Mohawk Hudson Regional, group show NY
Albany International Airport, Natural Gestures, 3 persons show Albany, NY
Laffer Gallery, Winter show, Schuylerville, NY
COMMUNITY MURALS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, SYMPOSIUMS,
2021 Community Mural United Nations International school, NY “The Year that Zoomed by”
2020 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award 2020-2021 (travel postponed to 2021-2022)
2019 1001 Hands (“1001 Mains”) Concept, design and direction of a 150 sqft community ceramic mural with 600 participants, Ibn Rachiq Art Center,Tunis, Tunisia. Funded through the US Embassy and the Swiss Embassy in Tunis.
Colors of the City, Wall Ceramic and Architecture in Tunis, International symposium, Tunis/Tunisia
1997- 2018 Artist in residence at various schools for the creation of community murals
2018 Bir-el Bey...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Mixed Media
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Handstands in a Row
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Signed in red, u.r.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
68 x 38 inches
74 x 44 inches, framed
$8500.00 + $400.00 framing
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
![[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Handstands in a Row](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/mark-beard-paintings-bruce-sargeant-1898-1938-handstands-in-a-row-for-sale/a_9323/a_35855921542990390834/Handstands_in_a_Row_artnet_master.jpg?width=240 "nude handstands")
Small Portrait of the Artist at Work
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive portrait of an artist working at a desk by an unknown artist (20th Century). An artist with brown hair and a moustache is working at a desk, with various supplies around h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Cows in Summer Landscape
Located in Pasadena, CA
FRAMED: 18.25" x 21.625" x 1.375" UNFRAMED: 12" x 15.25"
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil, Panel
"The Awakening" Early Spring Landscape of Mt Hamilton Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Awakening" Early Spring Landscape of Mt Hamilton Oil on Masonite
Early Spring landscape by Palo Alto, California artist "Florice" Florence P. Wideman (Hoffman) (American, 1893-1...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Landscape 124 by Jean Krille - Oil on masonite 39.8x31.8 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Haitian Village Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A gorgeous tempura painting of figures carrying goods and taking a break in a Haitian village by Frantz (Freddie) Lamothe (Haitian, b.1961). Signed "F. L...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Masonite
La Mujer Isla Surrealist Painting
By Enrique Chavarría
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
The Island Woman (La Mujer Isla)
Artist signed and titled.
Enrique Chavarría (1927-1998) was a Mexican painter and neo-surrealist, whose fantastic imagery carries forward the work of the Mexican Surrealists. He created hundreds of easel-sized oil paintings on masonite and numerous smaller works. For four decades his principal patron was Bryna Prensky, an American gallery owner from Florida who moved to Mexico City in 1954. She bought most of Chavarría’s known works for her gallery and her own collection.
Prensky said she often found Chavarría in his pajamas at mid-day. He read widely and painted dreamlike images that reflect his wide-ranging scholarly interests. Much of his work is thought to have been inspired by poetry, especially the writings of André Breton, Paul Éluard, Arthur Rimbaud, and Paul Valéry; by the classic surrealism of Salvador Dalí; and by the paintings of Mexican neo-surrealist artists Remedios Varo...
Category
1980s Surrealist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Ring" Textured Abstract Geometric Composition in Oil on Cradled Masonite Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
"Ring" Textured Abstract Geometric Composition in Oil on Cradled Masonite Panel
Abstract composition by California artist Devon Brockopp-Hammer (American, b. 1986). This piece is hi...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Paris Street Scene, Mid Century Figural Landscape by Marc Ottee
Located in Soquel, CA
Paris Street Scene, Mid Century Figural Landscape by Marc Ottee
Charming mid century urban landscape of Paris by Marc Ottee (20th c.). Figures, signage and...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
"Spring in Central Park" after Adolf Arthur Dehn, Midcentury Modern Manhattan
Located in Soquel, CA
A spectacular mid-century modern Manhattan figurative landscape oil painting, after the renowned artist Adolf Arthur Dehn's 1941 watercolor "Spring in Central Park", by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). In this vibrant and expressive circa 1960 rendition of Dehn's famed painting, New Yorkers are depicted as tiny figures milling about the park in springtime, dwarfed by fluffy pink trees in bloom and the towering New York City skyline in the distance.
Unsigned.
Presented in a wood frame.
