North American Paintings

Inventing Acadia Artists and Tourists At Mount Desert, Essay by J. Gray Sweeney; Foreword by John Wilmerding. Rockland, Maine: The Farnsworth Art Museum, 1999. A catalogue that accom...

Tantra series painting by artist and counter-cultural icon Ben Morea. Morea’s exploits during the 1960’s, as co-founder of the anarchist/activist collective ...

A painting by Inga Uwais aka Chris Langdon (b. 1952) « Adventures of Man Love Doll #6 », oil on canvas, 2012. From the private collection of Laura Lee Stearn...

Celebrate raw, expressive artistry with this Vintage Boho Primitive Figurative Oil Painting. Hand-painted with bold strokes and earthy tones, this striking piece captures a soulful h...

1980s Bryron Gálvez Abstract Modernism Artwork Vivid Pastel on Paper Mexico Signed art Measus: 12.5 x 18.63 Preowned original condition unrestored vintage art See all images prov...

Paintings by 19th century and Contemporary American Artists, from the Collection of The Late Samuel T. Shaw, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Nov. 21, 1945. Softcover, 89 pp. 15 b&w plate...

1960s Abstract painting Oil on Masonite board artist signed Worthington 29.5 h x 25.5 w x 1.13 d Art 23.75 h x 19.75 Original patinated wood frame. Original vintage unrestored condit...

A beautifully executed kneeling nude woman with face buried in her cascading hair...purchased in a NYC Gallery in the 1960s it's a striking large and maste...

VELLA STRAND - Untitled - Vintage watercolor painting on Arches paper - signed lower right - unframed - Canada - circa 1992. Excellent vintage condition - no loss - no damage - no r...

Casanovia; Seduction of Europe, by Frederick Ilchman. MFA Publications, Museum of fine Arts, Boston, 2017. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. From the salon to the boudoir: the world...

Elevate your interior with this captivating vintage boho abstract oil painting, a unique composition bursting with texture, depth, and energy. Bold strokes of creamy white, punchy pi...

Final costume design drawing by Jose Varona for the New York City Opera's 1967 production of Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel). This design is for the title character. The drawing is ink, watercolor and gouache. Two other designs for this opera are in the collection of the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX. Sight measurement is 19 1/4 x 14 1/8 inches. Jose Varona American was born 1930 in Argentina. He began his art career in the 1950's and later became a renowned international costume designer mostly with opera and dance productions. He moved the the United States in 1962. He designed costumes for Beverly Sills, Joan Sutherland...

"Unnoticeable Slope" Sarah Dupré, 2023. Tar, oil, mixed media, and enamel. With black frame. 31.75"H x 25.5"W x 0.5" Using graphite, charcoal, tar, and influence from industrial p...

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art/ Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 2018. First edition softcover. This handbook consists of a...

The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Joseph Van Der Elst. Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1944. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. An in-depth look into art of the Middle Ages. Contents: 1. The Times and the Men who Made Them: Men of Flanders; The Flemish Parade; The Good Black Earth; The Rise of the Towns; The Medieval Guilds; Of Love, the Dream; The Upward Glance; Pt. 2. The Flemish Masters: Jan van Eyck; Petrus Christus...

Sotheby's: The Estate of Peter Jay Sharp, Thursday January 13 1994. 1st Ed hardcover auction catalog with dust jacket. Richly illustrated with full-color lithographic reproductions a...

a good example of American Abstract Expressionism by established contemporary artist Jan Wunderman, depicting stacked asymmetrical rock-like forms, which is rooted in the artist's no...

Amazing surrealist painting of birds over an abyss by Haucke (1908-1960). Born in S Africa died USA. Artist published and exhibited in the USA in the 1940-50s and is in numerous art ...

Abstract oil on canvas titled "House," by artist Louis Zansky (1920-1978), signed 1968. Framed with linen matting and carved gilt wood frame. Painting measures 16" width x 12" height...

Mid Century Abstract Square Painting by E.S Greenberg. Nice square shape with soft pastels colors. Housed in a chrome frame. Signed lower right

This is a contemporary art print. A Canadian, hand-finished and framed limited edition, signed by the artist, Emilija Pasagic. Titled 'Grace and Beauty I' and number 59 of 95 limit...

A stunning vintage Boho original oil painting on canvas. A chic nude Figural composition in deep rich colors. Acquired from a Miami estate.

An incredible vintage Boho original oil painting on board. A chic Abstract composition in chic muted blues. Signed by the artist. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

An original vintage painting on canvas of poppy flowers. Pale pink color to the flowers with a vibrant green background. Signed by the arti...

Infuse your space with vibrant creativity through this Vintage Boho Original Abstract Oil on Canvas. This striking composition features bold, gestural strokes of crimson, ochre, and ...

Original 1940s hand-drawn watercolor floral painting on paper by Paul Tyler featuring a yellow Hibiscus against a white background. The portrait captures the timeless beauty of hibis...

This is a contemporary art print. A Canadian, hand-finished canvas in box frame, signed by the artist, Emilija Pasagic. Titled 'Grace and Beauty II' and number 29 of 95 limited edi...

