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Medium: Masonite
Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Road Repairing, Lower Manhattan at Night, 1934, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 16 inches; original label verso has title and address
Margit Varga was an artist,...
Category
1930s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Colorful Mexican Village Scene" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted Circa 1960 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his bold still life paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout.
Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners.
In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Spring Has Sprung on the Farm - Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Spring Has Sprung on the Farm - Abstracted Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Abstract farm with seeds sprouting in a bold abstract expressionist painting by ...
Category
1970s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,320 Sale Price
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Untitled - San Francisco in the Fog
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Richard Danskin – American (1936-2012)
Title: Untitled
Year: ca. 1970
Medium: Oil or acrylic on masonite
Sight size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches.
Fr...
Category
1970s Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Sunshine on the Waterfront
By Carl Thorp
Located in San Francisco, CA
We’ve all seen the practical, plain and dreary structures of a fishing village somewhere at water’s edge. And we recognize the mindset: in lean circumstances something is good enough...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Captivating, Expressive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Coastal Beach Scene, Portugal
Located in Chicago, IL
A Captivating, Expressive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Coastal Beach Scene of Portugal by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen (Am. 1918 - 1989). Pen travelled extensively throughout Eu...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"I
ve Seen Too Many Waves" Original Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
"I've Seen Too Many Waves" original abstract oil painting by Jocelyn Auld (b. 1999.)
Two light sources, potentially moons, light the crest of a giant abstracted wave. As the white l...
Category
2010s Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Masonite
1940s Small Foothill Town
By Lura Eva Pursell
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming folk-art inspired landscape of small hillside town that reminds one of Americana and a simpler time. By Lura Eva Pursell (American, 1875-1965), circa 1940. Signed lower left...
Category
1940s Folk Art Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
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Large Scale Surrealist Portrait in Acrylic on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Large Scale Surrealist Portrait in Acrylic on Board
Bold surrealist portrait by Robert William Hinds (American, b. 1926). This piece has a dream-like quality, with the subject stand...
Category
1990s Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Masonite, Stretcher Bars
Village Scene, Impressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Emil Rizek
By Emil Rizek
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Emil Rizek, Austrian (1901 - 1988)
Title: Village Scene
Year: circa 1950
Medium: Oil on Masonite, Signed l.r.
Size: 20 in. x 24 in. (50.8 cm x 60.96 cm)
Category
1950s Abstract Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Three Chimneys
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Three Chimneys, 1956, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left, 18 x 36 inches, titled verso, presented in its original frame
Three Chimneys is a prime example of Ethel Margolies’ Precisionist-influenced industrial scenes. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Margolies made a name for herself by painting the Northeast’s factories, foundries, and manufacturing plants. Although this subject matter is often associated with male artists, Margolies is part of an important lineage of female modernists who depicted symbols of America’s industrial might. Starting with artists like New Jersey’s Elsie Driggs and Chicago’s Yvonne Deluc Pryor, Margolies is part of a through line of women Precisionist painters that also included the West Coast’s Vanessa Helder. Whereas these artists tended towards a stark and pristine realism, Margolies seems to have been influenced by the 1920s and early 1930s work of Charles Demuth’s and Charles Sheeler’s highly designed paintings from the same period, as both adopted a cubo-futurist oriented brand of Precisionism.
Ethel Polacheck Margolies was a Connecticut painter...
Category
1950s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“The Black Crater”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting of the Black Crater in the state of Oregon by the American artist Marcel K. Sessler. Signed and dated lower right, 1955. Condition is excellent....
Category
1950s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
Sea. 1993, masonite, oil, 92.5x85.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Valters Kupers ( 1948-2018 )
Sea. 1993, masonite, oil, 92.5x85.5 cm
Calm realistic seascape with rocky shore.
Category
1990s Realist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
$939 Sale Price
20% Off
"Landscape Scene of Mexican Villagers" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1971 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his landscape paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout.
Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners.
In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Mt. Rundle, Canada
, Alberta, Prix de West, National Academy of Western Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Wayne E Wolfe' (American, born 1945), dated 1979 and titled verso, 'Mt. Rund'.
Framed dimensions: 20 x 2 x 22.75 inches
A mountain landscape showing a view of the Vermilion lakes before Mt. Rundle in the Canadian Rockies.
