North American Paintings

Nantucket Landscape Painting with The Old Mill by Walter Francis Brown, circa 1900, an oil on canvas view of the historical grist mill atop hill with...

Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921), Danish-born American naval painter. Oil on board. Ship portrait of Ossabaw. Dated 1909. The board measures 75 x 44 cm. The frame measures: 6.5 cm....

T. Willis: a mixed media ship’s portrait of ‘Eudora’ of New York, 1900. This oil and silk/velvet collage on canvas shows a three-masted ship in full sail, inscribed, signed and dated...

Oil on board, dates to the turn of the century 1900. Great folk art appeal, presented in a black and gold frame. Measures 17.5" x 26.5" including the frame.

Depicting an attractive young girl standing holding a book. Boston artist Major studied at the Corcoran Gallery Of Art and the Art Student League of New York where he studied with Wi...

Pastel on paper, signed "A.C. Goodwin" lower left framed dimensions - 27 1/4 x 33 1/2 x 2 inches 20 x 26 inches painting Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1866, Arthur Clifto...

This American water-colorist shows here his light touch and skillful handling of his medium. This painting dates from the last half of the 19th century. The treatment of the foliage,...

This painting is a study of a famous painting titled Calm Morning by Frank Weston Benson which is in the collection of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The...

Frank Enders (American, 1860-1921) "Cupid & Psyche" oil on canvas after William-Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825-1905) depicting Cupid capturing his mortal love, Psyche, within a giltwood carved frame. Signed: Frank Enders (l/l). The reverse reads: "Frank Enders, After W.A. Bouguereau, Paris, Cupid and Pyske". A frame label reads: "J.O. Krimbholz - Fine Arts - Milwaukee". In the 19th century, Cupid and Psyche was a source for "transformations," visual interludes involving tableaux vivants, transparencies and stage machinery that were presented between the scenes of a pantomime but extraneous to the plot. During the 1890s, when tableaux vivants or "living pictures" were in vogue as a part of vaudeville, the 1889 Psyché et l'Amour of Bouguereau was among the artworks staged. To create these tableaux, costumed performers "froze" in poses before a background copied meticulously from the original and enlarged within a giant picture frame. Nudity was feigned by flesh-colored bodystockings that negotiated standards of realism, good taste, and morality. Claims of educational and artistic value allowed female nudes—a popular attraction—to evade censorship. Psyché et l'Amour was reproduced by the scenic painter Edouard von Kilanyi, who made a tour of Europe and the United States beginning in 1892, and by George Gordon in an Australian production that began its run in December 1894. The illusion of flight was so difficult to sustain that this tableau was necessarily brief. The performer billed as "The Modern Milo" during this period specialized in recreating female sculptures, a Psyche in addition to her namesake Venus de Milo. Frederick Ashton choreographed a ballet Cupid and Psyche with music by Lord Berners and decor by Sir Francis Rose...

Original American portrait painting on canvas in ornate wood gilded frame. Painted in the Berkshires area of Massachusetts by L.H. Keeley in...

Original American portrait painting on canvas in ornate wood gilded frame. Painted in the Berkshires area of Massachusetts by L.H. Keeley in...

Figures near a river, Normandy France Signed and dated lower right: G. Ames Aldrich / 1908 Measure:Canvas: 24" H x 30" W Framed: 31" H x 37.5" W x 2.5" D. George Ames Aldr...