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Period: Early 20th Century
Soldier, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Soldier, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Cold painted Bronze sculpture, Size: 5.5 x 3 x 2 in. (13.97 x 7.62 x 5.08 cm)
Category
Romantic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Standard Oil Building.
Located in Storrs, CT
Standard Oil Building. 1923. Etching. Wuerth 817. 12 1/4 x 9 1/4 (sheet 13 1/2 x 10 1/16). Edition probably 50. A glowing impression, printed by the artist on antique cream wove paper. Signed and annotated 'imp' in pencil. Housed in a 20 x 16-inch archival mat
proof printed by the artist. $875.
26 Broadway" is the home of the Standard Oil...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Vintage French Oil Painting Of Brown Horses In Open Field Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
dated 1966
Size: painting: 1...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
A 1926 Ink on Paper Drawing of a Cedar Tree & Lake by Artist Harold Haydon
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1926 ink on paper drawing of a Cedar tree and northern lake by artist Harold Haydon. Artwork size: 12" x 9". Archivally matted to 14" x 16".
Harold Emerson Haydon was born in F...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
'Portrait of a Fashion Designer', Berlin National Gallery, Weimar, Jewish, 20's
By Georg Rössner
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Georg W. Rössner' for Georg Walter Rössner (German, 1885-1972), titled 'Bildnis Lieselotte Friedländer' and painted circa 1926; original artist card verso.
A substantial, Modernist portrait of the German fashion designer and feminist icon, Lieselotte Friedländer, shown seated in a chromed-steel Bauhaus chair with a view beyond to a sunlit, woodland grove.
Georg Rössner first studied in Berlin and, later, in Paris with Lovis Corinth. Rössner was a member of both the Berlin and Munich Sezession committees and, in 1920, was appointed professor at Berlin’s Staatliche Kunstschule. Over the course of a long career, Rössner exhibited internationally with success including at the 1929 Paris Exhibition des Peintres-Graveurs Allemands. His work is held in prominent private and public collections including the permanent collection of the National Gallery in Berlin.
Born in 1898, Lieselotte Friedländer moved to Berlin with her family in 1909. By the mid-1920s, she had established herself as the Weimar Republic...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of female nude and a couple - Pencil drawing - circa 1914
Located in Paris, IDF
Georges CONRAD (1874-1936)
Study of female nude and a couple
Original pencil drawing
Signed with the stamp of atelier
On paper 26.5 x 20 cm (c. 10,4 x 7.8 in)
Good condition, paper...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Pencil
VAN BIESBROECK Jules. Snake charmer. Oil on panel. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
Algerian women in an interior. Oil on panel. Signed.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation.
Jules Van Biesbroeck...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
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.
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet' — British Impressionism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Sybil Andrews, 'Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet', color monotype, c. 1925; edition 2, proof 1. Signed 'Sybil Andrews pinx et imp' and titled in pencil. A superb, painterly impression, with fresh colors, on heavy cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (5/8 to 1 3/4 inches). Printed by the artist. The artist’s original archival mounting tape remains in the four sheet corners, recto (well away from the image), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. A unique impression.
Image size 8 15/16 x 11 15/16 inches (227 x 303 mm); sheet size 12 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches (311 x 394 mm).
ABOUT THIS WORK
In addition to her almost 80 celebrated modernist color linocuts, Sybil Andrews also worked in the monotype technique. She typically produced two or three impressions (or pulls) from each hand-painted plate, each proof unique in its qualities of color values and vibrancy.
In 1933, Sybil Andrews and Cyril Power had an exhibition of their color monotypes and linocuts at the Redfern Gallery. Most of Andrews' monotypes were destroyed by a fire in an Ottawa gallery in 1959, and they now rarely come to the market.
