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Period: 20th Century
Item Ships From: California
PROFILE OF A WOMAN
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"PROFILE OF A WOMAN"
OIL ON PANEL
C.1960
PAINTED IN ITALY
16 X 12 INCHES
Morton Dimondstein
1920-2000
At the age of seventeen Morton Dimondstein enrolled in the American Artists School and then the Art Students League in New York City, where he studied painting, drawing, and printmaking with Anton Refregier, Harry Sternberg, and Kimon Nicolaides.
After serving in the 387th Field Artillery Battalion during World War II, Dimondstein continued his studies at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He was one of the first artists to produce serigraphic prints on the West Coast, marketing them as affordable art in galleries and retail stores.
His prints and oil paintings garnered several awards during this post-war period, including an A.C.A. Gallery international competition for a one- man show in New York City.
In 1951 he moved to Mexico, where he attended the Instituto Politécnico Nacional and studied art with José Gutiérrez and David Alfaro Siqueiros. During his three years in Mexico, Dimondstein worked as a staff artist and instructor in visual education for UNESCO and was a member of the Taller de Gráfica Popular.
After moving back to Los Angeles, Dimondstein served as the art editor of the California Quarterly from 1953 to 1956. He briefly worked for the Saul Bass advertising firm where he designed books and book jackets, and collaborated on the ad campaigns for films such as William Wyler’s “The Big Country” and Otto Preminger’s “St. Joan.” Dimondstein received industry recognition for the images he created, but cranking out art for commercial ventures with strict deadlines was not for him.
He chose to leave that world in favor of working as an independent artist and art teacher. Over the years he taught at the Kann Art Institute, the New School of Art, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and the School of Fine Art which he established with UCLA faculty member Martin Lubner...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Rag Paper
Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
This expressive, figurative portrait is by Cliffton Peacock (1953-). The painting measures 40 x 34 inches (42 x 36 inches framed.) It is composed of oil on canvas. The painting is si...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Return" Portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini 1979
By Dick Crispo
Located in Soquel, CA
Evocative pop art/fauvist treatment of the return of Ayatollah Khomeini to Iran by Monterey, California aritst Dick Crispo (American, b.1945). Presented in a mat. Signed and dated "D. Crispo 79" upper left corner. Image size, 29"H x 23"W.
“I am an abstract journalist of the landscape and a choreographer of the dance of the mind, eye and hand. The plastic, the decorative, the horrible and the serene that pepper the visual landscape of the present time challenges the artists who address the age of information. I consider myself a global artist, not an American artist. This galactical view is the true basis of my work–Nature is my teacher–the Master. I’m the apprentice.” –Dick Crispo
Dick Crispo, born in New York City on January 13, 1945, has resided on the Monterey Peninsula since 1955. An award winning artist, Crispo has studied at the Carmel Art Institute under John Cunningham and Sam Colburn...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Seated Woman Figurative Portrait
By Doris Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage watercolor portrait of a seated female figure with red robe in front of a plant by Doris Ann Warner (American, 1925-2010). Signed "Warner" in the lower left corner. Presented...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Watercolor
Seated Jester
By Dan Wuthrich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wuthrich', and accompanied by the original certificate of authenticity.
Oil portrait of a jester dressed in black, white and emerald harlequin with bells on his collar and fool's hat, seated on a stone wall with the full moon hanging low in the coral and wine-red sky behind him.
Raised in a family that supported Wuthrich's interest in the arts, Dan Wuthrich has been painting since he was eight and at eleven had artwork featured in a Wisconsin newspaper article. After high school, Wuthrich continued his fine art studies at the Layton School of Art from 1954-1959 and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1961 taking courses in printmaking, English, speech and psychology. While maintaining his painting career, Wuthrich established a professional career as an engineer from 1965 to 1991, working for American Motors...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Portrait of a Young Woman', Academie Chaumière, Paris, Chouinard, Art Center
By Leon Franks
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Leon Franks'; additionally signed and titled, 'Portrait of a Girl', on old label verso.
A bravura brushwork study of a young woman wearing a floral patterned shirt gazing calmly towards the viewer.
