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Impressionist Paintings

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
Period: 1940s
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Cardboard, Canvas, Oil

Bridge Nocturne oil painting by Johann Berthelsen
Located in Hudson, NY
One of Johann Berthelsen's iconic nocturne views of New York City across the Hudson River. Bridge Nocturne (c.1945) Oil on canvas, 22" x 28" 29 ½" x 36" x 2" framed Signed "Johann ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Framed Impressionist Beach Scene Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Seated Nude Woman American Impressionist School 1940s by Fred Yost
Located in Soquel, CA
Seated Nude Woman American Figurative School 1940s Mid-century American impressionist painting of a woman by American artist Frederick "Fred" Yost (American/Swiss, 1888-1968). He studied: at Mt. Union Col., Alliance, OH; American Students League, New York, and with Homer Boss, John Sloan, Robert Henri, R. Lahey. The painting gleans much form his studies with John Sloan and Robert Henri in the French post-impressionist style. Image 24"H x 18"W Frame, 30"H x 24"W x 1.5"D Signed "Yost" lower right Painter, lithographer, teacher, lecturer About Fred's life: by Hal Fry of the Herald “Fred Does Whatever He Likes” was a title given to a biography written about Fred Yost by Hal Fry of the Herald. The following is taken directly from this column: “Fred Yost’s living style is like his painting style. He has fun with it. Fred John Yost was born in Switzerland, he’ sure, on November 6, 1889, he thinks. His father John brought the family to his country when Fred was about a year old—first to New York and later to Canton, Sebring and finally Alliance, where Yost Sr. loaded freight for a railroad. Fred like drawing and painting so far back he can’t remember how or when it started—it was always that way. But through the public schools in Alliance he didn’t think of this as a career possibility. He wanted to be a newspaperman. He worked his way through Mt. Union College, finishing, he thinks, about 1912. Then he beat it for New York and after kicking around for a time got a job as a proofreader for the Wall Street Journal. He combined this and art school until World War I took him into the Army. In infantry, field artillery and ordnance duties he served with the 27th New York Division through St. Mihiel and the Argonne and the rest—in the process getting his hearing clobbered by blasts from his outfit’s own guns. Coming out a Sergeant in 1919, he went back to the Wall Street Journal briefly—then caught on as a staff artist for the (New York) Herald. For several years, when he felt like it, Yost would take a bus to the Mexican border and switch to a Mexican bus to carry him way down south, then make it any way he could to the places he wanted to see. On these trips he virtually becomes a peon, disappearing totally from those who know him—living with, like and clearly thoroughly liked by the people among whom he moves.” Yost was a graduate of the Art Students League and past president of the Ohio Watercolor Society. Fred Yost, a man who eminently loved the Mexican landscape, Exhibited: S. Indp. A., 1928, 1930-33; MMA, 1945; AIC; Butler AI, 1947-1951; Ohio WC Soc.; PAFA, 1948-1950; Akron AI, 1947-1951, 1958; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Ohio Univ., 1950; Columbus Gal. FA, 1947-50; AWCS, 1958; Salons of Am.; 3 solo: Canton AI; Akron AI, Springfield Mus. A. Contributor to Ford Times, 1958-59. Awards: prizes, Massilon Museum, 1944; Ohio Watercolor Society, 1944, 1948; Indianapolis, Ind., 1944; Tri-State Pr. M., 1945, 1946; Butler AI, 1946; Youngstown Pub. Schools, 1946 (prize); Ohio Univ., 1950; Ethel Printz award, 1950; Fla. Southern Col., 1952; Akron AI, 1952, 1956-1958; Canton AI, 1961, 1963; medal, Phila. Pa., 1950 Member: Ohio Watercolor Society (president) Work: Massillon Mus.; Youngstown Pub. Sch. Coll.; Butler AI; Akron AI; Kennedy & Co., NY; Beaver Col., Beaver Falls, Pa.; Block Gal., Indianapolis; Prospect Park, NY; murals, Sioux City Steak House; Sioux City A. Center; City Hall, Sioux City; Akron AI; Evangelical Church, Akron; Rockefeller Center; Radio City, NY; Brooklyn Zoological Park. Affiliated with NYC Park Dept. Mural Projects. Comments: Came to U. S. in 1889. Position: teacher, Butler AI; Akron AI; instr., Akron AI, Akron, Ohio; cur. Historical House of Refuge...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

