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Sunset Surf
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A fine post-impressionist coastal sunset oil painting by American artist Hayley Lever Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and s...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Panel

Surf Riders, Honolulu
Located in Harkstead, GB
An incredibly rare image of the very early days of surfing in Hawaii dating to around 1921. The
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Surf

Materials

Paper, Ink

"Rocks and Surf, Monhegan" Leon Kroll, Surf Seascape American Realist Artist
By Leon Kroll
Located in New York, NY
Leon Kroll Rocks and Surf, Monhegan, 1913 Signed and dated lower right Oil on canvas 30 x 25 inches
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1910s Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Surf at Newport
By Warren W. Sheppard
Located in Storrs, CT
The Surf at Newport (Rhode Island). c. 1906. Oil on canvas. 17 x 24 (framed 26 x 34). Lined
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Early 20th Century American Modern Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

Sea Birds in Surf
By James Floyd Clymer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful seascape painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Seabirds, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. SH...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Antique Surf

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil

Flying Gulls on the Surf
By James Floyd Clymer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Antique Surf

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil

Flying Gulls on the Surf
By James Floyd Clymer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Antique Surf

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil

Flying Gulls on the Surf
By James Floyd Clymer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Antique Surf

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil

Surf Scoter - Woodcut Print by Alexander Francis Lydon - 1870
Located in Roma, IT
Surf Scoter is a modern artwork realized in 1870 by the British artist Alexander Francis Lydon
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1870s Modern Antique Surf

Materials

Woodcut

"Bass Rocks" Josephine Reichmann, Impressionist Surf, Luminous Waves, Seascape
Located in New York, NY
Josephine Reichmann Bass Rocks Signed lower right Oil on canvasboard 14 x 16 inches Reichmann was born in 1864 in Louisville, Kentucky. After studying at the School of the Art Inst...
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Early 20th Century Pebble Beach Surf Seascape by Abel Warshawsky
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Pebble Beach Surf Seascape by Abel Warshawsky Significant and period early
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Original Vintage Water Sport Travel Poster Surfing Australia Lady Surfer Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage sport themed travel poster - Surfing Australia - featuring a black and white
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15th Century and Earlier Australian Antique Surf

Materials

Paper

Early Silver Gelatin Photographic Print by Beken of Cowes, Schooner Surf
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
Early silver gelatin photographic print by Beken of Cowes, Schooner surf.
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1880s English Antique Surf

Antique Bird Print of the Surf Scoter by Von Wright, 1929
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique bird print titled 'Oidemia Perspicillata'. Old bird print depicting the surf scoter. This
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Early 20th Century Antique Surf

Materials

Paper

Antique American Marine Seascape Oil Painting Crashing Surf Atlantic Coast Maine
By Frederick Judd Waugh
Located in Portland, OR
surf crashes upon the rocks. The painting is signed lower right "Waugh" and is housed in the original
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1910s Realist Antique Surf

Materials

Panel, Oil

Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900
Located in Soquel, CA
Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900 Early California Tonalist
Category

1890s Tonalist Antique Surf

Materials

Linen, Oil

Circa 1970 photo poster of Surf by photographer LeRoy Grannis - Huntington Beach
By LeRoy Grannis
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful photo poster of Surf by photographer Leroy Grannis. Huntington Beach is a coastal
Category

1770s Antique Surf

Materials

Paper

"Nudes in the Surf", Atmospheric Painting with Male Nudes and Horses
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Continuing a tradition going back decades, Josef Pieper painted a series of seaside scenes with multiple nude male figures, riding and leading horses along the shore, their strong bo...
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1920s German Art Deco Antique Surf

Materials

Paint

Old Surfboard, Topanga Beach, California, U.S.A. – Anthony Friedkin, Beach, Surf
By Anthony Friedkin
Located in Zurich, CH
Anthony FRIEDKIN (*1949, America) Old Surfboard, Topanga Beach, California, U.S.A., 1977 Silver Gelatin Print, later print 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.) Edition of 25; Ed. no. 7/25 Pr...
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1770s Contemporary Antique Surf

