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Art Subject: Boat
Pair of Italian landscapes, Castell Sforzesco and Ponte di Pavia
Located in New York, NY
A pair of Italian landscapes, depicting the Castell Sforzesco and Ponte di Pavia, attributed to Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti. The paintings are in mint condition. Worldwide shipping is in...
Category
18th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Orientalist Painting of Figures Praying at the Shore by Van Elven
Located in London, GB
Large Orientalist painting of figures praying at the shore by Van Elven
Dutch, 1880
Canvas: Height 98cm, width 133cm
Frame: Height 124cm, width 159cm, depth 10cm
This stunning Orie...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
The Bark "Black Eagle" cutting in at Chesterfield Inlet
By John Stobart
Located in Naples, Florida
The Bark 'Black Eagle' cutting in at Chesterfield Inlet
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Oil - Docks By Night
Located in Corsham, GB
A serene moonlit dockland with figures gathered at the lower right. A fire flickers on the shore adding as flash of colour to the overall blue composition. The painting is unsigned a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$308 Sale Price
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Sailboat at full moon Oil on canvas, 60x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sailboat at full moon
Oil on canvas, 60x70 cm
Category
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Foggy Morn, original impressionist coastal landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
It's just another foggy morn in coastal Florida. Sleeping in, then walking along the waterfront with a smoothie while taking in the sublime landscape. They've changed the Players Championship so many times it's hard to remember which month it will be played this year but it's hard not to smile when thinking of how many balls of even the pros don't land it on the island green. Maybe tennis or pickle ball...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Misty Morning Gloucester”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on artist board painting of a misty morning in Gloucester Harbor by the Provincetown artist, Kay Kellogg. Signed lower left. Circa 1935. The painting d...
Category
1930s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,900 Sale Price
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The Giudecca, Venice, 19th Century by CHRISTIAN JOHANNES WILBERG (1839-1892)
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Giudecca, Venice, 19th Century
by CHRISTIAN JOHANNES WILBERG (1839-1892)
Large 19th Century view of The Giudecca, Venice, oil on canvas by Christian Wilberg. Excellent quality ...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,564 Sale Price
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Close of Day
By Walter Lansil
Located in Milford, NH
A fine marine sunset painting in Venice by American artist Walter Franklin Lansil (1846-1925). Walter was born in Bangor, Maine was a marine painter of sailing ships, often in Veneti...
Category
1880s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Colline Saint Catherine - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Robert Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas riverscape c.1908 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view of the River Seine in Rouen, with Saint Catherine'...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
19th century English View Boats on the Thames Estuary , London
Located in Woodbury, CT
J. Heal
The Thames Estuary, London, oil on canvas, circa 1890
This evocative maritime scene by J. Heal, painted circa 1890, captures the Thames Estuary at the close of the Victorian...
Category
1890s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clipper Off The Coast, St Ives, 19th Century
By Albert Julius Olsson
Located in Blackwater, GB
Clipper Off The Coast, St Ives, 19th Century
by Albert Julius Olsson RBA ROI RWA RBC RA, British (1864–1942) to $45,000
Large 19th Century view of a solitary clipper off the coast...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Crashing the Surf, Mid-Century Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic mid-century seascape with sailboat by Carl Davidson (American, 20th Century), c.1955. Signed "C. Davidson" lower left. Presented in a wooden frame. Image size: 15"H x 30.25"...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A sailing Break, Contemporary Seascape Art, Affordable Art, Fowey Art, Cornwall
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
A sailing break' is an original painting by Gordon Hunt. it shows a group of people out sailing. They have dropped anchor to take time to enjoy the beautiful turquoise water and brig...
Category
2010s Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Quayside Sanary" Impressionist Oil Of French Riviera by Maria Bertran
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Bright sunny blues and colorful water reflections fill "Quayside Sanary," an exceptional oil painted on location in the Cote d'Azul, French Riviera by Maria Bertran, this Contempo...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cadaques oil on board painting Spain spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Cadaques - Oil on board
Oil measurements 50x73 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan painter, nephew of ...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$720 Sale Price
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Venice Grand Canal at Sunset, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil painting of a view of a canal in Venice with a special use of light, colour and brushstrokes. * Original hand-painted painting. * The artwork is signed on the back a...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Afternoon Blues, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A lone figure sits at the end of a wooden dock, quietly waiting for a catch. A small boat gently floats nearby and casts its reflection on the calm water. The l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Piazzetta, Venice, Italy, Gondola, American Impressionist, Oil
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Charles Merrill Mount was born Sherman Merrill Suchow in Brooklyn, New York in 1928. Mount attended Columbia University, leaving to study at the Art Students League of New York. In a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American Exhibited Impressionist Seascape with Pelican Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted and impressive mid 20th century impressionist seascape with a pelican. Exhibition label verso. Framed.
