20th Century Paintings

An oil on canvas still life depicting a teapot, wine bottle and fruit, signed by the artist in the bottom left corner. The ornately carved wooden frame is painted gold, made by G & A Van Den Bogaerde...

Abstract Painting

An early work by the American realist Stephen Morgan Etnier (1903-1984) depicting the village of Harpswell, Maine were he built his home and studio in the 1940s and lived until his d...

Beautifully painted in glowing, deep ruddy and brown tones, this sensitive portrait of a young man in Taxco was painted by Ralph Dwight Ayer in the ...

Captivating portrait oil on board by Pino Daeni This could be the original oval oil study for Girl in a Yellow Shawl. This captivating portrait study by Italian American artist Pino...

"La Ratroche" giclee painting signed Arijac, c. 1960's. La Ratroche is an area of Gonaives Bay, Haiti, where the artist was born. Hand carved wood fra...

This is an amazing, one-of-a-kind XXL Surrealist oil painting (in the style of Salvador Dali) on a wooden panel by the Italian artist Luigi Bettini. It is Signed Bettini, 1975. Surr...

Monumental oil on canvas from 1927 by french artist Georges Conrad in its wooden frame with gold leaf. Georges Conrad (24 February 1874, Aubervilliers - 7 December 1936, Rouen) was ...

A small oil on canvas of a street scene by Albert Harold Palmer, 1911-1985. Artist and teacher, born in Northamptonshire, who studied art part-time, then full-time at Grimsby School...

"Petite Annotation" by James Coignard ( 1925- 2008) . France. Oil on canvas. Signed, Framed.

"The Venetian lagoon in the heavenly glare", Luigi Targa, Italy 1970s, Oil on Canvas, Framed Luigi Targa (1948-2014), an azure-colored artist, associated with Italy's "Nuova Scuola ...

Monumental American Postmodern Abstract Oil on Canvas by Patrick McCarthy, USA, 1986 This monumental American postmodern abstract oil on canvas by Patrick McCarthy, a renowned Ameri...

Spanish Contemporary oil painting of a stylized still life of fruit resting on a pedestal in a black frame (signed: [Jorge] CASTILLO 83 NY)

China, a panoramic pyrography painting on panel: “Master Tea Ceremony” by then Living Treasure Fang Tzun or his workshop (1930-2000) Inscribed “This year mid summer he painted in new section of Yuan Ming...

We are delighted to offer for sale this Lovely Oil Painting In The Manner F.M Bennett 'Great Content' Red and Gold Frame. Please carefully examine the pictures to see the conditio...

"The Artist" William John Wainwright PRBSA (1855–1931) Oil on canvas. Dated July 1902 on the reverse - unsigned. Canvas size 40.5 x 50.5 cms. Provenance: New Art Gallery, Birmingh...

Superb Painting by Daniel Van der Putten, a view of one of Ireland’s most scenic locations Wicklow mountains in County Wicklow just outside of Dublin. This vintage view depicts a stream with sheep grazing to the left and a Round Tower and a group of cottage ruins with cattle grazing in the distance and a stunning Cherry Blossom Tree to the left. Oil on board complete with its original exceptional giltwood frame. Signed lower right Daniel Van der Putten and titled at back as shown, “Glendalough in Spring” Van der Putten is Dutch born but resides and paints in the UK. Exhibited only in the finest Galleries, it is a great honour to have a Van Der Putten in my Gallery and to have a Painting of St. Stephens...

“TWO FIGURES,” a wonderfully expressive painting in tones of fuchsia and lavender, late 20th century. Acrylic on paper, mounted on black linen and framed behind glass. Late 1980s but...

AMBIANIC presents Birds feeding chicks. Still life. Impressionist Oil on Canvas 19.25 h x 14 w x 1.38 d Signed lower right corner, hard to read. Chiaroscuro technique Wood frame has ...

Lovely original framed portrait of a woman, acrylic on canvas with ornate frame. Artist and provenance unknown. Beautifully adorns a wall either on its...

Vintage landscape Scene in hues of green and brown on canvas and fabric. Signed and numbered 12/120 by the Artist. Comes with a golden wood frame. Artwork size: 15.5 x 10 inches. O...

This is an original antique oil on cardboard impressionist painting from 1903. The motive is a desert landscape with mountains in the background kept in warm and intriguing colours. ...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition, Has Puncture Holes On Painting Designer: Manucher Manufacturer: Manucher Materials: Gilt-wood Frame, Oil On Canvas Style: Impressionist

Late 19th or early 20th century garden portrait of a lady painted in the period of Art Nouveau. Stylized palms serve as an elegant backdrop for a seated heiress painted in soft paste...

Earl Daniels (1920-1999), California painter of landscapes, seascapes, coastal scenes, still- lives and abstracts, was born in New York City where he worked both as a commercial arti...

Painting Blades Skyscrapers Painted on steel plate 1975 Measures: Height 68.5 cm Width 54.5cm Painting on steel In good conservative condition, present signs of time due to use a...

