Alison Hill 'American, Late 20th Century' "Fishing Shacks" Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Fishing Shacks" oil painting by Alison Hill. - Oil on Panel, signed lower left - Framed
Late 20th Century American Paintings
Paint
Alison Hill 'American, Late 20th Century' "Fishing Shacks" Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Fishing Shacks" oil painting by Alison Hill. - Oil on Panel, signed lower left - Framed
Paint
Alison Hill 'American, Late 20th Century' Seagulls on the Rocks
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Maine landscape. Seagulls on the Rocks on Monhegan island - Oil on canvas, signed lower left.
Canvas
Tall Double-Handled Painted Porcelain Flat Vase by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This tall painted flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand-building technique
Porcelain
Unavailable
H 15.5 in W 13.25 in D 0.5 in
Ceramic and Mixed-Media Vase Collage Wall Hanging by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This ceramic and mixed-media vase collage by Alison Owen is a playful yet elegant wall piece made
Ceramic
Unavailable
H 8 in W 6 in D 0.5 in
Ceramic and Mixed-Media Vase Collage Wall Hanging with Horse by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This ceramic and mixed-media vase collage by Alison Owen is a playful yet elegant wall piece made
Ceramic
Unavailable
H 20.88 in W 13 in D 3.5 in
Tall Painted Porcelain Flat Vase with Blue and Black Vines by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This tall painted flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand-building technique
Porcelain
Unavailable
H 17 in W 8.5 in D 3.5 in
Tall Painted Speckled Stoneware Flat Vase with Pink and Celadon by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This tall painted double-handled flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand
Ceramic
Unavailable
H 19.25 in W 10.5 in D 4.5 in
Tall Painted White Paper Porcelain Flat Vase with Rainbow Collage by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This tall painted double handled flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand
Ceramic, Fabric
Double Vase Sculptural Vessel by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This double vase sculptural vessel by Alison Owen is a unique and playful piece made through Owen's
Ceramic
Unavailable
H 11.63 in W 7.5 in D 2.25 in
Hand Painted White Stoneware Flat Vase with Blue Stripes by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This hand painted double handled flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand
Ceramic
Sold
H 26 in W 34.5 in D 1.5 in
"Fighting Tigers" by Robert Taylor, Autographed by Six WWII Pilots, 1996
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
This dramatic scene by Robert Taylor is signed in the bottom margin by six WWII pilots: John Alison
Paper
Painted White Stoneware Flat Vase with Hot Pink Fimo by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painted double handled flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand-building
Ceramic
Painted White Stoneware Flat Vase with Aqua and Hot Pink by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painted double handled flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand-building
Ceramic
Set of Three White Stoneware Flat Vases by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This set of three flat vases by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand-building technique
Ceramic
Hand-Painted Chocolate Brown Stoneware Flat Vase by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This hand-painted flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand-building technique
Ceramic
Tall Painted Double Handled Speckled Stoneware Flat Vase by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This tall painted double handled flat vase by Alison Owen is made through Owen's skillful hand
Ceramic
Pair of Glossy Black Flat Vases with Gold Moons by Alison Owen
By Alison Owen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This pair of flat vases includes two pieces handcrafted by Alison Owen using her unique thin-slab
Ceramic
Antique Irish Pine Scrubbed Exterior Door
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
Antique Irish pine exterior door that I bought from a wonderful Irish pine dealer in the town of Derby, England, over 20 years ago. I completely forgot that I had stashed them away. ...
Pine
$6,265
H 17 in W 20 in D 2 in
Italian Landscape - British 19thC art Impressionist oil painting female artist
By Susan Isabel Dacre
Located in Hagley, England
This Italian landscape is an oil on canvas, framed behind glass in its original gallery frame, by Susan Isabel Dacre. A superb painting, painted circa 1888. Dacre was an early member...
Oil
$2,360
H 89.38 in W 55.91 in D 18.51 in
19th Century French Renaissance Revival Bookcase Cabinet Made of Pine
Located in Dusseldorf, DE
A 19th Century French bookcase in Renaissance style, made of solid pine. Consists of an upper and a lower part with a total of 4 doors. Facade-like front. Pilaster strips with flut...
Fir, Pine
$7,449
H 16 in W 20 in
Rochers par temps gris - Impressionist Seascape Oil Painting by Emilio Boggio
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful oil on panel circa 1900 by French impressionist painter Emilio Boggio. The piece depicts a coastal scene. The blue-green water crashes against the rocks on a grey day. S...
Oil, Panel
"Loberster Fisherman"
By Abraham Jacob Bogdanove
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Born in Minsk, Russia, Abraham Bogdanove was a landscape, seascape and portrait painter who is best known for his images of Monhegan Island, off the coast of Maine. He also p...
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Gustavian Swedish Sofa Bench
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century Gustavian Swedish sofa bench, newly upholstered with a hand-scraped painted finish circa 1800. Features decorative carved detailing including Griffons. This piece combin...
Upholstery, Wood, Paint
$25,000
H 36 in W 41 in
"Road to Provincetown, " Henry MacGinnis, Massachusetts Landscape
By Henry Ryan MacGinnis
Located in New York, NY
Henry Ryan MacGinnis (1875 - 1962) Road to Provincetown, 1924 Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed lower right; titled and dated on the stretcher Housed in a Stanford White Newcomb-Ma...
Canvas, Oil
California Plein Air Landscape Painting by Esther Smee 1930's-1940s
By Esther Smee
Located in San Francisco, CA
Southern California landscape Plein Air style painting in original period carved and gilded wood frame. Signed, Esther Smee. Recently professionally cleaned. In excellent condition. ...
Canvas
$550
H 5.13 in W 6.07 in
'Sundown, Stonington, Maine' — Artist-printed Exhibition Proof
By Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Lawrence Nelson Wilbur (1897-1988), 'Sundown, Stonington, Maine', wood engraving, artist's proof, edition not stated but small, 1969. Signed and titled in pencil. Signed in the block...
Woodcut
"Mid Day" - Harbor Scene, Female Artist
Located in Rockport, MA
A Harbor Scene, painted by Gertrude Peters, subject "Mid-day" done 1924
Oil
“Monhegan Island, Maine”
By Ted Davis
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of Monhegan Island, Maine on archival paper by the well known American watercolorist, Ted Davis. Signed lower right and dated 1950. Condition is excellent. Child...
Archival Paper, Watercolor
$620Sale Price|20% Off
H 16 in W 21 in D 2 in
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Maine River Sunset Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful luminous sunset landscape coastal painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso. Image size, 14 by 18 inches.
Canvas, Oil
Sunny Ledges, Sailboat, Landscape, Seacoast, Light
By Paul Strisik
Located in Rockport, MA
In the painting titled "Sunny Ledges" by Paul Strisik, one can imagine a picturesque coastal scene. The artwork portrays a sailboat docking on the calm ocean waters. The boat may be ...
Canvas, Oil
$9,879
H 63.39 in W 65.75 in D 24.41 in
20th Century English Mahogany Forty Drawers Haberdashery Cabinet, c.1920
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Antique early-20th Century English hand crafted mahogany haberdashery, this piece has forty open drawers protected by later painted glass. A very practical and a truly wonderful conv...
Glass, Wood
Coast of New Jersey Below Asbury Park
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist coastal painting of the New Jersey coast by Australian / American artist Heyley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia, and studied at Adelaide...
Canvas, Oil
Sunset, Rockport Harbor
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Milford, NH
A colorful Cape Ann, Massachusetts marine harbor scene with boats docked by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978). Gruppé was born in Rochester, NY, and is renowned for his...
Canvas, Oil
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.