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Period: Early 1900s
The Ballerina
The Ballerina

The Ballerina

By Pierre Carrier-Belleuse

Located in Wiscasett, ME

Pastel on canvas, signed lower right, measuring 38" x 48.25" including the frame. Pierre Carrier-Belleuse His first studies were with his father, the sculptor Albert-Ernest Carrier-...

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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Pastel

Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Plate 30
Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Plate 30

Alphonse Mucha Figures Decoratives Plate 30

By Alphonse Mucha

Located in Dallas, TX

A framed Art Nouveau lithograph collotype poster by Alphone Mucha from 1905 representing the artist’s sketches of nudes, women and beautiful ladies in blues and white pigments on vel...

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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

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Paper

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Félix Vallotton

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1902 for the special Felix Vallotton issue of L'Assiette au Beurre on the theme of Crimes et Chatiments (Crime and Punnishment). Size...

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Early 1900s Art

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Lithograph

"Les deux miroirs" original etching

"Les deux miroirs" original etching

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original etching. Printed in 1906 at the Alfred Porcabeuf atelier and published in Paris by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Image size: 6 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (165 x 149 mm). Signed in...

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Realist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Etching

"Etude" original lithograph

"Etude" original lithograph

By Albert de Belleroche

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Published in Paris in 1904 by Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. This impression was printed on china paper, and mounted along the top edge by the publish...

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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Lithograph

1903 lithograph by Charles Léandre - portrait of a young woman
1903 lithograph by Charles Léandre - portrait of a young woman

1903 lithograph by Charles Léandre - portrait of a young woman

Located in PARIS, FR

This elegant 1903 lithograph by Charles Léandre presents a refined portrait of a young woman seated in an intimate interior. The composition captures the quiet elegance of the Belle ...

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Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

"Inundation" after Carl Fredrik Kiörboe - "ÖVERSVÄMNING"  Dogs During a Flood
"Inundation" after Carl Fredrik Kiörboe - "ÖVERSVÄMNING"  Dogs During a Flood

"Inundation" after Carl Fredrik Kiörboe - "ÖVERSVÄMNING" Dogs During a Flood

By Carl Fredrik Kiorboe

Located in Soquel, CA

"Inundation" after Carl Fredrik Kiörrboe - Dogs During a Flood Oil on linen painting of a family of dogs in a flood by an unknown artist, unsigned, after an engraving of the painting...

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Tonalist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Illustration Board

Harbour at St Ives - Impressionist Figures Seascape Oil by Richard Hayley Lever
Harbour at St Ives - Impressionist Figures Seascape Oil by Richard Hayley Lever

Harbour at St Ives - Impressionist Figures Seascape Oil by Richard Hayley Lever

By Richard Hayley Lever

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed figures in landscape oil on board by Australian-American impressionist painter Richard Hayley Lever. The work depicts brightly coloured sailing boats in the harbour of St Ives...

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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'After the Storm' — Coastal Brittany, Post-Impressionism

'After the Storm' — Coastal Brittany, Post-Impressionism

By Hayley Lever

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Hayley Lever, 'After the Storm', also 'Sunny Afternoon', watercolor on watercolor paper, the full sheet, the image extending to the sheet edges; in very good condition. Signed 'Hayle...

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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Watercolor

Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print
Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print

Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Bodega Bay, c 1906
Bodega Bay, c 1906

Bodega Bay, c 1906

By Jessie Arms Botke

Located in Pasadena, CA

Consigned to the gallery, Pasadena, California; By descent to a private collector, Encino, California; Acquired in 1998 by a private collector, San Carlos, Palo Alto, and Oceanside, California; From William A. Karges Fine Art, Carmel, California Signed "Jesse Arms Botke" on lower right Description This charming watercolor captures a sweeping view of Bodega Bay, California, rendered with the refined draftsmanship and decorative sensibility for which Jessie Arms Botke is renowned. While best known for her gilded avian compositions, Botke’s landscapes are comparatively rare and reveal a more personal side of her artistic vision. Here, the viewer peers over the distinctive red turret of a Victorian home toward the curving estuary, where land meets sea beneath a soft blue sky. Delicate washes and crisp detailing convey the texture of the shoreline, the undulating water, and the surrounding structures, evoking the calm yet lively spirit of a coastal fishing village in the early 20th century. The warm terracotta tones of the foreground architecture contrast beautifully with the cool blues of the water and the distant hills, creating a balanced, harmonious scene. Although no journal entry or record confirms a specific trip to Bodega Bay, Botke may have painted this work, circa 1906, during the period when she was offered a round-trip passage from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway to travel from Chicago to Arizona and California in exchange for paintings depicting scenes of the West. The style and vantage point suggest direct observation, making it likely that she visited the town and painted the scene en plein air. With its architectural detail, vibrant palette, and compositional harmony, this work stands as a significant example of Botke’s lesser seen yet highly collectible works on paper. Jessie Arms Botke is recognized as one of the most important women artists in the early California art...

