American Genre Painting

Lichtenstein then took an ironic look at nineteenth-century American genre paintings he saw in history books, creating Cubist interpretations of cowboys and Indians spiked with a fau...

Weisberg and Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, in their Redefining Genre: French and American Painting, 1850-1900 (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1995, p. 10) explain how important...

Weisberg, Gabriel P., Redefining Genre: French and American Painting, 1850-1900, The Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 1995, pgs.78-88.  

A superb example of 19th-century American genre painting, this work embodies Carr’s keen observational skill and ability to capture the joys of childhood in a timeless, engaging manner.

Antique American impressionist signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.

Very Large 1940's signed genre painting by A. DeDobanicis. Nice gray and blue tones make up this image of two men and a woman watching entertainment from an outdoor bandstand or ampi...

1980s oil on panel gilt framed genre painting This is a framed oil on panel genre painting. The piece was made in the 1980s. The frame is beautifully hand carved in an antiqued gilt...

Karl Hartman’s depictions of the American Dream aren’t limited to bipeds. His newest painting, The Wren’s, features an avian nuclear family enjoying their suburban bird house. Hartma...

A charming oil on canvas circa 1920 by American genre painter Louis Charles Moeller. The piece depicts 3 gentlemen in a study leaning over and inspecting the pages of a book, with se...

Realist-style genre painting by Victor Nehlig (1830-1909). Oil on canvas, circa 1867. Signed lower right, "V. Nehlig 1867". Image size, 46"L x 34"H

Impressionist genre view by Peggy Dodds (1900 - 1987). Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed lower left. Displayed in a giltwood impressionist frame. Image size, 24"L x 30"H, overal...

., Madison, Connecticut Abbott Fuller Graves was an American painter and illustrator who specialized in decorative open air garden paintings and floral still lifes.

Richard Caton Woodville is ranked among the most prominent names in American genre painting. Due to his untimely death at the age of thirty, Woodville produced a small but impressive...

"Bar Au Lapin Agile" is a 31 x 42 inches, oil on canvas, figurative scene by American illustration and genre artist Lester Ambrose.

His work reflected the nation’s urban scene during the Great Depression, with emphasis on American industry, entertainment and genre scene paintings.

Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer in American landscape, genre, and animal painting. He was one of the earliest Americans to rebel against painting only port...

We are selling the piece as an excellent example of 19th century American/British genre painting.

His work reflected the nation’s urban scene during the Great Depression, with emphasis on American industry, entertainment and genre scene paintings.

This exceptional work by the American painter Thomas Prichard Rossiter represents a masterful combination of American romanticism and historical genre painting.

An antique American genre painting depicting a young boy and his cat in his bedroom as he works furiously on his homework.

19th century painting of Native Americans, painted likely ca. 1840-1860s, in the spirit of George Catlin. This rare painting is very finely painted and given the detailed rendering ...

19th century painting of Native Americans, painted likely ca. 1840-1860s, in the spirit of George Catlin. This rare painting is very finely painted and given the detailed rendering ...

Wonderful genre painting of an oriental market by Nancy Gray (American, 20th Ccentury).

American school interior portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1880. Possibly faintly signed lower right. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image, 14"L x 10"H.

Antique American school view inside a Museum original signed oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1890. Signed illegibly. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image, 18"L x 22"H.

Antique American modernist genre painting. Oil on board, circa 1930.

Framed Maurice Kish (American, 1895-1987) Genre painting of a man carrying water buckets Signed lower left: Maurice Kish Framed dimensions: 12 1/8 x 9 1/8 in.

Bacon's work became part of the 19th-century American genre painting tradition, focused on scenes of everyday life with a narrative and often sentimental quality.

"Road Trip" is a charming depiction of a scene from perhaps the 1930s or 1940s of three men traveling across country and stopping alongside the road to rest, have lunch, or stretch b...

Realist 19th century oil painting of an interior view with a young woman. Oil on canvas, circa 1880. Unsigned. Displayed in a giltwood frame. Image size, 10"L x 13"H, o...

Very large and colourful painting depicting a swan boat in the Boston Public Garden. Charles Movalli (1945-2016) was a winner of numerous awards and honors for his painting, Movall...

While abroad, the artist copied Old Masters and refined his technique before returning to America in 1859. In the 1860’s, Wood probably is best known for his paintings of African Ame...

An interior genre scene with a portrait of a boy, the artist's son, Greg, at the typewriter by Carl Lindin of Woodstock, New York, from the 1920s. Housed in a vintage/original frame...

"Saturday Night" is a joyful and colorful rendition of a happy pastime in the style of the Harlem Renaissance – dancing perhaps in a nightclub suggested by the drinks in the foregrou...

"Extra Good Boys and Girls" is a lithograph by Norman Rockwell that was used as a Saturday Evening Post magazine cover in December of 1939. It is an American Genre painting from a pa...

Alvan Fisher American, 1792-1863 National Academy "Watermelon and Peaches" Oil on canvas laid down panel, signed lower left Born in Massachusetts, Alvan Fisher was a pioneer i...

In one major stylistic particular he has been overlooked as a primary contributor to an influential new genre of American 'colorfield' painting."

In 1847, he became one of the first Americans to study with Thomas Couture in Paris. He then went to the village of Barbizon where, along with other American artists, he did peasant...

In 1983, nearly one-hundred years after his death, an exhibition of James Crawford Thom's work was held in East Brunswick, New Jersey. His paintings may be seen in the National Muse...

Niczky Edouard (1850 – 1919) Love date in 19th century Oil on canvas signed low left Old original frame gilded with leaves Dim canvas : 61 X 52 cm Dim frame : 76 X 66 cm Certificate ...

This previously unpublished painting was first securely attributed to Govert Dircksz Camphuysen in 1944, following an examination at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm during which the ...

18th Century Military portrait of a young officer in Napoleonic period military dress. The painting is not signed but the subject is Major Alexander Brown. The work is oil on canvas ...

Up for sale is an amazing original antique oil painting on canvas by Famous American Artist Henry Peters Gray (1819-1877), depicting a portrait of a W.P. Wright Esq. Some of his pai...

Excellent figurative oil painting of a man seated in an armchair with papers strewn about the interior space by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). A working illustration pai...

17th century English/Dutch School, from the Circle of Sir Peter Paul Rubens A very interesting and well-painted 17th-century oil on canvas of two men seated on horseback in a landsc...

We are pleased to offer a captivating portrait, most likely painted in the late 18th century, attributed to an artist within the circle of Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich. This oil ...

James Lesesne Wells, 'Sisters', linocut, edition not stated but small, 1928. Signed, titled, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A fine impression on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide...

Italian painter (19th century) - Interior with figures in seventeenth-century costume. 29.5 x 43 cm (without frame) - 50 x 65 cm (with frame). Oil on panel, in a period frame in...

Really rare and well painted portrait by Christine Walters Martin (1895-1982). Oil on canvas. Framed in a nice modernist molding. Signed. ...

A lovely portrait of a turn-of-the-century elegant woman, perhaps commissioned by a devoted husband (she has a ring on her right hand, which is more common as a wedding ring in north...

Charles Hunt Jnr British, (1829-1900) A Visitor Calls Oil on canvas, signed Image size: 24.75 inches x 34.75 inches Size including frame: 32.25 inches x 42.25 inches A wonderful ge...