Painted Wall Decorations

A pair of antique red painted terracotta neoclassical plaques by Danish 19th century artist, Peter Ipsen (stamped). Both plaques are of a similar scale and theme, depicting differen...

Oil painting is composed of vibrant orange tones mingled with neutral brown and grey tones. Verso is titled and signed illegibly. Canvas measures approximate 20 inches squared in height and width. Signed original artwork, abstract Modernist art...

A Wonderful 19th Century Painting Oil On Canvas Unsigned In The Manner Of Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Purchase From A Gallery And Believed To Be Authentic. Actual Painting Dimensions Ar...

Sunburst wall sculpture with a hammered brass center and two layers of painted rods creating a sunburst effect. The artist hand signed the sculpture on the verso.

Naturalistic Oil Painting of 'Young German Shepherd made by Danish Artist Oluf August Hermansen Hermansen in 1888. * Oil painting on wood plate depicting a Young German Shepherd. Bl...

Set of Four 19th Century Russian Devotional Icons Hand Painted on Wooden Panels with luminous gold grounds, rich sacred color, and a deeply moving spiritual presence. Coming from a ...

This oil on canvas, both decorative and educational, depicts a lush vineyard of grapes with various varieties, carefully distinguished by color and shape. Framed by classical archite...

19th century painting of a young boy sitting beside his goat and cart. Goat carts were very popular with children throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The wicker goat carts we...

Signed by Artist Mid-Century Modern abstract painting in oil on canvas in hues of earth tone colors. The fine Art is dated 1976 and made in t...

Original antique oil on canvas painting titled “Percy Bysshe Shelley on the shore of Spezzia”. Presumed to be inspired by “Distress at sea” painting from 1843 by Henry Thomson...

Nice original watercolor of a footbridge over a pond in Central Park NYC. Skyscrapers of the day in the background. In excellent vintage condition with minimal wear, needs a new mat....

A decorative set of four vintage Italian wall coat hooks, circa 1960s–1970s, executed in bright red lacquered metal with gold-toned decorative accents. The set consists of three sho...

Discover the elegance of this mid-century French screen-printed by hand tapestry featuring the exquisite design of a medieval museum tapestry titled « Suzanne and the old men » The ...

A beautiful stained glass panel with a lovely floral decoration. This stained glass window was handmade in an unknown studio in Belgium. Heavy tones of gray and lead are combined wit...

Original vintage Danish still life oil on canvas painting of lush red flowers in a vase placed on a delicate white table cloth. The background is muted and creates a contrast to the ...

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...

19th Century Seascape with Fishing Boats on Beach, British School, circa 1870, an oil on canvas seascape with two luggers high on beach at low ti...

Offered is a luminous limited edition print by artist Louis Shields, titled "The Lightness of Being." Created as part of Shields' 2018 Dancer Se...

"Amontonamiento 06" by Alejo Palacios (Argentina, 1989) is a striking contemporary artwork created in 2022 using acrylic on handmade paper. This original piece showcases Palacios' un...

"Monkeys on the Hudson" by Kevin Paulsen. Forest scene with playful monkeys, created over a three year period with pigment on plaster on polystyrene, in shadowbox frame.

Vintage Post Modern Abstract Wall Art Painting Profesionally Framed and Signed by the Artist. Circa 1980s Signed Lefermet. Features an abstract dimanic image in vibrant on a solid b...

Discover the elegance of this mid-century French hand-printed tapestry featuring the exquisite design of the renowned medieval museum tapestry, "Les Vendanges" (grape harvest) from t...

Peruvian Cuzco School Oil on Canvas of the Archangel Michael defeating Satan 18th Century. Later Frame. Wear commensurate with age. The Cuzco or Cusco school was a Roman Catho...

Charles d'Agar (Paris 1669-1723 London) A very important pair of oil on canvas portraits from the early 18th Century. Portrait of Cyrill Wyche, half-length, in a red coat and blue ...

Abstract Assemblage Wall Sculpture, in the style of Louise Nevelson, unsigned, American, circa 1960s. It measures an impressive 24.75" height x 20" width.

Large and dramatic, this depiction of a nude male figure leaning toward the corner of the painting, with his lover faintly shown behind him, was made by Luc Lafnet, a Belgian painter...

Henri Matisse Original Pencil On Paper Study Of A Nude Pencil on paper Unsigned. Sheet: 8.85 x 13.75 Inches Framed: 25.5 x 21.75 Inches The ...

An elegant late 19th century French Chinoiserie oil painting on canvas, originally part of the decorative scheme of a Georgian townhouse. The ...

A late 19th century Baroque revival style Beaux Arts period oil on canvas laid down on board. Most likely this was part of a larger mural at one time. Elaborate still life, beautifu...

Pair of Large 19th Century French still life oil on canvas paintings.In distressed giltwood frames showing gesso, both signed A. Bechard. One depicting asparagus bundles, cherries an...