ABOUT THE IMAGE
The Hostellerie des Chiens du Guet is a small hotel at the edge of...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Monotype
$4,320 Sale Price
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"Buste de Jeune Femme, " a Conte Crayon Drawing by Georges D'Espagnat
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Buste de Jeune Femme" or "Bust of a Young Woman" is an original conte crayon drawing by Georges d'Espagnat. It is initialed in the lower right. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Conté
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover 'Boy with Lantern'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This is a study for the 1926 Christmas issue of The Saturday Evening Post. December 25, 1926
Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s illustrations and advertisements fueled a collective visu...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Charles Gruppe Painting Salmagundi Rock Port American Impressionist Farm w Cow
By Charles P Gruppe
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Charles P Gruppe 1860-1940
Harvest Time, Farm Scene with Cow
oil panel 8x10 unframed, 11.5 x 13.5 framed
Colors are fresh and vibrant as the painting was recently cleaned by Penns...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Art Deco French Portrait of a Lady
Located in Cotignac, FR
1920s portrait in oil of a lady of quality by Paul Hercule Hogg. The painting is signed bottom right and is resigned and annotated to the back of the panel. The painting has been var...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Located in Soquel, CA
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Well executed impressionist painting of a Hungarian countryside courtship vignette by a 19th-20th century Hungarian artist Pal Szlavik. some minor s...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Symbolist British Painting Prophet woman Peasants Art nouveau 20th
Located in PARIS, FR
ROBERTSON
20th
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (69 x 82 cm with frame)
Signed and dated lower left "RBTSN / 1909"
Very good condition
Beautiful black frame with black edging
This symbolist...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Fine American Impressionist Interior and Portrait Painting, 1922, Boston area
Located in Baltimore, MD
Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1891, John Gilmore Wolcott graduated from Harvard in 1914 and continued studies in art with Charles Woodbury. He was active in the Boston art scen...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
'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...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
$2,400 Sale Price
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Figure of a Woman - Original Pencil Drawing by Jean Bernard - 1910 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Figure of a woman is a pencil drawing realized by Jean Bernard on 1910 ca.
In good condition, worn paper on the marginal line, and traces of old scotch on the back.
Atelier's stamp...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Pencil
La Negresse (The Negress)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
La Negresse (The Negress)
Etching & drypoint, 1909
Unsigned (as issued in the portfolio)
From the album "Les Bars" (8 plates plus cover illustration)
Editi...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Early Twentieth Century Newlyn School Marine Pure Seas Oil Painting
Located in ludlow, GB
Early Twentieth Century Newlyn School Marine Pure Seas Oil Painting, entitled Cornish Blue by the artist, most likely a view of the sea around Newlyn and Penzance.
It is a study in l...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Gil Blas Illustrated, Art Nouveau Lithograph by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, French/Swiss (1859 - 1923) - Gil Blas Illustrated, Medium: Double Sided Lithograph, Size: 15 x 10.25 in. (38.1 x 26.04 cm), Description: From the colle...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Italian Impressionist, Woodland Walk and A Fauvist Village Scene (Double Sided)
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century Impressionist oil on canvas view of a woodland walk by Italian artist Mario Menin. The painting is signed on the back stretcher and there is also a Fauvist village...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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.
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Red Erythrina Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
The Old Virginian, Bronze of a Horse and Rider with Dogs by Charles Rumsey
Located in Brookville, NY
From the estate of the Artist Charles Cary Rumsey
The Artist, Charles Rumsey, was a child prodigy sent to Paris as a young boy to study sculpture. He later was a world class sports...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Ballet und Pantomime "Scherzo II", plate #15.
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
signed bottom right
watercolour on paper, unframed
painting: 11 x 8.25 inches
Delightful early 20th century F...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Miss Taylor
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Miss Taylor
Drypoint, c. 1900
Signed in pencil lower left (see photo)
Small edition, about 10
Very rich impression, full of burr
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 21-1/4 x 13-1/4"
She...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Drypoint
Picasso, Composition (Hodorisch B2), Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin des papeteries Lafúma paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the album, Le manuscrit trouvé dans un chapeau, orné de dessins a la ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Works in The Champs Elysées Paris, Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin black and white photograph by Press Agency ROL, Paris, August 1928. Construction works in the Champs Elysées, Paris.
Features:
Original silver gelatin prin...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The European Macabre Dance N.8 - Lithograph by A. Martini - 1915
Located in Roma, IT
The European Macabre Dance N.8 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915.
Signed ...
Category
Symbolist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Winter River Scene. Antique oil painting on canvas
By Gaston Balande
Located in St. Albans, GB
Gaston BALANDE
(1880-1971)
Picture Size: 21 x 29" (52.5 x 72.5cm)
Outside Frame Size: 29 x 37" (72.5 x 92.5cm)
Antique oil painting on canvas
A wonderful example of Balande's work ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Linen Cloth Judaica with linen napkins
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Linen Serviette 12 pieces / 1 plain white, 11 white with blue embroided, size 40x40 cm, Linen table cloth white and blue, linen, size 150x260 cm. Jud...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Textile, Linen
$1,204 Sale Price
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"Derby Spectator" by Topical Press Agency
Located in London, GB
"Derby Spectator" by Topical Press Agency
A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923.
