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Period: 1910s
Style: Impressionist
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"Femme au cep de vigne" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue references: Delteil 44 or Roger-Marx 19. Printed in Paris by Clot and published in 1919 by Ambroise Vollard for the rare "Douze Lithographies O...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Kissing Wood Nymphs - Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
By Carl F. Ruhnau
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative landscape of Wood Fairies kissing in a forest by Carl F. Ruhnau (German, c.1876-1940). Signed “C. Ruhnau” in the bottom right corner. Signed and ...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
They Give Their Lives original World War 1 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original THEY GIVE THEIR LIVES WSS, World War 1 lithograph vintage poster.
They Give Their Lives, do you lend your savings? W.S.S.--War Savings Stamps....
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Les Laveuses, 2e Pensee (The Washerwoman)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Les Laveuses, 2e Pensee (The Washerwomen)
Lithograph, c. 1910
Unsigned (as issued)
Edition: c.30-50 impressions
Condition: Rust spot, associated with pape...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Autumn Landscape
By Royal Milleson
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Autumn Landscape
Oil on relined canvas, c. 1915
Signed lower right corner: "Royal H. Milleson"
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 14 1/2 x 20 3/8 inches
Frame size: 19-1/4 x 25-1/4 x 2-1/2 inches
Clearly among the artist's finest paintings!
Provenance: Private Collection, Greencastle, Indiana
Ray H. French Collection (1919-2000)
Martha A. French Trust
Royal Hill Milleson...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
"New England Autumn" Philip Leslie Hale, American Impressionist Landscape House
Located in New York, NY
Philip Leslie Hale
New England Autumn, 1910
Pastel on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
Sotheby's New York, American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, May 24, 1990, Lot 125
R. Anne McCarthy
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts (gift from the above)
Private Collection, Massachusetts
Exhibited:
Philadelphia, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Tenth Annual Philadelphia Watercolor Exhibition, November 10 - December 15, 1912, no. 13.
Painter, teacher and writer, Philip Leslie Hale is recognized for his decorative paintings of the female figure and for his interior scenes with figures as well as for his progressive approach to painting. However, his career went through several phases that included sporting scenes, figural studies of women including nudes, portraits, and allegorical works reflecting the overwhelming forces of nature.
Of the Boston painters of his time, he seemed the most fully committed to Impressionism, and his technique suggests the influence of French impressionist Edgar Degas. In most of his paintings, the landscape was more important than the figure.
He was a prolific writer in local newspapers and periodicals about the contemporary art scene, discussing the work of his Boston colleagues. He also wrote numerous books on art and art history including a study of Vermeer that was published in 1913. Among his writings are 1892 newspaper columns for Arcadia Magazine titled "Letters from Paris", art criticism for the Boston Herald from 1905 to 1909; and art criticism for the Boston Evening Transcript. He argued for the Boston School of Art as led by Edmund Tarbell whose style was based on Impressionism with elements of Realism, especially figure painting.
Hale was born in Boston in 1865, the son Reverend Edward Hale, a Boston clergyman and a relative of Nathan Hale. He studied with Ellen Day Hale, his sister, and Edmund Tarbell at the Boston Museum School, with J. Alden Weir at the Art Students League in New York City, and then went to Paris for further studies at the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He remained in France for fifteen years, returning to America about 1895. During that time, from 1888, he spent summers at Giverny, France with his good friend, artist, Theodore Butler, and became well acquainted with Claude Monet. Traveling throughout Europe, Hale visited the major museums, and copied the works of Ingres, Vermeer, Watteau and Michelangelo.
