Early 20th Century Wall Decorations

This is an original oil on canvas painting by Danish artist Eiler Sørensen (1869-1953). Eiler Sørensen was a renowned artist known for his landscape paintings and motives from the e...

Original vintage motivational poster - Spick and Span Shipshape working place Shipshape results Shipshape record How's It With You? - featuring great artwork depicting an old style w...

Original vintage sport poster for the 1926 Black Forest Winter Fighting Games organised by the German Reich Committee for Physical Education - Deutsche Re...

Original antique advertising poster issued in Belgium to promote a Russian brand of cigarettes KaceBek / ??????? ????-??? manufactured in Imperial Russia before the 1917 October Revolution by Nakhimoff & Co. Great design featuring a hand tipping open a pack of cigarettes...

This large and heavy office sign is made of solid cast bronze and shows no foundry or maker's mark, but is presumed to have been made in the 1920s in the Art Deco style somewhere in ...

Original antique advertising poster for The Golden Book of Sports or Das Goldene Buch Des Sports by the notable German graphic artist Ludwig Hohlwein (1874...

Signed Game Bird Print By Archibald Thorburn. A game bird colotype print by Archibald Thorburn. The picture is in an old period oak frame and signed i...

Mallards by Archibald Thorburn. A framed wildfowl colotype print by Archibald Thorburn, signed in pencil by the artist and bearing fine Art Trade Guild blind stamp. Copyright Publis...

A very interesting and unusual Cornwall Iron Banks Original Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on canvas and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame with later touch ups. The Cornwall Iron Banks Original 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 workings of one of the largest iron ore mines in the eastern United States, located in Cornwall PA. This mine and others in the area that came before it, played a crucial role in the development of the United States of America from the Revolutionary War, through the industrial revolution up until the 1970’s when the mine was flooded during Hurricane Agnes and closed operations. Overall frame Size approximately 26″ wide x 2″ deep x 30″ 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...

Original vintage motorsport advertising poster for Castrol Motor Oil - 1928 T.T. Races again won on Castrol - featuring the title in bold stylised lettering above, the swoop of the letter L running behind photograph images and description of the wins all using Wakefield Castrol - Charlie Dodson on a Sunbeam motorcycle in the Senior TT with George Rowley in 2nd place and Tommy L Hatch in 3rd place, Alec Bennett riding a Velocette motorbike in the Junior TT with Harold J Willis in 2nd place and Kenneth Twemlow in 3rd place, and Frank Longman on an OK-Supreme in the Lightweight TT with C S Barrow in 2nd place and Edwin Twemlow in 3rd place - a royal crest Dieu et Mon Droit by appointment to His Majesty the King above and the RAC Royal Automobile Club...

French painting from the first half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting pleasant countryside view with village and sea in the background in impressionist style. Pain...

A Black Forest period carved wooden plaque from the early 20th century, with chamois motif, foliage and petite mirror. Hand-Carved in Switzerland during the early years of the 20th century, this wooden Black Forest plaque draws our attention with its chamois head emerging from an oval medallion, surrounded by scrolling leaves wrapped around a branch. The lower section showcases a petite oval mirror...

Original vintage travel poster Taormina Italia featuring stunning artwork of the hilltop town in Sicily with a view over the ancient ruins and sailing boats on the calm blue sea leading around the coast to a snow topped Mount Etna in the distance, the title text in bold yellow lettering below with the logos. Artwork by Mario Borgoni...

This extraordinary drawing produced by one of the great artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance depicts a nude male figure leaning against an icy slope and looking heavenward. The artist was Charles Cullen, who played a very important role in illustrating several volumes associated with Black writers in the 1920s and 1930s, most especially Countee Cullen (no relation to Charles). Countee was a writer and poet who produced several important works, including "The Black Christ and Other Poems," "Copper Sun...

C.M. Hutschenreuther porcelain plaque depicting 'Daphne' signed 'Wagner' l/r , in an elaborate gilt frame Germany circa 1910 Measures: Plaque: 6" H x 4" W Framed: 14" H x 12" W x...

