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Medium: Masonite
Mid 20th Century California Plein Air American River Landscape Walter F Mire
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid 20th century impressionist landscape of California's American River by Walter F. Mire (American, 1916 - ?), circa 1945. Signed o...
Category
1930s Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Pierrot et Perroquet Clown Original Oil Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful monotone figurative of clown wearing a top hat with a parrot by Alice Jean Small (American 1918-2009), c. 1970. Signed lower edge. Condition: Good; some wear around edges consistent with age/use; frame is rustic and shows minor age. Image size: 28"H x 22"W.
Alice Jean Small was a trained artist, graduating from the University of Washington School of Fine Arts with a Master's Degree. She continued her studies, traveling around the world and settling in California's Monterey Peninsula.
Alice Jean Small was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, on December 11, 1918. She studied art at the Derbyshire School of Art and she went on to obtain a Master of Fine Arts Degree in water color from the University of Washington School of Fine Arts. Following her graduation, she studied at many universities in both the United States as well as foreign countries, learning from artists such as Amedee Ozenfant, Emilio...
Category
1970s Post-Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Geometric Composition with Biomorphic Object - Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract composition by RH Barnard (American, 20th Century). The backdrop of this piece is composed of rectangular sections of brown, red, blue, and tan. In the center of the composition, there is a black object...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Acrylic
Lady of the Lake, 2022
Located in Greenwich, CT
Lady of the Lake is an oil on panel painting, 23.5 xx 25.5" panel size, signed ‘HOFMANN’ lower right, and framed in a custom, contemporary, gold-leaf frame.
Douglas Hofmann’s works ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Fruits & Flowers Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century vertical still life with folk-art feel and vibrant colors by T. Tinney (American, 20th Century) 1957. Signed "T. Tinney" and dated "1957" lower right. Unframed...
Category
1950s Folk Art Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Setting Off" - Nautical Scene in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Setting Off" - Nautical Scene in Oil on Masonite
Original impressionist seascape with sailboat by Richard M. Bacon a New England artist (American, 20th Century). At the end of a do...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Cloisonné Abstract', Large Post-Impressionist Oil, Aptos, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C. S. Sanchez' for Clyde Sanchez (American, 20th century), and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, with artist location, 'Aptos, CA'.
A substantial,...
Category
1970s Abstract Masonite Paintings
Materials
Plaster, Masonite, Acrylic
Mid Century California Garden Landscape -- The Friendly Gate
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century landscape with Cecil Brunner roses, larkspur and foxglove titled "The Friendly Gate" by Lillian Mae Grooms Huebner (American, 1892-1976), circa 1950. Condition: ...
Category
1950s Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Modern Portrait, "Alida Valli" Black & White
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive and raw large-scale modernist portrait of the timeless film actress Alida Valli (Italian, 1921-2006) by contemporary Barcelona artist Mariona Mi...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Acrylic
"An Archbishop of the Cloudworks" Abstract
By Les Anderson
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstract oil painting on canvas by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). From the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unframed. Titled "An Archbis...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with One Runner Flanked by Two Bicyclists
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with One Runner Flanked by Two Bicyclists
n.d.
Signed in red, u.r.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
35.5 x 69 inches (90.2 x 175.3 cm)
$8,250...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
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Aspinall
By Mary Vernon
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Colorful & Dynamic ca. 1950s Painting of Martha’s Vineyard by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful & dynamic ca. 1950s painting of Martha’s Vineyard by notable artist Francis Chapin, featuring The Old Whaler's Church in the background. Artwork size: 12" x 19". Framed...
Category
1950s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Barn in Autumn - Small Country Landscape with Tree
By M. Lemieux
Located in Soquel, CA
Miniature farm landscape of a white barn with two trees and a flock of birds by an unknown Quebec, Canada artist, M. Lemieux (20th Century). Signed and dated "M. Lemieux 81 QUEBEC" i...
Category
1980s Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Glaze, Oil
A Picturesque ca. 1940s Farm Scene with a Barn & Silo by Artist Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A picturesque ca. 1940s, horizontal farm scene with a barn & silo, created in oil on Masonite, by Artist Francis Chapin. Painting likely depicts Wisconsin or Michigan. Painting is ...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Market Place, Taxco Mexico, Oil Painting by Fil Mottola
By Fil Mottola
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Fil Mottola, American (1915 - 2008)
Title: Market Place, Taxco Mexico
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 30 x 40 inches [76 x 102.5 cm]
Framed: 38 x 48 inches [96.5 ...