Son of western artist Bryon Wolfe, Wayne Wolfe...
Category
1970s Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Monterey Bay Impressionist Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous impressionistic landscape of Monterey Bay in green hues by Arizona artist Lenore Aubrey-Grebles (American, 1917-2008), circa 1980. Palette knife ...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$320 Sale Price
20% Off
Green Haze
Located in Greenwich, CT
Green Haze is an acrylic on masonite painting, 10 x 14 inches, signed 'RICKER' lower right corner. Framed in a contemporary dark brown/black frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
$14,850
"Mud Season" - Original Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mud Season" - Original Oil on Masonite
Original oil landscape winter scene depicting a small wooden barn on the hillside, covered with snow. Crows are seen flying over the melting ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,480 Sale Price
20% Off
Presque Isle (Day 62) June 23
Located in Denver, CO
Primary Hughes' "Presque Isle (Day 62) June 23" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an ocean landscape of waves coalescing around a rock...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Belgian Quay”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on masonite painting of a Belgian Quay by the artist Flory Roland. Signed lower right by the artist. Circa 1955. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in a p...
Category
1950s Post-Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,920 Sale Price
20% Off
"Wine Vine" Still Life in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Wine Vine" Still Life in Oil on Masonite
Still life of a wine glass among grapevines by Susan Reinier (American, b. 1978). Signed and dated "S Reinier 2012" on the right edge of th...
Category
2010s Photorealist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Tree at the Riverbank - Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Tree at the Riverbank - Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Vertical landscape of a tree at the river's edge by Susan Reinier (American, b. 1978). Signed "S Reinier" in the lower left corn...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Barn with a Red Roof - Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Barn with a Red Roof - Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Serene landscape of a barn with a red roof by Susan Reinier (American, b. 1978). Signed "S Reinier" in the lower left corner. No ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Stream in Autumn - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil landscape by Lylia T. Shackelford (20th Century). A calm stream flows down the center of the painting, framed on either side by lush grass and tall trees. Beyond the trees a...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Busy 1950s Martha
s Vineyard Harbor Scene, Dockyard Truck by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful, 1950s industrial harbor scene painting of a dockyard truck in a working Martha's Vineyard boatyard by notable Chicago artist, Francis Chapin. Completed near the artist's...
Category
1950s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Wyoming Barn - Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Wyoming Barn - Plein Aire Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Warm ranch landscape by California Plein Aire artist Nick White (American, 1943-2009). A large ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
"Three Birds" - Original Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Three Birds" - Original Oil on Masonite
Original oil landscape of a waterfall in between the vibrant green hillside with three little blackbirds standing on the branch of a Japanes...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"Mexican Landscape Scene with Female Figures and Child" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
Category
1970s Expressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Achillea Moonshine Floral
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming floral painting of yellow achillea moonshine flowers among the green grass by California artist Eleanor Perry (American, 1903-1996). Signed and dated "Eleanor Perry / August...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"One June" - Original Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"One June" - Original Oil on Masonite
Original oil landscape painting depicting a vibrant green hillside by Richard M. Bacon (American, 20th Century). Two trees are the focal point...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Landscape Scene of Fisherman by Lake" Expressionistic Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1963 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his figures in water landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout.
Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners.
In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"Mexican Landscape Water Scene with Figures and Boat" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Island Mountains and Boats by the Coast, Mid 20th Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of boats on the shore by Hildegarde Hamilton (American, 1989-1970). This beautiful mid-century coastal landscape shows a small, bright blue bay surrounded by palm trees, mountains, and colorful wildflowers.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Presented in a rustic frame.
Board size: 19.75"H x 24"W
Hildegarde Hume Hamilton (American, 1989-1970) was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1898. After her education there, and brief training at the age of six in art schools in Venice, Italy, while on a European sojourn with her father, she studied fine art at the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Grande Chaumière in Paris, France, during the 1920s and 1930s. After returning to the United States, Mrs. Hamilton studied at the Art Students League, New York, New York, and the Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hamilton exhibited her topographical street-scenes and landscapes widely throughout the United States with shows at the Syracuse, New York, Museum of Fine Art; the University of Kentucky; the University of Georgia, and most importantly, New York City’s Society of Independent Artists from 1929 to 1933, 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. Hamilton’s paintings are included in the collections of Wesleyan College, Virginia Military Institute...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 10" H X 8" W.
