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"Spraggon" Polo Player c1913 Watercolour by Wil Mots
Located in Bristol, CT
Polo Player Charging
Art Sz:11"H x 8"W
Frame Sz: 14 3/4"H x 11 3/4"W
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Watercolor
Back to the Land “Farming” by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Colour woodcut
Located in London, GB
Back to the Land “Farming” by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Colour wood engraving
19.3 x 10.5 cm (7 ⁵/₈ x 4 ¹/₈ inches)
Initialed and titled in the plate and numbered, 4th state ...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Color, Woodcut
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro - Sketch
Located in London, GB
A Study of Human Head and Tiger by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Pencil on paper
25.5 x 20 cm (10 x 7⁷/₈ inches)
Executed circa 1917
Artist biography:
Orovida Camille Pissarro, Lucie...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Bathers, Woodcut on paper, Signed and dated 1912, Italian Artist
Located in London, GB
Woodcut on paper, signed and dated '1912' bottom right
Image size: 5 x 5 1/4 (12.75 x 13.5 cm)
Mounted
Here the artist's bold gouging of the material has created an evocative scene ...
Category
Italian School 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait by Orovida Pissarro - etching
Located in London, GB
Portrait by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Etching
25 x 16.5 cm (9 ⁷/₈ x 6 ¹/₂ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Orovida 1919
Inscribed lower left, Trial proof no. 20 and titled lo...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Charming German Country Side Home on Canvas - Ernst Müller-Scheessel Signed 1919
Located in Jacksonville, FL
_Ernst Müller-Scheessel
Charming painting in gouache depicting a young family and their small children in a village
setting in Germany. Signed by the artist in the lower right corne...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Paint
The Mediator, 1913
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
R. Norton, The Mediator, New York, 1913, cover illustration.
Douglas Duer (1887-1964) was a member of New York's Society of Illustrators w...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Decorative Illustration for Saturday Evening Post, April 17th, 1920
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Right
Originally published in Saturday Evening Post December 20th, 1919 issue. Repeated in April 17th, 1920 issue of Saturday Evening Post as an insert de...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Paint
"Writing for Print" Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Center
"Writing for Print" by E. W. Howe and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, December 6th, 1919.
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Paint
"How Shall Europe Be Set On Her Feet" Story Illustration for Saturday Evening P.
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Center
"How Shall Europe Be Set On Her Feet," by Frederick S. Bigelow and illustrated by Guernsey Moore for the Saturday Evening Post, August 9th, 1919.
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Paint
What is the Home Anyway
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Titled in pencil and inscribed "Blue print-Rush-/March" beneath the composition, identified in a printed label affixed to the frame ...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Ink, Pen
A Dangerous Landing, 1919
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Old Dominie
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post 3/25/1916.
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Penrod, Sam and Roddy Bits fighting for the “Horn of Fame”
By Worth Brehm
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Published for the serialized Penrod and Sam stories in Cosmopolitan Magazine between 1910 and 1918
Signed Upper Left by the Artist
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Charcoal, Board
Rip Van Winkle, Cream of Wheat Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1915
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Rip Van Winkle, Cream of Wheat advertisement, 1915
This p...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Playing Store"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1915
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40.00" x 28.00"
Cream of Wheat ad
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Vanishing Men
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1919
Medium: Charcoal on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 15.20" x 18.50"
"The Vanishing Men," November 29, 1919.
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Board, Charcoal
"Somewhere in France" Every Week Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Appeared on the front page of the February 1918 issue of Every Week Magazine.
A man looking at a map while smoking a pipe.
Signed Lower Right.
Category
Other Art Style 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
Young Woman in Lace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Gouache and Ink on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Magazine Advertisement
Young woman in blue and black lace dress holding and looking at flowers.
Category
Other Art Style 1910s Art
Materials
Gouache, Ink, Paper, Watercolor
Adam and Eve
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Adam and Eve, 1910
Vintage photogravure, Camera Work April 1910, 30:5
Image: 7" x 5", Mount: 11-3/4" x 8-1/4", Mat: 20" x 16"
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Photogravure
Interiør Fra Liselund (Interior from Liselund)
Located in New York, NY
Peter Ilsted's "Dining Room at Liselund Manor" from 1917 is not only a remarkable illustration of the Copenhagen Interior School's aesthetic but also a profound exploration of the co...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bílé rytmy na černém II, Abstract Woodcut on Rice Paper by Frantisek Kupka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Bílé rytmy na černém II
Frantisek Kupka, Czech (1871–1957)
Date: 1912
Woodcut on handmade rice paper, signed in the plate and stamp signed
Image Size: 10 x 16 inches
Size: 15 x 22.75...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Rice Paper, Woodcut
Favrile Damascene Harp Desk Lamp
By Tiffany Studios
Located in Missouri, MO
Favrile Damascene Harp Desk Lamp, c. 1910
Tiffany Studios
Patinated Bronze and Favrile Glass
Impressed to Base "TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 419" "S85"
13.5...