Materials

Silver Gelatin

St. Ervan Sands
By Walter Elmer Schofield
Located in New York, NY
Walter Elmer Schofield paints a dramatic view down onto seaside cliffs and rushing surf in his
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Little Girl Running from Waves, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
By Sarah S. Stilwell Weber
Located in Fort Washington, PA
from Waves, which shows a gentle surf touching an exuberant little girl’s feet, perfectly captures this
Category

1920s Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Linen, Panel

Antique English Oil Crashing Waves on Rocky Shoreline Vibrant Coastal Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
frothy white surf, rendered with energetic brushstrokes, contrasts sharply with the calm blues of the sky
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

Large Maritime Oil Painting Called Breakers at Utö, 1928
Located in Stockholm, SE
that crash against coastal formations or shallow grounds, known as "breakers" or "surf" in English
Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fishing Boats at the Dock
By Harry Neyland
Located in Sheffield, MA
George Fred, 1929, published by Doubleday, Doran and Co. Other works include Surf and Sunlight, Hudson
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

The Century Magazine
By Edward Henry Potthast
Located in Fairlawn, OH
artistic career and became famous for images of bathers in the surf of the Atlantic Ocean. Condition
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Surf

Materials

Lithograph

Antique British Oil Painting Seascape Coast Scene Shipwreck Landscape Horses
Located in Portland, OR
, hovering above the waves & the surf a flock of seagulls observe the progress below. The painting is signed
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1870s English School Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Rocky Coast"oil painting Milton James Burns, Founding Salmagundi Club Member
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
areas of the surf. Frame abrasion in upper and lower edges of canvas. A few pinpoints of in-paint show
Category

Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

Early-1900s Waikiki Hawaiian Wood Plank Surfboard
Located in Haleiwa, HI
surfing patriarch Duke Kahanamoku, early surfboards were made of the local woods found in Hawaii. Later
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1920s American Antique Surf

Materials

Softwood

Victorian Handmade Diamond Platinum Silver Sandpiper Brooch
Located in Greenwich, CT
remind you of glorious sand, surf, and sunshine. Circa 1875-80. 14 karat yellow gold. Silver. 1 1/4
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1870s American Victorian Antique Surf

Materials

Diamond, 14k Gold, Platinum, Silver

On the Coast of Holland, Fishing Boat Ready for Sea
By William Edward Norton
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
is carried to his ready command by one of his subordinates through the ocean surf in this coastal
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1890s Other Art Style Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early 20th C Catalan Modernism Mirror, Conglomerate & Stucco, Antoni Gaudi style
By Antoni Gaudí
Located in Vigonza, Padua
with shades of blue to turquoise, glitter to recreate the sea surf and fragments of gold leaf with
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1910s Spanish Art Nouveau Antique Surf

Materials

Composition

Antique Marble Carving of the Ludovisi Throne
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
”. Aphrodite is attended by two handmaidens as she rises out the surf. The original Greek sculpture was carved
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Late 19th Century Antique Surf

Materials

Marble, Statuary Marble

Antique Marble Carving of the Ludovisi Throne
Antique Marble Carving of the Ludovisi Throne
H 11.62 in W 17.72 in D 10.24 in
Antique French School Marine Ship Fishing Boats Oil Canvas Painting Dieppe 1851
Located in Portland, OR
Hoguet (1821-1870), Dieppe 1851. The painting depicts three masted fishing boats with surf crashing on
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1850s French School Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Clay Bluffs on No Man’s Land" Sanford Gifford, 19th Century Luminist Landscape
By Sanford Robinson Gifford
Located in New York, NY
surf breaks ashore. Contrastingly, the sky is rendered mat with something like pointillist application
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1870s Hudson River School Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Century Magazine
By Edward Henry Potthast
Located in Fairlawn, OH
artistic career and became famous for images of bathers in the surf of the Atlantic Ocean. Condition
Category

