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Style: American Modern
New Sun VI
Located in Bozeman, MT
When I think of where McCauley fits into American art, as a contemporary painter, sculptor and naturalistic interpreter, I place him in the same philosophical tribe as Walton Ford, A...
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Bay Area Cubist Figure in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Bay Area Cubist Figure in Oil on Canvas by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952).
This vibrant cubist-inspired composition depicts a seated figure abstracted into interlocking planes o...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
Social Realist Street Scene Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Mid 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures an architectural street scape...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
On the Red Line, Black & Red Figural Abstract Ovoid, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
On the Red Line, 1965
Acrylic on textured paper
Signed and dated lower right
24 x 31 inches
32.5 x 39 inches, framed
There is damage ...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
“Bouquet in Porcelain Pitcher”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting of a bouquet in porcelain pitcher by the American artist Nicholai Cikovsky. Signed lower right. In good condition. In contemporary gold leaf frame 27 b...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,875 Sale Price
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Modernist Watercolor Painting Judaica Kiddush Levana Blessing New Moon
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaic prayer scene
Subject: Landscape
Medium: watercolor
Surface: Paper
Country: United States
EMANUEL ROMANO
Rome, Italy, b. 1897, d. 1984
Emanuel Glicenstein Romano was born in Rome, September 23, 1897.
His father Henryk Glicenstein was a sculptor and was living in Rome with his wife Helena (born Hirszenberg) when Emanuel was born his father obtained Italian citizenship and adopted the name Enrico. Emanuel was brought up in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, England and Poland.
In 1926 Emanuel and his father sailed for New York. They briefly visited Chicago. Romano's sister, Beatrice, and mother only joined them in New York years later.
Romano changed his name on his arrival to America and some have erroneously speculated that this was to avoid antisemitic anti Jewish discrimination. In truth, as the son of a highly-regarded artist, Romano changed his name to ensure that any success or recognition he would later attain, would be the result of nothing other than his own merit as an artist, and not on account of his father's fame.
In 1936 Romano was worked for the Federal Art Project creating murals. During and immediately after World War II, Romano created a series of allegorical works depicting graphic holocaust images that were held closely by the family until after his passing. One of these works is now on permanent display in the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg Florida.
Emanuel's father died in 1942 in a car accident before they could realize their shared dream of visiting Israel.
In 1944 Romano, having completed his degree at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, began teaching at the City College of New York.
Romano moved to Safed, Israel in 1953 and established an art museum in his father's memory, the Glicentein Museum.
COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Boston Fine Arts Museum
Fogg Museum
Musée Nacional de France
Recently his work has been added to the Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Arcturus, Helsing" Modern Oil Painting WPA American Scene Denver Historical Art
Located in New York, NY
"Arcturus, Helsingfors," 19 x 16 inches, oil on canvas, signed, titled and dated 1935, 33/30C lower right.
Provenance: Acquired from the personal collection of Jim Elkind (Lost City Arts) who acquired it from interior designer Jay Spector. Graham Gallery label on verso.
Born in New Hampton, Iowa, Eve Drewelowe graduated from Hampton High School in 1919 and then studied at the University of Iowa...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Picnic, Modern Figurative Oil Painting by Anton Refregier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Anton Refregier
Title: Picnic
Year: 1959
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed and dated l.r.
Size: 24 x 44 inches (61 x 112 cm)
Frame: 31.5 x 51.5 inches
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Abstract Still Life Painting with Red-Orange Zinnias, American Art
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating oil on board painting by Paul Kauvar Smith (1893–1977) showcases a vibrant American Modernist still life featuring zinnia flowers in hues of red and orange. Set with...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,250 Sale Price
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A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Yellow Blouse
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Mid-Century Modern Portrait of a Young Woman in a Yellow Blouse by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Oil on Masonite, dating circa 1945. Artwork Si...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Preparing the Flag, America's 1784 Golden Girl
Located in Missouri, MO
Preparing the Flag, America's 1784 Golden Girl
Arthur Sarnoff (American, 1912-2000)
Signed Upper Right
28 x 24 inches
31.5 x 26.5 inches with frame
SEE PHOTO:
**Used for the Bi-Cen...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Plum Door Shack" contemporary oil painting beach shack casting shadows colorful
By Doug Reina
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Plum Door Shack" is an oil on panel painting by Setauket based artist Doug Reina. This painting depicts a beach shack with an light purple door. Behind the shack is a sandy beach wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Still Life Oil Painting Betsy Podlach American Post Feminist Modernist Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964.)
