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Period: Mid-20th Century
STUNNING 1970
S FRENCH EXPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - GIANT BUTTERFLY/ MOTH PAINTING
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, indistinctly signed lower right, circa 1970's
Title: Giant Butterfly/ Moth
Medium: oil painting, on board.
Size: frame: 24.25 x 29.25 inches...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,837 Sale Price
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The Parrot - Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
The Parrot is an original artwork realized in the 1930s by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942).
Original Painting on canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner. ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
FERNAND AUDET (1923-2016) FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL - HORSE TOWING CARAVAN
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Horse & Caravan"
by Fernand Audet (French, Tarascon 1923- Mulhouse 2016)
signed lower right
oil painting on board, unframed
painting: 21.5 x 18 inches
A fine "mid century" oil pa...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Hunting Gryfon Hounds
Located in St. Albans, GB
Georges Henri FAUVEL
Canvas Size: 17 x 21" (42.5cm x 52.5cm)
Outside Frame Size:
Born in 1890 in Havre (Seine-Maritime), France
Painter of animals, especially hunting dogs- his b...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The harlequin and the rooster - Oil on wood 35x49 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
New wooden frame with golden patina
58,5 x 45 x 3,5 cm
Illegible signature
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tapisserie Aux Mille Fleurs Avec Chats et Oiseaux
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Duranton
French, 1905-2010
Tapisserie Aux Mille Fleurs Avec Chats et Oiseaux
Oil on Canvas
18 by 24 in, w/ frame 24 ¾ by 30 ¾ in
Signed lower right, titled verso
Andre Durant...
Category
Other Art Style Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early Horses VI, Charcoal Drawing, Brown, Black by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses VI - 19.5 x 29 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal on paper
(Framed & Delivered)
Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painters and rose to ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Shepherds and climb by a lake
Located in Genève, GE
monogram artwork
Work on canvas
Plaster moldings frame and gilded wood
49.5 x 67.2 x 5 cm
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Horse Portrait - Painting by Hans Cortes - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Horse portrait is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-20th century by Hans Cortes.
A mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Hand signed by the artist on the lower margin....
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young man on his camel
Located in Genève, GE
Monogram work A.B.
Work on cardboard
Plaster moldings frame and gilded wood
44.5 x 39.5 x 5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,188
The Birdcage
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Robert McIntosh(1916-2010), was a prolific American artist that worked and exhibited throughout his life in California. In 1948, McIntosh was awarded first prize at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and again ion 1949 at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
"The Birdcage...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Steeplechase Pileup, by G. Billard
Located in San Francisco, CA
A tangle of legs, grass flying, hooves raining down from the 1,100-pound thoroughbreds straining at their maximum after charging the hedge at some 30 miles per hour. For the fallen r...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Return from the hunt for the blue vase
Located in Genève, GE
Dimension with frame :92.3 x 60.5 x 2.5 cm
This captivating work presents a striking still life in which game hangs upside down, evoking a scene after the hunt. The detailed plumage,...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Home Corral" Very early Wieghorst California Western Painting awesome colors
Located in San Antonio, TX
Olaf Wieghorst
(1899 - 1988)
California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist
Image Size: 20 x 24
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33
Medium: oil
1946
"Home Corral" California Olaf Wieghorst
Without a doubt one of if not the most colorful Wieghorst paintings ever done. Signed lower left. Titled on verso. Dated on verso.
In very nice condition. Has been professionally cleaned. Has very fine craquelure in the tree branches and a small spot below the horse that is really only visible if you are extremely close to the painting or with magnification. One of his finest paintings. Also please view my other Wieghorst from the same estate. I have included close up photos as well as photos taken in natural light, spot light and fluorescent lighting.
Olaf Wieghorst
(1899 - 1988)
California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist
Image Size: 20 x 24
Frame Size: 29.5 x 33
Medium: oil
"Home Corral"
Dated 1946
Biography
Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988)
Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting.
In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons").
He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel.
In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion.
He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man.
Source:
Kathleen Wade
Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899-1988)
He arrived in the U.S. in 1918, joining the U.S.