Image size: , 29"H x 36"L. Framed: 32"H x 39"W.
This painting is after the prestigious watercolor of the same title, painted in 1941 by Adolf Arthur Dehn (American, 1895 - 1968). The original piece is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It was exhibited at the Met's "26th Annual National Exhibition of Advertising and Editorial Art" in 1947, and then again at the 1950 exhibition titled "20th Century Painters: A Special Exhibition of Oils, Water Colors and Drawings Selected from the Collections of American Art in the Metropolitan Museum". More recently, "Spring in Central Park" was exhibited at Fairfield University Art Museum for the 2017 exhibition "Adolf Dehn: Midcentury Manhattan".
Visiting, and then living in New York City, Dehn captured the essence of the city in his paintings, prints and drawings of the landscapes of Central Park, and of the city's burlesque and night club scenes...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Fleet Week”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting of Fleet Week with sailors flirting with young women on the dock by the American artist, Sarah Pace Carothers Rhode. ...
Category
1940s Ashcan School Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Hellenic Hypotenuse. Nudes among Greek Columns. Mid-Century Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Klett was an in-demand illustrator in the post-war period of the late 1940's and 1950's. and . His work appeared in many of the newsstand magazines at the time.
This work is a pers...
Category
1940s Surrealist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1940s Modernist Victor, Colorado Mountain Landscape Painting, Mining Town View
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1942 oil painting, titled "Victor, Colorado", by Martyl Suzanne Schweig (1918-2013), captures the rugged beauty of Colorado’s iconic mining landscape. The painting depicts a ghost town in the foreground with the majestic Rocky Mountains in the background, completed in vibrant shades of green, gold, and brown. Schweig painted this scene during a trip with fellow artist Adolph Dehn...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'On the Shore, ' by Erekle Chinchilakashvili, Oil on Masonite Painting
By Erekle Chinchilakashvili
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 20" x 23" oil on masonite painting by Georgian artist Erekle Chinchilakashvili depicts two blue trees near a brown pathway leading to the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Venice, Santa Maria della Salute from the Cannaregio Canal', Large Venetian Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'P. G. Pallmann' for Peter Götz Pallmann (German, 1908-1966).
Displayed in a hand-rubbed, water-gilded, swept frame.
Framed D...
Category
1950s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Without Beginning Without End, Two-Sided Cubist Painting by William Littlefield
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Littlefield, American (1902 - 1969)
Title: Still Life and Abstract
Year: 1950 & 1954
Medium: Double-Sided Oil on Masonite, signed and dated both sides
Size: 22 x 28 i...
Category
1950s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Trompe l'Oeil Tuscan Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Trompe l'Oeil Still Tuscan Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Landscape in the trompe l'oeil style by Richard M. Bacon (American, 20th Century). This piece has been composed to create the...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Abstract Landscape, Chestnut and Coral', Venice Biennale, Michetti Prize Winner
By Gianni Pisani
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'G. Pisani', (Italian, born 1935), titled verso 'Paesaggio con Valigia' (Landscape with Luggage) and dated 1963.
Provenance: Galleria El Centro, Naples, Italy 1963. (from original label, copied verso).
A very substantial, mid-century abstracted landscape comprising an assembled group of Fendi shopping bags in the fashion designer's signature tones of cream, bistre and scarlet, shown contrasted against a lyrical, sunset-coral background. This powerful and lyrical oil was awarded the 1963 Michetti Painting Prize.
Gianni Pisani studied at the Accademia de Bella Arti in Naples under Emilio Notte. Much of his career in the 1960s and 70s involved reinvigorating the Neapolitan art scene with assemblages, ‘object art’ and performance art, an approach that was critically described and acclaimed by poet and writer, Edoardo Sanguineti.
The recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, including the Prize City Cesenatico (1955). Pisani exhibited widely and with success from the early 1950's including at the 8th Biennale of San Benedetto del Tronto (1969), Palazzo Dugnani (1983) and at the Non-Existent Gallery. Other solo and group exhibitions include a three-time participation in the National Quadrennial Art Shows (VIII, Rome, 1960; IX, Palazzo dei Esposizione, 1965/66; XI, Palazzo dei Congressi, 1986) and the 1995 Venice Biennale.
An ardent exponent, and influential teacher, of Modernism, Pisani taught at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan and, for many years, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, of which he was later appointed director. Gianni Pisani’s works are held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Museum of Capodimonte, the Museum of Contemporary Art Donna Regina (MADRE), Museum of Contemporary Religious Art...