Still life with Tin Cup, 1996
17.5 X 16.5 inches. Framed it measures 18.25 X 17.25
Betsy Podlach graduated from Harvard, cum laude, (she studied at Harvard with Alfred Decreido and William Reimann as well as Carlos Fuentes continuing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Ms. Podlach was awarded an art fellowship and residency at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy.
Betsy Podlach is an American painter who considers the Italian Venetians and the american abstract expressionist painters her mentors. The two painters she is most inspired by are Titian and Jackson Pollock, Both use the picture plane and abstraction and space, light, movement and form to communicate a physicality built entirely on the principals of painting, in the “classical” sense of a flat plane and lines, color, shape, space and light applied to that flat surface to create magic – light, space, form, emotion, force, movement, the physical and the spiritual. She describes her work as a figurative version of abstract expressionism. She was influenced by many of the abstract expressionists from the NY school...
Category
1990s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape Variations No. 2 - Sardonic Interlude
By Ben Norris
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "Ben Norris / 29 - XII - 50". With label verso: "Landscape Variations II - Sardonic Interlude / by Ben Norris". From the Estate of the Artist.
Exhibite...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemplation, charcoal and collage, dark female portrait, brown, orange, gold
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collage and acrylic paint on sintra panel, excellent gift
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
"The Ledge" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Upstate New York Country Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
The Ledge, 1936-37
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 52 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artist...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
By Pawel Kontny
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee.
Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
20th century figurative landscape oil painting pastoral scene farm field cow
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This early work by American artist Sylvia Spicuzza is an excellent example of Regionalism: in the foreground, a farmer in blue stands before a herd of cattle. Beyond the fence of the...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Without Beginning Without End, Two-Sided Cubist Painting by William Littlefield
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Littlefield, American (1902 - 1969)
Title: Still Life and Abstract
Year: 1950 & 1954
Medium: Double-Sided Oil on Masonite, signed and dated both sides
Size: 22 x 28 i...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
American WPA Jewish New York Modernist Madonna Mother and Child painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943.
Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a m...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yellow Roses in Hopi Pot, American 20th Century Female Artist
Located in London, GB
Oil on board
Image size: 15 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (40 x 29 cm)
Framed
Provenance
By descent from the estate of the artist
Emma Fordyce MacRae
Emma Fordyce MacRae was an American representational painter. She was a member of the Philadelphia Ten, a group of women artists who worked and exhibited together. Her work — including still lifes and paintings of women — shows the influence of Asian flower paintings and of Seurat.
MacRae grew up in New York City, where she attended Miss Chapin's School and the Brearley School. She enrolled at the Art Students League in 1911, studying first with Frank DuMond and Kenneth Hayes Miller, and beginning in 1915, with Luis Mora, Ernest Blumenschein, and John French Sloan. She also attended one of Robert Reid's summer courses.
MacRae's painting, "Green Jade," was shown at the Anderson Galleries in 1928, at an exhibit of artist members of the American Woman's Association. Many exhibitions and gallery showings followed. In 1937, MacRae's painting "A Persian Girl," was listed as deserving of special mention by The New York Times critic Edward Alden Jewell. In the 1940s, MacRae was chairman of the awards jury of the National Association of Women Artists.
Galleries rediscovered MacRae's art in the 1980s; the Richard York Gallery in New York exhibited thirty of her paintings in December 1983. In 1987, her painting of a Venetian cafe was part of "American Women Artists, 1830-1930," an exhibition displayed at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. and in four other museums.
