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ARTS AND CRAFTS STYLE

Emerging in reaction to industrialization and mass production, the Arts and Crafts movement celebrated handcrafted design as a part of daily life. The history of Arts and Crafts furniture has roots in 1860s England with an emphasis on natural motifs and simple flourishes like mosaics and carvings. This work is characterized by plain construction that showcases the hand of the artisan.

The earliest American Arts and Crafts furniture dates back to the start of the 20th century. Designers working in this style in the United States initially looked to ideas put forth by The Craftsman, a magazine published by Wisconsin native Gustav Stickley, a furniture maker and founder of the Craftsman style. Stickley’s furniture was practical and largely free of ornament. His Craftsman style drew on French Art Nouveau as well as the work he encountered on his travels in England. There, the leading designers of the Arts and Crafts movement included William Morris, who revived historical techniques such as embroidery and printed fabrics in his furnishings, and Charles Voysey, whose minimal approach was in contrast to the ornamentation favored in the Victorian era.

American Arts and Crafts work would come to involve a range of influences unified by an elevation of traditional craftsmanship. The furniture was often built from sturdy woods like oak and mahogany while featuring details such as inlaid metal, tooled leather and ceramic tiles. The style in the United States was led by Stickley, whose clean-lined chairs and benches showcased the grain of the wood, and furniture maker Charles Rohlfs, who was informed by international influences like East Asian and French Art Nouveau design.

Hubs in America included several utopian communities such as Rose Valley in Pennsylvania and the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony in New York, where craftspeople made furniture that prioritized function over any decoration. Their work would influence designers and architects including Frank Lloyd Wright, who built some of the most elegant and iconic structures in the United States and likewise embraced a thoughtful use of materials in his furniture.

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Style: Arts and Crafts
Period: Early 20th Century
Glistening pair of Antique Bruce Crane Landscape Paintings
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Bruce Crane pair of American impressionist landscape paintings in gilt frames. Signed lower left. With frame: 13.25” X 11” H Just painting: 7.5” X 5.25”. Bruce (Robert Bruce) Cra...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Arts & Crafts Hand Painted Church Glass Window Bible Reading Mary, Fire & Angels
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique work of religous art, former church or cloister window. This 'fire-painted' or stained glass church window possibly depicts a biblical scene or maybe 'just' the image of the ...
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Early 20th Century Dutch Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Wrought Iron, Lead, Metal

Early Arts and Crafts Sweeping Landscape of Countryside
Located in Redding, CT
Early Arts and Crafts Sweeping Landscape of Countryside. Romantic rolling fields with sheep and blue mountains in the distance. Perfect painting for above a stone fireplace with your...
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Early 1900s Antique Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Oak, Paint

American Impressionist Kathryn E Bard Cherry Gloucester Wharf Oil Painting
By Kathryn Cherry
Located in Garnerville, NY
Katherine E Bard Cherry (1860-1931) American Impressionist Arts and Crafts period oil painting on canvas. Canvas mounted on board. Retains the original Saint Louis Art League exhibition tag on the reverse that is signed in pen, Kathryn Cherry, Exhibition Entry Form, Thumb-Box Exhibit... Heavily worked impasto of a colorfully rendered boat docked in a Gloucester, MA wharf where she summered. The piece is entitled "Green Boat". Good overall condition with no visible surface paint losses. No visible lifting of the canvas from the board. The framing treatment is a simple reeded edge gold wood molding and the work has been under glass. The piece has been inspected out of the frame. Overall approximate measurements with frame are 17.5" wide x 16" high x 1" deep. The approximate image dimensions 13.5" wide x 12.25" high. Ask Art Bio: Born in Quincy, Illinois, Kathryn Cherry became one of the most prominent artists in Saint Louis in the early 20th century. She painted landscapes, marine scenes, and floral still lifes in an impressionist style. She began her formal art education at the Saint Louis School of Fine Arts and then studied with Richard Miller at the New York School of Arts and Hugh Breckenridge at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Cherry started her career as an artist working with porcelain and painted mostly floral subjects. At the 1904 World's Fair, she won the only gold medal awarded to a woman. Beginning 1908, she showed her work regularly at the Saint Louis Artist's Guild, and she was included in numerous exhibits at the Saint Louis Art Museum. In 1915, she became the head of the art department at Principia Junior College Academy, and at this point turned from painting on porcelain to florals on canvases. She also painted scenes at Gloucester, Massachusetts where she spent her summers in her Rocky Neck studio. Her floral studies are said to "possess a rich, tapestry-like blend of colors reminiscent of French Nabis painting."
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Small Vintage 1933 Dawson Dawson Watson Impressionist Landscape Painting
Located in Seguin, TX
Vintage Dawson Dawson-Watson small oil on canvas landscape in pinks and blues. Artist monogram lower right corner, signature and date in pencil on verso of original mat. Listed in ...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Canvas, Silk, Giltwood

