Early 1900s Paintings

Woman standing in a gown. Signed and dated lower left. Charles Allan Gilbert chose art as a career after discovering his talent while sketching during a childhood as invalid. Following training at the Art Students League, he went to Paris while his teachers were Constant and Laurens. He returned to the U.S to begin a very successful illustration career, with a special aptitude for the portrayal of beautiful young women. Their portraits were included in several gift books...

Date: 1909 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 30" x 20" Signature: Signed Lower Right Image of an elderly man in a gun shop. John Newton Howitt...

Colonel Bates Leads the 30th Colored Infantry at the Battle of the Crater Watercolor on Paper Circa 1903 15 ½ x 21 ½ Inches 25 ½ x 33 ½ Inches Framed LR: Graves This rare portrait of African American troops serving in battle during the Civil War depicts the 30th United States Colored Infantry at the Battle of the Crater, at Petersburg, Virginia. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863. The Battle of the Crater, July 30th, 1864, was part of the Siege of Petersburg, fought between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade (under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant). At the top of the painting, Colonel Delevan Bates raises his saber to lead the charge of the 30th United States Colored Infantry. Bates was promoted to this command just prior to this battle, having served with distinction in the 121st New York Infantry at the Battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Though the Battle of the Crater would eventually be won by the Confederacy, it was here that Bates and 23 other troops would be award the United States highest award for bravery during combat, the Medal of Honor. After weeks of preparation, on July 30, Union forces exploded a mine in Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps sector, blowing a gap in the Confederate defenses of Petersburg, Virginia. From this propitious beginning, everything deteriorated rapidly for the Union attackers. Unit after unit charged into and around the crater, where soldiers milled in confusion. Grant considered the assault "the saddest affair I have witnessed in this war." The Confederates quickly recovered and launched several counterattacks led by Brig. Gen. William Mahone. The breach was sealed off, and Union forces were repulsed with severe casualties. Brig. Gen. Edward Ferrero's division of black soldiers...

Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Seats of the Haughty, Munsey's Magazine illustration, December 1906 Literature: This illustration appeared in O. Henry's shor...

A woman in a gown linking arms with a man, two men behind them. Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He made his early reputation when he ac...

Medium: Oil Mounted to Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 21.00" x 17.00;" Framed 26.00" x 22.00" Titled The Burgrave's Farewell (along top under mat); Image size: 20 1/...

Signed Lower Right by Artist Collier's Illustrated Weekly Cover, October 25, 1902

Medium: Mixed Media on Board with Collage Signature: Initialed Lower Center

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right

Portrait of a man. Oil painting on canvas, signed and located "Roubaix, 1906". In this portrait, all attention is focused on the face, which is intrusively and self-consciously looking ahead. Except for the white collar and pocket handkerchief...

Born in Adelaide, Australia, Hayley Lever was known for his town-shore landscapes and still-life painting in a style that combined impressionism with vivid colors and strong lines of...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right Lady

ALBERT FERDINAND DUPRAT 1882-1974 Venice 1882 - 1974 (Italian/French) Title: Gondola on a Venetian Canal, 1904 Technique: Original Signed and Dated...

Medium: Mixed Media on Board Signature: Unsigned Date: 1900 Dimensions: 30.00" x 14.00"

Medium: Watercolor on Paper Laid to Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 20, 1908 Edward Penfield produced some of America’s finest posters. His clean style and large silhouetted shapes resulted from much careful preliminary refinement and elimination of detail. Horses and coaches were a favorite subject with him, as typified with his picture of the colonial Post Road. A notable series of his illustrations were contained in his book, Holland Sketches...

San Antonio . Oil on canvas by Spanish artist Chico Montilla. Measurements: (H) 65 x (W) 81 x 2 (D) cm. Framed 85 x 101 x 5 cm. San Antonio, another expressionist view of the countr...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right

Date: 1908 Medium: Gouache on Three Illustration Boards Dimensions: 2.50" x 32.50"; Two at 12.50" x 9.75", Overall 12" x 53" Signature: Each Signed or Monogrammed Large group of cup...

Theo Van Rysselberghe Gent 1862-1926 Saint-Clair, Var Soleil couchant à Veere, 1906 Ondergaande zon te Veere Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm. Signed and dated: lower left with monogram ‘06’ Provenance: Private collection, Belgium; Sotheby’s, New York, auct. 12 November 1988, cat. no. 326; Hammer Gallery, auct. 1 February 1986; private collection, Israel; Campo, Antwerp, October 1978; Campo, Antwerp, 17 October 1977; Palais Galliéra...

The Vigil-at-Arms, illustration for a poem by William Lucius Graves published in Scribner's Magazine, December 1904 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed

Important work by one of the leading artists of the italian naturalism, influenced by Giovanni Fattori as well as the the Barbizon School in France. Provenience: Collection of the Qu...

Paul E. Harney, Jr. "Feeding Time" 1909 Oil on Wood Panel Signed and Dated Panel Size: approx 8 x 12 inches Framed Size: approx. 16 x 19 inches Paul Harney (1850-1915) Born in New ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00", Framed 30.00" x 27.00" Cover of Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 31, 1908. Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC The National Arts Club NYC Jan 6- 19 2013 Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014 Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most famous and prolific illustrators of his time and painted one less cover for The Saturday Evening Post than Norman Rockwell. He was the creator of the cherubic New Year’s Baby and the handsome Arrow Shirt Man who set the style for men’s fashion for decades. In addition to his beautiful men, women and children, Leyendecker’s covers and advertisements depicted subjects ranging from sports to war to politics. This 1908 Post cover shows a young newsboy holding pictures of William Howard Taft...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 29.25" x 21.00", Framed 44.00" x 35.00" The Speed God Mercury, Collier's Magazine Cover, January 19, 1907 Leyendecker,...