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Item Ships From: California
Mbuti Painting on barkcloth, 20th century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Mbuti painting on Bark Cloth
Ituri Forest, DR Congo
20th century
0.54 x 0.75m (1’9″ x 2’6″)
The eccentric biomorphic and linear geometries of Mbuti bark cloths, painted by women, ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal California - Paintings
Materials
Natural Fiber
Oil Painting Vietnamese Woman with Flowers
Located in Fulton, CA
A figurative painting of two Vietnamese woman admiring a bouquet of flowers. Retaining original frame. Artist signature lower right is undecipherable. A charming painting reflecting ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Vietnamese California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Art Nouveau Gemstone Painting after Alphonse Mucha Spring
Located in Somis, CA
A rare gemstone artwork in the art nouveau style modeled after Alphonse Mucha's "Spring". The painting was done on the back of glass and applied with quartz to create the iridescent background. The Goddess finely painted, delicately inlaid with natural gemstones. She wears a long mermaid...
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau California - Paintings
Materials
Multi-gemstone
Allen Noonan Originals Millennial Designs Abstract Modern Painting Walnut Frame
By Allen Noonan
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Allen Noonan Originals Millennial Designs Painting on Plywood. A treasure in art-no more than six of each design in the world. Allen Noonan was a UFO enthusiast and owner of a Cafe-A...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
1946 Vintage Ray Martinez Oil on Canvas Rendering of the Girl before a Mirror
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in Monrovia, CA
1946 Vintage Ray Martinez oil on canvas rendering of the girl before a mirror.
1946 oil on canvas rendering by artist Ray Martinez during Picas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Modern California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Orientalist Painting Wall Art Arab Market Scene Dutch G. Huijsser Antique Frame
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Orientalist Painting Wall Art Arab Market Scene Dutch G. Huijsser Antique Frame. Very nice oil on cardboard by Gerard Huijsser, Dutch painter, depicting a gathering of people in a or...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch California - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Chinese Qing Four Panel Carved Soapstone Coromandel Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Impressive Chinese late Qing dynasty four panel folding coromandel screen featuring carved soapstone. The lacquered panels are decorated with idyllic scenes of beauties in a pagoda p...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export California - Paintings
Materials
Soapstone, Brass
Tibetan Thangka of Celebration Hand Painted Gilded
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisite hand painted Tibetan Thangka depicting 63 Buddhas with consorts and 5 protector Vajrabhairavas. Buddha seated dhyana asana on lotus throne at the center of the mandala i...
Category
2010s Nepalese California - Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Dog Oil Painting, Signed and Dated
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Scruffy dog oil painting. Signed and dated 1971.
Category
20th Century American Arts and Crafts California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
French 19th Century Louis XV & Vernis Martin Style Giltwood Fireplace Screen
By Vernis Martin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very Fine and rare French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood carved Vernis Martin Stylefl fireplace screen. The rectangular carved giltwood panel surmounted with four circular oil paintings...
Category
Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
David Roberts of the RA in England, Egypt Lithographs Mounted, Pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of David Roberts Egyptian scenes. Mounted in frame 29 x 3 both. One of them is Karnak! Showing his signature in lower left side. Sold as the...
Category
1950s European Egyptian Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique Oil Painting of Boat at Sea in Giltwood Frame
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
Antique oil painting of boat at sea in giltwood frame
Unsigned, this oil painting on canvas is framed in a chippy, giltwood frame.
The oil does have age signs with some peeling and...
Category
20th Century California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
2003 Portrait of Mother With Child, Folk Art, Oil Painting on Board
Located in San Carlos, CA
FOR SALE: Stunning Folk Art Oil Painting – Andean Woman & Child with Birds
Bring color and culture into your space with this marvelous folk art (outsider art) oil painting on a wood...
Category
Early 2000s Peruvian Folk Art California - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Large Toulouse Lautrec by Peter Max in Peach Pink, Signed and Framed
By Peter Max
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is the largest of the Toulouse Lautrec portraits by famed artist Peter Max in peach pink. Professionally framed, signed and numbered.
Category
1960s American Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Paper
Franco-German 19th Century Oil on Canvas "Portrait of a Lady" in Giltwood Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Franco-German 19th century oil on canvas "Portrait of a Lady" depicting an 18th century young beauty posing with a profile gaze and cur...