Antique Arts & Crafts Hand Carved Oak Floor Easel / Artist Display Stand ca1910
Located in Lisse, NL
Excellent condition, Arts & Crafts handmade solid oakwood picture stand. This beautiful gallery easel is another one of our recent rare finds and it...
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Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Brass

Early 20th C Painted Frieze, Manner of Albert Hayes, South Ken System London
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A very decorative Arts and Crafts painted frieze, very much in the manner of Albert Edward Hayes. The paining has areas of loss as the photos show, the remainder is stable and adhere...
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Early 20th Century English Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Early 20th Century Oil on Board of a Church
Located in Redding, CT
Early 20th century oil on board of a church. Signed but impossible to make out the artists name. Classic clean arts and crafts style painting...
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1920s Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Wood, Masonite, Paint

Alberta Kinsey “Still Life with Flowers” Impressionist Oil Painting, 1920s
Located in San Francisco, CA
A 1920s floral still life impressionist oil painting on canvas on board by important New Orleans artist Alberta Kinsey (b. 1875–1952). Densely arranged berry-hued bouquet with white clusters and yellow accents explodes out of a silver pitcher. Arrangement accompanied by a small cobalt blue vase to the side, and set upon a salmon and white floral tablecloth...
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1920s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Unique Antique Handmade Arts & Crafts Floor Easel / Artist Display Stand ca 1910
Located in Lisse, NL
Rare design and excellent condition, early Arts & Crafts picture stand. This beautiful gallery easel with two large wooden pegs (the original ones) ...
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Early 20th Century French Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Metal

Arts & Crafts Impressionist Landscape Painting, Chicago Artist, 1926
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Arts & crafts impressionist landscape painting, Chicago Artist, 1926 This painting is a perfect example of the Arts & Crafts movement. It is a matur...
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1920s Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Autumn Landscape Painting of Brandywine Valley by Bruce Crane
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large tonalist style landscape painting by American artist Bruce Crane in original frame. Arts and Crafts period. Signed lower right, original paper label on back reads 'Late Autumn Brandywine Valley...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Hudson Valley New York Oil Painting, Newcomb Macklin Frame, Signed Fassett
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Vintage Hudson Valley New York Oil Painting in Newcomb Macklin Frame Romantic and moody autumn landscape painting, oil on canvas signed by Tru...
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1910s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Canvas

1917 Painting of Mt. Beacon from Fishkill
Located in Garnerville, NY
A wonderful pastoral and mountainous landscape of Mount Beacon, Beacon, NY from Fishkill. Signed and dated lower right, E.F. Peal (Pehl?), 1917. Inscribed...
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1910s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Paint, Paper

Antique Oil on Canvas Painting Showing Emotional Clown / Mime Masks by I. Weyts
Located in Lisse, NL
Marvellous and good size work of theater art. In the pre-television and pre-movie Arts and Crafts era much more was communicated via stage performers and via drawings and paintings. This naive style painting, in an artistic manner shows us some of the most recognizable of human emotions. Also because most people (circa 1900) could not yet read, clowns and mime players were some of the most important story tellers using body and facial expressions only. Most of them were so good at what they did that, even without words, everyone knew exactly what they were communicating. 'Floating in the air' and against the dark background these mime or clown masks...
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Early 20th Century Belgian Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Velvet, Wood, Paint, Canvas

