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1940's California Mission Landscape
1940's California Mission Landscape

1940's California Mission Landscape

Located in Soquel, CA

Watercolor of an old California mission. Signed lower right illegibly and dated 1940.

Category

1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Mid Century California Mission Landscape
Mid Century California Mission Landscape

Mid Century California Mission Landscape

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful mid century landscape of a historic California mission, highlighting its iconic architectural details such as a columned arches, white washed walls, and terra cotta roof, b...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache, Cardboard

Mid-Century California Mission Landscape Watercolor
Mid-Century California Mission Landscape Watercolor

Mid-Century California Mission Landscape Watercolor

Located in Soquel, CA

Beautiful mid-century watercolor landscape of a California mission with a tree in the foreground by an unknown artist (American, 20th century).

Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

California Mission Basket With Collectors Museum Number
California Mission Basket With Collectors Museum Number

California Mission Basket With Collectors Museum Number

Located in Dallas, TX

Finely woven California Mission basket, expertly constructed in traditional coiled technique using natural plant fibers with subtle tonal variation throughout.

Category

Antique 1890s American Decorative Baskets

Materials

Natural Fiber

Leather Wrapped Oak Floor Lamp 1940's California Mission Monterey
Leather Wrapped Oak Floor Lamp 1940's California Mission Monterey

Leather Wrapped Oak Floor Lamp 1940's California Mission Monterey

By Monterey Furniture

Located in Las Vegas, NV

Spectacular Oak floor lamp with wrapped leather shaft and fine Hemp cord on base. Golden Oak color tones. Original "hat" shade in excellent condition. Stands 51in to tip of finial. ...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Mission Floor Lamps

Materials

Leather, Upholstery, Oak

Stone Columns and Arch in the California Mission - Interior Scene by Mary Scott
Stone Columns and Arch in the California Mission - Interior Scene by Mary Scott

Stone Columns and Arch in the California Mission - Interior Scene by Mary Scott

By Mary Scott

Located in Soquel, CA

Interior courtyard scene by Mary Scott (American, late 19th/early 20th C). Two large stone columns support an arch, framing the composition. Between the columns, some of the courtyar...

Category

1930s Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Albert Abramovitz, Mission, California
Albert Abramovitz, Mission, California

Albert Abramovitz, Mission, California

By Albert Abramovitz

Located in New York, NY

Albert Abramovitz was an amazingly skilled wood engraver. This California Mission scene is unusual in his work, but carries the subject so well.

Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Carmel Mission, 1870 - California School Landscape Oil Painting
Carmel Mission, 1870 - California School Landscape Oil Painting

Carmel Mission, 1870 - California School Landscape Oil Painting

Located in Soquel, CA

Carmel Mission, 1870 - Landscape Oil Painting One of California's Mission settlements lies on the Central Coast in Carmel, depicted in this landscape oil painting.

Category

20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Looking through the Arches, Mission at San Juan Capistrano, California
Looking through the Arches, Mission at San Juan Capistrano, California

Looking through the Arches, Mission at San Juan Capistrano, California

By Elizabeth Borglum

Located in Grand Rapids, MI

This painting is particularly rare for combining an early California Mission subject with a refined academic style that borders the emerging California Impressionist movement of the ...

Category

Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fire Screen by Lucille McConnell MD, San Juan Capistrano , 1930
Fire Screen by Lucille McConnell MD, San Juan Capistrano , 1930

Fire Screen by Lucille McConnell MD, San Juan Capistrano , 1930

Located in Dallas, TX

California Mission Revival fire screen painted with an image of the historic San Juan Capistrano Mission.

Category

Vintage 1930s American Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Metal

The Mission Entrance - Watercolor on Heavy Paper
The Mission Entrance - Watercolor on Heavy Paper

The Mission Entrance - Watercolor on Heavy Paper

By Gladys Louise Bowman Fies

Located in Soquel, CA

Vibrant watercolor of a California Mission. Two people are walking through the entrance, looking at the flowers within the garden walls.

Category

1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

1955 Recreation Room Architectural Rendering by Rucker Fuller
1955 Recreation Room Architectural Rendering by Rucker Fuller

1955 Recreation Room Architectural Rendering by Rucker Fuller

By Rucker Fuller

Located in Van Nuys, CA

Original 1955 "Recreation Room" hand-drawn architectural artwork rendering prepared by Rucker Fuller for The Bank of California Mission Branch. Rucker Fuller is an architectural fir...

Category

Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Drawings

Materials

Paper

Mission Courtyard, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

Mission Courtyard, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper

By Daniel Clarke

Located in Yardley, PA

Stretching from San Diego to Sonoma, the 21 missions of Alta California are storied reminders of California and our nation's past.

