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Style: American Modern
Meditation
Meditation

Meditation

By Karl Gasser

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Meditation" c.2000 is an oil painting on canvas by Italian/American artist Karl Gasser, 1948-2017. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The size...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Scotti's Yacht, Monte Carlo, 1981 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print
Scotti's Yacht, Monte Carlo, 1981 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print

Scotti's Yacht, Monte Carlo, 1981 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Scotti's Yacht, Monte Carlo, 1981 by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Scotti's Yacht, Monte Carlo, 1981' by Slim Aa...

Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction
'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction

'Counterpoint' — Mid-Century Modernist Abstraction

By Edward August Landon

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Edward Landon, 'Counterpoint', color serigraph, 1942, edition 25, Ryan 45. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 25' in pencil. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; the full sheet with margins (7/8 to 2 1/2 inches). A 1 1/2 inch crease across the top left sheet corner, well away from the image, otherwise in excellent condition. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 13 9/16 x 14 5/16 inches (344 x 364 mm); sheet size 14 15/16 x 17 inches (379 x 432 mm). Literature: – 'A Spectrum of Innovation: Color in American Printmaking', David Acton, New York, London, 1990. – 'American Screenprints', Reba and Dave Williams, New York, 1987. – 'The American Scene: Prints from Hopper to Pollock', Stephen Coppel, The British Museum, 2008. Impressions of this work are held in the following museum collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Edward Landon dropped out of high school to study art at the Hartford Art School. In 1930 and 1931 he was a student of Jean Charlot at the Art Students League in New York, after which he traveled to Mexico to study privately for a year with Carlos Merida. In 1933 he settled near Springfield, Massachusetts, painted murals in the local trade school, and exhibited with the Springfield Art League. His painting 'Memorial Day' won first prize at the fifteenth annual exhibition of the League at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Landon became an active member of the Artists Union of Western Massachusetts, serving as president from 1934-1938. Landon acquired Anthony Velonis’s instructional pamphlet on the technique of serigraphy in the late 1930s. With colleagues Phillip Hicken, Donald Reichert, and Pauline Stiriss, he began experimenting with screen printing techniques. The artists' groundbreaking work in screen printing as a fine art medium was the subject of the group’s landmark exhibition at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts in 1940. Landon became one of the founding members of the National Serigraph Society and served as editor of its publication, 'Serigraph Quarterly,' in the late 1940s and as its president in 1952 and 1953. The Norlyst Gallery in Manhattan held a one-person show of his prints in 1945. Awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 1950, Landon traveled to Norway, where he researched the history of local artistic traditions and produced the book 'Scandinavian Design: Picture and Rune Stones...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Watermelon Vase Still Life
Watermelon Vase Still Life

Watermelon Vase Still Life

Located in Zofingen, AG

shipped in roll Acrylic on canvas Size: 80 x 100 x 2 cm Style: Modern interpretation of Fauvist techniques Professional-grade acrylics on canvas Signed by the artist with certificat...

Category

2010s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)
Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)

Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)

By Thomas Hart Benton

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Dynamic jungle drummer scene by unknown NYC American artist. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 26 inches. Signed "T 42" in ink on verso. Anco stretchers and Grumbacher NYC store stamp con...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Edward Sacks, Seated Figure
Edward Sacks, Seated Figure

Edward Sacks, Seated Figure

Located in New York, NY

Little is known about the artist, Edward (Ed) Sacks, although this print may have been made at the Art Students League in NYC. it is a cross between, as the title suggests, a Seated ...

Category

1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pink Dripping Clouds on Green
Pink Dripping Clouds on Green

Pink Dripping Clouds on Green

Located in Zofingen, AG

Minimalist Acrylic Painting, Cartoon Style Wall Art, Modern Abstract Decor Bring a sense of playful serenity to your space with this minimalist acrylic painting of pink clouds gentl...

Category

2010s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Bird Abstraction Gouache Painting, Mid-Century Modern, Signed, 1953
Bird Abstraction Gouache Painting, Mid-Century Modern, Signed, 1953

Bird Abstraction Gouache Painting, Mid-Century Modern, Signed, 1953

Located in Myrtle Beach, SC

Stephen Harty, Untitled (Bird Abstraction), gouache, 1953. Signed and dated lower left. A fine, meticulously rendered, mid-century, modernist gouache painting, with fresh colors on 1...