French Impressionist Fauvist Oil Painting by Paul Lucien Maze
By Paul Lucien Maze
Located in Vero Beach, FL
French impressionist Fauvist oil painting by Paul Lucien Maze (1887-1979) Period Fauvist painting executed by the French artist, Paul Lucien Ma...
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Early 20th Century French Arts and Crafts Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Important 1904 American Folk Art Framed Flute Boy, Signed Curtis
Located in South Burlington, VT
This is an original and beautiful 25 inch by 45 inch hand painted and hand incised wood framed work of art -and containing a wonderful hand hammered copper repousse panel of the iconic Bethlehem Shephard Boy Flute...
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Early 1900s American Antique Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Copper

Painting under Glass from the Beginning of the 20th Century
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Painting under glass from the beginning of the 20th century representing the countryside of Saint-Denis.  
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Early 20th Century French Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Paper

"Knight on Horseback, " Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau Medieval Revival Mural
By Harvey Ellis
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare and magnificent example of a mural influenced by both the Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements, this painting of a plumed knight on horseback...
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Early 1900s American Antique Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Antique Impressionist Oil Painting by A. Michaelis
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Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Paintings

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English Arts and Crafts Wall Cabinet Brass Oak Shakespeare 1910 Tobacco / Pipe
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Lovely English Arts & crafts wall cabinet with brass panels displaying Shakespeare made from oak. The cabinet has many functions: on top is a adjustable bookshelf. The right door opens using a lock & key. Behind this door is a writing compartment with various shelfs and a place to store your Pen & ink. After the right door is unlocked you can open the most left door. Behind this door is a Tobacco compartment with a drawer & rack for your pipes. Once both doors are open you can slide the middle door back and forth to reveal the middle storage compartment. Very practical and lovely small wall cabinet...
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Raymond D. Crane Painting, 1975
Located in Savannah, GA
Raymond (Ray) D. Crane (Massachusetts, b.1942) A large oil on canvas depicting an interior kitchen scene in a Hillside St. apartment in Boston with a woman cooking in a kitchen int...
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1970s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Vintage Landscape Impressionist Oil Painting by "Gabri"
Located in London, GB
A stunning original vintage landscape oil painting on canvass. This is signed by the artist “Gabri”, it dates from around the 1960’s. It is beautifully executed and depicts an abs...
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Mid-20th Century Arts and Crafts Paintings

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French School Oil on Canva Countryside Landscape, Early 20th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Charming oil on canvas representing a countryside landscape crossed by a stream, at the edge of which a tree has grown and is reflected in it. In the background, to the right of the ...
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Early 20th Century French Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Canvas

California Landscape Impressionist Painting by Esther Smee
By Esther Smee
Located in San Francisco, CA
California landscape painting in original period carved and gilded wood frame. Signed, Esther Smee ( b.1917 ) Esther B. Smee was born in Pennsylvania in 1917....
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1930s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Arts and Crafts Oak Xylophone attributed to George Walton
Located in London, GB
George Walton attributed, an Arts and Crafts oak xylophone, with squashed heart details to each side and with six graduated brass bars with circular resonators. Originally designed f...
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Early 20th Century Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Oak

Gothic Arts & Crafts, Wrought Iron Bible, Bookstand, Lecturn, Maitre D Stand
Located in New York, NY
Wrought iron lecturn having an open work book rest with a Gothic cross, and an adjustable hooded light. The hood shade cane be raised or lowered and the bell ...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Wrought Iron

Pair of Antique Landscape Oil Paintings by J. C Jonas
Located in London, GB
A beautiful pair of antique landscape oil paintings by J. C Jonas. They were made in England, they date from around 1880-1900. The painting...
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1890s British Antique Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Pair Antique 19th Century French Oil on Canvas Landscape Paintings
Located in New Orleans, LA
Pair antique 19th century French oil on canvas landscape paintings.
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19th Century French Antique Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Wood, Paint

Mixed Media Original Art by California Artist Jae Carmichael, ca. 1970
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Mixed Media Original Art by California Artist Jae Carmichael, ca. 1970. Consists of watercolor, ink and paper this beautiful abstract is a fine example of her work. Measures 22" W ...
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1970s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Cane, Paper