A noted portrait and still life painter, Leon Franks studied at the Academie Julian and Grande Chaumiere in Paris and, subsequently, in Los Angeles at the Chouinard Art Institute and the Los Angeles Art Center. Franks additionally studied privately with Nicolai Fechin, Will Foster and F. Tolles Chamberlain.
Before settling in Los Angeles in 1936, where Franks continued his education and began designing for the movie industry, he did portraits and decorations for Vancouver theaters. The author of several 'How to Paint' books, including titles 'How to Do Still Life' (1952) and 'Leon Franks on Techniques' (1964), Franks was a teacher. He privately taught several artists, including Vernon...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paul Schouten (1860-1922) Portrait painting of elderly gentleman with beard
By Paul Schouten
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paul Schouten (1860-1922) Portrait painting of elderly gentleman with beard
Oil on board
9 x 12 unframed
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Basking in the Sun - Mid Century Modern Multicolor Female Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Multi-colored figurative oil painting of a woman in bikini bathing in the California sun by listed California artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). The colorful background is...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
'Young Bretonne', Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d'Or, Post-Impressionist Oil
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A vibrant, early 20th century oil study of a young Breton girl shown regarding the viewer with a stern and penetrating gaze.
Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Jade', Sir John Cass, Otis Art Institute, California
By Pearl Took
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed center left, 'PT' for Pearl Took (American, 1928-2012); additionally signed, dated 1977 and titled verso 'Portrait of Jade' with artist card.
Born in England, Pearl Took...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Clemence Dane Attribution
Located in San Francisco, CA
Attributed to WiniFred CleMence Ashton Dane: 1888-1965. She was a British novelist, playwright, and artist. She has auction prices over $2,900. This incredible portrait seems to be ...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'John and Mimi with Tim', John Lennon, England, Manchester College of Art
By Stephen Bower
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A charming and fresh portrait of the musician and composer standing in front of Mendips, the house where he was mostly raised by his mother's sister Mimi, with his aunt standing behind him holding her large ginger and white cat, Timmy, that he grew up with.
Signed lower left, 'S. Bower'; additionally inscribed with dedication verso 'To Mrs. Smith - Best Wishes, S. Bower', titled 'John Lennon with his Aunt Mimi and Tim at Mendips' and dated October 1982.
This listed English plein-air painter, attended Manchester College of Art from 1970 to 1974 and currently lives in Totnes, Devon. He describes himself as "a colorist who is inspired by flower gardens, especially English cottage gardens in early summer. I have spent successive summers painting in Monet’s garden at Giverny, Northern France."
Exhibitions:
Nothern Young Contemporaries, Liverpool – 1974
Marlborough Gallery, London (Buddy Holly...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Klau "Buddha"
By Klau
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Klau (20 th Century)
"BUDDHA",
Oil painting on canvas, signed lower right, ...
Category
Folk Art 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Seventies Siblings', Pair of Oil Portraits, Period 1970's fashion, Great Dane
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, on the male portrait, 'Marjory Hillman' for Marjory Hillman Beardslee ( American, 1915-2015) and dated '1975'. Signed lower left, on the female portrait, 'M. Hillm...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Eva By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Janet Seated', Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Académie Chaumière, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Di Gesu", for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988); further signed and titled verso, and bearing original exhibition label.
A substantial figural oil showing Victor di Gesu's wife, the artist Janet Ament, with a white shawl over her knees and seated cross-legged in front of a large ficus. A major work by this notable California Fauve...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Hopi Girl with Kachina Doll', California Woman artist, Pasadena Art Association
By Katharine Buzzell Benepe
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'K. Buzzell Benepe' and dated 1936.
A psychologically penetrating character study by this early California woman artist. Benepe captures the essential sensitivity of her subject as she gently cradles her doll while gazing at the viewer with both candor and charm.