Category

2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Antique American Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting Alameda California
Antique American Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting Alameda California

Antique American Impressionist Pastel Landscape Painting Alameda California

By Edwin C. Siegfried

Located in Portland, OR

During the 1930s he worked as an artist for the WPA doing a series of California missions. Siegfried died at the Veteran's Hospital in Oakland on April 3, 1955.

Category

1920s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California
Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California

Old Mission Station, San Francisco, California

By Dong Kingman

Located in Missouri, MO

Dong Kingman (American 1911-2000) "Old Mission Station" c. 1950 watercolor on paper Signed *Fully illustrated in the book "Dong Kingman, Portraits of Cities" Sheet Size: 22 x 30 in...

Category

1950s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Door, Mission Dolores, San Francisco, California

Door, Mission Dolores, San Francisco, California

By Rod Dresser

Located in Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA

Signed and numbered on mount recto. Titled and dated with artist's stamp on mount verso. Edition of 35. Printed in 2000.

Category

1980s Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Antique Mission Catalina Monterrey California Tile Top Walnut Coffee Table 1930
Antique Mission Catalina Monterrey California Tile Top Walnut Coffee Table 1930

Antique Mission Catalina Monterrey California Tile Top Walnut Coffee Table 1930

By Catalina Pottery

Located in Portland, OR

An unusual antique California Monterey Catalina tile topped walnut coffee/side table, circa 1930. A wonderful walnut table inlaid with brightly glazed tiles from the Catalina Tile Co...

Category

Vintage 1930s American Mission Side Tables

Materials

Walnut

Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel, California
Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel, California

Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel, California

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork Titled "Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Carmel, California" c.1970, is a large watercolor on heavy Arches watercolor paper by Carmel impressionist artist Edward ...

Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Watercolor

'Carmel Mission', Santa Clara, California, Society Western Artists, Historical
'Carmel Mission', Santa Clara, California, Society Western Artists, Historical

'Carmel Mission', Santa Clara, California, Society Western Artists, Historical

By Henry Hank Volle

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

A substantial and lyrically painted watercolor view of the original Spanish colonial church and mission buildings at Carmel on the coast of California with a view beyond towards the...

Category

1970s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper

1930s Monterey Credenza in Straw Ivory
1930s Monterey Credenza in Straw Ivory

1930s Monterey Credenza in Straw Ivory

Located in North Palm Beach, FL

Spanish and Dutch Colonial styles, the California Mission architecture and furnishings, rustic ranch aesthetics, and even the rugged charm of cowboy accouterments converge harmonious...

Category

Vintage 1930s Credenzas

Materials

Wood

'The Sacramento River, Rio Vista', California, Bohemian Club, White House, SFSD
'The Sacramento River, Rio Vista', California, Bohemian Club, White House, SFSD

'The Sacramento River, Rio Vista', California, Bohemian Club, White House, SFSD

By James Everett Stuart

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

His favored subjects included the Yosemite National Park as well as old California missions and adobes. During much of the 1890s, he lived in Chicago, but returned to San Francisco ...

Category

1910s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Masonite, Oil

Catalina California or Mission Arts & Crafts Style Spanish Tile Top Side Table
Catalina California or Mission Arts & Crafts Style Spanish Tile Top Side Table

Catalina California or Mission Arts & Crafts Style Spanish Tile Top Side Table

By Catalina Pottery

Located in Topeka, KS

Gorgeous Catalina, California, Taylor, or Mission Arts & Crafts style Spanish tile top side or end table.

Category

Early 20th Century Unknown Arts and Crafts Side Tables

Materials

Ceramic, Oak

Landscape
Landscape

Landscape

By Edwin C. Siegfried

Located in San Francisco, CA

During the 1930s he worked as an artist for the WPA doing a series of California missions. Siegfried died at the Veteran's Hospital in Oakland on April 3, 1955.

Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel

GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap, Lincoln, California, c.1925
GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap, Lincoln, California, c.1925

GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap, Lincoln, California, c.1925

By Gladding, McBean

Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA

GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap, Lincoln, California, c.1925. Makers mark to the top. This piece also functions well as a decorative object, centerpiece, sculpture etc.

Category

20th Century American Mission Architectural Elements

Materials

Terracotta

GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap,  Lincoln, California, c.1925
GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap,  Lincoln, California, c.1925

GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap, Lincoln, California, c.1925

By Gladding, McBean

Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA

GLADDING McBEAN & CO. Terracotta Chimney Cap, Lincoln, California, c.1925. Makers mark to the top. This piece also functions well as a decorative object, centerpiece, sculpture...

