Carlo D'Aloisio da Vasto Art

"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago Harold Haydon "History of the U.S. Postal Service" 21 x 25 1/2 inches O...

This work epitomizes Prestopino's interest in social realism which captures a quiet interlude in the everyday life of an "everyman." It also provides a contrast for our expectations as we view a tough, blue collar worker, with no one watching, as he sings a melody to the birds. In an original frame measuring 49" x 39" x 3.25" Provenance: Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery (label verso from 13 w. 113th street, where the gallery was located from 1926 until 1939) Private collection, NYC, c. 1935 By descent About this artist: Born in Little Italy in 1907, Gregorio Prestopino first set out to become a sign painter as the son of New York City immigrants. Instead, his talent provided a life-changing scholarship to the National Academy of Design, and for five years he studied drawing under C. W. Hawthorne. He spent the summer of 1934 at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. His deep involvement with the colony led him to later serve as its director in 1954. Much of Prestopino’s work was in the vein of social realism. During the 1940s and 1950s he became deeply invested in portraying everyday Manhattan and Harlem scenes. He first became interested in the Ashcan school at the National Academy of Design, and remained committed to an interest in working with urban scenes. His lively treatment of people and events revealed his affinity for sixteenth-century artist Pieter Breughel...

PARR (1893-1969) KINNGAIT (CAPE DORSET) HUNTER HAULING A SEAL, 1966 #2, Stonecut, signed, titled numbered 28/50 Dorset 1966. Image 14 x 22 ¼. Full sheet ...

Oil painting on panel by artist P. Fragiacomo, dating from the 1910s. The work, titled "Sail," depicts a small sailboat in the middle of the sea with a figure on board seen from behi...

1920's landscape painting of the Dolomite Mountains in Italy by the Italian artist Carlo Pollonera . - Carlo Pollonera captures the lightness and air of the Dolomites so proficientl...

circa 1950. Woodblock print in black and gray ink on Japon laid paper, 10 1/4 x 15 3/4 inches (260 x 398 mm), full margins. With the artist's embossed chop mark in red ink in the l...

Mario Larrinaga was born in Baja California in 1895 and moved with his brother to Los Angeles in 1909. He had no formal training in art, but had natural talent that was noticed by local movie studios. He was hired by Universal Studios as a designer, art director and creator of background scenes. He produced some of the background effects for King Kong in 1933. After a career in set design and illustration he focused on painting for pleasure in California, Mexico and Hawaii. He belonged to local art clubs and exhibited his works often. This stylized modernist work was likely created around 1960. It is oil on wood panel and of a horizontal format, 18” x 36”. It portrays a procession of seemingly Hawaiian natives...

Dramatic, monumental oil painting laid to Masonite by George Matthews Harding (1882-1959). Painter, illustrator and muralist, Harding was born in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pyle...

JOHN HAYMSON – "BROOKLYN BRIDGE" ⚜ Oil on Canvas ⚜ Hand Signed ⚜ Conservation Frame NEW YORK ICON IN VIVID DETAIL This atmospheric oil painting by John Haymson captures the enduring...

Proof sheet with four wood engraved book plates by Rockwell Kent. Possibly for a book on this subject published in 1937. There are pencil numbers under each image that probably indic...

Sergio Hernández (Mexico, 1957) 'El Circo' (Circus), 2010 woodcut on paper Velin Arches 300 g. 45.7 x 78 in. (116 x 198 cm.) Edition of 40 Unframed

Bold woodcut print by M. Sheppard (20th Century). This piece is filled with Neolithic imagery of people and animals. There are two figures that are engaged in hunting and several pre...