Cavalry, & patrolled the Mexico border in New Mexico & Arizona . When he mustered out of the army, he drifted, ending up as a wrangler on
the Cunningham Ranch near Alma, New Mexico.
By the mid-twenties,
Wieghorst was in New York City, working as a mounted policeman - his
relationships with the many horses that were a part of his life became
the common denominator of his paintings. Living in California by the end
of WWII, he began a career that spiraled to success, in part due to his
engaging personality.
His paintings have appeared in numerous solo
& retrospective exhibitions including the National Cowboy &
Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City (1974), The Tucson Museum of Art,
Arizona (1981), & the San Diego Historical Society, California
(2002).
His work was the subject of the 1970 biography, "Olaf Wieghorst"
by William Reed...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Horse, Pastel on sand paper, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow by Indian Artist"In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Horse - 11 x 9 inches (unframed size)
Pastel on Sand paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painter...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Early Horses X, Charcoal Drawing, Brown, Black by Padmashree Sunil Das"In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses X - 34 x 20.75 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal on paper
( Framed & Delivered )
Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist painters and rose t...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist - Cats
Birds
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Cats and Birds Composition in Acrylic on Paper
How many cats and birds do you see? This striking painting by San Francisco's Bay Area abs...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$1,480 Sale Price
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Antique American School Surreal Monkey Portrait Rare Framed Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene with two monkeys. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 39H x 26L.
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,200 Sale Price
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Untitled (Valley of the Dolls)
Located in Columbia, MO
Dave Pavelonis
Untitled (Valley of the Dolls)
Acrylic on canvas
60.5 x 50.75
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Les Insectes - Cubist Oil Painting by Andre Masson
By André Masson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, titled and dated cubist oil on canvas by French painter Andre Masson. The work depicts colourful insects.
Signature:
Signed lower right and titled and dated 1946 verso
Dim...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Vintage American Modernist Horse Barn Landscape Framed Equestrian Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French American modernist horse barn painting. Mixed media painting on paper. Framed. Signed. Measuring 41 by 49 inches overall and 31.5 by 39.5 painting alone. In excellent ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor, Gouache
"Jack Russells in a Barn"
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a painting titled "Jack Russells in a Barn" by the British artist Frances Mabel Hollams (1877–1963). The painting depicts several Jack Russell terriers within a rustic ba...
Category
English School Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
A Peaceable Kingdom Haiti - Une Savane
By Philomé Obin
Located in Miami, FL
After Hector Hyppolite, Philomé Obin may be Haiti's most significant painter.
In the present work, Philomé Obin creates an all-over pattern of harmoniously spaced elements with no ce...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Pencil
"My Best Friend", Oil, Hand-Painted Frame, Female, Pet, Rich Earth Tones
By WILLIAM GIRARD
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
In “My Best Friend” Girard has captured a tender symbiotic relationship between the woman and her sweet pet. The entire piece swirls with the soft beauty and magical exchange shared by the two individuals. The frame does not enclose so much as enfolds the scene and its decorations are an integral part of the work. Upon close inspection tiny animal figures cavort in the air adding to the spell - almost like fairy characters from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer’s Night Dream.” The jewelry is beautifully render as are the loving expressions of the faces of both the animal and the woman. The composition is filled with objects and figures but captured softly and in rich detail. The figures appear to be completely self-absorbed and the decorative elements about their heads could suggest the intensity of their thoughts and feelings.
Girard was a Detroit figurative painter and teacher at College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan where he taught for 30 years. Other College for Creative Studies (formerly Center for Creative Studies) faculty and graduates include Richard Jerzy, Harry Bertoia, Doug Chaing (currently director of Lucas Film), Stephen Dinehart (game maker, writer, designer connected with The David Lynch Foundation), Tyree Guyton (international artist), Herb Babcock, Jerome Feretti, Kevin Siembieda (writer, designer and publisher of role-playing games), Renee Radell, Philip Pearlstein, Charles McGee (nationally recognized African American sculptor of animal and dancing spirits), Philip Pearlstein (2000 Honorary Doctorate, Modern Realism style), and John Louis Krieger...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Carved Mixed Media Fish Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and well executed modernist wall plaque by Richard Kuehne. Paint on gesso plaque. Signed. Silver leaf incorporated frame as photographed.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
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Crows, Brush, Watercolour on Paper, Set of 14 works by Indian Artist "In Stock"
By Dipen Bose
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Dipen Bose
Brush & Watercolour on paper
7.5 x 5 inches, 1961-64 (each)
Paintings on both sides of the paper.
Extraordinary and Unique.
(Set of 7 Reversible Works) - Recto - Verso
(F...
Category
Romantic Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
Two Whales Swirl in Love Dance Among Turquoise and Yellow Waters
Located in Miami, FL
Two monumental whales are depicted in a graceful love dance set in idyllic blue-green waters. The work is as abstract as it is representational. Seductive and mesmerizing, the colors...
Category
Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Board, Oil
American School New York City Abstract Magic Surrealism Ocean Fish Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1960.
Unsigned. Image size, 12"L x 9"H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Large Modernist Art French Abstract Expressionist Colorful Painting Roger Lersy
By Roger Lersy
Located in Surfside, FL
Roger Lersy, French (1920 - 2004)
Painting on paper (not sure if this is watercolor, acrylic or oil, the paper has a velvet finish and texture to it and there is some texture to the ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Early Horses, Charcoal on Paper by Indian Artist Sunil Das "In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses, Charcoal on paper - 19 x 29 inches (unframed size)
Free Shipping Without Frame
Sunil Das (1939-2015) was a Master Modern Indian Artist from Bengal. Extrem...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Horses - Oil Painting by Vincenzo Di Giorgio - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Horses is a modern artwork realized by Vincenzo Di Giorgio in the mid-20th century
Painting on paper.
Includes frame
Hand signed on the lower margin
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Minna Citron, Lambs
Creel
By Minna Citron
Located in New York, NY
This serene subject, the Lambs' Creel relates to Minna Citron's mural project focusing on the Tennessee Valley Authority. It was such a new ...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cock Fight Two Fighting Birds Framed Impressionist Original Impasto Oil Painting
By David Wilde
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
David Wilde.
English ( b.1913 - d.1974 ).
Cock Fight.
Impasto Acrylics.
Signed & Titled.
Image size 15.4 inches x 22.2 inches ( 39cm x 56.5cm ).
Frame size 19.1 inches x 26 inches ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Schnauzer Painting
Located in New York, NY
Original Schnauzer gouache, probably Belgian, done as a design for a series of matchboxes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Dennis Burlingame, WPA Era, Circus Sideshow "SnakeCharmer" Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist painting of a circus by Dennis Meighan Burlingame (1901 - 1964). Oil on canvas, circa 1935. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hawk Bird Of Prey Framed Original Mid 20th Century Powerful Watercolor Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Dame Elisabeth Frink.
English ( b.1930 - d.1993 ).
Hawk, 1969.
Watercolor.
Signed & Dated Lower Right.
Image size 25.4 inches x 19.5 inches ( 64.5cm x 49.5cm ).
Frame size 34.4 inches x 28.1 inches ( 87.5cm x 71.5cm ).
Available for sale; this original painting is by Dame Elisabeth Frink and is dated 1969.
The painting is presented and supplied in a glazed frame and mount dating from June 1997.
This vintage watercolor is in very good condition, commensurate with its age.
The watercolor is signed and dated lower right.
Previously with Beaux Arts, London and Bath in 1999.
Dame Elisabeth Frink was one of Britain’s most important post-war sculptors, an accomplished draughtsman, illustrator and teacher. She was part of the post-war school of expressionist British sculptors dubbed the Geometry of Fear, and enjoyed a highly acclaimed career that was commercially successful, broke boundaries and contributed greatly to bringing wonderful sculpture to public places.
She was born on 14 November 1930 in Thurlow, the daughter of a cavalry officer, and brought up in rural Suffolk near to an active airbase. She was brought up a Catholic and educated at the Convent of the Holy Family, Exmouth.