Category
1980s American Realist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Still Life with Flower Pot" Expressionistic Style Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in Circa 1960 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his bold still life 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 21.75 x 18 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...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
'Masses' by Marc Barker, Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 40" x 40" oil on masonite panel by artist Marc Barker was painted in charcoal and sepia tones, and was created in an 'old world' grisaille style.
"This monochromatic abstract harkens back to my collegiate studies, and as a graduate student teaching zoology with the hours spent staring into a microscope mystified by the primordial world just out of site, a bacterial/protozoan cloud chamber...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
St. Atomic oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1950 University of Illinois at Urbana "Contemporary American Painting"
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 36" x 2".
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 10" H X 8" W.
G...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Expressionist Painting American Late 1970's Mid Century Orange Purple
Located in Buffalo, NY
Mid Century Modern, American Abstract Expressionist Painting on artist board.
This wonderful work combines unique shades of orange yellow and purple and comes house in a contemporar...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Presque Isle (Day 62) June 23
Located in Denver, CO
Primary Hughes' "Presque Isle (Day 62) June 23" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an ocean landscape of waves coalescing around a rock...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Sol" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kierstin Young's (US based) "Sol" is an oil painting that depicts a battered white moth and a black background with organic designs in rust tones.
Artist Statement/Bio:
(b. The Yea...
Category
2010s Realist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Lake and Old Mill, Vintage Autumnal Landscape by Virginia Newport Ingram
Located in Soquel, CA
The Lake and Old Mill, Vintage Autumnal Landscape by Virginia Newport Ingram
Substantial and serene autumnal oil painting of an old mill near a lakeside surrounded by trees and fall leaves by Virginia Newport Ingram (American, 20th Century), circa 1970. Signed "Newport" lower right and titled, signed on verso "Virginia Newport Ingram." Presented in a rustic, brown, wood frame. Image, 24"H x 26L.
Virginia Newport is a Sacramento artist...
Category
1970s Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Red Glider', Large California Modernist oil, Modesto Urban Landscape, Airplane
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Keith Longcor' (American, 1944-2015) and dated, '2002'; additionally titled verso, 'Airplanes from a Parking Garage- Modesto CA'.
A substantial Modernist landsc...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
1920 Historical Church of Soquel, California Landscape
By Mary DeNeale Morgan
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful historically significant oil painting of the Congregational Church of Soquel by Mary DeNeale Morgan (American, 1868-1948). Signed "M. DeNeale Morgan" lower right corner. Exhibit label on verso. Canvas on Masonite. Displayed in giltwood frame. Image, 24"H x 20"W.
Born in San Francisco in 1868, she was taken to Oakland in 1872, where the painter and teacher William Keith was her first teacher. She was precocious. In 1886 she enrolled in the California School of Design in San Francisco and studied with Emil Carlsen and Amédée Joullin until 1890. She paid her first visit to Carmel in 1903. In 1910 she returned to buy the studio and home of the late Sydney Yard...
Category
1920s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Grand Canyon Impressionist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Grand Canyon Impressionist Landscape
Majestic impressionist landscape of the Grand Canyon in beautiful vivid colors by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). The viewer...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Roadside Eucalyptus Trees, Mid Century Vertical Landscape by Jon Blanchette
Located in Soquel, CA
Roadside Eucalyptus Trees, Mid Century Vertical Landscape by Jon Blanchette
Gorgeous mid-century plein air landscape painting of a tall Eucalyptus tree along a California road side...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Ralph Chapotean (Haitian, 1954-Active)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ralph Chapotean (Haitian, 1954-Active)
Surrealist landscape
Oil on Massanet
16 x 24 unframed, 17.5 x 25.5 framed
Category
20th Century Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
What Are They Looking At ? Sexy Nude Naive Caribbean Art , Swimming Pool Party
Located in Miami, FL
A young man at a crowded upper-class Haitian swimming pool attracts attention. We see him only from the back in a Magritte-like pose. The transfixed expressions of some of the nubile bare-breasted bathing beauties and one man with his hands down his pants give us a clue that the mystery man is special.
This is a fascinating work packed with drama and overflowing with pent-up emotion.