1890s Art Nouveau Antique Surf

Materials

Lithograph

Early 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Pillar Carpet ( 3'2" x 8'2" - 97 x 249 )
Located in New York, NY
dark blue ground above a five-point “mountain” within frothing surf. Below is a rainbow rendition of
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1820s Chinese Antique Surf

Materials

Wool

Stylish French, Napoleon III Fine Ladies Writing Desk with Wine / Bacchus Theme
Located in Lisse, NL
surfing the web on your notebook. The large drawer is where you can keep your 'hardware' and/or writing
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Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Surf

Materials

Bronze, Brass

Whitehaven Quay
By Robert Salmon
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
volunteers of the Whitehaven Surf Lifesaving Service are shown launching a rescue boat to aid the desperate
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1820s Other Art Style Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Panel, Cardboard

A Prospect of the Road in the Bay of Sierra Liona '..', Kip, 1732
By Johannes Kip
Located in Langweer, NL
harbour on an otherwise surf-bound coast. This print originates from Vol. V. Awnsham & John Churchill’s
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18th Century Antique Surf

Materials

Paper

Breaking Wave - Venice Beach, California – Anthony Friedkin, Ocean, Wave, Water
By Anthony Friedkin
Located in Zurich, CH
, Photography, Black and White, Ocean, Nature, America, Water, Waves, Waterscape, Light, Surf, Breaking Wave
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1770s Contemporary Antique Surf

Materials

Silver Gelatin

19th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Meditation Carpet (4'x7'-122x213)
Located in New York, NY
, vase, wheel and scroll (?). At the bottom of the field is a scalloped and frothy sea with curling surf
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Early 1900s Chinese Antique Surf

Materials

Metallic Thread

Visiting Day at the US Life Saving Service
By Xanthus Russell Smith
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
building next to an Eagle topped flagpole flying the American ensign. At the base of a small pier, two surf
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1860s Other Art Style Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Panel

Brittany
Located in Sheffield, MA
to Monhegan Island to enjoy cooler temperatures.  His Surf at Monhegan, in the collection of Nelson H
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1890s Post-Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

Surf and Gulls
By Claude Montague Hart
Located in Sidcup, GB
A Watercolour on paper, mounted in a Beech and Gold Frame Painted in 1910 Painted on the North coast of Cornwall probably at Newquay wher his brother Tracey Dyke Hart lived for a whi...
Category

1910s Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Watercolor

Surf and Gulls
Surf and Gulls
H 15.5 in W 19.5 in D 1.5 in
American Sea Painting of Crashing Surf by Arthur Hoeber
By Arthur Hoeber
Located in Alexandria, VA
Arthur Hoeber (American, 1854-1915) Late Afternoon Oil on canvas, signed lower left and dated: “1913”, also signed on the reverse and titled on an exhibition label. Provenan...
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1910s American Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas

19th C New Jersey Surfmen Rescuing Foundering Ship - GW Nicholson
By George Washington Nicholson
Located in Exton, PA
volunteer Surfmen first originated. These volunteers threw their heavy surf boats into the pounding surf
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1870s Hudson River School Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Located in Ridgewood, NY
and textures as if surfing through the visual twilight. They let me feel the passage of time, the
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15th Century and Earlier Abstract Antique Surf

Materials

Acrylic, Watercolor

Untitled
Untitled
H 24 in W 18 in D 1 in
Skeleton Kayak Frame
Located in New York, NY
design materials made it suitable for advanced stroking, shooting rapids and surfing, circa late 1940s.
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19th Century English Antique Surf

Materials

Metal

Skeleton Kayak Frame
Skeleton Kayak Frame
H 15 in W 31 in D 168 in
Hand Colored Bird Plates by Beverly Robinson Morris, 1855
By Beverly R. Morris
Located in San Antonio, TX
, Surf Scoter, Red-crested Whistling Duck, Pochard, Ferruginous Duck, Scaup Duck, Tufted Duck, Long
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Late 19th Century English Antique Surf

