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Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board. BIO The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...

"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers Don Freeman (1908-1978) Pay Day 20 x 30 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower right BIO Illustr...

Yana Beylinson's (US based) "Confetti" is an oil painting that depicts impressionistic white Sunflowers in a glass vase with pink, and purple flowers on a grey background. Artist Bi...

Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Still life - Oil Oil on canvas glued to board. Measures work 46x55 cm. Frameless. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan...

Panting size: 10 x 13 in. Frame Size: 16 x 19 in. Medium: Oil on board. Signed, top left, "Marcus Hodge" Inscribed, top left, "La Turbie, Monaco" This expressive scene rendered in bold, juicy brush strokes of impasto oil paint, captures a cozy, warm interior scene, the artist, Marcus Hodge's home in Monaco. The room is bathed in an intimate, low light, with a comfortable-looking, cream-colored sofa on the left, strewn with a colorful throw pillows. Above the sofa hangs a large, painting featuring broad strokes of blue and green that depict a duck on water. This painting within a painting references wildlife art created by the painter's father, Spencer Hodge...

Studio Interior Scene Mid 20th Century American Modern WPA Still Life Realism The painting measures 10 x 12 inches. Framed, the work is 13 1/4 x 15 1/...

Antonio Maria Aspettati (1880–1949) was an Italian painter born on 25 March 1880 in Florence, where he also trained at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He began exhibiting at just eig...

Yana Beylinson's (US based) "March" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts impressionistic yellow and mauve flowers and leaves on a white co...

Guy Pene du Bois' "Two Figures in Courtroom" is a WPA era American scene oil painting created in a realistic style. Modernism at its best The work is framed by Heydenryk. Pène du Bois descended from French immigrants who settled in Louisiana in 1738 and was raised in a Creole household. He was born in 1884 in Brooklyn, NY and first studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and later continued his training with Robert Henri. Pène du Bois was greatly impressed with Henri's credo that "real life" was subject matter for art and throughout his life a realist philosophy informed his art as well as his parallel career, art criticism. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto associated with the Ashcan School. By 1920, he had achieved his mature style, which was characterized by stylized, rounded, almost sculptural figures painted with invisible brushstrokes. The subjects of his paintings were often members of society whom he gently satirized. In 1924, Pène du Bois and his wife, Floy, left for France where they would remain until 1930. Returning to America showcases pictures the artist produced after this very productive period abroad. After five years of living in France, Pène du Bois was able to observe American life with fresh eyes. His work becomes more psychologically intense and less satirical. In Girl at Table a slender, blond is shown gazing at a small statue that she holds at arm's distance. The meaning is elusive, but a powerful sense of longing is evoked. Similarly, paintings such as Dramatic Moment and Jane are taut with unresolved dialogue. Both pictures depict mysterious interiors in which a lone woman anxiously awaits the denouement of a suspenseful scene. Other pictures, for example, Chess Tables, Washington Square and Bar, New Orleans, recall Pene du Bois's Ashcan origins in their depiction of urban entertainment. During this period, landscape becomes an important subject for Pène du Bois. Girl Sketching...

The 19th-century British School blended technical precision, emotional storytelling, and a deep interest in society and nature. While it was initially rooted in traditional and conse...

Still Life American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Woodstock Modern Dudensing Konrad Cramer (1888 – 1963) "Black Glass Bowl and Napkin" 16 ½ x 14 inches Oil on Board Singed lower...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman - Oil on board. Work measurements 46x38 cm. Frame size 64x56 cm. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He ...