Bigaud's narrative is as complex as his figural composition of lookers and swimmers. Notice the sight lines of the lookers go back to front while the two swimmers go from left to right. The twenty-two figures are contained in the rectangular shape of the pool, which is pushed to the front of the picture plane. The cars of the pool partygoers are seen in the background with one witness. He is fully clothed and is most likely a chauffeur. The fully clothed female at the pool offering food is a servant. A boxy-looking radio with a pack of cigarettes and the style of the cars give glue to the date. Most Haitian art depicts average working people. The pool party departs from that tradition and shows life of the Haitian upper class. Most likely, this was painted in Petion-Ville. The higher the elevation in Port-au-Prince the more wealthy the homes. Although the artist's painting technique may be described as naive or lacking polish.
t's one of the reasons why the work radiates charm and interest.
The painting is oversized with huge dimensions of 55 x 48 and will be a statement in any room. Wilson Bigaud is considered to be a Haitian master. The condition is good. Three repaired one-inch issues on the extreme center and upper right edge. Visible only on close inspection. Otherwise presents very well and is elegantly framed,
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Haitian master Wilson Bigaud is renowned for works portraying everyday life and rites of passage—vodou rituals, fortune-tellers, weddings, cockfights, and carnivals—with voluminous figures and lucid colors. Born in Port-au-Prince, in 1946 Bigaud was among the first to attend DeWitt Peters’s Le Centre d’Art d’Haïti, where he studied with Hector Hyppolite...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Located in New York, NY
Colliers Magazine 1947 American Scene Social Realism Modern Families in the Snow
Katherine Wiggins (American 20th Century)
"The Shrimp"
20 x 24 inch...
Category
1940s American Realist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Egg Tempera
“Woman and Birds”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid-century oil on masonite modern painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top left and dated 1949. Titled verso. Condition is fair. Provenanc...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“The Jester”
By Richard Kirk
Located in Southampton, NY
Intriguing oil on masonite painting by the American artist Richard Kirk of a young boy wearing a jesters hat. Signed lower right. Circa 1960. Condition is excellent. The painting is in it original painted wood and intentionally distressed frame. Overall measurements framed 22.5 by 30.5 inches. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida collector.
My first recollections were of drawing. I don't remember telling people that I wanted to be an artist. I just loved drawing. At times, it was all that occupied my young mind. My passion for drawing was instantly converted to a passion for painting after I met my best friend's father, Oleg Stavrowsky...
Category
1960s Modern 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
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting-- "An Oblation to Shells"
Located in Soquel, CA
A dymanic mid century abstract expressionist painiting with geometric shapes in cool tones and two figures by Leslie Luverne Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Oil on masonite. Titled "...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Nymphs at Dusk', Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Tonalist Oil, Three Graces, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910.
Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance' (images included were taken prior to lay down).
Displayed in a period, carved and giltwood frame; framed dimensions: 27.75 x 33.75 x 1.5 inches.
Born in London, England, William Emerson...
Category
1910s Tonalist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Cardboard
“French Countryside at Dusk”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on heavy card stock laid down on masonite by the French artist, Raymond Jean Verdun. Signed lower right. Circa 1895. Condition: Good.
Overall framed 7 by 11 inches. The frame has been restored.
Born 1873, in Nogent-le-Rotrou; died 1954...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Oil
Mid Century Snowy Winter in High Valley
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene winter landscape of snow and bare trees in cool tones by California artist Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1917-2015). Signed and dated lower right "VR 2/50." Displayed in a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Small Expressionist Clown Portrait #2, 1960s
Located in Soquel, CA
Small and colorful expressionist portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the lower right corner. Dated "1969" ...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Cosmic Dream - 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 floating th...
Category
1990s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
The Magician oil and tempera painting by Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Julio De Diego’s Atomic Series paintings made an extraordinary statement regarding the shock and fear that accompanied the dawn of the nuclear age. In the artist’s own words, “Scientists were working secretly to develop formidable powers taken from the mysterious depths of the earth - with the power to make the earth useless! Then, the EXPLOSION! . . . we entered the Atomic Age, and from there the neo-Atomic war begins. Explosions fell everywhere and man kept on fighting, discovering he could fight without flesh.”
To execute these works, De Diego developed a technique of using tempera underpainting before applying layer upon layer of pigmented oil glazes. The result is paintings with surfaces which were described as “bonelike” in quality. The forms seem to float freely, creating a three-dimensional visual effect. In the 1954 book The Modern Renaissance in American Art, author Ralph Pearson summarizes the series as “a fantastic interpretation of a weighty theme. Perhaps it is well to let fantasy and irony appear to lighten the devastating impact. By inverse action, they may in fact increase its weight.”