Katherine Buzzell Benepe first studied at the University of California in Los Angeles and, later, with Nicolai Fechin...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century Oil Portrait of a Fashionable Young Woman by Barrow c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 20th Century Oil Portrait of a Fashionable Young Woman by Barrow c.1970
Bright, bold and colorful painting - Classic vintage oil portrait
Or...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Watercolor Portrait of Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century beautiful watercolor painting signed after C. D. Gibson
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century American Child Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly realistic and charming early 20th century oval portrait of a young child. Oil on board signed and dated top left. Cannot make out signature. Date looks to be 1915. Wonderful frame looks to be original to the painting. It measures 25 3/4 inches high by 21 3/4 wide. One of the finest child portraits...
Category
Realist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Painters with a model' Original Drawing By Hal Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday.
Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years . All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.
Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arthur J. Krakower "December 31, 1996" Original Oil Painting c.1996
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur J. Krakower Oil Painting c.1996
Original oil painting by listed Octogenarian artist Arthur J. Krakower.
Krakower took up painting later in life. Most of his works are done w...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Jesus of Nazareth Original Oil Portrait 20th Century
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Jesus of Nazareth Original Oil Portrait 20th Century
Framed oil portrait
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 8.5" wide x 8.5" high
The frame mea...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Tolly No. 6' - Colorful Figurative Nude Woman - Post Impressionism Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Bernard Krigstein (March 22, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was an American illustrator and Ashscan school painter who received acclaim for his innovative a...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cool" Figurative Oil Painting 48 x 48 inch by Yoram Katz
Located in Culver City, CA
"Cool" Figurative Oil Painting 48 x 48 inch by Yoram Katz
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Born in Israel.
Graduated from the Bazelel Art Academy in Jerusalem.
Resides in Los Angeles, California, ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Woman With Black Hair' Figurative Art Nude Oil On Canvas By Hal Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
Portrait Of a Woman Painting - - oil on canvas -- Woman with a Black Hair'
Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday.
Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years . All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.
Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Mattise Model' Expressionism Portrait of Woman By Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
Portrait Of a Women Painting - - oil on canvas
Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday.
Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years . All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.
Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman On Chair’ Original Drawing, Figurative Nude Art By Hal Frater
By Hal Frater
Located in Carmel, CA
11x14 (with frame 19x23)
Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday.
Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years . All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition.
Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
SALVADOR DE REGIL 1954 Portrait of Marian Virginia Schuster - Surrealist Artist
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Marian Schuster was 19 years old in 1954 and attended City College San Francisco where she studied Art.
In the old school, Victorian, San Francisco, moneyed household that she was r...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Helmet By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Memories By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included.
Bruno Paoli (1915-2005)
Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master.
Bruno was a professor of art in F...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Child and Baby Dogs on the Beach by Nicolas-Saleem Macsoud
Located in Pasadena, CA
Nicholas Saleem Macsoud (1884-1972)
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) 5 July, 1936
B'klyn Artist's Work Featured At Pocono Show
Nicholas S. Macsoud's Work Part of Mano...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Bouquet Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of a woman holding a bouquet of flowers by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Signed "Gleiforst" lower right. Unframed. From the Estate of Helen Gleiforst.
Helen...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Itzchak Tarkay "Merveilleuses Dames"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Itzchak Tarkay (1935 -2012)
"Merveilleuses dames",
Original Acrylic on Canvas
2002, ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Fillette a l’orange (Little Girl with Orange)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Fillette a l'orange (Little Girl with Orange)" is a figurative portrait Impressionist oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1911. The artwork is 25 3/4 x 21 3/8 inches ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Obraz-Divka' (The Girl) by Alphonse Mucha - Original Mucha Portrait Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
The American Art Gallery takes immense pride in offering "The Girl - A Study for the Slav Epic," an authentic original work by the celebrated Art Nouveau icon, Alphonse Mucha. Dating...
Category
Art Nouveau 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Chess Players
By Kalman Aron
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in Latvia, Kalman Aron(1924 - 2018), survived four years in camps during the Holocaust surviving in many ways due to his natural artists talent. As liberations came with the end of the war, he was able to study art at the Fine Art Academy of Vienna.
Kalman Aron spent his life paintings portraits, landscapes, cityscapes as well as imagery from his impression of the war. He was widely commissioned and collected.
