Paintings

This is an original antique oil on cardboard impressionist painting from 1903. The motive is a desert landscape with mountains in the background kept in warm and intriguing colours. ...

"Cabot" A Fine Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Dog by Georges Lemmers (1871 - 1944) Belgian artist, born in Antwerp in 1871 he was a pupil of the Academy o...

An elegant poster for a grocery store in Lisieux, featuring a woman's portrait and various information on free-form paper cutouts, to be attributed, France 1900. The entire piece is ...

Jeune Femme et Costumes des Pierrots, Junge Frau mit Harlekin und pierrot, circa 1900. Richard Ranft. Painter of landscapes, engraver, illustrator and poster artist. (Swiss 1862–19...

Full of energy and elegance, this genre scene of African Americans eating and chatting in a 1920s lunchroom -- dressed to the nines in furs, fashionable hats...

An early work by the American realist Stephen Morgan Etnier (1903-1984) depicting the village of Harpswell, Maine were he built his home and studio in the 1940s and lived until his d...

A small oil on canvas of a street scene by Albert Harold Palmer, 1911-1985. Artist and teacher, born in Northamptonshire, who studied art part-time, then full-time at Grimsby School...

Monumental oil on canvas from 1927 by french artist Georges Conrad in its wooden frame with gold leaf. Georges Conrad (24 February 1874, Aubervilliers - 7 December 1936, Rouen) was ...

Antique English Seascape with Threes Yawls, by S. Noble, circa 1920s, an oil on board seascape with three yawls sailing on a broad reach in a crisp breeze, signed S. Noble in the low...

"The Artist" William John Wainwright PRBSA (1855–1931) Oil on canvas. Dated July 1902 on the reverse - unsigned. Canvas size 40.5 x 50.5 cms. Provenance: New Art Gallery, Birmingh...

Late 19th or early 20th century garden portrait of a lady painted in the period of Art Nouveau. Stylized palms serve as an elegant backdrop for a seated heiress painted in soft paste...