Exhibited
1964 Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas
This work retains its original frame which measures 54" x 42" x 2"
About this artist: Julio De Diego crafted a formidable persona within the artistic developments and political struggles of his time. The artist characterized his own work as “lyrical,” explaining, “through the years, the surrealists, the social-conscious painters and the others tried to adopt me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life when de Diego left his parent’s home in Madrid, Spain, in adolescence following his father’s attempts to curtail his artistic aspirations. At the age of fifteen he held his first exhibition, set up within a gambling casino. He managed to acquire an apprenticeship in a studio producing scenery for Madrid’s operas, but moved from behind the curtains to the stage, trying his hand at acting and performing as an extra in the Ballet Russes’ Petrouchka with Nijinsky. He spent several years in the Spanish army, including a six-month stretch in the Rif War of 1920 in Northern Africa. His artistic career pushed ahead as he set off for Paris and became familiar with modernism’s forays into abstraction, surrealism, and cubism.
The artist arrived in the U.S. in 1924 and settled in Chicago two years later. He established himself with a commission for the decoration of two chapels in St. Gregory’s Church. He also worked in fashion illustration, designed magazine covers and developed a popular laundry bag for the Hotel Sherman. De Diego began exhibiting through the Art Institute of Chicago in 1929, and participated in the annual Chicago Artists Exhibitions, Annual American Exhibitions, and International Water Color Exhibitions. He held a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in the summer of 1935. Though the artist’s career was advancing, his family life had deteriorated. In 1932 his first marriage dissolved, and the couple’s young daughter Kiriki was sent to live with friend Paul Hoffman.
De Diego continued to develop his artistic vocabulary with a growing interest in Mexican art. He traveled throughout the country acquainting himself with the works of muralists such as Carlos Merida, and also began a collection of small native artifacts...
Category
1940s American Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Colorful Portrait Painting on Board by Peter Keil w Tiffany Blue Background
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
This modern abstract painting by Peter Keil is on a smooth masonite board with a painted Tiffany Blue background, black abstract portrait. Here you ...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful abstract expressionist piece by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009) that lends itself to either vertical or horizontal orientat...
Category
1960s Post-War Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Farm by the Canal - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic farm landscape with a palm tree by an unknown artist (Amercan, 20th Century). There is a tower that is the main focus of the piece, with a palm tree next to it. Behind the pa...
Category
1990s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Bold German American Abstract Expressionist Color Field Oil Painting Carl Holty
By Carl Holty
Located in Surfside, FL
Carl Robert Holty (American 1900-1973)
Abstract Expressionism Oil on Masonite board.
Abstract with greens blues and red,
Dimensions 12 x 9-1/2 inches. Framed 17 X 14 inches
Hand...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Landscape
By Richard Mann
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Mann (1940-1990) (Australia / America, 20th century) abstract expressionist acrylic painting, circa 1970s
Bold original painting by Richard M...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Abstract Expressionist Two Sided Painting -- Male Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Double sided figurative abstract by San Jose, California area artist Daniel David Fuentes (American, 1978-2016). San Francisco bay area abstract expressionist and landscape artist du...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Ocean Wave, Mid Century Modern Abstracted Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Ocean Wave, Mid Century Modern Abstracted Seascape
Beautiful abstracted seascape, a mid century modern oil painting of ocean waves breaking on ro...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
The Three Peppers - Geometric Abstract
By Michael Mercado
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored geometric abstract expressionist painting by California artist Michael Mercado (American, 20th Century). Signed lower right "M. Mercado '90" and Michael Mercado on ve...
Category
1990s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract Portrait Painting by Peter Keil - Black & Tan
By Peter Keil
Located in Hudson, NY
A beautiful Peter Keil original painting. Keil's signature style is shown in these Picasso inspired portraits. These portraits are characteristic of Keil's work in the 1980s when the...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Board
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with Five Athletes
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with Five Athletes
n.d.
Signed in red, u.r.