Category

1950s American Modern Art

Materials

Gouache

The Lantern
The Lantern

The Lantern

By Romare Bearden

Located in New York, NY

Color lithograph, 1979. An artist's proof impression, aside from the numbered edition of 175. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right. Inscribed "AP" (artist's proof) in pencil...

Category

1970s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Color

Color Explosion - Original lithograph (Maeght 1983)
Color Explosion - Original lithograph (Maeght 1983)

Color Explosion - Original lithograph (Maeght 1983)

By Sam Francis

Located in Paris, IDF

Sam FRANCIS Color Explosion (c. 1983) Original lithograph Unsigned as issued On heavy paper 89.5 x 54 cm (c. 36 x 21 inch) Original lithographic exhibition poster for the artist Ret...

Category

1980s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.
"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.

"Elephant Family" Large original serigraph.

By LeRoy Neiman

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Elephant Family" 1983 is an original large color serigraph on paper by noted American artist Leroy Neiman, 1921-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 63/300 in pe...

Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Porto Ercole Boats - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print, Landscape
Porto Ercole Boats - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print, Landscape

Porto Ercole Boats - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Print, Landscape

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Porto Ercole Boats by Slim Aarons 16" x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Porto Ercole Boats' is a Limited Edition Estate Stamped Dig...

Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

C Print, Digital, Color, Photographic Paper

A Large 1930s Modern Painting of Jackson Square, New Orleans, St. Lous Cathedral
A Large 1930s Modern Painting of Jackson Square, New Orleans, St. Lous Cathedral

A Large 1930s Modern Painting of Jackson Square, New Orleans, St. Lous Cathedral

By Walter Burt Adams

Located in Chicago, IL

A Large, Striking 1930s Modern Painting of the Historic St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square, New Orleans by Notable Chicago Artist, Walter Burt Adams (Am. 1903-1990). A painterly view of the historic landmark and park located in the heart of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Completed circa 1938 during one of the artist's painting trips to New Orleans, and most likely painted in the quiet hours after dawn before any pedestrians or sight-seers walk the typically bustling city square. Artwork size: 36 x 30 inches, oil on canvas (framed size: 36 1/2 x 30 1/2 inches). Unsigned. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Walter Burt Adams was a dedicated painter of the American Scene and a singular personality among his peers in the Chicago Modern Art community. His no-nonsense manner, devotion to his craft and sardonic sense of humor characterize a man whose paintings capture life in and around Chicago between the early 1920s and the late 1970s. Born in Kenosha, Wisconsin just after the turn of the last century, Walter Burt Adams spent his childhood in Fargo, North Dakota and began his artistic education there through a correspondence cartooning class as a boy. After finishing high school in Fargo, Adams moved to Chicago in 1922 in order to enroll at the school of the Art Institute of Chicago. Adams’ instruction at the school with artists such as George Oberteuffer, Frederick V. Poole, Charles Wilimovsky...

Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reginald Wilson, Horses
Reginald Wilson, Horses

Reginald Wilson, Horses

By Reginald Wilson

Located in New York, NY

Although this work is titled Horses. It nice to think it could be (Horses in a Field in Woodstock, NY), but it was printed by Will Barnet at the Art Students League, about 1938, and Wilson, who visited Woodstock with Arnold Blanche...

Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Ted Egri Taos Modernist Judaica Cubist Bronze Sculpture Rabbi & Torah WPA Artist
Ted Egri Taos Modernist Judaica Cubist Bronze Sculpture Rabbi & Torah WPA Artist

