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Ponte Garibaldi, Rome - Oil on Canvas by A. Vangelli - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Ponte Garibaldi is an original oil on canvas realized by the Italian artist Antonio Vangelli (Rome, 1917 – Rome, 2003) in 1941.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower righ...
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1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Listed Female Vintage Impressionist Oil Painting Gloucester Sayward Street
Located in Buffalo, NY
Listed vintage oil painting of rolling waves in Gloucester, MA. This work was created by listed female artist Regina Gates.
Regina Martin Gates was born in 1896 in Watervliet, Alban...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American WPA Oil painting High Desert Landscape Pacific Northwest Oregon
Located in Portland, OR
A very good Impressionist oil painting of the Oregon High Desert by the celebrated Pacific Northwest WPA artist Arthur Runquist (1891-1971), circa 1942.
Arthur Runquist was at the fo...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Modernist Tropical Palm Tree Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique English landscape oil painting by Julian Barrow (1939 - 2013). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 10 by 12 inches overall, and 8 by 10 painting alone. In excellent or...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Paris Opera House
, California Artist, Chouinard Art Institute, Crocker Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Paris Opera House' by Antoon Heinsbergen, 1941.
California Artist, Chouinard Art Institute, Crocker Museum
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Signed, verso, 'A Heinsbergen' for Antoon Heinsbergen (Dutch-American, 1894-1989), inscribed 'Painted in Paris from the top floor of the Grand Hotel Paris' and dated 1941.
A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies.
Painter and theatrical designer, Antoon Heinsbergen immigrated to Los Angeles as a small boy and first studied at the Chouinard Art School and the Otis Art Institute. He subsequently became sought after as a decorator of theaters and, working with a crew of 185, designed and painted wall and ceiling decorations...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
" Luna dietro alle nuvole" cm. 37 x 26 1940 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Opera onirica ,luna piena sul mare
L'opera non è firmata ma è stata esposta al Museo d'arte Contemporanea di Rovereto il MART per una mostra monografica -Thayaht Futurista irregolar...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bradford on Avon Bridge Landscape - British Post Impressionist town oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British town landscape oil painting is by noted artist Ethelbert White. Painted circa 1940, the composition is along the river towards the bridge over the river Avon in B...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Lighthouse View Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist coastal view with a lighthouse. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Nottingham from Clifton Hall - British Impressionist 40s landscape oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning, large British Impressionist 1940's landscape oil painting is by noted Nottingham artist Arthur Spooner. It was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in 194...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$13,110 Sale Price
20% Off
Monte Savello, Roma
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
65 x 75.5 x 4 cm
Category
Italian School 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The bridge
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$312 Sale Price
68% Off
Cemetery and church by Eugène Louis Martin - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$624 Sale Price
36% Off
Huakai Hui - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Hawaiian Symbolism Figurative & Landscape Oil painting of Huakai Hui (Journey Together)
Symbolic and surreal landscape of a female and male figure ascending stairway flanked by to...
Category
Futurist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Saint-Germain-des-Prés. 1946. Oil on canvas, 73x92 cm
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$9,285 Sale Price
20% Off
Orange Grove Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Orange Grove Landscape, 1941, gouache on illustration board, 14 inches x 18 inches (image), 22 x 26 inches (framed) signed and dated lower right, newly framed with museum glazing
...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Arabian Nights, Sea Monster - The Thousand and One Nights
Located in Miami, FL
Arabian Nights, Sea Monster - The Thousand and One Nights Gustaf Tenggren - Attributed - unsigned, unframed. Good condition with very sl...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
The Running River. Oil painting on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Stephen DENISON
1909 - 1965
Canvas Size: 20 x 24" (50 x 60cm)
Outside Frame size: 27 x 31" (69 x 79cm)
Signed and dated 1948
A wonderful example of Modern British art.
This Englis...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Day
s Catch. American Indian Mid-Century Scene Painting with Canoe.
By Herbert Herget
Located in Marco Island, FL
A Native American scene entitled, The Day's Catch, shows a man fishing the river from his canoe with a net. Though mostly tonal, the sky and distant landscape pop with blue blue-gr...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Lake
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Blue Lake, c. 1940s, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 36 inches, label and inscriptio...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1940s WPA Watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell, Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s grayscale watercolor by Charles Ragland Bunnell depicts a semi-abstracted view of the Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Rendered in subtle gradations of black and gray, the composition reflects the influence of WPA-era Modernism, combining industrial subject matter with expressive abstraction. The work is a notable example of mid-20th-century American Regionalism, capturing both a sense of place and a forward-looking artistic vision.
