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Period: Early 20th Century
The New Hat, 20th Century British Oil Portrait Interior
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board
Image size: 15 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (40 x 55 cm)
Contemporary style frame
This sensitive portrait captures the use of contemporary dress of this lady beautifu...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
French School Portrait Summer in La Baule 12 Sunny Indifference Impressionist XL
Located in Zofingen, AG
Summer in La Baule 12 - Sunny Indifference
Scene: Women enjoying sunbathing in La Baule
⭐Figures⭐: Each of the four women is uniquely styled, showcasing a mix of retro and modern ...
Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Oil
Portrait Black Elvis Presley French School Impressionist Pop READY TO HANG
Located in Zofingen, AG
Black Elvis
Portrait of the famous singer Elvis Presley
Technique: oil, acrylics and ink on canvas 73x60cm ■■ 28,7x23,6inch
⏩》R E A D Y -- T O -- H A N G《⏪
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Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Canvas, Gesso, Oil
$888 Sale Price
61% Off
Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Good Housekeeping, published August 1906
A young woman in pink sitting in a rowboat
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Community Plate for Oneida Silversmiths Ltd., Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate date: 1924
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Center Left
Sight Size 20.75" x 29.88", Framed 49.00" x 39.00"
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Kuppenheimer Man
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Used for signage and marketing purposes.
Thanhardt-Burger carved gilt frame. Painting is fully conserved. Client / Usage: K...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Oil Painting Impressionist Portrait of Mother and Daughter
Located in London, GB
A beautiful french salon double portrait. We adore the wallpaper in the background and the whole in its frame superchic.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil painting 'The Girl in The Red Dress' by William Frank Calderon (1865-1943)
Located in Uppingham, GB
Oil on Canvas "The girl in the Red Dress" by W Frank Calderon, RA (no58) Exhibit 1911. Calderon was influenced by the "Art Nouveau"period, this painting shows his beautiful detailed...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Chinese Man
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Lazlo Tatz (Hungary 1888 - Philippines 1951)
Portrait of a Chinese man
Oil on canvas, H. 50 x W. 44.5 cm
Tatz studied in Budapest and Paris, and in 1931 h...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School Portrait PS 252 La dernière danse des tournesols Chut les Barbizon
Located in Zofingen, AG
La dernière danse des tournesols - The last dance of Sunflowers
In this evocative mixed-media composition, it brings to life a haunting yet tender portrayal of a solitary young woman...
Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Stretcher Bars
Portrait Jimi Hendrix Can you see me? Kehinde Wiley Chut Les Barbizons
Located in Zofingen, AG
Iconic portrait of Jimi Hendrix with all-over technique. Floral patterns elements create confusion between foreground and background. Such as an Orthodox icon, Jimi Hendrix is haloed...
Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Canvas
$2,844 Sale Price
23% Off
Kindred of the Dust, Frontier Town Cosmopolitan Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
A somewhat similar Cornwell featuring a strong woman at the center of a the composition just sold at Christie's for $164,000. In this work we also see a strong woman at the center of the composition. Here she surrounded by men.
More than 20 beautifully rendered post-impressionist portraits in character, define Dean Cornwell as one of America's great artists. In his time, he was a famous as Norman Rockwell and was Norman Rockwell's favorite illustrator. "One thing puzzled Dirty Dan extremely. That was the perfectly frank, friendly manner in which his employer and this outcast woman greeted each other, the earnestness with which they conversed, and the effect of the woman's low-spoken words upon the color of Hector McKaye's face."
Morris Weiss collection...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Thomas Glass, seated half-length, in a brown three-piece suit
Located in Miami, FL
Signed 'ORPEN' (upper left)
Sitter is bathed in warm window light that creates subtle patter of light and shadow in the background. Artists depicts Mr. Glass in a beige and brown ...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$60,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique French Signed Oil, Beautiful Young Lady in Fashionable Hat, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1900's, signed
Title: Portrait of a Young Lady wearing a hat
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 18 x 14.5 inches
Painting: 16 x 13 inches
...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of A Wheaten Terrier, early 20th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Wheaten Terrier, early 20th Century
English School - signed
Large early 20th Century portrait of a Wheaten Terrier, oil on canvas sign...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Bearded Man Amazing Frame d. 1901
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of J. Knowles
inscribed and dated to label verso
oil on canvas, framed in hand painted elaborate frame
framed: 25 x 22 inches
canvas: 22 x 1...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Divertimento in the Music Salon
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GUIDI Giuseppe (1881-1931)
Divertimento in the Music Salon
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 70 X 100 cm
Dim frame :...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of The Artists Mother, early 20th Century by VIOLET EVELYN ARNOTT
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of The Artists Mother, early 20th Century
by VIOLET EVELYN ARNOTT (1901-1953) - exhibited work
Large early 20h century portrait of the artists mother, oil on canvas by Vi...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1920-1925
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Size: 29.50" x 23.00"
Interwoven Socks Advertisement
Literatu...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Late 19th Century English Oil on Canvas Painting Female Portrait 1900
Located in Portland, OR
Antique English oil on canvas portrait painting, circa 1900. A very handsome Impressionist portrait of a youthful lady in Edwardian dress. Oil on canvas, signed to the upper left "F ...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Young Girl with a Jug' by Léon Gérard Crépy (Lille 1872 – 1944) French
Located in Knokke, BE
Léon Gérard Crépy
Lille 1872 – 1944
French Painter
'Young Girl with a Jug'
Signature: signed top left 'LG. Crepy'
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 46,5 x 38,5 cm, frame...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974) - Oil, Women with the Brass Samovar
Located in Corsham, GB
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974), Portrait of a woman sitting on a wooden stool holding a large brass samovar. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Artist's studio stamp verso. On stretchers.
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School - Portrait PS 234 L'amour tombe des nues Post Impressionist AUC
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS 234 L'amour tombe des nues
Structural analysis:
Closeup portrait of a woman. Dripping of light blue and orange create movement to the portrait.
Color analysis:
There are 2 syste...
Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Gesso, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
Portrait Les Quatres coins Artist French School READY TO HANG Chut les Barbizons
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait PS 168 Les Quatres coins du coeur.
Closeup - portrait of a woman head
⭐Structural analysis:⭐
Such as Impressionist painting, the subject is firstly a study of light on hu...
Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Gesso, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
Walter Savage Cooper (1861-1943) - Framed 1924 Oil, Lady in Thought
Located in Corsham, GB
This delicate early 20th century oil depicts a lady at her desk. The artist uses a muted colour palette and soft lighting to create an intimate atmosphere, drawing the viewer's atten...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Hours
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas on board, signed lower left
Image size: 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (36.5 x 44.5 cm)
Hand made frame
In this atmospheric scene a drunk is walking home, he must be causing some noise as another person is leaning out of his window to the right looking at him.
The artist has captured old London beautifully with the old bins, advertising on the walls and the cats bemused by the drunken figure. It sometimes takes an outsider such as Sancha to appreciate the beauty of the scene.
Francisco Sancha Lengo
Self portrait in London
Francisco Sancha y Lengo was born in Malaga in 1874. He attended the School of Fine Arts there and studied under Joaquín Martínez de la Vega, the eccentric, influential teacher that baptised a young Picasso with champagne. Such an education served him well, and by 1897 Sancha was studying at the Royal Academy in Madrid under José Moreno Carbonero...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Green bucket - Large oil on wood
Located in Geneva, CH
Unknown artist
Work on wood
Wooden frame and gilded plaster
139 x 73,5 x 5,5 cm
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$960 Sale Price
52% Off
Peter Hirsch (1889-1978) - 1927 Oil, Mrs Frau Brandt
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful portrait depicting Mrs Frau Brandt in Munich in the early 20th century. Acquired as a pair of portraits with the other depicting her husband, Otto Brandt. Signed and ins...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ludwig Kandler (1856-1927) - Framed 1924 Oil, Drinker in the Jazzy Waistcoat
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil portrait by the German artist Ludwig Kandler (1856-1927), depicting a jolly tavern drinker, dressed in his very best waistcoat and neckerchief, enjoying a tankard of a...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Profile of a Woman in White Blouse oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Profile of a Woman in White Blouse
Artist: Josep Puigdengolas Barella (Barcelona, 1906 – 1987)
Technique: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 13 x 10.6 in
Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 1...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,896 Sale Price
20% Off
Study of the Violinist for Holy Motherhood, pre-raphaelite, newlyn school, Oil
Located in London, GB
Thomas Cooper Gotch
1854 – 1931
Study of Violinist for Holy Motherhood
Oil on canvas, on board
Image size: 28 ¾ x 21 inches
18th century frame
Illustrated in "The Golden Dream, A bi...
Category
Aesthetic Movement Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Emile Marin (1876-1940) - Framed Oil, Portrait of a Bedouin Man
By Emile Marin
Located in Corsham, GB
An early 20th century Portrait of a Bedouin Man, oil on panel. Signed 'A. Marin' to the lower left. Well presented in an elegant gilt-effect frame. On panel.