Hale married Lilian Westcott Hale...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
Church Gardens - French Post Impressionist Oil, Landscape by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Stunning signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. A wonderful and colourful depiction of a green church garden la...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original U. S. MARINES TEUFEL HUNDEN (Devil Dogs) vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 vintage poster: U. S. MARINES TEUFEL HUNDEN, a unique piece of history and artistry. Archival linen backed in A- condition, ready to frame. No paper loss. ...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Scottish Interior - Edwardian art oil painting sitting room interior gilt frame
Located in London, GB
This stunning oil painting was painted circa 1911 and is signed lower right. The painting depicts a Scottish interior- a small occasion or card table surrounded by a variety of mahog...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
Family Portrait in Market - British 1914 art Post Impressionist oil painting
Located in London, GB
This charming early twentieth century Post Impressionist portrait oil painting is by British Jewish female artist Amy Julia Drucker. Of German descent, Drucker was born in England i...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
Nu au canapé bleu by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Nude painting
Located in London, GB
Nu au canapé bleu y Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Oil on canvas
46 x 38 cm (18 ¹/₈ x 15 inches)
Signed lower left, Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1910
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Lélia Pissarro.
Provenance: Private collection, France
Artist biography:
Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro, born in Paris in 1878, was Camille Pissarro’s fourth son. Encouraged by his father...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resurrection (aka Flying Figures; Border of the Lake)
Located in New York, NY
Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928), Resurrection (aka Flying Figures; Border of the Lake), drypoint and aquatint on zinc, 1916, signed with the estate stamp lower right. Reference: Price 2...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
“Summer In Brittany”
By Max Silbert
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is an outstanding oil on canvas painting by Max Silbert. Signed lower right. Circa 1915. Recently professionally cleaned with no restorations. The fra...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Escuela Española - Joven semi desnuda - Óleo sobre tela
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada, es de autor anónimo
Se presenta sin enmarcar la obra
El estado de la obra es aceptable
Medidas obra: 61 cm altura x 50 cm ancho
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
"Stony Cove and Headland, " Henry Ward Ranger, Coastal Landscape, Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Henry Ward Ranger (1858 - 1915)
Stony Cove and Headland, 1910
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
McDonough Gallery, New York
William Macbeth Galleries, New York
American Art Association, The Completed Pictures Left by the Late Henry Ward Ranger, 1917, Lot 72
A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as the leader of the Tonalist movement in America and was a leading painter in this country in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries.
He was born in Geneseo and raised in Syracuse, New York, and in 1873, enrolled in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where his father was a professor of photography and drawing. Two years later, he became a re-toucher of paintings in his father's studio and did not earn a college degree.
He also spent much time in New York City, where he was a writer of music criticism and visited galleries, where he had his first exposure to French Barbizon painting...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn in the Glen - Scottish Impressionist art river landscape oil painting
By John Henderson
Located in London, GB
An original Scottish Impressionist oil by John Henderson. This fine painting dates to circa 1910 and is an oil on canvas in a stunning and fresh palette. The wooded moorland stream l...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
'Alpine Landscape in Piedmont', Munich School Professor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hans Blum' (German, 1858-1942) and painted circa 1911.
Provenance: Exhibited, 'Jubiläums- Ausstellung der Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft', München 1911 ('Anniversary Exhibition of the Munich Artists' Cooperative'). Label verso.
Hans Blum studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts with Ludwig von Löfftz and Ludwig Lindenschmit the Younger. He first worked as a portraitist in Nuremberg but later turned to genre painting, which he often carried out in the style of plein-air painting. Blum exhibited his Italian alpine...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Coucher de soleil - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Ferdinand du Puigaudeau
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated post impressionist riverscape oil on canvas by French painter Ferdinand du Puigaudeau. This stunning and large work depicts a view of the river Loire in Nantes, Fran...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Women in a Cafe - British 1930's art oil portrait painting Spain jugs pink
By Darsie Japp
Located in London, GB
An original oil on canvas by the British listed artist Darsie Japp. It was painted circa 1930 and depicts two woman at a table having a drink. A very evocative inter war oil painting.
Provenance. James Bourlet Framers. Sotheby 12.11.86.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 28 inches by 22 inches unframed and in excellent condition.
Housed in a gallery frame, 36 inches by 30 inches framed in good condition.
