20th Century Paintings

Impressive early American impressionist seascape oil painting by Margaret Munro Stratton McLennan (1911 - 1995) . Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.

Nicely painted early American impressionist seacape painting by Elmer Ellsworth Garnsey (1862 - 1946). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Image s...

Glen Head, County Donegal Ireland by William Henry Burns (1924-1995) signed oil on canvas, framed Framed: 25.5 x 35.5 inches Canvas : 20.5 x 35 inches Provenance: private collection...

Artist/ School: Deborah Poynton, British contemporary, signed Title: Summer Landscape Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: painting: 20 x 30 inches, frame: 22.75 x 32.75 ...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed dated 93 canvas size: 22 x 18 inches condition: overall very good, ...

Artist/ School: French School, indistinctly signed and dated Title: Nice (Cote d' Azur, France) Medium: oil painting on board, framed. frame: 28.75 x 32.75 inches board: 21.25 x 2...

A fine and important French oil painting of Napoleon & his army, by the French-American artist Raymond Desvarreux (1876-1963), the painting signed & dated 1906. The painting depicts Napoleon seated in his carriage examining battle plans...

Artist/ School: Spencer Coleman, British late 20th century Title: Tranuil Pastures Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 18 x 22 inches Painting: 1...

Contemporary oil on canvas, this very large painting has fine naturalistic detail, with deep sky tones, rich coloring, crisp trees/leaves and lines of lighted meadow reflected in the...

Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 14.75 x 11 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we ha...

This superb Vibrant British Post Impressionist floral oil painting is by noted artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. Painted circa 1930 the composition is a mass of sweet pea flowers in shade...

Brightly colored nude by California artist Don Klopfer (1920-2009). Signed and dated "Klopfer 93" upper left corner. Presented in a white slat frame. Canva...

Original drawing painted in wax by Joan Miro. Certified by Jacques Dupin, official certifier of the artist's work. The work is a wax painted on two continuous pages of a book publish...

La Cote d' Azur French School, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 25 x 43 inches canvas: 20 x 36.5 inches Provenance: Private collection, France Condition: Good co...

Artist/ School: Raymond Besse (French 1899-1969) Born December 26, 1899 in Niort in Deux-Sèvres, died March 5, 1969 in Candé-sur-Beuvron in the Loir-et-Cher). Raymond Besse arrived ...

A gorgeous early 20th century landscape oil painting of fields of yellow and blue wildflowers in bloom by Northern Californi...

Artist/ School: French School, early 20th century Title: River Landscape Medium: watercolour painting on board, unframed painting: 15 x 21 inches Provenance: private collection,...

Signed lower right, 'Pauer' for Jacalyn Pauer (American, 20th century) and dated 1991. Additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'The Family Dinner'. A su...

Philippe Marie Picard (1915-1997) French French Landscape oil on canvas signed Ph m Picard dated a tergo 16.4 -46 canvas size 12.99 x 22.04 inches (33 x 56 cm ) frame 23.03 x 31.49 inches (58.5 x 80 cm) Provenance: A Swedish private collection. The Artist: The year was 1915, and Philippe Marie was born in the small village of Neuvy-le-Roi in France. His parents were Albert Picard and Marie Lehoux; he had a total of six siblings. After studying at the Lycée Descartes in Tours, he entered the studio of the artist François Sicard...

1927 Carmel by the Sea - Beach, California Coastline - Oil on Linen Seascape oil painting of the Carmel coastline by Charles Henry Harmon (American, 1859-1936). Vibrant blue Pacific waves crash along Carmels white sands, with a walk way on the cliffs above. A lush green sycamore tree is seen to the left, beyond the cliffs. Vibrant greenery is seen on either side of the walkway, depicting colors of greens, yellows, and browns. Signed "Charles Harmon 1927" lower left. Charles Henry Harmon was born on December 23, 1859 in Mansfield, Ohio. He moved to San Jose, California with his family in 1874 and at an early age was apprenticed to local portrait painter Louis Lussier. He later spent one year working in a local photography studio re-touching negatives. His youth was spent visiting the art galleries of San Francisco and, with no formal training, he began sketching and painting in 1883 in the beautiful Santa Clara Valley. He painted many landscapes of that area and made trips to the remotest parts of the Sierra and the Monterey Peninsula where he painted many coastal scenes. He began exhibiting in San Jose in the 1880s. By the turn of the century, his works were handled exclusively by Gump's and he was recognized as one of California's foremost painters. In 1905 he established a studio in Denver and for seven years concentrated on the rugged landscape of the Rocky Mountains. While there, the Santa Fe, Western Pacific, and Colorado, Midland railroads commissioned him to paint scenes along their routes. After his time in Colorado, he returned to San Jose where he remained for the rest of his life. Harmon died there on October 14, 1936 and is buried in Oak Hill...

