Frank Leonard Brooks Attributed Canadian Antique Oil Painting on Canvas Board

This original painting was done by the Canadian artist, Manly E. MacDonald in circa 1960 in his semi-impressionistic style. The painting is done on canvas artist's board and is a Can...

This very well executed antique oil painting is unsigned, with unknown origins, and is presumed to date to approximately 1920 and done in the period impressionistic style. The painti...

This antique framed oil painting was done by Bernard Pothast of the Netherlands in approximately 1920 in his realistic style. The painting is done on canvas and depicts an interior scene of a Dutch mother in period dress with her children. The painting is framed in its original gesso frame with a small brass name plate...

This original antique oil on canvas painting was done by John Munnoch of England in approximately 1900 in the period late Victorian style. The painting is a well executed landscape o...

This large antique origina painting was done by well known Anoine Blanchard of France in approximately 1920 in his signature Impressionistic style. The painting is done with oil pain...

This antique and unframed oil painting on canvas is unsigned but believed to have originated from Italy in circa 1850 in the period Victorian style. The painting depicts a number of ...

Signed dated ad titled “The Irresistible Landscape”. This painting was personal to the artist as Brook was born on July 14, 1898 ad at the age of twelve was bed-ridden with Polio. This painting is a self-portrait showing the artist looking out the windows of the room he rarely was able to leave. This painting was exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fie Arts ad the Ogunquit Museum Of America Art, exhibition tags from both institutions are attached to the stretcher en verso. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Alexander Brook was a realist painter, whose works consisted mostly of still-life subjects, landscapes, and figures, often of women. He was very successful in his day, winning second prize to Picasso's first prize at the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition of Modern Painting in 1930. In New York, he studied at the Art Students League between the years of 1914-1918. It was at the Art Students League that Brook developed significant relationships with Niles Spencer, Reginald Marsh, Kenneth Hays Miller, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and, perhaps most significantly, Peggy Bacon, whom he married in 1920. Along with Kenneth Hayes Miller, Brook studied with John C. Johansen, Frank V. DuMond, George Bridgeman and Dimitri Romanofski. Within this group lay the foundations of American Realism. Brook was a member of the Society of Independent Artists, who rebelled against the strictures of the National Academy of Design. In 1938 Brook traveled to Savannah, Georgia, there he did some of his most provocative work. After two years in the South, Bacon and Brook were divorced. Brook later married the painter Gina Knee. During the years 1928 through 1939, Alexander Brook had works in over one-hundred exhibitions, fifteen of which were one man shows. By 1942, Brook had resumed teaching at the Art Students League. Demand for the artist's work kept him in significant collections, galleries, and museums, including the Downtown Gallery (New York), the National Academy of Design, the Rehn Gallery, the Larcada and the Knoedler galleries. Some feel Brook may have retreated from the art world with the rise of Abstract Expressionism, although a sketchbook that he kept from 1949 to 1951 reveals an active engagement in painting and served multi purposes--a repository for his ideas, an address book, notebook, and travel diary. Of special interest are his notes on watercolor technique. It also includes tips for using new painting tools...

The antique unframed oil painting on canvas is in the Renaissance style. Two ladies are conversing with the man on the right. Canvas is stretched...

An early abstract painting by Leonard Nelson (1912-1993) signed and dated 1957 lower right. Acquired directly from the Nelson estate.

Oil Painting on board signed A.Thom 26 frame measurements given.

Antique oil painting on board of a white dog caught in a moment of speculation in an outdoor scene. Signed William Melbon and presented ...

Antique oil painting on board by H. G. Ontrop (1880-1955) is a slightly more impressionistic work than typical for the artist, with wisp...