Category
1960s Abstract Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
'Abstract Landscape', California WPA, Corcoran, Whitney, AIC, GGIE, SFAA, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper right, 'Graham' for Ellwood Graham (American, 1911-2007) and painted circa 1985; additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'View Study'.
This early California Modernist was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended the School of Fine Arts at Washington University. By the 1930's, Graham was living in California and working in the Federal Art Project as assistant to Gordon Grant. In this capacity, he designed and painted numerous murals in Federal and state buildings including the U.S. Post Office in Ventura. In 1937, he moved to Monterey and the home studio he built there was where he carried out various commissions, including for Senatorial offices in Washington DC and for John Steinbeck, a close personal friend, whose portrait he painted while the author was writing 'Sea of Cortez' (1940).
Graham served in the Navy during World War II and, afterwards, traveled between Monterey, the Caribbean (1952-1953), New Mexico, and Mexico (1954-1955) before becoming a resident of Pebble Beach in 1956. In 2000, he moved and spent his final years in Oregon. Graham exhibited widely and with success including at the Golden Gate International Exposition (1939), Art Institute of Chicago (1947), Corcoran Gallery (1947), Whitney Museum of Art (1951), San Francisco Art Association, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art and the Carmel Art Association. Honored with 68 awards, Graham has received national and international acclaim as an abstract painter and colorist. His work can be found in numerous public collections including the Whitney Museum in New York City, the Art Institute of Chicago, the New Mexico Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Art Museum, the Oakland Museum, and the Brazilian Embassy in Washington.
Concerning his work, Graham said:
"I am a creative painter, the grist for the mill can come from anything at all - a love affair, a book, a poem, a conversation, anything. I like profound painting, although I'm not always capable of doing it, I want a painting to breathe; I like to orchestrate color, playing with the various tones to create an amalgam of color."
Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, page 1341; Artists in California 1786-1940, Third Edition, Edan Milton Hughes: Crocker Art Museum, Sheridan Books 2002, Vol. 1, page 448; Art & Artists: Carmel – Monterey...
Category
1980s Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Back Road" California Redwoods Santa Cruz County Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
"Back Road" California Redwoods Santa Cruz County original Oil Painting
Oil painting of the California Redwoods by Gorman Woody (American, 1907-2000). the scene is a country road ...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Study of a Moor', Post-Impressionist Figural Oil, Othello, Moroccan, Tunisian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American school, Signed indistinctly lower right and dated 1988.
A bravura, psychologically-penetrating oil study of a man, shown wearing a turban and contrasted against a scumbled ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
Diminutive Mid Century Expressionist Clown Portrait #1
Located in Soquel, CA
Small portrait of a clown with colorful, expressionist brushstrokes by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower right corner...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Landscape -- Blooming Wildflower Field
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Landscape -- Blooming Wildflower Field
Beautiful vintage landscape in dark blue, yellow, and red accents of a field dotted with wildflowers and silhouetted birds soaring ove...
Category
1980s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Cyan & Orange Seascape at Sunset by Victor Papkov
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive and colorful seascape by Vasil (Victor) Papkov (20th Century). The vivid cyan blue churning waves mirror the sky above, with a glowing orange sunset splitting the canvas o...
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Ghost Town, Sepia Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Moody landscape in neutral sepia tones of a deserted western ghost town by Joseph Bodner (American, 1925-1982). Signed "Bodner" in block letters in the l...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Artist Self Portrait in an Orange Sweater - Fauvist Portrait
By Don Klopfer
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored portrait of a the artist sketching by California artist Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009). The seated figure is juxtaposed to a fun and vibrant two-toned background of...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Modern Geometric Green & White Kimono, Abstract Expressionist Collagraph
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern Geometric Green & White Kimono, Abstract Expressionist Collagraph Plate #3
Stunning modern minimalism meets abstract expressionism with green, white and black in this unique ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Silk, Masonite, Glaze
A Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Summer Landscape Painting w. Bathers by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A large, dynamic Mid-Century summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figurative w...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage "Bodega View" Original Oil Painting by McCabe C.1941
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage "Bodega View" Original Oil Painting by McCabe C.1941
Original oil on masonite
Masonite dimensions 36" wide x 24" high
The frame measures 42" wide x 30" high
The painting ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Ceremonial Dancers oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3"
Provenance:
John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso)
The artist's daughter
Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...