The Party Frock - British 1940's art female child portrait oil painting exhib RA
By Dod Procter
Located in London, GB
This charming British portrait oil painting is by female artist Dod Procter. It was painted in 1949 and exhibited at the Royal Academy London the same year. The painting is of a litt...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

J.FAY 1943 Vintage Original Oil Painting on canvas, Herd of Wild Horses, framed
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is an impressive vintage oil painting on canvas depicting a herd of wild horses. Signed and dated in the lower-right corner J.FAY '43 Nicely framed. Good vintage con...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Spanish School (XX) Fishermen's Beach oil on board painting seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed J. Sureda Lloveras - Fishermen's beach - Oil on board Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frameless. Signed J. Sureda Lloveras.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Mid Century --Fields and Foothills Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely landscape by Tarmo Pasto. Signed and dated "1948" on the bottom right. Unframed. Image size: 25"H x 30"W. Dr. Tarmo Pasto was born on July 27, 1906 in Monessen, Pennsylvania, of Finnish descent. Tarmo Pasto was a psychologist and artist, who taught psychology and art through the 1970s at California State College at Sacramento since the schools inception. He also authored a book on art, The Space-Frame Experience in Art, published in 1964. He, however, was mainly known to the world for introducing the works of one of his psychology patients, Martin Ramirez...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Reading a love letter oil on canvas painting woman portrait
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antoni Vidal Rolland (1889-1970) - Reading a love letter - Oil on canvas Oil measures 55x46 cm. Frame measures 76x67 cm. Disciple of José Ruiz Blasco in Lonja and of Aleix Clapés. H...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

American Soldiers Landing Boats with Warships Firing in the Distance
Located in Soquel, CA
American Soldiers Landing Boats with Warships Firing in the Distance Landing party during WWll with Navy ships lay down covering fire in the background, attributed to Linna Annetta F...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Signed California Cityscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist cityscape signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 12L x 10H.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Charming American Impressionist Landscape Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Mystery American Artist Untitled (Landscape), c. mid 20th century Oil on canvas 19 x 23 in. Framed: 23 1/2 x 27 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. Initialed lower right: FV
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Pond and Hills Oil on canvas board 1930s
By Clyde Eugene Scott
Located in Soquel, CA
"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Oil on canvas board 1930s Elegant mid century landscape depicting a lake and hillside in summer by well known and collected California artist ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board