She then studied at the Guildford School of Art from 1947-1949 under Willi Soukop and Henry Moore’s assistant, Bernard Meadows, and then at the Chelsea School in London 1949-1953. She taught at Chelsea School of Art 1951-61, St. Martin’s School of Art 1954-62 and was a visiting instructor at the Royal College of Art 1965-1967, after which she lived in France until 1973.
Frink first came to the attention of the public in 1951 at an exhibition at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London. In 1952 she represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, being described by Herbert Read as “the most vital, the most brilliant and the most promising of the whole Biennale”. The same year the Tate bought its first work by her, and she began to enjoy commercial success. Thereafter she exhibited regularly and was for 27 years associated with Waddington’s, London.
The subjects which Frink was most concerned with were man, dog and horses, with and without riders. Interestingly she seldom sculpted the female form, drawing on archetypes of masculine strength, struggle and aggression. Her work has the recurring themes of the vulnerable and the predatory, in the spirit of an authentic post-war artist. It has been said that she was more concerned with representing mankind that portraits of individuals.
The appeal of her work lies in its directness, provoking a frank statement of feeling. The anatomy is often exaggerated or incorrect; the impact growing more out of her interest in the spirit of the subject. Her animals and birds may be drawn from nature but verge on the abstract, conveying raw emotion and character rather than a realistic depiction. Her unique style is characterised by a rough treatment of the surface which embeds each piece with vitality and her personal impression. In her later work even the distinction between human and bird figures becomes blurred. Commentators have noted that the often rugged, brutal and contorted surfaces of her work reflect the destruction and terror of the six-year world-wide conflict that she witnessed as a child. Frink was an active supporter of Amnesty International.
In the 1960s and early 1970s Frink produced a notable series of falling figures and winged men. Later, living in France during the Algerian war, she began making heads, blinded by goggles which had a threatening facelessness.
Frink produced many notable public commissions, including Wild Boar for Harlow New Town, Blind Beggar and Dog for Bethnal Green, Noble Horse and Rider for Piccadilly, London, a lectern for Coventry Cathedral, Shepherd for Paternoster Square beside St. Paul’s Cathedral and a Walking Madonna for Salisbury Cathedral. In the early 1980s she produced a set of three larger than life figures The Dorset Martyrs which stand on the edge of the old walled town of Dorchester on the site of the old gallows, as a memorial to those who had been executed there ‘for conscience sake’.
Frink’s Canterbury Tales was a collection of 19 etchings drawn directly on to copper plates and etched by her. The ‘book’ was issued in three limited editions. Her illustrations have been praised as “amongst the most successful illustrations of the century, encompassing the mood of the text in concise delineations and disarmingly ribald humour”. She illustrated other books with colored lithographs or drawings.
Frink was on the Board of Trustees, British Museum from 1976, and was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission 1976-81. CBR (1969), DBE ((1982), Associate of the Royal Academy (1971), Royal Academy (1977). She was made a Companion of Honour in 1992. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death.
For several decades Frink exhibited widely in the UK and abroad. In her later years she lived and worked in Dorset where her home and garden became an arena for her work.
In 1985 she had a retrospective at the Royal Academy. She died on 18 April 1993, but not before completing her last commission, a monumental but unusual figure of Christ for the front of the Anglican Cathedral in Liverpool, unveiled a week before her death. There was a memorial show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall in 1994.
Today Frink is venerated as one of the great twentieth century British sculptors. Her unique work is represented in the Tate Gallery and major public and private collections world-wide.
© Big Sky Fine Art
This original watercolor on paper painting of a hawk by Dame Elizabeth Frink...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
British impressionist Springtime with blossom in the English countryside
Located in Harkstead, GB
A really appealing view of the English countryside in the springtime with rolling hills, cattle grazing in lush pasture and a windmill off in the distance.
George Graham (1881-1949)...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
$1,068 Sale Price
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Milly With Minstrel Children And Their Childhood Pony In Dappled Summer Sunlight
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Harold Walton Freckleton.