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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900
Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900

Eggs, natural history chromolithograph, circa 1900

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

'Eggs' Antique English natural history chromolithograph. Key to eggs below the image. Tiny numbers in the margins to identify the eggs. Sheet 19cm by 12.5cm, image 13cm by 9.5cm.

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Naturalistic Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Working in the Hayfields' Signed oil painting on canvas
'Working in the Hayfields' Signed oil painting on canvas

'Working in the Hayfields' Signed oil painting on canvas

Located in St. Albans, GB

Harry Pennell ARCA Picture Size: 24 x 40" (61 x 102cm) Outside Frame Size 31 x 47" (79 x 120cm) Signed oil painting on canvas Exhibition Period 1900 – 1930 Harry Pennell (1879-193...

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Victorian Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil

'Portrait of a Young Woman', Gold Earring, Silk Scarf
'Portrait of a Young Woman', Gold Earring, Silk Scarf

'Portrait of a Young Woman', Gold Earring, Silk Scarf

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Unsigned and inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with additional indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910. A psychol...

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Early 1900s Art

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900
Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900

Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900

Located in Roma, IT

Colour lithograph on paper, from the celebrated French fashion periodical Journal des Demoiselles. Hand-coloured fashion plate (pochoir colouring), printed by Imp. Falco(n)er, Paris...

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Modern Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Oil Painting by Henry Schouten "A Vase of Flowers"
Oil Painting by Henry Schouten "A Vase of Flowers"

Oil Painting by Henry Schouten "A Vase of Flowers"

By Henry Schouten

Located in Mere, GB

Oil Painting Pair by Henry Schouten "A Vase of Flowers" 1857 -1927 Using his psuedonym 'Jos Klaus' which he used for his flower paintings Belgian painter who studied under Alfred Ven...

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Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil

L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man
L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man

L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man

By Tony Minartz

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Tony Minartz (French, 1873-1944) Title: "L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera" Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne *Issued unsigned Year: 1903 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: Unknown Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France Framing: Recently framed in a traditional gold and black moulding with 100% cotton rag matting Framed size: 18.63" x 16.38" Sheet size: 12" x 9" Image size: 9" x 7.25" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Printed in one color: bistre. This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community. Biography: Tony Minartz, pseudonym of Antoine Guillaume, born 8 April 1873 to Cannes and died in that city on 13 December 1944 Is a painter, draftsman , illustrator and engraver French. Painter autodidact , Tony Minartz starts to become known in 1896 by exhibiting paintings at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts , and then decorates the Pompadour theater of painted panels for fashion shows " Grand Guignol ", directed by L. Darthenay. In 1903, Henri Béraldi , with whom he worked, praised him in The Journal of ancient and modern art, writing that "it was thirty years ago," and he has received advice from Paul Renouard to be formed the technique of etching ; Béraldi adds that his favorite subjects are "Paris at night Paris at night, always." Minartz also gives them some high-remarkable in The Journal of ancient and modern art until 1910: balls, cafe concerts, Parisian in their most beautiful dresses, but also music-halls, music halls, restaurants, large and small theaters, are the preferred settings of his compositions. Its fertile period seems to end in 1914. In addition to the National Salon, Minartz exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bartholomew (1903), the Independent Living (1905, 1906) and the gallery Devambez (1909) and received the Academic Palms . He occasionally collaborates with periodic illustrated as The Almanac Sports (Ollendorff, 1899), or satirical as Gil Blas...

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Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Etching, Laid Paper, Intaglio

Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print
Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print

Butterflies, English antique natural history Lepidoptera chromolithograph print

Located in Melbourne, Victoria

English butterfly chromolithograph, circa 1900. Plate number top right. From an English series of illustrations of butterflies and moths. Butterflies / moths are numbered and there i...