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
"The Humber River" George Ennis, Intense Color American Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
George Ennis
The Humber River
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Ennis studied at Washington University in St. Louis and at the Chase School. He was a member of the Fed...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ca' d' Oro, Venice" Late 19th Century Oil on Canvas of Venice, by Antonio Reyna
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIO REYNA MANESCAU
Spanish, 1859 - 1937
CA' D' ORO, VENICE
signed & located "A. Reyna, Venezia" (lower right)
oil on canvas
11-1/2 x 19-3/4 ...
Category
1890s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yachts at sunset
Located in Riga, LV
Aleksandrs Zviedris (1905-1993)
Yachts at sunset, cardboard/oil, 50x70 cm
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Gordon Lillford (1918-1992) - 20th Century Oil, A Boat
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant oil painting by the artist Gordon Lillford, depicting a boat on land. Signed to the lower left-hand corner. On canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$326 Sale Price
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The Seine at the Louvre. Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
The Seine at the Louvre. Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm
Serge Mendjisky was born in 1929 in Paris. His father, Maurice Mendjisky, was a painter from the School of Paris, this is how Serge became acquainted with the world of arts since childhood. After completing his studies at the School of Fine Arts of Paris, he soon became a recognized artist and his work was exposed in Europe, Japan and the United States. He used photography to make his preliminary studies in painting.
By decomposing and recomposing the horizons of some of the most famous cities of the world like New York and Paris, Serge Mendjisky creates new urban landscapes which put into question our perceptive faculties.
Volumes, lights and colors create different visual rhythms which create new connections between time and space. Through Serge Mendjisky's creativeness, Broadway becomes an explosion of colored lights...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$5,378 Sale Price
20% Off
House and Boat by the Pond - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic landscape of a house and boat by a pond by Virginia DeFreitas (1919-2008). Signed "V. DeFreitas" in the lower right corner. Unframed.
Virginia was an accomplished artist whose paintings depicted, among other subjects, many of the landscapes in the San Ramon Valley area. She attended the College of the Arts and Crafts in Oakland as a young woman and later studied with Clifford Holmes and Ralph DuCasse...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quiet Evening Sail, original 30x40 impressionist marine landscape
By Jim Rodgers
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Luxuriating in a quiet evening sail, literally off into the sunset, in a lone sailboat that's traversing a bath of many shades of blue, lavender, pink and yellow away from shore, tow...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Boats
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Lanscape with Boats" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is inscribed "Clifford Holmes" on the back on the stre...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Last Grand Sail, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A sailing ship bathes in the warm glow of the setting sun, its silhouette dominating the scene. The painting depicts the vessel's last journey, gracefully maki...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Michael D'Aguilar (1924-2011) - 1949 Oil, Continental Port
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a simple white frame. Daily Mail Ideal Home 1950 exhibition label fixed to the reverse. Signed and dated. On canvas board.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$475 Sale Price
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"Shelter Island Yacht Club"- Oil painting, impressionis sailboats at rest in sun
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
“Shelter Island Yacht Club” is an oil painting by Kelly Carmody. It depicts sailboats at rest alongside a dock in full sun. A yellow under-tone peeks through, creating an overall war...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
19th century Beach Landscape in Scheveningen, Holland with fishing boats, people
Located in Woodbury, CT
Edward William Cooke RA (1811–1880)
Dutch Beach at Scheveningen, oil on canvas, circa 1850
This sweeping coastal scene by Edward William Cooke, painted circa 1850, captures the bust...
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The American Steam-Sailer St. Louis
Located in Jacksonville, FL
The American Steam-Sailer St. Louis
signed, dated and inscribed 'A. Jacobsen 1899. / West Hoboken N.J.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
22 1/8 x 36 1/8 in. (56.2 x 91.8 cm.)
Painted in 1...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ferdinand Hendrik Sypkens (1813-1860) - Framed Oil, Dutch Riverscape
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming riverscape, painted in oils by dutch artist Ferdinand Hendrik Sypkens (1813-1860). A gentle river sweeps through the centre of the composition, with moored boats manned on...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
F. Allin - Early 20th Century Oil, Cottage on the River
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful large-scale study depicts a quaint cottage on the river's edge with small fishing boats in the foreground. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a substantial gilt ...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,252 Sale Price
20% Off
S Class Regatta
Located in Greenwich, CT
David Bareford’s distinctive style incorporates traditional themes with spontaneity. About his work he comments,
“The term inspiration is overworked and doesn’t apply to what I try ...
Category
2010s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
South Street, NYC - Impressionist Oil Painting by Margaretha E. Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Margaretha E. Albers, American (1881 - 1977)
Title: South Street, New York
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
Size: 20 in. x 16 in. (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paul emile Lecomte - study of the quais by the river - pencil - signed.