Unframed
Paper S...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Black and White
Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers"
by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century)
signed bottom right
watercolour on paper, unframed
painting: 6 x 9.25 inches
Delightful early 20th century Fr...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Colonial Dames
By Clark Hobart
Located in Santa Monica, CA
CLARK HOBART (1868 – 1948)
COLONIAL DAMES Monotype signed and titled in pencil
Hobart was an early 20 c. California painter. He was on the forefront ...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Monotype
$760 Sale Price
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Lucien Mathelin (1905-1981), Self-portrait, 1925, oil on canvas mounted on panel
Located in PARIS, FR
Lucien MATHELIN (1905-1981)
Self-portrait with straw hat, 1925
Oil on canvas mounted on panel
Signed and dated “1925” lower left
Oval 60 × 48 cm
A French painter of Belgian origin, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Les Arcades, Dieppe France (the arches along coastline of a town in Normandy)
Located in New Orleans, LA
The image show a panoramic view of the architectural arches and the boats in the harbor of Dieppe in Normandy France. Dieppe was occupied by German naval and army forces after the f...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Fifth Avenue Critics.
Located in Storrs, CT
Fifth Avenue Critics. 1909. Etching. Morse 128.x/xi. 6 x 8 (sheet 9 3/4 x 12 1/4). Edition 100 in this state (few proofs in earlier states, and a large unsigned edition printed for t...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
$2,400 Sale Price
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St. Austrell, Cornwall, England
By Hayley Lever
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A turn of the century view of the town of St. Austrell, Cornwall, in the morning mist of southern England. A beautifully subtle work, in muted earth tones, on buff wove drawing paper...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
Located in London, GB
"Post Queue" by Fox Photos
December 1926: Schoolchildren posting letters in the playground of the Red Lion Street School.
Unframed
Paper Size: 20" x 24'' (...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Black and White
Still-Life With Roses and China Jewel Box
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Hortense DURY-VASSELON (1860-1924)
Still Life with Roses and China Jewel Box
Oil on canvas signed and dated 1905 low left
DIm canvas : 63 X 50 cm
Di...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Anna Cervin (1878-1972) - 1935 Oil, Tofta
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame. On board.
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$446 Sale Price
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Woman reading
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
46.5 x 41.5 x 5.5 cm
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
$1,137
Original Oil on Canvas. Walter J. Hall, "The Maize Barge, Woodbridge"
Located in Mere, GB
Walter J. Hall. (1866 - 1947). Son of a Nantwich historian, painter of local Bury and East Anglian views, exhibitor at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Represented Bury and Nantw...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Noémie (Marguérite).
Located in Storrs, CT
Noémie (Marguérite). 1926. Etching. Fletcher catalog 57 state vi 7 1/8 x 4 3/16 (sheet 10 15/16 x 8 7/16). Edition 111 in this state (total 132 impressions). A fine impression print...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
1901 original poster Société la Française Marque Diamant Paris-Brest-Paris Cycle
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1901 original poster by the artist Brun for "Société la Française Marque Diamant Paris-Brest-Paris, Maurice Garin 1er en 52h11" stands as a testament ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper, Linen
Cat - Original woodcut, Handsigned and Numbered /160 - Buisson #27-03
Located in Paris, IDF
Leonard Tsuguharu FOUJITA
Cat, 1927
Original woodcut
Handsigned with ink
Numbered /160
Bears the blind stamp of the editor (Lugt 1140a)
On Vellum 32.5 x 25.5 cm (c. 13 x 10 inch)
R...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut
Landscape - Woodcut Print on Paper by Mino Maccari - Early 20th Century
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original woodcut on Ivory paper.
Excellent conditions. Cat. Electa....
Category
Surrealist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut
Lavandieres - Barbizon Figurative Landscape Pastel by Leon Lhermitte
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in riverscape oil on canvas by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts a rural landscape with washerwomen in traditional Breton clothing was...
