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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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Period: 1930s
Style: Impressionist
German Landscape, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Wolf Rohricht
By Wolf Rohricht
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wolf Rohricht, German (1886 - 1953) Title: German Landscape Year: circa 1935 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 32 x 40 inches [81 x 101.5 cm] Frame Size: 38.5 x 46.5 ...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Country Cottage at Sunrise
Located in Soquel, CA
Country Cottage at Sunrise Cottage in the morning on a winding path by an unknown American artist. Circa 1930-40. Image 18"H x 15"W Frame, 21"H x 17...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Study of a Young Woman', California Woman artist, Art Institute of Chicago
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and dated, '1936'. A delicately modeled, gouache and watercolor study of a young woman with copper hair. Sarah Villarette Hoover Hobson studied...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Mid Century Road to Mount Whitney Landscape
By John Coultrup
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant mid century landscape of Mount Whitney by John Alfred Coultrup (American, 1888-1982), Signed/inscribed in the paint "Coultrup" lower left. Presen...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Emile Gauffriaud (1877-1957) French Impr 'Cliffs of Normandy' Large oil c1938.
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine large oil on canvas by the well listed French Impressionist Emile Gauffriaud. (1877-1957). Fine Salon piece of Normandy/ Brittany chalk cliffs...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

STILL LIFE WITH FROWERS
Located in Los Angeles, CA
PHILIP REISMAN "STILL LIFE WITH FROWERS" OIL ON PANEL. SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1935 20 X 16 INCHES Philip Reisman 1904-1992 Philip Reisman was born July 18, 1904 in Warsaw, Poland....
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Farmstead Lane - 1930's Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
1930's Figurative landscape oil painting of a woman walking down a path through a country farm by S.E George (American, 20th Century). Possibly a Wichita, Kansas artist...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ruisseau a Marsangy, Yonne - Impressionist Oil Painting by Marcel Bouyeron
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marcel Bouyeron, French (1890 - 1976) Title: Ruisseau a Maisangy (Yonne) Year: circa 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 18 in. x 21 in. (45.72 cm x 53.34 cm) Frame...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

