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Antique American Cubist Still Life Abstract Framed Oil Painting

1940

Impressive early American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 28H by 26L.

Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.

Antique American school modernist still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Antique American school vegetable still life painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Unsigned. Image size, 20L x 10H. Housed in a period modern heydenryk frame.

Still life on black table. Oil on canvas, 135x140 cm

Signed lower right, 'C G Nelson' for Carl Gustaf Simon Nelson (American, 1898-1988) and dated 1956. A substantial, Modernist oil showing a profusion of white and pink poppies contra...

HALF LIFE Size: 30 x 40 x 2 cm (including frame) Acrylic on Canvas A playful and captivating still life painting, executed in acrylic onto linen canvas by contemporary Irish artist ...

Signed Lower Right Bror Julius Olsson “B.J.O.” Nordfeldt (1878 - 1955) Bror Julius Olsson was born in Tullstrop, Sweden in 1878. He immigrated to the United States in 1891, later adopting his mother’s maiden name of Nordfeldt. Beginning his art studies at the Art Institute of Chicago where he was chosen to assist fellow artist, Albert Herter, with a large mural project for the McCormick Harvester Company. In 1900, he was sent to Paris by McCormick to help set up the completed mural at the Paris Exposition. While there, he studied briefly at the Academie Julian before traveling to England to study woodblock printmaking under F. Morley Fletcher. Returning to Chicago in 1903, Nordfeldt would spend the next ten years painting mainly figurative works in an academic style similar to that of the Old Masters. By the mid-teens he had developed a bold dramatic modernist style and divided his time between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. There, he invented the “Provincetown Print...