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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
"Rail Crossing: Middletown, NY"
By Jules Halfant
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful oil on linen canvas painting, entitled "Rail Crossing: Middletown, was executed by the esteemed artist Jules Halfant (American, 1909-2001)...
Category

1940s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Delicate Balance
Located in Westport, CT
Nancy Lasar’s work is described as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy”, and “organized chaos”. The lines in Lasar’s works that are electrifying. They ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Acrylic, Graphite, Linen, Color Pencil

Mid Century Modern Minimalist Vintage Landscape Oil Painting - Ice Fishing
Located in Bristol, GB
ICE FISHING Size: 43 x 56 cm (including frame) Oil on board A mid-century oil painting that captures the quiet moment of an ice fisher, seated beside a small sled on a vast, frozen ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modern Pastel Monoprint WPA Jewish Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Wolchonok was a social realist painter and member of the Woodstock Art Association. His work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Academy of Design...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Sailboats on the Leman Lake Signed A. Carard - Oil on canvas 35x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame Total size with frame 43x60 cm Signed A. Carard, Artist unknown from the gallery
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil

Exuberance. Green and leafy landscape. Modern acrylic figurative painting.
Located in Segovia, ES
Exuberance (Exuberancia). Green and leafy landscape. Acrylic and mixed media on panel, 82x60x3.5 cm. Author: Spanish artist Ángel Luis Úbeda. Exuber...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Panel

1975 Modernist Vintage Original Cityscape Oil Painting - The Rail Yard at Dusk
Located in Bristol, GB
THE RAIL YARDS AT DUSK Size: 66 x 79 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An evocative modernist cityscape captured at dusk, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1975. As dimming li...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Figures Riding Horses, Folk Art Oil Painting by Joyce Roybal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Figures Riding Horses Joyce Roybal, (1955) Oil on canvas, signed lower right Size: 30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm) Frame Size: 35.5 x 45.5 inches
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1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Yellow and Orange Toned Figurative Grid of Nude Bodies Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Yellow toned abstract figurative painting by French artist Christophe Stora depicting human bodies in a grid and in several postures and motions. This...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil Well, Modern American Painting by Clarence Carter
Located in Long Island City, NY
An acrylic painting by Clarence Holbrook Carter from 1979. Carter's modernist style utilizes strong structural lines and architectural aesthetics to form almost surreal-like scenes. Signed on lower right corner, framed in elegant silver wooden frame. Artist: Clarence Holbrook Carter, American (1904 - 1998) Title: Oil Well...
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1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Etna, oil on canvas figures watching volcano, Italian landscape atmospheric
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas, natural phenomenon, people watching erupting volcano
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pink Cabinet
Located in Atlanta, GA
Chris Liberti is a favorite with collectors here and abroad. Gesture, color, and surface enliven the new harmonies and patterns Liberti creates as he works, generating a distinct bac...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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...
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1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Haitian Market
By Maurice Guerre
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Haitian Market" c.1990, is an oil painting on canvas by Haitian artist Maurice Guerre, b.1947. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is ...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Poseidon's Horses, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
© Paulo Jimenez 2021 :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Lo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Trees" The 1st Texas Black Woman allowed to exhibit in a Juried Art show.
By Rezalia Thrash
Located in San Antonio, TX
Rezalia Thrash (1893 - 1982) Dallas Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 30 x 36 Medium: Oil "Trees" Biography Rezalia Thrash (1893 - 1982) Rezalia C Thrash was the first ...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Grand Prix Tours 1923, French Racing 20th Century Painting
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower right, entitled and dated lower centre Image size:  32½ x 25 inches (82.5 x 63.5 cm) Hand made frame Art deco style frame This painting depicts the 1923 French Grand Prix, held at Tours on 2 July 2023. This race is notable as the first international Grand Prix to be won by an English driver or an English car...
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1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring - A figurative Nude Painting Gold Leaf Blue Grey Brown Red
Located in Sofia, BG
"Spring" is a figurative Nude painting by Maestro Stefano Georges. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: Mixed media STYLE: Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight: Approximately 3 k...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Untitled, Figurative, Watercolour on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anita Roy Chowdhury - Untitled Watercolour on Paper 22 x 15 inches (Unframed & Delivered) A serene watercolour by Anita Roy Chowdhury, featuring a central leaf surrounded by abstrac...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