MacRae had studios in New York City and in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Where MacRae painted her New England landscapes form the Cape Ann Landscapes...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century
Frederick "Fritz" Frey Rockwell (1917-1977)
Coney Island Fire Eaters
25 x 30 inches
Oil on Canvas
Si...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Spring Ploughing" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist American Farmed Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Spring Ploughing
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
34 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artists ...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Interior, Oil Painting, Scene Through Window
By Jennifer Presant
Located in Surfside, FL
Education
2002 – MFA; cum laude, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1993 – BFA; Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1992 – Lorenzo Di Medici Institute, Florence, Italy
Select Gallery Exhibitions
Linda Warren Projects, Chicago, IL
Eden Rock Gallery, St Barthelemy, F.W.I
Blank Space Gallery, New York, NY
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL
Quidley & Company, Boston, MA
Zolla Lieberman Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago
Located in New York, NY
"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago
Harold Haydon
"History of the U.S. Postal Service"
21 x 25 1/2 inches
O...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
#90 Strange Creature
By Norbert Lenz
Located in Fairlawn, OH
#90 Strange Creature
Oil and pencil on board, 1932
Signed and dated in the image lower right (see photo)
Provenance:
Joseph M. Erdelac, Cleveland, OH
Condition: excellent
Archival framing
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches
Frame size: 25 x 24 inches
Painter, illustrator and commercial artist Norbert Lenz was born in Norwalk, Ohio and received his artistic training at both the Huntington Polytechnic Institute and the Cleveland School of Art. During his career Lenz exhibited his paintings and drawings at such institutions as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art. Today the art of Norbert Lenz is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Butler Institute of American Art.
Lenz was also a very highly regarded commercial designer of stamps. He worked for a number
of years at the House of Farman, a leading vendor of first day covers...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Scene at Voulangis
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
The Philadelphia modernist Arthur B. Carles was a brilliant colorist and an extraordinarily innovative painter. Though Carles trained initially at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fin...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Boats in the Harbor, Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas by David Azuz
By David Azuz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: David Azuz, Israeli/French (1942 - 2014)
Title: Boats in the Harbor
Year: 1960
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. and verso
Size: 31 x 25.5 in. (78.74 x 64.77 cm)
Frame Size:...
Category
1970s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wild Flowers Vibrant Colorful Modernist Oil Painting
By John Wenger
Located in Surfside, FL
John Wenger (1887-1976) celebrated easel painter and stage set designer whose
career included 25 solo shows in the USA, Canada, and Europe. He created set designs for such plays as "Ile", "Petrushka", "Funny Face", and Rhapsody In Blue". John Wenger's art is included in many museums in and out of the USA.
John Wenger was born on June 16, 1887 in Elizabethgrad, Russia. Wenger was born an artist, and at the age of three was painting (playing) with brushes and paint while his father, a local artist who painted scenery for the traveling theater, worked on drop scenes. His mother disapproved of this and tried to keep her son from playing with these "toys."
When John Wenger was several years older, he attended Gihnazia, which is equivalent to high school but on a college level. Throughout his education Wenger excelled in visual arts. The staff at the Gihnazia school encouraged him to apply to the Imperial Art Academy of Odessa for a scholarship. At the age of thirteen, John Wenger became a student at the academy. For Wenger, this was his first time away from home and he found it to be difficult for several months.
When he came to America in 1903, John earned his living by designing ladies costumes and jewelry at his uncles store in Newark, New Jersey. He then resumed his art studies at Cooper Union and The National Academy of Design.
While in New York, Wenger found an interest in how music and theater connected to art. He rebelled against the heavy sets and hard lines of stage scenery...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Blond Beauty Make Up the Airport Customs
Located in Miami, FL
At some point, the fine art/museum world will recognize how truly brilliant a trailblazing artist like Coby Whitmore is.
His exploration of bold colors, flattened, simplified space, ...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Pencil, Graphite
Trumpet Player, 1960's Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trumpet Player
Marshall Goodman, American (1916–2003)
Date: circa 1960
Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 32 x 26 inches
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Modernist Abstract Autumn Landscape Oil Painting – Trees in Fall Colors
Located in Denver, CO
This mid-20th-century abstract landscape oil painting by American modernist Henriette "Yetti" Stolz beautifully captures a stylized forest scene, featuring trees rendered in rich, earthy tones of gold, brown, orange, and blue. The painting reflects Stolz's modernist approach, blending organic forms with abstract color fields. Signed on the back, this piece is presented in a vintage frame, with outer dimensions measuring 30 ¾ x 36 ¼ inches, and the image size is 30 ¼ x 35 ¾ inches.
Provenance:
Estate of the Artist, Henriette "Yetti" Stolz.