Darsie Japp (1888-1973) was born in Liverpool and attended St John's College of the University of Oxford. After he graduated he worked in the offices of his father's shipping company in the City of London between 1904 and 1907. Whilst working in the City Japp studied at the night school of the Lambeth School of Art under Philip Connard. Japp studied at the Slade School of Art between 1908 and 1909, where he became friends with his fellow student Stanley Spencer and would often visit him in his home at Cookham in Berkshire. Japp specialised in landscape and figure paintings and exhibited with the New English Art Club of which he became a member in 1919. At the start of the First World War Japp joined the British Army and, eventually, became a Major in the Royal Field Artillery commanding an artillery battery in Macedonia, for which he was awarded the Military Cross...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
Allotments - La Sargne - Post-Impressionist Oil, Landscape by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A charming oil on board circa 1910 by sought after Post-Impressionist painter Victor Charreton. Charreton was said to be the painter of colours and this piece, which depicts an allot...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Sunbathing
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Sunbathing
Etching and color aquatint on watermarked Umbria Italy paper, c. 1915
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
Annotated: "No. 6" in pencil lower left (see photo)
An early color print by the artist
Condition: Excellent
Plate size: 11-3/4 x 15-7-8" (30 x 40.3 cm.)
Frame size: 21 x 26 1/8 x 1 inches
Provenance: Estate of the artist
By decent
Louis Oscar Griffith
(1875-1956)
Born in Greencastle, Indiana, Griffith grew up in Dallas, Texas where Texas artist and teacher Charles Franklin Reaugh recognized young “Griff’s” artistic talent. At age 18, Griffith moved to St. Louis where he attended the St. Louis School of Fine Arts.
In 1895, he moved to Chicago where he worked making color prints for the firm Barnes and Crosby. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and during a brief stay in New York, the National Academy of Design. A successful commercial artist with a studio in the Chicago Loop...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Etching
London Tower Bridge Viewed from the Thames - Original etching - 1910
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul-Adrien BOUROUX
London Tower Bridge Viewed from the Thames
Original etching with aquatint
Printed signature in the plate
On Japan paper 28 x 19 cm (c. 11 x 8 inch)
Excellent co...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Vangforsen, Ramsele – Northern Light on the Faxälven River, 1915
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Johansson (1863-1944) Sweden
Vangforsen, Ramsele, 1915
oil on canvas
signed and dated Carl Johansson 15
unframed: 50 x 65.5 cm (19 5/8 x 25 3/4 in)
framed: 68 x 83 cm (26 3/4 ...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Springtime Landscape" William Anderson Coffin, American Impressionism Barbizon
By William Anderson Coffin
Located in New York, NY
William Anderson Coffin (1855 - 1925)
Springtime Landscape, circa 1910
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Signed lower right
Landscape and figure painter William Anderson Coffin was born...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'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...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century American Impressionism -- Old Lyme Connecticut Red House
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous early 20th Century American Impressionist landscape of Connecticut red house by George M. Bruestle (American, 1871 - 1939), November 1914. Signed lower left and on verso. Dated on verso. Presented in gilt-toned wood frame. Image size: 8"H x 10"W.
George Matthew Bruestle is an American Realist/Impressionist painter known for his intimate landscapes. Born and raised in New York City, Bruestle studied at the Art Students' League of New York in 1886 at the young age of fifteen and later in Paris. That same year, Bruestle visited Essex, CT and eventually purchased a second home in Hadlyme, Old Lyme as the Art Colony formed. Bruestle's main studio was in New York City.
Inspired by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot [1796-1875] and other French landscape painters, Bruestle's style was a mix of Early Realism and Early Impressionist techniques. He was an adept draftsman and his paintings favored earlier European examples but, later took on a brighter Impressionist palette and brushy quality of the Old Lyme Art...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Late Afternoon at Brighton Beach"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Martha Walter (1875 - 1976).
