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Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Located in Soquel, CA
Portrait of Franklin Atwood Park, VP of Singer Mfg. Co.
Stately portrait of Franklin Atwood Park by Arthur Trevethin Nowell (British, 1862-1940). Park is sitting for a classical por...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
"Eternal Problem" - 1924 Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
"Eternal Problem" - 1924 Etching on Paper
Etching on paper titled "Eternal Problem" by Elias M. Grossman (American, 1898-1947). A bearded rabbi is portrayed thinking with his hand p...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
Beethovens Residence at Mödling Colored Etching by Henry Goering
Located in Soquel, CA
Beethovens Residence at Mödling - Vintage Colored Etching by Henry Goering WWII
Hand colored etching of the Christof House (the Yard of Christ) by Henry...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
"Sherman Rose" Adobe, Monterey California - Signed 1923 Original Etching
By Ferdinand Burgdorff
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th Century etching on vellum of the Monterey Bonifacio Adobe known as The Old Sherman Rose House, with climbing roses, by Ferdinand Burgdorff (American, (1881 - 197...
Category
1920s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching
Japanese Artisans - Silk Dying -Japanese Woodblock Print
By Tosa Mitsuyoshi
Located in Soquel, CA
Japanese Artisans - Japanese Woodblock Print J
Japanese woodblock depicting six women, all wearing vibrant kimonos, working on crafts by Tosa Mitsuoki (Japanese, 1617-1691). Japanese,c. 1600. Handcraft depiction (dye works).Section from a painted screen with presentations of handcraft.Kita-in, Saitama.
Stamped lower left.
Presented in a white mat and giltwood frame.
Frame: 19"H x 14"W
Mat: 18.25"H x 13.25"W
Image: 14.5"H x 9.5"W
Tosa Mitsuoki was a Japanese painter, reinvigorating the Yamato style of classical Japanese painting. Yamato-e originated from interest in reproducing early Tang dynasty paintings, and was later reinvented and further refined to fit Japanese cultural perceptions in the late Heian period. Yamato, sometimes referred to as wa or kazu had become synonymous with the Tosa-ha by the Muromachi period as a way for Japanese artist to distinguish their works from those of mainland Chinese paintings, kara-e. Yamato-e incorporated various visual and literary techniques for establishing narrative. Works were not always accompanied with text and may rely on heavily on period specific visual motifs, icons, and symbols to relay a story or theme. Tosa style by the time of Mitsuoki focused heavily on depicting themes of plants and nature, famous places, meisho, the four seasons, shik, bird-and-flower, kacho. Many of these popular symbols and icons from mimicking Chinese practices, treating the original Chinese masterwork as a sort of prototype to improve upon. Popular formats for Mitsuoki's pictures were wall scrolls kakemono, or handscrolls that would be read from right to left with the accompanied story, sliding doors fusuma and folding screen panels byobu that featured up to six panels. Mitsuoki's style incorporated the depth and calligraphy techniques of ink wash brushwork similar to Song dynasty and Yuan dynasty Chinese court paintings...
