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A very interesting and unusual Cornwall Iron Banks Original Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on canvas and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame with later touch ups. The Cornwall Iron Banks Original 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 workings of one of the largest iron ore mines in the eastern United States, located in Cornwall PA. This mine and others in the area that came before it, played a crucial role in the development of the United States of America from the Revolutionary War, through the industrial revolution up until the 1970’s when the mine was flooded during Hurricane Agnes and closed operations. Overall frame Size approximately 26″ wide x 2″ deep x 30″ 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...

A beautiful antique dog portrait of a Gordon Setter. The painting is dated 1902 and signed by Médard Tytgat. It is a beautiful scene, the dog pos...

Vintage framed Still Life Oil Painting of Fruit with Pitcher. Framed in a lovely wooden frame. Ready to hang with wire along the back. French, circa 1920. Size of frame: 16 x 18 i...

Decorate an office or study with this colorful antique painting. Created in England and set in the original ornate and carved gilt wood frame, the artwork painted on board depicts an...

Ismael de la Serna "Music" oil on canvas signed and dated 1929. Published in the catalogue held at "Centro Cultural Conde Duque" in 1990

A fantastic vintage Boho original oil painting on canvas. A chic portrait in deep rich colors. Signed by the artist. A beautiful all over patina from time. Acquired from a Palm Beach...

A decorative, moody, quality portrait. Very sought-after. All the rage in interiors right now. This antique oil painting on stretched canvas has been sourced in France. It is signed ...

Vintage framed Renoir reproduction of Nude Female in stylized wooden frame. Ready to hang with wire along the back French, circa 1920. Size of frame: 14 x 16 inches; 2.5"D Condit...

A charming antique 1920s oil on canvas painting of a mountain scene in a period frame. While the work is well executed it is unsigned. The painting was collected in France so presuma...

Ships portrait of the USS Doherty DE-14, and Evarts Class Destroyer escort US Navy warship from World War II. Used to protect convoys from Japanese submarines. The painting is highly detailed with the vessel in perfect scale. 1880-1943 Worden Wood was an American illustrator and marine painter. He was born in Brooklyn NY in 1880. Wood joined the navy in 1898 for the Spanish American war...

An energetic and bright watercolor on paper showcasing an example of modern American Impressionism by Harry Glassgold. Signed bottom right and dated 19...

A colorful and striking piece of original art dating from around the 1940/50s. This oil painting on stretched canvas has been sourced in France. Unfortunately, the artist, evidently very skilled, has not signed nor dated his/her piece. Clearly inspired by impressionism, the artist has created a enchanting and colorful forest...

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...

April in the mountains – Fritz Schwaiger (1878-1953) Work dimensions: 70 x 100 cm Measurement with antique fir frame: 74 x 104 cm Technique: oil on canvas Period: circa 1920 Sugges...

Portrait of a young woman. Good general condition, missing parts of the frame. Signed and dated. France, 1919. Céline-Alice Winter-Schahl was born in Strasbourg in 1863 and died in...

An original oil painting on stretched canvas from la Belle-Epoque (1871-1912). An unusual vertical format and a lovely floral still-life of wildflowers make this antique French paint...

Depicting a worn road through a pasture toward a thatch roofed village with mountains in the background, in a period giltwood frame

Early 20th Century Framed Landscape with Haystacks, France A beautiful European painting on board depicting a bucolic landscape with haystacks at the forefront. Lush green landscape with trees, a split rail...

Framed Village Landscape with Houses, 1920's France A beautiful Parisian painting on canvas depicting a peaceful village landscape with a row of houses on a street featuring a scene...

1920s Oil on canvas by L. B. McNamara of a young girl. In a gilt wood frame.

A French coastal scene with fishing boats returning from the sea, cliffs beyond, fishermen carrying fish over their shoulders

An oil exquisit scene of a Californian forest with two persons walking, signed "C H Harmon" by the proeminet american master painter Charles Henry Harmon of the still virgin woods of...

Pair of Paintings on Porcelain, Village Landscapes, early 20th century. Pair of paintings on porcelain, representing village landscapes, beautiful wood and gilded stucco frames, 19t...

Superb oil painting by Pierre Adrien Ekman (1904-1993). Beautiful representation of the Discovery of the New World. Painting style with touches of the Romantic, Naif, Art Deco, surre...

2568 Antique impressionist oil painting of a horse drawn carriage on a snow covered road Framed in a period frame Canvas applied to board Image size 17.5x23.5"

One of a king , Exquisite and very important work of art !!!! Oil on canvas by Belgian painter Gustave Camus, signed and dated in the lower right corner. The work introduces us as sp...

Impressive antique wall panels crafted in hardwoods and paint decorated in floral motifs retrieved as architectural remnants from an Addison Mizner Palm Beach Estate.

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

Simple & elegant hand painted enamel on copper of a French cottage by a pond with dock. Petite in size, work of art is 3.5 x 5. Totality is 10.5 x 9.5 framed. In excellent antique co...

Snowy Landscape – Rudolf Fischer Dimension of the painting: 40 x 30 cm Dimension with frame: 58 x 48 cm Tecnique: oil on canvas Era: 1910 circa View of a snow-covered slope, framed...

Rare pair of hand painted reveres mirrored eglomise paintings The borders are mirrors with that extend outward and have a mint green outline with cross sections throughout. Depictin...

Snowy Landscape – Kusche Alfred Opera size: 60 x 80 cm Dimensions with cornice: 78 x 98 cm Technique: oil on rigid cardboard Period: year ’20 Suggestive winter paesaggio, one of th...

