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set of Three Ceramic wall plaques . Contemporary Abstract , so typical 1960s Two are signed ''see photos'' Works very well as a set .Unique ha...

Very nice and large painting by the well known Austrian artist, Larch, worked in Mexico for many years. This art work is title in Spanish in back "Luna Congelada" his style is abstra...

Dimensional Lucite framed art limited edition of 29/250 by Rosado.

Contemporary abstract wall art piece comprised of small squares of leather in various shades of brown, beige and black collaged on a rectangular canvas. Condition: Good; Wear consis...

Luxurious hand-crafted wall panel made with mohair wool and several hues of bronze beaten bullions shaped to create a flower. An abstract piece of modern art, designed by Geraldine...

Mid 19th century "Aylesbury Grand Steeple Chase, Brook Scene" color engraving Fine old engraving with aquatint published by S&J Fuller in 1866 Measures: 20" wide x 14.5" high ...

A large photographic reproduction print with Arnold Newman's signature in matrix of all The New Yorker Cartoonists as a group. Taken and printed in 1997. Each cartoonist received 2 of these prints, this one was Al Ross...

A grey, oval vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian wall mirror with its original mirrored glass, made of hand carved wood in good condition. Wear consistent with age and use, circa 1940...

Antique wall hanging Crucifix / Cross & Corpus of Christ from early 1900s, ca. 1900. Rustic metal with original painted decoration of Corpus of Christ mounted on Oak cross. Inscrip...

American Mid-Century Landscaping Oil Painting on Canvas of a dock scene in a distressed gold carved frame

"Nude #1", a rare figural wall sculpture incorporating a female nude motif in solid bronze by Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, American 1960's (signed on front “Philip Kelvin LaVerne”). The...

Contemporary modern Murano Art glass sculpture, a decorative panel displayed on a dark gray iron base, realized as a colorful Mosaic, gray, yellow, burgundy, white and black murrine, aqua blue, amethyst purple glass...

A very interesting and unusual Lancaster Bridge Original Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on artist board and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame. The painting is signed on the front by the artist. Overall frame Size approximately 42″ 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 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...

Thabit, our extraordinary new collection of handcrafted sculptures meticulously fashioned from gres and rafia, in partnership with an esteemed artistic ceramic studio. Inspired by th...

Jacques Lavigne was born in France in 1937. After a career as a geologist in North Africa, he moved to Paris in 1962. He discovered painting through Jean-Michel Meurice, one of the f...

Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas, Europe, 1960s. This mid-century painting is a vivid exploration of color and form, capturing the essence of abstract expressionism. The work sh...

A pair of Rouault wood engravings, signed/dated in the matrix. Plate size: 11.75 x 7.75. Framed: 21 x 15.

This is one of the most important Pop Art Austrian artist also with incursions to abstract expressionist art. She spent time in Santa Monica , California with artists like , Sam Fra...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1967, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...

Mid-20th Century Coney Beach Porthcawl British Pleasure Park Lithograph Poster An original vintage travel advertisement poster - Come to...

Beautiful. reverse art work glass in this plaque , wall glass painting by the well known artist Duilio Dube Bernabe , signed LR and traditional subject Coq / Roosters .This is a larg...

Three blue artglass objects solboll/sunball by Timo Sarpaneva Iittala. Signed TS. Spherical blue objects from the Space age with glass threads inside. Mean...

Nice sample of this series of the well known Philippine artist Jojo Legaspi , also master of drawing in charcoal .the image Zise is 8.5 x 11.75 inches , a...

Collinson and Lock London. 103. Stamped to the back. An English Aesthetic Movement Mahogany glazed wall cabinet with incised scrollwork sw...

A large round, vintage Art Deco French industrial designed convex wall mirror in its original distressed condition. Minor fading, scratches due to age. Wear consistent with age and u...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other paper glued e...

Abstract contemporary watercolor in purples, grays, and greens, in white matting in a rectangular silver frame under glass (by DYANN KLEIN)

S. R. KYLES - 'Aunt Lou' - #1/5 - Vintage fine quality engraving - signed/titled and numbered at the bottom of the print - contained in a vintage matte - early 20th century. Excelle...

Vintage large scale "Kodak Film" advertisement, circa 1950 A young couple below a sky of clouds - A great vintage photo by Kodak Dimensions: 29.25" wi...