Category
Art Nouveau 1910s Art
Materials
Bronze
" The Littlefield Murals " 3 MURALS OF THE XIT RANCH IN TEXAS. PAINTED Ca. 1910
Located in San Antonio, TX
Major George Washington Littlefield died in 1920. He commissioned E. Martin Hennings around 1910 to do six large paintings of scenes from his 235,000-acre ( part of the XIT ) ranch to hang in his bank in Austin.
I am not sure, but the bank possibly went under sometime in the 197s-1980s. All of the art and antiques were stored, and they had a sale. We have 3 of the six murals that were commissioned by Littlefield.
I have about 40 pages of info on Littlefield and the murals. Too much to enter now but I will be scanning that info later this week.
The Littlefield mansion is still in Downtown Austin. At one time he was the richest man in the state. He was UT's biggest donor for several years prior to his death.
The paintings are
34 x 130
35 x 144
35 x 119
Two are hanging in my friend's ranch house. The other is of a large herd of Hereford Cattle. It is actually pictured
on the cover of the Biography of George Washing Littlefield.
Littlefield, George Washington (1842–1920). George Washington Littlefield, cattleman, banker, and member of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas, son of Fleming and Mildred Terrell (Satterwhite) White Littlefield, was born in Panola County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1842. The family moved to Texas in 1850 after a confrontation between Fleming Littlefield and his wife's family. In marrying Fleming, her overseer, after the death of her first husband, Mildred in her family's eyes had married beneath her station, an action to which her family objected. George grew to young manhood on the family plantation near Belmont, Gonzales County, helping his mother to manage the place after Fleming's death in 1853. George received a basic education in Gonzales College and Baylor University, 1853–55 and 1857. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861 George enlisted in Company I, Eighth Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers), which fought in the Army of Tennessee. Before his military career was ended at Mossy Creek, Tennessee, on December 26, 1863, by an exploding cannon shell, George rose to the rank of company commander, the youngest in his regiment, and fought at Shiloh, Perryville, and Chickamauga. At Mossy Creek he was promoted to major, a title by which he was addressed after the mid 1880s. Back in Texas after being discharged in 1864, he took control of a plantation belonging to himself and his brother, and "went to work to make the best, as he thought, of a miserable life, having to carry his crutches everywhere." During the war, on January 14, 1863, George married Alice Payne Tillar, with whom he had two children, both of whom died in infancy. In his business ventures thereafter, George Littlefield, who had a highly developed sense of family, utilized nephews and the husbands of nieces as managers.
George's first year's farming after the war ended in disaster caused by three years of worm infestation and flood. Even the road-side store he opened, which prospered because George accepted barter, in particular cattle, could not make up for the losses. In 1871 he gathered a herd of cattle, half of which were his and the rest belonging to his brother, bought more, and drove the herd to Abilene, Kansas, where he sold the animals for enough to discharge all of his debts and leave him with $3,600 "to begin business." Over the next several years entrepreneur Littlefield opened a dry goods store in partnership with J. C. Dilworth in Gonzales, bought and trailed cattle, bought ranches in Caldwell and Hays counties, and developed his plantations. In the trailing business, Littlefield commonly bought his cattle, rather than, as most trailing contractors did, trailing them for a fee. He took the greater risk but reaped the greater reward in their sale. In 1877 Littlefield bought water rights along the Canadian River near Tascosa and established the XIT Ranch which he sold in 1881 for $248,000. Littlefield rejoiced that he had obtained "far more money than he had ever expected to have" and thought of retiring at thirty-nine years of age. But he did not retire, as "he learned. . .that the more money a man makes, the more he has to make, that a man's world opens up a little bit wider with each deal and demands become heavier."
In 1882 Littlefield followed the advice of his principal ranch manager, half-nephew J. Phelps White, and purchased water interests sufficient to control some four million acres of land in New Mexico east of the Pecos River between Fort Sumner and Roswell, on which he established the Bosque Grande Ranch. In 1883 he bought the site of the first windmill on the New Mexico plains at the Four Lakes north of Tatum and developed the Four Lakes Ranch with windmills and barbed wire to control access to water and permit upgrading of stock. His cattle after 1882 carried his LFD brand on their right side. In 1887 Littlefield began acquiring land in Mason County, which soon spread over some 120,000 acres in adjacent Kimble and Menard counties, a ranch he put under management of half-nephew John Will White. In the 1890s Littlefield assembled acreage that came to be known as the LFD Farm in Roswell, New Mexico, on which he established an apple grove, grew forage for cattle, recruited his horses prior to the spring round-up, and maintained the pure-bred bulls that he used to upgrade his herds. Littlefield climaxed his ranching operation in 1901 with the purchase for two dollars per acre of 235,858 acres of the Yellow House (southern) Division of the XIT Ranch in Lamb and Hockley counties. To reach the prevailing wind above the escarpment at the ranch headquarters, Littlefield put up a windmill 130 feet tall to the top of the fan, claimed at the time to be the world's tallest windmill. In 1912 he established the Littlefield Lands Company under Arthur Pope...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
'Obraz-Divka' (The Girl) by Alphonse Mucha - Original Mucha Portrait Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
The American Art Gallery takes immense pride in offering "The Girl - A Study for the Slav Epic," an authentic original work by the celebrated Art Nouveau icon, Alphonse Mucha. Dating...
Category
Art Nouveau 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monumental Painting -- After The Storm
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional impressionist beachside scene with figures and powerful clouds by American artist Augustus B. Koopman (1869-1914). Koopman was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, initially studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine arts, and going on to live a large portion of his short life in Paris, studying at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, painting many of his marine and figure paintings on the coast at Etaples, near Belgium. Among his teachers were William Bouguereau, Benjamin Constant, and Tony Robert-Fleury. He was well known for his genre, maritime, landscape, figure, and portrait paintings. His drypoints and etchings can be found in both the Congressional and New York Public Libraries, and his painting “Vision of the Grand Canyon” is displayed in the Santa Fe Railway...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paysage
Located in London, GB
Mobilized in 1914, like many of his Cubist friends, Albert Gleizes was sent to a barracks in Toul, Lorraine, near the front line. Supported by a military doctor, Major Lambert, of wh...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16)
Located in Missouri, MO
"Mlle Landsberg" (grade planche, pl. 16), 1914
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Signed and Numbered Lower Right
Edition 12/15
Image size: 7 7/8 x 4 5/16 inches
Sheet size: 17 11/16 x 12 1/2 inches
With frame: 19 1/2 x 14 1/2 inches
Henri Matisse came from a family who were of Flemish origin and lived near the Belgian border. At eight o'clock on the evening of December 31, 1869, he was born in his grandparents' home in the town of Le Cateau in the cheerless far north of France. His father was a self-made seed merchant who was a mixture of determination and tightly coiled tension.
Henri had no clear idea of what he wanted to do with his life. He was a twenty-year-old law clerk convalescing from appendicitis when he first began to paint, using a box of colors given to him by his mother. Little more than a year later, in 1890, he had abandoned law and was studying art in Paris. The classes consisted of drawing from plaster casts and nude models and of copying paintings in the Louvre. He soon rebelled against the school's conservative atmosphere; he replaced the dark tones of his earliest works with brighter colors that reflected his awareness of Impressionism. Matisse was also a violinist; he took an odd pride in the notion that if his painting eye failed, he could support his family by fiddling on the streets of Paris.
Henri found a girlfriend while studying art, and he fathered a daughter, Marguerite, by her in 1894. In 1898 he married another woman, Amelie Parayre. She adopted the beloved Marguerite; they eventually had two sons, Jean, a sculptor and Pierre who became an eminent art dealer. Relations between Matisse and his wife were often strained. He often dallied with other women, and they finally separated in 1939 over a model who had been hired as a companion for Mme. Matisse. She was Madame Lydia, and after Mme. Matisse left, she remained with Matisse until he died.
Matisse spent the summer of 1905 working with Andre Derain in the small Mediterranean seaport of Collioure. They began using bright and dissonant colors. When they and their colleagues exhibited together, they caused a sensation. The critics and the public considered their paintings to be so crude and so roughly crafted that the group became known as Les Fauves (the wild beasts).
By 1907, Matisse moved on from the concerns of Fauvism and turned his attention to studies of the human figure. He had begun to sculpt a few years earlier. In 1910, when he saw an exhibition of Islamic art, he was fascinated with the multiple patterned areas and adapted the decorative universe of the miniatures to his interiors. As a continuation of his interest in the "exotic", Matisse made extended trips to Morocco in 1912 and 1913.
At the end of 1917, Matisse moved to Nice; he would spend part of each year there for the remainder of his life. A meticulous dandy, he wore a light tweed jacket amd a tie when he painted. He never used a palette, but instead squeezed his colors on to plain white kitchen dishes...
Category
Fauvist 1910s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Summer Idle
Located in Missouri, MO
Edward Cucuel (American, 1875-1954)
Summer Idle, 1918
Signed Lower Right
35 x 43 inches
43 x 51 inches with frame
Born in San Francisco, Edward Cucuel was an Impressionist painter o...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tandelei (Expressionism, Expressionist, Portraits, Early 20th Century, Iconic)
By Emil Nolde
Located in Kansas City, MO
Emil Nolde
Tandelei (Tändelei)
Woodcut on fine paper (Holzschnitt auf Karton)
Year: 1917
Image Size: 11.811x9.527in
Sheet Size: 16.614x13.425in
Edition: 12
Signed and titled in pencil
Catalogue Raisonné: Schiefler-Mosel H 134 III
Framed
Ref.: 924802-1749
Condition: Very good. Image intact; no tears, creases, foxing, staining or soiling
Provenance: This piece has been graciously consigned with our gallery by a prominent Kansas City Private Collection.
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Emil Nolde (born Hans Emil Hansen...
Category
Expressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Opium Smoker; The Opium Eater
Located in Greenville, DE
The Opium Smoker; The Opium Eater by N.C. Wyeth was created in 1913. The painting is signed upper right. Dedication lower left that reads "To Swayne / Fro...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pierrot (Massine en Pierrot)
Located in London, GB
Signed in pencil, from the edition of 20 to 25 that accompanied Max Jacob's 'Le Phanérogame' in December 1918. With wide margins (the version issued with the...
Category
Cubist 1910s Art
Materials
Etching
Lesser Ury - Auf dem kanal, impressionist, pastel, german, waterscape, canal
By Lesser Ury
Located in London, GB
Lesser Ury (1861-1931)
Auf dem Kanal
1912
pastel on board
49.2 x 34.9 cm
signed and dated 'L.Ury.1912.' (lower left)
Price:
$25,000 USD
Provenance:
Sale: Christie's London, 30 June 2000, lot 42
Collection of Simone and Jean Tiroche (acquired at the above sale)
Thence by descent
Sale: Christie's London, 19 June 2013, lot 199
Private collection, UK (acquired from the above sale)
Notes:
Dr Sibylle Gross has confirmed the authenticity of this work.
Lesser Ury, a German-Jewish Impressionist...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Pastel, Board
Nature morte à l’oeuf - Roger de la Fresnaye, still life, modern, french, fruit
Located in London, GB
Roger de la Fresnaye (1885-1925)
Nature morte à l’oeuf
1910
oil on board mounted on panel
66.2 x 50.9 cm
signed and dated ‘R de la Fresnaye.10’ (upper right)
Price:
$157,500 USD (in...
Category
Modern 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Board, Panel
Pease-Porridge Hot, Pease-Porridge Cold
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This mixed media art by Jesssie Willcox Smith, entitled “Pease-Porridge Hot, Pease-Porridge Cold,” was executed in 19...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Board
Original Illustration for The Red Cross
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
19.875" x 14.00" Each Panel
1 of a 4 Part Illustration used as a promotional poster
Poster for The Red Cross—Watching...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
GARDEN IN SNOW
By Edvard Munch
Located in Santa Monica, CA
EDVARD MUNCH (1863 – 1944)
GARDEN IN SNOW, II 1913 (WO 467: Sch. 418)
Woodcut, 13 ½” x 16 7/8” signed in pencil.
Generally very good condition. Irregular sheet of simili-japan ...
Category
Expressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Picasso, Homme dans un interiéur jouant de la guitare
Located in Miami, FL
Drawn in 1912 by Picasso, this fine piece of work is a recognizable mark of his unique style. "Homme dans un interiéur jouant de la guitare", 1912 is on cream laid paper, with abstra...