Belgium / 1926 / Enamel sign / CYMA / enamel / Art Deco / Vintage / Industrial / Mid-century Enamel advertising sign of the Swiss Watch brand Cyma released by Koekelberg Brussels in 1926. This dark blue sign shows the image of a pocket watch and a wristwatch in yellow and white with the brandname “CYMA” in between. On top”Tavannes Watch Co”. This enamel sign is in a great condition seen the age. Cyma is a Swiss luxury watch brand founded in 1862 in Le Locle...

This is a pair of original oil on canvas paintings from Denmark painted by renowned artist William Henriksen (1880-1964). William Henriksen was an apprentice of famous painter H.O. ...

Listed Hungarian artist. Active in Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Munich, and Prague. Measures: 24 x 20 inches, oil on panel. 34 x 30 inches with period frame. Signed lower right. 'Th...

This early 20th century lattice window panel from China's Shanxi province likely originated in a traditional home with balanced interiors. Both functional and decorative, lattice win...

Pauline Chamberlain - A Set of Six Large Architectural Drawings circa 1915 in Pen and Ink that are highly decorative. These are all signed ...

Original antique advertising poster for Ducellier lights - Le Phare Ducellier "Voit Tout" Acetylene Non Comprime / "Sees All" Uncompressed Acetylene -...

Impressionistic landscape painting, oil on canvas, mounted in a wood and parcel gilt frame. Signed lower right Shreve, and dated 1923. Possibly Catherine Shock Shreve, (1900-2000).

Original fashion illustration from the 1920s in a set of four. Colored pencil drawings on paper. Ready to hang, framed with a passepartout in an ash wood picture frame behind anti-re...

Classic framed lithograph of a young Prince George of Wales portrait. This item is in its original frame. Great addition to your classic inspired interiors.

A large unframed Japanese textile art circa late early 20th century toward the end of the Meiji period. Seamed together from four vertical sections of cotton in deep indigo color, th...

Original vintage travel poster advertising the Strandfest Buhne festival on Sunday 11 July 1926 at Strandbad Klosterneuburg featuring a fun design depicting a smiling lady in a fashi...

This French Art Deco Charger, by Claudius Linossier, was created using the technique known as dinanderie, which involved decorating hammering out copper vessels to produce subtle but beautiful gradations of color. The charger features a Maenad, a female follower of Dionysus. During the orgiastic rites of Dionysus, maenads roamed the mountains possessed by the god, performing frenzied, ecstatic dances. These Maenads were often depicted on attic pottery...

An Art Deco marquetry panel of a jaguar, of rectangular form depicting a snarling jaguar emerging from a wood, worked in exotic woods including waln...

Large Landscape with Cherry Blossoms Painting on Canvas Signed M.P.Chin. Overall frame size 42” x 30” tall by 2 inches deep image size 24 x 36. Old repair noticeable from back some c...

This antique framed oil painting was done by Bernard Pothast of the Netherlands in approximately 1920 in his realistic style. The painting is done on canvas and depicts an interior scene of a Dutch mother in period dress with her children. The painting is framed in its original gesso frame with a small brass name plate...

Title: German Imperial Navy Training Squadron: SMS Victoria Louise, Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm, and Weissenburg – 1903 Chromolithograph This 1903 chromolithograph by Hugo Graf from ...

A truly remarkable survivor from the early days of the Russian republic, not long after the Russian Revolution but before the Stalinist era, this re...

Evans, C.S. (editor). Rackham, Arthur (illustrator). The Sleeping Beauty. London and Philadelphia: William Heinemann & J.B. Lippincott Co., 1920. F...

Le Chasseur Francais The French Hunter. Year 1931 (12 Numbers - Complete Year 1931) from January 1931 to Dec 1931. Collective French text Published by Le Chasseur Français, Bounded in a Margarine Solo handcrafted cover to protect the old magazines...

Original antique advertising poster for the 40th anniversary retrospective art exhibition in Milan of the Famiglia Artistica / Artistic Family 1873 1913 showing contemporary works of...

A wonderful image of Mary, Queen of England. Consort of King George V By W & D Downey, 61 Ebury St, London Signed and dated lower right Mounted on the original card. Unframed The...

