Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

American, 1907-1985

Michael Loew was born on May 8, 1907 and was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker and from 1926–29, he studied at the Art Students League. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany and Italy with a group of artists, including Max Schnitzler and Alfred Jensen. When he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly and for the next two years, he paid his apartment rent with his paintings. In 1935, he found work with the Works Progress Administration where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World's Fair. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives and in fact, Loew met his wife Mildred through a friend of de Kooning's. He traveled to Mexico in the late 1930s. Loew had a strong interest in artists' rights and activism and as president of the Artists Union, he led a protest which involved artists chaining themselves to poles in Union Square. After Pearl Harbor, Loew joined the Navy and served as the battalion artist for the Seabees in the Pacific. When he returned in 1946, his painting moved quickly toward abstraction. From 1947–49, he studied post-cubism at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. In 1948, he joined the Spiral Group, an organization of artists devoted to the exhibition of experimental art. The Artists Gallery in New York hosted his first one-man show in 1949 and one year later, he enrolled at the Atelier Léger in Paris. In 1956, he began teaching in the United States. By 1985 he had been an instructor at the Portland Museum School, University of California at Berkeley and the School of Visual Arts. His works are in the collections of prominent institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He died on November 14, 1985, in New York.

Artist: Michael Loew

Michael Loew"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan, 1928

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"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan

By Michael Loew

Located in New York, NY

"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan The size of the canvas 28 3/4 x 43 1/4 inches. The painting comes directly from the artist's estate. It is signed lower right as well as signed, titled and dated verso. We have available more than two dozen paintings and works on paper from the 1930s - 80s that come directly from the Loew estate. BIO Michael Loew (1907 – 1985) was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker, and from 1926-1929, he studied at the Art Students League. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany, and Italy with a group of artists. When he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly, and for the next two years he paid his apartment rent with his paintings. In 1935, he found work with the WPA where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World’s Fair. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. In the mid-30’s he painted in Mexico and the Yucatán documenting the construction of a U.S. Naval airbase on Tinian Island. It was from this airbase that the Enola...

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1920s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Francis ChapinA Bustling, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Summer Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard, Circa 1950

$950

H 10.5 in W 19.75 in D 1.25 in

A Bustling, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Summer Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A Bustling 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A busy harbor scene of sandy shoreline, docks and boat...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rudolph PenA Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Figurative Landscape Painting by Rudolph Pen, circa 1960

$2,800

H 36 in W 50 in D 2 in

A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Figurative Landscape Painting by Rudolph Pen

Located in Chicago, IL

A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with standing female bathers by notable Chicago artist, Rudolph T. Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely ex...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rudolph PenA Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting w. Female Figures, circa 1960

$1,800

H 25 in W 37 in D 2 in

A Large, Dynamic Mid-Century Modern Landscape Painting w. Female Figures

Located in Chicago, IL

A large, dynamic Mid-Century Modern summer landscape painting with female bathers by noted Chicago artist, Rudolph Pen. A wonderful example of the artist's uniquely expressive figur...

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1960s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Norman BarrNeighbors, 1939

$3,250

H 22 in W 26 in D 1 in

Neighbors

By Norman Barr

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Neighbors, 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 22 x 26 inches Norman Barr was an American Scene painter and muralist known for his poignant depictions of working-clas...

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1930s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Henrietta Berk"Taos Road" Henrietta Berk, Abstracted Landscape, Bright Red, Expressionist, circa 1966

$25,000

H 56 in W 49 in

"Taos Road" Henrietta Berk, Abstracted Landscape, Bright Red, Expressionist

By Henrietta Berk

Located in New York, NY

Henrietta Berk Taos Road, circa 1966 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 54 x 47 inches Provenance The artist The Carter Gallery, Los Angeles Phyllis and Stanley Goldberg, Palm Springs,...

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1960s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Francis ChapinA Colorful, Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Martha's Vineyard Harbor Scene, circa 1950

$2,200

H 22 in W 29 in D 2 in

A Colorful, Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Martha's Vineyard Harbor Scene

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A vibrant, colorful harbor scene of Martha's Vineyard by notable Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Depicting a quiet inlet with sandy shoreline, boat houses and...

