Masonite Decorative Art

Mid Century Modern Impasto Portrait of a Woman. Heavy impasto painting on board. She reminds us of Jackie O with a headband but with white hair...

Signed lower right, label on the stretcher with title and date July 19, 1976. A concert pianist playing a grand piano. Measures: 12 x 20", good condition painted and gilt frame wit...

A large French 19th century oil on canvas (laid down on a masonite) "Les progrès de l'amour dans le cœur d'une jeune fille" The Progress of Love: The Lover Crowned, after Jean-Honoré...

A framed decorative wall panel by Piero Fornasetti, Italy (1913-1988). 'Mappamondi e Navi' (Globes and Ships). Described as "very beautiful and quite rare" by the House of Fornasetti...

Art Deco Nude by John Montroue, signed in lower right corner and reverse reads - "Grace" Air brush technique by John Montroue, 8/70. Dramatic silhouette of a female nude, cubist/mode...

Mid Century Modern Abstract of a Man. In the style of Andy Warhol. Large white Masonite background with impasto strokes of red, white and black and yellow. Housed in a black frame.

Fruit still life on board signed Timmons. Attributed to William Federick Timmons(1915-1985) . Rich colors of blue, red and pink make up this fruit still life composition. The composition consists of fruit in a pedestal bowl and the detailed drapes in the background. Custom framed. This item can parcel ship for $45. William Frederick Timmins was born May 23, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Harry L. Timmins (1887-1963), was a celebrated magazine illustrator and co-owner with Frank H. Young (1888-1964) of a successful Chicago advertising agency called Young & Timmins Advertising Illustration Studios. In 1923 Timmins and Young co-founded the American Academy of Art in Chicago. His father's impressive career brought the family a prosperous and privileged lifestyle, which included pleasure trips to Paris and London. In 1934 he began to commute by Metro North train to New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League on West 57th Street. He also took classes at the National Academy of Design on Fifth Avenue near 89th Street. In 1935 he began to study at the Grand Central School of Art, located on the sky-lit top floor of Grand Central Station Terminal. This was the same station he used for his daily commute. In 1935 he began to sell pen and ink story illustrations as well as painted covers to NYC publishers of pulp magazines. During the second half of the 1930s his work appeared in Western Story, Dime Sports, Clues Detective Stories, Thrilling Western, and All Aces Magazine. He and his wife moved to a home on Spectacle Lane in Wilton, CT. This area of Connecticut had become a popular artist community. He socialized with several artist neighbors, such as Benjamin Kimberly Prins (1902-1980), Tom Lovell (1909-1997), Richard Lyon (1913-2002), Al Parker (1906-1985), Rolf Klep (1904-1981), R. G. Harris (1911-2007). During the 1940s his cover illustrations appeared on pulp magazines, such as The Shadow, Clues Detective Stories, Wild West Weekly, and Astounding Science Fiction. All these were published by Street & Smith. In 1944 the family moved to Darien, CT. At first the artist worked in a rented studio in nearby Norwalk, CT, but after a while he converted a vacant family room into an art studio and worked at home. After the war he drew story illustrations for Family Circle and Liberty Magazine. In 1948 his father, Harry L. Timmins, and his brother, Harry L. Timmins, Jr., moved to California to open a lithography business in Hollywood. During the 1950s he illustrated several books for children that were published by Rand McNally, such as Cowboys, Davy Crockett...

Mid-Century Modern abstract on board by Margaret Malval. Colorful composition in a nice gray and white frame. Cubist and modernist in style. Marga...

Classic Italian romance oil painting signed Castiglione, circa 1940s-1950s The painting depicts a young man romancing a young woman with his...

Exquisitely rendered, original oil on board, signed estate painting by French artist, Girard, depicts an American Bulldog reclining on grass, with spa...

A lovely tall portrait painting by the late Oklahoma artist Clair Seglem. The piece has a muted pallet and depicts a woman in the buff with long blonde h...

Mid-Century Modern heavy impasto floral still life oil painting circa 1950s A brilliant original oil painting by a mystery artist. The painting is si...

1956 Xaviar Amiana Dancers & Drummers painting. Oil on board. As found wood frame. Purchased directly from the artist in 1956 in Port Au Prince, Haiti b...

Louis Leon Ribak oil on Masonite board , title “ Ruby in Red” seated African American girl in red dress . In original frame with original label ....

Robert Franklin Gault ( 1989-1977) Signed Portrait of a Male . Oil on board Nice compostition of a male singend lower right. In a shabby chic white wa...

Mid Century oil on board of an American Indian. Nice heavy impasto style. In a wooden wormhole styled fame. Will fit in with any Arts & Crafts or ranch style...

Francis Jennings (b. Wilmington, DE 1910 - 1993 NYC) painted this framed surreal cubist oil on board in 1953 while residing in NYC. In vivid colors, Jennings depicted a large cat wit...