Category

Early 20th Century American Mission Architectural Elements

Materials

Terracotta

ASU Portrait II /// Fritz Scholder Native American Indian Expressionist Surreal
ASU Portrait II /// Fritz Scholder Native American Indian Expressionist Surreal

ASU Portrait II /// Fritz Scholder Native American Indian Expressionist Surreal

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Scholder was an enrolled member of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians, a federally recognized tribe of Luiseños, a California Mission tribe. Scholder's most influential works were ...

Category

1980s Expressionist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Woman and Dog #6

Woman and Dog #6

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Bozeman, MT

Scholder is one-quarter Luseino, a California Mission tribe. He met Cherokee designer, Lloyd Kiva New and studied with Hopi jeweler, Charles Loloma.

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

19th Century Mission Pictorial Basket
19th Century Mission Pictorial Basket

19th Century Mission Pictorial Basket

Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID

Period: Last quarter of the 19th century Origin: Mission, California Size: 3 1/2" x 6".   Family Owned & Operated Cisco’s Gallery deals in the rare, exceptional, and one-of-a-kind p...

Category

Antique Late 19th Century American Native American Decorative Baskets

Materials

Other

Iraq Trio
Iraq Trio

Iraq Trio

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Bozeman, MT

Scholder is one-quarter Luseino, a California Mission tribe. He met Cherokee designer, Lloyd Kiva New and studied with Hopi jeweler, Charles Loloma.

Category

Late 20th Century Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

One Cat D

One Cat D

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Bozeman, MT

Scholder is one-quarter Luseino, a California Mission tribe. He met Cherokee designer, Lloyd Kiva New and studied with Hopi jeweler, Charles Loloma.

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Monotype

"ADOBE IN MONTEREY" California
"ADOBE IN MONTEREY" California

"ADOBE IN MONTEREY" California

By Vivian Cornwall

Located in San Antonio, TX

Her art, including "View of Carmel Mission, California" are great representations of the Carmel area, reflecting her significant contribution to the world of art.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fritz Scholder, "Walking Dog" Lithograph, 1977
Fritz Scholder, "Walking Dog" Lithograph, 1977

Fritz Scholder, "Walking Dog" Lithograph, 1977

By Fritz Scholder

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota, Fritz Scholder (1937-2005) is equal parts German, French, and Luiseno, a California Mission Tribe. Scholder’s paternal grandmother was a member of t...

Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Antique Map of Baja California and parts of Alta California, Arizona and Sonora
Antique Map of Baja California and parts of Alta California, Arizona and Sonora

Antique Map of Baja California and parts of Alta California, Arizona and Sonora

Located in Langweer, NL

Issued 4 years prior to the establishment of the first Spanish Mission in Alta California (San Diego) and based in large part on the work of Ferdinando Consag, the map provides one o...

Category

Antique Mid-18th Century Maps

Materials

Paper

Carmel's Romantic Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo
Carmel's Romantic Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo

Carmel's Romantic Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo

Located in San Francisco, CA

He chose it as his burial site. For this mission's centrality in California's story, the site is protected on the National Register of Historic Places and is a National Historic Land...

Category

Mid-20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Vintage Likely Early 20th Century Native American Mission Basketry Bowl.
Vintage Likely Early 20th Century Native American Mission Basketry Bowl.

Vintage Likely Early 20th Century Native American Mission Basketry Bowl.

Located in Seattle, WA

This finely woven likely Native American basketry bowl is a striking example of early 20th-century Mission basketry, likely originating from Southern California-possibly by a Mission...

Category

Early 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Baskets

Materials

Natural Fiber

Colonial Mission Revival Wrought Iron Exterior Eight-Sided Profile Lantern, Grey
Colonial Mission Revival Wrought Iron Exterior Eight-Sided Profile Lantern, Grey

Colonial Mission Revival Wrought Iron Exterior Eight-Sided Profile Lantern, Grey

By Britt Jewett

Located in Santa Paula, CA

Referencing the historic Arlington Theater in downtown Santa Barbara, California this lantern echoes the Mission Revival style in which the theater was designed.

Category

2010s American Colonial Revival Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Wrought Iron

Marine Scene at Sunset by James Everett Stuart
Marine Scene at Sunset by James Everett Stuart

Marine Scene at Sunset by James Everett Stuart

By James Everett Stuart

Located in San Francisco, CA

Subjects included Yosemite as well as California missions and adobes. He painted landscapes whose sales ultimately were financially remunerative and which established his reputation....

Category

Antique Late 19th Century American Romantic Paintings

Materials

Paint

Spanish Arts and Crafts Mission Style Tile Top Wrought Iron Console Table 1920s
Spanish Arts and Crafts Mission Style Tile Top Wrought Iron Console Table 1920s

Spanish Arts and Crafts Mission Style Tile Top Wrought Iron Console Table 1920s

By Taylor Tile, Catalina Pottery

Located in New York, NY

The console table form is almost never seen in this type of furniture, especially in this excellent state of preserve. Spanish Revival, Mission, California, Arts and Crafts school d...