Born in Philadelphia in 1875, Martha Walter attended Girls’ High School followe...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Municipal Building, Manhattan, New York, " Ruth Anderson, Impressionist Scene
Located in New York, NY
Ruth Anderson
Municipal Building, Manhattan, circa 1918
Oil on canvas
25 x 19 inches
Ruth A. Anderson was born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania in 1891 and die...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1920's Still Life with Japanese Shisa
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful early 20th century still life of a Japanese Shisa (lion/dog), a floral design vase and a brass coffee pot by Wilfred A. Readio (American, 1895-1961), 1920. Signed "Wilfred ...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Under the Rain - Post Impressionist Figurative Oil by Pierre Eugene Montezin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel circa 1910 by sought after French post impressionist painter Pierre Eugène Montezin. The piece depicts a view of Rue des Hussiers in Neuilly sur Seine, France. Bl...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Tired" John White Alexander, Portrait in Interior, American Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
John White Alexander
Tired, circa 1910
Inscribed on the reverse: Mrs Lee Bauer, _____,
Inscribed on the reverse: "Tired"
Watercolor on paper
16 1/2 x 13 inches
John White Alexander...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Ivan Summers Early 20th Century Missouri Ozark Paintings
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ivan Summers: 1889-1964. Well listed and important American impressionist. He has had auction results as high as $6,670. He studied at the St. Louis Scho...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
Young Lady in Profile
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Young Lady in Profile (Dorothy Gibson)
Graphite on paper, c. 1915
Signed lower right (see photo).
The sitter for this drawing, along with a huge number of Harrison Fisher’s works, i...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Graphite
'The White Bonnet', Paris, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Art Museum
By Henrik Schouboe
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'H.S.' for Henrik Schouboe (Danish, 1876-1949) and painted circa 1915.
Henrik Schouboe first studied at the Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1894-1901 and, from 1903-1910, in Italy and Paris. He was awarded numerous stipends and scholarships including the Larssen (1902-3) and the Akademie Scholarship in 1908. In 1906, he had exhibited for the first time at the Charlottenborg where his submitted entry was purchased by the leading Danish painter of the time, Kristian Zahrtmann, for his personal collection.
Schouboe continued to exhibit both domestically and internationally for over thirty years and was the recipient of a variety of prizes, medals and juried awards including the purchase of his 1908 Charlottenborg entry, 'Young Couple in a Landscape', by the State Museum of Art for inclusion in the Danish national collection. Schouboe's work is held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including Copenhagen, Aabenraa, Maribo and the Aalborg Art Museums. We are pleased to offer a delicate and psychologically penetrating portrait of this beautiful and determined girl on the cusp of womanhood.
Reference:
Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 30, p. 269; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 12, p. 520; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Dansk Kunst (Charlottenborg), 1927: Taf. 27, 1928: Taf. 38, 1929: Taf. 46; S. Michaëlis i: Art VII, 1905-06; Vilh. Wanscher i: Kunstbl. 1909-10, 71f; Harald Giersing...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Galloping Horses - Charcoal on Paper by Giuseppe Cominetti - 1916
By Giuseppe Cominetti
Located in Roma, IT
Galloping Horses is a wonderful and original drawing in charcoal on paper, realized by the italian divisions artist Giuseppe Cominetti.
Hand-signed in charcoal and dated on the lower...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Charcoal
'Summer Days', Idyllic American Landscape, Children, Arts & Crafts Architecture
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, early twentieth-century oil showing two children, wearing period summer dress and posed beside a well, with a view beyond across lush green lawns...
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American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Baigneuse Debout, a mi-jambes" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1910 for Theodore Duret's "Manet & the French Impressionists". Plate size: 6 5/8 x 4 3/8 inches (170 x 110 mm). Sheet size: 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches ...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Etching
"Low Tide, " Frederic Grant, Boats at the Dock, Chicago Artist
By Frederick Milton Grant
Located in New York, NY
Frederic Milton Grant (1886 - 1959)
Low Tide, 1916
Oil on canvas
16 1/4 x 18 1/8 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Housed in a Stanford White Newcomb-Macklin frame.