Category
19th Century French Louis XV Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood
Italian Orientalist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Cypress, CA
Italian orientalist oil on canvas painting.
20th century.
The fine oil painting depicting an orientalist woman dressed in traditional garments w...
Category
20th Century Italian California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Still Life Floral "Water Lily" Oil on Board by James Pasqual Bettio
By Pasqual Bettio
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original Still Life of a Water Lily Oil on Board with original hand-painted frame by James Pasqual Bettio. It features a brass tag with the artwork title "Water Lily" and the signatu...
Category
1980s Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Midori Bunny by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800's paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Bunny motif painted with acrylic paint, pastel, and gold leaf on a ledger from a general store acco...
Category
2010s American California - Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper
Hans Burkhardt Signed Swiss California Original Midcentury Abstract Painting
By Hans Burkhardt
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful, highly engaging large original abstract female nude pastel painting/drawing by Swiss/ American/ Californian painter-artist Hans Burkhardt.
This work, titled "Seated Female" is hand-signed and dated (1958) by the artist.
An original, one-of-a-kind, and unusually large work by Burkhardt. Would be the crown jewel to any collection of his work or a stunning stand-alone art accent piece in about any setting. His earlier abstract female forms are becoming rare and harder to find.
Hans Burkhardt was born in 1904 in Basel, Switzerland. At the age of 20, he immigrated to New York to work with his father. From 1925 to 1928 he attended the Cooper Union School of the Arts, where he befriended mentor Arshile Gorky and Willem de Kooning—sharing Gorky's studio from 1928 to 1937. In 1937 he moved to Los Angeles, California.
Burkhardt held his first solo exhibition in 1939 at Stendahl Gallery in Los Angeles. In 1945 he had a highly acclaimed solo exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum. Burkhardt spent most of the 1950s working in Mexico. Art critics of the time considered him a "great Mexican master” alongside Orozco, Rivera, and Siqueiros, and Rufino Tamayo admired his work. He returned to Los Angeles in the 1960s to create some of the most powerful examples of Abstract Expressionism of the time. During this time he also became well known for his richly drawn pastel abstractions of the human figure of which this original work certainly qualifies.
He died in Los Angeles in 1994.
Burkhardt's solo shows include:
1939: Stendahl Gallery, Los Angeles, March 27 – April 17
1945: Hans Burkhardt, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1951: Museo de Bellas Artes, Guadalajara, Mexico: Exhibicion de Pinturas Modernas; Comara Gallery, Los Angeles
1953: Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1957: Pasadena Art Museum, California: Ten Year Retrospective, June 14 – July 14;
1961-62: Thirty Year Retrospective (traveled to Santa Barbara Museum of Art, April 11 – May 7, 1961, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, January 9 – February 4, 1962, Legion of Honor (museum), San Francisco, June 10 – July 9, 1962)
1968: San Diego Museum of Art: Vietnam Paintings...
Category
1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Ralph Albert Blakelock Original Oil Painting Evening Landscape with Moon
By Ralph Albert Blakelock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on Canvas Painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock. Know for his landscapes, Blakelock ((1847-1919, American), in this landscape captures lush landscape peaking beyond an open space wi...
Category
19th Century American Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Mario Mauro (Italian 1920-1984) Fauvist Style Painting Depicting a Village Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
A brilliantly colored neo-expressionist painting by Mario Mauro (1920-1984) signed lower right "Mauro" and signed, titled and dated on verso. Born in Italy, the artist entered the Br...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
19th Century Painting Of a Pickpocket and a Gentleman
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A whimsical painting of a pickpocket attempting to pick a gentleman's pocket. Likely European, definitely 19th century the painting appears to have been relined and touched up in the...
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique Ernesto Fontana Original Oil Painting, 19th Century
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Antique Ernesto Fontana Original Oil Painting. It is beautifully mounted in a period gilded frame. Signed lower left.
Additional information:
Materials: Canvas, Giltwood
Color: Gold...
Category
19th Century Spanish Colonial Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
1960s Mexican Modernism Vibrant Oil Painting Abstract Original Art
By Pedro Coronel
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Mexico Modernism Vintage Abstract Oil Painting
signed initials K A in the lower righthand corner.
Oil on plywood
25.25 w x 32.5 x 1 d frame is .5 thick facing front
Original vi...