Bunnell’s restrained palette and simplified architectural forms transform the industrial landscape into a dynamic modern composition, emphasizing structure, rhythm, and atmosphere. The subject references the Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, a major contributor to Colorado’s early 20th-century mining industry, located in what is now Old Colorado City. Through this modernist lens, the painting documents an important chapter of Western industrial history.
The watercolor measures 8 1/8 x 9 5/8 inches (sight size) and is presented in a custom black frame measuring 18 x 19 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches, making it a refined, display-ready piece for collectors of American Modern art, WPA works, and industrial landscapes.
Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968) was a pioneering Colorado modernist, New Deal art...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Vibrant Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting by Louis Wolchonok (1898 - 1973). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 24H by 18L.
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Monterey Bay" Impressionist Landscape by Elmer Stanhope
Located in San Francisco, CA
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"
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Village Farm House (Blue House), 1949
By Nikolai Efimovich Timkov
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by American Legacy Fine Arts from a Los Angeles collector who acquired the painting directly from the Timkov Family in Russia.
UNFRAMED: 6.75" x 9.88" FRAMED: 12...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Collapsed Shacks), c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 20 ½ x 26 ½ inches, presented in a period frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tuck
s Point, Massachusetts
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist of figures on the beach on Tuck's Point which is a famous location in Massachusetts. A top 1 % by Martha Walter .. Housed in a gold leaf custom frame
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon, Cardboard
Mid-Century Winter Sunrise Landscape
By Genevieve Idell Booth Clibborn
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century winter landscape of the sun rising over a forest stream covered in fresh snow by Genevieve Clibborn (American, 1892-1982). Presented in a rustic ornate, faux wood frame. Image, 12"H x 16"W.
Genevieve Idell Booth Clibborn was born in Washington on January 6, 1896. She lived most of her life in Salinas, California (East of the Monterey Peninsula). She painted and exhibited widely in that area. An award-winning artist, she was primarily self-taught and was known for her tree studies. She was a member of the Santa Cruz Art League. She was also a famous evangelist who preached at revivals in the United States, Canada and Australia. Her husband was William Booth-Clibborn, grandson of the founder of the Salvation Army...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
American Landscape With Birch Trees
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Landscape signed lower left beautiful original gold leaf frame.
Frank Peyraud earned a lasting reputation for rural landscapes, especially snow scenes in broadly defined forms and glowing colors. Excepting a trip from 1921 to 1923 to Italy and Switzerland, he was based in Chicago, where a Registrar of the Chicago Art Institute in materials for a traveling exhibition, described him as the "dean of Chicago landscape artists." (Richter)
Peyraud was one of the first American painters to focus on the Midwestern landscape and did many river and farm scenes including his signature snowscapes. Many of his paintings reflected Impressionism, an abstract style executed with rapid technique and broken brushstrokes brought over from France towards the end of the 19th Century. Impressionism received much attention in Chicago in some of the artwork exhibited at the 1893 Exposition.
Of Peyraud and Impressionism, it was written that "he was the most successful of the progressive Chicago painters who experimented with impressionist approaches in the years following Exposition." He was credited with more discipline of execution than many of his peer impressionists and with a "valid impressionism", (Greenhouse) that conveyed poetic interpretations to what many persons regarded as very ordinary rural Illinois landscape. His snow scene haystack painting, Winter Light on the Farm, in the Marshall Collection of Peoria and exhibited at the Terra Museum, shows "crystalline atmosphere and fleeting light of a waning winter afternoon". (Greenwood) and seems to reference the serial haystack paintings by Claude Monet.
