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Pair of 19 century oil on porcelain portraits
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of fabulous 19 century oil on porcelain portraits. These finally detailed paintings are most likely, a husband and wife. The male portrait could possibly be Napoleon the second....
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Crusader Wall"
By Marjorie Cathcart
Located in San Francisco, CA
By naming her work “Crusader Wall,” Berkeley, California painter Marjorie Cathcart (1918-2014) was sharing the location of her inspiration with posterity. However, there are at least...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“In the Beginning”
By Lester Russon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Some say that life on earth may have first bubbled up from hot spots on the ocean floor, the Primordial Soup. Based on its title, “In the Beginning,” it’s likely that American artist...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pulsating Energy in the Abstract
Located in San Francisco, CA
The beauty of an abstract painting is that you can read into it whatever you imagine. For a work that is wall-to-wall taupe, this one has surprising vibrancy. Perhaps Giovenetti, the...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Passage in the Levant
Located in San Francisco, CA
A flight of fancy, this work is a bit of a surprise for a 20th-century California painter. With its colorful dhows topped by lateen sails and attended by turbaned sailors, the artist Anthony Muscat...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunburst over the Mesas
Located in San Francisco, CA
In late spring, the high desert floor is still covered with grass and flowering yuccas. Against this colorful backdrop, the artist has captured a burst of sunlight breaking through t...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunshine on the Waterfront
By Carl Thorp
Located in San Francisco, CA
We’ve all seen the practical, plain and dreary structures of a fishing village somewhere at water’s edge. And we recognize the mindset: in lean circumstances something is good enough...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Woodland Study”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Remarkably, this painting tells its own story on the verso. To save your eyesight, here's what it reveals: James McDougal Hart (1828-1901) Landscape, animal, and portrait painter.
A ...
Category
1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
The Sacrifice
Located in San Francisco, CA
Given the subject of this painting, you won't be surprised to learn that actor and artist Vincent Price was a patron of Noel Rockmore (1928-1995), this work's American artist. Additi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Still Life with a Guitar
Located in San Francisco, CA
When you enter visually into the sumptuous scene captured in this painting, the unknown artist is playing with you. They are teasing you to slightly suspend your careful awareness of...
Category
1940s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections of Trees at Dusk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Much about this late 19th-century painting remains a mystery, including the name of the artist who only left their identity in a single-letter monogram. But the work's moody embrace ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Elderly Couple
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a timeless expression of social realism, in the style of the late American artist Ben Shahn. You sense the couple has shared a lifetime. Still standing close together, th...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Boy and His Rooster
Located in San Francisco, CA
The boy with a grown man’s expression. The dignified rooster, unfazed by his situation. This may have been painted from a 19th-century photograph, given the sepia tones of this paint...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Serene Cubist Industrial Site
Located in San Francisco, CA
Only an artist (or a stockholder) could see the beauty in a cobbled-together industrial complex. Rendered by artist N. Robins in muted golds and greens, a typical hodgepodge of struc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Timeless Beauty of California’s Redwoods
Located in San Francisco, CA
One feels very small yet peaceful strolling among Sequoia Sempervirens, California’s oldest living residents. And if that’s not enough to make a human feel insignificant, these coast...
Category
1930s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Timeless Allure of the “Javanese Dancer”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Unsurprisingly, she was much admired when exhibited by artist Luis Cutron at the noted Laguna Beach Art Association, today’s Laguna Art Museum in coastal Southern California. Exotic ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The First Lovers, an Art Nouveau "Adam and Eve"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Working in the Art Nouveau period style of Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, artist Irina V. Karkabi has given form in this painting to the unimaginable, the moments whereby B...
Category
1990s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jockeys at the Rail
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s an instant in a competitive horse race—whether it’s at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, Santa Anita Park, Saratoga or Belmont—of the utmost ferocity. That’s when the riders are jamm...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waves Crashing on the Rocks
Located in San Francisco, CA
Here’s a recipe for an instant coastal escape. It’s all there in this painting, the exploding spray of seawater straight up into the salty air above the boulders, the endless variety...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Eye-Tricking Abstract
Located in San Francisco, CA
It's an abstract from the 1940s-1950s, but one with a brilliant trompe l’oeil effect. The artist’s intense focus for accuracy in color placement achieves three-dimensionality as if t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th-Century Calming Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This late 19th-century (or early 20th) painting can have a deeply calming effect on the viewer. Based on the framing label, which points to a supplier located at the time in The Hagu...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-Century Portrait of A Woman in A Lace Bonnet
Located in San Francisco, CA
The label on the back has faded with time, but it appears to read “His Great Grandmother’s Portrait presented to George Michael Beauridge on his 18th birthday by his Aunt (?) July 10...
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th-Century European Street Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
The very ordinariness of this European street scene is a delight. With Armistice recently signed, all the depravations of the recent war are letting up, enough so that two women can ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of Granddaddy’s White-hulled Steamship (Before the ‘29 Crash)
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s such a “Great Gatsby” thing, owning the 100-foot-plus motor yacht, especially when proudly sporting on the bow a distinctive burgee representing membership in an exclusive yacht...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Romance Novel Cover Illustration
Located in San Francisco, CA
As the writing on the verso suggests, this may have been proposed cover artwork for one of author Danielle Steel's staggering count of 182 novels. Booksellers and publishers routinel...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Venice, An Intimate View
Located in San Francisco, CA
It's the dream. One going back centuries. The glossy canals instead of streets reflecting the delicate hues of adjacent buildings, yes. But especially when these waterways are dotted...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Big Tent” An American Traveling Circus Comes to Town
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
Before there was the Cirque du Soleil to astonish audiences with extraordinary acrobatics and spectacular showmanship, America’s traveling circuses drew patrons to enormous tents pit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Caught it! Spearfishing a Wary Grouper
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the eternal man vs prey contest, spearfishing might be one of the most challenging sports. The fisherman must enter the alien watery realm to hunt, perhaps only equipped with snor...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Madonna, After Fra Filippo Lippi’s Uffizi Masterwork
By Fra Filippo Lippi
Located in San Francisco, CA
The yellowed and peeling typewritten label on the verso reads “MADONNA, Uffizi, Florence, FRA FILIPPO LIPPI, c.1406-1469 Florentine School.” It pays tribute where tribute is due to L...
Category
1950s Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Love" Boys With A Toy in Nigeria
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nigerian artist Akingbade Mayowa (born in 1988) titled this piece “Love.” Was he referring to the universal love of a father for his sons? Or perhaps ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
After A Cloudburst, An Evening Out in Paris
Located in San Francisco, CA
You saw the 1950s movie, "The Last Time I Saw Paris." This was painted about the same time. The city still recovering, grateful to be post-war, grateful to drive their 20-year-old au...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Dreamscape of a Broken Eggshell Floating on High, in Cerulean and Cream
Located in San Francisco, CA
There are days when you just want to curl up and tune out. While acknowledging that something might be amiss, might be broken, or even that one is close to drowning, the heavenly sce...
Category
1960s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A 19thC. Fantasy of Abundance
Located in San Francisco, CA
Almost a folk painting in its naiveté and awe of the abundance on display. It’s a direct reminder of another era when such fruits, imported from warmer, faraway climates were an uni...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cubist Cuban Country Chico
Located in San Francisco, CA
You cannot pass this doleful young man without engaging. If you have traveled, you have met him in the streets of Latin America, of India, of Africa and even some parts of the U.S. H...
Category
Early 2000s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
A Mendocino Artist's Abstract “Ode to Day”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Subtle but vibrant, this abstraction of a hibiscus in brilliant yellow is framed by a cluster of bird of paradise blooms in the shady foreground—the latter simplified into bursts of the plant’s renown color duo. Bring a garden inside without the watering and weeding. Nice.
According to the Smithsonian Institution’s archives, the artist Hilda Pertha...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) Dramatic Impressionist Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
Not a light and fluffy work, this dramatic impressionist landscape of a European village scene shortly after rainfall captures the moment when the sunshine is just breaking through a...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Muscular Nude Women Bathers at the Seaside
By Norbert Schlaus
Located in San Francisco, CA
No wilting roses here, these women have six-packs. Built with broad hips and firm stomachs, leading to muscled limbs, all proudly displayed here at water’s edge, they are modern Amaz...
Category
1950s Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Oil Portrait of Two Sisters With Their Dog
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eduard Leonardus Roelant (1842-1883, Belgium)
Outstanding antique oil portrait on wooden panel of two fashionably dressed sisters picking flowers as they walk their dog in a country...
Category
Mid-19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
J.E. Wilson, “A House in the Country”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Just about to come over the sand dune’s crest is a barefoot young woman, her hair in wisps about her face, wearing a voile cotton dress with leg of mutton sleeves, still in fashion a...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
James Carter, "Blue Print" Serenity in Ivory, Taupe & Black
Located in San Francisco, CA
Clarity plus precision in execution could yield, in this case, serenity. Perhaps this is the magic formula that has put James Carter’s works into such high-powered corporate collecti...
Category
1990s Photorealist Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
After Jacobus Joseph Eeckhout, A Dutch Drinking Companion in Golds, Red & Cream
Located in San Francisco, CA
As the actual artist and date of this piece are unknown, perhaps this genre painting was done by a skilled student. But certainly, at this skill level, it could have served to provid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
(Untitled) A Woman of Consequence
Located in San Francisco, CA
The realist portrait is of a no-nonsense woman. A mystery woman, one accustomed to being respected. By her subdued costume, not selected to flatter her, as well as by her analytical ...
