Early 20th Century Paintings

Charles Warren Eaton (1857 – 1937) The Shadow of Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1921 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Signed lower right: CHAS WARREN EATON. Provenance: The artist The Macbeth Gallery, New York Private Collection Sotheby's New York, American Art, April 14, 1989 ConocoPhillips, Houston Simpson Galleries, Houston, Fine Art & Antiques, May 18, 2019, Lot 447 Exhibited: New York, The Macbeth Gallery, Paintings of Glacier National Park by Charles Warren Eaton, December 13, 1921 - January 2, 1922, no. 2. Literature: "Two Exhibitions at Macbeth's," American Art News, New York, Vol. XX, No. 10, December 17, 1921. A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings of Charles Warren Eaton appeal to “the dreamers who find in them the undiscovered scenes in which their fancy long has dwelt.” Eaton’s contemplative landscapes exude a spiritual quality that moves the observer into a similar frame of mind. He loved to depict the ethereal light of dawn and dusk in late autumn or winter, usually without any reference to human or animal figures or buildings. These Tonalist paintings, with their subdued palette and relatively intimate scale, marked a definite break with the fading popularity of the panoramic and romantic views of the Hudson River School painters. Charles Warren Eaton was born in Albany, New York to a family of limited means. He began painting while working in a dry-goods store. At age 22, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York City and then studied figure painting at the Art Students League. By 1886, he was successful enough to quit his day job and make a living as a landscape painter. That year, he traveled to Europe with fellow Tonalist painters Leonard Ochtman and Ben Foster. In France, Eaton visited popular artist’s spots such as Paris, Fontainebleau and Grez-sur-Loing, and fell in love with the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting. Returning to the United States, Eaton fell under the spell of George Inness, the foremost exponent of Barbizon style in the United States. In 1888, Eaton settled near Inness in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where Eaton lived until his death in 1937. In this period, he painted shadowy and ambiguous landscapes inspired by rural scenery in the northeastern United States. His signature theme was a cropped view of the branches, trunks, and foliage of a pine grove silhouetted against a delicately illuminated sunset or moonlit sky. He painted this vision so often between 1900 and 1910 that he picked up the sobriquet ‘‘The Pine Tree Painter.” After 1910, Eaton responded to the popularity of Impressionism by using brighter colors and painting sunlit daytime scenes. In 1921, he was hired to paint Glacier Lake, in Glacier National Park by the Great Northern Railroad Company as part of their ‘See America First’ campaign. He produced more than 20 paintings, among the artist's last works, that now poignantly remind viewers of the vast disappearing glaciers. Eaton tended to approach this mountain scenery from an oblique vantage point; he liked to capture small episodes, showing mountaintops nearly obscured by dramatically attenuated screens of fir trees. Eaton, like many Tonalist artists of his generation such as Henry Ward Ranger, John Francis Murphy, and Charles Melville Dewey...

Stunning and alluring painting showing Sampson succumbing to the wiles of the sensual temptress Delilah. Done in a manner that is reminiscent of the murals of the WPA, the art deco p...

Signed and dated '1901' lower left

A cover illustration for the June 1915 issue of Good Housekeeping depicting Coles Phillips’s iconic “Fadeaway Girl” kneeling at the seashore holding a beach umbrella. Phillips’ “Fade...

Harold C. Dunbar (1882 - 1953) Meadow Landscape in Summer, 1929 Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 21 inches Signed and dated lower left Harold C. Dunbar — painter, teacher, writer, and illustrator — was born in Brockton, MA on December 8, 1882. He resided in Chatham, MA and died in 1953. His work includes portraits, landscapes, street scenes, still lifes, harbors and coastal scenes. Dunbar studied with Ernest Lee Major (1864-1950) and Joseph De Camp...

The First Time Of Asking, 19th Century by WILLIAM HEMSLEY (BRITISH 1817-1906) similar works to $25,000 Large 19th Century English church interior scene of young man and his fiancé...

Nassau Blair Browne, a celebrated Dublin artist and Royal Hibernian Academy member, brings to life a serene yet striking portrayal of two hunters in a vast open landscape. This evoca...

Provenance The artist; Collection of Walter Stuempfig, Philadelphia; Private collection, Massachusetts until 2022 The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant coloris...

A charming impressionist study of a quiet village street. The artist uses a muted colour palette to capture the lonely street after sunset. Unsigned. Pre...