Pair of salmon fishing pictures, fishing & poaching. A large pair of goupilgravures, fishing and poaching, by George Earl. The pair of angling pictures ti...

E. C. Ulnitz: well listed Danish artist. Flower painting. Oil on canvas. Signed: E. C. Ulnitz 1927. Measures : 26 cm. x 20 cm. The frame measures 5.5 cm. In perfect condition.

Majolica Art Nouveau asparagus plate with mums signed Keller et Guerin Saint Clement. 9 inches diameter. Every important French manufactures produced at the end of the 19th Century a...

Antique Rare Ceremonial Shoulder Cloth (Kain Nyulam), South Sumatra This fully embellished and intricately embroidered shoulder cloth (kain nyulam) is a rare and unique example of t...

Dutch Landscape Oil on Canvas 1940s. Beautiful and well painted landscape - most probably Dutch. Very tactile and refined impressionist painting. Thick brush strokes and rich colors...

Original vintage workplace motivational poster - British! And proud of it Make every job a standard for others to follow! Bill Jones - featuring a colourful...

Original antique political election propaganda poster issued by the Liberal Party - Bad For The Quack Doctors - featuring an illustration of the statesman and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916 Herbert Henry Asquith (1852-1928) handing out Old Age Pension papers and Cheap Sugar packages to an elderly couple and a young girl with the Conservative Party politician Henry Chaplin (1840-1923) and statesman Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937) as doctors holding a medical bag...

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Livorno, 1859 - Florence, 1933) "Portrait of Princess Mariya Pavlovna Demidoff," 1911 oil on canvas, 77x61 cm. Signed and dated at lower right: "V. Corcos 1...

A lotus scene with flowers in bloom floating on the water's surface. As the lotus rise from below for an enlightening process that brings an abundance of purity and beauty. Mineral p...

Original antique health travel poster advertising Helwan Spa Egypt for Rheumatism featuring a colourful and bright design by Herbert Leslie Greener (190...

In interesting combination of a Modern Bauhaus style gouache, combined with an impressive Impressionism frame. The gouache painting is made by an artist from Berlin and shows a timel...

One of the finest examples of illustration art and Art Deco painting we have ever offered, this elegant and sophisticated view of New Yorkers skating arm in arm on a frozen pond or l...

Original vintage French Eastern Railway travel poster for Nancy featuring stunning artwork depicting a view of the 18th century Place Stanislas square from the back of the Fontaine d...

A suzani silk embroidery on brown ground. In a brightly colored pattern of scrolling flowers and berries. The wide boarder is outlined inside and out by a smaller border of flowers o...

Daisy Makeig Jones’ description relates this to Völuspá, a poem from the Poetic Edda, which is a collection of Old Norse poems. In Völuspá, it is said that the dwarves were created by the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda, and that they were condemned to live underground. The Light Elves are also mentioned in the poem as being allowed to live in the realm of Alfheim, which is a place of beauty and light. In Norse mythology...

An early 20th century hand painted Thangka of buddha on a coral background with the artist signature and hand print on the back. The later gilt wo...

Original Swedish film poster for the 1929 American drama film A Dangerous Woman. The film was directed by Gerald Grove and Rowland V. Lee and starred Clive Brook and Olge Baclanova This Swedish poster...

O/8272 - Italian school about 1920 - This pair of still life oil paintings depict flowers on copper are in their original frames. They ...

The price is for the lot of 5 molds Antique copper Italian Kitchen molds Ideal copper molds to hang as an ornament in a rustic kitchen. Vintage copper molds with tin-plated inter...

Title: Vincent van Gogh – Peasant with a Sickle – 1928 Portfolio Print from Dutch Period Description: This 1928 print is a reproduction of Peasant with a Sickle, a drawing by Vin...

Golf watercolour painting by Charles Ambrose Of British Politician Arthur Balfour. Original watercolor en grisaille on board of Arthur Balfour in golfing attire, by Charles Ambrose....

Splendid oil painting on a panel, framed in a carved and gilded wooden frame, and accompanied by an elegant passe-partout. The work represents an enchanting glimpse of a house's gard...