A very interesting and unusual Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on artist and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame. The Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting is signed on the front by the artist and appears to be dated 1948 on the rear. Known for his unusual subjects Pfoutz outdid himself with this effort, capturing the essence of a Lancaster County farm but with the startling twist of portraying a large turkey vulture in the foreground. Definitely unique. Overall frame Size approximately 33″ wide x 3″ deep x 26″ high J. Earle Pfoutz had a long and distinguished career as a self trained artist. More can be learned about him from reading this article produced by Gary Hawbaker at askART Earle Pfoutz Born: 1891 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania Died: 1957 Known for: Landscape, figure, still life painting An image of J Earle Pfoutz Biography from the Archives of askART J. Earle Pfoutz (John Earle Pfoutz) – (Oct 23, 1891-Nov 9, 1957) “A seventh generation descendant of a Swiss family which arrived in America early in the 17th Century, J. Earle Pfoutz was born in Lancaster, PA, son of John Bachman and Susan Allison Pfoutz. He painted houses for a living and pictures for a life. A self-taught artist, described as a primitive, he was distinctive for his vivid imagination and bold color application. He painted hundreds of Lancaster County scenes. Pfoutz traveled through the hills near his home and along the Susquehanna River in search of scenes. He began painting with a brush when he was fourteen, but added a palette knife after suffering an eye injury. He completed eighth grade in the Lancaster Public Schools and there his formal education ended. However, the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvania thought so highly of his work as an artist that officials certified him as an art instructor and he taught for a year in the York (PA) public schools. He also was an art instructor under the program for disabled veterans, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, when he gave private instruction to veterans in their homes. In 1947, J. Earle Pfoutz finally earned national recognition as an artist. His painting, Opalescent October, was chosen by the Museum of Art of Dayton Ohio, to travel all over the country for a year with its Group Exhibition. Described as a “very colorful, calm scene, iridescent in color, sweeping in design,” the painting started on its journey around the country early in 1948. In an interview with the Sunday News (Lancaster, PA – Nov 2, 1947), Pfoutz stated that he didn’t know whether he was a “primitive” or an “impressionist.” No master taught him, no school channeled his style. “Sometimes I didn’t eat, but I always managed to paint,” he recalled. Many of his hundreds of canvases -most of them not sold, but given away to friends – found their way to other parts of the country. “I never remember the day when I did not love color,” Pfoutz said. “I was about 12 years old when I saw my first palette – a string of different colored paint paddles that graced the stores of that day. As a boy I had two great desires. One was to be able to eat all the strawberry jam I could, and the other to possess a string of those beautiful paint paddles. Well, I’ve got my fill of jelly, but I’ve never yet got my fill of beautiful colors.” In 1950, Pfoutz’s one man show of paintings made front page headlines in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: “Most of the twenty oil paintings on exhibition are landscapes, although there are several interesting figure studies. Colors again, as in all Pfoutziana are rich and full-bodied, but for the most part not as startlingly as in some of the earlier work. Most of the paintings were done during the past year, and also reveal the painter’s characteristic heavy impasto technique, in which the rich swirls of paint carry their own message. Among the figures, The Banjo Picker, and The Magician, are the most provocative. Both are character studies; the first being of a tramp musician whose drab clothing is set-off by a luminous aqua blue background. Modern in feeling and treatment is The Magician, a clown-faced wizard whose spinning ball in the air suggests the fourth dimension – space. The use of the primary colors in this picture serves to emphasize the theme effectively. A large colorful landscape, Opalescent October, depicting rolling hills against a late afternoon sky is new to Lancastrians, as it has just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where it hung in the Dayton Art Institute. Another landscape with soft dreamy colors is Fantasie D’Autumne, and one of the loveliest pictures in the show. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is another with eye appeal, and was one of the works which was hung in the Old Customs House in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania Week, and before that in a collection of Pfoutz work in the same place. In deep contrast to the sunny skies and brilliant foliage of many of the pictures, is the somewhat morbid Worry, in which the center of interest is a tremendous rat. This, the painter explains, was symbolic of 1948 in China, which was ‘The Year of The Rat’ in the Chinese calendar. Background material for the picture was furnished to Pfoutz by author Pearl Buck. Other pictures include Autumn Prelude, Miners Village, painted at Cornwall, PA; Humid Day, Saint Peters Kierch, at Middletown, PA; Lady Pfoutz, inspired by the painter’s wife; Sun Flowers, Sentimental Journey, Gyne, Luzon Woman, Old Bridge, The Cow Path. Lemures, based on Roman mythology, and Ethiopian, painted from an ebony wood carving from Kenya Province, S. Africa.” In 1953, Pfoutz was installed as President of the Lancaster County Art Association. A. Z. Kruse, New York City artist, writer and member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, Manhattan, was the guest speaker. In January of 1953, thirty-five Pfoutz oils were exhibited at the Old Custom House in Philadelphia, PA under the sponsorship of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. Several Lancaster County landscapes and covered bridges were included as well as Katy, a Pennsylvania Dutch scene. Symbolic paintings included End of the Second Day, the artist’s visualization of the second coming of Christ, and Twilight, typifying the grief of mothers of all lands for sons lost in battle. In June of 1953, a Pfoutz oil made history in Lancaster. From the Lancaster New Era: “For the first in local art history, a painting has been withdrawn from an exhibition because of objections from viewers and hostesses serving at the show. The painting, Jeune Fille, a standing nude done by Pfoutz, was one of the paintings in the annual spring exhibition of the Art Association and had become the center of the controversy. Pfoutz said he took the painting down… ‘graciously but reluctantly.’ ‘From an artistic standpoint, there is nothing offensive about the painting,’ Pfoutz said. ‘This community just wants its nudes with clothes on.’ “It is most brilliant in color, and because it is so brilliant I thought it would make a nice lively spot for the show. This is the first time I’ve had to take a picture off the walls. I substituted a seascape for it.’ Pfoutz said he felt the painting brought a lot of viewers to the show because it was so controversial. It had never been exhibited before. ‘If this had been shown in a metropolitan city,’ he commented, ‘people wouldn’t have given it a second glance. But the viewpoint here is more conservative, even though I don’t think moderns would have minded.’ He said he felt the painting was neither ‘objectionable nor pornographic,’ but had complied with the wishes of fellow members of the Art Association who telephoned him to relay the protests they had received. The art controversy was the first to arise here publicly since the showing of Amish Grandmother, an oil by William Gropper which was part of the Gimbel Pennsylvania exhibit at the Griest Building several years ago. — Numerous viewers of Amish Grandmother, [a painting showing an Amish woman holding a white goose], expressed themselves quite vocally, calling it an affront to the Plain Folk. But it stayed on exhibit throughout the length of the Gimbel show. Pfoutz expressed no rancor, implying that if Gropper could take it so could he.” After his death, there were several shows of Pfoutz’ work organized by his son J. Earle, Jr. J. Earle, Jr. also saw to it that President Eisenhower would receive an oil called The Cow’s Path. The president first saw the painting in 1950 when, as president of Columbia University, he visited Lancaster to address a student assembly at Franklin and Marshall College. After his address was over, the then Gen. Eisenhower stopped at the Fackenthal Library on the campus to view an exhibition of Pfoutz’s paintings. The Cow’s Path intrigued him. For some time, as his aides fumed to get him back on his time schedule, Eisenhower and Pfoutz talked, as artist to artist. Prior to his death, Pfoutz requested that The Cow’s Path be given to the President if he wanted it. The painting was presented to Ike at the White House in November of 1959. Mrs. Eisenhower owned a Pfoutz painting titled, In the Manor. Though house painting was his livelihood, he worked for Millersville State Teachers College (now a university) for a time during World War II, and called himself “the Chimney Sweep of MSTC.” During that period he knocked out a dizzying canvas in the surrealist style (he thought it was terrible) and got into the campus newspaper when one of the students spotted it. Earle Pfoutz was not the humble, downtrodden artist, not the Douanier Rousseau type at all. As he developed his skill and style through the years, he also fashioned a resilient confidence in himself as an artist. Whether he was building his own home (he built two) or painting one for somebody else, he never lost faith in his ultimate recognition—though he was never sure he would live to see it. Whether he was working as a rigger for a hoisting company, in the Stehli Silk Mill of Lancaster, carving Cloister-style chairs, decorating old chests, cementing bricks from the old Safe...