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Family of the artist, studio sale. Signed in pencil lower right.
SHIPPING: Continental USA and Worldwide delivery included
Born in Paris, the French painter Paul Lecomt...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Breezy Afternoon, original 22x26 impressionist marine landscape
By Neal Hughes
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Everything feels right on a breezy afternoon sailing in a glistening cove! Even the rocks and shells on the sand are illuminated by the warm rays of the sun. The gentle motion of the sailboat as it glides across the water is expertly depicted by the carefully applied brush strokes of marine painting expert and Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists Neal Hughes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Southern Landscape Oil Painting Hudson River School
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Copyright 2023 Michael F. Meyer
All rights Reserved.
This painting, signed RSD on right side, has been verified by the late expert on Robert S. Duncanson, Joseph Ketner and comes with an authentication letter. This painting has exhibited and is published in Robert S. Duncanson and His Courageous Southern Travels.
This painting is one of the many beautiful southern landscape scenes that Robert S. Duncanson painted in his courageous travels south. "Robert S. Duncanson born in 1819, was an African American Hudson River School artist who painted the south before the Civil War, until his death in 1872. Although widely famous during his lifetime, this forgotten artist’s courageous journey through the antebellum south has never before been exhibited or researched until now. His brilliance was in creating captivating landscape paintings that come alive to the viewer, by focusing on the minute details of nature and of the stories he wished to communicate. Robert Duncanson...
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lipton Challenges the Cup
Located in Columbia, MO
Born in Denver, Colorado, in 1931, Peterson spent four years at sea with the U.S. Navy. His principal duty – as a hand on an ocean-going tug sailing the Aleutian islands, North Pacif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Screen
"Hawaii exclusive" 1B85K - Abstract, Seascape Painting, 21st Century
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Artist: Roger Koenig b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. Koenig combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way,...
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
Dutch School 20th Century Oil - On the River
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming landscape scene depicting figures in a rowing boat on a river. The boat is shown before a cottage and distant town. Unsigned. Presented in a black lacquer frame. Provenanc...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$353 Sale Price
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Morning in Friendship - 2023 impressionist oil painting of a dock in Maine
By Viktor Butko
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Butko paints the natural, sprawling light of early, mid, and late day. In this composition–his largest of 2023—Butko takes on early summer's mid-day light in Northeastern U.S. The cl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
"Little Tolo" Saturday Evening Post Illustration, December 30, 1922
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The illustration depicts a clipper ship at sea. "Little Tolo," a story illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, December 30, 1922.
The marine paintings by Anton Otto Fischer are as authoritative as only a working sailor could make them. Born in Munich, Germany but orphaned as a boy, Fischer ran away to sea at 16 and spent eight years before the mast on a variety of sailing ships. Paid off in New York, he stayed to apply for American citizenship and to teach seamanship on the school ship, "St. Mary's." He later served as a hand on racing yachts on Long Island Sound and worked as a model and handyman for the illustrator A.B. Frost. When he had saved enough money, he spent two years at the Academie Julian in Paris under Laurens.
Returning to the United States, Fischer sold his first picture to Harper's Weekly in 1908, around the time he moves to Wilmington to receive critiques from Pyle. Everybody's magazine sent him the first of several Jack London stories. In 1910, he began a 48-year association with The Saturday Evening Post, which included illustrating seialized characters such as Peter B. Kyne's "Crappy Ricks," Norman Reilly Raine's "Tugoat Annie," Guy Gilpatrick's "Glencannon," as well as serials for Kenneth Robert...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Fishing Boat at Dawn', Danish Post-Impressionism, Weilbach Kunstleksikon
By Victor Qvistorff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right: 'V. Qvistorff' for Victor Qvistorff (Danish, 1883-1953) and painted circa 1915.
Born in Bredegaarde, Denmark, Victor Qvistorff first studied with Hans Andersen Brendekilde. Qvistorff then became a successful business-man and painted only part-time until 1931 when he dedicated himself full-time to his art. Although the author of a notable series of nude studies of his long-time model, Sally Philipsen, Qvistorff is known primarily for his marine scenes- particularly the jewel-like views of Copenhagen harbor...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"Grand Overlook, Sorrento" Modern Impressionist Oil by Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Grand Overlook, Sorrento" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on canvas captures the mood and feel of the Amalfi Coast...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,200 Sale Price
20% Off
"Repairing the Nets", Henni de Korte, 19x23 in, Oil on Canvas, Impressionism
Located in Dallas, TX
"Repairing the Nets" by Henni de Korte measures 19x23 and is available for $8250. Fishing boats are docked in a quiet cove of a village while the fisher...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Curtis S. Opliger Wharf with Boats Landscape Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Curtis S. Opliger Wharf with Boats Landscape Painting
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 unframed, 42.25 x 30.75 framed
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exquisite Maritime Ship Painting by W.M. Goodman – Ocean Sailing Vessel Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is this striking original acrylic painting on canvas by maritime artist W.M. Goodman, featuring a majestic tall ship cutting through ocean waves under a dynamic sky. The ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Violet Horizon II" Neo Impressionist seascape on Long Island, en plein air
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Violet Horizon II is a Neo Impressionist Landscape painted en plein air in Long Island, NY.