Flower Still Life, Oil Painting by Gustave Weigand 1949
By Gustave Weigand
Located in Long Island City, NY
An oil on board painting by Gustave Weigand (1870 - 1957), signed lower right. Painting measures 16 x 12 inches. Wiegand was born in Bremen, Germany in 1870. Wiegand studied at the R...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Dans L'Atelier Mardi - Mid 20th Century Nude Still Life Oil by Michael D'Aguilar
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Baron Michael D`Aguilar was born on May 15, 1922 in London to Spanish parents. He was brother of the artist Paul D`Aguilar. He spent much of his early life in Spain. He studied at...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Brighton Beach" Nathan Hoffman, New York, Sunny Day Landscape Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman Brighton Beach, July 31, 1946 Signed, dated, and estate stamped on the reverse Oil on artist's board 10 x 13 1/2 inches Provenance: Esta...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Boats on the beach oil on board painting spanish seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Nicolás Raurich Petre - Costa Brava - Oil on board Oil mesures 14x23 cm. Frame mesures 31x40 cm.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Monterey Bay" Impressionist Landscape by Elmer Stanhope
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful 1940's impressionist landscape by Elmer Stanhope (1907-1956) Titled "Monterey Bay" Oil on canvas The canvas measures 24" x 30", while the frame measures 30" x 36"
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Central Park, Sherry Netherland Hotel, Plaza Hotel" Nathan Hoffman, New York
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman Central Park, Sherry Netherland Hotel, and Plaza Hotel, 1970 Signed, dated, titled on the reverse Oil on artists board 10 x 16 inches B...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Spanish landscape Spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984) - Landscape - Oil on board Oil measures 23x36 cm. Frame measures 31x43 cm. Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984) Jordi Freixas Cortés is a Catalan paint...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Sunset in the Sierra's 1942 - California Mountain Landscape oil on canvas framed
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Housed in a period, hand carved, gold leaf frame. Dimensions: 28 x 36 inches Signed and dated Robert Wood ‘42 Provenance: Private Collection, Cleveland, Ohio Dr. S. Robbins, Cleve...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"The Beach" Nathan Hoffman, Brooklyn, New York, Sunny Day Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman The Beach Estate stamped on the reverse Oil on artist's board 10 1/4 x 14 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Born in Russia, the s...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Ocean Parkway Beach, October 2" Nathan Hoffman, Brooklyn, Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman Ocean Parkway Beach, October 2, 1941 Signed, titled, dated on the reverse Oil on artists board 9 3/4 x 14 inches Born in Russia, the son...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

"Brighton Beach, August 5" Nathan Hoffman, Brooklyn, Impressionist, Sunny Day
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman Brighton Beach, August 5, 1941 Signed, titled, dated and estate stamped on the reverse Oil on board 9 3/4 x 14 inches Born in Russia, th...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

"Manhattan from the Rooftops" Nathan Hoffman, Impressionist Cityscape Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman Manhattan from the Rooftops, July 1, 1947 Signed, dated and estate stamped on the reverse Oil on board 15 3/4 x 20 inches Born in Russia...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

Love Honor Obey?
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Love Honor Obey? Lon Megargee ca. 1940 Oil on Board Size: 19.75 x 26.75 inches Frame: 26.75 x 33.75 inches signed lower right Painting is framed Creator...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Americana, Horse Drawn Sled Christmas Celebration with Barking Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Good wholesome mid-century Americana is on full display in the joyous illustration that depicts a red horsedrawn sled of merrymaking folks being rreated at an inn. Signed lower left ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Watercolor

Antique Florence Italy Impressionist Ruins Nicely Framed Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 12L x 9H.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Rough Surf Coastal Seascape Beach Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school seascape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Unframed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Castellanas Mallorca Majorca oil painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Josep Castellanas Garrich (Barcelona, 1896 - Majorca, 1980) Born in Barcelona in 1896, and in 1919 he moved to Mallorca following in the footsteps of Santiago Rusiñol, with whom he h...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

"Day of Rest" San Pedro Harbor Fishing Boats Oil on Linen 1948
Located in Soquel, CA
"Day of Rest" San Pedro Harbor Fishing Boats Oil on Linen 1948 Oil on linen of San Pedro fishing docks, Los Angeles, California by California artist Harry (Harris) Mishkin (American/...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Antique American School Signed Framed Modernist Pig Farm Animal Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist pig oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 11L x 9H.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Blue Lake in the Rockies and Hunter - Oil on Linen Cascades and snow capped mountains over look a blue lake with a successful hunter carrying his trophy deer by Vern Byers (American...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Still life of flowers and bananas oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquín Asensio Mariné (1890-1961) - Still life of flowers - Oil on canvas Oil measures 38x46 cm. Frame measures 62x70 cm. Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890-1961) was a painter who sp...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Puigdengolas. Pine tree. COSTA DE MALLORCA, 1942. Original Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Josep Puigdengolas Barrella (Barcelona (1906 - 1987), was a Spanish landscape painter of the 20th century. The Marqués de Lozoya said of Puigdengolas that ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Thoroughbred Horse 1940 by Ada (Kruse) Ducker - Exhibited Nevada State Museum
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous horse portrait by Ada Ducker Kruse a Santa Cruz artist (American, 1900-1995), 1947-1948. Signed and dated lower right corner "Ada Ducker "1940". Presented in vintage giltwo...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