English ( b.1890 - d.1979 ).
Milly With Minstrel.
Oil On Canvas.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size 24.4 inches x 29.52 inches ( 62cm x 75cm ).
Frame size 30.7 inches x 35.8 inches ( 78cm x 91cm ).
Available for sale; this original oil painting is by the Nottingham artist Harry Freckleton and dates from the 1960s.
The painting is presented and supplied in its’ original wooden frame (which is shown in these photographs).
The frame, canvas and the painted surface have benefitted from cleaning, restoration and conservation, which was performed on our instruction, supervision and approval. The original cotton covered slip has been replaced.
This vintage painting is now in very good condition, defying its age. It wants for nothing and is supplied ready to hang and display.
The painting is signed lower right.
The acclaimed artist Harry Freckleton was born in Nottingham in 1890 and lived there for most of his life. He studied at the Nottingham School of Arts, as it was then known, from 1904 to 1912 under Wilson Foster and was much influenced by the local painter Arthur Spooner. He worked as a lithograph artist, and then served in the army during World War 1. He then worked as an artist for New Zealand Cine Studios and went on to run his own photographic business from 1924-65.
Freckleton married the artist Vera Freckleton and they spent most of their married life living in at Whitegates in The Park, Nottingham.
Most of Freckleton’s art is painted in oils, and he specialised in still life, landscape and figurative work, especially childhood scenes. His best works have a strong human interest, with an individual technique showing quality and fine execution. He was a member of the Nottingham Society of Artists, exhibiting there and becoming an esteemed Associate. As a successful artist Freckleton exhibited work seven times at the Royal Academy, as well as the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Society of British Artists. His work continues to be sought-after and is today represented in permanent collections in Nottingham, Blackpool, Huddersfield and elsewhere.
© Big Sky Fine Art
This beautiful oil on canvas painting by Harry Freckleton shows a scene in an English farmyard. Besides an old green painted barn and a tall haystack, we see Minnie, a young girl sitting astride Minstrel, her brown pony. She is wearing a riding hat, white blouse and red trousers, and looks down at her left side towards a second figure, in a blue top and tan trousers, who is possibly adjusting her stirrups. A third figure, another girl, in grey blouse...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bird Collage No. 2
Located in Columbia, MO
Born in 1918 in Fordyce, Arkansas and raised in Louisiana, Fearing first studied art at Louisiana Tech University, and later earned a master’s degree at Columbia University in New Yo...
Category
Naturalistic Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Silver
Brussels Griffon Painting
Located in New York, NY
Original Brussels Griffon gouache, probably Belgian, done as a design for a series of matchboxes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Bareback Bronco Horse Framed Mid 20th Century Rodeo Cowboy Original Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
John Rattenbury Skeaping.
English ( b.1901 - d.1980 ).
Rodeo. Bareback Bronco, 1966.
Gouache On Paper.
Signed & Dated Lower Right.
Image size 21.3 inches x 29.1 inches ( 54cm x 74...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Modernist French Style Lobster and Mushroom Still Life. Coastal Cuisine.
By Martin Baer
Located in Marco Island, FL
This is a wonderful still life of lobster, fish, and mushrooms painted by the French-trained artist Martin Baer. The pleasing composition has all the traditional elements of an epic...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Judaica Shtetl "The Lesson" Rabbi Studying Scene Naive Art Oil Painting
By Natan Heber
Located in Surfside, FL
Natan Heber was trained by his father in Poland to be a ritual slaughterer. In 1925, he joined the Zionist movement "Mizrachi" and in 1936 immigrated to Palestine where he opened a poultry shop in Haifa. He began to paint at the age of sixty-one, after ill health forced him to retire. Driven by a need to memorialize his family and their shtetl community lost in the Holocaust, he drew scenes of traditional Jewish life. Unfamiliar with the conventions of scale and perspective, he set his heavily outlined frontal figures on steeply rising surfaces and often portrayed his father in monumental size to mark his importance. One of Israel's greatest naive-style painters. Along with Shalom of Safed, Kopel Gurwin and Gabriel Cohen, He is renowned as one of Israel's greatest living naive-style folk art painters, The Haifa Museum of Art will be opening the first ever Outsider Art exhibition (also known as Art Brut) in Israel in January 2013.
