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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
Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache

Mid 20th Century Impressionist Original Oil Landscape of Shongum, New Jersey
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful impressionistic landscape of Shongum Lake, New Jersey countryside in Spring with Stream and blossoms by Rudolph J. Eicher (1884 - 1958), Circa 1940s. Bright springtime fo...
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Linen, Oil, Panel

20th Century French Forest Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Sempach, LU
Landscape of Fontainebleau Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his f...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Alpine Landscape - 20th Century Impressionist Snowy Winter Canadian Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1940's impressionist oil on canvas laid on board depicting a snow covered Alpine Landscape by Canadian RA artist Adolphus George Broomfield. This excellent quality and c...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mid-Century Big Sur Rocky Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic seascape along rocky Big Sur beach with surf by Willard Little (American, 20th century), circa 1940. Aqua blue water, both shallow and deep, reflects the golden sunlight. Are...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Cardboard

Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride, Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape
By Walter Thomas Sacks
Located in Soquel, CA
Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride - Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape A bright, crisp morning and a sleigh ride through new snow in Stowe, Vermont...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Swiss Alps Fauvist Modern Impasto Landscape - Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Swiss Alps Landscape - Original Oil on Canvas Original oil landscape by Alphons Muller (Swiss, 1898-1955) depicting the Swiss Alps. Dark green trees emerge on either side, with a sm...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Emile Albert Gruppe Fishing Boats Ex- Christies 30x36
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gruppé (1896-1978) Fishing Boats A large and commanding marine sailboat fishing boat scene with blue waters and blue skies. Birds are flying up above and fish swimming below ...
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Paint

fishermen's beach Spanish seascape Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquín Asensio Mariné (1890-1961) - Beach - Oil on canvas Oil measures 65x81 cm. Frame measures 81x96 cm. Asensio Mariné (Barcelona, 1890-1961) was a painter who specialized in lan...
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Oil, Canvas

1944 Boats in a Harbor American Painting Signed Nowotny
Located in Larchmont, NY
JJ Nowotny Untitled, 1944 (date partially obscured but appears to be '44) Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. Framed: 31 x 37 x 2 in. Signed and dated lower right
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Canvas, Oil

Antique French Impressionist Paris Street Scene Signed Villon Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist painting of Paris signed "Villon". Great color and composition. Framed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flowers in vase
Located in Täby, SE
Yelva Petrea Sophie Vermehren, born February 13, 1878 in Helsingborg, died in 1980 102 years old, was a Swedish-Danish painter. She was the daughter of the wholesaler Johan Carl Emil...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

The Silk Mills in New Hope, Pennsylvania Impressionist Regional Landscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"The Silk Mills in New Hope" is an Impressionist, Regional landscape by Pennsylvania painter John Pierce Barnes. Classic in its vibrant colors and highly energetic brush strokes, this 25" x 25" oil on canvas is framed in a 22k gold reproduction frame and the painting is estate stamped on the stretcher and canvas on verso. John Pierce Barnes was born in Philadelphia in 1893. He graduated from high school in the Germantown area of Philadelphia and served in the U.S. Navy during the First World War. After his discharge from the Navy, John began his training at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Design, now the University of the Arts. Barnes then studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia from 1921-1925. He exhibited watercolors and pastels in the Annual Philadelphia Water Color and Miniature Exhibitions of 1921 and 1922. John Pierce Barnes studied with Daniel Garber, and also Henry Hugh Breckenridge and Arthur B. Carles at the PAFA. He was awarded Cresson Travel Scholarships in 1923 and 1924. These awards enabled him to study in France, Belgium and Holland. John Pierce Barnes experimented in several styles, but is best known for his oil paintings of landscapes and portraits rendered in the Impressionist style. Some of his work was painted in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, some in Europe, but mostly in eastern Pennsylvania. Up until the time of his death in 1954, Mr. Barnes was employed by the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Victor Design Division in Camden, New Jersey. He is credited with designing a past RCA logo...
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Canvas, Oil

