William C. Grauer Landscape Paintings

"Sea Cliff" Mid Century Modern Coastal Cliff Seascape in Acrylic on Masonite Expansive seascape by notable California artist Farren Jensen (American, 19...

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

You are viewing a modernist American acrylic painting depicting a charming but rundown seaside town at night. Robert Noel Blair (American, 1912-2003) was an American artist, paint...

Carl Thorp 1912-1989 1963 “Entrance to Hunts Circus” Oil on Board 18x24 inches Image size 24x39 inches with frame Good condition Carl Thorp and was an American artist who studied at...

Elm trees in autumn at the edge of Salt Creek, Illinois, by Mary H. Brubaker (American, b. 1891). Signed and dated "Mary H. Brubaker 35" in the lower left cor...

Step into the tranquil beauty of the American West with “View from the Park,” a stunning original oil on canvas by renowned Colorado modernist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968). Th...

Atilt, 1982, acrylic on canvas, 32 x 48 inches, signed and dated lower right, “Alfred P. Maurice 2725 A South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, 60616” inscribed verso, “ATILT” inscribed verso, “Maurice.018” inscribed on frame, exhibited: 1) Alfred P. Maurice Artist in the City Paintings 1979 - 1997, Archer Gallery of Clark College, Vancouver, WA, April 8 – April 30, 1997, #11, and 2) An Artful Life: Celebrating the Life of Creator, Teacher, and Collector Alfred Maurice...

Gorgeous plein air landscape of California East Bay Hills titled "Waning Light" by Francis Woodcock (1906 - 1983), circa 1960s. Signed lower right and on vers...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- From Robertson's Artist Statement, "Growing up on the plains of west Texas, I understood the notion of wide, open spaces. The tablet...

The Cosmos and Tree - Original Abstracted Composition by Dave Francis Unique and thought-provoking abstracted composition with cosmos and oak tree by California artist Charles "Dave...

Beautiful, historic painting of the California desert in bloom by listed Santa Cruz artist Charles O. Fuson (American, 1898-1981). Signed "C.O. Fuson" lower left. Titled, signed on v...

Tower and Wires, 1987, acrylic on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 16 inches, exhibited: Alfred P. Maurice Artist in the City Paintings 1979 - 1997, Archer Gallery of Clark College, ...