Knute Heldner, born in Vederslov Smoland, Sweden, was a painter and woodcarver who spent the latter part of his professional career in New Orleans, Louisiana gaining national and international recognition for his Louisiana landscapes. His early formal training was at Karlskrona Technical School and the National Royal Academy of Stockholm. Heldner immigrated to the United States about 1902, arriving first in Boston and moving later to the Great Lakes region. He held a variety of jobs such as miner, cobbler and lumber camp cook in Minnesota and continued his art education at the Minneapolis School of Fine Art. His early artwork focused on the manual labor of mining and lumbering in paintings titled Veterans of the Mines and The Lumberjacks. His later work in Southern landscapes including The Cotton Pickers retained a subject interest in the physical aspects of work. He first exhibited his artwork around 1915, when he entered a painting in a Minnesota State Fair competition and won the Gold Medal. In the mid-twenties, Heldner began spending his winters in New Orleans where he painted Vieux Carre scenes and Louisiana landscapes. In the summers, he returned to Duluth, Minnesota. He was an active member of local art communities in both New Orleans and Duluth. In New Orleans, he joined the Southern States Art Union organized by Ellsworth Woodward and was a charter member of the New Orleans Art League. The Art Association of New Orleans hung Heldner's first one-man show at the Isaac Delgado Museum of Art in 1926. He also taught painting at the New Orleans Art School established by the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans. Heldner continued to study art through the twenties and thirties at the Chicago Art Institute, the Academy of Scandinavian Art in Paris, and under the direction of artists David Erickson, Dispieu and others. In 1926, he won the highest honors at the Swedish-American Art Exhibition in Chicago, and in 1932 he held one-man shows at the Salon d'Automne in Paris, a gallery in Stockholm, and the Arts and Crafts Club of New Orleans Gallery. In the thirties, Heldner participated in the Workers Progress Administration Federal Art Project in Louisiana continuing to paint landscapes as well as portraits. The New Orleans Assembly of Delphians purchased a Heldner painting Petit Vernon and donated it to the Isaac Delgado Museum in 1937. His paintings also hang in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institute, the White House, and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris. Heldner married Colette Pope and had two children, Paulette and Franz. He died in New Orleans in 1952.
Knute Heldner Louisiana Swamp Cabin with Goats, Original Oil Painting
By Knute Heldner
Located in New Orleans, LA
A fine Knute (Knut) Heldner oil painting of a shack in the Louisiana swamps with goats and a pirogue in the background. Signed lower right. As you likely know if you are reading this...
Oil
Knute Heldner, Louisiana Swamp Landscape, Original Oil Painting, New Orleans
By Knute Heldner
Located in New Orleans, LA
A classic Louisiana swamp scene by Knute (Knut) Heldner, executed in oil on canvas board. Signed lower left. The painting depicts the atmospheric swamplands of southern Louisiana, a subject for which Heldner is particularly well known and which remains especially desirable among collectors of Louisiana art. Heldner is regarded as one of the significant names in 20th-century Louisiana painting. He lived and worked in New Orleans with his wife, the noted artist Colette Pope Heldner, and both became closely associated with the city's artistic community. The couple painted extensively throughout southern Louisiana, finding inspiration in its bayous, swamps, waterways and moss-draped landscapes, as well as in the streets and architecture of the French Quarter. During the Heldners' years there, the French Quarter was home to a lively and famously bohemian community of artists, writers and colorful local characters. Knut Heldner, who received his early artistic training in Europe, brought a distinctly painterly approach to the Louisiana landscape, capturing not simply its appearance but its light, atmosphere and often mysterious mood. This painting is an especially characteristic example of Heldner's Louisiana work, with the swamp rendered in the atmospheric, expressive manner immediately associated with the artist. It has the unmistakable sense of place that has made Heldner's Louisiana swamp and bayou paintings...
Oil
$4,500
H 20.5 in W 29.25 in D 1.5 in
Figures, Boats, and House - Cape May Point, NJ, Impressionist Beach Scene, 1940s
By Albert Van Nesse Greene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Figures, Boats, and House - Cape May Point, NJ" is a Pennsylvania Beach Scene by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The ...
Oil, Canvas
$6,500
H 25 in W 31 in D 2 in
Horse at the Golden Hills, California , Impressionist California landscaper.
By Lynn Gertenbach
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Lynn Gertenbach's "Ride at Golden Hills" is a remarkable oil painting that captures a serene moment of a lady riding a horse under a tree, surrounded by lush grass and vibrant scener...
Oil
$550
H 9 in W 12 in D 1.5 in
"Idaho Road" - Original Oil Landscape Painting on Paper and Cradled Board
By Samantha Buller
Located in Denver, CO
About the Artist: Samantha Buller currently lives in Sonoma County after painting and teaching in Kansas for the past two years. She received her BFA in Painting from the Academy of ...
Oil, Paper, Board
$7,800
H 30.5 in W 36.5 in D 1.5 in
American Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting "California Highlands" Los Angeles
By Charles Smith
Located in Portland, OR
A very attractive California Impressionist oil on canvas painting by Charles L. A. Smith, "California Highlands", dated 1930. This very attractive large painting by one of the foremo...
Canvas, Oil
Late Winter Snow
By Ernest Albert
Located in New York, NY
Signed and dated lower right Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Ernest Albert won the Graham Art medal given by the Brooklyn School of Design at the age of fifteen and shortly t...
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
H 23 in W 27 in D 3 in
Melting Snow in Ploughed Field. American Impressionist Painting Winter Scene.
By William Horton
Located in Marco Island, FL
A lovely little Impressionist landscape of Melting Snow in a Ploughed Field, painted by William Samuel Horton (1856-1936). William Horton, primarily a landscape painter, lived and...
Oil, Canvas
$1,400
H 16.5 in W 19.5 in D 1.5 in
Boat Oxford Md Impressionistic Seascape Painting Michael Budden Fresh Paint
By Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Fresh Paint oil/panel 11 x 14 unframed 16.5 x 19.5 framed signed LL Fresh Paint is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a bea...
Oil
$4,500
H 32 in W 38 in
Female American Impressionist PICNIC BATHERS Painting Sothebys Provenance
Located in New York, NY
Eloise Carpenter Egan 1920’s Oil on Canvas 22x28 inches unframed 32x38 inches framed Signed lower right Wide Gilded Frame Sold at sothebys with photo attached over 35 years ago! P...
Oil
$3,000
H 18 in W 24 in D 1 in
Hilton Head Beach, Oil on Panel, Impressionism, 18 x 24 , American Artist, Sun
By Jim Beckner
Located in Houston, TX
Hilton Head Beach is an example of the bright colors that Beckner uses in his paintings. The orange umbrella paintings were painted at Hilton Head, South C...
Oil
$2,200
H 16 in W 20 in D 1.75 in
A Canal in Venice Italy Landscape Landscape Water Boats
By James Crandall
Located in Houston, TX
The Venice Canals community is located in the Venice neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, a few blocks from Venice Beach. The Venice Canals are located south of the City of Santa...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$26,000
H 22 in W 28 in
Bridge Nocturne oil painting by Johann Berthelsen
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Hudson, NY
One of Johann Berthelsen's iconic nocturne views of New York City across the Hudson River. Bridge Nocturne (c.1945) Oil on canvas, 22" x 28" 29 ½" x 36" x 2" framed Signed "Johann ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,000
H 18 in W 24 in D 1 in
Afternoon at the Beach, Oil on Panel, Impressionism, 18 x 24 , American Artist
By Jim Beckner
Located in Houston, TX
Afternoon at the Beach is an example of the bright colors that Beckner uses in his paintings. The orange umbrella paintings were painted at Hilt...
Oil
$1,500
H 16 in W 20 in
"Mt. Evans and Bierstadt, Colorado" (2016) By David Shingler, Oil Landscape
By David Shingler
Located in Denver, CO
David Shingler’s "Mt. Evans and Bierstadt, Colorado" (2016) is an original oil painting on wood panel, measuring 16 x 20 inches (40.64 x 50.80 cm). Known for his dynamic landscapes r...
Oil, Wood Panel
$3,000
H 26 in W 32 in D 4 in
Gordon Brown, oil on panel, "The River in Autumn" , 18 x 24. Colorado
By Gordon Brown
Located in Basalt, CO
Gordon Brown b.1962, Colorado. "The River in Autumn" 2020. When pressed for information about his painting style, Gordon Brown politely and respectfully responds, “I appreciate w...
Oil, Panel
$5,500
H 36 in W 46 in D 3 in
Michael J. Lynch b. 1950. Oil on canvas. "Taos Pattern" 1989. 30 x 40.
By Michael J. Lynch
Located in Basalt, CO
Michael J. Lynch b.1950. Born and raised in Denver, CO. Noted for his western landscape paintings of Colorado, California, New Mexico, etc. This lovely work, dated 1989, show th...
Canvas, Oil
Northern Minnesota Twilight
By Knute Heldner
Located in Missouri, MO
Knute Heldner (1877-1952) "Northern Minnesota Twilight" c. 1930s Oil on Board Signed Site: 25 x 30 inches Framed: 29 x 34.5 inches Knute Heldner, born ...
Oil, Board
Moss Gatherer's Cabin
By Knute Heldner
Located in Missouri, MO
Knute Helner (Swedish/American 1877-1952) "Moss Gatherer's Cabin" 1938 Oil on Board Signed Titled and Dated Verso Artist's Monogram Verso Provenance: Artist to Private Collection and By Descent Site Size: 20 x 16 images Framed Size: 25.5 x 21.5 inches Knute Heldner...
Oil, Board