French Riviera : The Cabriolet - Original oil painting, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
André Cottavoz (1922-2012) French Riviera : The cabriolet, 1951 Oil on paper applied on panel Signed and dated lower left On panel 21.5 x 33.5 cm (8.4 x 13.1 in) Presented in a fram...
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

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) ...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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 Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

I do not need Sunglasses, Painting, Acrylic on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
"I do not need Sunglases" is a vibrant and dynamic acrylic artwork on cardboard. The colors are all different shades of red, orange, yellow and a bit of white and grey. It is a happy...
Category

2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

'Mexican Fishermen in Lake Patzcuaro' Lithograph by Yves Brayer Modern Landscape
Located in London, GB
'Mexican Fishermen in Lake Patzcuaro', lithograph by Yves Brayer (1963). Unframed. The artist, Yves Brayer, spent time painting in Mexico in 1963, one of the many worldwide destinati...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Lithograph

Ocelote (1/3)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rocca Luis César Ocelote, 2023, (1/3) Acrylic on canvas 24.40 x 24.40 in This original painting comes framed as shown in one of the images. Rocca Lu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Henri Matisse Pencil Of Nude By Chair From Matisse Estate
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse Original Pencil On Paper Study Of A Standing Nude Next To Chair Pencil on paper Unsigned. Sheet: 8.85 x 13.75 Inches Framed: 25....
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Early 1900s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper

Roads 1974, oil on cardboard, 92x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Roads 1974, oil on cardboard, 92x100 cm The composition depicts a landscape with trees and green land, featuring roads that stretch into the distance. The trees provide a sense of ...
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1970s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

London, Big Ben Cityscape Mid Century Architectural Modernist Gold Leaf
By Josef Marc Plotast
Located in Surfside, FL
Plotast, Josef Marc (Joseph Mark) Was born in Southbridge, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1917, studied architecture and art at various universities and art schools in France, Italy, Po...
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Original Landscape Oil Painting - Terracotta Roofs
Located in Bristol, GB
TERRACOTTA ROOFS Oil on canvas Size: 43 x 65 cm (including frame) A very well executed mid century modernist composition in oil, painted onto canvas. This painting beautifully capt...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Floral Still Life Oil Painting - Ethereal Still Life
Located in Bristol, GB
ETHEREAL STILL LIFE Size: 53.5 x 64.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A soothing and elegant mid-century still life painting, executed in oil onto canvas. The composition captur...
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1960s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sunflowers 2003. Oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunflowers 2003. Oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm Still life painting with stylized sunflowers on light-colored background. The focal point of the artwork is the depiction of sunflowers...
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Flowers on a blue background 1999, cardboard, oil, 17x13 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers on a blue background 1999, cardboard, oil, 17x13 cm The main focus of the painting is a still life arrangement of flowers set against a blue background. The artist's intent...
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1990s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

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...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Large Yellow Lilies By The Window New York
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Yellow Lilies By The Window New York From the artist studio in Chelsea New York. Rafael Saldarriaga was born in Medellin, Colombia in 1955. Arrived in the United States in 1993. Af...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Greek Island Painting, oil on canvas c2012
Located in Frome, Somerset
An original Acrylic and Oil on canvas by Andy Gradwell. Greek Island Painting. circa 2012 Signed. 65cm x65cm. Landscape /seascape. Semi abstract ...
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2010s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

"Harmonic Sounds" by Jules Courvoisier - Oil on Canvas - 95x71 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (114 x 93 x 6 cm) Jules-Ami Courvoisier was a prominent Swiss painter, illustrator, and poster artist, born in La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1884. He studied under Ch...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Porträt eines Ehepaares
Located in Wien, 9
Mein Sammlungsschwerpunkt vor Galeriegründung war (und ist es bis jetzt) die Kunst der Neuen Sachlichkeit und die ist vor allem ein deutsches Thema. Mich fasziniert der kühle und dis...
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1920s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Nature Study Original Realist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting by Mark DiVincenzo. Oil on canvas, circa 2005. Signed verso. Unframed.
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Early 2000s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, 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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Ink, Oil

Jewish Wedding Chuppah and Marriage Ring Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 Freda Leibovitz REITER (1919-1986), born in Philadelphia, PA, was a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, etcher, and lithographer. She studied at the Moore Inst. Des.; PAFA; Barnes Found.; San Carlos Acad., Mexico, D.F. Exhibited: PAFA, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1954; Graphic Sketch Club, 1938 (prize), 1940 (prize); NAD, 1941, 1944-46, 1957, 1958; CI, 1943; MMA, 1943, 1949; Carlen Gal., 1942 (solo); Phila. Pr. Club, 1944 (solo); Phila. YW-YMHA, 1954. Member: AEA; Nat. Lg. Prof. Women Artists; Phila. Pr. Club Work: LOC.; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Inst.; CI; National Mus. of TV Arts and Sciences; drawings, Phila. Inquirer. Lectures: Mexican Art. Courtroom sketch artist...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