Many of Peyraud's works had luminous back-lighting, and careful arrangement of contrasting shapes, and a tone inviting the viewer into a "slightly enchanted world into which quotidian human elements rarely intrude." (Richter)
Peyraud was born in Bulle, Switzerland, and enrolled as an architecture student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1881, at age 22 and an established architect in France, he emigrated to Chicago where he spent the remainder of his career. He found employment there as a cyclorama painter, which meant creating huge panoramic paintings in the round, "forerunner of the wide-screen motion picture." (Richter). In 1891, he became involved in retouching Paul Phillipoteaux's panorama, The Battle of Gettysburg, when it came to Chicago for exhibition He continued to work on panoramic and cycloramas spectacles including The Creation for the 1903 Louisiana Exposition. Spring Painted Desert in the Santa Fe Railroad Collection shows at least one trip West.
Peyraud also did mural painting, several of them in Peoria, Illinois including a series of allegorical murals with Hardesty Maratta in the Peoria at the newly-built Public Library. In Peoria, he also taught classes and gave lectures. In 1906, he married Elizabeth Krisher, a portrait painter, and illustrator.
Sources include:
Marianne Richter, Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection, "Frank Charles Peyraud...
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Nature Study Lake Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed illegibly lower left. Image size, 36L x 24H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Gouache
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Winter Landscape
By Charles Jacob Jung
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist winter landscape by German American artist Charles Jacob Young (aka C. Jac Jung) (1880-1940). Young was born in Rodenbach, Bavaria, Germany, immigrated to the Un...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Mid Century Modern Cubist Abstract Architectural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Unsigned. Image size, 30L x 24H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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A Beautiful View at the End of the Road, c. 1940-50, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
A very beautiful landscape painting by a yet unknown artist signed H.Lövström.
The colours are strong and the three-dimensionality is impressive...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Fingerpainted Landscape in Acrylic, in Diamond-Shaped Frame
Unique landscape by Hollywood, California artist Genevieve"Gen" Matucha (American, 1903-1989). The scene dep...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
French Village, Modern Oil on Canvas Painting by Jean Louis Liberte
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Louis Liberte, French/American (1896 - 1965) - French Village, Year: circa 1940, Medium: Oil on Canvas, Size: 23 in. x 33 in. (58.42 cm x 83.82 cm)
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Harvard vs Yale" Charles Green Shaw, Football, Ivy League Sports, Abstract
Located in New York, NY
Charles Green Shaw
Harvard vs. Yale, 1944
Signed and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvasboard
9 x 12 inches
Provenance:
Harvey and Francois Rambach, New Jersey
Private Collection, California
Washburn Gallery, New York
D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York
Private Collection, New York
Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was in his mid-thirties. A 1914 graduate of Yale, Shaw also completed a year of architectural studies at Columbia University. During the 1920s Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the theater and café society. In addition to penning insightful articles, Shaw was a poet, novelist and journalist. In 1927 he began to take a serious interest in art and attended Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League briefly in New York. He also studied privately with George Luks, who became a good friend. Once he had dedicated himself to non-traditional painting, Shaw's writing ability made him a potent defender of abstract art.
After initial study with Benton and Luks, Shaw continued his artistic education in Paris by visiting numerous museums and galleries. From 1930 to 1932 Shaw's paintings evolved from a style imitative of Cubism to one directly inspired by it, though simplified and more purely geometric. Returning to the United States in 1933, Shaw began a series of abstracted cityscapes of skyscrapers he called Manhattan Motifs which evolved into his most famous works, the shaped canvases he called Plastic Polygons.
The 1930s were productive years for Shaw. He showed his paintings in numerous group exhibitions, both in New York and abroad, and was also given several one-man exhibitions. Shaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1934, which included 25 Manhattan Motif paintings and 8 abstract works. In the spring of 1935 Shaw was introduced to Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris. Gallatin was so impressed with Shaw's work, he broke a policy against solo exhibitions at his museum, the Gallery of Living Art, and offered Shaw an exhibition there. In the summer of 1935 Shaw traveled to Paris with Gallatin and Morris who provided introductions to many great painters. Shaw regularly spent time with John Ferren and Jean Hélion. The following year Gallatin organized an exhibition called Five Contemporary American Concretionists at the Reinhardt Gallery that included Shaw, Ferren, and Morris, Alexander Calder, and Charles Biederman...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$28,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Arthur Dove 1940 "Sun" Painting
By Arthur Dove
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arthur Dove: 1880-1946. One of the most important early American Modernists and Abstract Expressionists. He has had auction results over $8,000,000 and that record was 2 weeks ago. A...
