Hand-Crafted Paintings

This piece explores the beauty of female body and its release from society's standards. ABSTRACT LANDSCAPE I is part of a nude collection and is one of a kind artwork. Handmade using...

Elie Grekoff printed Cotton and Wool Tapestry and signed, figured zodiac symbol LIBRA. Made in France, circa 1950 Mid-Century Modern Era.

Early 20th century French tapestry makes a wonderful wall decoration.

Industrial Sublime: Modernism and the Transformation of New York's Rivers, 1900-1940 by Kristen M. Jensen, Bartholomew F. Bland, Katherine E. Manthorne, Wendy Greenhouse, and Ellen E. Roberts. Fordham University Press, 2013. 1st Ed softcover. Co-published with the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers. The exhibition ran from October 12, 2013, through January 17, 2014. It was not until the first decade of the 20th century, as artists like Robert Henri and John Sloan turned their attention to the urban scene, that American art shifted its focus from bucolic landscapes to the cities, the towns, the crowds, especially the raucous urban scene of Manhattan, by then the nation's most important city. This movement away from painting the land to painting the life on the street is often seen as a clean break with the depiction of the landscape, and with landscape painting generally as a mainstay of American art in the face of European Modernism. However, artists continued to paint the Hudson River, as well as its tributaries, the Harlem and East rivers, and the great harbor of New York City. What was different was their approach. Giving way the romantic ideals of earlier painters, artists like Henri and Sloan, and later, Georgia O'Keeffe, George Ault, Edward Hopper, and Preston Dickinson...

A green-brown, vintage Art Deco French oil on canvas painting of a slightly cloudy, sunny day at the Longchamp horse racing track, painted by Eugène Pechaubes in the original wooden ...

Adja Yunkers “Collage XXIII” Painting Collage and paint on canvas board, abstract composition, signed and titled verso, retains gallery labels, dated 1970, 18" x 24" board, 18 1/4" ...

Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America: A Centennial Retrospective 1912-2012 Charlotte Linvald, Janet Rauscher, Leth Ritzau, and Patricia and Edward Gallagher. The American-Scandinavian Foundation 2011. 1st Ed softcover. Published to commemorate the centennial of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Luminous Modernism accompanies the exhibition at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America that sought to reflect on and update the Foundation's first-ever exhibition, the highly influential Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, held in 1912-1913. The original exhibition comprised 150 works by many of the leading artists working in Denmark, Norway and Sweden at the turn of the 20th c. Luminous Modernism brings together 48 works by Harriet Backer, Richard Bergh, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vilhelm Hammershøi...

"Dogs I Know" is a collection of dog portraits painted reverse on the back of a vintage glass window. Each pets name is inscribed on the front of...

Antique Egyptian design French patchwork textile Tapestry in brown and beige toned fabric depicting Egyptian Figurals in center panels and hieroglyphics flanking each side, some damage and discoloration to areas of piece. Egyptian Themed Wall Hanging, Egyptian Textile...

Mixed media abstract flaming figural painting cut and reassembled by artist George Turner ( 1943-2014) Illinois. Signed dated 2001 in pencil lower right corner.

1960s Mexico Modernism Vintage Abstract Oil Painting signed initials "K A" in the lower righthand corner. Oil on plywood 25.5 W x 32 .5 H x 1thick, Art 24 x 31 H Original vintage c...

Large, 5+' X 4' abstract textile art weaving strung from a wood rod. Long fringe bottom. Warm tone colors. Not signed or marked, circa 1980s.