Scrap Wood Paintings

Impressionist Landscape Countryside Oil Painting on Canvas, France Oil painting on canvas from the estate of Richard Horace Bassett (1900 - 1995). The artist studied and painted in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s, and the offering here shows the influence of the French Impressionists upon his work. This 1930's original oil on canvas, laid to board, is contained in a custom-made arts and crafts style frame...

George Herms, California (b. 1937), "Handle", 1997. Found object assemblage. Mixed media including metal, wood, wire, newspaper, carpet and parchment. Signed and dated on verso. Measures 22" high x 22-1/2" wide x 6"deep. Artwork is in very good as-found condition. Detailed photos show full condition. George Herms is an American artist best known for creating assemblages out of discarded, often rusty, dirty or broken every-day objects, and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry, humor and meaning. He is also known for his works on paper, including works with ink, collage, drawing, paint and poetry. The prolific Herms has also created theater pieces, about which he has said, "I treat it as a Joseph Cornell box big enough that you can walk around in. It's just a continuation of my sculpture, one year at a time." Legendary curator Walter Hopps, who met Herms in 1956, "placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of assemblage artists that includes Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Cornell, as well as California luminaries Wallace Berman...

Brazilian Art by R. Aragão this Watercolor on Cardboard Painting, Abstract Stick Figures in Black and White and framed in Giltwood behind glass. Artist is ...

Oil on board with interesting study on reverse side.

Framed antique oil painting on very old board of 3 pottery vessels. Initials from the Artist. Painting without the frame measures: 19.38 x 29.5 inches.