J. Phillip Davies Landscape Paintings

This large painting is a ca. 1960 copy of a famous Rockwell Kent painting that was executed in Vermont in 1921. The work is oil on canvas and well represents the original image, tho...

WPA Landscape American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Farm Rural James McCracken (1875 – 1967) WPA Landscape 28 x 36 inches Oil on canvas, c. 1930s Signed lower right ...

Buffalo, NY Steel Mill American Scene Modernism WPA Era Industrial 20th Century Ruth A. Haven Gay (1911-1992) “Buffalo, NY Steel Mill”, c. 1935 23 x 28 inches Oil on canvas Signed G...

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...

"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) "6th Avenue El" 12 1/4 x 14 1/4 Oil on canvas board, c. 1940s Signed lower righ...

Inscribed lower left: [WEST]FORD BRIDGE / [CA]MBRIDGE VT; signed lower right: SLOANE

Summer Resort in Michigan is an exceptional work painted by the Chicago Modernist, William Schwartz. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago shortly ...

Provenance: The Artist. Menikoff collection (friends of the artist) 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. Later in his career, he focused on producing images of nudes and picturesque New Hampshire landscapes, and investigated the relationship between color and form. Prestopino exhibited at several biennials at the Corcoran Gallery, at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art. His work was frequently shown at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he was awarded the Temple Gold Medal in 1946 and an additional prize in 1952. He was awarded a National Institute of Arts and Letter Grant in 1961, and in 1972 the National Academy of Design awarded him the Altman Figure Painting Award. Prestopino’s artistic cache skyrocketed when Life magazine published his images from New York’s maximum security institution Green Haven as part of its “Prison Series” in 1957. That same year his paintings and sketches of urban life were featured in the short film Harlem Wednesday. Directed by John and Faith Hubley...

Painting size 12 ½" x 14 ½", framed 18" x 20 ¼" x 2" Signed "Friedman" lower right Inscribed verso: "Title: Autumn Day Drive. Associated impressions of two drives Hudson River and F...

Striking regionalist painting by American/Hungarian artist Charles Harsanyi. Autumn Colors in Stephenstown NY. 15" x 20" Oil on board with bold brushwork housed in a 19.25 x 24.25 white washed period frame. Charles Harsanyi (American, 1905-1973) Charles E. Harsanyi was born in Tapolcza, Hungary in 1905. He studied at the Royal Academy in Budapest, Hungary with A. Bankhard from 1923 to 1928. Nineteen years later, in 1947, Harsanyi moved to the U. S., settling in Jackson Heights, New York. The painter and drawing specialist became a member of numerous prestigious art clubs including the Salmagundi Club, The Society of Independent Artists and the Allied Artists of America. Harsanyi served as an awards director and chairman of admissions for the Audubon Artists Association during the 1950s. Later in life after living in Stephentown, New York and Cape Coral, Florida, Harsanyi passed away in Fort Myers, Florida in 1973. STUDIED Royal Academy in Budapest, Hungary with A. Bankhard, 1923-28 MEMBER Salmagundi Club, 1941 Brooklyn Painters & Sculptors American Artists Congress Society of Independent Artists Audubon Artists Association, jury awards director, 1952; chairman admissions committee, 1953; nominating committee, 1955, 1956 Artists Fellow Allied Artists of America, life member; jury awards 1945; jury selection, 1954 AWARDS Long Island Art League, 1954 (prize) Cumberland Valley Artists, 1949, 1950, 1952 (prizes) EXHIBITIONS: Society of Independent Artists, 1929, 1930, 1936-40, 1943, 1944 National Academy of Design, 1933-55 Salons of America, 1934 Brooklyn Museum, 1934 Corcoran Gallery, 1935-51 (four times) Allied Artists of America, 1935-53 (bronze medals 1944, 1953) Doctor Saharunis Art Gallery, Naples, Florida, 1970s American Federation of Arts traveling exhibit Farnsworth Museum, 1950 Springfield Museum of Art, 1947-50 Denver Art Museum, 1937-39 Washington County Museum of Fine Art, 1937-46 (prizes 1938, 39, 41, 43, 54) (gold medal 1946) Butter Art Institute, 1953 World's Fair, New York, 1939 Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939 Art Institute of Chicago, 1941-44 Cincinnati Art Museum, 1941 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1942, 1948, 1949 Salmagundi Club, 1946 (prize), 1951 (prize) Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, 1942, 1943, 1945, 1953, 1955 (William Bradford...

Fine WPA period painting by Morris Shulman. The painting is oil on canvass measuring 24" x 30". Signed M Shulman and dated '40 at the lower right. Titled verso "Spring Flood." Shul...

Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970) Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight Oil on Canvas Signed lower left 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed Bio In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...