Category
1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
Original Space Artist Andreas Nottebohm Acrylic on Aluminum Painting KNM 1387
Located in Tustin, CA
Visionary, abstract original acrylic on aluminum painting by famous NASA Space Artist, Andreas Nottebohn, titled "KNM 1387" depicts a colorful, otherworldly scene on a shimmering sheet of scored metal. This incredible celestial painting frees the viewer from a one dimensional perspective by suggesting a vast and mysterious distance.
Information on the back of the painting states, “KNM 1387 Spec 1 of 48 similar original paintings 1996 30 x 24 Acrylic on Aluminum”. Hand signed by the artist in the lower left corner.
Very nicely custom framed in a transitional style black frame with wide silver inner lining. Framed, the painting measures approximately 35" high x 29" wide x 2" deep. Unframed painting measures approximately 30" high x 24" wide.
One of the key innovators of metal painting, Nottebohm creates what might be called sculptures on a flat plane. By removing microscopic layers from the metal surface, he transforms the material into patterns of shimmering light. The unusual luminous quality of Nottebohm's work comes from the aluminum surfaces he scores, using a variety of manual and machine tools. Aluminum can create light and movement that you cannot create with anything else. It is similar to the sun reflecting on water, and you see one painting from one side and another painting from another side.
East German born (1944) Andreas Nottebohm moved to Munich as a teenager and immigrated to the San Francisco Bay area of the United States in 1979, after touring the U.S. for a one man exhibition. While in Germany in the 1970s, he was one of the co-founders of the Society for Art and Science in Munich.
Around the time he relocated to the United States, he was invited to participate in the NASA Art...
Category
20th Century American Space Age California - Paintings
Materials
Aluminum
Antique Portrait Oil Painting of Old Lady
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition
Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame
Style: Portrait
Category
1920s American Other Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas Signed Cervantes
Located in Pasadena, CA
Portrait oil painting of a woman signed by the artist Cervantes.
An expressive portrait using primarily warm colors, and thick brush strokes.
Information on the artist Cervantes ...
Category
Late 20th Century American California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Japanese Six Panel Kano School Winter Landscape Screen
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large Japanese Meiji period six-panel screen depicting a winter landscape with a Chinese sage visiting friends in a country villa. Ink and vivid color pigments on mulberry paper mounted to a gilt background. Painted in the 19th century Kano school...
Category
19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Metal
Original Ben Abril ‘China Town’ Watercolor Painting California 1960s
By Ben Abril
Located in Oakland, CA
Fantastic original watercolor titled ‘Chinatown’ by well listed California artist, Ben Abril c1960s. Original artist frame.
Category
1960s American Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paper
Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891) Portrait de la famille Gros
By Charles Chaplin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891)
Portrait de la famille Gros, placed in an ornate hand carved gilt wood frame.
signed and dated 'Ch. Chaplin. 1860' (lower left)
oil on canvas
Dim...
Category
19th Century French Neoclassical Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Large Original Oil on Canvas Cityscape of Paris by Guy Buffett
By Guy Buffet
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous original oil on canvas cityscape of Paris, France by noted artist Guy Buffett, circa 1970s. The large painting depicts a view down the Seine river ...
Category
20th Century French California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
1990s Raul Monje Large Metal Wall Art in Bronze Mexico
By Raul Monje
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Large Abstract Wall Art Bronze by Raul Monje Mexican Artist
37 h x 29 w x 1.75 d Art 32.5 x 24
Original preowned vintage unrestored condition.
Refer to the images.
Delivery within 20...
Category
1990s Mexican Modern California - Paintings
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Oil Painting, Asian River Scene, Signed
Located in Somis, CA
A beautiful, hand-painted oil on canvas depicting river scene in Spring. The background is a gorgeous blush color, with the mountain rocks in rust oran...
Category
2010s Chinese California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
An Antique English Oil on Canvas Depicting a noble man and women by W. Gozzard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Antique English Oil on Canvas Depicting a noble man and women by W. Gozzard
Maker: Walter Gozzard (1888-1950).