“A Very Large Draft Standing Horse in the Stable” Georg Wolf (Alsace/Germany 1882-1962) Oil on canvas 39 1/2 x 21 1/2 (50 1/4 x 42 1/4 frame) inches Estate stamp and inventory No. 17...

Abstract Expressionist Composition signed by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 35 x 45.75 inches condition: overall very good, a few ...

Charming mid century figurative landscape of Aptos Village Apple Shed and Market by listed California artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Aptos is just south of Santa Cruz,...

Vibrant tidal pool seascape at sunset at Manresa Beach in Santa Cruz by Cecil F. Chamberlin (American, 1899 -1963), circa 1950. Translucent wave and breaking wave add interest and de...

Drying Nets Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist signed oil on board unframed board: 16 x 13 inches inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: overall goo...

This beautiful British Edwardian portrait oil painting is by noted and much exhibited female artist Maud Marion Wear. Wear trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London for five yea...

This is a beautiful original oil painting on canvas, depicting a young woman with umbrella dancing among the flowers. Titled "April Showers". The painting bring a positive and relaxi...

Sunlit Poolside Scene with Figures by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 3.75 inches (height) x 6 inches (width) Condit...

ARTIST: Francis William Helps RBA (1890-1972) British TITLE: “Kensington Gardens London" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 47cm x 40cm inc. frame CONDITION: very good DE...

This painting depicts a colorful Mid Century Street in Paris France, a popular subject of the times painted by many important impressionist 20th Century painters. This piece is a bol...

Oil on canvas painting by the Polish born artist, Ernest Kosmowski. The painting is done with palette knife and brush typical of his style and children theme in the 1960’s. Soft, pa...

Gorgeous mid century San Francisco Bay seascape oil painting by California artist Hartzell Harrison Ray (American, 1896-1991). Signed "H. Ray" lower right and on verso. Texture added...

Itzchak Tarkay Picture Size: 40 x 32(99 x 80cm) Outside Frame Size: 49 x 41" (121 x 102cm) Free Shipping 1935 - 2012 Born on the Yugoslav-Hungarian border in the city of Subotica ...

This superb large British Edwardian exhibited portrait oil painting is by noted artist George Spencer Watson. It was painted in 1909 and exhibite...

Charles Warren Eaton Autumn, New England Signed lower right Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches Provenance Private Collection, Connecticut A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings o...

Donald Vogel was inspired by gardens throughout his painting career. Before moving to Dallas, as a student at the Art Institute of Chicago in the late 1930's, Vogel's studio was a block away from Chicago's Lincoln Park...

Artist: Pierre Lavarenne (French, born 1928) Title: Landscape, Paysage aux Bories Year: Circa 1975 Medium: Oil on canvas Canvas size: 15 x 18.25 inches Signature: Signed lo...

Signed lower left, 'Ventosa' for Jose Ventosa Domenech (Spanish, 1897-1982) and painted circa 1950. A very substantial oil showing a luminous view of the isle of Mallorca with ancient olive groves and mountain cliffs bathed in warm evening light beneath clouded blue skies. A large and rare Mallorcan landscape by this notable Catalan painter. Born in Barcelona, José Ventosa Doménech first attended the San Jorge School of Fine Arts in 1911. He then undertook an extended trip to Brussels where he studied Vanguard painting before returning to Barcelona where he continued his studies with the Realist, Martí Alsina. In 1922, Ventosa worked alongside Eliseu Meifren and Domingo Soler in Ripoll. From 1924, Ventosa exhibited in Barcelona as a member of the "Nou Ambient", the Catalan art...