Exhibitied:
Ar...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Menton, France', École des Beaux-Arts, student of Gustave Boulanger and Gerome
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'A.F. Gorguet' for Auguste François Gorguet (French, 1862-1927), titled 'Menton' and dated with roman numerals 'XI' for 1911; bearing old 'P. Navez' exhibition lab...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Jelle Troelstra, Portrait Of A Seated Woman, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Dutch artist Jelle Troelstra (1891-1979) depicts a seated woman wearing a floral top and dark grey dress.
With eyes closed and hands held upo...
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Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Toluca, Mexico" by Robert Onderdonk (1852-1917)
By Robert Jenkins Onderdonk
Located in San Antonio, TX
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (1852 - 1917) San Antonio Artist Toluca, Mexico painting. Mexican Street Scene
Image Size: 11 x 8 Frame Size: 15 x 12 Medium: Oil "Toluca, Mexico" Circa 1912
This piece was painted in 1912 when Robert & his wife went to visit his son who was working in Mexico City at that time. Robert Onderdonk is considered the "Dean" of Texas Painters.
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk (1852 - 1917)
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk is noted for his landscape and portrait paintings and also for his fine art teaching.
Onderdonk was born in Catonsville, Maryland in 1852. He was the father of Robert Julian Onderdonk and Eleanor Rogers Onderdonk, also distinguished Texas artists. He received an academic education at the College of St. James, Catonsville, followed by studies at the National Academy of Design in 1872 under the instruction of Lemuel Everett Wilmarth. In 1875, Onderdonk attended Art Students League of New York and received instruction from Walter Shirlaw, James Carroll Beckwith and William Merritt Chase.
Onderdonk moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1878 where he made a living teaching and selling his paintings. In 1889 he moved to Dallas, where he painted several portraits for the Huburt Portrait Company, followed by employment with the Art Students League of Dallas. In 1896, Onderdonk returned to San Antonio, Texas where he continued to paint until his death in 1917.
Onderdonk was a member of the Allied Artists of America; Salmagundi Club, New York, and the San Antonio Art League. Exhibitions included the Annual Exhibition of the State Fair of Texas, Dallas; Dallas Art Association; Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis; Annual Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth; Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, and the San Antonio Art League.
Source:
John and Deborah Powers, "Texas Painters, Sculptors, and Graphic Artists"
Robert Jenkins Onderdonk was born at St. Timothy's Hall, Catonsville Maryland, in 1852. He had a very thorough academic education and was always sketching family members, classmates and landscapes on the back of his school books. This sketching ethic was a process he subscribed to his entire life, always carrying a sketch book with him where ever he went, like a camera of today.
Deciding to make art his profession, Robert moved to New York. He was not only a part of the academic beginnings of American art while studying in New York at the renowned National Academy of Design in 1870, but also one of the first student members, under the instruction of Lemuel Everett Wilmarth, at the Arts Students League.
At the League, Robert also studied and honed his craft with other teachers including Walter Shirlaw, William Merritt Chase and James Carroll Beckwith. Some of his classmates included: George Inness, Jr., Frederick Stuart Church, John Henry Twachtman and a Texan from San Antonio named Edward Grenet. Robert was lured to Texas in 1879 by his childhood friend and rancher, William Negely and by stories he read in the tabloids of the day that touted Texas as the "Promised Land."
Robert found the light, people and atmosphere of San Antonio agreeable and quickly settled in. He soon met a fellow Texas artist, Emily Gould, whom he married in 1881. They lived with her parents in a house called "Bella Vista" throughout their lives. The house was two miles north of town, had a wonderful view of the city and still stands today. Here Robert lived and taught art classes, painted portrait commissions, landscapes, still lifes and supported his family. Some of his students, who later became well-known Texas artists, were Mary Bonner, Seymour Thomas, Edward D. Eisenlohr, and Rolla Taylor. Robert worked hard and encouraged his students to do their best.
