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Medium: Masonite
Sailing Boats in Harbor (Possibly Mohnegan Island, Maine)
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Mounted in a period, hand carved, gold leaf frame. Signed lower right "Paul King"
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"7 Koi" Expressionist Brightly Colored Koi Underwater in Red/Yellow/Blue/Green
Located in Wellesley, MA
"7 Koi" is a complex work of koi fish swimming underwater filled with light and brilliant color painted in a lush and fluid style bordering on abstraction. Fish are in shades of ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Shes Watching Mixed Media Painting Collage Wall Construction FIgural Abstraction
Located in Surfside, FL
"She's Watching" Mixed media collage, assemblage, gestural painting on masonite. Hand Signed in ink and titled verso. It does not appear to be dated. I am estimating it is from the 1980's. It has some Postmodern elements and similarities to Transavanguardia is the Italian version of Neo-expressionism. Francie Bishop Good (American, 1949-) Francie Bishop Good was raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She currently lives and works in South Florida and New York City. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Bishop Good is twice recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, and the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship. She completed her Graduate Studies at Maine Media College, Rockport, Maine, International Center of Photography, New York, New York, Master of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, B.F.A. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, William Allen High School, studies under James Musselman Her museum solo shows include the Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, and the Hilliard Museum, Lafayette, LA. Bishop Good's work has been shown at David Castillo Gallery, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL. Griffin Museum of Photography, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, and AMbrosino Gallery. Recent museum acquisitions include Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL and the NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Selected Group and Invitational Exhibitions NSU Art Museum, Remember to React: 60 Years of Collection, Fort Lauderdale, FL Frost Art Museum, Connectivity: Selections from the Collection of the Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL Dual Roles, curated by Laura Marsh, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood FL David Castillo Gallery, gallery artists, in terms of collage, Miami Beach, FL Multidisciplinary, curated by Dimensions Variable, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Cornell Museum, Artistically Speaking, Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL. People and Places, Photographs from the Collection, summer 2015 Frost Museum, FIU Miami FL, 25 Inches, The Faces of the Permanent Collection Locust Projects, Smash and Grab, November Annie Wharton Fine Art, Los Angeles group show, summer Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale ,The Art of Caring summer Women to Women, collaboration with Samantha Salzinger, Bakehouse Fredric Snitzer Gallery Boy oh Boy, Summer Show Miami A.I.R. Gallery, The Man I Wish I Was, curator Kharis Kennedy Photo Miami with Nina Arias, Miami, FL December Alva Gallery, New London, Ct Being Good: Women's Moral Values Art Basel with Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL 51st Venice Biennale, Italy Poles Apart / Poles Together, International Artists' Museum, White Box Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, FOCUS ON: New Photography, National Museum of Women in the Arts, FL Transitory Patterns Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Optic Nerve Selected Collections Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Ct. Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL Frost Museum of Art, Miami Florida Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida Sagamore Hotel Collection, Miami Beach, Florida Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Refco Collection, Chicago, Illinois Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania New World Symphony Residence, Miami, Florida Art in Public Places, Broward County, Florida Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida William Gates III (Bill Gates) Monica and Richard Segal Saks Fifth Avenue Asides from being an exceptional artist she is also a passionate collector. Photographs by Cindy Sherman and the late feminist artist Ana Mendieta, collages by Kara Walker, a watercolor by Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Tracey Emin, Teresita Fernandez, Carrie Mae Weems, Nan Goldin, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, Mickalene Thomas, and Kara Walker. are among 100 works by leading contemporary artists donated by philanthropists David Horvitz...
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1980s Post-Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Oil

Girl Reading Card-American Realist Portrait-Mid-Century Original Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
Clyde Singer was a master of capturing the small and significant moments of everyday life. This painting, titled Girl Reading Card, 1948, is one of those perfect scenes that he docu...
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1940s American Realist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Breakfast Room
Located in New York, NY
A great early date for this artist where he was coming out of the origins of expressionist and fauve works of art. A unique composition depicting a woman setting out a table laden w...
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1960s Expressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Abstract Portrait Painting by Peter Keil - Black & Tan
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...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic, Board

Muscular Gay Men Mardi Gras - Daring Interracial Love Mid-Century - Gay Interest
Located in Miami, FL
The present mid-century work features two taboos in one painting. In 1949, it was verboten to glamorize gay life and even more prohibited to show interracial love. This work by Dan A...
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1940s Contemporary Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite

Impressionist Portrait Painting of Circus Clown 1950
Located in Rochester, NY
Bold portrait of an introspective circus clown. Rich colors. Detailed circus background. Oil on masonite. Signed Klotz. Dated 1950. Unfarmed. period sculpted artist sculpture Egyptian gold collection collector american large carved paris rome new york salon important provenance historical fine not signed. museum original unique rare american Emmett Kelly...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

A Haitian Country Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Haitian artist Jacksin Mésidor painted this from his Caribbean coastal hometown of Cap-Haitien in the north of his native land. As Haitian folk art, the painting delivers an archityp...
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20th Century Folk Art Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Vermont Landscape Painting by Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A vibrant, Mid-Century Modern painting, "Vermont Landscape, Spruce Tree and Shoreline" by notable Chicago artist Harold Haydon. Painted near the artist's longtime summer studio loca...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Impressionist Plein Aire painting New York City Street Scene Verdi Sqaure
Located in New York, NY
American plein air impressionist Peter Mayer was born 1887-1993. Exhibited painting of Broadway and West 72nd street in New York, Verdi Square. T...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Malaysia Beef Jerky, 16x19.5, acrylic on masonite
Located in Southampton, NY
Charles Ford's work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Another wonderful painting by Charles Ford that captures the great lighting and shadows of ...
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2010s Photorealist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic

A Colorful Expressionist 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Expressionist 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a bright and cheerful studio still life sce...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

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

'Abstract, Azure and Rose', Paris, Art Students League, Carnegie Institute, Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paul England' (American, 1918-1988) and painted circa 1965. With old label, verso, bearing title, 'Gutenburg'. Framed in a period wh...
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1960s Abstract Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Grace, 2011
Located in Greenwich, CT
Grace is an oil on Masonite painting, 32 x 25" panel size, signed ‘HOFMANN’ lower right and framed in a custom, closed-corner, baroque-style frame. Douglas Hofmann’s works have been...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

"Urban Renewal"
Located in Astoria, NY
Katherine S. Kirkman (American, XX-XXI), "Urban Renewal", Oil on Masonite, signed lower right, titled and signed to verso, wood frame. Image: 23.5" H x 19.5" W; frame: 26" H x 24" W....
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Late 20th Century Expressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Tall Ships in the Harbor
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
American painter Paul King was born in Buffalo, New York on February 9, 1867. Mounted in a carved, gold leaf frame. This painting ships from San Diego, CA.
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

A Vibrant, 1930s American Modern Painting, Chicago City Street Scene, Old Town
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, 1930s Chicago City Street Scene of the Old Town Neighborhood by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a colorful, blustery, autumn view...
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1930s American Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Nocturnal Train In The City Abstract Expressionism
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, small abstract expressionist painting of train and town at night by Tom Hamil (American, b. 1928). Signed upper left corner "Hamil". Condition: Excellent. Presented in rustic wooden shadow box frame. Image size: 8"H x 6"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...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

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 ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Santa's 1963 Corvette Convertible, Hertz advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed Center Left Santa's 1963 Corvette Convertible, Hertz Advertisement.
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1960s Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

A Colorful, Dynamic 1930s Modern Boxing Scene by Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Colorful, Dynamic 1930s Modern Boxing Scene by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 2 3/4 x 4 inches, oil on Masonite on original mount, framed in striking perio...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Sunset Seaside Landscape with Lush Blooming Flowers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sunset Seaside Landscape with Lush Blooming Flowers Signed Lower Right Oil on masonite Minor distress marks on frame 8 x 10 unframed, 15 x 17.25 framed
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20th Century Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

'Place du Tertre', French Impressionism, Sacré-Cœur, Montmartre, School of Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, "M. Legendre' for Maurice Louis Legendre (French, born 1928) and painted circa 1960. A boldly painted, cabinet-sized oil showing the cafes of Montmartre's Place d...
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1950s Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Colorful Portrait Painting on Board 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 with many ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic, Board

Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile) Dominican Artist
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alberto Ulloa Burgos (1 January 1950 – 1 October 2011). Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile), 1970. Oil on masonite panel measuring 20 x 24 inches; 26 x 30 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Original frame with export label stamp. Alberto Ulloa Burgos was a painter, sculptor, and poet from Altamira, Dominican Republic. He was a student of the distinguished Latin American painter Jaime Colson...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Striking Hollywood Regency Portrait of a Red Haired Lady by Kughler 1932
Located in Rochester, NY
Hollywood regency portrait painting of a young woman by Francis Kughler (American 1901-1970). Oil on canvas board. Circa 1932. Unframed. Born in New York City in 1901, Francis Vandeveer Kughler attended Cooper Union, the Mechanics' Institute, and the National Academy of Design School of Art where he met Charlotte Livingston, an artist, whom he was later to marry. During this period he was the winner of a Tiffany scholarship, which provided him a summer of landscape painting at the Louis Comfort Tiffany estate at Oyster Bay, L.I. In the 1940s, Kughler became the President of the Salmagundi Club, a well-known art club in Washington Square in New York City.Well-known as a muralist, society portrait painter and lithographer, he was a prolific painter who made cityscapes, landscapes, and nudes. He and his wife, Charlotte Livingston, lived and worked in Bronx, New York. mid century modern wpa impressionist...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Father Rushing Home with an Armload of Gifts, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Father Rushing Home with an Armload of Gifts, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 4, 1909. A charming original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 4, 1909,...
Category

Early 1900s Masonite Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Masonite

Oil on Masonite Painting Titled "Lobster Shack", by Aaron Bohrod, 1938
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992 Lobster Shack, 1938 Oil on masonite 16 x 20 inches Signed and dated ower left: Aaron Bohrod 1938 Bohrod-3 Provenance: Private estate, Rhode Island, 2004 Am...
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1930s Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

German Contemporary Art by Margot Ledergerber - 7711
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed Media on Masonite
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2010s Contemporary Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Mixed Media

"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...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Carmel Valley, California Cabin Landscape
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...
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1980s American Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Back of Provincetown
By Malcolm Humphreys
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful impressionist Cape Cod landscape by American artist Malcolm Humphreys (1892-1963). Humphreys was born in Morristown, New Jersey, graduated from Princeton University, and p...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Gondola In Venice, 1947
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite Signature: Signed Upper Left Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine Excellent Condition This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...
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1940s Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

'Montmartre, Place du Tertre', Paris, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965. The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Assoc...
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1960s Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Horse and Colt in Abstract Landscape - Equestrian
Located in Miami, FL
An American Female Artist in her late signature style depicts a Horse and a Colt in an abstract landscape. Ethel Magafan scapes the defining lines with a knife to add to the creative...
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1950s American Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Color Block Abstracted Still Life with Bust
Located in Soquel, CA
Color Block Abstracted Still Life with Bust by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952). This bold composition combines the language of still life with geometric abstraction. Vivid blocks...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Board, Acrylic, Masonite

'Young Court Jester Holding a Puppet', Commedia dellArte, Post Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Dietrich' (German-American, 20th century) and dated 1963. A powerful, character-driven portrait of the young man, shown gazing directly towards the viewer. w...
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1960s Expressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Bucks County Bridge
Located in Greenville, DE
Outstanding work by Bucks County artist David Hahn. The winter scene is of Bucks County Bridge painted with heavy imposto.
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

New Orleans
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Harry Dunn (1929-1998). Island People, ca. 1970. Oil on masonite panel, 18 x 30 inches; 24 x 36 inches framed. Signed lower right. Excellent condition. Du...
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1970s Abstract Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

New Orleans
New Orleans
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Voodoo Altar: Feast for the Loa
By Adam Leontus
Located in Miami, FL
Voodoo Altar: Feast for the Loa This work represents a convergence of religion, craft, and design, as well as the need for individual artistic expression. It is a visual feast as mu...
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1960s Conceptual Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

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

'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 ...
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1980s Modern Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

A Lively, Expressionist 1950s Mid-Century Modern Painting, "Still Life w. Lemon"
Located in Chicago, IL
A Lively, Expressionist 1950s Mid-Century Modern Painting, "Still life with Lemon" by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a painterly studio still life...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Portrait of Woman with Bouquet
By Isolda Hermes da Fonseca
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Isolda Hermes de Fonseca Brazilian, 1924–2004 Portrait of a Young Woman with Bouquet, ca. 1970. Oil on masonite panel, 24 x 36 inches. Framed Dimension: 34 x 46 inches. Signed lo...
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1970s Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Saturday Evening Post Cover, January 31, 1953
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1953 Medium: Oil on Masonite Dimensions: 42.00" x 32.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, January 31, 1953. The Post d...
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1950s Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Swedish Värmland Landscape With a Red Barn by Hilding Werner, Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Hilding Werner, A Värmland artist, was a distinguished Swedish painter and draftsman. Born to landowner Anders Andersson and Inga Maria Johannesdotter, ...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Masonite Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

'Portrait of a Young Woman', Gold Earring, Silk Scarf
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Unsigned and inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with additional indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910. A psychol...
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Early 1900s Masonite Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

"Countryside Landscape Hills Scene with Path" Expressionistic Style Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. Art measures 15 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. 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 the 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's 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...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Masonite Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

Impressionism painting 21 Oil On Panels by Pierre Vlerick (1923 - 1999)
Located in Gent, VOV
This painting is a perfect example of lyrical abstraction and a choice painting out of the best period of Vlerick's career. Signed and titled by the artist. Pierre Vlerick...
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1960s Abstract Impressionist Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

'City Lights' San Francisco Beat Generation, Woman Artist, Bay Area Abstraction
By Joan Savo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'City Lights' by Joan Savo, 1960. San Francisco Beat Generation, Woman Artist, Bay Area Abstraction ----- Signed lower right, 'Savo' for Joan Savo (American, 1918-1992) and dated 19...
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1960s Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

A Beautiful Modern Figure Painting, Two Bathers in a Boathouse by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful Modern figure painting of two bathers in a boathouse by noted Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted at the Ox-Bow School of Saugatuck, Michigan ...
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1940s American Modern Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

'Beneath the Stars', Lovers, Moghul, Isfahan, Chouinard, LACMA, Dallas Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Beneath the Stars' by Leon D'Usseau, Jr. Lovers, Moghul, Isfahan, Chouinard, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dallas Museum ----- Signed lower right, 'Dusso' for Leon D'Usseau, Jr....
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1960s Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Ink, Oil

An Abstract, Surrealist 1950s Mid-Century Modern Interior Still Life Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
A Visually Striking, early 1950s Abstract, Surrealist Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a subdued, tonal int...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

A Colorful, Expressionist 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Expressionist 1950s Mid-Century Modern Still Life Painting by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Depicting a bright and vivid studio still life scene ...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Early Evening Walk"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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1930s Modern Masonite Paintings

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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 ...
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1980s American Realist Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Landscape 147 by Jean Krille - Oil on Masonite 100x100 cm
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...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Masonite Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Abstract Composition N°3 by Vivaldo Martini - Oil on masonite 53x106 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Mor...
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Mid-20th Century Post-War Masonite Paintings

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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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