G...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$880 Sale Price
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"Mexican Countryside Landscape Mountain Scene with Trees" Expressionistic Style
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1962 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful repre...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
VooDoo Ceremony VoDou Ritual
By Gerard Valcin
Located in Miami, FL
Gerard Valcin has a style that is instantly recognized as his own, which is quite challenging in Fine Art, where most artists' work looks like someone else's.
In the present work,...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Lure of the Waters 1946 oil painting by Philip Evergood
Located in Hudson, NY
Exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1947) and the University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary Painting (1948), this painting by Philip Evergood exemplifies the ...
Category
1940s Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
"Touring Monument Valley" - Desert Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
"Touring Monument Valley" - Desert Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Dramatic desert landscape by California Plein Aire artist Nick White (American, 1943-2009). The viewer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
"Summer at the Lake" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Grace B. Olson
Located in Soquel, CA
"Summer at the Lake" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Mid-century figurative landscape painting of people enjoying the summertime by Santa Cruz, ...
Category
1960s Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Mexican Landscape Scene of Mother with Children" Expressionistic Style Painting
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1962 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his portraits in countryside landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends.
Art measures 21.25 x 25.5 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century, it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. For the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher, he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into the imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient's light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett...
Category
1960s Expressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
The Old Barns - Farm Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Farm landscape by an unknown artist (20th Century). Two barns sit in a field, both somewhat rundown and needing repairs. The countryside stretches into the distance behind them, with...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Vintage Maple Tree Lane Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold landscape of the Maple lined lane by California artist Eleanor Perry (American, 1903-1996). Signed and dated "Eleanor Perry / August 1972 / Acrylic" on verso. Presented in a sim...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Masonite, Acrylic
Coral Bouquet - Abstracted Underwater Scene in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Coral Bouquet - Abstracted Underwater Scene in Acrylic on Masonite
High contrast abstract composition by an unknown artist (20th Century). Vibrant scene composed of abstract shapes ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Framed abstract painting evoking figures on the sea w/ blues
greens: "Odysseus
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is an framed abstract acrylic painting on masonite board evoking a figures and boats on a dramatic sea, reminiscent of the ancient Greek epic narrative. It is framed in a narrow...
Category
2010s Abstract Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Vintage Landscape -- Blooming Wildflower Field
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Landscape -- Blooming Wildflower Field
Beautiful vintage landscape in dark blue, yellow, and red accents of a field dotted with wildflowers and silhouetted birds soaring ove...
Category
1980s Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Big Tent” An American Traveling Circus Comes to Town
Located in San Francisco, CA
Before there was the Cirque du Soleil to astonish audiences with extraordinary acrobatics and spectacular showmanship, America’s traveling circuses drew patrons to enormous tents pit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Serene Cubist Industrial Site
Located in San Francisco, CA
Only an artist (or a stockholder) could see the beauty in a cobbled-together industrial complex. Rendered by artist N. Robins in muted golds and greens, a typical hodgepodge of struc...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Hill City South Dakota in Winter
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive winter landscape by an unknown artist (20th Century). Signed, dated, and titled in lower right corner. Presented in a rustic wood frame. Painting size: 18"H x 24"W
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1980s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Lily Pond at the Edge of the Forest - Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Lily Pond at the Edge of the Forest - Landscape in Oil on Masonite
Landscape of a lily pond by Susan Reinier (American, b. 1978). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a col...
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2010s Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1920 Historical Church of Soquel, California Landscape
By Mary DeNeale Morgan
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful historically significant oil painting of the Congregational Church of Soquel by Mary DeNeale Morgan (American, 1868-1948). Signed "M. DeNeale Morgan" lower right corner. Exhibit label on verso. Canvas on Masonite. Displayed in giltwood frame. Image, 24"H x 20"W.
Born in San Francisco in 1868, she was taken to Oakland in 1872, where the painter and teacher William Keith was her first teacher. She was precocious. In 1886 she enrolled in the California School of Design in San Francisco and studied with Emil Carlsen and Amédée Joullin until 1890. She paid her first visit to Carmel in 1903. In 1910 she returned to buy the studio and home of the late Sydney Yard...
