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A Late 18th-Century Rural Family Scene
By George Morland
Located in San Francisco, CA
No sentimentality on the loose here. Not with the expressions on the mother and her three children all engaged in various forms of 18th-century drudgery on this late summer’s eve. An...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A 19th-Century Vista of Palermo and Monte Pellegrino
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s a lovely vista even today from this hillside spot recently ravaged by fire and filled in by 8- to 10-story high-rises in the basin below. Yet this work is a time capsule back to...
Category
19th Century Italian School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Theodore B Dahl (1886-1971) Beautiful Country Landscape W/ Figures Oil on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Theodore B Dahl (1886-1971) Beautiful Country Landscape With Figures
Oil Paint on Canvas
Framed 26"H x 34"W
Unframed 20"H x 27.75"W
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taos Adobe Wall and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Located in San Francisco, CA
A study in neutrals, the essence of timeless Taos comes together in this picture. The backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and particularly notice the brilliant light on the st...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Adobe Wall Taos Pueblo”
Located in San Francisco, CA
In perfect simplicity, the essence of timeless Taos comes together in this picture. Start with the cerulean sky and particularly notice the light on the structure, a magnet to painte...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Montmarte School of Utrillo
By Maurice Utrillo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous painting, after or school of Maurice Utrillo. The painting is an oil on board or canvas panel and is unsigned. By the color of the back of the painting, it seems to be from ...
Category
1940s French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mystery Signed Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful mystery painting signed lower left. I can only make out the first initial L the middle initial O and the last two initials of the last name look like IN or possibly TH. Thi...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mystery Impressionist mountain landscape with cabin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Up for sale another beautiful mystery painting. An impressionistic little gem with very accomplished broken brushstroke technique. Painting is signed and dated upper right but I cann...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Birth of a Star in Daylight
Located in San Francisco, CA
Someone had Coltrane on the HiFi as they channeled Jackson Pollock. There’s a dark Gauloise going—a habit picked up in those student years in Paris—with smoke emitting from the chrom...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Agapito Labios Girl with Birds
By Agapito Labios
Located in San Francisco, CA
Agapito Labios: 1898-1996. Well, listed Mexican Painter, who painted in the primitive Mexican style. He is best known for his paintings of young girls with either an inside or outsid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Oil Painting Mother and Father Birds on Nest
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous antique oil on board of a mother and father bird. The mother is sitting on the nest and the father is above keeping a watchful eye. The painting is most likely late 19th or ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Popocatépetl, the Second Highest Peak in Mexico
Located in San Francisco, CA
The reason Mexican painter Rafael Huerta Carreón was referred to as "El paisajista del Estado de México" (The landscapist of the State of Mexico) was his output of works like this, t...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Full Wind in the Sails
Located in San Francisco, CA
These magnificent ships, or carracks, depicted here in full sail were the heavy-duty workhorses of early 16th-century Spanish expeditions. Hernán Cortés used such ships to travel to ...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Snowstorm in Peru
Located in San Francisco, CA
Uruguayan painter D. Rodríguez Candhalés (1919-2004) traveled extensively in his dual careers as a successful painter and a professional soccer player. With this work, painted in Per...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Portrait of a Lady
Located in San Francisco, CA
Viewing the delicacy and grace of this portrait, one can appreciate that British artist Rosa Koberwein (1876–1903) was well recognized during her career for producing excellent portr...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Nude
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous 21st century modernist female nude. This colorful mystery painting measures 30 1/4 inches high by 10 1/4 inches wide. The frame measures 41 1/4 inches high by 21 1/4 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$950
Portrait of an Exceptional Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s the eyes you notice first, almost photographically rendered in this portrait, and very reminiscent of a certain film star whose first name was Paul. There’s a rock-solid steadin...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Attributed to Josef Lauer, Still Life with Roses, Tulips, Apples and Butterflies
By Josef Lauer
Located in San Francisco, CA
It would be hard to surpass the luscious allure of this 19th-century still life. Although unsigned, the vibrant colors and exquisite detailing reveal the hand of a master. That maste...
Category
19th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iowa City’s Portrait of Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a portrait of renowned English jurist Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780). Any attorney worth their standing with the state bar will recognize from law school days the aut...
Category
1880s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woodland Landscape with Terriers on a Hunt
Located in San Francisco, CA
An example of terriers at their most eager, these three are focused on the quarry. Just what they were bred to do. British animal painter Frank Wormald Cassell (1862-1908) was renown...
Category
Late 19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lonely Girl
Located in San Francisco, CA
No background setting is needed in this painting by Fichtl to reference solitude's impact on the young woman. Loneliness is etched into her features. The choice of a dark coat—is it ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Carousel & Blossoms"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed by the painter as Ed Warren, this painting is the artistic expression of famed American paranormal investigator and author, Edward "Ed" Warren Miney (...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ohio-born painter William J. Forsyth (1854-1935) spent most of his life in Indianapolis and initially trained at the Indiana School of Art. But by 1882 Forsyth wanted to hone his drawing and rendering skills abroad. He enrolled at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany. Fellow Hoosier students in Munich included artists T. C. Steele and J. Ottis Adams, which helped the new arrival’s transition.