He was included in the show of Outsider art at Haifa Museum The exhibition included works by Classical Outsider artists, none of them have ever been shown in Israel - Henry Darger, Martin Ramirez, Adolf Wölfli, Aloïse, Hauser, Carlo Zinnelli, Bill Traylor, Minnie Evans, William Hawkins and Sam...
Category
Folk Art Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Signs of Autumn Birds Flying in scenic Fauve Landscape. Frederick Harer Frame
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed lower left and on the reverse
Provenance: Shannon's Auctions
D. Wigmore Fine Art
Krushaar Galleries
Christie's East October 3, 2000
Hand Carved Period Frame fr...
Category
Fauvist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Painting, Birds of Prey with Fish J. James Akston
Located in Surfside, FL
J. James Akston
Surrealism, Bird with Fish, marine scene
Acrylic on Board
Frame: 9.75 X 8
Image: 4.5 X 3.25
Joseph James Akston was a Polish American sculptor, painter, known for surrealist abstract painting and Aubusson (for Les Ateliers Pinton Frères, tapisserie, Aubusson) tapestry artist. Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1898 he died in Palm Beach Florida in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s the entrepreneur-artist James Joseph Akston adopted a unique Surreal Expressionist style in order to present his private primordial universe and lampoon its denizens, a ribald cast of animal creatures with human foibles. A successful industrialist, he began his career with General Motors foreign operations and then started his own business.
Intermittently he studied painting, first with Jerry Farnsworth in North Truro (Mass.) and then with Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. In the early 1960s Akston became publisher-editor of a group of art publications which included The Magazine Arts. Initially an abstract expressionist, Akston had one-man exhibitions at the New York Convention Center and the Corcoran Museum in Washington. Since 2015 the record price for this artist at auction is $12,575 USD for Spheres Aux Triangles Aubusson Tapestry, sold at Bonhams New York in 2019.
He was a Graduate of Georgetown University. He sat on the board of the Norton Museum.
Exhibitions
1976 Hokin Gallery
1966 Gallery 63 NYC
1960 Gallery 63 Rome , Italy
Select Public Collections
National Museum, Wshington DC
Boca Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Museum of African Art Washington DC (Now part of Smithsonian Museum)
Bibliography: 1962 Art...
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
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Acrylic
Vintage Two Blue Goldfish
By Vittorio Guidotti
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor of two blue fish painting by Florence, Italy artist Vittorio Guidotti. Unsigned. "Original watercolor by Vittorio Guidotti" on ve...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$319 Sale Price
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Rags n Denny, 24x18", oil, framed
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Rags n Denny by Lu Haskew
Oil 24x18" image size
32x26" framed as pictured with linen matte
Portrait of the artist's son and dog in 1960's.
Shipping price includes the custom packing...
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American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Horses IX, Animal Drawing, Charcoal on Paper, Black by Sunil Das"In Stock"
By Sunil Das
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sunil Das - Early Horses IX - 21 x 34 inches (unframed size)
Charcoal on Paper
Inclusive of shipment in ready to hang form.
Sunil Das was one of India's most important postmodernist...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$12,500 Sale Price
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Antique American School Fall Cat Still Life Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life with a cat. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
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Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$520 Sale Price
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Mid 20th Century oil painting of a cicada by Belgian artist Baugniet
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Marcel Louis Baugniet (Belgian, 1896 – 1995)
Sigale de Mer (Cicada of the sea)
Oil on board with scraffito
Signed ‘M L BAUGNIET / 47’ (upper right)
17.3/4 x 13.1/2 in. (45 x 34.3 cm.)
Marcel-Louis Baugniet was born in Liege on the 18th March 1896. Painter, theorist, furniture designer, creator of posters, costumes and stage sets, he was one of the main defenders of the notion of Pure Plastic Arts.