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1920s American Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Barn in Autumn - Small Country Landscape with Tree
By M. Lemieux
Located in Soquel, CA
Miniature farm landscape of a white barn with two trees and a flock of birds by an unknown Quebec, Canada artist, M. Lemieux (20th Century). Signed and dated "M. Lemieux 81 QUEBEC" i...
Category
1980s Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Glaze, Oil
$520 Sale Price
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Blast
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Abstracted imagined architectural elements is this early and important oil and acrylic painting from 1991 —mixed media: acrylic, dry pigment, ink, pencil on archival board. Kim Froh...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Acrylic
$4,850
Mid Century Winter Stream Oil Paint Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Peaceful winter landscape of a calm stream winding through a snowy forest by Lorenz Griffith (American, 1889-1968). Signed "Lorenz Griffith" lower left. Titled "A Winter Stream - Virginia" and dated 1960 on verso. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 23.25"H x 29"W.
Lorenz E. Griffith was born in Indiana; he was active/lived in North Carolina, Florida, Indiana and many places across the United States. Lorenz Griffith is known for luminist landscapes and portraits. He was painted in the style of the Florida Highwaymen...
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1960s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
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Red Poppies, Vintage Botanical Garden Floral Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Red Poppies, Vintage Botanical Garden Floral Still-Life
Colorful vintage botanical still-life of red poppies by M. Tokira (20th-Century), c.1970's. This close-up view of a group of ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
$540 Sale Price
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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...
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1950s Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Pencil
"10th Avenue, Meatpacking District" Harry McCormick, New York City Urban Scene
Located in New York, NY
Harry McCormick
10th Avenue, Meatpacking District, New York
Signed lower right
Oil on masonite
23 7/8 x 15 inches
Renowned for his exquisite depiction of light and shadow, Harry Mc...
Category
1970s Contemporary Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Forbes Mill, Los Gatos - Historic Landscape Original Oil on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
Forbes Mill, Los Gatos - Historic Landscape in Acrylic on Masonite
Idyllic California watermill landscape by Stella Leis (American, b. 1922). This autumn-themed painting depicts For...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Misty Forest, 1970s Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, atmospheric forest scene by American artist Gary Hicks (American, 20th Century), c.1970's. A small trail invites the viewer into this misty forest landscape, where layer...
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Rice Paper
Mission San Juan Bautista, 1971 - Original Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mission San Juan Bautista, 1971 - Original Oil Painting
Oil painting of Mission San Juan Bautista by Gorman Woody (American, 1907-2000). The viewer l...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$1,160 Sale Price
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“Orient, Long Island”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful Orient, Long Island, New York painting by well known Hampton artist, John Crimmins. Acrylic on masonite. Circa 1995. Signed lower left. Condition is excellent. The painting is housed in a a new contemporary antique silver frame 26 by 30.25 inches. Provenance: A Southampton, New York collector.
East End artist, John Crimmins was born in New York in 1963. As an American Impressionist painter, he lives in New York and he is very active in the Hamptons. Incredibly, he is self-taught, having studied the works and techniques of the prominent American artist Charles Hawthorne and living by his saying “Let Color make form”. If you view John’s paintings at close inspection you will see single spots of color silhouetted with another which not only shows his skill but his passion and intricate dedication to his work. His paintings are done 'alla prima', that in Italian means 'at first attempt', it is a painting technique, used mostly in oil painting, in which layers of wet paint are applied to previously administered layers of wet paint. With this style of painting the work is to be completed while the paint is still wet, so once started his works are finished in one session.
He is a member of the East End Arts Council and his paintings are a part of the Ken Ratner Collection and the Southold Historical Society in New York. His works were a part of the Islip Art Museum IAM Pocket sized open Call Exhibition in 2015. He is mostly known for his flag and local Hampton beach paintings.
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Masonite Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Masonite landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Masonite landscape paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add landscape paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of green, orange and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Michael Baxte, Charles Ford, Francis Chapin, and Helen Enoch Gleiforst. Frequently made by artists working in the Impressionist, Modern, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Masonite landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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