A lithographic transfer-printed masonite panel. Originally designed for the Hilton Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey Fornasetti: the complete universe page 456.   

Antique framed impressionist oil painting on board. Lovely artist signed antique framed impressionist oil painting on board. This beauty d...

GEORGE SPECK - 'Woodland Symphony' - Expressionist collage with acrylic paint on panel - signed lower left - artist's label/titled verso - unframed - Cana...

Colorful 0il on Board of Boats in a Harbor. Nice mid century painting with an earth tone palette and some light impasto technique. Housed in a solid ...

Sumptuous, very large, original oil on canvas board, still life painting depicting a banquet table. This painting is a virtuoso display of how artist William Frederick Foster (1883-1953) captures texture in paint. You can see this in the mouth watering fruit, crustacea and other samplings laid upon the table as well as the masterfully painted reflective surfaces of the copper tea pot, wine bottle and the gathered table cloth. Painting is framed in the original wood frame. Painting framed measures 34.5” high x 46” wide x 1.5” deep. Painting unframed measures 30.5” high x 42.5” wide. William Foster was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1883. He became a noted figure painter and illustrator, living the last twenty-one years of his career in Los Angeles, California. At age 12, he moved with his family to Colorado, but in 1898, he returned to Cincinnati and enrolled at the Art Academy where he studied with Joseph Henry Sharp and Frank Duveneck. His early ambition was to be a violinist, but he was re-focused on fine art when he saw a painting by Albert Ceck Wenzell. In 1902, he went to New York City where he painted scenery for theaters, auditoriums, and large department stores. He also studied at the New York School with Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase, and from 1903 to 1931, he worked as an illustrator and with a brief teaching stint in 1919 at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1903, he sold his first illustration, a depiction of high society, to Life magazine, and the style was very similar to Wenzell. From that time, he worked for most of the major magazines including Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post and Harper's Monthly. In 1926, he won the National Academy of Design's Thomas B. Clarke Prize for the best figure composition painted in the United States by a non-academician. The following year, he was voted an Associate Member based on his recognition for a figure work titled The Girl in Brown. During World War I, he operated his own ambulance in France as a member of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps and also received mention as a camoufleur artist. Returning to the U.S., he resumed his illustration work and moved to Chicago, where he taught at the Art Institute. Foster moved to Los Angeles in 1932 and devoted his energy to painting, exhibiting and teaching. He taught at the Chouinard School of Art in Los Angeles and gave private classes in his studio. He also worked on a mural project at the Hearst estate...

"High Sierras, Nine Lake Basin" painting depicts a rugged, snowy mountain scene in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with large rocks and a lake shore with pine trees in the foreground an...

This very large 1960s oil on masonite powerful and dramatic painting is by a woman painter named Natalie Cole. This is the male version of Lady Godiva. It is newly magnificently cust...

Large Picasso Style Mid-Century Modern oil on board of two women. Colorful, impasto composition of two women comforting each other. Thick wooden reddish ...

Italian surreal still life panels depicting string instruments, a viola and a mandolin(o).  Made by Felice Galbiati Arte Decorativa in Milan.  A lacquered lithographic transfer on wo...

Modern Still Life of strawberries. Fruit still life on masonite. Framed in a solid wooden frame with green tones.

Unsigned, from the estate of the artist. A luminous view of a church steeple with bells against a golden and rose tone sky as dawn breaks. The gray sky is gradually iightening with b...

Pastoral oil on board of church. Colorful impasto painting. Lovely New England fall composition of a church. The artist has even included themselves in the painting. In a solid woo...

New England Summer Home Painting. Classic Americana of a cape house in the summer. Oil on canvas house in a very thick, solid wooden frame.

Signed Southwestern painting of the Aragon Region in Spain. Dated 1931. Oil on board, gilt solid wooden antique frame.

Oil painting on masonite or board. Signed lower right. A charming country scene of a house in winter with a fence and bluish-white snow covered yard. Tall brown-green tress frame the...

Signed Mid Century Seriagraph on board by Maurice De Vlamink. Original frame. Signed lower right. Amazing hue of colors and composition bringing this village-scape to life. Fauvist...

Oil on masonite depicting a charming country landscape in summer. Signed and dated 1938 lower left. The pale green and brown colored fields of a farmstead are separated by fences wi...

William Alexander Drake (Am., 1891-1979) Oil On Masonite, Moving Logs At An Old Lumber Mill, NJ. Signed and dated 2/73 lower right with loose ...

A large, serene and colorful painting in a handsome silver gilt frame. Signed lower right. Four figures lounging on white blanket with a basket of fruit,...

Signed Alice LeFevre oil on board of pastoral New England. Nice impasto pastoral piece of cornfields, a barn and farmland. Blue mountains in the background and blue skies above. Sign...

Raphael Delorme (1885-1962) was one of the leading painter from the Art Deco Bordeaux school of painting with Dupas in France in the 1920's. This painting is typical of his best wor...