1930's Japanese Iris Bonsai Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful watercolor still life of Japanese Iris bonsai by longtime Santa Cruz, CA resident Cordelia de Gavere, c.1930's. Signed "Cor de Gavere" lower right. Unframed. Image, 18"H ...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Friars Craig, Keswick Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene landscape of Derwent Water Hills and the view from Friars Craig, Keswick, an impressionist oil painting by Eric Hesketh Hubbard, PRBA, ROI, RBC, ARWA (British, 1892-1957). Pre...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century California Sand Dunes Landscape
By Rowena R. Smith
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful California landscape painting of a path to the beach by listed Berkeley, California artist Rowena R. Smith (American, 1881-195...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Wash Day"
By Stella Texas Elmendorf Tylor
Located in San Antonio, TX
Stella Texas Elmendorf Tylor (1885-1980) San Antonio / Austin / Denton Artist Image Size: 18 x 24 Frame Size: 21 1/4 x 27 1/4 Medium: Oil on Masonite "WashDay" Bio: Born Stella Elmendorf in San Antonio, Texas on December 17, 1885, she studied with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York City in 1910-1911. She took part in the Armory Show of 1910. She added the initial T. as a middle name at that time, as she was known by her fellow art students as "Texas". She married Dr. W. Russell Tylor in Madison, Wisconsin in September, 1919. They had one daughter, born May 2, 1925 in Chicago. From 1927 on until her husband's death in 1945, she lived and worked in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois. Thereafter, she returned to her hometown of San Antonio, Texas, where she continued to be active until about 1975. She won numerous awards over her long career, including, among others, first prize at All Illinois Society of Fine Arts, Chicago and purchase prize at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, and was exhibited in New York City, San Francisco, Wilmington, Austin, and San Antonio, Texas. Mrs. Tylor passed away in New Braunfels...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Sunrise on the Horizon, Idyllic 1930's Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Brilliant 1930's landscape of the sunrise over the horizon illuminating a verdant scene around a body of water by listed artist Eloisa Schwab (American,1894-1990). Signed "Eloisa Schwab" lower left. Unframed. Image, 20"H x 24"W. Born in Havana, Cuba, Schwab studied at the Academy Julian in Paris and the Art Students League in New York with George Bridgman and Kenneth Hayes Miller and exhibited extensively from the mid 1920s to 1960s at venues including the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, and the Pennsylvania Art...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Colorful French Townscape by Impressionist Maurice Léonard
Located in New York, NY
M Leonard Untitled, c. 1930 Oil on board 14 3/4 x 21 in. Framed: 21 1/8 x 27 1/2 in. Signed lower right: M Leonard
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Winter Sunlight"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956). Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only membe...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Primo Dolzan, Landscape with parish church
Located in Tricase, IT
Primo Dolzan is an Italian painter born in Tezze Sul Brenta in Veneto. Painter of landscapes and still lifes. Exhibited at the Salon of Artists in Paris between 1933 and 1935. The p...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Neige en Cantal Landscape Oil Painting by Marcel Bouyeron
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Marcel Bouyeron, French (1890 - 1976) Title: Neige en Cantal Year: circa 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 9.5 in. x 13 in. (24.13 cm x 33.02 cm) Frame Size: 16 x...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Long Light Notre Dame
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Long Light Notre Dame Oil on canvas, 1931 Note: the painting is NOT framed Signed and dated lower right Condition: Excellent Conservation by Monica Radecki, South Bend Canvas size: ...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Arlberg brücke. 1930, оil on cardboard, 30x36, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Arlberg brücke. 1930, оil on cardboard, 30x36,5 cm
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Bad Ischl Austria
By Franz Weidinger
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique watercolor painting by well listed Austrian artist Franz Weidinger. This work is signed and titled lower left and housed in a be...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Laid Paper, Watercolor

Southwest Indians at Shore and New Mexican Village, two-sided painting
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present artwork is an unusual example of the paintings of Fritzi Brod. It is painted on both sides: on one side, an image of three Native Americans on ...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

"In The Shadow Of The Cross"
By Hugo Pohl
Located in San Antonio, TX
Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 13.75 x 18.25 Frame Size: 19 x 23.5 Medium: Oil 1930s "In The Shadow Of The Cross" Biography Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hugo David Pohl became a painter of native people and landscape in New Mexico, Arizona, California and then Texas where he settled and became known for his paintings of missions. Between 1926 and 1927, he completed 29 Texas mission paintings...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Spring verdure. Oil on canvas, 46.5x62.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1925. Artist painted landscapes in different t...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Juan le Pins" France watercolor cm 14 x 11 work cm.38 x 33 Framed 1930
Located in Torino, IT
France landscape, Travel Watercolor,Cote azur Henry Maurice CAHOURS (Paris, 1889 – Vence, 1974) He was born in Paris but spent his childhood and adolescen...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper

"Dallas Skyline from the City Hall"
By Albert Tupel
Located in San Antonio, TX
Albert Tupel Dallas Artist Image Size: 13 x 17 3/4 Frame Size: 22 x 26 Medium: Watercolor Circa 1930s "Dallas Skyline from the City Hall"
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

"Corse", 1931, Oil on Canvas, Kamesuke Hiraga
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Kamesuke Hiraga, Japanese (1889 - 1971) Title: Corse Year: 1931 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated l.l. Size: 25 x 21 in. (63.5 x 53.34 cm) Frame Size: 33.5 x 29...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Central London - Early 20th Century Impressionist Oil on Canvas by Gwen Collins
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Gwendolyn Collins was a wealthy painter who did most of work between 1922 - 1933. She lived in a Mount Street in Mayfair and did not join any art groups or societies. When her st...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Square Tower Ruins" Hovenweep National Monument, Utah
Located in San Antonio, TX
Ralph Holmes "Square Tower Ruins" Hovenweep National Monument, Utah Have included a photograph of how the subject looks today. (1876 - 1963) California, Illinois Artist Image Siz...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Winters Day in Kensington - Early 20th Century Impressionist Oil by Gwen Collins
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Gwendolyn Collins was a wealthy painter who did most of work between 1922 - 1933. She lived in a Mount Street in Mayfair and did not join any art groups or societies. When her st...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Desnudo femenino - Óleo sobre tela - Año 1938
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el autor en la parte trasera y fechado del año 1938 El estado de la obra es aceptable Se presenta sin enmarcar la pintura Medidas obra: 50 cm de altura x 61 cm. altura...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century, Men working on a roadway in France in the Summer
Located in Woodbury, CT
THEODORE CHARLES BASIL HITCHCOCK Mid Century or slightly earlier scene of men working on a pathway in a French Town. He was a painter and teacher who studied at Hornsey School of Art, after attending London University, his teachers being Adrian Hill and John Charles Moody...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Alaskan Husky Dogs - The Howl of the Malamute - Men's Adventure Story
By Dan Content
Located in Miami, FL
Daniel Content painted in the grand tradition of the Golden Age of Illustration, in the style of Dean Cornwell, N.C. Wyeth, J.C Leyendecker ...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Central Park Picnic, " Lydia Freeman Cooley, New York, figurative, ca 1930's
By Lydia Freeman Cooley
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in 1906, Cooley settled in New York City where she studied at the Arts Student League with John Sloan. Her genre paintings of women, children and the working class are in the As...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Seashore. Oil on cardboard, 32x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Janis Pupols (1886 – 1956) Graduated Landscape studio of V. Purvitis in Latvia Art academy (1927). He took part in exhibitions since 1925. Artist painted landscapes in different t...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Portrait of a Girl Playing Cards
Located in London, GB
ISTVÁN CSÓK 1865-1961 Pusztaegres 1865-1961 Budapest (Hungarian) Title: Portrait of a Girl Playing Cards, ca. 1930's Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Panel size: 60 x 5...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Óleo sobre tela - Paisaje
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior El estado es aceptable Medidas: 54 x 63 cm. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Biografía del artis...
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Oil

"Main Street"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Morris Hall Pancoast (1877 – 1963) Born in Salem, New Jersey, Morris Hall Pancoast was a painter, illustrator, and cartoonist. He took night courses at Drexel University and enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Man Running with Dog - No Thorough Fare, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower right. Titled verso on stretcher, Artist to the current owner's Aunt. unframed
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"The Floor We Live in"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork. Signed and dated lower right. Hayley Lever (1876-1958) Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from the shores of ...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Le Marche aux Fleurs, Impressionist French City Scene
Located in New York, NY
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854–1941) was a French artist renowned for his gouache works that vividly depict urban life in late 19th and early 20th-century Paris. Known for his unique abi...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache

Scene on Windspear Road, Watercolor by Charles Burchfield 1935
Located in Long Island City, NY
A watercolor painting by Charles Burchfield from 1935. An impressionist landscape of green foliage and a grassy hill in soft earth tones. Signed and dated in the lower right, beautif...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Along the River
Located in Missouri, MO
By the great California Impressionist, Samuel Hyde Harris. "Along the River" c. 1930s Oil on Board Signed Lower Left Image Size: 12 x 16 inches Framed...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Autumn II
Located in Missouri, MO
By the great California Impressionist, Sam Hyde Harris. Image Size: 12 x 16 inches Framed Size: 14.25 x 18 inches Signed and Titled Verso At 14 years...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Study for Skunk Cabbage, Watercolor Painting by Charles Burchfield 1931
Located in Long Island City, NY
A watercolor painting by Charles Burchfield from 1931. A still life botanical painting of a skunk cabbage in natural setting. Signed and dated in lower right, beautifully matted and framed in gold ornate frame. The painting has an excellent provenance through top New York Galleries including DC Moore...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

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