Arts and Crafts Paper Roll Cutter, Shop Wrapping Paper Dispenser
Located in Chillerton, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Paper Roll Cutter, Shop Wrapping Paper Dispenser An unusual and very useful item, it has a golden oak frame with clover leaf cut outs...
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Antique New Hope School Painting of Delaware River Valley by W.L Lathrop, c1920
By William Langson Lathrop
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique New Hope School landscape painting by W. L. Lathrop offers oil on canvas Delaware River Valley scene, artist signed, seated in giltwood frame, c1920 Measures- 20'' H x ...
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Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Paintings

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French 20th Century Couple of Stilllife Oil/Canvas, Paintings, Signed
Located in Valladolid, ES
Amazing couple of paintings, oil on canvas, still lives of fruits, flowers and birds, beginning of the 20th century, French school. High quality and extraordinary workmanship, very e...
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Early 1900s Antique Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Unique Antique Hand Carved Two Tier Floor Easel / Artist Display Stand ca. 1910
Located in Lisse, NL
Excellent condition, Arts & Crafts picture stand. This beautiful gallery easel with two tiers is another one of our recent rare finds and it most certainly is a joy to own and lo...
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Early 20th Century French Arts and Crafts Paintings

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"Fishing off the Pier" by Thomas John Mitchell
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oil on canvas board, signed lower left. Featuring a group of men fishing off the pier in a harbor, possibly Gloucester. Thomas John Mitchell, born in Rochester, New York in 1875, ...
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Paint

Harold Ellsworth Bassett Seascape Beach Scene Painting, 1910
Located in Garnerville, NY
Signed beach scene. Oil on canvas laid on board by Harold Ellsworth Bassett (1875-1943). Signed and dated lower left, H. Ellsworth Bassett, 1910. The artist has depicted a quiet beac...
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1910s American Vintage Arts and Crafts Paintings

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French Cubistic Still-Life Painting Acrylic on Canvas, Around 1910
Located in Berlin, DE
This beautiful french cubistic still-life painting was painted around 1910. It is acrylic on canvas and shows a Vase with flowers in front of a window. Very wonderful color choice ...
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Antique KPM Porcelain Plaque w. Stunning Christ Painting in Carved Nutwood Frame
Located in Lisse, NL
Hand painted image of Christ on a porcelain plaque by Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, Germany circa 1900. The details in this antique work of art and the materials that were used, ...
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Early 20th Century German Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Ashley T. Law 1913 Portrait Painting of a Woman
Located in Garnerville, NY
Moody portrait of a woman by Ashley T. Law, circa 1913. Woman in a wide brim hat done 3/4 pose. Bathed in light and shadow. The artist, Ashley Law, had ...
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Large Arts & Crafts Impressionist Landscape Painting by Geo.Elmer Browne
By George Elmer Browne
Located in Big Flats, NY
Large antique Arts & Crafts Impressionist landscape by George Elmer Browne depicts village river scene having a bridge, structures and mountainous background, artist signed lower lef...
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Early 20th Century North American Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Giltwood, Canvas

Early 1900s Arts & Crafts Gallery Display Stand / Artist's Studio Floor Easel
Located in Lisse, NL
Unique and excellent condition, antique painting stand. This solid tiger oak and pure Arts & Crafts picture stand with its striking inlaid nut...
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Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Brass

Early 1900s Arts & Crafts Era, Ebonized Wooden Studio Easel or Painting Stand
Located in Lisse, NL
Antique display easel for paintings and other works of art. This early 20th century studio easel is both stylish and practical. It stands as str...
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Antique Aesthetic Movement Oak Stick and Ball Artist Easel, circa 1910
Located in Big Flats, NY
An antique Aesthetic Movement artist painting display easel offers oak construction with stick and ball sunburst designing, brass caps and joine...
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Early 20th Century European Arts and Crafts Paintings

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Brass

Arts And Crafts paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Arts and Crafts paintings for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage paintings created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, canvas and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Arts and Crafts paintings made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and United States pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original paintings, popular names associated with this style include Bjarne Dahl, Esther Hansen, Berber Tribes of Morocco, and Cristalleries De Sevres. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for paintings differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $95 and tops out at $18,500 while the average work can sell for $3,200.

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