'River Landscape', French Impressionist, Musée d'Art Moderne, Salon d'Automne
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'F. Laval' for Fernand Laval (French, 1886-1966) and dated 1948. Born in Dordogne, Fernand Laval arrived in Paris at the age of 26 to study art and, during the e...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"The Gossips"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Richard Wedderspoon (1889 - 1976). Richard Wedderspoon was an important member of the New Hope Art Colony as both an Impressionist and Modernist painter. Wedderspoon was not only a respected painter, but also a teacher who spent summers at his Bucks County home and the school year at Syracuse University where he was Professor of painting. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey and first studied art at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He continued his studies at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, and at age twenty four, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts studying with Henry McCarter and Daniel Garber. While there his roommates were Charles Garner and Lloyd Ney. Wedderspoon began friendships with fellow artists, Charles Hargens, Clarence Johnson and Stanley Reckless...
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Oil, Canvas

Antique French Exhibited Signed Still Life Modern Baguette Bread Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist New England Beach Bathers Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist bather scene by John Edward Costigan (1888 - 1972). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Donkey Rides - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures and animals in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. This large piece depicts a view of Paris on a bright summer's day. Children enjoy donkey rides in the shade of the green trees and there is a view of the Champs-Elysees. Signature: Signed lower left & again verso Dimensions: Framed: 40"x48" Unframed: 32"x40" Provenance: Private UK collection Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist New England Beach Dune Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Well painted mid 1900's impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Impressionist WPA Woman Ballerina Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early 1900's oil painting. by Richard Hook. Great color and composition. Nicely framed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Hermosa Beach Coastline - Watercolor On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Hermosa Beach Coastline - Watercolor On Paper Watercolor painting depicting the Hermosa Beach coastline by California artist F.J. Whitlock (American, B- 1923 ). Vibrant hues of blue...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Antique American Impressionist Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist still life painting. Oil on board. Framed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Summer day. Oil on canvas, 69x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer day. Oil on canvas, 69x54 cm Peteris Rungis (1893.23.II – 1967.23.II, Latvia) Since 1912 studied at Studio of J. Madernieks, at period of 1st World war – studied to Estonian...
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Oil, Canvas

Paysage de marais - Impressionist Riverscape Oil Painting by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1940 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts an autumnal landscape of marshland beside the River Seine i...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Marecages en Seine et Marne - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Alexandre Jacob
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1940 by popular French impressionist painter Alexandre Louis Jacob. The piece depicts workers loading wood onto a cart being pulled by a white ho...
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Canvas, Oil

1942 FEMALE American ATMOSPHERIC Impressionist PHILADELPHIA Skyline Painting
By Inna Garsoian
Located in New York, NY
Inna Garsoian (1896-1984), a famous female American artist exhibited at many museums throughout the world, especially in the United States Inna Garsoian exhibited on Nantucket at th...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Countryside of France, Original Oil on cardboard, Impressionist style, signed
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This oil on cardboard by Robert Hofer (1885-1942), created in 1942, exudes the characteristic vibrancy and textural depth that is reminiscent of Impres...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Cardboard, Oil

Homestead, Regional American Landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Homestead" is a regional, American landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Harry Leith-Ross. The painting is a 14" x 19" watercolor on paper, signed "Lei...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Chartres - English Impressionist France Town Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1940 impressionist oil on canvas depicting the city Chartres in northern France with it's famous cathedral, by Faith Ash...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Southwest Desert Landscape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Southwest Desert Landscape in Oil on Canvas Vast Southwest plein air landscape of a desert scene with mountains, cacti, and other desert plants...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Place de l'Opera - Impressionist Cityscape Oil Painting by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by French painter Jules Rene Herve. This bustling evening scene depicts a view of The Place de l'Opera square in Paris, France. Signature: Signed lower left & again verso Dimensions: Framed: 25"x29" Unframed: 18"x22" Provenance: Private French collection Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Red Landscape with trees, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This French artwork from around 1940 exhibits a vivid, expressive style, reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh's post-Impressionist works. The robust, swirli...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache, Laid Paper

A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas by A. Whipple
Located in Soquel, CA
A Quiet River - Oil on Canvas Oil painting depicting a river flowing through a grove of trees. Vibrant green trees surround the river, hues of deep greens make up the trees to the l...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vintage European Harbor Framed Original Signed Seascape Venice Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed illegibly.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

