1960s Clown Portrait #4
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Marjorie Blake (1920-1994). Unsigned, but was purchased with a collection of other Marjorie Blake paintings
Oil, Fiberboard
Clown Portrait #8
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in the lower
Paper, Watercolor
$395
H 7.25 in W 5 in D 0.03 in
Clown with a Hat (Clown Portrait #9)
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in the lower
Paper, Watercolor
Clown Portrait #7
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the
Paper, Watercolor
$316Sale Price|20% Off
H 12 in W 9 in D 0.5 in
Mid Century Portrait of a Clown #5
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in the
Oil, Canvas
Clown Portrait #11
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown on heavy paper by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M
Paper, Watercolor
$650
H 5.75 in W 4.38 in D 0.13 in
Diminutive Mid Century Expressionist Clown Portrait #1
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Small portrait of a clown with colorful, expressionist brushstrokes by Marjorie Blake (American
Masonite, Oil
Small Expressionist Clown Portrait #2, 1960s
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Small and colorful expressionist portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994
Masonite, Oil
Clown Portrait #6
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful watercolor portrait of a clown by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "Blake" in
Paper, Watercolor
Mid Century Pink Clown (Portrait #3)
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century impressionist portrait of a clown in pink by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920
Oil, Fiberboard
Clown Portrait #10
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor portrait of a clown on heavy cardstock by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed
Paper, Watercolor
Roses #2 Still Life
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor still life of roses by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M. Blake" in the
Watercolor, Cardboard
Sold
H 20 in W 24 in D 0.33 in
Mid Century 1960s Palm Springs California Desert Landscape
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century landscape of Palm Springs Desert by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994
Oil, Fiberboard
Roses #1
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Composition of delicate roses and vines by Marjorie May Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed "M
Watercolor, Cardboard
Roses #3
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Composition of delicate roses on tissue paper laid on cardboard by Marjorie May Blake (American
Watercolor, Cardboard, Tissue Paper
White Roses Still Life
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Heavily textured still life of white roses in a vase against a green background by Marjorie May
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
Sunflower Still Life
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
linen fillet. No glass. Image size: 16"H x 12"W Marjorie May (Gulley) Blake (American, 1920-1995) was
Canvas, Oil
$600Sale Price|20% Off
H 20 in W 20 in D 1.5 in
Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas Portrait of a sad clown by San Francisco artist John Peers (American, 1922-2009). This portrait is closely framed on the clown's face, showing...
Canvas, Oil
$495
H 20 in W 16 in D 0.13 in
Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Dark Haired Man
By Genevieve Rogers
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-Century Modern portrait of a man by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904-1984). The abstracted background has texture created with dynamic brushstrokes. "#12" is wr...
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
$1,240Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.13 in
Mid Century Portrait of Woman in Red Hat
By Jon Blanchette
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century portrait of a woman wearing red by Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Signed by the artist in the lower right corner. Canvas has been mounted on fiberboard. Unframed. ...
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
$850
H 24 in W 18 in D 0.25 in
Woman in Yellow Evening Dress, Mid Century Modern Pulp Art Figurative Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful pulp art figurative portrait of a brunette woman in formal yellow evening gown with gloves by unknown California artist, circa 1960s. Unsigned. Acquired as part of Women wi...
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard
$700Sale Price|20% Off
H 14 in W 10.75 in D 1 in
Pair of Vintage Native American Portraits
Located in Soquel, CA
Pair of two vintage portraits of Native American figures, one older and one younger, in profile with braids and headdresses by Victor S. Field (American, 20th Century). Each painting...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$15,000
H 29.5 in W 18 in D 2 in
Female Illustrator, Flapper of 1800, Monochromatic
By Anna Whelan Betts
Located in Miami, FL
A "Flapper of 1800" is depicted in profile with her maid holding a hat box and cradling a little monkey. The maid is a step to the right and a step behind her. Overlapping garments v...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,150
H 20.5 in W 26.5 in D 1 in
Basket Weaver with his Baskets for the Market 1950s figurative oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Basket Weaver with his Baskets for the Market 1950s figurative oil Expressive and detail portrait of a weaver and his baskets, heading to market by California impressionist nna Oley...
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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