The category Antique Paintings, Still Life With Basket, Cabbage, Onions and Carrots features an Oil Painting on Canvas from the early twentieth century. This is a still life depicti...

The category Paintings Female Nudity, features a nude of a woman, paintings on canvas, 20th century, 1930s. The work is a very pleasing oil painting, hand-painted in the early 1900s...

This remarkable scene depicting the moment when Bellerophon was about to lasso the flying figure of Pegasus after the creature paused for a drink below was painted in 1926 by Bryson ...

Japanese two panel screen: Nara Deer in Gentle Yoshino Landscape. Yoshino is in the Nara Prefecture, an area famous for these small and tame deer native to J...

Emil Wennerwald, a Danish painter, created landscapes in the classic national romantic style, celebrating the natural beauty of his homeland and its artistic traditions. Influenced b...

We are proud to present this early work by American Impressionist George William Sotter (1879–1953), created during his time at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. This painti...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning Frederick Golden Short 1863 – 1936 oil painting which dated 1920 and signed of the Bluebell wood in New Forest This painting is o...

An early 20th century portrait of a clown, gouache on canvas. A clown dressed in black with orange hair stands, seemingly oversized in the circus ring, with his back to the viewer, h...

Collection of Vintage Artist's Palettes, American, circa 1940s - 1960s. The largest palette measures 15.5"H x 19.5"W. The smallest measures 7.5"H x 10.5"W.

This is an antique early 20th century oil on canvas painting with a beautiful farmhouse motive and great painting technique. Small hens are picking seeds outside and the horizon is s...

This is a pair of antique etchings by renowned Danish artist Søren Lund. The etchings have motives of a man handeling two horses on the beach with the ocean and a lonely sailboat in ...

Crestmount is the Mediterranean Revival Style mansion built by architect Robert D. Farquhar in 1923 for Antonio Morino "The It Man" and Daisy Can...

We are offering this very grand pair or Paintings (on board) in their original imposing solid burr wood and gesso water gilded very thick frames (17cm) - we believe that they are Go...

Painting by unknown artist, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. Ilegible signature. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina...

refined Indian brush painting of a nobleman riding on a horse, intricate detail, ink, color and gold gilt on paper, Conservation framed

In celebration of the lunar New Year festival, it was traditional all over China to hang special decorations. In a city called Wuqiang, local artists made lacquer scroll paintings laden with symbolism. This framed and finely rendered early 20th century folk painting from Wuqiang features an imperial court official and his family dressed in their best silks. The young boy is dressed in a wonderfully patterned yellow robe to offer Shou Xing...

Hilly landscape - Waldemar Runde Measures: cm 60 x cm 80 (without frame) - oil on canvas, 1930s 23.6 in x 31.5 in (without frame) Waldemar Runde (1892 - 1988) XXth century ...

Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York , “An Important Collection of Early American Miniatures and Silver. Property of Mrs Dorothy Draper Hamlen Removed from Her Home in Wayland, Mass...

Oil on canvas, orientalist scene, signed Louis Saphier. This lovely painting was executed around 1920. Louis Saphier was active and lived in both New Yor...

This impressionist still life by French painter Léon Garraud depicts a table set with a plate of peaches and a vase of pink peonies and delicate white flowers. The warm palette of or...

An authentic, antique, Belgian oil painting on stretched canvas. It is signed by the artist, O. Waterloos, and dated 1917 in the lower left corner (see photo). It depicts a lovely, o...

Offered here for your consideration is a vintage original Earl MacPherson pastel painting of a pin-up girl. Depicting a blond, smiling, nude pin-up girl dressed only with two larg...

Summer landscape Measures: cm 76 x cm 96 without frame (the painting is sold with frame), oil on canvass Generously sized painting depicting a forest portrayed in the height of...

Cincinnati School gouache on laid paper by Emma Mendenhall (1873-1964) of waterside piers and fish house number one in Rockport, Massachusetts. Archiva...

Polo Pastel, Painting By Pierre-Georges Jeanniott. A rare Polo match pastel by the French artist Pierre-Georges Jeanniott (1848-1934). The pastel is framed in a modern frame with gla...

You will not be disappointed in this wonderfully hand painted piece by the world reknown William Morley. Retaining its original Gilded Age frame and in very nice condition. A waterco...

striking oil painting from the 40s of a forest scene in strong impasto strokes and bold colour tones. Simply framed of the period by well known Swedish artist Gunnar John, who studi...

Thomas Taylor Ireland, RBA English, 1888 - 1921 A collection of five watercolor paintings of British Pubs. Signed TTI. The Cock and Rabbit of Buckinghamshire (featuring the puddin...

In this captivating early 20th-century English oil on canvas painting, the essence of rural life is vividly captured as a majestic hound sits regally amidst the rustic charm of a hay loft, ready for the morning hunt...

Found in France, an oil on linen landscape painting, mounted in a wide, gold-leafed wood frame, signed and dated 1919. Painted by the French artist Marc Mongin, the scene is typic...