The backside of the drawing reads (Danish-English). Drawn by the illustrator (TH or FH..... For us sadly indistinguishable) 'The Flora Danica Illustrator' - A reference to a lexicon ...

An antique pair of coat of arms, hand painted in the Gris de Versailles technique on antique bulging outward Pinewood shields originating from a Tuscan estate, in good condition. The...

This Painting of  Derrycunnihy Church in Kerry is a wonderful depiction of this scene on the Ring of Kerry. Van der Putten is Dutch born but resides and paints in the UK. Exhibited o...

An English Gentleman Caricature – The Marquess of Bath – an original chromolithograph from the British Vanity Fair series English Gentlemen, printed by Vincent Brooks Day & Son....

A French Restauration period oil on canvas still-life floral painting from the 19th century, in giltwood frame. Born in France during the second quarter of the 19th century, this flo...

Large 19th C painted broken overdoor oak pediment. 1890

A finely executed 19th-century Italian painting depicting the Madonna and Child, created after a celebrated composition by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483–1520), one of the greatest ...

Antique Miniature Portrait of Juliette Récamier — This finely rendered miniature depicts Juliette Récamier, the celebrated French socialite and emblem of Neoclassical elegance. Renow...

A New England village street scene on a bright summer day. Beautiful rendering of light and shadow. Oil on canvas in a high quality closed corner frame Image 21 1/2 by 19 1/2. Maud...

Nearly six and a half feet across and five feet tall, Camille Olvier’s nineteenth-century French market scene possesses the confidence of a mural and the immediacy of a fleeting morn...

This is an extraordinarily beautiful 15 inch square antique hinged, hand incised and hand painted wooden Folk Art game board. The playing surface possesses great detail with images...

An exceptionally rare and important mid-century modern architectural wall plaque, masterfully crafted by the Italian modernist painter Duilio Barnabè (better known as “Dubè”) for the...

Surrealist abstract figurative oil on board painting titled "Woman with Pendant" c.1947 , the imagery is of a woman holding a pendant in a room with a painting of a building in the b...

"Nimble Thief 2" by New York artist Kevin Paulsen. Painted with pigment, stain, and ballpoint pen on tinted plaster on polystyrene, encased in custom shadowbox frame.

From our hand painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Bellini Panel. An exquisite decorative wooden panel inspired by the famous Venetian cocktail invent...

Jennifer Gibbs draws artistic inspiration primarily from meditation and nature. Her extensive body of work ranges from abstract expressionism to delicate botanicals to her charcoal l...

George Hedley (British), 1855 Still Life with Fruit signed 'G. HEDLEY / 1855' (lower right) oil on canvas 55 x 55 cm (21 5/8 x 21 5/8 in). framed 74.5 x 74.5 x 4.5 cm. (29 1/3 x 29 1...

An English 19 th century oil on canvas of horse and jockey painting in carved gilt wood frame. This 19th c English oil on canvas is a 19 th c...

Large modern abstract oil on canvas 'Sound Wave' by Carlo of Hollywood.

Oil on canvas painting in the style of Mark Rothko depicting a color field in mostly warm tones. Unsigned. Mounted in a gilt wooden frame. Excellent condition.

Bring a touch of tropical elegance to your home with this vibrant pair of Italian paintings. Crafted circa 1960, each hand-painted canvas is set within a carved arched and scalloped ...

A stunning antique Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) polychrome porcelain bas-relief wall charger created by the Ernst Wahliss manufactory in Vienna, Austria, in 1905, featuring a classical f...

17th century Italian old master painting Madonna and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist. Important Tuscan School Old Master painting in oil on a hand shaved wood panel. ...

This large, framed, original painting features a dynamic interplay of cubist geometric shapes and bold colors, primarily in shades of brown, hues of gray, white, orange, and blue. Th...

Hand-Painted Garden Patio Scene Oil on Board, Spain, 1940s-1950s Colorful painting depicting a patio garden with the main building and its high tower at the background. Colorful scen...

Indian 19th century group of fine seven oval hand - painted miniature portraits of revered Mughal rulers and their royal wives. All individually set in narrow likely gilt Silver fram...

Decorative mid-century modern composition executed as a silk screen print on silk, after the work of Fernand Léger. The piece features bold, graphic forms, strong black outlines, an...

Lovely painting by noted New York artist Kevin Paulsen featuring a river/harbor scene. Crafted with pigmented plaster on a polystyrene base cradled in a custom shadowbox.

Impressionist Washington D.C., a snowy winter day on the hill. The capital is covered in a blanket of soft snow as pedestrians head out for evening festivities and sightseeing. Light...

Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) circle of. 18th century old master painting, France. With great pride we offer an extremely rare masterpiece from the 18th century, France. This painting is unsigned as most of his works. It has no provenance, but carries with it all the earmarks of the great Rococo style school of Watteau. It pictures one of his famous outdoor parties with a group of frolicking young people. In the background is a reference to a swing, a favored subject in his paintings. The composition of the painting, colors, brushstrokes (especially in the fabric) is clearly Watteau’s studio. This large 18th century canvas...