1940's Winter Snow Landscape Listed Spanish Artist Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Winter by MIGUEL TUSQUELLAS CORBELLA (Spanish, 1884-1969) signed - and painted on artists studio stamped board oil painting on board, unframed board: 5.5 x 8.5 inches provenance: pri...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Ernest Burnett Hood, British Artist (1932-1988) Oil on canvas painting, Portrait
Located in Framingham, MA
Up for sale is an interesting original vintage oil painting on canvas by Famous British Artist Ernest Burnett Hood, (1932 to 1988), depicting a portrait of a man in costume. Ernest...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Autumn Valley Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century folk art painting of an autumn valley by Farris (American, 20th Century)Signed "Farris" lower left. Tag on verso from Ohio frame shop ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard, Canvas

girl reading oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Llimona Benet (1896-1957) - Girl reading - Oil on canvas Oil measures 116x89 cm. Frameless. Rafael Llimona i Benet (1896-1957) was a Spanish pai...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Beautiful Blue Eyed Boy Vintage Portrait California Impressionist
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Blue Eyed Boy Vintage Portrait California Impressionist Wonderful 1940s portrait of young boy on cusp of adulthood. His piercing blue eyes draw y...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Windmill. Middle of 1940s, oil on cardboard, 54x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Windmill. Middle of 1940s, oil on cardboard, 54x65 cm Harijs Veldre (Bullis till 1947) (1927.8.III – 1999.6.V) Harijs Veldre learned in Riga school of applied arts (1942 – 43), in s...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Autumn Landscape — 1940s Post-Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Henri Pierre Fortier, Untitled (Autumn Landscape), gouache, c. 1940s. Signed in ink. Inscribed 'To my Friend CLINTON R. MULFORD'. A fine, painterly watercolor, with rich, layered colors, on heavy dark brown drawing paper with approximately 1/4 inch margins; an unfinished figurative sketch...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache

Picacho Peak, Arizona 1945 - Mid Century Southwest Desert Landscape by Dejoiner
Located in Soquel, CA
Picacho Peak, Arizona 1945 - Mid Century Southwest Desert Landscape by Dejoiner Beautiful mid-1940's impressionist southwest desert landscape by...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

1940s Sierra Mountain Landscape -- "Sierra Grandeur"
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous landscape of Sierra Mountains and lake in autumn by Oliver Glen Barrett (American, 1903 - 1970), circa 1940. Signed lower right corner; ti...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Spanish seascape oil on board painting impressionism Spain mediterranean
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Impressionist Marina - Oil panel Oil measures 32x35 cm. Frame measures 43x46 cm. The table has irregu...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Mid Century Italian Alps Dolomites Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1945 scenic watercolor of Italian Alps with Dolomites covered in snow in background. This is double sided with landscape on verso. Signed ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