Materials

Paper

Stormy harbour scene by Van Hove
Located in Vancouver, BC
pier in Holland?, the pier being pounded by a heavy surf, sail boats in the near and far distance also
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Mid-19th Century Dutch Early Victorian Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Stormy harbour scene by Van Hove
Stormy harbour scene by Van Hove
H 36 in W 30 in D 2 in
Seascape with Sailboats by George Herbert McCord (American, 1848-1909)
By George Herbert McCord
Located in New York, NY
implicit in the sea's elemental circumstance. The rolling waves of the surf, the billowing sails of the
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

Rocks & Surf
By Edward Henry Potthast
Located in Milford, NH
left, titled on verso artist label “Rocks & Surf,” along with a Grand Central Art Galleries (NYC
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rocks & Surf
Rocks & Surf
H 23.75 in W 27.75 in D 2.25 in
Crashing Surf
By Paul Dougherty
Located in Buffalo, NY
A large oil on canvas by Paul Dougherty. Finely painted with thick impasto and great depth. Excellent condition. A couple spot touch ups. Signed lower left. Measuring 36 by 48 i...
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Crashing Surf
Crashing Surf
H 48 in W 1 in D 36 in
Surf Off Monhegan
By Abraham Jacob Bogdanove
Located in Wiscasset, ME
A native of Minsk, Russia, Abraham Bogdanove immigrated to New York with his family in 1900. While settling in New York, Bogdanove began his artistic studies at a number of the city’...
Category

1920s Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil

Heavy Surf, Monhegan Island
By Abraham Jacob Bogdanove
Located in Wiscasset, ME
A native of Minsk, Russia, Abraham Bogdanove immigrated to New York with his family in 1900. While settling in New York, Bogdanove began his artistic studies at a number of the city’...
Category

1920s Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Crashing Surf by Paul Dougherty
By Paul Dougherty
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large seascape oil painting with crashing surf by Paul Dougherty (1877 - 1947). Oil on canvas
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Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Breaking Surf" Frederick Judd Waugh, Vibrant Impressionist Marine Landscape
By Frederick Judd Waugh
Located in New York, NY
Frederick Judd Waugh Breaking Surf, circa 1920 Signed lower right Oil on board 11 x 18 inches
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Board

Surf Table, Midcentury Russel Wright Elliptical Coffee Table with Raised Edge
By Conant Ball, Russel Wright
Located in Culver City, CA
A wonderful and play on the surfboard. Oval shaped coffee table with a raised edge. Made from solid maple. Designed by the famous architect Russel Wright. In original condition A coo...
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Mid-18th Century American Mid-Century Modern Antique Surf

Materials

Wood, Maple

"Surf Glow, " Frederick Judd Waugh, Seascape, Waves on a Sunny Day, Impressionism
By Frederick Judd Waugh
Located in New York, NY
Frederick Judd Waugh (1861 - 1940) Surf Glow Oil on canvasboard 12 x 16 inches Signed lower right
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Board

Santa Barbara California Coast Beach Ocean Mountains Clouds surf Plein Air #0-72
By Francis Draper Jr.
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Estate signed verso. Painted between the years 1916 and 1926. This painting is identified in the Francis Draper Jr. archives as #0-72 .......... PROVENANCE: The Francis Draper Jr....
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Surf

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

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Antique Surf For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate antique surf for your needs in our varied inventory. In our selection of items, you can find Impressionist examples as well as a Contemporary version. Finding the perfect antique surf may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 18th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add an antique surf to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of black, brown, gray, beige and more. There have been many interesting antique surf examples over the years, but those made by Paul Dougherty, John James Audubon, William Reuben Clark Wood, Anthony Friedkin and Sears Gallagher are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Frequently made by artists working in paint, oil paint and canvas, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Antique Surf?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — an antique surf in our inventory may begin at $107 and can go as high as $18,000, while the average can fetch as much as $3,205.