Ted Egri Taos Modernist Judaica Cubist Bronze Sculpture Rabbi & Torah WPA Artist

By Ted Egri

Located in Surfside, FL

Ted Egri (American, 1913-2010) Bronze sculpture Rabbi Signed Egri and numbered 4/30 on side. Dimensions: 12"L x 8.5"H x 6.75" D Born in New York city in 1913 to a Hungarian Jewish emigre family (both of his parents were born in Hungary), Egri was first exposed to music later dropping that for art. He studied with Howard Giles at the Master Institute of the Roerich Museum in New York where he was introduced to Oriental arts, Chinese and Japanese art forms, and later with Hans Hofmann. He worked for the Federal Arts Project, the WPA, making mural paintings and silkscreen prints as well as easel painting. Once WWII began, Egri signed up to serve as a map maker for the Navy, and was witness to some of the fiercest battles in the Pacific. As an artist, he painted many important depictions of his wartime experiences and these works have all be donated to the U.S. Naval Museum. Already a practicing painter and instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute, Ted Egri came to Taos, New Mexico with his wife Kit in 1950 to continue his study of painting at Ribak's Taos Valley Art School on the GI Bill. Louis Ribak quickly introduced Egri to Eulalia Emetaz, the owner of La Galleria Escondida, who gave him his first one-person show in 1951. A prolific and versatile artist, as well as arts organizer and advocate, Egri's contributions to underserved African American, Native American, Hispanic and women were honored by two Taos mayors, with no less than two Ted Egri days during his 50-year art career in Taos. Egri remained in Taos. He became widely known for his sculpture, influenced by cubism and painting, with his style ranging from abstract to realistic. Egri had incredible draftsmanship - charcoal, pencil, pastel, watercolor, oils, mixed media, pen and ink, acrylic, gouache Over time his work gradually shifted from its focus on human struggle to an exploration of natural elements and the changes that come about as a result of living in a physical environment like Taos. "The impact of the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountain Range and the vast spaces of the mesas directed me toward space and form. I moved into sculpture," Egri said in a 1987 interview with ARTSPACE magazine. He was included in a show at Stables Gallery along with Emil Bisttram, Louis Catusco, Edward Corbett, Lawrence Calcagno, Keith Crown, Andrew Dasburg, John De...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

Poolside Dreams, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print
Poolside Dreams, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

Poolside Dreams, 1970 - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Color Print

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Poolside Dreams, 1970 by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'Poolside Dreams, 1970' by Slim Aarons is a beautiful Lim...

Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Original Levis's Olympic Games, Skiing North America 1980
Original Levis's Olympic Games, Skiing North America 1980

Original Levis's Olympic Games, Skiing North America 1980

By Michael Gibson

Located in Spokane, WA

Original Vintage Poster, Moscow 1980, Olympic Games. Levi's Skiing North America. Original first printing of this poster. Official sponsors of the US team for the 1980 Olympic Games. The campaign was titled “Levi’s Olympic Opportunity Sweepstakes," and each poster emphasized the sport associated with one of the six continents: Great artwork depicting a sliding red skier with the globe behind, highlighting the North American continent. This poster is linen-backed and in excellent condition, ready to frame. One of six posters produced by Levi-Strauss for the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. The posters were created with a sport that was associated with of the six continents. Levi's logo and stylized title text in the margin below the images. Levi's commissioned FCB Advertising in San Francisco to produce a set of six posters and designed by some of the top commercial artists of the 1970s and 1980s. The US pulled out of the Moscow Olympics due to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. A small group of these posters was printed. Levi’s abandoned the promotions. The posters were withdrawn following the decision by US President Carter to boycott the Olympics in protest after the USSR invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. The U.S. boycott in 1980 applied to the Moscow SUMMER Olympic Games The artists who created the Levi 1980 Olympic posters...

Category

1970s American Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Manayunk Fountain & Silverwood Sts

Manayunk Fountain & Silverwood Sts

By Florence Prince Ewing

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Manayunk Fountain & Silverwood Sts, 1938, oil on canvas board, signed and dated lower right, titled and dated verso, 20 x 16 inches Although Florence Prince Ewing’s paintings ex...

Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

Palazzo dell'Angelo
Palazzo dell'Angelo

Palazzo dell'Angelo

By John Taylor Arms

Located in Middletown, NY

Palazzo dell'Angelo 1931 Etching and drypoint on cream-colored, handmade laid paper with deckle edges, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (185 x 171 mm), edition of 100, full margins. Signed, dated and numbered "Ed. 100" in pencil, lower margin, second state (of three). Printed by Henry Carling, New York. Extremely minor mat tone and some inky residue in the top right corner, all unobtrusive and well outside of image area. An exquisite impression of this intricate image, with astonishing detail, and all the fine lines printing clearly. The image represents the first print which Arms printed on his own handmade paper. Framed handsomely with archival materials and museum grade glass in a wood gilt frame with a flower and garland motif. Illustrated: Dorothy Noyes Arms, Hill Towns and Cities of Northern Italy, p. 180; Anderson, American Etchers Abroad 1880-1930; Eric Denker, Reflections & Undercurrents: Ernest Roth and Printmaking in Venice, 1900-1940, p. 116. [Fletcher 233] Born in 1887 in Washington DC, John Taylor Arms studied at Princeton University, and ultimately earned a degree in architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1912. With the outbreak of W.W.I, Arms served as an officer in the United States Navy, and it was during this time that he turned his focus to printmaking, having published his first etching in 1919. His first subjects were the Brooklyn Bridge, near the Navy Yard, and it was during his wartime travel that Arms created a series of extraordinarily detailed etchings based on Gothic cathedrals and churches he visited in France and Italy. He used what was available to him, namely sewing needles and a magnifying glass, to create the incredibly rich and fine detail that his etchings are known for. Upon his return to New York after the war, Arms enjoyed a successful career as a graphic artist, created a series of etchings of American cities, and published Handbook of Print Making and Print Makers (Macmillan, 1934). He served as President of the Society of American Graphic Artists, and in 1933, was made a full member of the National Academy of Design. In its most modern incarnation, Palazzo dell'Angelo was constructed in or around 1570. The building, which has a rich and storied history, was erected upon the ruins of an earlier structure which predates the Gothic period. Some remnants of the earliest features of the residence were most certainly still visible when Arms visited, as they are today. Having a background in architecture, there's no question that Arms was moved by the beauty, history and ingenuity represented in the physical structure. One thing specifically gives away Arms's passion for the architecture, and that is the fact that he focused on the building's Moorish entranceway, balustrade, and two mullioned windows, and not on the curious Gothic era bas-relief of an angel nestled into the facade of the building, after which the structure is named. The sculpture itself doesn't appear in Arms's composition at all, despite the fact that it is the feature of the building that is most famous in its folklore. Arms instead focuses on the oldest portion of the architecture, even documenting some of the remnants of a fresco, and a funerary stele for the freedman Tito Mestrio Logismo, and his wife Mestria Sperata (visible above the water level, to the left of the door, behind the gondola), which was first described in 1436. Among the many notable bits of history regarding the Palazzo, it has been documented that Tintoretto painted frescos of battle scenes on the facade of the building. The paintings have been lost to time and the elements, but not entirely to history. The empty frame...

Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Lido Life, 1957 - Estate Stamped Limited Edition C-Type Print, 16" x 20"
Lido Life, 1957 - Estate Stamped Limited Edition C-Type Print, 16" x 20"

Lido Life, 1957 - Estate Stamped Limited Edition C-Type Print, 16" x 20"

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Lido Life, 1957 by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Lido Life, 1957 is a Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-...

Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Keep Your Cool - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Photography
Keep Your Cool - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Photography

Keep Your Cool - Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Type Photography

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Keep Your Cool - Backgammon Players Swimming Pool France by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. Keep Your Cool is a Lim...

Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital

Original Suddenly Last Summer vintage movie poster, Elizabeth Taylor, US 1-sheet
Original Suddenly Last Summer vintage movie poster, Elizabeth Taylor, US 1-sheet

Original Suddenly Last Summer vintage movie poster, Elizabeth Taylor, US 1-sheet

Located in Spokane, WA

Linen-backed original “ Suddenly Last Summer “ vintage movie poster. Excellent condition with restored original fold marks as issued during conservation linen-backing. NSS 60/4. ...

Category

1960s American Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Ruff's Farm
Ruff's Farm

Ruff's Farm

By Sidney Mackenzie Litten

Located in Middletown, NY

A nostalgic image of a bucolic farmyard and thatched cottage, hearkening to a bygone era. c 1920. Etching with drypoint on laid watercolor paper with deckle edges, and an indiscerni...

Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas
Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas

Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas

By Vina McPheeters

Located in Soquel, CA

Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti in Oil on Canvas Colorful mid century desert landscape with beautiful cacti by Vina McPheeters (American, 1892-1964). Colorful cacti are dotted throughout the foreground, lush with yellow and pink blooms. In the distance, dramatic mesas rise to meet a cloud-filled sky. Signed "Vina McPheeters" in the lower right corner. Presented in an antiqued bronze-colored frame. Frame size: 25.75"H x 29.75"W Image size: 20"H x 24"W Vina Pearl McPheeters (American, 1892-1964) was born in Iowa on October 7, 1892. Vina was the wife of Robert Guy...

