San Francisco - Paintings

Artist: Glenn Dodenhoff – American (1936- 2012) Title: Untitled – Boats at Dock Year: circa 1975 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 24 x 30 inches. Unframed ...

This artwork "Landscape with Trail" c.1930 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Frederick Ernest Swedlun, AKA: Ernest Fredericks (18...

This artwork "Town Street, Australia" c.1970. is an oil painting on canvas board by Australian artist Wilmotte Williams, 1916-1992. It is signed at t...

The label on the back has faded with time, but it appears to read “His Great Grandmother’s Portrait presented to George Michael Beauridge on his 18th birthday by his Aunt (?) July 10...

William K Peterson (1928-2013) Desert Landscape Painting Oil on Panel 12" x 16" Unframed 18.25" x 22.25" Framed

This artwork titled "Red Pick up" c.1970 is an oil painting on hardboard by American artist John Schweikhard, b.1938. It is signed and titled on the back. The ...

This artwork titled "City Market, Vienna" c.1930, is an oil painting on canvas laid down to panel by noted Austrian artist Hans Johann Wagner, 1866-1940. I...

This artwork titled "Clown, Medrano Circus, France" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Benton Scott, 1907-1983. It is signed at the middle right side by the...

This artwork "Woman with Bouquet" c.1985 is an oil on canvas by noted Spanish artist Juan Garces Espinosa, 1935-2014 It is signed at the lower right corner...

Jean Pierre Serrier (1934-1989, French) Surrealist Circus Scene Oil on canvas Signed lower right Frame: 16.5" W x 14.75" H Canvas: 10.5" W x 8.75" H Jean-Pierre Serrier was born i...

The very ordinariness of this European street scene is a delight. With Armistice recently signed, all the depravations of the recent war are letting up, enough so that two women can ...

This artwork titled "Church Near St. Thecle" 1998 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Canadian artist Stuart Main, born 1934. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. ...

Morris Katz (Ukraine / New York 1931-2010) Set of Three of Original Seascape Oil Paintings c.2001 A nice collection of original oil paintings by Morris Katz. Seagulls flying over crashing waves. Each painting measures 5" x 7" One frame measures 7" x 9" The other two frames measure 8" x 10" Signed, dated and framed by Morris Katz Very good vintage condition Offered as a matching trio only Morris Katz (born Moshe Katz on March 5, 1932 – November 12, 2010) was a Polish-American painter. He holds two Guinness World Records as the world's fastest painter and the world's most prolific artist. He has also been called the "King of Schlock Art" and the "King of Toilet Paper Art" because of a novel means of painting he developed using a palette knife and toilet tissue...

Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011) Title: Geometric Figure #25 Year: 2002 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Watercolor paper Image size: 8 x 12...

Mid Century Abstract Dock Scene by Igor Medvedev c.1960 Oil on canvas. Dimensions 42" x 26". The frame measures 43" x 27". Signed in the lower right co...

This artwork "Landscape" is an oil painting on canvas by noted German artist Bernhard Kretzschmar 1889-1972. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner. The canvas size is 17.25...

Monumental Geometric Op Art Oil Painting c.1970s Fantastic original Op Art oil painting. The large size will ensure it's the centerpiece of any r...

Robert Charles Watson (British, 1857-1923) Beautifully executed highlands landscape w/cattle Oil on canvas mounted on Masonite Signed and dated lower right; 1900 Painting: 7 3/4"...

This artwork Titled "The Lumbejack House, Santa Cruz, California" c.1940 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Carl M. Thorp, 1912-1989. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 20 x 24 inches, framed size is 25.25 x 29.25 inches. Framed in a wooden gold frame. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Carl Thorp (1912–1989) was an American artist who became known for Impressionist landscapes of California, sometimes referred to as California Scene...

Robert J Wickenden (1861–1931, Canadian) landscape of marshes. Oil on canvas Signed lower left 15" x 22" unframed, 21.25" x 28.25" framed

This painting with added elements is an excellent example of Joe Doyle’s abstract illusionist art. It is composed of acrylic on shaped canvas with fabric elements added. It measures 36 x 43 inches. Each edge has been painted except for the left edge which has a frame. The right edge has been shaped. The black elements of the tent-like structure are added fabric. The work is signed, titled "564" and dated on the reverse. As well it bears a label from Harcourts Gallery, a gallery in San Francisco during the 1980s and 1990s. The work is in very good condition. Joe Doyle established himself as a painter during the movement toward new abstraction in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. Stylistically his work evolved from photo-realist renderings of aircraft which exaggerated differences in focus of background and foreground" By 1975 his imagery shifted to arrangements of flat, geometric forms and tubular squiggles in a trompe l'oeil manner that created the illusion of a multi-layered, three dimensional space. By the late 1970s Doyle, along with James Havard, Jack Reilly, George D. Green, and others, had attained national prominence working this style now referred to as Abstract Illusionism. Doyle and others were included in 'Reality of Illusion' a large touring exhibition of primarily American illusionist artists organized by the University of Southern California and The Denver Art Museum. Doyle enrolled at San Francisco State College receiving his M.A. in 1971. From 1971 to 1975 he was a photo-realist transferring images from photographs using airbrush techniques on canvas, occasionally adding political satire into the subject matter, as in "Ice House...