Category
1920s Edo Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Woodcut
Path Along The River - Oil On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Path Along The River - Oil On Canvas
Oil painting depicting a pathway along a river bank. A walkway is seen to the right of the calm river, greenery surrounding, with pink and purpl...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Greek Theater After A Rally" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Greek Theater After A Rally" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
"The Greek Theater After A Rally" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
"1921 Blue And Gold" - UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"1921 Blue And Gold" - UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
"1921 Blue And Gold" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos (American, 1882-1952). A Greek woman sits, holding a long blank script on her lap while a Greek man leans over her shoulder, as he dips a feather in ink, as to write on the script. The man is wearing a gold laurel crown...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Paper
"Strawberry Creek At The Class Of 1910 Bridge" - 1921 UC Berkeley Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Strawberry Creek At The Class Of 1910 Bridge" - 1921 UC Berkeley Lithograph
"Strawberry Creek At The Class Of 1910 Bridge" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Lithograph, Paper
"The Greater University" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Greater University" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
"The Greater University" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
1920s San Francisco Oil Paint Still Life
By Almira Austin Judson
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1920's still life with Asian elements by San Francisco artist Almira Austin Judson (American, 1868-1945). Signed on verso. Unframed. Condition: one paint scratch upper cente...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Henry Morse Stephens Memorial Oak" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Henry Morse Stephens Memorial Oak" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
"Henry Morse Stephens Memorial Oak" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Photography
Materials
Ink, Paper
"The Mining Building From The Road" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Mining Building From The Road" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
"The Mining Building From The Road" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
"The Football Statue Through The Trees" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Football Statue Through The Trees" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph
"The Football Statue Through The Trees" 1921 University of California B...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Ink, Paper
"The Library From The Botanical Gardens" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Library From The Botanical Gardens" - 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Lithograph
"The Library From The Botanical Gardens" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
"Senior Womens Hall In The Moonlight" 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
"Senior Womens Hall In The Moonlight" 1921 UC Berkeley Yearbook Color Lithograph
"Senior Womens Hall In The Moonlight" 1921 University of California Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink
1927 Carmel by the Sea - Beach, California Coastline - Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
1927 Carmel by the Sea - Beach, California Coastline - Oil on Linen
Seascape oil painting of the Carmel coastline by Charles Henry Harmon (American, 1859-1936). Vibrant blue Pacific waves crash along Carmels white sands, with a walk way on the cliffs above. A lush green sycamore tree is seen to the left, beyond the cliffs. Vibrant greenery is seen on either side of the walkway, depicting colors of greens, yellows, and browns.
Signed "Charles Harmon 1927" lower left.
Charles Henry Harmon was born on December 23, 1859 in Mansfield, Ohio. He moved to San Jose, California with his family in 1874 and at an early age was apprenticed to local portrait painter Louis Lussier. He later spent one year working in a local photography studio re-touching negatives. His youth was spent visiting the art galleries of San Francisco and, with no formal training, he began sketching and painting in 1883 in the beautiful Santa Clara Valley. He painted many landscapes of that area and made trips to the remotest parts of the Sierra and the Monterey Peninsula where he painted many coastal scenes. He began exhibiting in San Jose in the 1880s.
By the turn of the century, his works were handled exclusively by Gump's and he was recognized as one of California's foremost painters. In 1905 he established a studio in Denver and for seven years concentrated on the rugged landscape of the Rocky Mountains. While there, the Santa Fe, Western Pacific, and Colorado, Midland railroads commissioned him to paint scenes along their routes. After his time in Colorado, he returned to San Jose where he remained for the rest of his life. Harmon died there on October 14, 1936 and is buried in Oak Hill...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Raw Linen, Oil
Wedding Procession - Raised Line Woodcut Hand Painted 1924 Betha Lum
By Bertha Boynton Lum
Located in Soquel, CA
Wedding Procession is a colored raised line woodcut, done in 1924 by Bertha Boynton Lum (American, 1869 – 1954) . The image measures 13-7/8 x 10-1/8". Raised line impression and painted by the artist, while living in China.
Image 13.25"H x 8.75"W
Sheet 14.75"H x 10.75" (approx)
Signed Lower center in pencil "Bertha Lum"
New acid free mat included.
Bertha Lum was fascinated by the legends and mythology of the Orient and wrote extensively about them. These legends provided the subject matter for many of her works in woodcut.
Bertha Boynton Lum was an American artist known for helping popularize the Japanese and Chinese woodblock print outside of Asia.
In May 1869, Lum was born as Bertha Boynton Bull in Tipton, Iowa. Lum's father was Joseph W. Bull (1841–1923), a lawyer and her mother was Harriet Ann Boynton (1842–1925), a school teacher. Both of Lum's parents were amateur artists. Lum had a sister and two brothers, Clara, Carlton, and Emerson.
Education and career:
In 1890 she lived in Duluth and listed her occupation as artist. She enrolled in the design department of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1895. A few years later she studied stained glass with Anne Weston and attended the Frank Holme School of Illustration.
From November 1901 to March 1902, she studied figure drawing at the Art Institute of Chicago and was influenced by the Japanese techniques of Arthur Wesley Dow in his book Composition, which was published in 1899.
Lum married Burt F. Lum, a corporate lawyer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1903. They spent their seven-week honeymoon in Japan, where she searched for a print maker who could teach her the traditional ukiyo-e method. Toward the end of her stay in Japan, she found a shop that reproduced old prints. The shop sold her some woodcutting tools...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Rice Paper, Gouache
Photograph of Mary Pickford - Melbourne Spurr Photography - Silent Film Actress
Located in Soquel, CA
Photograph of Mary Pickford - Melbourne Spurr Photography
Photograph depicting Mary Pickford by Hollywood photographer Melbourne Spurr (Canadian-American, 1892-1979). Mary Pickford is depicted wearing a white sleeveless dress, sitting in a lounge chair, facing forward, the side of her face is the focal point. Pickford's blonde hair is shown in tight finger curls, her hands on her lap, with a single pearl...
Category
1920s Photorealist Figurative Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, Paper
Scottish Reflections, Ben Venue and Loch Achray Scotland John Copeland
By John Copland
Located in Soquel, CA
Mountain Reflections "Ben Venue" by John Copland a Kirkcudbright Scotland painter (Scottish, 1854-1929). Painting of Loch Achray and Mt. Ben Venue in Scotl...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Wheeler Hall 1921 University of California at Berkeley Color Lithograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Wheeler Hall 1921 University of California at Berkeley Color Lithograph by Pedro Lemos (American, 1882-1952).
Lithograph from a 1921 UC Berkely yearbook de...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
Sunrise on Nantucket Island Fisherman Gazing at the Sky 1929
Located in Soquel, CA
Sunrise on Nantucket Island Fisherman Gazing at the Sky 1929
Nantucket Sunrise, a Fisherman is gazing at the sky by James Francis Barker (American, 1872 – 1950). In the style of Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 - 1917) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Albert Ryder is known for Romanticism-pastoral landscape painting. Barker has a heavy impasto and extensive brushwork throughout and captures American Post Impressionism with this early sunrise on Nantucket Island scene.
Image, 10.25"H x 14.25"W
Signed "J. F. Barker" dated "3/29" on Stretcher bar verso
Signed James F. Barker on Linen verso
James F. Barker’s lineage traces back to eleven of the original Nantucket settlers. He was born in 1872 in Keokuk, Iowa, the son of a railroad ticketing agent and a New Orleanian of Spanish and French extraction. His ancestors on his father's side included 11 of the 15 families who settled Nantucket in 1659. He graduated from Cornell University in 1893 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent another year studying Architecture at the graduate level. He briefly worked at D. H. Burnham & Company and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. before switching to education,
With a degree in mechanical engineering and graduate degree in architecture, his career was centered among institutes of higher learning. Barker was also a skilled painter and a talented photographer. Barker specialized in waterfront, wharf, and beach scenes. The artist exhibited his work during the summer months at the Eagle’s Wing Studio on Union Street, having named the studio after a steamer, which had been captained by his grandfather. James Francis Barker (1872 – 10 December 1950) was the second president of the Rochester Athenæum and Mechanics Institute, succeeding Carleton B. Gibson, from 1916–1919. He also pursued painting, pottery, metal working, and cabinet making.
Gravestone in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket
He was born in 1872 in Keokuk, Iowa, the son of a railroad ticketing agent and a New Orleanian of Spanish and French extraction. His ancestors on his father's side included 11 of the 15 families who settled Nantucket in 1659. He graduated from Cornell University in 1893 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent another year studying Architecture at the graduate level. He briefly worked at D. H. Burnham & Company and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. before switching to education, becoming Superintendent of the Manual Training Department at East Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1897. He left in 1904 to pursue similar positions at Grand Rapids High School and the Hackley School in Muskegon, Michigan. In 1906, he participated in the formation of East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio and served as its first principal.
He married the former Kate Spooner in 1897 and raised one daughter. After being widowed in the late 1930s, he married Josephine M...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris" - Watercolor Drawing of French Street Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
"Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, Paris" - Watercolor Drawing of French Street Scene
Vintage sketch of a 1920's Paris street scene by E. (Elizabeth) (Elisa...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Mono Hot Springs Cabins, Fresno Co - Calif" Forest Landscape in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mono Hot Springs Cabins, Fresno Co - Calif" Forest Landscape in Oil on Board
Serene depiction of two cabins in the Sierra Mountains by HW Dittmann (Dittman) (American, Born-1883 circa). A wooden...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Sleeping Spaniel in the Hearth Italian Figural Dog Painting oil on Linen
By Tito Corbella
Located in Soquel, CA
Sleeping Spaniel in the Hearth Italian Figural Dog Painting oil on Linen
Exceptional painting of a sleeping Spaniel in a Hearth by Italian artist Tito Corbella (Italy, 1885-1966), we...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku" 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road
By Utagawa Hiroshige
Located in Soquel, CA
Study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku" 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road
Hand painted study of Utagawa Hiroshige's "View of Hara-Juku", (by unknown artist), from "53 Station...
Category
1920s Edo Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut, Paper, Ink
Mary Pickford Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at Walpi First Mesa Hopi Village 1920 Photograph
Original Sepia toned Silver gelatin photographic print by Charles Roshe (British, 1885-1974).
Provenance: Mary Pickford, Elizabeth (Bess) Huggins.
Image 10.75"H x 13.75"W
He was Mary Pickford's favorite cinematographer and a personal friend, shooting all of the films in which she starred from 1918 to 1927, before they had a falling out during production of Coquette (1929). He was the first cinematographer to receive an Academy Award, along with Karl Struss, for Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and won again for The Yearling (1946), with Leonard Smith and Arthur Arling. He was also nominated four times.
Walpi, pueblo (village), Navajo county, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to three stories crowded on a narrow tip of the steep-walled mesa at an elevation of 6,225 feet (1,897 metres). The original pueblo (founded c. 1700) was on a lower part of the mesa, but following the Pueblo Rebellion, the inhabitants moved to the top as a defensive measure against Spanish retaliation. Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August and generally closed to non-Hopi spectators. Shitchumovi (Sichomivi) pueblo is adjacent and Hano is nearby.
Pickford was the first Canadian to win an Oscar. She was also the second to win best actress and the first for a role in a film with sound. She was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 1919 Pickford took the lead in organizing the United Artists Corporation with Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, and Douglas Fairbanks. In 1920, after the dissolution of her first marriage (1911–19) to actor Owen Moore, she married Fairbanks (divorced 1936). Pickford’s popularity continued unabated in Pollyanna (1920), Little Lord...
Category
1920s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
California Golden Poppies and Blue Oaks - Rural Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Golden Flowers and Blue Oaks - California Rural Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Vibrant landscape by listed California artist Marie Williams (American, 1878-1969). Yellow flowers c...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Study of Jean Leon Gerome Ferris' Lion -- The Two Majesties
By Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful early 20th Century study of Jean Leon Gerome Ferris's 1885 Lion and Sun landscape "The Two Majesties." Unsigned. Condition: One tear professiona...
Category
1920s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Early 20th Century Mountain Lake Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1930s landscape of mountain lake on windy day with peek of a cabin by L. St. C. Fitzpatrick (American, 19th/20th Century), circa 1920. Signed lower left corner. Condition: V...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Woman with Two Children in Red - Dutch Style Interior Scene in Oil on Canvas
By Joseph Tomanek
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman with Two Children in Red - Interior Scene in Oil on Canvas
Lovely interior scene by notable artist Joseph Tomanek (Cech-American, 1889-1974). A woman sits near a window, holding a small child dressed in bright red in her lap. Another child, somewhat older, stands next to her, looking at the young child. Soft lights spills though the window, illuminating the scene in a warm glow. A plant with red flowers sits on the windowsill, and foliage can be seen outside.
Signed "Tomanek" in the lower right corner (note that the shape above the signature is a toy train)
Presented in a carved wood frame with a linen liner.
Frame size: 30.75"H x 26.75"W
Canvas size: 24"H x 20"W
Tomanek, the son of a carpenter, was born in Moravia. His family discouraged his art talent and wanted him to be a shoemaker. He studied in his homeland of Czechoslovakia at the School of Design in Prague. He emigrated to America around the turn of the century and arrived in Chicago in 1910 and worked as an interior decorator. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and studied with Antonin Sterba. He also studied with Albert Krehbiel and K.A. Buehr.
He was a member of the Bohemian Artist Club, Association of Chicago Painters, and Sculptors, and the Chicago Gallery Association. His work is included in the collection of the Vanderpoel Art Association (Chicago). He exhibited from the 1910s-40s, including exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Georgia Museum of Art.
Of the difficulty of posing nudes in Chicago, he said, "In Paris you can rent little gardens studios and pose your models there in privacy. Here, if I work out of doors, I have to pose the girls in bathing suits...
Category
1920s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Coast of Maine Seascape -- Rocks Near Pemaquid Lighthouse
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful early 20th Century seascape of the coast of Maine "Rocks near Pemaquid Lighthouse" by Ada Romer Shawham (American, 1865 - 1947), circa 1920. S...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Palm Springs Courtyard with Fountain - Drypoint Etching on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Palm Springs Courtyard with Fountain - Drypoint Etching on Paper
Stately drypoint etching of the courtyard of a Palm Springs house by Leland "Lee" Fuller (American, 1899-1962). The focus of this piece is the courtyard of a house with a fountain. Behind the garden and fountain, there is a section of the house with an arched doorway and tile roof. This was likely a house that Fuller designed. From the Robert Azensky Fine Art Mary Pickford...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Ink, Drypoint
San Diego Harbor at Night - Nocturnal Coastal Scene with US Navy Ships
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene nocturnal seascape by George Fotherly Hargitt (American/Scottish, 1837-1926). The San Diego harbor stretches out in front of the viewer, depicted from a vantage point above th...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Gouache
Large Scale Maritime Painting -- Three Masted Braque in Rough Seas
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning large scale painting of an early 20th century Braque sailing ship named "Medusa" by Charles Miller (American, 19th/20th Century), 1926. Signed and dated lower left corner. C...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Located in Soquel, CA
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Well executed impressionist painting of a Hungarian countryside courtship vignette by a 19th-20th century Hungarian artist Pal Szlavik. some minor s...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
"Noah's Ark", Monkeys in Trees w. Crocodiles, Richard DeTreville 1924 San Mateo
By Richard DeTreville
Located in Soquel, CA
"Noah's Ark", Monkeys in Trees w. Crocodiles, Richard DeTreville 1924 San Mateo
A lively, large-scale vertical painting of Macaques monkeys in the trees abo...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Early 20th Century Pebble Beach Surf Seascape by Abel Warshawsky
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Pebble Beach Surf Seascape by Abel Warshawsky
Significant and period early 20th century Plein Air seascape painting of crashing surf at Pebble Beach by listed Ca...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"San Anton Palace Malta" Early 20th Cent. Garden and Fountain Watercolor Russian
Located in Soquel, CA
A significant early 20th century landscape watercolor of the paradisical gardens at San Anton Palace in Attard, Malta by Nicholas Krasnoff, 1920 (Russian, 1864-1939). This beautiful piece is a wonderful example of the renowned Russian architect's prized watercolors, created while he was exiled to Malta in the early 1920's. Depicting a lush garden full of blooming, colorful flowers and a stately fountain at the San Anton Palace in Malta, one can see the deft hand and attention to detail rendered by the proficient artist and architect's hand.
Signed "N. Krasnoff" lower right. Titled and dated "Malta, St. Antonio 1920".
Unframed.
Measures 10.25"H x 14.25"W.
Right corner has a crease from being bent.
Nikolay Petrovich Krasnov, also known as Nicholas Krasnoff or Peter Nicholas Krasnoff, was a Russian Serbian architect and painter. He served as Chief Architect of Yalta, Crimea (1887-1899). From 1922 he lived and worked in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and was a key figure in the architectural development of Belgrade. Attending the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1876, aged 12. As a young artist he received patronage from Sergey Tretyakov, brother of the founder of Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, and entrepreneur Petar Gubonyin.
In 1887 Krasnov became Chief Architect in Yalta. At the age of 23, Krasnov had large responsibility for the rapid growth of the city. He expanded the promenade, which by 1913 became the city's main street, before creating a new city plan in 1889 (including a new sewer system, planning regulations, new streets, prevention of unregulated construction, a school and children's hospital, and the construction of the Pushkin Boulevard). Two concrete bridges were built over the river, and the embankment strengthened. Krasnov also ran a private practice in Yalta until 1911. Among his most famous work is the Livadia Palace, later the location of the 1945 Yalta Conference. Designed over 60 buildings in Crimea, blending a modernist style with local traditions. Also of note: Dulber Palace, Koreiz (1895-97), Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Yalta (1902), Yusupov Palace, Koreiz (1909), Kokkoz Jami Mosque, Sokolyne (1910).
In 1913, he presented a collection of illustrations he had produced of his works to the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he held the title of academician. An opponent of the Russian Revolution, he left Yalta with his family in 1919 for Malta, alongside the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, sister of Queen Alexandra, and over 600 members of the Russian aristocracy. Nikolay was in a group housed in the empty Villa St Ignatius, which had been a Jesuit college and then a hospital during World War I. To earn money, Nikolay painted many scenes of Malta, signing his paintings as N. Krasnoff. He is known as Nicholas Krasnoff in Malta. In May 2016 MaltaPost issued a commemorative set of stamps in his honor.
In 1922 Krasnov moved to Belgrade, then part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he became head of the Department of Monumental Architectural Developments and Monuments. His building designs in Serbia number around 60, and were created under the name Nikola Krasnov, as a mark of respect to his adopted homeland.
His key works in Belgrade include: Ministry of Forestry building (now Ministry of Foreign Affairs) (1923) which bears a memorial plaque...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board
Spring in the Mountains by Friedlander 1920s
Located in Soquel, CA
Spring in the Mountains by Friedlander 1920s
Expressive gouache painting of possibly the Swiss Alps by Friedlander
On paper in a period rustic frame.
I...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Monastery Ruins by the River - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Idyllic scene of ruins in the mountains by H.W. Jacobsen (19th Century). The remains of a monastery sit at the edge of a river, nestled in a canyon. The area is lush and full of flor...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Canvas, Oil
Still Life in Purple with Jug and Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
By Alvin Robert Raffel
Located in Soquel, CA
Jug and Still Life in Purple with Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
Oil on Linen of An Urn with a bowl and apples in a Purple background by Alvin R. Raffel (American, 1905-1987.) Linen ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Fauvist Ocean Wave and Sunset, 1920's Seascape
By John Henry Ramm
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling fauvist seascape with boldly colorful ocean waves and glowing sunset by Northern California artist John Ramm (American, 1879-1948), 1929. Impasto brush strokes add depth and interest to high voltage color palette. Signed lower right corner and dated on stretcher "29" . Condition: Good; minor edge losses professionally restored/in-painted. Signature slightly augmented to enhance readability. Image size: 22"H x 28"W.
The son of German immigrants, John Henry Ramm was the son of German immigrants, and his father had been a Duke in his native land. Ramm moved to San Francisco in 1893 and worked as an apprentice to a photographer. He married Nettie Hoist in Sacramento and they lived in San Francisco. He was a close friend of painter Manuel Valencia...
Category
1920s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1920's Pink & Blue Impressionist Floral Still-Life Early Work Society of Six
By William Clapp
Located in Soquel, CA
A brilliant early 20th century impressionist floral still-life by William Clapp (American, 1879-1954). Beautiful and bold, this 1920's pink floral still-life pops against a bright blue background. The artist uses expressive and loose brushstrokes in a fun and energetic palette, bringing a dynamic and lively energy to this one-of-a-kind piece.
Signed lower right, "W. Clapp".
Oil on old Canada packing crate board and presented in a rustic wood frame.
Board size: 20"H x 24"L.
Framed size: 24"H x 28"W.
This an early work by the artist which is distinctive in his bold Impressionist style before he merged into his signature pointillist style.
Born in Montreal, Canada of American parents on Oct. 29, 1879. At age six Clapp moved to California with his family, settling in Oakland where he spent his childhood. In 1900 he returned to Montreal for four years of study with Wm Brymner followed by further study in Paris at Académies Julian, Colarossi, and Grande Chaumière. He then returned to Montreal where he was elected an associate member of the Royal Canadian Art Academy. He lived and worked in Cuba before returning to Oakland in 1917. He then served as director and curator of the Oakland Art Gallery from 1918-49. In this position, and as a member of a group of painters called the Society of Six...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1920 Historical Church of Soquel, California Landscape
By Mary DeNeale Morgan
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful historically significant oil painting of the Congregational Church of Soquel by Mary DeNeale Morgan (American, 1868-1948). Signed "M. DeNeale Morgan" lower right corner. Exhibit label on verso. Canvas on masonite. Displayed in giltwood frame. Image, 24"H x 20"W.
Provenance letter included: "1984, Dana Morgan Jr. from the estate of Mary DeNeal Morgan".
Born in San Francisco in 1868, she was taken to Oakland in 1872, where the painter and teacher William Keith was her first teacher. She was precocious. In 1886 she enrolled in the California School of Design in San Francisco and studied with Emil Carlsen and Amédée Joullin until 1890. She paid her first visit to Carmel in 1903. In 1910 she returned to buy the studio and home of the late Sydney Yard...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Carmel Beach Plein Air Seascape 1920s
By Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous vintage plein air Carmel by the Sea seascape by Carl Oscar Borg (Sweden/American, 1879-1947), circa 1920s. Signed lower left corner. Condition: Good. Presented in carved rustic wood frame. Image size 8.5"H x 10.5"W. Framed size: 13"H x 15"W x 1"D. This scene is looking from below "Mansion Overlook" and looking past "Near Point" in the foreground and Carmel Beach mid-way and then and Pebble Beach in the distance. Carl embodied all the old favorites in one painting and this is a rare new find and "Treasure". Original packaging from H. Valdespino Gallery and framer. A well known gallery in early San Francisco...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Early 20th Century Dutch Impressionist Summer Cottage with Chickens
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming early 20th Century impressionistic summer landscape of Dutch cottage with chickens. Signed illegibly lower right corner. Stamped "Rotterdam" on ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray
Located in Soquel, CA
Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray
A vibrant and colorful late 1920's landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray (Canadian, 1864-1938). This beautiful 1929 landscape depicts a quaint farmhouse in autumn, surrounded by a landscape full of fall foliage in goldenrod yellow, bright orange, and deep red, with soft purple hills receding into the distance.
Signed "F. McGillivray" lower left.
Displayed in a new Arts & Crafts style giltwood frame.
Board size: 16"H x 20"W.
Framed size: 19.25"H x 23.25"W x 1"D.
McGillivray (1864–1938) garnered admiration for her modern landscape paintings, as well as for her mentorship of young artists, including Tom Thomson. She has been credited in some instances as an influence for what would later be known as the Group of Seven.
A prolific sketcher and painter, Florence McGillivray...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Cliffs and Cypresses at Pt. Lobos, California - Seascape Charles F. Cummins 1929
Located in Soquel, CA
Cliffs and Cypresses at Pt. Lobos, California - Seascape Charles F. Cummins 1929 (American, 1850-1941). One of the beautiful coves from the cliffs near the ocean at Point Lobos State Park, the viewer looks out past several cypress trees towards a rocky point...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna - Hand Colored Cityscape Lithograph
By Luigi Kasimir
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed and dramatic hand-colored etching by Luigi Kasimir (Austrian, 1881-1962). St. Stephen's cathedral towers above the streets of Vienna, with people going about their daily bus...
Category
1920s Photorealist Landscape Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Paper
Grove of Trees on the Hillside - Landscape by William Horsbrugh-Porter RHA Irish
By William Eric Horsbrugh-Porter
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely and bright hillside landscape by William Horsbrugh-Porter RHA (Irish, 1905-1985). Several aspens and other trees are showing lovely fall foliage, nestled on the side of a rocky hill. A path runs along the bottom of the composition. There is some impasto to the brushwork, adding texture and depth to the piece.
Signed and dated "Horsbrugh 26" in the lower right corner.
Canvas size: 20"H x 24"W
Presented in a textured wood frame; 27.75"H x 31.75"W x 3.75"D.
William Eric Horsbrugh-Porter (Irish, 1905-1985), a native of Dalkey Co. Dublin, attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art before continuing his education at the renowned Slade School, London, where he held both the Slade Scholarship and the Robert Ross Scholarship. In 1928 he collaborated with his friend, the London born artist Stephen Bone...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century American Impressionism -- Old Lyme New England Farm
By George M. Bruestle
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous early 20th Century American Impressionist landscape of New England Farm by George M. Bruestle (American, 1871 - 1939), Circa 1914. Signed lower left and on verso. Presented in gilt-toned wood frame. Image size: 8"H x 10"W.
George Matthew Bruestle is an American Realist/Impressionist painter known for his intimate landscapes. Born and raised in New York City, Bruestle studied at the Art Students' League of New York in 1886 at the young age of fifteen and later in Paris. That same year, Bruestle visited Essex, CT and eventually purchased a second home in Hadlyme, Old Lyme as the Art Colony formed. Bruestle's main studio was in New York City.
Inspired by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot [1796-1875] and other French landscape painters, Bruestle's style was a mix of Early Realism and Early Impressionist techniques. He was an adept draftsman and his paintings favored earlier European examples but, later took on a brighter Impressionist palette and brushy quality of the Old Lyme Art...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Prospector at Dusk, Early 20th Century Cowboy w Donkey Figurative Landscape
By George Sanders Bickerstaff
Located in Soquel, CA
A rare figurative for this well-listed California artist of a Nevada mining town landscape with prospector and burro by George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893 - 1954), circa 1920. Signed lower right corner. Presented in patinated gilt-toned wood frame. Image size: 24"H x 30.5"W. Frame size: 32.5"H x 38"W.
Bickerstaff was active/lived in California, Arkansas. George Bickerstaff is known for Landscape, coastal views, still life, western painting.
Landscape painter. Born in Marianna, Arkansas on April 12, 1893. Bickerstaff was a self-taught artist except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. He led a peripatetic existence before moving to California in 1922. His early years were spent in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Van Nuys.
He exhibited often in the latter with Paul Lauritz. A prolific oil painter of mountain and desert scenes, his landscapes often include eucalypti as well as rolling hills of California wildflowers...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Alaska Landscape -- Still Lake with Aurora Borealis
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous 1900 landscape of lake with mountains in background and stunning Aurora Borealis; a canoe rests on the shoreline by R. Briston (American, 20th Century). Signed lower left co...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
1920's Illustration of a Country Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed figurative illustration of a young woman leaning against a fence. The woman is wearing a plaid dress and bonnet with a black ribbon. Some of the landscape has been il...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
1920s Big Sur "Coastal Scene"- "John O'Shea and Friends" Exhibition, 1993
By John O'Shea
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century watercolor seascape of the Carmel coast by California artist John O'Shea (American, 1876-1956), c.1940s. Signed "John O'Shea" lower left corner. Exhibition label on verso from 1993 Carmel Art Association Exhibition, John O'Shea and Friends, with artist name and title "Coastal Scene". Displayed in custom giltwood frame. Image, 18.50"L x 24"W.
Provenance: John O'Shea estate; Gerry Byrne Collection; Steven Hawk Gallery Collection; Robert Azensky Fine Art Collection.
This piece is listed in the 1993 exhibition catalog, "John O'Shea and Friends" (not pictured) and will be included gratis in purchase. (A note about the catalog: there is a typo in the catalog which in error states the size of the piece is 16" x 20").
Artist Bio:
John O’Shea was born in Ireland and immigrated to New York at the age of 16 where he studied at the Adelphi Academy and the Art Students League. O’Shea moved to the Monterey Peninsula circa 1917 where he was busy in the local art community, serving as the President of the Carmel Art Association. O'Shea was a versatile artist painting in oil, watercolor and charcoal, his bold, vibrant paintings...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Early 20th Century California Landscape - Sunrise On Tin Mountain, Death Valley
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous California landscape titled, "Sunrise on Tin Mountain, Death Valley" with Oak in foreground and mountains and Eucalyptus trees in background by Edward Langley...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Late Summer New York Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous early 20th Century impressionist landscape of New York in late summer by Dorothy McVey Cother (American, 1898-1971), 1924. This beautiful landscape illustrates classical Ame...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Lady by the Pond, 1920's Art Nouveau Nude Figurative Landscape
By John Jay Baumgartner
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and vibrant mid-1920's depiction of a nude woman sitting on the edge of a bathing pool by John Jay Baumgartner (American, 1865-1946). Soft light filters through dense foliag...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Landscape Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Gouache
"A Calm Day" - Loch Na Keal, Iona by William Mervyn Glass, R.S.A., P.S.S.A.
By William Mervyn Glass
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of Loch Na Keal, Iona, Scotland by William Mervyn Glass, Royal Scottish Academy and Scottish Academy of Artists (PSSA,SSA) (Scott...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