Large Impasto Painting of House on the Water by Lephe Kingsley Holden. Signed lower right. Lephe Kingsley Holden (1881 - 1973) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York. Lephe Holden was a painter and art teacher. She was born in Hadley, Massachusetts on May 1, 1881. She was the daughter of Elbridge Kingsley and Elizabeth (Cook) Kingsley. Elbridge Kingsley was a painter, wood engraver and illustrator for the Century Co. Lephe was a graduate of Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Massachusetts and the Art Student's League, New York. She studied privately with Augustus V. Tack, Dwight Tryon, Guy Wiggins, George E. Browne, Hippolito Hidalgo, and Ed Carviedes. Holden taught art at Maxwell Training College, New York (1908-1912). She married Samuel M. Holden on October 1912, and they were married until his death in January 1936. Holden also served as the Director of Art Instruction in Westport, Connecticut School System (1927-1947). Initially she was the only art teacher, but at the time of her retirement there were five assistant instructors. She exhibited with the American Watercolor Society Education: Pratt Institute; Art Students League, NYC; With George Elmer Browne; Guy Wiggins Summer Art School, Essex, Connecticut, 1936. Membership: Key West Art and Historical Society; Key West Artists...

Painting by Jordi Casacuberta Codinach, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. Handsigned. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina...

Louis Picard (1861-1940), a well-listed French artist. Oil on canvas. Composition with a beautiful young nude woman reclining in a forest scenery. Approximately from the 1920s. Sign...

Although western painting was initially embraced during Japan’s Meiji period (1868-1912), artists brought on a revival of traditional painting styles as they sought to create a modern Japanese style with roots in the past. This exquisite hanging scroll demonstrates the preference for soft layering of gray tones with judicious use of color. The landscape is rendered in soft ink washes that subtly distinguish between water, mountain, and sky. The scroll painting...

Esteve Serrat Paxinc painting. Made in Spain, circa 1979. Hand signed by the author In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a bea...

Important, wonderful painting signed by the famous Italian artist Orazio Amato Portrait of young woman with landscape, oil on canvas signed This artwork, never before on the market...

An outstanding painting by British artist Walter Herbert Roe , ca' early 20th century. Masterfully depicting 2 children reading a book and a dog at their attention-as if time stood still...

Early 20th Century abstract mixed media composition on paper dated 1918 and signed "Futurista". This colourful artwork is typical for the Futuristic art movement that started in Ital...

Oil on panel representing "The Death of Cleopatra" Signed lower right Maria SZANTHO, dated 1928. Hungarian school. Former pianist, she launched an artistic career under the tutelage...

French Art Deco abstract print titled "The Cyclist" featuring a individual holding bike in a one arm white strokes of red blue and yellow (FERNAND LEGER)

Billy Seay Airbrushed Parrot Lovers artwork (original airbrushed over a print) for the Turner Company, circa 1948, in the original white painted frame. This a great example of the post-WWII Hawaiian and tropical art/decorating boom. Great for vintage Art Deco dwellings and rattan-inspired rooms. The print is new old stock and has never been displayed until now. Bill Seay (1922-2012) started his working life as Billy Seay, a child actor, in the late silents and early talkies (“Kid Millions” with Eddie Cantor, “Topaze” with John Barrymore, and “The Unknown” with Lon Chaney and the young Joan Crawford, are the most noted of these films), then followed in his father’s footsteps as an artist, joining the designer Sacha Brastoff in his studio from 1952 to 1959, remaining a life-long friend and co...

Very Nice, Old, Painting of Industrial Landscape Scene signed Duff, 1942 couple small repairs as seen on canvas back small "puncture" along the left side of the painting small "crea...

Framed Print of Saint Anthony. By unknown artist, circa 1940. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina. Material...

Pair of antique French framed floral oil paintings. Well executed pair of antique French floral oil paintings on wood in giltwood frames, ci...

Gerhard Cohn Roemers, Oil on canvas painting (German, 1900-1965), View of Middleburg Town square with Gothic town hall. Signed and titled, lower right, Impressionist work, Executed w...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Oil On Canvas, Gold Leaf Wood Frame Style: Realism