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...
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landschaft mit Bäumen
Located in Wien, 9
signed and dated lower left
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1930s Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39, 5x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Soldier. 1950. Cardboard, author technique, 39,5x20 cm Artwork depicts a soldier in motion. Author has used a mixed media technique on cardboard. Both the soldier himself and the fe...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Paint, Mixed Media, Cardboard, Stencil, Other Medium

"Tugboat at Dock" Reginald Marsh, Modern WPA Industrial Ship, New York Docks
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh Tugboat at Dock, circa 1937 Signed lower right Watercolor and pencil on paper 13 3/4 x 20 inches Housed in a Lowy frame. Provenance: Sotheby'...
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1930s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Vintage Mid-Century Figurative Interior Oil Painting - Lady in Yellow
Located in Bristol, GB
LADY IN YELLOW Size: 56 x 46 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A quirky and well-executed mid-century modernist portrait composition, painted in oil onto board. In this painting we...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

Intermission Oil Painting
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Intermission, woman and guitar 48"x36" framed 66"x54" Arbe Berberyan Russian/Armenian Artist born 1958. The son of a distinguished artist, and Professor of Art & Design, Ara Berbery...
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1980s Modern Paintings

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Oil, Cotton Canvas

"Seated Nude, " Norman Rubington, oil on paper, Mid-Century, Hirschhorn Museum
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1921, artist Norman Rubington studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he participated in a number of group exhibitions and his first solo show at the Salon d'Automne in 1948, which received high acclaim. Following his studies, he returned to the States and exhibited in a series of shows in Boston, New York and San Francisco. Rubington was awarded a grant from the Tiffany Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome prize and was a fellow of the McDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire. Rubington exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, City Center, New York, Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, Berman Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, American Academy, Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., Art Institute of Chicago, American Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Rome Art Club, and Museo Berera, Milan. Rubington's work is held in numerous private and public collections including permanent collections of the J.H. Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Obelisk Gallery, London, Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Grace Cathedral...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Nude with Cat, Mid-20th Century, Modern, Oil on Board, Figural, Interior
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"Nude with Cat" by R. Walker is a charming portrait of a woman and cat posed by a window.
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Autumn River" by Herbert Theurillat - Oil on Canvas 50x75 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Artwork sold with frame (68 x 93 x 5 cm) Herbert Theurillat was a Swiss painter, engraver, and designer born in 1896 in Saint-Imier, Switzerland, a...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Modernist Abstract Cast Paper Sculpture Textile Collage Wall Hanging
Located in Surfside, FL
Hea-Sook Yoo, artist, internationally renowned female artist, has her paintings hanging inresidences, businesses and art galleries on three continents over three decades.Ms. Yoo is c...
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20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Fabric, Mixed Media

Modernist Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Painting Bauhaus Weimar Artist
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...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

Abstract Landscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor painting by American artist Wes Olmsted depicting an abstract landscape view.
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper, Watercolor

Vintage Mid Century Modernist Figure Cityscape Oil Painting - Quiet Commune
Located in Bristol, GB
QUIET COMMUNE Size: 49 x 56 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A minimalist and serene mid-century modernist style composition, executed in oil onto canvas by the established Swedis...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Modernist Abstract Figurative City Framed Oil Painting- Spanish Walks
Located in Bristol, GB
SPANISH WALKS Size: 24 x 37 cm (including frame) Oil on Board An outstanding semi-abstract oil composition, painted in 1958 by the established Swedish artist Ivar Morsing (1919-2009...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

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Oil, Board

" Le Chien à la Lune. "
Located in CANNES, FR
André Verdet ( 1913 - 2004 ) . Artiste français né à Nice (alpes maritimes ) mort à Saint Paul de Vence . poète , peintre , sculpteur , céramiste , mus...
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1960s Modern Paintings

Materials

Casein

"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
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 Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Diptych Icon by Russian School - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Diptych  Icon representing the Archangel Michael and Saint Alexius, realized by Russian School in the late 19th Century. Good condition.
Category

19th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

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