Original watercolor on board painting of Water Buffaloes by renowned Filipino artist Romeo Villalva Tabuena, circa 1960. The painting is very bright and colorful and measures 26" x 19.25" x 1.5" overall (the image is 20" x 14"). It is presented in its original wood frame; signed and dated in the lower left of the painting. Gorgeous focal point piece of one of Tabuena's most sought after subjects! #3072 Romeo Villalva Tabuena Filipino postwar Neo-realist painter and printmaker Romeo Tabuena...

Pair of whimsical surrealist oil on panel paintings in shadow boxes. Signed.

Antique Victorian pastel on paper of a fine quality still life with game by American Artist, William Henry Chandler (1854-1928). Chandler was a ...

A stunning contemporary piece of decorative artwork by Fabrice. Mixed media giclee on canvas with embellishments by Fabrice using oil paint and a fine brush. Hand signed lower righ...

Turn of the 20th century Painting of a Young Woman, likely a debutant, American. In a high quality, carved & gilt, period frame. A fashionable young woman in white dress with blue sa...

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...

Abstract Folk Art painting on canvas by Michael Davis. Painting measures 33.75" wide, 2.25" deep and 33.25" high.

Mid-Century Modern oil on canvas by listed artist George Barrel depicting a ballerina in several overlayed poses. In original frame with paperwork still taped to back. Measures 37.25...

B. McKAY - Calle Alvaro Obregon - San Jose del Cabo - Vintage watercolor painting on paper - signed and dated lower left - titled and dated verso - contained in a bronze finish metal...

Here is a striking and large abstract painting with vibrant colors. The artist is unknown and the painting seems to be from the 1990s. There is an illegible signature to the bottom...

Midcentury American Dorothy Draper-esque Hollywood Regency bedroom design painting, in oil or acrylic on paper. Gilt wood frame. Dimensions: width 77.5cm, height 58.5cm

A period Mid-Century Modern abstract oil painting on canvas with earth tone colors. Signed lower right. Original wood frame. 36.25 inched High. 26.13 inches Wide. 1.13. inched Deep. Randall Morgan was born in Knightstown, Indiana in 1920. He held the director position at the Positano Art...

Great abstract painting in the manner of Victor Vasarely, circa 1970s.

Oil on canvas painting by Liane Abrieu, born 1947, a Canadian Surrealist artist. The artwork depicts a group portrait of four women drinking tea on the veranda. Signed by the artist ...

A large portrait painting of a woman in green. This large painting was created in 1991 and signed by the artist Tori Britt. It is painted on canvas and framed in a gilt wood frame. The subject is depicted from the chest up and features a woman with short brown hair smiling with a red lip. She wears a green suit jacket...

This work features very heavy impasto in a range of blues and whites with specs of color in a geometric design of circles and squares formed by the application of heavy medium. Frame...

Stunning small vintage painting by NY artist David Kovesi of a woman walking thru her garden. This painting, oil on board has fabulous vibrant...

Very large oil on canvas, ancient tableau, Jaguar by Kindrie Grove, Canadian Artist. Large oil painting that depicts a Mayan Jaguar. Made in 2002. The ar...

Large original oil painting of Maine landscape by Henry Varnum Poor.

Copy of a portrait painting of President Theodore Roosevelt in a gold frame

NANCY HERFST - Untitled - Expressionist watercolor painting with ink highlights on paper - signed lower right - contained in a vintage matte - unframed - Canada - circa 1977. Excel...

American Victorian style oil painting of Mark Twain in a dark stained frame (part of a series of American 19th Cent writers)

This opulent still life by artist Helen Oh gets its richness from a deep teal blue background as well as the soft pearl coloring of the nautilus shell. Painted on a wine crate panel...

A sea sponge doubles as a vessel to hold decorative shells in the still life by Helen Oh. Enhanced with a silver leaf backdrop, the shells and sponges are reflected in the rich maho...

Katherine Thompson is a Postwar & Contemporary artist. Katherine Thompson's work has been offered at auction multiple times. Initialed and dated 3/98 lower right; signed, dated and ...

A beautiful, wonderfully composed, quite large in scope, 4-part (quadriptych) original watercolor painting by Hawaiian artist Doug Young known for his...

Portrait by Henry Raschen (American / German, October 2, 1856 – August 24, 1937). Oil on Canvas Laid to Panel. Measures: 19.375" w x 21.5" h (frame), 10.125" w x 12.25" h (image). H...

Ink and Watercolor Steam Paddle-Wheeler "Idlewild" Built By The Detroit Dry Dock Company FRANK R. CREVIER (AMERICAN 1910-1987) Ready to hang in excellent condition H 12" W 18" Fra...

Stunning and vibrant original gouache on paper titled, "Boat House" c1960s. Excellent example of his work. Original frame. Ben Abril (1923-1995) was an American artist best known f...

Landscape oil painting on linen canvas by artist Pam Della. The painting titled "Afternoon Clouds" Nicely framed , inset in a wood frame with black offsetting paint and ready to han...

I enjoy looking at this unfinished painting by California artist William Norris Dakin. Interesting contrast between finished colorful portions and pencil sketched figures. Unique. Ve...