Category
Abstract 1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
The Terra Nova Held Up in the Pack, 13 December 1910 (I)
Located in London, GB
The Terra Nova Held Up in the Pack, 13 December 1910 (I)
Stamped with Scott Polar Research Institute blind stamp and numbered on reverse
Platinum Print
Available in two sizes:
14 ...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Platinum
Beautiful Broken Ice, Reflections and the Terra Nova, 7 January 1911
Located in London, GB
Beautiful Broken Ice, Reflections and the Terra Nova, 7 January 1911
Stamped with Scott Polar Research Institute blind stamp and numbered on reverse
Platinum print
Available in two...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Platinum
Familie Eichelhardt - August Sander (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Familie Eichelhardt - August Sander (Black and White Photography)
Photographer's label affixed to mount
Silver gelatin print, printed c. 1913
11 x 8 1/2 ...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Forrester's Child, Westerwald [Farm Child on Bicycle]
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print (Edition of 12)
Signed by the photographer's grandson, Gerd Sander, with print date and edition number in ink, verso
August sander archive stamp in ink, verso
K...
Category
Other Art Style 1910s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Necklace and the Pot
Located in Missouri, MO
Gisella Loeffler
"The Necklace and the Pot" c. 1919
Gouache on Paper
Initialed Lower Left
Framed Size: approx 15 x 15 inches
In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos.
In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention.
Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.
In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s.
Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico.
Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images.
In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed.
In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.
Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...
Category
Modern 1910s Art
Materials
Gouache
Going for a Stroll
Located in Missouri, MO
Gisella Loeffler
"Going for a Stroll" c. 1919
Gouache on Paper
Initialed
Framed Size: approx 17 x 13 inches
In a village filled with colorful characters, few Taos artists were as colorful as Gisella Loeffler [1900-1977]. From her handmade Austrian clothing and hand-painted furniture to whimsical paintings and letters written in multicolored crayon, joyful color defined the artist, who early on chose to use simply Gisella as her professional name and was known as such to everyone in Taos.
In spite of her fame there—the Taos News once labeled her a Taos legend—Gisella is rarely included in scholarly discussions of the Taos Art Colony. This oversight is likely due to the naive quality of her work, in which children or childlike adults inhabit a simple, brightly colored world filled with happiness. The macabre, the sad, the tortured, the offensive—all have no place in Gisella’s paintings. Her naive style of work looks very different from that of the better-known early Taos artists. Yet both Gisella’s artwork and her interesting life command attention.
Born in Austria, Gisella came to the United States with her family in 1908, settling in St. Louis, MO. After studying art at Washington University in St. Louis, she became a prominent member of the local art community, joining the St. Louis Art Guild as well as the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts. In addition to creating posters for the St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gisella won prizes from the Artists Guild of the Author’s League of America in 1919 and 1920 and from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1923. She also began working in textiles, including batik, to which she would return later in her career.
In the early 1920s Gisella married writer and music critic Edgar Lacher. A difficult character, Lacher may have chafed under Gisella’s success, for the couple divorced in the 1930s.
Having seen a local exhibition of paintings by Taos artists Oscar Berninghaus (who was from St. Louis) and Ernest Blumenschein, Gisella felt drawn to Taos, which reminded her of the villages of her native Austria. In 1933 the single mother with two daughters, Undine and Aithra, moved to Taos, where she lived off and on for the rest of her life. She traveled frequently, spending extended periods in Mexico, South America, and California, but always returned to New Mexico.
Gisella initially applied an Austro-Hungarian folk-art style to the Indian and Hispanic subjects that she found in New Mexico. In her early work she covered her surfaces with decorative floral and faunal motifs, and her images were flat with no attempt at rendering traditional one-point perspective. Eventually, though, Gisella developed her own style, often using children or childlike figures as subjects. Still, the influence of her native country’s folk art remained evident in her New Mexican, Mexican, and South American images.
In 1938 Gisella moved briefly to Los Griegos, north of Albuquerque, to be closer to medical facilities for her eldest daughter, who was suffering from rheumatic fever. Two years later, she moved to California to participate in the war effort, painting camouflage and decals on airplanes for Lockheed.
In California, Gisella broadened her range of artistic pursuits. She taught art privately, created illustrations for Scripts Magazine, and did interior design for private homes. She also designed greeting cards, a practice she continued after her return to New Mexico, where she created a series of Christmas cards.