About the Artist:
Henriette "Yetti" Stolz was born in Serbia in 1935 and moved to Denver, Colorado, in the early 1950s after WWII. She studied art at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where she was exposed to the modernist movements shaping the local art scene. Stolz was influenced by contemporary artists such as Mary Chenoweth...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
Pardner, 1943 Vintage African American Art, Black Artist, Painting, Pet Portrait
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John Farrar (American, 1928-1972)
Signed: John Farrar (Lower, Left)
“ Pardner ”, 1943
Titled Above Signature (Lower, Left)
Oil on Canvas
26 ⅛” x 32 ⅛”
Housed in a 2 ½” period ornamented Newcomb-Macklin frame in toned gold leaf, in good original condition.
Outside Size: 30 1/2" x 36 5/8"
A recent discovery of a painting that appears to be Farrar’s family dog. This was done when he was just fifteen years old.
As a teenager in the 1940s, Farrar received much local acclaim in the Washington D.C. art Scene. Words like “Child Prodigy”, “Brilliant” and “Gifted” were used to describe him in the local newspaper. He had a great bout of early success which included developing patrons among Washington DC’s art elite but this was short lived as he was afflicted with schizophrenia and alcoholism as an adult causing him to spend much of his life in mental institutions.
In 1942, Farrar won the Washington Times-Herald's outdoor art fair. This painting was executed the following year when he was 15 (1943). That same year he won the top prize at Atlanta University’s third annual “ Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Prints by Negro Artists ” with a piece titled “ Queenie ”. Approximately one hundred and fifty works of art were included in the show, representing the best works of more than seventy-five contemporary African American artists. This show included works by Romare Bearden, who was awarded Honorable Mention for his painting “ The Two Genrerations ”. Also included among the exhibitors - Charles H. Alston, Allen Rohen Crite, Aaron Douglas, Fredrick Flemister, Sargant Johnson, Horace Pippin, Jacob Lawrence, Marjorie Wheeler Brown, Hughie Lee Smith, Lois Mailou Jones...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
New York City Tenement Family Modernist WPA Era Oil Painting Wolins
Located in Surfside, FL
Subject: American Family
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: United States
In this painting, Joseph Wolins uses vibrant and complimentary colors and broken brushwork.
Joseph Wo...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl in a White Dress, Oil Painting on Canvas by Edith Varian Cockcroft
By Edith Varian Cockcroft
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Edith Varian Cockroft, American (1881 - 1962)
Title: Girl in a White Dress
Year: 1961-1962
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.(signed Cocroft)
...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
California Lake Landscape Original Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
California Lake Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Serene landscape by Donna N. Schuster (American, 1883-1953). The viewer stands at the edge of a lake, under a few trees. At the far ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
$2,275 Sale Price
35% Off
Old Country Bazaar
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas, 36 x 42 in.
Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower right): WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ 1926; (on the back): “OLD COUNTRY BAZAAR” / BY / WILLIAM S. SCHWARTZ / 1926
RECORDED: C. H. Bonte, “122nd Annual opens at Pennsylvania Academy,” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 30, 1927
EXHIBITED: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1926, The Thirty-Ninth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, no. 174 // The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1927, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty Second Annual Exhibition, p. 37 no. 181 // The Chicago Culture Club...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rooted Silence
By Paul Grimm
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Paul Grimm. "Rooted Silence" is a landscape painting, oil on board in an earth-tone palette by artist Paul Grimm. It is signed in the lower right, "Paul Grimm".
Paul Grimm (1891-1974) was an artist born to German parents in South Africa in 1891. As a small child, he moved with his parents to the United States. He reportedly was seen as having artistic talent as a child and, as an adult, attended a university-level art school in New York. Between 1910 and 1920, he reportedly went to South America for a few years before returning stateside and settling in southern California.
Grimm gained much of his present-day fame by painting landscapes of southern California in the 1920s. Many works depict alluvial fans and desert vegetation in the eastern half of Riverside County. The San Jacinto Mountains appear frequently in his work. Most of the works are oil on canvas. A residence on Calle Palo Fierro in the Palm Springs Warm Sands Neighborhood was built for him in 1935. He had a studio on Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs from the 1950s until his death in 1974.