Artist Bio
Ben Fenske (b. 1978) although a native of Minnes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
D. Short - Signed Mid 20th Century Oil, Boats at Sunrise
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful oil study of various boats docked at sunrise. We can see the tide is coming in and the seagulls have flown away from the lines. Signed to the lower left and well present...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$307 Sale Price
20% Off
Nazzareno Cipriani (Rome, 1843 - 1925), In gondola
By Nazzareno Cipriani
Located in Milan, IT
Nazzareno Cipriani (Rome, 1843 - 1925)
In the gondola
Watercolor on paper, 102.7 x 66.5 cm
Signed lower left: N. Cipriani
A descendant of a Venetian family settled in the first q...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1920's Boats on the Nile Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful seascape oil painting of boats sailing on the Nile, showing the city in the background by an unknown artist, c.1920. Unsigned. Rustic frame. Image, 20"H x 44"W.
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Anthony Thieme Mackerel Fleet
Located in Dallas, TX
Anthony Thieme, Netherlands (1888-1954).
Titled: 'Mackerel Fleet' oil on canvas, Circa 1930
Signed lower right A, Thieme and on verso Anthony Thieme / 1803B Mackerel Fleet.
Mounted ...
Category
1930s Aesthetic Movement Paintings
Materials
Paint
$13,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Across the Estuary, Gordon Hunt, Original Art, Boat Art, Impressionist Seascape
By Gordon Hunt
Located in Deddington, GB
Gordon Hunt
Across the Estuary
Original Seascape Painting
Oil Paint on Canvas
Canvas Size: H 50cm x W 50cm x D 4cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look.
A Gordon Hunt original...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Italian Impressionist Oil on Board Marine Landscape Painting Naples Bay View
By Francesco Coppola Castaldo
Located in Firenze, IT
Everyday fishermen life is captured in this wonderful Italian impressionist late 19th century oil painting on thin board titled fishermen ashore. We love the neutral and natural colo...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Helen Cutler - Framed Contemporary Oil, Portrait of a Puppy
Located in Corsham, GB
An original contemporary oil by Helen Cutler. Presented in a wide matt black frame under glazing. Signed. On canvas stretcher over board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$288 Sale Price
20% Off
“Setauket Sailboats”oil painting plein-air sailboats at dock in wooden frame
By Doug Reina
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Setauket Sailboats" is a realist oil on canvas painting by Doug Reina. This painting depicts two boats sitting at a dock in Setauket, Long Island. Light blue fills the canvas on bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Motion, " Victor Arnautoff, San Francisco Lighthouse, World's Fair WPA Painting
Located in New York, NY
Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (1896 - 1979)
Motion (Mile Rocks Lighthouse), San Francisco, 1939
Oil and tempera on board
60 x 40 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
The artist
California School of Fine Arts (CFSA)
John & Lynne Bolen Fine Arts, Huntington Beach, California
Exhibited:
New York, World's Fair, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, 1939.
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1962.
Literature:
American Art from the New York World's Fair 1939, Poughkeepsie, 1987, no. 11, p. 41, illustrated.
Robert W. Cherny, Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art, Urbana, Illinois, 2017.
The lighthouse in the distance is the Mile Rocks Lighthouse in San Francisco Bay, built in 1906 after many shipwrecks made the lighthouse necessary. In 1962 the lighthouse was reduced in size to make room for a helipad.
Arnautoff was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest. He showed a talent for art from an early age and hoped to study art after graduating from the gymnasium in Mariupol. With the outbreak of World War I, he enrolled in the Yelizavetgrad Cavalry School. He went on to hold military leadership positions in the army of Nicholas II and the White Siberian army. With the defeat of the Whites in Siberia, he crossed into northeastern China and surrendered his weapons. Arnautoff remained in China for five years. He again tried to pursue art, but was impoverished and took a position training the cavalry of the warlord Zhang Zuolin. He met and married Lydia Blonsky and they had two sons, Michael and Vasily.
In November 1925 Arnautoff went to San Francisco on a student visa to study at the California School of Fine Arts. There he studied sculpture with Edgar Walter and painting with several instructors. His wife and children joined him, and they all continued to Mexico in 1929, where, on Ralph Stackpole...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Tempera
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