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Painting 20th Century Symbolism Esotericism
By Numa François Gillet
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GILLET Numa François (1868- 1940)
Oil on wood panel signed low left
Dedicated and dated 1933
Old Antique frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim panel : 37 X 55 cm
Dim frame : 61 X 78 cm
GILLET Numa François (1868- 1940)
French 19th-20th century
Painter, ceramist, architect designer
Symbolist movement
Numa François Gillet...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Man - Painting Russian Ukrainian
Located in London, GB
The painting is hand signed by the artist at the lower left part "I. Ryback".
It was probably painted between 1925 to 1935 in France.
Provenance: Josef Steiglitz Gallery, Tel Aviv.
...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child - Classic Portrait
Located in Miami, FL
This warm portrait looks like it could have been painted by Corot. Francis Luis Mora paints in that tradition. It's a small painting that invites the viewer to look closer. The art...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Joan of Arc', Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d'Or, Group of Thirteen, Benezit
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885-1961) and dated 1923.
In a later, giltwood swept frame. Framed dimensions: 34.25 x 1.75 x 24.75 inches
An early-twentieth century figural gouache showing Joan prior to her execution, kneeling and holding the communion chalice. She seems oblivious to the jostling crowd of captors and weeping supporters that surround her. An armored soldier stands at right, firmly grasping his scabbard and the hilt of his sword. A second solder draws aside the tent door...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
The Cornish Fisherman Antique English Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Sea Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Longshore Bill"
by David W. Haddon, British early 1900's
signed oil on board , framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 15 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Contrebasse d'ingres French School Impressionist Pop 243 READY TO HANG
Located in Zofingen, AG
PS 243 La Contrebasse d'Ingres
Such as Odalisque from Ingres or the photography composition from Man Ray, the most important point is the round shape of the body. The pale body shap...
Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
$1,007 Sale Price
56% Off
Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
French School Portrait Blue White Horse Impressionist th century Original AUC
Located in Zofingen, AG
White Horse
Animal portrait closeup.
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden frame 40x40cm ■■ 15,8x15,8 inch
Sustainability: Wooden frame is made by the arti...
Category
Tonalist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Ink
Hearts Unreasoning, by Sarah Bernhardt The First of Six Romances of the French S
Located in Miami, FL
Hearts Unreasoning, by Sarah Bernhardt The First of Six Romances of the French Stage -
McCall’s Magazine December 1920 interior illustration. The work is related to Shinn's fam...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$15,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Amelie Ruths (1871-1956) - 1912 Oil, Tending The Hearth
Located in Corsham, GB
This evocative painting depicts a figure tending to a fire in a dimly lit, rustic setting. The artist's use of warm, muted tones and loose brushstrokes creates a sense of intimacy an...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Signed Oil, Portrait of Young Lady in Turquoise Dress 1930s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1930's, signed very lower right corner and inscribed verso
Title: 'Jeune Fille'
Medium: oil on canvas laid over board, framed in a period gilt ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Folk Art, Double-Sided Fairground Advertising, Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century French folk art oil on canvas, advertising M. Joquelet the dentist and Mme Irma the snake charmer. A wonderful piece of social history.
At the turn of the century...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood, Canvas
$1,659 Sale Price
22% Off
1920's French Portrait of Fashionable Young Lady in Dapper Headpiece Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Fashionable Lady
French School, indistinctly signed "Degucret"?
oil on canvas, unframed
painting: 25.5 x 21 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: very good a...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Seated Man – An Intimate Glimpse into Daily Life
Located in Stockholm, SE
This masterfully executed painting by Emerik Stenberg (1873–1927) captures an intimate and atmospheric moment. The composition features a seated man, engrossed in his daily chores, b...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900's French Impressionist Portrait of a Lady Beautiful Gilt Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Lady"
French School, early 1900's
oil painting on canvas, framed
painting: 48cm x 41cm
framed: 69cm x 60cm
Beautiful quality early 1900's French Impressionist oil pa...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bulls Eye, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1909
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
PRICE ON REQUEST-
The Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover, December 10, 1909
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Distinguished Portrait of Authoritative Gentleman in Glasses French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Distinguished Gentleman Portrait
Signed by D - Lubin (French, early 20th century)
Dated 1915
oil on panel, unframed
panel: 13.75 x 10.5 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Paris
...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a lady
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Burgundy wooden frame
75.5 x 65 x 4 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in Equestrian Clothing
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Walter Beach Humphrey specialized in painting magazine covers and he eventually did work for almost all of them, beginning with small-circulation publica...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 5, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Pastel on Paper
Dimensions: 24.00" x 19.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 5, 1927
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
1930's French Portrait Sketch of a Lady, Listed French painter
By Leon Launay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Lady"
by Leon Launay (French 1890-1956)
charcoal portrait drawing on paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting: 18.5 x 12 inches
Condition report:
The painting is in go...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Top of the World, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 38.25" x 29.25", Framed 45" x 35"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, June 13, 1925
Edmund Davenport was a New Yorker and a successful illustrator in the 1920’s. He painted covers for Women’s Home Companion and The Saturday Evening Post, and at the same time, he worked in the art department of Paramount Studios.