Category
1940s Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
"Luna" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kierstin Young's (US based) "Luna" is an oil painting that depicts a battered white moth and a black background with the phases of the moon overhead
Artist Statement/Bio:
(b. The Ye...
Category
2010s Realist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sunset Through the Trees - Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Sunset Through the Trees - Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Lively landscape with a bright sunset by an unknown artist (20th Century). The viewer stands at the edge of a marsh or lake, wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Vintage Abstract Expressionist -- "Their Feet Are Those Of Lions In The Hills"
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstract expressionist painting by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Oil on masonite. Titiled on verso "Their Feet are Those ...
Category
20th Century Post-War Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Le Coq Gaulois, French Roosters
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming painting of colorful Gallic "Le Coq Gaulois" roosters by listed California artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American,1903-1997), circa 1950.
Born in...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Yosemite Mountain Peak Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape of upper Young Lake and Ragged Peak in Yosemite National Park by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). The artist uses textural impasto in a pa...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Enchanted Ship, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting by Leonardo Nierman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Enchanted Ship
Leonardo Nierman, Mexican (1932–2023)
Date: circa 1970
Oil on Masonite, signed lower left and titled on verso
Size: 23 x 30.75 in. (58.42 x 78.11 cm)
Frame Size: 31 x ...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Landscape California Mountain Lakeside
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic landscape of a scenic lake view with an evergreen forest and picturesque purple mountains in the background by an unknown artist. Unsigned. Displayed in a period rustic wood ...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Woman in Black Dress Pulp Art Portrait/Couple Dancing Figurative, 2 sided
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful two-sided mid century pulp art figurative painting of a woman at party in black evening gown and formal gloves, and on verso couple dancing by unkno...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Cardboard
Mid Century Modern Silver & Earthtone Abstract Expressionist - Corban Lepell
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century modernist abstract combining earth-tones and subtlest metallic silver background by Corban LePell (American, b. 1933), 1955. Signed ...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Natural Bridges Impasto Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstracted impasto landscape of Natural Bridges that captures rough and rugged nature of Northern California coastline by Paul Sunseri (Americ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
The Cosmic Dance - Visionary Figurative Nude Composition in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
The Cosmic Dream - Visionary Figurative Nude Composition in Acrylic on Masonite
Flowing and stylized figurative work by Kimberlee Kuwica (American, b. 1967). A figure is dancing tho...
Category
1990s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Transendental Abstraction by William Schwartz Titled Impressions of the West #7
Located in Chicago, IL
A Transendental Abstraction by famed Chicago Modernist, William S. Schwartz titled "Impressions of the West #7". Anecdotally, Schwartz's notable "Impressions of the West" series wer...
Category
1940s Abstract Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
"Mud Season" - Original Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mud Season" - Original Oil on Masonite
Original oil landscape winter scene depicting a small wooden barn on the hillside, covered with snow. Crows are seen flying over the melting ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Tuscan Moon" Nocturnal Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Tuscan Moon" Nocturnal Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Serene nocturnal seascape by Richard M. Bacon (American, 20th Century). The viewer stand atop a hill above the coastline, wi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Tree in Winter" Delos Palmer Jr, Sketch of Tree 20th Century Impressionist Work
Located in New York, NY
Delos Palmer Jr.
Tree in Winter
Signed lower left
Oil on Masonite
10 x 8 inches
Delos Palmer, Jr. was born January 26, 1890 in New York City. His father was Dr. Delos Palmer, a socially prominent Park Avenue dentist. His mother was Jennifer Emma Banta. His parents were both born in NYC, where they married in 1880 and had five children. There had three sons and two daughters. He was the fourth born. They lived in a private townhouse at 48 West 50th Street, with a cook, a waitress, and a nurse to assist in his father's dental practice on the ground floor.
They lived a privileged life and the children all went to the best private schools. He graduated high school in June of 1908.
He studied at The Art Students League from 1911 to 1915 with the renowned American Impressionist, George Bellows. According to the artist, "Bellows was a good influence on me. He taught me how to paint what I see and what I feel!"
In 1916 Palmer moved to the historic Holbein Studios at 139 West 55th Street. He worked there until 1920, when he moved to the more fashionable Greenwich Village, where he became a successful society portraitist.