Category
Barbizon School Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wheelbarrow Race
Located in Storrs, CT
1925-26. Drypoint. Appleby 114. 8 9/16 x 12 (sheet 12 x 17). Edition 100, #10. An excellent impression with burr, printed with plate tone on the full sheet of 'VGI' laid paper with ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Frosty Dawn, Upstate New York, 20th century American modern watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Frosty Dawn, Upstate New York, c. 1916
Watercolor and gouache on board
Signed lower right
21 x 30 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters". In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
New York 1911, Fine Portrait of a Lady oval format, signed & dated oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated 1911
Title: A Belle Maman, New York
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed.
framed: 27.5 x 18.5 inches
canvas: 25.75 x 16.7...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Spring Landscape with house and figure
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Spring Landscape with house and figure
A preliminary watercolor for a color aquatint, illustrated on line, title unknown
Signed lower left in block letters (see photo)
Watercolor and...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Nebulae, antique astronomy science diagram illustration print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Nebulae.
Antique lithograph by W & AK Johnston, famous Scottish cartographers.
Central vertical fold as issued. From Thomas Heath's 'The Twentieth Centur...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Post-Impressionist Painting By Dick Beer, Stormy Weather in St.Arnoult, 1917
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938)
Title: Stormy Weather in St.Arnoult
Dick Beer was born in London in 1893. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a Swedish painter from Stockholm who had a career mainly as a watercolour painter with motifs of horses from racetracks and fox hunts from the countryside.
Barely fifteen years old, Dick Beer became an orphan and came to Sweden in 1907. Already in 1908-1909, he started at Althin's painting school in Stockholm. And later, at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1910-1912. His teachers were, among others, Gustaf Cederström, Oscar Björk and Alfred...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$22,754 Sale Price
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VAN BIESBROECK Jules. Algerian women in an interior. Oil on panel. Signed.
Located in Paris, FR
Algerian women in an interior. Oil on panel. Signed.
This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation.
Jules Van Biesbroeck w...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
ACAPULCO
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSEPH PENNELL (1857 - 1926)
ACAPULCO 1901-08.
Colored pastel and gouache drawing on blue paper. Signed and titled in pencil in his early signature. Image 10 x 14 inches to just ab...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
$1,320 Sale Price
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Subway Construction
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Subway Construction, c. 1928, oil on board, 19 x 15 ¾ inches, signed upper left, artist and title verso; exhibited: 1) 12th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, The Waldorf Astoria, New York NY, from March 9 to April 1, 1928, no. 864 (original price $250) (see Death Prevailing Theme of Artists in Weird Exhibits, The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), March 8, 1928); 2) Boston Tercentenary Exhibition Fine Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, Boston MA, July, 1930, no. 108 (honorable mention - noted verso); 3) 38th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, June, 1931 (see Alexander, Mary, The Week in Art Circles, The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 7, 1931); and 4) National Art Week Exhibition [Group Show], Montross Gallery, New York, New York, December, 1940 (see Devree, Howard, Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions in the Galleries, The New York Times, December 1, 1940)
About the Painting
Ernest Stock’s Subway Construction depicts the excavation of New York’s 8th Avenue line, which was the first completed section of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND). The groundbreaking ceremony was in 1925, but the line did not open until 1932, placing Stock’s painting in the middle of the construction effort. The 8th Avenue line was primarily constructed using the “cut and cover” method in which the streets above the line were dug up, infrastructure was built from the surface level down, the resulting holes were filled, and the streets reconstructed. While many artists of the 1920s were fascinated with the upward thrust of New York’s exploding skyline as architects and developers sought to erect ever higher buildings, Stock turned his attention to the engineering marvels which were taking place below ground. In Subway Construction, Stock depicts workers removing the earth beneath the street and building scaffolding and other support structures to allow concrete to be poured. Light and shadow fall across the x-shaped grid pattern formed by the wooden beams and planks. It is no surprise that critics reviewing the painting commented on Stock’s use of an “interesting pattern” to form a painting that is “clever and well designed.”
About the Artist
Ernest Richard Stock was an award-winning painter, print maker, muralist, and commercial artist. He was born in Bristol, England and was educated at the prestigious Bristol Grammar School. During World War I, Stock joined the British Royal Air Flying Corps in Canada and served in France as a pilot where he was wounded. After the war, he immigrated to the United States and joined the firm of Mack, Jenny, and Tyler, where he further honed his architectural and decorative painting skills. During the 1920s, Stock often traveled back and forth between the US and Europe. He was twice married, including to the American author, Katherine Anne Porter. Starting in the mid-1920s, Stock began to exhibit his artwork professionally, including at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Whitney Studio and various locations in the Northeast. Critics often praised the strong design sensibility in Stock’s paintings. Stock was a commercial illustrator for a handful of published books and during World War II, he worked in the Stratford Connecticut...
Category
American Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil