Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts. However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early 20s traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the masters. As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There, he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring 20s. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. With the encouragement of new-found friends and artists such as George Luks and Herb Roth, he soon ventured out and devoted all his time to chronicling the architecture, back streets, dock scenes and other nostalgia that was fast disappearing from the face of Manhattan, mainly in copperplate etchings. A favorite subject for him was the Third Avenue El near one of his New York City studios on Third Avenue. He won accolades for his work, and although he traveled the East Coast recording landmarks in other cities including Washington DC, Baltimore, Chicago and Philadelphia, he always returned to his new home Manhattan. A decline in popular favor for etchings led him to put aside his plates in the late 1930s and devote some 10 years to pastels, linocuts and painting. His subject matter was almost exclusively New York City street scenes, but figurative works, country scenes and even experiments with Abstract Expressionism at the height of its new-found favor in the 1940s punctuated his career. In 1953, after learning of the forthcoming demise of the Third Avenue El, in the shadow of which he had maintained his studio for over a decade, he once again took to his plates and press and created a final series of Third Avenue and or other New York City landmarks that were then threatened with extinction. His work brings to light aspects of nostalgic New York that survives today only in small part, whether in architecture or spirit. Dolce's works are in several notable museums and private collections, including the Museum of the City of New York; the Print Collection of The New York Public Library; The New-York Historical Society; the Georgetown University Library; The Philadelphia Print Club and others. In the past few years, his work has been exhibited at Hofstra University Museum of Art, Long Island, New York; with the Montauk Artists' Association, Montauk, New York and at the Tribeca Gallery, New York City. An exhibition of his works on paper was held from February 28 to March 14, 2003, at the Belleclaire Hotel at 250 West 77th Street and Broadway in New York City. Featuring historic street and landmark scenes of New York City created from 1920 through 1952, it was held as a tribute to New York, which had been sharply in the world's focus following the events of the previous six months.
Leon Dolice Chrysler Building at Night
By Leon Dolice
Located in San Francisco, CA
Leon Dolice: 1892-1960. Well listed American artist with Auction results as high as $6000 for a pastel of the Chrysler building. This is exactly what you want in a Dolice. A tonalist...
Pastel
$8,500
H 8.5 in W 10.5 in D 1 in
Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape with Oak Trees
By Willard LeRoy Metcalf
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous late 19th century Tonalist landscape painting of foothills and oak trees in the style of Willard Leroy Metcalf circa 1900. Inscribed "M" in circle monogram lower left corner and on frame verso. Presented in original rustic giltwood frame. Image size: 6"H x 8"W. Framed size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail. Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...
Oil, Cardboard
Sunset River
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in New York, NY
Johann Berthelsen and one of New York city’s best known artists along with Guy Wiggins, depicting the streets, parks and skyline of New York. This is a romantic and atmospheric work ...
Paper, Pastel
Winter Rooftops
By Gustave Wolff
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Gustave Wolff
Oil
High Bridge, New York
By Gustave Wolff
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Gustave Wolff
Oil
"Mountain Labyrinths"
By John F. Carlson
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Ashley John is proud to offer this artwork by: John Fabian Carlson (1874/75 - 1945) John F. Carlson was one of the leading American landscape p...
Canvas, Oil
$423Sale Price|75% Off
H 16.15 in W 13 in D 0.79 in
French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life from J Robert⬅️ 🟢Jacques Robert (1921–1997) was a French writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Born on June 27, 1921, in Lyon, France, he began his career in journalis...
Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
New York City Street Scene at Night
By Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born i...
Paper, Pastel
$423Sale Price|77% Off
H 15.75 in W 15.75 in D 1.46 in
FRENCH SCHOOL Cat Curled up Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
☀️Cat curled up☀️ In the artistic world, animals have always been key protagonists in expressing the power and beauty of the wild. Artists often use animals as symbols to convey dee...
Mixed Media, Glue, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
$4,160Sale Price|20% Off
H 16 in W 20 in
Dennis Sheehan, "Winter Dusk", 16x20 Snowy Landscape Tonalist Oil Painting
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Winter Dusk", is a 16x20 winter landscape oil painting on canvas by artist Dennis Sheehan. Featured is view over a snow covered marshland during the evening hours. The w...
Canvas, Oil
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
H 8.75 in W 8.125 in
"Ploughing on the Hillside" Jean-Charles Cazin, Plein Air Landscape Sketch
By Jean-Charles Cazin
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Charles Cazin Ploughing on the Hillside Signed lower left Oil on board 6 1/2 x 6 inches The son of a well-known doctor, FJ Cazin, he was born at Samer, Pas-de-Calais. After st...
Canvas, Oil
$1,840Sale Price|20% Off
H 25.75 in W 14 in D 3 in
Early 20th Century Redwood Forest Sunset Reflections Landscape
By William Lemos
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Redwood Forest Sunset Reflections Landscape Beautiful early 20th century landscape of sunset over redwood forest stream by William Lemos (American, 1861-1942). A ...