He was 27 years old during the Great War, so he was not selected for military service.
In 1923 Palmer began to sell interior story illustrations to Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Liberty.
In 1924 he married Helen Smith Romme and moved to Stamford, CT, where they raised a daughter and two step-sons.
The fateful market crash of 1929 ended Palmer's high society portrait business, but he soon found work through his contacts at Liberty magazine's MacFadden Publishing, which also produced several crime and detective magazines such as Master Detective and True Detective.
He then began to paint pulp covers for Dime Mystery, Clues, Frontier Stories, Action Stories, Western Trails, All Star Adventure, Complete Western Book...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Painting American 1960's Mid Century New York Colorful
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid Century Modern, American Abstract Expressionist Painting on Masonite.
This wonderful work in exciting colors is housed in a contemporary white wood frame presentation..
The art...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Large Embossed Plaster Painting of Trees
Located in Pasadena, CA
Mid-century large framed painting of two twin trees in warm earthy tones and textured details.
The work is first sculpted in plaster and then painted.
It has an illegible signature.
Category
1960s Land Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Spring Has Sprung on the Farm - Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Spring Has Sprung on the Farm - Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Abstract farm with seeds sprouting in a bold abstract expressionist painting by ...
Category
1970s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Light from the Past, 1st version, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Light from the Past, 1st version
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite
Size: 21.5 x 18 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate...
Category
1980s Photorealist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
You and I Duel
Located in Vancouver, CA
Herbert Siebner (1925-2004) was a German-born Canadian painter whose work is characterized by its expressive use of color and texture, and its exploration of themes of war, exile, an...
Category
1980s Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Landscape 118 by Jean Krille - Oil on masonite 70x50 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Out of the Blue, Miniature Red & Blue Abstract
By Tom Hamil
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of red, white and blue hues by California artist Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 2.75"H x 6.75"W.
Tom Hamil, was born in New York in 1928 and raised primarily in California. After attending the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, he returned to California to begin his formal art training at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now known as the San Francisco Art Institute). He completed his education at the University of Washington with a Master’s Degrees and Doctorate in Fine Arts and Education. His first solo exhibition was held in 1956. Since then, he has participated in numerous one man shows, group shows, and has been represented in galleries in the US and Mexico.
In addition to his painting, Hamil has authored and illustrated a number of books. While at the Naval Academy, he received recognition for his paintings, drawings, and illustrations. Listed among Hamil’s many awards and honors are a Ford Foundation Fellowship and an Award of Excellence from the American Graphics Society.
Currently, he lives in Zirahuen, Michoacan, Mexico and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Hamil’s statement: “I am a man...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Bavarian Lake Landscape in European Style
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous vintage landscape of Bavarian lake with snow-capped mountains in background. Signed illegibly bottom right corner and on verso. Palette knife work adds texture and interest....
Category
1970s Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid-Century Paleolithic Hunt Scene
By Nan Street Fowler
Located in Soquel, CA
A wonderful mid-century interpretation of prehistoric, Paleolithic cave paintings; done in reddish earth tones and rich in visual texture by Sausalito, California artist Nan Street F...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Carmel Valley, California Cabin Landscape
By Ray Barton
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant, colorful painting of a cabin in Carmel Valley, California by Monterey artist Ray Barton (American, 1918-1988). Signed "R. Barton" lower right and "Ray Barton" with street ad...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Untitled (ER44) Abstract Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Pink & Yellow Figurative Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract painting with pink, yellow, black, brown and white forms by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the es...
Category
1970s Post-War Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Painting American Late 1960's Mid Century New York Blue
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid Century Modern, American Abstract Expressionist Painting on Masonite.
This wonderful work in hues of blue comes house in a contemporary natural wood frame presentation..
The ar...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite
Untitled (ER39) Abstract Expressionist painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edward Pechmann Renouf (1906-1999). Oil on panel measures 16 x 24 inches. Signed lower margin. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Allan Stone Pr...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Still Life of Irises', Carmel, Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped with the artist's estate seal.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los A...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Idle Hour, Impressionist figurative Garden landscape
Located in Greenwich, CT
Idle Hour is an intricately painted Impressionist depiction of woman with her pets on her veranda. It is exquisitely framed in a French Gold Leaf frame of quality and value. Paint...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
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