Well constructed impressionist painting depicting a Paris street scene. Fantastic color. Beautiful original frame signed Abramawitz

Large terracotta and enameled ceramic plaque, with shades of blue and green, depicting an embracing couple against the backdrop of a bucolic nature. The bustling nature is in strikin...

Robert Mcgregor genre oil painting of french village scene circa 1890. Here we have a robert mcgregor (1848-1922) painting illustrating peasant life. This is a well-balanced oil on ...

"Modernist Still Life" consists of 7 plates ‐ among which five hand painted Chinese plates - combined with a oil on canvas of a Still Life in...

"Home" Abstract Oil and Wax on Canvas Painting by Joaquin Pineiro

Each framed 6 1/2" x 6 1/2", ink on handmade paper. The handmade paper was made including the artist's hair, the subject of the drawing is one of the hairs. Ink on paper. Each have S...

This is an early work by the well known Mexican artist Leonardo Norman , This is a watercolor cityscape , that he made in acrylic with vivid colors in later years . Dated and signed ...

Wonderful Raymor ceramic/pottery abstract wall hanging plaque art piece or charger low bowl. This charger has a hole that you would attach a piece of wire so you could hang it on the...

Ted Williams' .406 batting average from the 1941 season is considered one of the most remarkable feats in baseball history. In 2001 artist and sculptor Paul Kamish paid tribute to Te...

Under the Blanket Project, Naomi Clark creates what she titles Quilt Paintings. She breathes new life into old wool and cotton camping blankets culled from EBay, flea markets and gar...

Expanding on our wallpaper and fabric series with the Fabian Fern. The new designs feature ferns elegantly floating across the print.

Under the Blanket Project, Naomi Clark creates what she titles Quilt Paintings. She breathes new life into old wool and cotton camping blankets culled from EBay, flea markets and gar...

Faux bois frame with a 7/10 copper etched print of a Spanish courtyard.

Beautiful Oil on Canvas painting of a southwestern scene showing a native American Indian involved in a peace pipe ceremony. Great technique by William Burlingame...

This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...

Copy of a dog portrait titled "A Deerhound In a Landscape" showing a hound in a classical landscape

Annelies, the painter of this work, works under the name 'Hymn of Silence'. As she progresses trough life, searching for balance or going with the flow, her art translates her evolut...

Contemporary (watercolor gouache) of an abstract Black and White design on paper (signed by ED ELLER)

American Mid-Century (unsigned) black framed caricature watercolor of woman at bar ("Say, what's taking you so long to mix that drink?")

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely Vintage Gold Foil Map Of The British Isles 1646 By Joannes Janssen. Please carefully examine the pictures to see the condition befor...

A Limoges pate sur pate porcelain plaque, depicting a young girl examining a snail which in turn is looking back curiously. Both the child and ...

This antique framed hand-embroidered textile is unsigned, and presumed to have originated from Italy and dating to approximately 1900 and done in a Renaissance Revival style. This pi...

Li Yingtao, an owner of Yizhenzhai, was born in Hengshui City in 1963. He was praised as a Chinese master of splashing color in inside painting, a Master of Arts and crafts in Hebei Province, and the founder of splashing color techniques in inside painting. By now, he has been teaching and passing down this technique to his students. Mr, Li Yingtao is one of the most outstanding disciples of the master of Chinese arts and crafts...

Wall lamps made with the Fabscarte's wallpapers. The paper is mounted on a precious brass fan-shaped support. When turned on the lamp is suggestive of the lunar atmosphere and create...

This geometric wallpaper is a unique and exclusive design, which is practically different along the whole roll, so the result is a custom-made wall...

Ronald Riddick Hand Signed Lithograph Of Deer Framed Artwork. A hand signed lithograph titled And Beasts in the Field depicting straight horn deer by Ronal...

Circuit wallpaper is an abstract expression of technical elements used in electrical system tessellated in a repeat pattern with an ombre effect. Repeat size: Pattern Repeat Size: ...

Photography Steve Mc Queen on plexiglass. Limited Edition of six pieces. Made by Valerie Durand artist. Delivered with certificate.

This a Modern painting of a Round Arch Wood Door. It depicts an old dark brown wood arch shaped door that its Demi lune top appears to be in good condition, but some of its vertical ...