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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
$1,250
“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
"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
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
Watercolor Landscape Painting By J.H. Twachtman (1853-1902)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Watercolor Landscape Painting by American artist J.H. Twachtman (1853-1902)
Watercolor on board
Unframed
10" x 13.25"
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
19th-century Orientalist Reclining Odalisque Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Was she a gift to the Sultan, deliciously bejeweled and enrobed in the finest embroidered silks? By this time, resigned to her fate, the once Christian Circassian girl would have bee...
Category
1880s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
David Hammons, Gray & Rust Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
David Hammons, Brown & Blue Abstract
By David Hammons
Located in San Francisco, CA
This signed painting by acclaimed African-American artist David Hammons displays an early experimental use of painted material during the artist’s formative years at Otis Art Institu...
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Armando Villagran Original Painting
By Armando Villagran
Located in San Francisco, CA
Armando Villagran (Mexican, 1945-1995)
Untitled (Figure with Animal), 1991
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
Canvas: 55"h x 43.5"w, overall (with frame): 56"h x 44"w
Born ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Figure Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting C.1950s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic 1950's Cubist Oil Painting by Mystery Artist.
Though undated, this is a classic 1950's painting. A reclining figure under the sun. Original cubist oil painting on masonit...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pair of Mid Century Geometric Abstract Paintings Signed "GAC", 1972
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of Mid-Century Geometric Abstract Paintings
Oil on canvas
Signed "GAC", 1972
Numbered I & II
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jesus Ortiz Tajonar (1919-1990) Boy W/Papier-Mâché Animal Warrior Mask
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jesus Ortiz Tajonar (1919-1990) Mexican Boy with Papier-Mâché Animal Warrior Mask
c.1950s
Fantastic mid century modern oil painting by listed Mexican artist Jesus Ortiz Tajonar.
W...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
James Grant (1924–1997) Mixed Media Abstract 1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine art mixed media painting by listed artist James Grant (1924–1997). Titled "Three Dots". Collage with oils on Masonite. This fine mid modern abstract painting will brighten up a...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Style Of William Aiken Walker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous oil on canvas in the style of the famous William Aiken Walker. The details of this painting are amazing and is the same subject matter of...
Category
1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active) Native American Portrait
Located in San Francisco, CA
Hubert Wackerman (1945-Active)
Beautiful Native American Portrait, 1978
Oil on canvas board
Unframed: 15" x 24"
Framed: 16.75" x 25.75"
Category
1970s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Victor Joseph Gatto
Located in San Francisco, CA
Victor Joseph Gatto: 1893-1965. Very well listed American primitive artist. He is best known for these whimsical paintings in the jungle. This little gem measures 9 inches high by 6 ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pearl A Van Sciver New Hope Pennsylvania
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pearl A Van Sciver: 1895-1966. Well listed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artist. She has had Auction results over $3900 She exhibited at the national Academy of design, Pafa and the Cor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Otterhound Portrait Painting by Constance Coleman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large portrait painting with group of six otterhounds in a lush garden landscape by Constance Coleman, 1979
Oil on canvas
Signed & dated lower right
Canvas dimensions: 34" x 46"
Fr...
Category
1970s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape With River And Figures By J. De Fleury
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful landscape with river and figures by James Vivien de Fleury.
Oil on canvas
1895
Canvas dimensions: 20" x 30", frame: 30.25" x 40.25"
James Vivien de Fleury flourished from...
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Perle Fine Geometric Abstract
By Perle Fine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Perle Fine: 1905-1988. Very well listed American abstract and geometric abstract artist. Her high auction result was $57,600 in September 2024. She studied with Hans Hoffman, and was...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch school 18th or 19th century The Scribe
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic oil on panel possibly Dutch school. Looks to be at least 19 century possibly earlier. The scene looks like a very important gentleman or possibly royalty with a scribe taki...
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Expressionist Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulously colorful combination of abstract expressionist and outsider art. Most likely done in the 1950s or 60s signed lower right it appears to be a mixed medium on board. Very si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Early 20th Century Watercolor by Frank Merrill
Located in San Francisco, CA
This extraordinary watercolor by Frank Merrill is finely detailed with every brush stroke. One of the finest watercolors in our collection. The realism comes through in every detail....
Category
Early 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Linda Besse Leopard On The Hunt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Linda Besse was born in 1959. She lives mostly in Washington state but travels all over the world to paint her incredibly lifelike images of all kinds of wildlife. This incredibly li...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arrigo Ghedini Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arrigo Ghedini: 1905-1997. Listed Italian, American artist who is highly collected. His paintings rarely become available on the open market as collectors hold onto them. He just had...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Ken Gore Nude in a Landscape
By Ken Gore
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ken Gore: 1911-1990. Well listed American artist with Auction records over $3500, but sells for more in galleries. Is best known for his paintings around Glou...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and child painting by Muller
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming painting of a mother and child. Very interesting early to mid 20th century oil on board. It is signed Muller. It could be a listed artist, but frankly there are too many Mu...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Still Life with Mother and Baby Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous mystery painting of a still life with a painting of a mother and baby in the background. It is initialed bottom, right and written on the back Robbins. It is an oil on canva...
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