A vibrant Post-Impressionist painting of a Parisian flower market at Place de la Madeleine, signed by François Claver and dated on the reverse frame. The scene captures the essence o...

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 ...

This is a vintage garden painting 'Agapanthus in Artist's Garden.' An English, oil on board art piece signed by the artist, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980. Charming oi...

Copy of French impressionist painting titled "Madame Monet and Her Son" showing a mother and son on a grassy knoll

Vintage Illustration of a Beechcraft Queen Air airplane. The twin-engine light aircraft was produced by Beechcraft from 1960 to 1978. Colored Pencil and pastel on paper. Original hi...

This bold modernist mixed media painting was painted by German / American artist Peter Robert Keil (b. 1942). Kiel was born in Züllichau / Pomerania and studied at the University of the Arts, Berlin. His first mentor was painter Otto Nagel. He admired the works of the Expressionists, Picasso in particular, whom he later met in Spain. The expressiveness of the vivid color opened a way to temporarily escape from the dullness and depression of everyday life in post-war Germany as Peter made his first attempts at visual art. He was also influenced by Juan Miro...

A wonderful Mid-Century Modern original oil on canvas painting featuring a surrealistic somewhat strange and odd portrait of a dark eyed nude woman/female model sitting pensively in ...

A great still life painting from France depicting Classic kitchen elements. The canvas is framed simply in wood trim. Signed by the artist M. Robert in the bottom left corner. Fixed ...

Matching set of 2 oil paintings by the Danish artist J. P. Nielsen. JPN worked out of his studio in Esbjerg, Denmark. These two works: a fruit bowl still...

Antique English Seascape with Threes Yawls, by S. Noble, circa 1920s, an oil on board seascape with three yawls sailing on a broad reach in a crisp breeze, signed S. Noble in the low...

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...

Denis FADIER, ( 1949 ) Amazing surrealism painting. Untitled oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated 1972. Big size 39.37" x 12.60" - (100 x 132 cm) Very good condition. Free...

The category Antique Paintings, Still Life With Basket, Cabbage, Onions and Carrots features an Oil Painting on Canvas from the early twentieth century. This is a still life depicti...

Large 10-foot tall artwork portrait of Louis Armstrong oil painted on a canvas fixed to a wood folding screen featuring a multicolored modernist background. The Back of the frame is ...

Oil on canvas painting representing two clowns on the ocean shore with a ship named Mela, Apple. Signed Alfano Dardari in the lower right. Titled The Li...

The category Paintings Female Nudity, features a nude of a woman, paintings on canvas, 20th century, 1930s. The work is a very pleasing oil painting, hand-painted in the early 1900s...

Add a unique cultural artifact to your decor with this vintage Japanese gold temple rubbing from Okinawa. This exquisite piece showcases the intricate d...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Impressionist large Philadelphia - A brisk morning walk under the Manayunk bridge. A bundled up man takes a stroll along the canal trail. A historic Philadelphia bridge cascades acro...

F. Prin, French artist. Oil on canvas. Reclining nude woman. Inspired by Matisse. Colorful palette. Signed and dated 1976. In excellent condition....

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

‘The Ark and the Dove off the Scillies with Lord Baltimore aboard’ by Montague Dawson, reputedly a commission for the White House, oil on board, showing the two ships of Cecilius Ca...

Hans Scherfig, Danish 1907-1979 "Circe Transforming Odysseus’ Men into Swine" (Kirke forvandler Odysseus' mænd til svin). Watercolour and indian ink on paper. Sheet size: 21×33 cm. ...

This remarkable scene depicting the moment when Bellerophon was about to lasso the flying figure of Pegasus after the creature paused for a drink below was painted in 1926 by Bryson ...

Infused with character and emotion, this vintage oil portrait on board captures the timeless elegance of a poised woman rendered in expressive brushwork and rich, painterly texture. ...

Japanese two panel screen: Nara Deer in Gentle Yoshino Landscape. Yoshino is in the Nara Prefecture, an area famous for these small and tame deer native to J...

Oil painting Field of Tulips F.Lenti 1973. Measures: Height 78 cm Width 98cm Oil on canvas In good conservative condition, present signs of time due to use and age. (Please se...

SET of Four Architectural Engravings in beige painted ceruse oak frames (in the Manner of Piranesi) PRICED AS SET)

ALICE BIERNE SAWTELLE MACKENZIE 1898-1989 The Flower Selle Mexico, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. 22" x 18" in. (61.1 x 45.7 cm.) Frame: 30 1/2" x 24 1/4" in. (77.5 x 61.5 cm.) Alice...

Emil Wennerwald, a Danish painter, created landscapes in the classic national romantic style, celebrating the natural beauty of his homeland and its artistic traditions. Influenced b...

Emil Betzler German Expressionist tempera painting on ingrain 'Harlequins 1', 1962 ('Harlekins 1') Outstanding piece of Expressionist art. Not signed, but clearly attributable to Emi...

We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning Frederick Golden Short 1863 – 1936 oil painting which dated 1920 and signed of the Bluebell wood in New Forest This painting is o...