Robert was part of and organized several of the first art clubs in Texas, further helping to develop an interest in Texas art in the State and nationwide, but also giving Texas and American artists places to display their works, win awards and achieve much needed recognition. He helped organize "The Brass Mug Club," a revered group of San Antonio artists that met on Sundays to enjoy friendship and go into the Texas Hill Country and paint. Members included Julian Onderdonk (Robert's son), José Arpa, Leo Cotton, Rolla Taylor, Tom Brown and Ernst Raba.
In 1912, Robert and Julian were involved in the organization of the San Antonio Art League, the first important art organization in Texas with the mission to establish a free public gallery in San Antonio with exhibitions, lectures and classes in art. Later, larger exhibitions that needed more room due to the extreme popularity of the League and its awards were held at the Witte Museum in San Antonio.
While living in Dallas from 1889 to 1895, and in order to obtain commissions, Robert organized the first Dallas art school, the Dallas Arts Students League, where he was president and instructor. In 1905, Robert was chosen to select artists from New York and Texas to be represented and judged at the Dallas Fair, which later became the State Fair of Texas.
In 1901, Robert was commissioned by well-known Texas historian and writer, James T. DeShields, to paint a large historic painting of the Alamo battle. He used his family, friends and fellow artists for this painting, including his son. Robert even put himself in the painting, as one of the Alamo Defenders, taking a mortal shot from the enemy and falling backwards. The painting took three years to complete. The Fall of The Alamo was first exhibited at the St. Louis Worlds Fair in 1904.
Among Robert's important commissions were the illustrations he provided for feared Texas gunfighter John Wesley Hardin's autobiography, The Life of John Wesley Hardin, published in 1896. This was a courageous task by Onderdonk considering that Hardin, who had killed over forty men, was the fastest gun in the West, East, North or South.
When Robert Jenkins Onderdonk died in 1917 at the age of sixty-five at his home in San Antonio, he was known as the dean of Texas artists. His contributions to Texas art and the early artists of Texas were well-known and well-respected.
Written by Peter C. Rainone, as published in American Art Review, June 2008
Robert Onderdonk was educated at the College of St. James in Maryland where his father was headmaster. At 20, he studied for two years at the National Academy of Design, under Wilmarth, then at the Art Students League under Shirlaw and Beckwith. He was the private pupil of A H Warren, a tonalist painter known as "the Corot of America." In 1878, he concluded his art studies with William Merritt Chase.
To earn funds for a European trip he never made, Onderdonk was persuaded to establish his studio in San Antonio in 1878. By 1881 he was married, living near Pedro Spring, and taking the mule car to his studio in the city. He always carried with him a wood panel such as the top of a cigar box so he could paint small scenes. For his studio classes he charged $3 per month. He moved to Dallas in 1889, when offered $100 a month to teach. After his father-in-law died in 1896, he returned to San Antonio where he remained except for a trip to St. Louis in 1899 to try commercial painting on tile. Not ambitious, not robust, not careful in signing his paintings, he received commissions for hundreds of portraits without being able to earn a suitable living. Even his epic "Davy...
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Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
"LILY PADS" DATED 1912. SAN ANTONIO RIVER. OLIVE BRACK (1890-1957)
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olive Brack San Antonio River
(1890-1957)
San Antonio, TX
Image Size: 12 x 18
Frame Size: 15.5 x 21.5
Medium: Oil
Dated 1912
"Lilly Pads"
Biography
Olive ...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
Danseuses a la barre - Impressionist Figurative Pastel - Pierre Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative pastel on canvas circa 1910 by French genre painter Pierre Carrier-Belleuse. The work depicts three ballerinas wearing white tutus, warming up in a studio. Carrier-Belleuse was a contemporary of Edgar Degas and they exhibited simultaneously at the major Salons in Paris. This classic example evokes the Belle Epoque period in french history and is superbly executed.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 29"x24"
Unframed: 26"x21"
Provenance:
Private French collection
Pierre Carrier-Belleuse studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel and the interior decorative artist Pierre Victor Galland. He started out as an oil painter and produced genre compositions, such as his Final Rendezvous. From 1885, however, he opted to work exclusively in pastel, producing a large number of sketches and portraits but always remaining faithful to his earlier genre compositions. Examples include Pierrot, Harlequin, Woman with Cat. The periodical Figaro Illustré published a large number of his sketches of dancers, a recurrent theme throughout his work.