Category

1950s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant, the complete portfolio
Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant, the complete portfolio

Selected Tales of Guy de Maupassant, the complete portfolio

By Adolf Dehn

Located in Middletown, NY

Twenty hand-signed, numbered, and titled images based on the selected work of Maupsassant. Portfolio containing 20 lithographs based on selected tales by de Maupassant, printed on h...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Lithograph

“Untitled”
“Untitled”

“Untitled”

Located in Southampton, NY

Original multicolor linocut by the American artist, Lucina Smith Wakefield. Signed by the artist lower left margin. Circa 1930. Condition is very good, no issues. The linocut is hou...

Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Linocut

48x36 "Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" Photomosaic Pop Art Photography Signed
48x36 "Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" Photomosaic Pop Art Photography Signed

48x36 "Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" Photomosaic Pop Art Photography Signed

By Destro

Located in Los Angeles, CA

"Dr Dre The Chronic Cassette" is a photomosaic artwork by Destro. This image is made up of 100's of smaller images of Dr Dre imagery. Archival photographic paper Signed Framing op...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

San Pedro Harbor
San Pedro Harbor

San Pedro Harbor

By Paul Sample

Located in New York, NY

It is infrequent, to say the least, that a diagnosis of tuberculosis proves fortuitous, but that was the event, in 1921, that set Paul Starrett Sample on the road to becoming a professional artist. (The best source for an overview of Sample’s life and oeuvre remains Paul Sample: Painter of the American Scene, exhib. cat., [Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, 1988] with a detailed and definitive chronology by Sample scholar, Paula F. Glick, and an essay by Robert L. McGrath. It is the source for this essay unless otherwise indicated.) Sample, born in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1896 to a construction engineer and his wife, spent his childhood moving with his family to the various locations that his father’s work took them. By 1911, the family had landed in Glencoe, Illinois, settling long enough for Paul to graduate from New Trier High School in 1916. Sample enrolled at Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, where his interests were anything but academic. His enthusiasms included the football and basketball teams, boxing, pledging at a fraternity, and learning to play the saxophone. After the United States entered World War I, Sample, to his family’s dismay, signed on for the Naval Reserve, leading directly to a hiatus from Dartmouth. In 1918 and 1919, Sample served in the U.S. Merchant Marine where he earned a third mate’s license and seriously contemplated life as a sailor. Acceding to parental pressure, he returned to Dartmouth, graduating in 1921. Sample’s undergraduate life revolved around sports and a jazz band he formed with his brother, Donald, two years younger and also a Dartmouth student. In November 1933, Sample summarized his life in a letter he wrote introducing himself to Frederick Newlin Price, founder of Ferargil Galleries, who would become his New York art dealer. The artist characterized his undergraduate years as spent “wasting my time intensively.” He told Price that that “I took an art appreciation course and slept thru it every day” (Ferargil Galleries Records, circa 1900–63, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, available on line). In 1920, Donald Sample contracted tuberculosis. He went for treatment to the world-famous Trudeau Sanitorium at Saranac Lake, in New York State’s Adirondack Mountains for the prescribed regimen of rest, healthful food, and fresh air. Visiting his brother in 1921, Paul also contracted the disease. Tuberculosis is highly contagious, and had no certain cure before the development of streptomycin in 1946. Even for patients who appeared to have recovered, there was a significant rate of recurrence. Thus, in his letter to Price, Sample avoided the stigma conjured by naming the disease, but wrote “I had a relapse with a bad lung and spent the next four years hospitalized in Saranac Lake.” The stringent physical restrictions imposed by adherence to “the cure” required Sample to cultivate an alternate set of interests. He read voraciously and, at the suggestion of his physician, contacted the husband of a fellow patient for instruction in art. That artist, then living in Saranac, was Jonas Lie (1880–1940), a prominent Norwegian-American painter and an associate academician at the National Academy of Design. Lie had gained renown for his dramatic 1913 series of paintings documenting the construction of the Panama Canal (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; United States Military Academy, West Point, New York). Primarily a landscape artist, Lie had a particular affinity for scenes with water. His paintings, impressionistic, atmospheric, and brushy, never strayed from a realistic rendering of his subject. Sample regarded Lie as a mentor and retained a lifelong reverence for his teacher. Sample’s early paintings very much reflect Lie’s influence. ` In 1925, “cured,” Sample left Saranac Lake for what proved to be a brief stay in New York City, where his veteran’s benefits financed a commercial art course. The family, however, had moved to California, in the futile hope that the climate would benefit Donald. Sample joined them and after Donald’s death, remained in California, taking classes at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. In Sample’s account to Price, “I couldn’t stomach the practice of painting a lot of High Sierras and desert flowers which seemed to be the only kind of pictures that were sold here so I got a job teaching drawing and painting at the art school of the University of Southern California.” Initially hired as a part-time instructor, Sample progressed to full-time status and ultimately, by the mid-1930s, to the post of Chairman of the Fine Art Department. Sample, however, did not want to wind up as a professor. “Teaching is all right in small doses,” he wrote, “but I have a horror of drifting into being a college professor and nothing more.” At the same time as he taught, Sample began to exhibit his work in a variety of venues at first locally, then nationally. Though he confessed himself “a terrible salesman,” and though occupied with continued learning and teaching, Sample was nonetheless, ambitious. In 1927, he wrote in his diary, “I am eventually going to be a painter and a damned good one. And what is more, I am going to make money at it” (as quoted by Glick, p. 15). In 1928, Sample felt sufficiently solvent to marry his long-time love, Sylvia Howland, who had also been a patient at Saranac Lake. The Howland family were rooted New Englanders and in summertime the Samples regularly traveled East for family reunion vacations. While the 1930s brought serious hardship to many artists, for Paul Sample it was a decade of success. Buttressed by the financial safety net of his teacher’s salary, he painted realist depictions of the American scene. While his work addressed depression-era conditions with a sympathetic eye, Sample avoided the anger and tinge of bitterness that characterized much contemporary realist art. Beginning in 1930, Sample began to exhibit regularly in juried exhibitions at important national venues, garnering prizes along the way. In 1930, Inner Harbor won an honorable mention in the Annual Exhibition of the Art Institute of Chicago. That same year Sample was also represented in a show at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo and at the Biennial Exhibition of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. In 1931, Dairy Ranch won the second Hallgarten Prize at the Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, in New York. Sample also made his first appearances at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. In 1936, Miner’s Resting won the Temple Gold Medal at the Pennsylvania Academy’s Annual Exhibition. Always interested in watercolor, in 1936, Sample began to send works on paper to exhibitions at the Whitney Museum, New York. While participating in juried exhibitions, Sample also cultivated commercial possibilities. His first New York art dealer was the prestigious Macbeth Gallery in New York, which included his work in a November 1931 exhibition. In 1934, Sample joined the Ferargil Galleries in New York, after Fred Price arranged the sale of Sample’s Church Supper to the Michele and Donald D’Amour Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1937, The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased Sample’s Janitor’s Holiday from the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design, a notable honor. As prestigious as this exhibition schedule may have been, by far Sample’s most visible presence in the 1930s and 1940s was the result of his relationship with Henry Luce’s burgeoning publishing empire, Time, Inc. Sample’s first contribution to a Luce publication appears to have been another San Pedro...

Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Autumn Wind, Large American Modernist Oil Painting Woman with Flowers
Autumn Wind, Large American Modernist Oil Painting Woman with Flowers

Autumn Wind, Large American Modernist Oil Painting Woman with Flowers

By Doris Turner

Located in Surfside, FL

Nice American Modernist Oil Painting. with old label verso. not dated but estimating it to the 70s. Not sure which Doris turner this is. reminiscent to many of the French artists sho...

Category

1970s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled from Wallflowers Series
Untitled from Wallflowers Series

Untitled from Wallflowers Series

By Donald Sultan

Located in Hinsdale, IL

Donald K. Sultan (b. 1951) Untitled, from Wallflowers Screenprint in colors on wove paper, 2008 24-1/4 x 21-5/8 inches (61.6 x 54.9 cm) (sheet) Ed. 53/190 Initialed, numbered, date...

Category

Early 2000s American Modern Art

Materials

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American Modern art for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic American Modern art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Destro, Howard Schatz, and John Taylor Arms. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large American Modern art, so small editions measuring 0.25 inches across are also available.