Category
1890s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) A Clear, Bright Day for Optimism in Holland
Located in San Francisco, CA
This painting is optimism, itself, especially when you consider it was likely painted during the harsh decade following the end of World War II. The aftermath of the horror—you may r...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Still LIfe of Peace Roses from A Santa Fe Garden
Located in San Francisco, CA
The handwritten note on the bottom stretcher strip in back reads “Dear Ted, I’m glad you appreciate these Peace roses from Ann Marie’s Santa Fe Garden. E. Baber.” Well, who wouldn’t...
Category
1990s Dutch School Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Walking Among the Trees” A Winter Scene in Blue, Gray & White
Located in San Francisco, CA
Out for a breath of fresh air late on a wintery day, this adult and child are walking in a world of wonder in this painting. Crunching on the ice covering the shoveled pathway, the p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peaceful Venetian Canal Scenes in a Pair of Mid 20th-C. Paintings
Located in San Francisco, CA
This pair of timeless scenes of Venice are both by Venetian painter, Luigi Zugolo, who, according to Italy’s Ministry of Culture, was working in the early 20th century. Would we call...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) Filipina Woman with Pottery, in Beige, Black & Tan
Located in San Francisco, CA
Manilla-born painter Francisco “Paco” Gorospe (1939-2002) took a detour with this piece. Normally working with colors to rival any spring flower garden, h...
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Pieter Casteels III (1684-1749), Timeless, Exotic Birds & Fruits
Located in San Francisco, CA
There was a time, before photography, before airplanes, a time when multi-masted wooden ships carried wonderous things to ports throughout Northern Europe. Then, a faithful rendering...
Category
Late 20th Century Flemish School Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) Little Girl Cradling Her Black Cat, in Greens and Chestnut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Poignancy. A little girl hugging her black kitty rendered in any realistic palette would be cloying. But not here. You look longer. Tight little patterns bubble over in the backgroun...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Beagles" Early 19th C. Country People & Dogs. Rockefeller Provenance
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Originally the property of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., this watercolor scene, depicting a group of ordinary, early 19th-century English folk and their dogs resting in the shade, p...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
"Stained Glass" A Cathedral of Color
Located in San Francisco, CA
There was a time when pausing in a subdued environment dappled with the sunlit jeweled tones of stained glass helped to bring one closer to God. It may still work. Certainly, the Bri...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) A Tonalist’s Triumph of Roses and Anthurium
Located in San Francisco, CA
Who says you can’t hang a painting bursting with flowers in an all-neutrals room? At no risk of disturbing the peace, here’s an artwork done of roses and anthurium in surprisingly re...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) Portrait of A Distinguished Man in A Bowler Hat
Located in San Francisco, CA
In 1961, there would have been a chauffeured Rolls-Royce Phantom V limousine waiting for this gentleman curbside. Perhaps he was a new ambassador paying his respects to a head of gov...
Category
1960s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Maine Farmer" A late 20th-Century Abstract Painting in Red, Black & White
Located in San Francisco, CA
Not the visual expected of a painting carrying the title “Maine Farmer.” But this abstract composition manages to convey the flinty resolve of men who support their families on the output of demanding and “generally infertile” soils, as described by the University of Maine. Thank the Lord for blueberries.
Artist Abraham Elterman bestrides two countries. He was born in Mexico City and spent much of his education in the sciences, here in sequence: a B.Sc. in Physics at the nearly 475-year-old Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in his home town; a stint at Hebrew University of Jerusalem; a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the University of California, Berkeley; and then, taking a new direction with a residency in The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture located in Madison, Maine. Ah-ha, Maine!
Elterman’s website lists 22 exhibitions in both Mexico and California, starting in 1986, and inclusion in group shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California and the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled). A Moody, Golden-Tone Barbizon School Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
The subdued palette of the subject trees sets them against a background of palest yellow into amber for a striking effect reminiscent of dawn. The artist, Eduard Caret, was born in P...
Category
Mid-20th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid 20th Century, Painting of Seashells with Collage
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s a weathered, driftwood feel to this painting, "Archaeology," by California artist R.W. (Richard) Hacket (1917-1988). Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hackett was undoubt...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Panel, Paper
Mid 20thC Painting, Ghost-like Figures Against Bronze Background
Located in San Francisco, CA
Subdued bronzes and saddle leather tones provide a rich background for a cluster of mysterious, ghostlike figures--"The Visitors" of the painting's title--imagined as weathered paint...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Explosive Abstract in Vibrant Blue, Red and Black
By Heinie Hartwig
Located in San Francisco, CA
Small but mighty. A moment caught, an explosion of energy, of color. And such a departure for California artist Heinie Hartwig (b. 1937), who is known primarily for his Western subje...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
NOLA's French Quarter in Exuberant Impasto
Located in San Francisco, CA
The vibrant French Quarter is brilliantly depicted in "Bourbon Street in New Orleans" by California-based artist Pablo Cucaro in a rich palette of chestnut, Tiffany Blue and black. S...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