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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Large Antique German Oil Canvas Hermann Frobenius Pre-Raphaelite Painting 1900
Large Antique German Oil Canvas Hermann Frobenius Pre-Raphaelite Painting 1900

Large Antique German Oil Canvas Hermann Frobenius Pre-Raphaelite Painting 1900

Located in Portland, OR

A Large and impressive antique oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite painting by the German artist, Hermann Frobenius (1871-1954), signed and dated 1900. Frobenius had classical training and studied both in Rome and Florence, he later was in the circle of Arnold Bocklin and Hans von Marees, he settle in Munich but also in Dresden briefly and latterly in Berlin. He, like many other European painters was fascinated with North Africa and painted many oriental scenes of Algiers, Tunis and Cairo, he was represented at many exhibitions, including the "Great German Art Exhibition" in Munich 1941. This painting (an early example of the artist's work) is very finely painted in the Pre Raphaelite style, depicting a medieval costumed...

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Pre-Raphaelite Early 1900s Art

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Canvas, Oil

Saint Malo - Post Impressionist Seascape Watercolor by Maurice Prendergast
Saint Malo - Post Impressionist Seascape Watercolor by Maurice Prendergast

Saint Malo - Post Impressionist Seascape Watercolor by Maurice Prendergast

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed watercolour on paper landscape by American post impressionist painter Maurice Brazil Prendergast. The work depicts children playing on the beach in Saint Malo, France as boats sail in the blue sea and white clouds role through the sky overhead. This work has remained in the Prendergast family for 3 generations and depicts a rare view of Saint-Malo executed during Prendergast's visit to the french coastal town in 1907 Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 21"x22" Unframed: 13'x14" Proveance: The collection of Charles Prendergast (1863-1948) The collection of Eugénie Prendergast-Van Kemmel (1895-1994) -wife and inheritor of the estate of Charles Prendergast The collection of Henri Van Kemmel (Lille, 1903-1963) - cousin of Eugenie Prendergast
- Madame Henri Van Kemmel Maurice Prendergast came with his family to Boston in 1861. Working in a textile store, Maurice Prendergast was at first self-taught in painting, making souvenir cards and shop signs. He went to Britain in 1886, then to Paris in 1891 and registered at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, Benjamin-Constant, and Charles Blanc as teachers, working also with Gustave Courtois at the Académie Colarossi. More importantly he saw the Impressionists’ paintings and the Nabis at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. He returned to the United States in 1895, settling in Winchester (Massachusetts) and went frequently to New York. In 1898 he again went to Europe where he stayed until 1900, visiting Paris, Florence, Siena, Rome, Capri, and Venice, where he spent six months. Between 1907 and the beginning of World War I he went again four times to Europe but never returned there after the war. In New York where he finally settled, with William Glackens, Robert Henri, and John Sloan among others, Prendergast was one of the members ofThe Eight, gathered by Robert Henri to counter the pervading academicism. The group exhibited in 1908 at the Macbeth Galleries and took part in the Armory Show of 1913. After that Prendergast did not exhibit again with the group. In 1914 he left Boston definitively for New York. Prendergast was in his thirties before he began to devote himself to painting. In his late beginnings he painted in the open air as the Impressionists did, mainly in watercolours with clear brushstrokes and an elegant virtuosity recalling his then admiration for James Whistler and Claude Monet. Between 1892 and 1905 he carried out two hundred monotypes, a technique of which he was the undisputed master in America at that time and which expressed the influence of Japanisme. During his stays in France he painted views of Paris, but also Brittany and Normandy. In this period, in 1896, he was chosen to illustrate My Lady Nicotine by Matthew Barrie. During his third stay in Europe, from 1898 to 1900, he painted in Paris, at Saint-Malo, and mainly in Venice, where, influenced by Vittore Carpaccio he introduced brightly coloured banners into his animated compositions. In oils he painted slowly, touching up his paintings by superimposed brushstrokes, sometimes over several years. He chose to use the divided stroke in an early period, a technique which had similarities with Post-Impressionism. After his travels in Europe and his discovery of Paul Cézanne, he evolved in the direction of the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat, placing little dots of colours with a knife, then of the Nabis and even later Fauvism, painting large brushed surfaces in bright colours. After 1899, his Ponte della Paglia in Venice freed itself from strict divisionism, adopting the dense composition in vertically superimposed planes of the Nabis. Like the members of the group of eight, he took his subjects from the daily life of ordinary people, in scenes in the parks or on the beaches of New England, picnics or sometimes circuses. Nevertheless the happy vision that he had of the world separated him strongly from the evolution that led his companions to paint the most miserable and populous milieus, which gave them the name of The Ashcan School. His compositions are arranged in surfaces superimposed vertically, without depth; while the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists were influenced by the layout of Japanese prints, Prendergast was inspired more by Persian miniatures. The decorative elements and the build-up of characters in crowds are placed frontally, like garlands on a tapestry, particularly as he seeks a texture effect, covered entirely by the subject without any empty spaces. His attraction to colours caused him to research all the motifs that he introduced into these compositions: umbrellas, parasols, balloons, draperies. In 1911–1912, he experimented with pastel and treated new subjects, nudes and still-lifes. After 1913, in sympathy with the Symbolists, he put nude figures and everyday characters side by side in the same composition. In his last years, and above all in the watercolours, he discarded the divided stroke and applied larger brushstrokes, similar to the technique of Henri Matisse. Fidelity to the leisurely settings and elegant grooming of the period gave his works, apart from their artistic value, a charming sociological aspect. Singular, almost marginal in his time, his paintings stand out by the density of their composition, in form and colouring, characterised by the accumulation of detail, minutiae of scenery, the serried ranks of people that animate them, the chromatic polyphony of elegance, umbrellas, parasols, and flags. He is a complete painter, particularly generous, who would never be happy to provide only samples of his art. Following Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast is one of the most interesting and original Post-Impressionist American painters, and perhaps marks exactly the boundary between the 19th and the 20th centuries. He was considered to be an ‘old master’ from 1920 on, and his works appeared in very many exhibitions of modern American painting. He had his first solo exhibition in 1897 at the Chase Gallery of Boston, where his works were noticed by Madame Montgomery Sears, who made a collection, taking the advice of Mary Cassatt. In 1915 six paintings and watercolours exhibited at the Carroll Gallery of New York established his success and drew the great collectors to him, among whom were Albert Barnes and John Quinn. Group Exhibitions 1974, Ten Americans, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York 1976, Art of Impulse and Color, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park (Maryland) 1982, American Impressionists, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (also presented at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris) 1999, Town and Country: American Artists, 1870–1920 (Ville et campagne: les artistes américains, 1870–1920), Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny 2002, Japonisme in America: Works on Paper, 1880–1930 (Le Japonisme en Amérique: œuvres sur papier, 1880–1930), Musée d’Art Américain/Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny 2007, American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2008, Coming of Age: American Art 1850–1950, Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2008, Portrait of a Lady: Paintings and Photographs of American Women in France 1870–1915, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux Solo Exhibitions 1934, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1938, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA 1960, Maurice Prendergast, 1859–1924, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1990, Art Institute of Chicago 2009, Prendergast in Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Museum and Gallery Holdings Andover, MA (Addison Gal. of American Art): At the Shore, St. Malo No. 1 and 2 (c. 1907, watercolour and graphite on wove paper, 2 works); Along the Cove (1910–1913, oil on canvas); seven sketches of Paris (1893, oil on wood) Chicago (AI): In the Park (1918–1919) Chicago (Terra Foundation for American Art Collection): Festa del redentore (c. 1899, monotype); The Opera Cloak...

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Post-Impressionist Early 1900s Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Les Tuileries by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Oil Painting, Cityscape, France
Les Tuileries by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Oil Painting, Cityscape, France

Les Tuileries by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Oil Painting, Cityscape, France

By Georges Henri Manzana Pissarro

Located in London, GB

Les Tuileries by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961) Oil on canvas 38 x 55 cm (15 x 21 ⁵/₈ inches) Signed with estate stamp lower left, Manzana Pissarro Executed circa 1900 This wo...

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Post-Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paul Berthon - Sarah Bernhardt La Princesse Lointaine " The Faraway Princess "
Paul Berthon - Sarah Bernhardt La Princesse Lointaine " The Faraway Princess "

Paul Berthon - Sarah Bernhardt La Princesse Lointaine " The Faraway Princess "

By Paul Berthon

Located in PARIS, FR

Paul Emile Berthon ( 1872- 1909 ), was a French decorative artist. He began studying painting in Villefranche. From 1893, he moved to Paris, where he attended the École normale d'enseignement du dessin. Among the courses taken at the time, those of the professor of decorative art Eugène Grasset had the greatest impact on him. The first works of Paul Berthon (around 1896) show a style close to that of Grasset. By freeing himself from the style of his master, his own style develops based on a palette of autumnal pastels with sharp lines and contours. This is his most famous lithograph, a portrait of Sarah Bernhardt in the title role of "La Princesse Lointaine...

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Art Nouveau Early 1900s Art

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

'Log Cabin', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA
'Log Cabin', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA

'Log Cabin', New York Armory Show, Ashcan School, ASL, NYMOMA, AIC, LACMA

By Arthur B. Davies

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Estate stamped, lower right, 'Arthur B. Davies' for Arthur Bowen Davies (American, 1862-1928) inscribed, 'Per NMD' and created circa 1900. Born in Utica, New York, Arthur Davies att...