Category

Early 20th Century Spanish Colonial Console Tables

Materials

Wrought Iron

Circa 1950 United Air Lines poster Stan Galli – Southern California
Circa 1950 United Air Lines poster Stan Galli – Southern California

Circa 1950 United Air Lines poster Stan Galli – Southern California

By Stan Galli

Located in PARIS, FR

At the center of the composition stands a Franciscan monk, gently feeding a flock of doves in a sunlit mission courtyard. The architecture—clearly inspired by California’s historic S...

Category

1950s More Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Jo Mora's 1928 "Carte" of San Diego, Very Rare Pictorial Map
Jo Mora's 1928 "Carte" of San Diego, Very Rare Pictorial Map

Jo Mora's 1928 "Carte" of San Diego, Very Rare Pictorial Map

Located in Phoenix, AZ

Devoting his life to exploration of subjects as diverse as vaqueros, Hopi Kachina figures, the Arizona landscape, and California missions, Joseph Mora also excelled as a writer, pho...

Category

1920s Other Art Style More Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Barbara Willis Signed Large Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Bowl
Barbara Willis Signed Large Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Bowl

Barbara Willis Signed Large Mid-Century Modern California Studio Pottery Bowl

By Barbara Willis

Located in Studio City, CA

Willis had exhibited in such shows as: 2001 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art California Pottery, From Missions to Modernism 2003 Autry Museum of the American West, California Pott...

Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

Materials

Pottery, Stoneware

Early 20th Century Late Afternoon Monterey Landscape by James Everett Stuart
Early 20th Century Late Afternoon Monterey Landscape by James Everett Stuart

Early 20th Century Late Afternoon Monterey Landscape by James Everett Stuart

By James Everett Stuart

Located in Soquel, CA

Subjects included Yosemite as well as California missions and adobes. He painted landscapes whose sales ultimately were financially remunerative and which established his reputation.

Category

1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pasadena San Gabriel Mission Victorian Oil Painting on Canvas by Ellen B. Farr
Pasadena San Gabriel Mission Victorian Oil Painting on Canvas by Ellen B. Farr

Pasadena San Gabriel Mission Victorian Oil Painting on Canvas by Ellen B. Farr

Located in Van Nuys, CA

Farr moved to Boston in 1883, moving again to Pasadena, California around 1890. In California, her subject matter included Pasadena area missions, pepper trees, and Indian baskets.

Category

Antique 1890s American Paintings

Materials

Canvas

18th Century Spanish Colonial Vargueno Set on a 19th Century Mission Chest
18th Century Spanish Colonial Vargueno Set on a 19th Century Mission Chest

18th Century Spanish Colonial Vargueno Set on a 19th Century Mission Chest

Located in Hudson, NY

This piece is most likely made in New Mexico or the California region where the Catholic missions existed from the 17th to the early 19th century as hold outs of Spanish ideals.

Category

Antique Mid-18th Century Mexican Baroque Secretaires

Materials

Walnut

DISCOVERY OF GOLD - Very Large Serigraph - WPA Artist - California Murals
DISCOVERY OF GOLD - Very Large Serigraph - WPA Artist - California Murals

DISCOVERY OF GOLD - Very Large Serigraph - WPA Artist - California Murals

By Anton Refregier

Located in Santa Monica, CA

This lithograph is one of his largest works and is derived from a mural "Finding Gold at Sutter's Mill, 1848", for Rincon Annex Post Office, San Francisco, California, 1948. Locati...

Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

Parrot Ceramic Tile Framed Plaque by Christopher Reutinger Catalina Picture Tile
Parrot Ceramic Tile Framed Plaque by Christopher Reutinger Catalina Picture Tile

Parrot Ceramic Tile Framed Plaque by Christopher Reutinger Catalina Picture Tile

By Catalina Pottery

Located in Topeka, KS

It has been incised with a C R (Christopher Reutinger) in the lower left corner and embedded in a rich mahogany frame. Catalina, California, Mission, and Taylor styles PLUS, bold col...

Category

Late 20th Century American Other Decorative Art

Materials

Ceramic, Wood

Dune line
Dune line

Dune line

By John Maxon

Located in San Francisco, CA

Santa Cruz County Art Museum – Santa Cruz, California University of California – Berkeley, California University of California – Davis, California Napa Valley Art Museum – Yountville...

Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Dust Time, large lithograph
Dust Time, large lithograph

Dust Time, large lithograph

By John Maxon

Located in San Francisco, CA

Santa Cruz County Art Museum – Santa Cruz, California University of California – Berkeley, California University of California – Davis, California Napa Valley Art Museum – Yountville...

Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

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