Forsyth painted figures like this one while in Munich. One intriguing indication that this piece may have been done during the artist’s Academy period is that a very similar portrait of a remarkably similar sitter was described at auction as "German School, 1891" with the inscription "G. Büttner/Munich '91."
However, while there Forsyth shifted his interest to landscapes under the influence of American artist J. Frank Currier...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a 19th-century Japanese Gentleman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This striking and remarkably Western-style portrait of a distinguished Japanese elder was done in the winter of 1885. His layered clothing with subtle details suggests formal attire,...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Country Chic in a Pair of Citrus Paintings
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer are a pair of still life paintings that manage to be both rustic and stylish. Expressive of another era, their presence in even the most contemporary kitchen or breakfast ar...
Category
1950s Folk Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Haitian Country Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Haitian artist Jacksin Mésidor painted this from his Caribbean coastal hometown of Cap-Haitien in the north of his native land. As Haitian folk art, the painting delivers an archityp...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Man of Action
Located in San Francisco, CA
Here’s a man’s life in three volumes. In paint. On one canvas. And what a life! On the left, Volume 1, the labor movement against the monopolizing “Octopus” railroads and smoke-stack...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Craig Pursley Big Sur
Located in San Francisco, CA
Craig Pursley is a working artist mostly associated with California and New England. He was born in 1954 and is obviously an incredibly talented artist. The detail of this painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Delivering a Promise to Marry
Located in San Francisco, CA
During Renaissance Italy, one way to send a message about the life-changing binding of two affluent families was to sit for a portrait like this. The finished work would then be deli...
Category
18th Century Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Germano Russo Impressionist Young Beauty
By Germano Russo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautifully executed heavy impasto impressionist painting by the Italian artist Germano Russo. He was born in 1935 in Florence Italy. This young lady, reading a book, reminds me of t...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Mexican Hillside Village Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
The understated palette is the surprise here, given that it’s Mexico. No blinding white plaster walls. No bright green palms, hot pink bougainvillea and turquoise sea on the horizon,...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Spring Flood on the River” by Hugh McChesney
Located in San Francisco, CA
In 1990, the year this work was completed by Hugh McChesney, heavy rains in May swamped Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and southern Mississippi. But wherever he may have set up his easel,...
Category
1990s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
The Feathered Hat
Located in San Francisco, CA
There something so poignant about this 40-something woman, painted sometime after World War I by F. Harding. She’s in her plain but “Sunday best” clothes. Yet she unwrapped for this ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Young Man Sitting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rendered with the etherial background and casual elegance of a mid-century society woman’s portrait slated for her Palm Beach master suite, the subject of this work is instead a youn...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Sailboats on the Shore”
Located in San Francisco, CA
We might share with you the biography of Texas-born Steven Seymour Thomas (1868-1956), but it would take pages. Consider his precocious talent, which catapulted him to fame in New Yo...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Pair of Indigenous Fillipino Portraits
Located in San Francisco, CA
One might reasonably ask: What were the 16th-century Spanish colonizers thinking when they took on the conquest of the Philippines? The archipelago nation is comprised of 7,641 islan...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
“Americana 2”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Native-born Americans rarely experience the remarkable hopefulness and energy that can come with the privilege of U.S. citizenship, especially when it’s granted after birth elsewhere...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Polymer
$3,875
Austrian Folk Saying Grace Before Dinner
Located in San Francisco, CA
This work by Austrian artist Ivo Saliger (1894-1987) is an expression of devotion, of a tradition central to Austrian life a century ago. Then, Austria had a strong Catholic heritage, supported by more than six centuries of Hapsburg rule. The subjects of this reverential painting appear to be members of a family wearing traditional Austrian "tracht" or dress. Hands clasped in prayer, they are about to dine together, with the elder parents joined by their grown children and perhaps a spouse. Resolving any doubt in the viewer’s mind about the activity, a crucifix hangs above the gathering in the dining area’s corner adjacent to a painting of the Virgin Mary...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Western Mountain Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Snow-topped jagged peaks reflected in a mountain lake come together in this ethereal landscape painting by noted American artist Courtney Luther Miles (1887-1975). Self-taught and ac...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Stone and Wood House in 19th-century Mamaroneck, New York
Located in San Francisco, CA
The painting may not illustrate your story, but it is universal—that desire to honor one’s forerunners and reflect on their daily lives. Consider the many opportunities, comforts and...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pheasants Aloft at Dawn
Located in San Francisco, CA
At dawn on a beautiful morning, two pheasants take flight out of their roosting cover. Were they flushed out by sudden noise, or are they simply heading out to their feeding areas? T...
Category
1970s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Sunlit European Cityscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a post-World War II European cityscape. This scene, defined by French-influenced architecture, expresses a bright optimism that the worst is finally over. Here are people going about their daily lives in peace. The very ordinariness of this activity is beautiful. Spanish-born artist Jose Luis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of John Rogers, A Sculptor for the Common Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
So American, this sculptor. Both a right brain and left-brain kind of guy. Working in the mid to late 19th century, John Rogers was innovative, imaginative, and stylistically a reali...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“The Wild Boar”
Located in San Francisco, CA
If you’ve been a longtime college football follower of the SEC, or the Southeastern Conference, you may have heard of this 1964 game in Shreveport, Louisiana. On December 29, the University of Arkansas Razorbacks in crimson and white played the University of Mississippi’s Ole Miss Rebels in The Bluebonnet Bowl, and handily won the contest 82-48 by racking up 52 points in the first half. As imagined here by American Surrealist Jean Jones Jackson...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dreaming of a Vineyard
Located in San Francisco, CA
How delightful to be a wine connoisseur! All those flavors emanating from the terroir through the grapes graced by the year’s sunshine (or rain). Then it’s building complexity with a...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,250
Mid 19th Century Family Oil Portrait C.1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century Family Oil Portrait C.1840
Outstanding oil portrait of a young family revealing a painting of the matriarch of the family, possibly a mourning portrait.
Original o...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Preening Goose
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist Kobler depicts this goose actively working on its plumage, cleaning and aligning its feathers. The bird’s partially raised wing may be part of a drying process after bathi...
Category
1970s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“The Newspaper Boy”
Located in San Francisco, CA
The classic hard luck, independent kid, maybe 8 or 10 years old here, selling the day’s papers out on the grubby streets of early 1900s New York City. He’s paused in a quiet spot, ap...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Man Sitting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rendered with the casual elegance of a mid-century society woman’s portrait slated for her Palm Beach master suite, the subject in this work is instead a young man. The artist's sign...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Casually Distracted"
Located in San Francisco, CA
American artist Paul Krapf (1927-2019) had lived in Montana for a decade when he painted this coyote standing in the snow. He worked from the home studio that he and his wife built o...
Category
1990s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Steeplechase Pileup, by G. Billard
Located in San Francisco, CA
A tangle of legs, grass flying, hooves raining down from the 1,100-pound thoroughbreds straining at their maximum after charging the hedge at some 30 miles per hour. For the fallen r...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
“Raising the Flag” by R. Kamal
Located in San Francisco, CA
You won’t find many wooden one-room schoolhouses these days—more likely utilitarian blocks of concrete and glass, fluorescents above, linoleum below, to do the job. The early schoolh...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Water View from the Terrace
By Thomas Creswick
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a jewel of an artwork, a watercolor done with the delicacy of exquisite enamel work. The scene is set on a colonnaded terrace with a commanding view of a mountain lake or...
Category
19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Board
“Money Lenders” after Flemish Painter Quentin Matsys (1466-1530)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Well-fed, well-dressed, and well satisfied, counting and accounting for the money. The unknown painter--although the name Quentin Matsys was scratched into the verso of this work pro...
Category
19th Century Northern Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
A Sheepfold
Located in San Francisco, CA
How often do 9 or 10-year-olds so connect with something that they know immediately it will be their lifelong calling? Belgian-born artist Jules G. Bahieu (1860-1895) started his tra...
Category
1870s Barbizon School Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Power Grab in Primary Colors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Locked in an embrace, two of the three primary colors set against a yellow background might represent the contentment of enduring intimacy, or the grip technology has on all of us, o...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Abstraction in the Primary Colors
Located in San Francisco, CA
Modest in life—the artist signed quite discreetly with the initials GAC—but bold on the canvas. This abstract is easy to embrace, depending only on primary colors. (Remember those th...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Pointillist View of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist had a lot to say. Why else spend the intense focus and time on rendering such a luminous work brought to completion literally point by point in tiny dots? Ask yourself: Ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Frenchman and His Cow"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This cow knows her power; her man’s shirt is color-coordinated to her bridle. It would be hard to imagine any cocky tech bro prouder of his new Verde Mantis (Green) Lambo than this dewy-eyed farmer with his most productive bovine, hopefully the source of a divine cheese.
Done in the classic palette of Provence, and abundant with the area’s renowned grape clusters, sunflowers and pears, it comes with a promise to transport you to that land of eternal sunshine (well, except for the Mistral season).
The creator, Suzanne Etienne...
Category
1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Bay Area’s Mt. Diablo, by Delia Bradford
Located in San Francisco, CA
No matter where one lives currently, be it London, Austin, or Mumbai, if you have lived near or hiked up Mount Diablo in San Francisco’s East Bay, this could bring back warm memories...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