New England Winter Forest Snow Landscape Silver Frame Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted and highly detailed winter landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Castle at riverside, Original French Watercolor, Impressionist style
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame This French watercolor from around 1940 captures a picturesque view reminiscent of the Impressionist penchant for natural light and landscape scenes. ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Antique European Tropical Framed Impressionist Mountain Town Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 11H x 9L.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique American Large Impressionist Flower Still Life Woman Artist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist flower still life painting. Nice detail and thick impasto. Oil on canvas. Housed in a stunning gold leaf Paul Carter Goodnow frame.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Reclining Nude - Industrial Scene Verso - Scottish 1940's portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This interesting British 1940's oil painting is attributed to Harry Jefferson Barnes. Barnes trained at the Slade School of Art and later went on to become Director of the Glasgow Sc...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Self Portrait - Mid 20th Century French Impressionist Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful signed and dated 1943 French impressionist oil on panel self portrait by Charles Picart le Doux, who was friends with Picasso, Pissarro and many other Paris based artists...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Mid Century Desert Landscape -- Adobe House at Black Canyon, Arizona
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful desert canyon landscape of Black Canyon, Arizona featuring Adobe home in foreground by Claire McAnear (American, 1989 - 1986), 1945. Presented in aged gilt-toned wood fram...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas, Cardboard

Against The Tide in Style of Edgar Alwin Payne - Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Against The Tide - Oil On Linen Oil painting of the California coastline at sunset in the style of Edgar Alwin Payne (American, 1883-1947). Deep grey clouds pose in the top corners with hues of pink light shining through. Choppy waves crash against deep red and brown rocks, as the whites of the wave hurl upward. The ocean shows tones of green, blue and yellow as the sunlight shines from above. Condition: professionally restored, previous reline onto Masonite with edge and corner wear. New UV resisting, non yellowing varnish applied. Unsigned. Unframed. Oil on linen on masonite. Image: 16"H x 30"W Edgar Alwin Payne was an American painter known for his landscapes, seascapes and western paintings. He was born in Washburn, Missouri on March 1, 1882, and began painting at the age of 14. He began his career by designing and painting scenery for the stage, and murals for homes and theaters. Primarily a self taught artist, he did though study briefly at the Art Institute in Chicago. Recognized as one of California's leading landscape artists, Payne earned the respect of his peers and art critics for his Impressionistic landscapes painted in the plein-air style. Possessing a reverence for nature, he especially loved the mountains. Frequently he took pack horses in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range to the upper lakes to sketch and paint, there he glorified the areas majestic peaks and cobalt blue lakes. Payne Lake was named in his memory. Drawn to Europe, Payne trekked to and painted the elevated heights of the Swiss Alps, the colorful fishing boats of Concarneau Harbor and Brittany, France and the picturesque sailing vessels of Chioggia, Venice, Italy. He spent time capturing on canvas Arizona's Canyon De Chelly and Navajo horsemen traversing the region's arid tablelands. He painted California...
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Linen, Oil, Masonite

Antique French Impressionist Street Scene Nicely Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist street scene landsape oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Signed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: City Winter Scene by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches Intriguing painting by the...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache

Yellow Rose Bouquet Still Life - Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Yellow Rose Bouquet Still Life - Watercolor on Paper Watercolor still life painting depicting a bouquet of yellow roses surrounded by an all green backgroun...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

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

Antique Canadian Signed Impressionist Forest Interior Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 16H x 20L. Signed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Signed Impressionist Flower Still Life Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist flower still life painting. Signed lower right. Framed.
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Laszczyn - Building a Stack 2 - Mid 20th Century Oil Painting by H Krajewska
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism. Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Tropical Still Life with Green Pot and Ukulele in Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Soquel, CA
Tropical Still Life with Green Pot and Ukulele in Oil on Canvas Vibrant still life by Santa Cruz County artist N. Weber (20th Century). There are ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Wood Panel, Oil

Impressionist landscape oil painting Spain spanish Europe
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Juan Bautista Porcar (1889-1974) - Impressionist landscape - Oil Oil measurements 15x23 cm. Frame measurements 29x37 cm. Juan Bautista Porcar Ripollés (Castellón de la Plana, April ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

A Rural Scene Comes Alive of a Man and Draft Horses with Impressionist Strokes
Located in Charleston, US
Hellmuth Bachrach-Baree, a German artist, apprenticed with neo-impressionist painters. His early compositions depicted rural life, integrating people and animals into familiar landsc...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

White and Purple Dahlias Floral Still Life in Oil on Linen on Illustration Board
Located in Soquel, CA
White and Purple Dahlias - Floral Still Life in Oil on Illustration Board Delicate still life of dahlias in a green vase by Gertrud Stimming ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Linen, Illustration Board

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

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

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

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

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

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