Baugniet studied painting at the Royal Academy of Beaux-Arts in Brussels where he mixed with Paul Delvaux, René Magritte, Victor Servrancks and Pierre-Louis Flouquet. He spent some time in Paris and decided that he would become an iconoclastic and avant garde artist. He discovered abstract art with Kandinsky, Kupka, Mondrian and Delaunay and with wonder and stupeur he also learnt of the constructivist movement, which was born in Russia with Malevitch and Lissitsky. In 1922, Baugniet then 26 years old returned to Brussels and married the Russian danser Akarova for whom he designed costumes and stage sets.
M-L Baugniet painted, designed and engraved some superb series of dansers and sportspersons (the « Kaloprosopies »), works entrenched with impeccable lines of constructed art. He painted with contemplation geometric compositions which mixed a grace of colours with the rigour of shapes. Baugniet wrote articles on esthetics and applicated arts in the magasine 7 Arts and edited, with the Dutch architect Van Tonderen, the manifesto of the movement that they called « Le beau, C’est l'utile » (beauty is useful)
Towards the end of the 20s, he separated from Akarova and in 1927 he opened his own Home Decor shop.
With regret Baugniet laid down his paint brushes and threw himself into interior design and the creation of tubular furniture, everyday objects and carpets. He remarried the Russian Olga Reich. He created a circle of ideas that included artists, writers, politicians and intellectuals of all kinds.
Throughout his career, Baugniet participated in numerous international exhibitions of decorative art. In 1977 abstraction, constructivism and Marcel-Louis Baugniet were rediscovered. Decorated and lauded, Baugniet began to paint once more and co-founded the magasine Mesures with Jo Delahaut...
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Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract Geometric Modern Fish Painting
By Lamar Briggs
Located in Houston, TX
Bold abstract fish painting on a black background by artist Lamar Briggs circa 1960s. Features colorful geometric pattern on the fish. Placed in a blac...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American School New York Minimalist Abstract Figure Signed Painting MCM
Located in Buffalo, NY
American school abstract painting. Watercolor on paper, circa 1960.
Unsigned. Image size, 12"L x 9"H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Large Modernist Art French Abstract Expressionist Colorful Painting Roger Lersy
By Roger Lersy
Located in Surfside, FL
Roger Lersy, French (1920 - 2004)
Painting on paper (not sure if this is watercolor, acrylic or oil, the paper has a velvet finish and texture to it and there is some texture to the ...
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Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Gilbert Stone "Blackbirds Aren
t Black" Original Oil Painting C.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gilbert Stone "Blackbirds Aren't Black" Original Oil Painting C.1970
Original oil on masonite
Dimensions 13.75" wide x 9.75" high
The custom made fram...
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Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Oil Painting on Board of People, Animals and Birds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Modernist oil painting on board depicting an unexpected gathering of personalities all with a common expression. Signed by the noted artist Ken Nielsen and...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lhasa Apso Painting
Located in New York, NY
Original Lhasa Apso gouache, probably Belgian, done as a design for a series of matchboxes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Ponies Dancing
California Post-Impressionist, San Francisco Art Association
By Clement Samuel Wilenchick
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Wilenchick' for Clement Samuel Wilenchick (American, 1900-1957) and painted circa 1955.
A dynamic, post-impressionist oil showing horses frolicking together agai...
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Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
George Sangster "Boxer Portrait" Original Pastel Painting C.1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
George Sangster "Boxer Portrait" Original Pastel Painting C.1940
Brilliant original pastel portrait of a Boxer dog
Dimensions 29" wide x 22" high
The frame measures 31" wide x 25"...
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Silky Terrier Painting
Located in New York, NY
Original gouache, probably Belgian for matchbox covers. Mid-20th Century.
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Dancing Dogs
, Impressionist Mid-century Circus Scene, Banjo Man, Acrobat
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An interesting, American School Mid-century tempera painting showing a view of a seated clown rehearsing his dogs for a dance routine while a bareback rider in costume observes in th...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Illustration Board
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