From 1875, Pierre Carrier-Belleuse exhibited frequently at the Paris Salon, receiving an honourable mention in 1887 and being awarded a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle of 1889.
Museum and Gallery Holdings:
Dunkirk: Dancer Adjusting her Shoe (pastel)
Gray: On the Dunes; In the Sun
La Rochelle: Dancer
Le Puy-en-Velay: Fantasy
Mulhouse: Mule's Bonnet
Paris (Municipal Collection): Tender Vow (pastel)
Versailles...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel
Summer on the Meuse
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
An outstanding example of the new-impressionist work of Rodolphe Wytsman . This large canvas depicts a tranquil summer day on the Meuse river near the town of Dave. Wytsman painted a number of landscapes in this area between 1910 and 1911 at the height of his artistic career. The use of colour and neo-impressionist execution are testament to his position as one of the finest Belgian painters of this period alongside Van Rysselberghe, Claus, Montigny and Georges Morren...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
"The Auction"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Robert Spencer (1879 - 1931)
One of the rarest and most important artists among the New Hope School, Robert Spencer was bor...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917) L'Anse de Launay 1911, signed color drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Lubin de Beauvais (1873-1917)
L'anse de Launay, a woman at the beach, 1911
signed, dated and titled "Anse de Launay, Loguivy Ploubazlanec, Bretagne,...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil
BAIGNEUSE ASSISE (D., S. 11)
Located in Aventura, FL
Soft-ground etching, with the stamped signature. From the edition of 1,000. Printed by Ambroise Vollard, 1919, on wove paper, with wide margins. Sheet size: 12.62 x 9.75 in. Image si...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Antique American School Impressionist Horse Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Great quality!
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Courtyard at Noon
Located in New York, NY
Robert Spencer paints a sun-drenched scene of figures moving about outside red clay buildings in his work entitled, “Courtyard at Noon.”
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Shipyard Winter"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Signed lower left
Illustrated "New Hope for American Art"
Fred Wagner (1861 - 1940)
One of the earliest of the Pennsylvania...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
PEONIES AND CHERRIES
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Gabrielle MILLIOUD-MELAY (1875-1931)
Peonies and Cherries
Oil on canvas signed low right
Old frame
Dim canvas : 54 X 73 cm
Dim frame : 76 X 95 cm
French painter 19th century
Lyon S...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil
The Hill
Located in Milford, NH
A pleasant impressionist landscape by well known American artist Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940). Woodbury was born in Lynn, MA, and sold his first painting when he was fifteen ...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Femme nu" woodcut
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: woodcut (engraved by Jacques Beltrand after Cezanne). This impression on cream laid paper was printed in 1914 and published by Bruno Cassirer and Theodore Duret. Image size: ...
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Woodcut
La Loge (The Lodge) /// Post-Impressionist Figurative French Paris People Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Louis LeGrand (French, 1863-1951)
Title: "La Loge (The Lodge)"
Portfolio: Gazette des Beaux-Arts
*Issued unsigned, though signed by LeGrand in the plat...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio
Winning the Race Galloping Horse and Rider in Bronze by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
Rumsey’s specialties included equestrian sculptures – portraits of polo players and prize horses, as well as of cowboys, cattle and horses as metaphors. He worked principally in bron...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Bronze
Long Island Countryside in Winter
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original antique impressionist oil painting by American artist George Renouard.
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Une Mère et Deux Enfants
Located in New York, NY
A very good, dark and evenly-printed impression of this scarce lithograph on cream laid paper. From the edition of approximately 50.
Category
Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Lithograph
"Great Kills, Staten Island" Dry Docks in Winter, Snowy Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
William Jean Beauley
Great Kills, circa 1917
Signed lower right
Oil on panel
40 x 50 inches
Housed in its original Newcomb-Macklin gilt frame
Pro...
Category
American Impressionist 1910s Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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