At the time of this publication, a young woman’s graduation from college was a rare accomplishment, and the opportunities for employment that required a college diploma, were even rarer. Nevertheless, it was a good reason for this pretty, young woman to be sitting on top of the world in the vicinity of “cloud nine.” “Top of the World” appeared on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post on June 13, 1925.
Exhibited: Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014
A luminous and rare Golden Age of Illustration cover...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Genre scene Young street musician Early 20th century Austrian masterwork Framed
By Eduard Ansen-Hofmann (1862-1955)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed “E. Hofmann 24.IX 33” lower right. A touching family scene with a young street musician with flute and his caring sister. A gifted young ...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"Demoiselle" - Framed Early 20th Century Pastel Woman Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
I apologize for the reflections on the glass of this exquisite Gaston Bouy pastel drawing. It's in a very nice frame in great condition, and I did not want...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
$1,600 Sale Price
46% Off
Child Playing with Toy Birds and Doll - School of Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Anna Milo Upjohn was an overlooked female illustrator in the school of Jessie Willcox Smith. Her work displays a deep academic knowledge evident in her stylized illustrations of children and engaging their world. Signed lower right- 'A.M.UPJOHN" unframed. She was an assignment artist for renowned women's publications such as The Woman's Home Companion and children's books, as well as commercial assignments.s for the Red Cross. Unframed
Anna Milo Upjohn (1868–1951) was an American artist, illustrator, author, and relief worker who, late in her long career, became known for paintings, drawings, and illustrations she made for the American Red Cross. After graduating from high school, she studied art briefly in New York but obtained most of her training in Paris from Claudio Castelucho and Lucien Simon.[1] In the early years of the twentieth century, she became known both for her portraits and paintings of children and for her book and magazine illustrations. Finding herself in France at the outset of the First World War, she devoted herself to relief work first among the refugees in Paris and later among the devastated villages in France and Belgium. Having spent the first half of her adult life as an independent professional, she served as a staff artist for the American Red Cross between 1921 and 1931. She traveled extensively during her adult life and lived mostly in New York City; Ithaca, New York; and Washington, D.C.
Early life and training
During the 1870s, Upjohn's family lived with her grandfather, a well-known architect named Richard Upjohn who had retired to a scenic home in Garrison, New York. Richard Upjohn's biographer says when she was about five she would accompany him as he sketched and painted. She questioned him about his color choices and learned that artists often chose colors different from the ones present in the subjects they painted. He also showed her engravings of famous paintings, explaining what made them great and where they fell short in his view.[2] Her family was living in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin when she graduated from high school in 1887.[3] A few years later, the family moved to New York, where, in the early 1890s, she took classes at the Cooper Union Woman's Art School.[4] She began her foreign travels in 1893 and during the next few years studied art in Munich, Florence, and Paris.[5] In 1902, she took an illustration class at the National Academy of Design and the following year won the Academy's Suydam silver medal for her work.[6] Between 1909 and 1912, she studied and traveled in Europe's other major cities.[7] In 1922, Upjohn told a reporter that she had studied art "in many places, usually for a few months at a time and disconnectedly, but what counted most was the work she did in Paris under Castelucho and Lucien Simon.”[1] Born in Barcelona, Castelucho's birth name was Claudi Catelucho Diana, but he went by his surname alone. In Paris during the early years of the twentieth century, he and Simon both trained private students and both taught at two mondernist alternatives to the École des Beaux Arts: the Académie Colarossi and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.[8] Upjohn did not say whether she took private lessons, classes, or both.
Career in art
Image No. 1, Anna Milo Upjohn, Young Boy Going Fishing, 1910, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches
In 1890, at the age of twenty-one, Upjohn completed a painting of angels for St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. Her uncle Richard M. Upjohn had designed the building and her father was currently its rector (having succeeded John Henry Hobart Brown...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Mixed Media, Watercolor
Elegant Woman holding White Roses Flowers , Portrait Champetre French Symbolist
Located in Miami, FL
Masterfully painted portrait with rich paint surface by the famous French Symbolist Signed and dated lower left Provenance: Waterhouse & Dodd, London ...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$58,000 Sale Price
26% Off
An Italian Man With Hat and Scarf by Italian Artist Giuseppe Giardinello
Located in Stockholm, SE
For sale is a beautiful small portrait by the Italian artist Giuseppe Giardinello, whose life spanned from 1887 to 1920. This work of art is a remarkable representation of Giardinell...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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