Jonas Lie Art

Jonas Lie Frosty Morning, 1923 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 40 x 50 inches Provenance The artist Ainslie Galleries, New York Samuel and Ileen Campbell Wright Museum of Art, Beloi...

A fine impressionist landscape of a winter stream by American artist Jonas Lie (1880-1940). Lie was born in Moss, Norway to an accomplished Norwegian engineer and an American mother. Named after his uncle, a novelist and close friend of Henrik Ibsen, Jonas went to Paris to live with his uncle in 1892, after his father's death. Surely it was here, the twelve year-old boy was influenced by the creative spirit found in his uncle's home. In 1893, Jonas moved to New York City, where he took evening classes at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League while working designing fabric patterns for a textile company to raise money to support his education. After the completion of his education, Lie spent most of his summers along the New England coast and Canada. Here he would paint bright, impressionistic harbor scenes and rocky, coastal views, which he would exhibit regularly. The landscapes and coastal paintings Lie created in New England can be characterized by a facile, broad handling of pigment and an impressionistic sense of light and air. was a prolific painter, known for his coastal views of New England and New York scenes. He became the president of the National Academy of Design from 1935 to 1939, a year before his death. Lie was also known for a series of paintings of the last days of construction of the Panama Canal in 1913. These paintings were given to the United States Military Academy...

Jonas Lie (Norwegian/American, 1880-1940), "Children Bathing in a Forest Pool", Oil on Canvas, signed lower left, F.B. Horowitz Fine Art Ltd. label verso, carved giltwood frame. Imag...

Original Vintage Poster "On The Job For Victory" by Jonas Lie. U. S. military World War 1 antique poster, archival linen backed and in A- condition. Read...

Jonas Lie (American, 1880-1940) Boat at the End of a Jetty OIl on canvas board Signed lower right 12.75 x 10.5 inches 18.75 x 16.75 inches, framed Jonas Lie was a prolific painter, ...

A wonderful depiction of modern transportation and American industrialism in the early 20th Century. This painting of steamships around New York City is done in an impressionistic s...

Provenance Private collection; Christie's, Fine American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, New York, March 9, 2007, lot 120 A fine example of Jonas Lie's mature artistic style, Wi...

The artwork is mainly oil pastel with several touches of gouache and is a still life of a bowl of fruit. The artwork is done on heavy archival paper. The artist is Jonas Lie...

A wonderful depiction of modern transportation and American industrialism in the early 20th Century. This painting is beautifully done in an impressionistic style by the accomplishe...