"APRIL" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BLUEBONNETS IMAGE: 25 X 30 FRAME: 33 X 38 CIRCA 1940S
Located in San Antonio, TX
Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 33 x 38 Medium: Oil "April" Texas Hill Country Bluebonnets Biography Robert Wood (G. Day) (1889 -1979) A painter of realistic landscapes reflecting a vanishing wilderness in America, Robert Wood (not to be confused with Robert E. Wood) is reportedly one of the most mass-produced artists in the United States. His painting became so popular he was unable to meet all of the demands, and many of his works were reproduced in lithographs and mass distributed as prints, place mats, and wall murals by companies including Sears, Roebuck. He was born in Sandgate, Kent on the south coast of England near Dover, the son of W.L. Wood, a famous home and church painter who recognized and supported his son's talent. In fact, he forced his son to paint by keeping him inside to paint rather than playing with his friends. At age 12, Wood entered the South Kensington School of Art. As a youth, he came to the United States in 1910, having served in the Royal Army, and he never returned to England. He traveled extensively all over the United States, especially in the West, often in freight cars, and also painted in Mexico and Canada. His itinerant existence took him to Illinois where he worked as a farmhand, to Pensacola, Florida where he married, briefly in Ohio, Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. In 1912, he was in Los Angeles, and in the late 1920s and early 1930s, in San Antonio, Texas, where he lived and in 1928 exhibited in the "Texas Wildflower Competition." From San Antonio, he gained a national reputation for his strong colored, dramatic paintings. Some of that prestige has been credited to his association with Jose Arpa, prominent Texas artist. Wood also gave art lessons, and one of his students was Porfirio Salinas. During this period, Wood sometimes signed his paintings G. Day or Trebor, which is Robert spelled backwards. In 1941 he went to California and painted numerous desert and mountain landscapes and coastal scenes. He lived in Carmel for seven years, and then moved to Woodstock, New York, but he soon returned to California, settling first in Laguna Beach, then San Diego, and finally in the High Sierras, where he and his wife built a home and studio near Bishop and lived until his death in 1979. Robert Wood was born March 4, 1889, in Sandgate, England, a small town on the Kentish coast not far from the white cliffs of Dover. His father, W. J. Wood, was a successful painter who recognized Robert's unusual talent. At the age of twelve, his father enrolled Wood in art school in the small town of Folkstone. He then attended the South Kensington School of Art. While attending art school, Wood won four first awards and three second awards, one each year, a record. In 1910 after service in the Royal Army, nineteen-year-old Wood and his friend, Claude Waters, immigrated to America. Initially, he settled in Illinois and worked as a hired hand on a farm belonging to Water's uncle. He would then strike out on his own, living the life of an itinerant painter. Wood traveled as a hobo, hopping freight trains and selling or bartering small paintings to support him along the way. When times were hard, he worked at whatever job was available. In this manner, he saw most of the United States and fell in love with rural America. By 1912, Wood visited Los Angeles for the first time, arriving on the day of the Titanic tragedy. Later that year, he had met, courted and married young Eyssel Del Wagoner in Florida. The couple moved to Ohio where a daughter, Florence, was born. During World War I, the family moved to Seattle where a son, John Robert Wood, was born in 1919. In the early 1920's, the young Wood family was almost constantly on the move. They stayed for short periods in Kansas, Missouri, California and for a longer time in Portland, Oregon, where Wood's friend Claude Waters had settled. Wood's seemingly endless wanderings disrupted his family life and delayed his development as a painter. However, through his travels he developed an appreciation for the American landscape that would inspire him for the rest of his career. Although aware of the current movement away from traditional realism in American art, he elected to travel that solitary path and remain true to his own vision of American’s grandeur and beauty poetically translated through his landscape and seascape paintings. In 1923, the Wood family discovered the beautiful city of San Antonio, Texas and it was there that he and his family would finally settle. He studied briefly at the San Antonio Art School with Spanish colorist Jose Arpa y Perea (1860-1952), who had arrived in San Antonio that same year. In the latter part of the 1920’s, Jose Arpa’s influence quickly became evident. Wood after several years of experimentation was becoming fine easel painter, capable of great subtlety with a new mature original style. Like Texas painters Robert Onderdonk (1853-1917) and his son Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922), Robert Wood concentrated on the distinctive Texas landscape with its Red Oak trees and wildflowers that covered the hill country landscape. He developed a reputation for his scenes of Blue Bluebonnets, the state flower. In the spring, the Texas prairie is covered with wildflowers, especially in the hill country surrounding San Antonio and Austin. Wood incorporated native stone barns and rough wood farmhouses that added authenticity and romance to his compositions. In 1925, Wood was divorced from his wife. In 1932, he moved to the famous scenic loop on San Antonio's outskirts. While still living in Texas, he took extensive western sketching...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Paris Modern Impressionist Signed Original Street Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage Paris School signed original oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed illegibly. Displayed in a period wood frame. Image, 12"L x 16"H.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Apartment Interior #2 - Watercolor and Pen on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Apartment Interior #2 - Watercolor and Pen on Paper Detailed interior scene by Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014). The apartment is furnished with several chairs, one of which is wicker, with a bookshelf behind them. The room is decorated in shades of green, brown, and blue-grey. There are two light green carpets on the floor. Signed "Doris Hoover" in the lower right corner. Location information in lower left corner. Presented in a wood frame. Frame size: 17"H x 21"W Image size: 9.75"H x 13.5"W Doris Lyons Hoover (American, 1927-2014) was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, on Oct. 8, 1927, on her grandparents' farm. She was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and attended college at the University of Chattanooga, (now UTC) where she received honors in ar. At U.C. she met her husband Jack Hoover, and the couple moved to Palo Alto in 1954. Doris Hoover became a nationally known fabric artist, teacher, lecturer and co-founder of the Peninsula Stitchery Guild, a leading organization in the Bay Area Crafts Movement of the 1970s. Her beautiful, often playful quilts, soft sculptures and creative stitchings grace...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Laid Paper, Oil