Oil on canvas mounted to Masonite
35.5 x 86 inches (90.2 x 218.4 cm)
$9,500 + $850 framing
This w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
![[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Frieze with Five Athletes](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/mark-beard-paintings-bruce-sargeant-1898-1938-frieze-with-five-athletes-for-sale/a_9323/1627927591884/Beard_Sargeant_Frieze_with_Five_Athletes_master.jpg?width=240 "frieze painting")
Red Rocks, Contemporary Utah Desert Landscape by Mike Wright
By Mike Wright
Located in Soquel, CA
Red Rocks, Contemporary Utah Desert Landscape by Mike Wright
A beautiful contemporary desert landscape of red rock country in Utah by Mike Wright (America...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Horizontal Abstract #4
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold abstract expressionist painting by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Oil on masonite. Titled "For the Spouse no Longer in my House" on verso. From the estate ...
Category
1960s Post-War Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Body 003
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
((Approx 150 lb these are made on 3 hollow closed doors special brackets provided allow them to “ float “ on the wall ))
Harrison Storms’s artwork confronts the spectator with who they are and what it means to be human. Through his process of building up and stripping down his renderings of the human figure, Storms unlocks the synergy between the object and its environment, and between the physical and the metaphysical. Drawing influence from Michelangelo’s Rondanini Pieta and Crucifixion drawings, Italian fresco, and Ken Wilber’s philosophical inquiries, Storms creates images that portray the inevitability of change and its consequences.
Basing his images on the Kouros, a classic Greek male figure...
Category
Early 2000s Masonite Paintings
Materials
Limestone
“Orient, Long Island”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful Orient, Long Island, New York painting by well known Hampton artist, John Crimmins. Acrylic on masonite. Circa 1995. Signed lower left. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in a a new contemporary antique silver frame 26 by 30.25 inches. Provenance: A Southampton, New York collector.
East End artist, John Crimmins was born in New York in 1963. As an American Impressionist painter, he lives in New York and he is very active in the Hamptons. Incredibly, he is self-taught, having studied the works and techniques of the prominent American artist Charles Hawthorne and living by his saying “Let Color make form”. If you view John’s paintings at close inspection you will see single spots of color silhouetted with another which not only shows his skill but his passion and intricate dedication to his work. His paintings are done 'alla prima', that in Italian means 'at first attempt', it is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint. With this style of painting the work is to be completed while the paint is still wet, so once started his works are finished in one session.
He is a member of the East End Arts Council and his paintings are a part of the Ken Ratner Collection and the Southold Historical Society in New York. His works were a part of the Islip Art Museum IAM Pocket sized open Call Exhibition in 2015. He is mostly known for his flag and local Hampton beach paintings...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Spring Valley Plein Air Landscape in Oil on Masonite by Gibson
Located in Soquel, CA
Spring Valley - Small Plein Air Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Idyllic valley landscape with mountains in the distance by Gibson (20th Century). Pink flowers are in bloom throughout the landscape, with a handful of light green trees on either side of the composition. In the distance, a couple of purple mountains rise to meet a soft yellow and blue sky. The artist was a woman who had a gallery in Palm Desert...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Mare and Foal', Equestrian Modernist Oil, Chouinard, LACMA, Metropolitan Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr. (American, 1918-1991) and painted circa 1965.
A substantial, Modernist oil showing a mare and foal frolicking in a deep chestnut landscape interspersed with foliage and areas of bright color.
Born in Los Angeles, Leon D'Usseau began training under the guidance of his father, who was among the earliest fine-art film directors to work in Hollywood. At the age of twelve, Leon was drawing seriously and, at fifteen, received a working scholarship at Chouinard School of Art where he studied under Merrill Gage and Alexander Archipenko. At this early age, he was also employed by Chouinard to teach a line-drawing class.
Adopting the anglicized brush-name of Dusso, he exhibited widely and with success including at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1937-40), the California Palace Legion of Honor (1941), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1942), the Laguna Festival of Arts, Los Angeles Artists Association (1945), the California Watercolor Society (1946) and the Audubon Association (1945). Leon Dusso...
Category
1960s Modern Masonite Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Ink, Oil
America Rising - Patriotic 9/11 Figurative Abstract
By Jocelyn Audette
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid and evocative abstracted painting of 9/11 by artist Jocelyn Audette (American, b. 1952), circa 2001. Impasto adds texture and interest. Label on verso with artist's name. Pres...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Masonite paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Masonite paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, green, pink, purple and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Enzio Wenk, Mark Beard, Michael Baxte, and Helen Enoch Gleiforst. Frequently made by artists working in the Impressionist, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Masonite paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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