An antique painting offers an impressionist oil on panel painting of an Italian street scene with structures and winding road, artist signed illegible, c1900 Measures- 22.5''H x 18....

O/5542 - What to say about this rare set of four large paintings ? It's certainly an idea for wall decoration: inside a boiserie (wooden panels) or with golden frames. in the dini...

Oil painting on canvas depicting rural scene. Rural scene depicting two white-coated cows one of which is lying down and the other standing surrounded by dark nature. The painting ...

Title: "Parisian Horse Race - 1920s Equestrian Artwork" Description: Discover a cherished treasure from our studio—a captivating snapshot of a Pari...

Raphaël DELORME (1885-1962) « Jeune femme dans son intérieur » Oil on panel Signed Lower right Framed 36 x 32 cm Total 50 x 47 cm Raphaël Delorme was a French painter born in 1885 ...

A French countryside landscape painting of a cottage by a river with a tiny boat nearby, marked "Pezant" in the lower left corner. canvas: 55 x 46 cm frame: 72,5 x 63,3 cm

We present you with a grand maritime painting crafted by French artist Jules Izier, born in Paris and active during the late 19th/early 20th century. Renowned for his depictions of l...

Original late 1930s/1940s Polynesian girl on beach oil painting on velvet signed "Roger Fowler, Tahiti" Fowler's paintings were sold at Don The Beachcombers...

Henri Braun (American / French, late 19th to early 20th century) circa 1905. A fine quality equestrian painting on board depicting a race horse standing tall in a stable over a barr...

A large impressionist painting offers oil on canvas fall landscape scene with trees and forest road, artist signed as photographed, framed, c1920Antique Oversized Measures- 43''H x...

Olga Lau (1875-1960), Danish artist. Oil on canvas. Large painting. Seated woman seen from the back lost in deep thoughts. Inspired by Italian Renaissance works. Modernist style. V...

Ron Childer's "The Meeting" is an oil painting on thick paper . The painting offers a highly graphic work, borrowing some influences from cubism and semi-...

Princess Marie of Greece painted a series of caricatures she called "Katoufs" during her exile in England in the early 20th century. This Katouf depicts a frog-like creature with hu...

Vienna Secession School hand colored engraving printed on Japan paper and mounted on silk satin. The work centers on Venetian building facades with ...

Gorgeous and very Delicate oil on canvas, adhered to board, with an impressionistic style that represents a fisherman on the edge of a river, on the outskirts of a town surrounded by...

A painted porcelain portrait of Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, shown wearing full uniform and orders. English, circa 1910. Footnote: Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, (30 September 1832 – 14 November 1914) was one of the most successful British military commanders of the 19th century. He served in the Indian rebellion, the Expedition to Abyssinia and the Second Anglo-Afghan War before leading British Forces to success in the Second Boer War. He also became the last Commander-in-Chief of the Forces before the post was abolished in 1904. Roberts was awarded the Victoria Cross...

A fine early 20th century surrealist/cubist oil on canvas, depicting a pipe playing or smoking figure, laid against a tree. Expertly painted but sadly unsigned. The canvas frame stam...

Large oil on canvas by Paul Ackerman, entitled « personnage dans l’arbre » (« character in a tree »). Biography Paul Ackerman, Romania-France (1908-1981) Paul Ackerman is a Romanian painter, lithographer, sculptor and theater designer, living in France since 1912, he belongs to the School of Paris . Paul Ackerman was four years old when, in 1912, his father, a company director and great art lover, decided, out of constraint in the face of « the anti-Semitism which is a harsh reality in Romania », to come and settle in Paris, in a large villa facing the Bois de Vincennes. He did his secondary studies at the Lycée Charlemagne (where he befriended Gabriel Arout, future playwright for whom he would later design the sets), then at the Ecole Alsacienne. From 1925, Ackerman studied law and letters at the Sorbonne, but, frequenting the Louvre Museum assiduously, he knew that his vocation lay elsewhere. In 1933, Paul Ackerman met Simone Laverrière, a native of Royan, whom he married in 1935. In 1936, in his studio at 100, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, he designed projects for posters, fabrics and jewelry for Elsa Schiaparelli and Marcel Rochas while visiting Fernand Leger’s studio. In 1939 Paul Ackerman was mobilized, taken prisoner then released, he found his wife Simone in Vichy where he was expelled as a Jew and left for Saint-Tropez. He then leads a cloistered life in the south of France, made up of small means (painting on...

Rudolf Quittner (1872-1910), "Vue nocturne de la Seine" ("Seine by night"), oil painting, ca. 1905 Impressionist Rudolf Quittner, born in 1872, was an Austrian landscape and genre p...

An Old World romance oil theme depicts horseback riders arriving at a little city near to a river and mountains. Frame 64 x 50 cm Canvas: 50 x 37.5 cm

A delightful picture signed as depicted of Midle eastern subject matter with craft off shore with oarsmen other figure on shore

"The Return Of The Knight", Oil On Canvas Signed And Dated Octave Van Cuÿck 1909 Imposing oil on canvas

Beautiful French Normandie village painting. Sight dimensions: 17.5"W x 13.5"H

A gorgeous vintage painting depicting a seascape, framed in gold frame by New Jersey artist Carol Skutnik. Acquired at a Palm Beach estate.

A circa 1940's large Mexican painted wood panel of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Measurements: Height: 60" Width: 36" Depth: 2"

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...