Robert MacDonald Fraser (1870-1947) 'Landscape with Footbridge' Oil on canvas Signed 20" x 24" (50.5 x 61cm) Though of Scottish descent, an Englishman who was born, lived and died i...

Collections: Robert Isaacson; James Draper, New York, 2014. Exhibited: Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Beggarstaffs: William Nicholson and James Pr...

One of my favorite French Fauvist painters, Henri Grenier (1882 - 1940), masterfully captures the energy of the turn-of-the-century Boulevard Saint-Germain in this exciting work on p...

Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting of :"The Drive, University of Minnesota". Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed in monogram...

Specializing in New York City's vibrant urban landscapes and surrounding harbors, George Herbert Macrum (1878–1970) captured the essence of the city’s architectural grandeur and dyna...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 2 watercolour on paper, unframed left painting : 5.75 x 5 inches, signed bottom left right painting: 5....

Francois Gerome French, 1895 Parisian Lady in Blue Oil on canvas 24 ⅛ by 30 in, w/ frame 32 ¼ by 38 in Signed lower right Francois Gerome was born in Budapest in 1895. He attended ...

Artist: Santinetti, Italian (XIXth-XXth) Title: Sailboats in Venice Year: 1900 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 14 in. x 30 in. (35.56 cm x 76.2 cm) Frame: 26.5 x 36 inches

An attractive impressionistic painting by British artist Joseph Longhurst (1874-1922), depicting rising water levels in a quiet countryside location. The river in this scene looks ready to flood with the next spell of heavy rain...

A charming painting of a boy and girl walking down a country lane. Wonderful rendering of the trees and sky. The painting has two repairs (I have included a photo of the patches on t...

A delightful oil on board of three potato gatherers working in a field on a sunny day. The artist appears to have taken inspiration from Millet's The Gleaners by creating a similar s...

Elizabeth Lamorna Kerr 1904 - 1990. Cornish painter of landscapes, still life and figurative subjects, the eldest daughter of Samuel John Lamorna Birch. She exhibited at the Royal Ac...

A charming oil study of figures in a horse drawn carriage on a tree-lined street. The artist paints in an impressionist manner capturing the light in the scene through expressive, br...

Oil on canvas landscape signed by listed, French artist Achille- Émile Othon Friesz. Dated 1920. Carved and painted frame.

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 3 watercolour on paper, unframed Left: 8.25 x 5.5 inches, signed lower right Top Right: 3.5 x 5.25 inch...

Oil on canvas, portrait painting of a young sailor boy.

A charming oil scene depicting a dutch village and farm buildings. Painted in an impressionist style using soft brushwork to capture the sleepy village...

A beautiful oil on panel circa 1900 by French impressionist painter Emilio Boggio. The piece depicts a coastal scene. The blue-green water crashes against the rocks on a grey day. S...

Antique American impressionist oil painting of a fall landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Apparently unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 50"L x 30"H, ov...

LUCIEN ROUDIER ELLER 1894-1940 “CHANTEUSE ESPAGNOLE” MIXED MEDIA, SIGNED FRENCH, C.1925 27.25 X 38.5 INCHES Lucien Roudier Eller 1894-1940 It is thought the name Eller was a combina...

The painter Henryk F. Twardzik was born in Krakow, Poland and immigrated with his family to Boston at the age of four. He studied art at the Albright Gallery of Art in Buffalo and at...

"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan The size of the canvas 28 3/4 x 43 1/4 inches. The painting comes directly from the artist's estate. It is signed lower right as well as signed, titled and dated verso. We have available more than two dozen paintings and works on paper from the 1930s - 80s that come directly from the Loew estate. BIO Michael Loew (1907 – 1985) was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker, and from 1926-1929, he studied at the Art Students League. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany, and Italy with a group of artists. When he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly, and for the next two years he paid his apartment rent with his paintings. In 1935, he found work with the WPA where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World’s Fair. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. In the mid-30’s he painted in Mexico and the Yucatán documenting the construction of a U.S. Naval airbase on Tinian Island. It was from this airbase that the Enola...

Abel LAUVRAY (1870-1950) Rome, the Arch of Titus Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas Size: 48 x 65 cm Signed lower right Painting in good condition. A few fine cracks without liftin...

Nude study of the Three Graces attributed to André Favory unsigned, after Cezanne. Excellent condition, framed.