Oil
$2,710Sale Price|20% Off
H 37.41 in W 37.41 in D 0.99 in
'Forest in the Fall', Contemporary Impressionist Pastel, Homage to Gustave Klimt
Located in Cotignac, FR
Contemporary Impressionist pastel of an autumnal woodland scene by Belgian artist Francis Besson. Signed to the very bottom right and presented in a simple gold contemporary frame un...
Paper, Pastel
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H 30 in W 48 in
"New York Harbor View, " Leon Dolice, Cityscape Skyline from the River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice View from New York Harbor, circa 1960 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 26 x 44 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Boston Private Collection, Worcester, Massachusetts Leon Dolice was one of the masters of the New York City street scene in the decades between the world wars. He showed an unquenchable fascination with the built urban environment and combined it with an interest in modernist technique and a knowledge of European art. His work helped to redefine realist painting and remains a brooding tribute and memorial to the New York of the 1920s and 1930s. Dolice was born in Vienna, Austria in 1892, the son of a machinist. As a young man, he worked as an illustrator and stage designer and traveled the capital cities of Europe, studying the works of the ‘old masters.’ At age 28, Dolice immigrated to New York City and moved to Greenwich Village, then in its first Bohemian incarnation. Dolice developed a friendship with George Luks and became proficient at the art of copperplate etching. Dolice owned an art gallery and studio in his home on Third Avenue and 32nd street where he sold his depictions of the city. One of his favorite subjects was the Third Avenue El, directly adjacent to this studio, but he also traveled the eastern coast, painting urban scenes in Washington D.C., Baltimore, and Philadelphia. Dolice’s New York City etchings...
Canvas, Oil
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H 17 in W 12 in
"Empire State Building" Leon Dolice, New York City Street Scene, Mid-Century
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice Empire State Building, circa 1930-40 Signed lower right Pastel on paper 19 x 12 inches Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York The romantic backdrop of Vienna at the turn of the century had a life-long influence upon the young man who was someday to be spoken of as showing promise of becoming "one of the greatest etchers of all time". Leon Dolice, born in Vienna on August 14, 1892, even as a young boy, preferred the lure of painting to the scholastic studies which his early years had expected of him. His father was a machinist, which exposed the boy to welding and metal crafts. However, his interest in art led him to abandon a secure future in the family business, and he spent most of his late teens and early twenties traveling through the capital cities of Europe studying the works of the Masters. As with many itinerant artists, he made his way in a variety of fashions metalworker, chef, designer somehow always managing to give vent to his creative instincts. Lured by the adventure of crossing the great Atlantic and by the freedoms of the New World, he came to America in 1920. There he was greeted by the turbulence of New York in the Roaring Twenties. Finding a retreat in the European Bohemianism of Greenwich Village, he picked the streets of this landmark neighborhood as his first subjects. With the encouragement of new found...
Paper, Pastel
“Trinity Church, New York City”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is dramatic oil on heavy fiberboard painting of downtown New York City and Trinity Church. Signed lower left and verso as we...
Oil, Fiberboard
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H 18.5 in W 25 in
"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Harmony), circa 1930-40 Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York Th...
Paper, Pastel
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H 24 in W 20 in
"Rainy Day, New York City" Modernist Urban Cityscape Mid-Century Street Scene
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1982 - 1960) Rainy Day, New York City, circa 1940 Oil on canvasboard 20 x 16 inches Signed on the reverse Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts Private Collecti...
Oil, Board
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H 18.5 in W 25 in
"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight (Harmony), circa 1930-40 Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York Th...
Paper, Pastel
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H 19.5 in W 24 in
"New York City Harbor" Leon Dolice, Downtown Skyline, East and Hudson River
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) New York Harbor Skyline at Twilight Pastel on paper 12 x 19 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Spanierman Gallery, New York The romantic backdrop of Vi...
Paper, Pastel
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H 14.5 in W 11 in
"Chrysler Building, " Leon Dolice, New York City, Mid-Century Modern Street View
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) Chrysler Building, New York City Pastel on paper Sight 9 1/2 x 6 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Maine The romantic backdrop of ...
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H 14.5 in W 11 in
"Empire State Building, " Leon Dolice, New York City, Mid-Century Modern Street
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) Empire State Building, New York City Pastel on paper Sight 9 1/2 x 6 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Maine The romantic backdrop...
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H 14.5 in W 11 in
"Trinity Church, " Leon Dolice, New York City, Mid-Century Modern Street View
By Leon Dolice
Located in New York, NY
Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960) Trinity Church, New York City Pastel on paper Sight 9 1/2 x 6 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Maine The romantic backdrop of Vie...
Paper, Pastel
Inside the Artist Studio, Still Life by Leon Dolice
By Leon Dolice
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large impressionist artist studio view with flower still life by Leon Dolice (1892 - 1960). Oil on canvas, circa 1925. Signed. Displayed in a silver leaf frame. Image size, 36"L...
Canvas, Oil
“View of Manhattan”
By Leon Dolice
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on board painting by the American artist, Leon Dolice. Signed lower left. Condition is excellent. View of Manhattan with the Empire State building in the distant. East River in t...
Oil, Board