This artwork titled "Vele c. 1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Lido Bettarini, 1927-2019. It is signed at the lower left corner ...

This artwork "Nude with Chair and Fruit" c. 1980 is a large oil painting on canvas by noted German/American artist Norbert Schlaus, 1927-2009. It is signed at the lower right corner ...

Together We Soar is an oil on canvas painting, 24.75 x 18.5", signed on the front ‘KOSTABI 2022’ lower right, and signed, titled and dated verso. Framed in a contemporary black frame...

This artwork "Coastal Landscape" 1961 by noted Cincinnati artist Albert Berne, 1877-1973 is an oil painting on canvas board. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas board size is 16 x 20 inches, framed is 26 x 21.5 inches. The artwork is in very good condition, the frame is in fair condition, it has been unprofessionally restored and has scratches. About the artist. Albert Berne (German/American 1877-1973) Schooled in music at the Cincinnati Conservatory, Berne studied piano in Berlin, Germany with Arthur Rubinstein. Here he experienced the radical ferment in the arts in Europe during the pre- WWI years. Later he returned to Cincinnati, where he was a baritone and teacher of music. At the age of 56, he began painting in earnest. Berne received instruction in painting at the Cincinnati Art Academy with Frank Myers and Carl Zimmerman...

Portrait painting of an elegant lady in a blue dress and coordinating hat by listed artist Heni Plisson (French, 1908-2002) Original oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas dimensio...

This artwork titled "Truckee Rail Yard II" 2015, is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Andrew (Andy) Skaff, b.1945. It is signed at the lower right corner by the arti...

C. 20th Century Landscape titled "Highway Delta" by Jesse Don Rasberry Oil on canvas board 7.25" H x 16" W

This artwork "Ponte Vecchio" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Lido Bettarini, 1927-2019. It is signed at the lower right corner by t...

This artwork titled "Corse (Corsica)" c 1960, is an oil painting on hardboard by noted French artist Tony Cardella, 1898-1976. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. Th...

Fabulous oil on canvas in the style of the famous William Aiken Walker. The details of this painting are amazing and is the same subject matter of most of Walker’s paintings. It is a...

JOHN HOPPNER R.A. (British, 1758–1810), "Countess Margaret Spencer," oil on canvas, canvas (relined): 36" x 28", overall (framed): 35" x 43". John Hoppner, R.A. plaque mounted cente...

These paintings "Landscape" are 2 oils on hardboard by noted French fauvist artist Lucien Mainssieux 1885-1958. One of the two is signed at the lower...

This artwork titled "Hauling wood" 1998 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Canadian artist Stuart Main, born 1934. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas...

Charles Wilton (1837-1947) Figurative French Painting Mixed Media Oil & Collage on canvas 20 x 24 unframed, 26.75 x 30.75 framed

Portrait of Miles Davis, 1998 C.E. Miller

Mid-century European abstract street scene with figures Oil on masonite Signed upper right (indecipherable), dated 1956 15.75" x 19.5" Frame: 20.75" × 24.75"