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Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Graphite

Portrait of a young man with a tie
Portrait of a young man with a tie

Portrait of a young man with a tie

Located in Genève, GE

Illegible signature Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 49 x 44 x 4 cm

Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil

Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900
Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900

Journal des Demoiselles - Lithograph - 1900

Located in Roma, IT

Colour lithograph on paper, from the celebrated French fashion periodical Journal des Demoiselles, depicting three elegantly dressed ladies in the height of Belle Époque style. The c...

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Modern Early 1900s Art

Materials

Lithograph

"In Port"
"In Port"

"In Port"

By Edward Willis Redfield

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Edward Willis Redfield (1869 - 1965) Edward W. Redfield was born in Bridgeville, Delaware, moving to Philadelphia as a young child. Determined to be an artist from an early age, he studied at the Spring Garden Institute and the Franklin Institute before entering the Pennsylvania Academy from 1887 to 1889, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, James Kelly, and Thomas Hovenden. Along with his friend and fellow artist, Robert Henri, he traveled abroad in 1889 and studied at the Academie Julian in Paris under William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. While in France, Redfield met Elise Deligant, the daughter of an innkeeper, and married in London in 1893. Upon his return to the United States, Redfield and his wife settled in Glenside, Pennsylvania. He remained there until 1898, at which time he moved his family to Center Bridge, a town several miles north of New Hope along the Delaware River. Redfield painted prolifically in the 1890s but it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century that he would develop the bold impressionist style that defined his career. As Redfield’s international reputation spread, many young artists gravitated to New Hope as he was a great inspiration and an iconic role model. Edward Redfield remained in Center Bridge throughout his long life, fathering his six children there. Around 1905 and 1906, Redfield’s style was coming into its own, employing thick vigorous brush strokes tightly woven and layered with a multitude of colors. These large plein-air canvases define the essence of Pennsylvania Impressionism. By 1907, Redfield had perfected his craft and, from this point forward, was creating some of his finest work. Redfield would once again return to France where he painted a small but important body of work between 1907 and 1908. While there, he received an Honorable Mention from the Paris Salon for one of these canvases. In 1910 he was awarded a Gold Medal at the prestigious Buenos Aires Exposition and at the Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 in San Francisco, an entire gallery was dedicated for twenty-one of his paintings. Since Redfield painted for Exhibition with the intent to win medals, his best effort often went into his larger paintings. Although he also painted many fine smaller pictures, virtually all of his works were of major award-winning canvas sizes of 38x50 or 50x56 inches. If one were to assign a period of Redfield’s work that was representative of his “best period”, it would have to be from 1907 to 1925. Although he was capable of creating masterpieces though the late 1940s, his style fully matured by 1907 and most work from then through the early twenties was of consistently high quality. In the later 1920s and through the 1930s and 1940s, he was like most other great artists, creating some paintings that were superb examples and others that were of more ordinary quality. Redfield earned an international reputation at a young age, known for accurately recording nature with his canvases and painting virtually all of his work outdoors; Redfield was one of a rare breed. He was regarded as the pioneer of impressionist winter landscape painting in America, having few if any equals. Redfield spent summers in Maine, first at Boothbay Harbor and beginning in the 1920s, on Monhegan Island. There he painted colorful marine and coastal scenes as well as the island’s landscape and fishing shacks. He remained active painting and making Windsor style furniture...

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American Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“On the Seine, Paris”
“On the Seine, Paris”

“On the Seine, Paris”

Located in Southampton, NY

Original aquatint engraving of working river barges on the Seine in Paris, France. A horse drawn cart is seen loading or unloading product. Circa 1900. ...

Category

Academic Early 1900s Art

Materials

Paper, Mezzotint

Twilight in the North – Red Houses and Winter Light
Twilight in the North – Red Houses and Winter Light

Twilight in the North – Red Houses and Winter Light

Located in Stockholm, SE

This evocative winter landscape by Oscar Lycke captures the quiet poetry of northern Sweden. A frost-laden weeping birch dominates the foreground, its delicate branches shimmering in...

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Post-Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Characterful Portrait French Man with Hat & Pipe Signed & Dated 1903 Oil Paint
Characterful Portrait French Man with Hat & Pipe Signed & Dated 1903 Oil Paint

Characterful Portrait French Man with Hat & Pipe Signed & Dated 1903 Oil Paint

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Portrait of a Man with a Hat holding a Pipe French School, signed and dated 1903 oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.75 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: s...

Category

Impressionist Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas