Painted Paintings and Screens

Highly textured portrait of a jewish man. This piece is fascinating, original and signed. Moshe Katz was born March 2, 1937 in Bucharest, Romania. With his parents, he fled the Nazis...

Very unique and beautiful oil on canvas rendition by celebrated american painter George Pate. This original piece is part of the New Mexico series by George Pate. The piece is 6”x8” framed...

A beautiful and engaging work of art by American artist Robert Crowder (1911-2010). Crowder lived in Japan in the 1930s (until he was abruptly ex...

Frederick Wong (American, b. 1929-2019), "Winter Camp", 1965, watercolor and gouache on Masa paper, signed "Frederick Wong" at lower right, with Chinese characters (name and date) and seal mark on left side. Frederick Wong received both his BFA and MA degrees from the University of New Mexico. He taught at Brooklyn Pratt Institute, Hofstra University and at The Art Students League of New York. The author of "Oriental Watercolor Techniques – For Contemporary Painting” and "The Complete Calligrapher", he was listed in “Who’s Who in American Art” from 1966 to his passing. “What is international and timeless in landscape scenes? Well, Frederick Wong has found it in these quiet, misty scenes...

Mid-Century Modern partition with gold leaf work in the front panels and plain off-white rear panels. Solid walnut frames with brass hardware. Hand pa...

Amazing oriental style screen made in the mid-20th century, preserved in perfect condition with all the golden polychromy preserved, as well as the polychromy of both sides. The piec...

An exquisite work of art by American artist Robert Crowder. Crowder lived in Japan in the 1930s (until he was abruptly expelled in 1943 after spe...

Kubo Kichiro Bamboo Mid-20th century, circa 1960 Two-panel screen. Mineral pigments and ink on paper. Signed: Kichiro Sealed: Kichiro Dimensions: H. 152.5 cm x W. 143.5 cm (60” x 56.5”) Here the Japanese nihonga artist Kubo Kichiro suffuses the reality of nature with bold color field composition that transforms the figurative painting to appear almost like an abstract painting. This simple and direct composition conveys its own delicate sense of moment and the duration of time, which is informed by the transient fallen leaves and the mottled trunks. The vibrant and saturated greens, purples and aquamarines take us away from colors traditionally associated with the depiction of bamboo. The artist employs the use of stylized rather than representational expression, in which the fallen leaves are mere outlines and the bamboo trunks consist of textured and overlaid mineral pigments. Abstraction in Japanese painting came into vogue during the 1950s and 1960s. This reawakening was informed by an awareness of early pioneers like Fukuda Heihachiro (1892-1974) who had fused Japanese nihonga with abstraction in the 1930s and 1940s. The present work is strongly connected to the Kyoto artist Heihachiro’s early exploration and abstraction of bamboo in the 1940s. Kubo Kichiro was born in Kyoto in 1942. He studied painting under the avant-garde artist Domoto Insho and was a member of his painting group Tokyu-Sha. Kichiro is a member of the Kyoto Art Institute. He is an ancestor of the artists Suzuki Shonen...

Vintage Six-Panel Screen, circa 1960

Mid 20th century hand-painted wall paper screen. Four-panel gold leaf background with hand-painted scene.

Remounted as single panels and displayed accordingly. Mineral pigments on mulberry paper. Seal on front (unreadable) and signature on reverse, by Susumu Tsushima (1923-2012.) Each...