Category
19th Century English Antique California - Paintings
Greatful Dead Live Rock Concert Painting
Located in Fulton, CA
A large-scale original painting of the Grateful Dead on stage at a rock concert. Script on verso " #850 4/13/08 by Jene Moshs? Grateful Dead Orange County Fairgrounds 1968". Painted ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American California - Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Paint
Robert Crowder Signed 5 Panel Large Japanese Nihonga Lanscape Pastoral Painting
By Robert Crowder
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, engaging, original, and quite rare work of art by American artist Robert Crowder (1911-2010). Crowder lived in Japan in the 1930s (u...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Paper
"The Triumph of Bacchus" after Diego Velázquez, Signed M. De Saivin 1897
By Diego Velã¡zquez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Triumph of Bacchus" late 19th century oil painting on canvas after Diego Velázquez.
Signed and dated: M. De Saivin, 1897
Dimensions:
Ca...
Category
1890s Spanish Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Pair of Dutch Delft Tile Panels of a Cat and Dog
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Charming pair of Dutch Victorian delft tile panels in blue and white glazed earthenware depicting a cat and a dog. The tiles are mounted to a wood pan...
Category
19th Century Dutch Victorian Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Wood
Massive WPA Mural Study
Located in Palm Springs, CA
We acquired his large mural study out of an old Hudson River valley estate. It had been rolled up for years. It appears to have been cut down on the left side. Clearly a WPA Mural pr...
Category
1930s American Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Paint
American Western Painting by Charles Damrow Elk & Mountains
Located in Fulton, CA
An original oil painting by American West artist Charles Damrow. (b. 1916 d. 1989). Titled "Elk in the Autumn Mountains". Large scale measuring 36.25 in wide 30.5 in high. Without fr...
Category
Late 20th Century California - Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paint
Chinese Patriarch and Matriarch Ancestral Scroll Painting
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Magnificent Chinese scroll ancestor painting showing patriarch and matriarch of a high ranking status civil official. This unusual scroll depicts the dignitary couple seated below a ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing California - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wood, Paint
1967 Robert Natkin Original Painting-Provenance, Inscription - 9658
Located in Ukiah, CA
Painting on paper
"For Ed and Rosyln Halper" 1967 and then signed by the artist.
The Halpers were art enthusiasts who dealt in artists' work for which they had a passion. Ed Halpe...
Category
1960s Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Paper, Paint
Eden Signed Mid-Century Modern Original Big Eyes Harlequin Moppet Oil Painting
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and quite engaging original Big Eyes Harlequin Moppet oil on canvas painting by artist Eden. This work features a young girl with piercing blue eyes dressed in a diamond...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Abstract Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Large abstract acrylic on canvas. Thick applications of lavender with crimson and gold surrounding. Very textural. Floater framed. Signed on back "Purple and Red", Steiert 2023. Pain...
Category
2010s American Modern California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th C Neapolitan School Painting Oil Canvas Old Master Mola Giovanni Battista
By Molla
Located in West Hollywood, CA
17th C Neapolitan School Painting Oil Canvas Old Master Mola Giovanni Battista . Circa 1600’s important Painting Oil on Canvas painting of a boy with a bird, in original Hand carved...
Category
17th Century Italian Renaissance Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Wood, Plaster
Large 19th Century French Oil on Canvas Nude by Leon Erpikum
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large 19th century French oil on canvas nude by Leon Erpikum, in a heavy carved gilt wood frame. Signed on bottom left L. Erpikum & dated 1889 on bottom right, finely painted of a nude with long red...
Category
19th Century French Romantic Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th C Framed Fraktur Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful 19th C Fruktur by Martha Geist
The poem on the Fruktur (watercolor) is re-written below.
"If my name heaven is my station, This world is my habitation.
Christ is my ...
Category
19th Century American Country Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Wood
Fine 19th Century English Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Dog, after Edwin Landseer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fine 19th century English oil on canvas: Portrait of a dog, after Edwin Landseer. The verso photo documented, original canvas, Initialed W M May 1882.
Based on a drawing of Landseer's Scottish deerhound...
Category
19th Century English Victorian Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint, Canvas
Japanese Style Two-Panel Screen Winter Goose in Flight
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dramatic Showa period two panel folding byobu screen depicting a large white goose in flight in an evening snow covered winter landscape. Made in the American school style watercolor...
Category
20th Century Showa California - Paintings
Materials
Brass
Larger Scale Hard Edge Abstract Painting on Canvas California Art Scene
By Karl Benjamin
Located in Oakland, CA
Larger scale hardedge abstract in the style of Karl Benjamin, rectangular forms in blues, yellow, green, mustard, black, browns, white with a soft gray background. Encased in a hands...
Category
1990s American Modern California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
18th/19th Century Russian Icon of St. John the Theologian in Silence
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A traditional Russian icon of St John; the Theologian in Silence, where he appears to be holding the Gospel. The scene's title derives from the saint's hand gesture in which his fing...
Category
18th Century Russian Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Wood
Abstract Modern Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful abstract painting, beautiful blend of colors and great technique.
The piece is large, and is perfect for modern spaces.
The piece is signed.
Measurements:
59.50 inc...
Category
Early 2000s American Organic Modern California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Iver Rose Oil Painting of a Clown Soldier
By Iver Rose
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Vintage MCM Iver Rose oil painting of a clown soldier
Additional information:
Materials: oil paint, wood
Color: Orange
Period: Mid 20th Centu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern California - Paintings
Materials
Wood
Mid-20th Century Still Life Painting
By Seely
Located in San Francisco, CA
Still life painting in carved and giltwood frame. Signed Donald Seely, 1966.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage California - Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Georges-Marie-Julien Girardo (French 1856-1914) Oil on Canvas "A Wedding Party"
By Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Georges-Marie-Julien Girardot (French, b. Besançon 1856 - d. Paris, 1914) "Avant le mariage" (Before the Wedding) A Palatial and Impressive French 19th Century Oil on Canvas depictin...
Category
1880s French Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Giltwood, Canvas
Large-Scale William Keith Landscape Painting "Harvest"
By William Keith
Located in Fulton, CA
Exceptional 19th century landscape painting by Important American artist William Keith. Titled "Harvest". Barbizon School oil on canvas painting featuring figures at harvest with cart and oxen. Amazing luminescent sky. Signed lower left corner "W. Keith '96". Retains original museum quality gilt frame. Canvas measure 30"H 50"W. Accompanied with period correct Stereograph black and white photograph depicting actual painting in a parlor with handwritten pencil title "Parlor, Berkeley, Cal. '97". This is a museum quality work of art.
William Keith (1838-1911)
William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist. In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean of California painters" and "California's Old Master."
Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Keith came to New York with his family and, apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he determined to become a painter.
He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm. After a visit to Paris, he expressed great admiration for "the modern school of French landscape painting including the Barbizon School.
During the winter of 1871-1872, the Keiths lived in Boston where they shared a studio with William Hahn. Keith's work received critical acclaim there and in New York at the National Academy of Design. In 1872, he returned to San Francisco. A friendship with naturalist John Muir exposed Keith to many remote places and in-depth knowledge of nature. During the 1870s, he painted several "epic" eight by ten-foot High Sierra views. He also visited Alaska, and his paintings of Alaska were exhibited upon his return to San Francisco in a show at the Bohemian Club, titled 'Dreams of Alaska'. Keith's Alaska works are significant because they are not close transcriptions of actual scenery, but rather are fantasies inspired by Alaska. They are important as they represent a major break from the documentary tradition in landscape painting of Alaska, as they show an interest in capturing its spirit versus just the topography.
In 1891, he shared his studio for several weeks with East Coast Tonalist George Inness, Sr. [1825-1894]. Both men painted in a similar style and were followers of the mystical teachings of Swedenborg. Among the locations where Inness and Keith painted together were Monterey and Yosemite, and it was reported they discussed art from every possible angle. Under Inness' influence, Keith painted more than ever in a Barbizon-influenced vein with many sunset and twilight scenes.
Keith’s first wife died in 1882, and in 1883, he married Mary McHenry, the first woman graduate of Hastings Law School. They soon went to Europe, and Keith studied portrait painting in Munich with consultations from J. Frank Currier...
Category
Late 19th Century American Barbizon School Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Paint
Van Gogh His Life and Works in 500 Images Hardcover Book
By Vincent van Gogh
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Van Gogh: His Life and Works in 500 Images
Book by Michael Howard and Vincent van Gogh.
"Contains a detailed exploration of Van Gogh's life, including his background, early career,...
Category
20th Century Dutch Expressionist California - Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antique Italian Oil Painting of Musketeers in an Interior by Novelli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amusing Italian genre oil painting on canvas by Novelli depicts a gallant courtship that captures the romanticized image of musketeers. Novelli illustrates four musketeers, thre...
Category
19th Century European Antique California - Paintings
Materials
Canvas