Augustin REY Milan 1864 - Breteuil-sur-Iton 1934 Clouds at sunset circa 1900 Oil on canvas Signed lower left 33 x 55 cm 42 x 65 cm framed Adolphe Augustin Rey de Villette, known...

Up for sale is a stunning original large antique 19th-century oil painting on canvas that captures a glowing forest landscape at sunset, with fiery hues of orange, red, and gold stre...

A fine impressionist landscape of a winter stream by American artist Jonas Lie (1880-1940). Lie was born in Moss, Norway to an accomplished Norwegian engineer and an American mother. Named after his uncle, a novelist and close friend of Henrik Ibsen, Jonas went to Paris to live with his uncle in 1892, after his father's death. Surely it was here, the twelve year-old boy was influenced by the creative spirit found in his uncle's home. In 1893, Jonas moved to New York City, where he took evening classes at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League while working designing fabric patterns for a textile company to raise money to support his education. After the completion of his education, Lie spent most of his summers along the New England coast and Canada. Here he would paint bright, impressionistic harbor scenes and rocky, coastal views, which he would exhibit regularly. The landscapes and coastal paintings Lie created in New England can be characterized by a facile, broad handling of pigment and an impressionistic sense of light and air. was a prolific painter, known for his coastal views of New England and New York scenes. He became the president of the National Academy of Design from 1935 to 1939, a year before his death. Lie was also known for a series of paintings of the last days of construction of the Panama Canal in 1913. These paintings were given to the United States Military Academy...

Impressive antique wall panels crafted in hardwoods and paint decorated in floral motifs retrieved as architectural remnants from an Addison Mizner Palm Beach Estate.

Franz Strahalm 1879-1935 San Antonio, Houston, Dallas. Image Size: 16 x 21 Frame Size: 24 x 29 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1925 "Misty Blue" Texas Bluebonnets Franz Strahalm 1879-193...

Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by: Carle Blenner (1862 - 1952) Carle Blenner was born in Richmond, Virginia, and received his education in Marburg, Germany. Blenner re...

Rudolf Schacht, oil painting, lively old town scene with carriage and horses. Age-related condition. The painting is damaged in places and in need of restoration. On request, we are...

Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953) Title: Impressionist oil painting Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed Size: painting: 13 x 20 inche...

Original study for the cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post, published June 2, 1923 Medium: Oil on canvas Artwork Dimensions: 21.5 x 15.75 in. Framed Dimensions: 25 x 18...

A fine small oil study of a Buddha in Japan by American artist Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933). Perry was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and went on to...

An original antique American oil painting by John Rummell depicting a forest interior. The stunning composition is highlighted by vibrant colors a thick imposto and lively brush s...