Gisella began illustrating children’s books in 1941 when she collaborated on Franzi and Gizi with author Margery Bianco. Eventually she wrote and illustrated her own book, El Ekeko, in 1964. She also designed ceramics—her Happy Time Dinnerware, marketed by Poppy Trail...
Category
Modern 1910s Art
Materials
Gouache
Central Park Autumn
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul Cornoyer
“Central Park Autumn” c. 1910
Oil on Canvas
Framed Size: approx 29 x 35 inches
Canvas Size: approx 22 x 26.5 inches
Provenance: The Artist to Private Collection, St. Louis thence by Descent
Conservation report: Excellent condition. On original canvas, not relined. No in-painting.
Paul Cornoyer was born in 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied there at the School of Fine Arts in 1881. His first works were in a Barbizon mode, and his first exhibit was in 1887. In 1889, he went to Paris for further training, studying at the Academie Julien, and returned to St. Louis in 1894.
By the early 1890s, his work was more lyrical and Tonal, and he applied this style to subjects such as cityscapes and landscapes. In 1894, he painted a mural depicting the birth of St. Louis for the Planters Hotel in that city. His activities during the next six years were not particularly profitable, however, and the whereabouts of his St. Louis paintings are scarcely known. One exception is the triptych, A View of Saint Louis, with its strong urban realism. It shows the Eads Bridge...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scene for a Fairy Tale
Located in New York, NY
WADSWORTH, Edward. Scene for a Fairy Tale, ca 1918. Woodcut printed in black on cream wove paper, Signed in pencil (which is rare for a Wadsworth rarely signed his woodcuts). Ref: Colnaghi 126. [Exhibited as Untitled Abstract]
Edward Wadsworth was an English artist, most famous for his close association with Vorticism. He painted, often in tempera, coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life. He was also an engraver on wood and copper. In the First World War he was involved in transferring dazzle camouflage...
Category
Abstract 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Les Otages Civils
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled, Les Otages Civils, 1916 is an original lithograph on Japan paper by Swiss/French artist Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, 1859-1923. It is signed and numbered out of...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Lithograph
La Marchande de Violettes
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), La Marchande de Violettes, etching, 1914, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (33/35) lower right [also signed and dated in the plate lower rig...
Category
Cubist 1910s Art
Materials
Etching
Croix de Guerre, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00;" Framed 36.00" x 29.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 29, 1918
Exhibitions:
It's a Man's World,...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Diner a L’Auberge
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Diner a L’Auberge, 1917-1922), engraving, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (45/55) lower right. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 173, second ...
Category
Cubist 1910s Art
Materials
Engraving
Driving Home in the Rain
Located in Storrs, CT
Driving Home in the Rain. 1914. Drypoint. Appleby 35. 7 3/8 x 10 1/8 (sheet 12 x 15 3/8). Edition 40. Illustrated: Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940; Print Collector's Quarterly 1...
Category
Modern 1910s Art
Materials
Drypoint
Felson,
Located in New York, NY
Black and White Woodcut. Published in 1909 in an edition of 100 to be used as a card member for the group of artists "Neu Kunstler-Vereingun Munchen". The impression is complete in ...
Category
Blue Rider 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Allerheiligen- All Saints Day.
Located in New York, NY
KANDINSKY, Wassily. Allerheiligen- All Saints Day. Original three-color woodcut (red, yellow ochre, blue – with olive green). 1911. Signed with the monogram...
Category
Blue Rider 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Le Gramophone
Located in New York, NY
LABOURER, Jean Emile. Le Gramophone. Woodcut on cream laid paper,
1918-21.
full margins. Signed and numbered 41/45 in pencil, lower margin.
A very goo...
Category
Cubist 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
L'irreparable
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 – 1949), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, ge...
Category
Symbolist 1910s Art
Materials
Mixed Media
The Brothers
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An original oil on canvas by Hungarian artist Gertrude Klaris. Klaris worked in oils but pramrily in mixed media works on paper, much of her style is akin to her love of stained glas...
Category
Symbolist 1910s Art
Sorcieres
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Soricieres, depicts a covenant of witches as they convene at the top of a fabled mountain in Germany, the Broeken. The legend states that on a single night of the year, St. Walpurgis...
Category
Symbolist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Gehenne
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, generally depicting the constant struggle of good vs. evil. This is consistently reflected by images of beautiful women interacting with skeletons, gargoyles and demons.
An original oil on panel, Gehenne depicts two cowering skeletons as they languish at the gates of hell...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
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