Original oil and acrylic painting on canvas of a contemporary cityscape.. Signed Lee Reynolds lower right. Vanguard Studio label verso. Circa 1975. Condition is excellent. The pain...

Large post impressionist Art Deco figurative oil painting by French artist Bernard Py from the 1920, living, bedroom or dining decor. This lar...

Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...

Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...

Artist: Florent Chade (French, 1896-1985) Title: Chamonix, le Mont Blanc Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Oil on canvas board board size: 15 x 18.25 inches Sig...

Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seasons and flowers. In 1970 the significant place...

Antique Horse Painting "Horse at Stable with Hay" Julius Paul Junghanns (German, 1876-1958) Oil on canvas on board (marouflé ) 20 1/4 x 14 (25 ...

Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, signed by Eug. Mavie Title: Napoleonic War Ships at Sea, beautifully detailed with remarkable detailing. Medium: oil on canvas, unfram...

Gorgeous mid-century seascape of turquoise and lavender waves crashing on coastal rocks by California artist Lee Ervast (American, 1916 - 1975), c.1950s. Si...

Work on canvas

Paul Winthrop Wood modernist abstract cityscape, 1979 Modernist Abstract Landscape Oil on Board 18" x 34" unframed, 24.5" x 40.5" framed Paul Winthrop Wood 1922-2003 Wood was born on August 29, 1922, in Kingsville, ON, Canada. He was the son of Albert G., an architect and Louise Wood. He married Jacqueline Stark, a pianist, on September 4, 1953. Wood attended Grand Central School of Art, 1938, New School for Social Research, 1939, and Art Students League in New York from 1939-41 and 1946-47. He was a portrait painter in 1948 at Paul W. Wood Studio, Port Washington, NY, owner, 1949-68, and a part-time course tutor. He taught at the Open University, Milton Keynes, England, beginning in 1980 and at the Department of Art History, 1993-2003. Wood was president of the Pleasant Hill, Inc., former director of Albert Wood and Five Sons...

This artwork titled "Red Forest" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left co...

This artwork titled "Volti" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Umberto Bianchini, 1934-1990. It is signed at the lower left ...

Finely painted American impressionist coastal landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Image size, 13 by 16 inches.

Oil Painting of Highland Cows in Scotland Loch by 20th Century British Artist Wendy Reeves. Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures 24 x 20 inches ...

As a French Impressionist artist, most of the Delarue's works were produced in the Mid-20th Century. He was known for his charming compositions and with a passion to portray life by ...

Work on canvas

This vibrant landscape painting captures the lush greenery of a mountainous forest, with towering evergreens in the foreground and distant peaks in muted blues. The artist employs bo...

Superb provenance: gifted by Hunt Slonem to Andy Warhol muse Monique Van Vooren Hunt Slonem A Duck to Remember Your House By (inscribed and signed three times to Andy Warhol's friend Monique Van Vooren), 1991-2011 Watercolor on Paper Hand signed and dated recto, signed again verso; inscribed "Monique, a duck to remember your house by.Thank you for the birthday Love Hunt 2011" Unique work Frame included: held in the original artist's vintage wood frame Measurements: Framed: 12.5" x 10.5" x .5" Unframed 9.75" x 8" This work is hand signed three times by Hunt Slonem: once on the recto, once on the verso, and once following the written inscription. Provenance is impeccable as this cherished gift from Hunt Slonem was acquired from the estate of the actress and socialite Monique Van Vooren. The work was painted in 1991 (and dated 1991 on the recto), and was gifted by the artist to Monique in 2011, bearing a dated dedication verso. Monique Van Vooren (1927-2020) was a film and stage actress who enjoyed a long career with diverse roles ranging from the 1960s television series Batman to Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein...

Vintage Landscape figurative oil painting, post impressionist portrait painting of two woman taking tea in the garden signed in the bottom right corner Valery Krassouline...

American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30H by 24L.

#5-01 Large Scale Persian Hunt, circa 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting hunting scene, displayed in a wood-gesso frame.Image size 39 H X 59.5 W Artist unknown. Age wear on the ...