The Chess Players...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Mixed Media
June
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Oil on paper
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
The Masquerade by Jean Jansem
By Jean Jansem
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
The Masquerade, oil painting signed lower right JANSEM. The painting size is 38"x51" with framed (original frame) size 47"x60". Excellent in condition.
From 1934 – 1936 he attended ...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Serenade
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Premiering for the first time in three decades, the original paintings of American artist Maurice Green. Born in 1908 in Latvia, Maurice Green studied with prominent artists of the day before settling in Los Angeles in the 1930’s. The artist continued his art education and began exhibiting throughout galleries in Southern California. As with many artists, his earliest style was more academic realistic imagery, transitioning due to his intense fascination with the cubist avant garde movement, into cubist imagery which became the trademark style of painting for the remainder of his life.
This is the first presentation of the paintings of Maurice Green since his death in 1993.
“The Serenade”, is original mixed media watercolor on artist board, signed, e very early work c.1945, this is a painting which clearly defines his talent as a fine cubist artist.
Category
Cubist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Crystal Ball
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer(1901-1974), , was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920as.
...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Roses
By Jessica Rice
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present a series of early original mixed media works on paper, just released from the private collection one of the contemporary masters of Belgian avant-garde painting, Belgian/American artist Jessica Rice (1941-2016.)
Red Roses...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
The Broken Mirror
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an exceptional ealry oil painting by American artist Ron Blumberg (1908-2002).
The Broken Mirror, is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Camilla
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Camilla", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, inclu...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
My Self
Located in West Hollywood, CA
We are proud to present a just discovered, extremely rare modernist still life, Trio", by American artist Robert McIntosh (1916 - 2010.)
Robert McIntosh won first prize at the Los...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Stan Spohn
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare, early original oil painting, "Stan Spohn", by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, ...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Auto Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Corner Barber Shop
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art. Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale in 1932, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
The Corner Barber Shop...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Auto Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Zorthian(1911-2004), went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait - The Red Shirt
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg.
Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League.
Painted just after the artist returned from New York, c.1945, "The Red Shirt...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dody in the Afternoon
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Noted German Expressionist artist Fritz Schwaderer, was classically schooled in fine art in Germany in the early-mid 1920’s. Schwaderera...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Auto Portrait
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a lovely self portrait by Swiss artist Juliette Calame’. “Auto-Portrait” is an original vintage oil on panel, signed, c.1925, with an image dimension of 29 x 19.5 inches.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Amour: Helen
Located in West Hollywood, CA
A rare, early original self portrait by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was extremely prolific and exhibited throughout his lifetime, including first priz...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Guitarist
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League.
"The Guitarist...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Princess
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by American artist Alexander Rosenfeld.
Rosenfeld was classically trained in Poland before settling in Los An...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Margit
By Otto Tetjus Tugel
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a rare oil on panel by German artist Otto Tugel.
Otto Tugel worked in Germany before settling in New York. This is an early oil on panel, signed in monogram, dated 1925.
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
The Old Gentleman
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jirayr Hamparzoom Zorthian was born April 14, 1911 in Kutahya, Turkey, of Armenian parents. At the age of three, he showed considerable talent in drawing and painting.
Zorthian went through two Turkish massacres before age eight. He left Turkey at age nine with his family and spent a year in Padua, Italy, waiting for his visa to open to the United States. This period was very important in his life because his father took him to many cities in Europe and exposed him to great works of art.
Zorthian arrived in the United States at the age of eleven and settled with his family in New Haven, Connecticut. He obtained his formal education there, after graduating from Yale, the Winchester Fellowship granted him a year and a half at the American Academy in Rome with travel and study throughout Europe.
His art career branched into various directions on his return to the United States. As a mural painter his reputation was established. He has forty two (42) murals throughout the United States. Zorthian worked and taught painting at some of the finest art academies on the west coast including both the Chouinard Art Institute and the Otis Art Institute.
The Old Gentleman...
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Caradine - Casey_ Grapes of Wrath
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
One of the only commercial projects realized for a Hollywood film by American artist Ron Blumberg.
In 1939, Blumberg painted actor John Caradine as, "Casey", in the John Ford film, "The Grapes of...
Category
20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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