Frederick Vezin (1859 Torresdale Philadelphia - 1933 Düsseldorf), Autumn Landscape in the Sunlight, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard, 32 x 41 cm (inside measurement), 44 x 51 cm (frame), signed and dates lower right "F. Vezin. [19]05". - Cardboard slightly curved, small inconspicuous retouch at the centre of the upper edge of the picture. About the artwork Although the painting appears to be a sketch, Frederick Vezin considered it to be a finished work of art, as evidenced by his signature on the lower right. And it is precisely this sketchy quality that leads to an understanding of the painting, which was certainly created in the landscape itself: the natural phenomena were to be depicted artistically at the moment of their observation. This is not done by meticulously sketching nature, but - and here Vezin follows the teaching of French Impressionism - by illustrating nature in its visual fullness. The artist's eye is, as it were, immersed in the visuality of nature, which is made visible by his hand. The painting is therefore not a reflection of the landscape, but its artistic intensification. This intensification also includes the fact that the foreground of the painting - corresponding to the field of vision - eludes a detail-oriented close-up view. Instead, the spatula-like application of paint, the vertical structure of which corresponds to the structure of the floral growth, has the effect of making nature tangible in its colourful substance. At the same time, the foreground, which remains indeterminate in its concrete objectivity, creates an atmospheric space that connects with the actual protagonist of the picture, the group of trees, which flares up in shades of red and brown. Here, too, the leaves are more speckled than clearly outlined. It is precisely this 'sketchiness' that opens up a visual experience that makes the landscape accessible in its visual fullness, thus revealing its essence. In addition to this abundance, the landscape is presented as a structure of order in that the composition of the picture makes the composition of the landscape visible. For example, the group of trees forms a distinct dark green shadow, which is repeated in the shadows cast by the trees behind it. A patterned diagonal axis is created in the picture, which is composed in this way by the landscape itself. Strictly speaking, this is a cultivated landscape: a fence at the bottom and a low stone wall at the top, running from left to right, are two elements that also have a strong compositional effect. And on the top of the hill, a stone house is embedded in the landscape as the brightest surface in the picture. Nature and culture here form a harmonious synthesis, giving the painting an Arcadian touch. In order to give the landscape as much space as possible, the horizon line is raised, but the design of the sky is also crucial. The clouds, combined with the shapes of the trees, create a bright blue sky. To the European eye, such a sky is reminiscent of a summer landscape. Accordingly, within the seasonal cycle, the blue sky is reserved for summer, and French Impressionism is also primarily an ode to summer. In Vezin's painting, however, the brilliant blue sky stands above an autumnal landscape, some of the trees even defoliated. It can therefore be assumed that the painting was made not in Europe but in the United States, and that it illustrates the proverbial Indian summer, making Frederick Vezin a pioneer of American landscape painting. About the artist Frederick Vezin was the son of a French immigrant to the United States and a German-born mother. This predestined him to promote artistic exchange between the old and new worlds. Having spent part of his schooling in Germany, in 1876, at the age of 20, he enrolled at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, where he studied with Peter Janssen the Elder, Eduard von Gebhardt and Wilhelm Sohn, among others. He graduated in 1883, settled in Munich and returned to Düsseldorf in 1895, where he lived until his death in 1933. A native of the United States, he travelled to the country frequently and became a popular portrait and society painter. His artistic talent, however, was most evident in his landscape paintings. Trained in French Impressionism, he developed a virtuoso use of colour and a free brushwork that remained tied to the landscape motif, opening up the landscape itself in a new way. Frederick Vezin turned his attention primarily to the landscape of his homeland, becoming a pioneer of modern American landscape...

Born in New York City, modernist painter Adelaide Lawson Gaylor studied at the Art Students League and with Kenneth Hayes Miller. She was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the New York Society of Women Artists. She was married to artist Wood Gaylor...

Artist: Maurycy Trebacz, Polish (1861-1941) Title: Gypsy Year: 1924 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.l. Size: 39 x 27 in. (99.06 x 68.58 cm)

Signed oil on canvas landscape by American impressionist painter William Samuel Horton. The piece depicts a view of the town of Gstaad in Southwestern Switzerland. The buildings and ...

Bruce Crane (1857 - 1937) Autumn Landscape Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed lower right Robert Bruce Crane was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 190...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: n/a Soldier's Pride was created as a component of Kuppenheimer's six-piece easel-backed World War I advertisement placards for in-store display. These pieces were expertly printed on a coated cardboard substrate so the black background would dramatically display the clothing item. Kuppenheimer & Hart Schaffner Marx...

This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing About the Painting Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast. About the Artist Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...

A gentle, quiet, lovely portrait of motherhood painted by British artist Arthur Bradbury in 1927, a distinguished painter who over the years exhibited 14 works at the Royal Academy. ...

MANUEL GARCÍA Y RODRÍGUEZ Spanish, 1863- 1925 THE WASHERWOMEN signed and dated "Garcia y Rodriguez" 1910 (lower right) oil on mahogany wood panel 19...

Farmers shepard a herd of sheep over a slow river in the quiet countryside. With a plethora of earthy, natural greens, Scaton has captured the ambiance o...

Literature: Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque Catalogue Raisonne (Neuilly, 2008), vol. 1, p. 223 (no. 820) (illus)

A stunning study for a 1920s Kuppenheimer clothing advertisement featuring a fashionably-dressed couple kneeling in an embrace before a pair of ...

Harry A. Neyland American, 1877-1958 Fishing Boats at the Dock Oil on canvas 18 by 20 in, w/ frame 25 ⅝ by 27 ⅜ in Signed lower right Harry A. Neyland — painter, sculptor, illustra...

Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Daniel Garber (1880 - 1958). One of the two most important and, so far, the most valuable of the New Hope Sc...

The Gardens Of Milner Park, Johannesburg, South Africa, Empire Exhibition, 1936 by MONICA MACIVOR (1881-1939) Huge 1936 South African tropical garden landscape from the Johannesbur...

Everett Lloyd Bryant American, 1864-1945 Woman in Kimono Oil on canvas Signed lower right 30 by 25 in. W/frame 35 by 30 in. Everett studied wit...