Provenance:
with George Stern Fine Arts...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$25,000
Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night, 1934, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 16 inches; original label verso has title and address
Margit Varga was an artist,...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
View from the Park Colorado Summer Mountain Landscape 20th Century Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"View from the Park" is a stunning oil on canvas painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968), showcasing the serene beauty of a Colorado landscape. The artwork captures a peacefu...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
"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...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in Bloom - Figurative Nude Study Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman in Bloom - Figurative Nude Study Oil on Canvas
A nude woman, seemingly pregnant, sits reclined in a chair with her hands at the base of her belly holding a flower. This striki...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Modernist Landscape with a Hop Scotch Board
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modernist oil painting by New York modernist Karl Fortress (1907-1993). The painting has provenance from the Cornell Art Museum. In excellent original condition. Signed lower le...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vibrant 1940 Modernist Floral Still Life Oil Painting by John E. Thompson
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940 Modernist still life oil painting by celebrated artist John Edward Thompson (1882–1945) presents a striking floral arrangement in a richly colored, expressive comp...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Etna, oil on canvas figures watching volcano, Italian landscape atmospheric
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas, natural phenomenon, people watching erupting volcano
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dering Harbor Sunset" contemporary blue and purple seascape with sailboats
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Dering Harbor Sunset" is a contemporary blue & purple seascape with sailboats.
Kelly Carmody’s work has been widely exhibited and collected. One of her major figurative works was c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Wood Panel, Board
1927 Oil Painting Eiffel Tower Paris American Modernist Wpa Artist Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
Morris Kantor New York (1896 - 1974)
Paris from the Ile St. Louis, 1927 (view of Eiffel Tower)
Oil painting on canvas
Hand Signed lower left.
Provenance: Hirshhorn Museum and Scul...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Bass Season by John Atherton
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Atherton
1900-1952 American
The Bass Season
Saturday Evening Post cover, June 29, 1946
Signed "Atherton" (lower right)
Inscribed "The Bass Season opens in the east July 1st /...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bay Area Abstract Painting with Viridian Green Square
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Composition with Viridian Square by Ellis Hopkins (American, b. 1952).
This abstract composition features bold brushstrokes and highly contrasting colors. A large blue sha...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Stretcher Bars, Linen, Acrylic
$2,737 Sale Price
25% Off
Abstract Landscape
By Wes Olmsted
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by American artist Wes Olmsted depicting an abstract landscape view.
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1980s Autumn Harvest, Original Semi-Abstract Landscape Oil Painting with Figures
Located in Denver, CO
This original oil painting, titled Autumn Harvest by Edward Marecak (1919-1993), was created in 1987. It features a stunning autumnal landscape, with seven women actively engaged in ...
Category
1980s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
I'll Be There
Located in Lexington, MA
“I’ll Be There” by Craig Greene is a compelling 20 x 16 inch oil on canvas that captures quiet strength, emotion, and human connection through a modern figurative lens. Executed in G...
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Modernist Everglades Florida Wildlife Park Garden Painting Lilly Pads
By Russ Elliot
Located in New York, NY
Here we have 1960’s Russ Elliott Florida painting
Painting depicts a Park with figures overlooking a canoe with a lilly pad pond
Russ Elliott
1960’s
signed lower right
oil on canva...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Frederick Shane “Twilight of History” 1947 Surrealist Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Denver, CO
"Twilight of History" is a powerful and evocative original oil painting on board by renowned American artist Frederick Shane (1906–1992), created in 1947. This deeply symbolic work e...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Spanish Moss, Georgia" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southern Flora Painting
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Spanish Moss, Georgia
Signed lower right
Oil on artist's board
12 x 16 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to as...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sea and Land Abstraction
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea and Land Abstraction, 1936, oil on canvas board, 16 x 20 inches, signed and dated lower left, exhibited at the 18th Annual Paintings and Sculpture Exhibit at the Los Angeles Muse...
Category
1930s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bathers, Modernist Nudes, Oil on Canvas, Signed and Titled
By Leon Kelly
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Bathers" by Philadelphia born modernist painter Leon Kelly, is a fantasy nude scene of two female figures, one with towel in hand, one only depicted as a portrait within the paintin...
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,125 Sale Price
44% Off
High Line Yellow Flowers
Located in Fairfield, CT
About the artist:
Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...
Category
2010s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera
Artist and His Family, 1950s Interior Figurative Oil Painting, American Modern
Located in Denver, CO
"Artist and His Family" is a captivating 1950 oil on board painting by renowned American artist Donna Marecak (1922-1998). This intimate interior scene f...
Category
1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Modern paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
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