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1950s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Francis ChapinA Serene 1940s, Modern Western Landscape Painting with Horses by Francis Chapin, circa 1940

$2,800

H 25 in W 31 in D 1.5 in

A Serene 1940s, Modern Western Landscape Painting with Horses by Francis Chapin

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

A serene, 1940s Modern Western landscape painting with horses by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Accompanied with a handsome walnut brown stained wooden frame. Canvas size: 22 x 28 inches. Framed size: 25 x 31 inches. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...

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1940s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Charles E. WilletteConey Island, Fourth of July, c. 1940s

$4,500

H 26 in W 21.5 in D 2 in

Coney Island, Fourth of July

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Coney Island, Fourth of July, c. 1940s, oil on canvas applied to Masonite, signed upper right, 26 x 21 1/2 inches, presented in its original frame During the 1930s and 40s, Coney I...

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1940s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Adelaide Lawson Gaylor"New York Skyline" Adelaide Lawson Gaylor, Modernist Landscape, Female Artist, circa 1925

$18,000

H 49.5 in W 46.5 in

"New York Skyline" Adelaide Lawson Gaylor, Modernist Landscape, Female Artist

Located in New York, NY

Adelaide Lawson Gaylor New York Skyline, circa 1925 Oil on canvas 48 x 45 inches Modernist artist Adelaide Jaffrey Lawson Gaylor was born in New York City and studied at the Art St...

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1920s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

William SchwartzLate Afternoon - Modernist Mid-Century Midwest Oil Painting, 1935

$36,000

H 20 in W 30.25 in D 2 in

Late Afternoon - Modernist Mid-Century Midwest Oil Painting

Located in Marco Island, FL

A quintessential American Scene landscape painted by the Chicago Modernist, William Schwartz. Workers in tilled fields surrounding a farmstead under dramatic skies. Painted in 1935...

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1930s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

William Charles PalmerFish Story oil painting by Williams Charles Palmer, Circa 1944

$7,500

H 30 in W 36 in

Fish Story oil painting by Williams Charles Palmer

Located in Hudson, NY

This painting is illustrated in the Catalogue of the 1945 Encyclopedia Britannica Collection of Contemporary American Painting, p.84. Written and edited by Grace Pagano. "Painting ...

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Mid-20th Century American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Thomas CraigSix O'Clock

$12,500

H 20 in W 30 in D 2 in

Six O'Clock

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA About the Painting Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.” About the Artist Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...

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1940s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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Michael Loew"Refugees" Mexican American Oil Painting Depression Era WPA Mid-Century Modern, 1937

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H 28 in W 33 in D 1 in

"Refugees" Mexican American Oil Painting Depression Era WPA Mid-Century Modern

By Michael Loew

Located in New York, NY

"Refugees" Mexican American Oil Painting Depression Era WPA Mid-Century Modern. The Whitney Museum's current exhibition, VIDA AMERICA, prompts us to share this Michael Loew work, which he painted in Mexico in 1937. The 28 x 33 inch oil on canvas is unframed. You may already be familiar with Michael Loew for his abstract expressionist works. But earlier in his career, he worked for the WPA and in the late 1930's he traveled to Mexico. We are currently working with the Loew estate which owns many photographs he took in Mexico and the diaries of his time there. We can share lots of details. This particular painting, Refugees, was in the artist's estate when he died in 1985 and has been in storage since that time. It is in fine vintage condition. There is some paint loss but the colors are vibrant and it will restore beautifully. This painting, and other works by Loew, are available. Michael Loew was born in 1907 and was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker, and from 1926-1929, he studied at the Art Student's League. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany, and Italy with a group of artists, including Max Schnitzler...

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1930s American Modern Michael Loew Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Michael Loew landscape paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Michael Loew in canvas, fabric, oil paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 1920s and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Michael Loew landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 43 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of George G. Adomeit, Charles Ragland Bunnell, and Frank Wilcox. Michael Loew landscape paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $7,500 and tops out at $7,500, while the average work can sell for $7,500.