American Impressionist Cherry Blossom Pointillist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape painting. Very finely painted with an impressive palette. Oil on board. No signature found. Image size, 24L x 20H.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Melons
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Impressionist Subject: Still Life Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Dimensions: 15.25" x 24" Frederick B. Serger (given name Frederick Bedrick Sinaberger) was born in 1889 to a family of Jewish manufacturers in the village of Ivancice near Brno Moravia, a province of Czechoslovakia. Showing artistic talent at a young age, he attended art schools in Brno, Vienna, and Munich. During World War I, Serger joined the Austrian Army and served in the Balkans. Once his service ended, he traveled to Paris where he resumed his art training and eagerly joined the Ecole de Paris (School of Paris) artists’ movement. During this period, he was greatly influenced by the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and Expressionist movements. While living in Paris, he met and married Helen Spitzer. Serger and his young wife moved from Paris to Scoczow, a city on the Polish-Czech border. They remained in Scoczow for 12 years and he continued to work as an artist, exhibiting in museums in Cracow and Warsaw. He also showed at the Paris Salon de Tuilleries and the Salon d’Automne with exhibitions protesting the French Academy’s Salon system. A high point in Serger’s career was an exhibition at the famed Bernheim-Jeune in Paris. The Bernheim-Jeune was known for displaying the artwork of premier artists such as Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne. Finally, in 1937, the City of Paris Museum purchased one of his paintings to be part of their collection. During the onset of World War II, the Sergers moved several times, possibly in reaction to widespread Anti-Semitism during this period. They lived briefly in England, Panama, Guatemala, and Mexico. Finally, in 1941, they established permanent residence in Manhattan, New York. Serger set up a studio along 57th Street in Manhattan. Once again, he began painting prolifically and exhibiting his artwork in such prestigious galleries as Schoneman, Van Diemen-Lilienfeld and John Heller...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

C. Griffin, American 20th C Floral Bouquet Still Life in a Vase, 20th C.
Located in Hallowell, ME
Signed lower left and verso--C Griffin. American there are a couple of possibilities. A very finished still life.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

1940s Desert Red Rocks Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning desert landscape of red rocks and desert shrubs by California artist Olive Von Bergen (American, 20th Century). Signed “Olive Von Bergen” in ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Portrait of Two Children in Traditional Dress
By M. Ray Stancliff
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of two children, a young boy and girl in traditional dress, set in a rustic interior by M. Ray Stancliff (American, b. 1925). Si...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard

Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape Symbolic and surreal mid century nocturnal landscape of a lone house on a s...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Vintage Vibrant Taos New Mexico Desert Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully vibrant Taos, New Mexico landscape painting by unknown artist , Circa 1940. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size: 6"H x 8"W.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache, Cardboard

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