This artwork "Landscape with People Fishing" 1978, is an oil painting on hard board by Polish/American artist Morris Katz, 1932-2010. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (Hard Board) size is 20 x 24 inches, framed size is 28 x 31.75 inches. Framed in original wooden gold frame, with fabric liner and gold trim. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition. About the artist: On May 9th, 1988, the New York artist set a new world record by painting a 12- by 16-inch canvas of a child in the snow in just half a minute. (It took an additional eight seconds to frame it.) And that wasn’t the only distinction granted to Katz by the Guinness Book of World Records—his name appeared alongside Pablo Picasso’s under the heading for “Most Prolific Painters.” The Spanish master is estimated to have completed some 13,500 paintings in his life; when Katz died in 2010 at age 78, he was credited with 225,000. Katz’s preposterously productive career began in the small Polish village where he was born in 1932. He started studying under a German painter at age 13, but following World War II he earned a diploma in carpentry instead. In 1949, at the age of 17, he travelled to the United States. It was there that he picked up a paintbrush again, while studying at the Art Students League of New York and showing in the Village. “Soon, I decided I was good enough—compared to others, excellent enough—to make my living as an artist,” he said. It was during those years that he developed the techniques that would eventually land him in the record books. He tossed out his paintbrushes and replaced them with palette knives and toilet paper, which he used to stipple the paint. “Soon I picked up speed,” Katz said. “If you know which way you’re travelling, then you can run.” He made art in bulk, buying up canvases by the thousands and paint by the gallon. He went through some 10,000 rolls of toilet paper per year; he often wore out palette knives. Katz branded his method as “instant art.” Charles Salzberg, writing in New York magazine in 1978, urged readers, “Think of him, if you will, as the McDonald’s of the art world”—fast, cheap, and ubiquitous. He wore a green beret, paint-splattered pants, and a shirt emblazoned with the words “Morris Katz - World’s Most Prolific Artist.” It was a title that came with a price—he worked 18-hour days into his 60s, sometimes from his Greenwich Village studio and other times as a performer at hotels across the Catskills. He would often visit three different hotels in the same day, waking up at 7 a.m. and returning home as late as 1 a.m. His show was as much about the painting as it was the one-liners: “These are the highlights—you can tell because they’re high up on the painting,” he might say. Audiences gobbled up the jokes and the works, often paying less than $50 for a painting. “I give them a fresh painting like a fresh bagel,” he said. Photographer David M. Spindel first met Katz on assignment. “They’d call him mashugana—that’s the Yiddish word for a little bit crazy,” he told Artsy. The pair soon became friends, and Spindel ended up attending several of the artist’s hotel shows. “There were a lot of people from the hotel who were sitting in the room and he set up his easel and his toilet paper and paints and knocked out paintings one after another,” Spindel said. “Just a couple of minutes for each painting, usually. If he was kibitzing with the people in the audience then it took a lot longer. He was always clowning around.” His act was ready-made for television; he appeared on 60 Minutes, David Letterman, and Oprah, among other programs. And Katz didn’t just make instant art—he taught it as well. In 1987, the New Yorker sent a writer to attend one of his speed-painting classes at the Notre Dame School on West 79th Street. A dozen eager students watched in admiration as he whipped up a mountain landscape, asking for advice on how, exactly, to hold their toilet paper for maximum artistic effect. For those who couldn’t make it to Manhattan for a lesson, he published a book—Paint Good & Fast (1985)—with a title as straightforward as his philosophy on art. “Life goes faster and faster,” he wrote. “The fine arts must keep pace. This art will one day be...

Artist: Florent Chade (French, 1896-1985) Title: Vue de Narbonne sur Grenoble Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on canvas board Board size: 21.75 x 26.75 inches Framed Size: 29 x 33.2...

Louis van der Pol (1896-1982) Dutch Harbor Scene by well known listed artist Oil on wood panel 8 x 11.75 unframed, 11.75 x 15.25 framed

This artwork titled "Fishing Village, Puttaya, Thailand" c.1980 is an oil painting with gold addition on canvas by renown Thai artist Kid Kosolawat, 1917...

Xavier Cugat (1900-1990, Spanish) "Monkey Business" Serigraph on Canvas Board 7.5" x 9.5" unframed 13.25" x 15.25" framed

Beautiful 1940's impressionist landscape by Elmer Stanhope (1907-1956) Titled "Monterey Bay" Oil on canvas The canvas measures 24" x 30", while the frame measures 30" x 36"

Andre Gisson: 1921-2003. Very well listed American artist with auction records over $13,750 and much higher in galleries. This is by far the finest exampl...

From Potrero to the Bay is a luminous diptych by Christina Kent, capturing the layered beauty of San Francisco’s cityscape as seen from Potrero Hill. Each of the two panels (48 x 12 ...

This artwork "European Cityscape" c. 1990 is a oil painting on hard board by Argentinian artist Henry D. Ramirez. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The hard board...

This artwork titled "Winter Break" 1998 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Canadian artist Stuart Main, born 1934. It is signed at the lower right corn...

This artwork titled "Ebb Tide, Kennebunport, Maine" c.1990, is an oil painting on canvas by Irish artist Val McGann, 1928-2016. It is signed at the lower l...

Johann Schuld (1870-1943) Country Landscape With Cattle Oil Painting C.1920 Original oil on masonite Dimensions 25" wide x 15" high the frame me...

This artwork "Landscape, California" c. 1935 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Elmer Stanhope, 1907-1956. It is signed at the lowe...