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Boats in the Harbor - Mid Century Industrial Seascape
By Pieter Hashager
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful post war oil painting of boats navigating through the Bremen, Germany Industrial harbor by Pieter Hashager (20th Century). Signed and dated "P. Hashager '47" lower left. Di...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$920 Sale Price
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Mid Century Palm Springs Desert Landscape with Smoke Tree
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous desert landscape with a smoke tree and other desert plants by Vina McPheeters (American, 1892-1964). Signed "Vina McPheeters" in the lower right corner. Presented in a gilt-toned gold and black frame. Image size: 20"H x 24"W.
Vina Pearl McPheeters (American, 1892-1964) was born in Iowa on October 7, 1892. Vina was the wife of Robert Guy McPheeters. By 1930 she had settled in southern California into a home in Montebello (Los Angeles County). She died in Glendale, CA on April 23, 1964. She exhibited in her home town of Van Nuys California, studied with Hanson Puthuff, Jack Wilkinson Smith and Bennett Bradbury...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$920 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Vintage Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 36H. Signed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape With Blooming Trees
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Landscape with Blooming Trees
Paul-Emile Pissarro 1884-1972 French
Paper size 9.5x12.5 under glass framed 12x16x1 signed, very good condition. The backi...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Gouache
Landscape. 1942. Oil on cardboard, 36.5x47.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. 1942. Oil on cardboard, 36.5x47.5 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University a...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,326 Sale Price
20% Off
Six O
Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About the Painting
Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.”
About the Artist
Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,500
Antique American School Desert Beach Dune Western American Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist desert beach dune oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 24"L x 16"H.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Winter Landscape w/ House
Field, Mid-20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Winter Landscape, 1947
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
19 x 22.5 inches
25 x 28.25 inches, framed
Clarence Holbrook Carter a...
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
"Union Square"
24 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c.1940s
S...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Prospect Park, Brooklyn" Nathan Hoffman, New York City Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Born in Russia, the son of Friede (1878 – 1956) and Benjamin Hoffman (1878 – a. 1942). Benjamin was a dealer in mineral and seltzer water and the family resided on Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, just down the streetfrom the home where George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) was born.
This area of Brooklyn, known as Brownsville, “witnessed the development of one of the largest communities of Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20 th century.” Today, little remains of this once thriving Jewish section of Brooklyn, which today houses many commercial and repair businesses.
Hoffman studied at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and in the art program at Cooper Union. His work at the National Academy received praise, and in 1921 he was awarded the 2nd prize and an honorable mention from the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris Prize Foundation at the National Academy, which allowed the recipient to study in Paris, France for as long as five years. The following year he was awarded the 1 st prize in the competition (with The Reform Advocate running the headline “Young Jew Wins Art Prize”) as well as the Suydam Bronze Medal for his achievements in the Academy’s Men’s Night Class. In 1923 he was residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, when he was awarded 4th place in the Chaloner competition.
Early on, Hoffman exhibited his work throughout the city, including in 1925 with the recently organized Society of Independent Artists. He also received several solo exhibitions during the first part of his career, including one at Ferargil Galleries in 1929. In the spring of 1930 a solo exhibition of his portraits, including paintings and drawings, was held at at Babcock Galleries, where a reviewer noted: “Portraiture is obviously Mr. Hoffman’s specialty… his best work is characterized by a sensitive appreciation of character set down in a vigorous decisive statement.
Later that same year, in August, he participated in Babcock’s summer exhibition where reviewer Jerome Klein, writing for The Baltimore Sun, felt Hoffman’s and other artists work was already becoming old fashioned, remarking “…if an effort toward accomplishment is to be made, it must be in the language of today. It is for that reason that such contemporaries as Eugene Higgins and Nathan Hoffman, in this show, seem artists of a bygone era…” The onset of the Great Depression appears to have slowed his success, as was the case for many up-and-coming artists.
By 1939 Hoffman had become a gallerist in addition to being a painter, operating the collective exhibition space “Sutton Gallery,” which was originally located at 358 East 57th Street. There Hoffman exhibited his own works as well as those created by other prominent New York artists including David Burliuk (1882 – 1967), Charles C. Curran (1861 – 1942), Louis Eilshemius (1864 – 1941), Ann Goldthwaite (1869 – 1944), Maurice Kish (1895 – 1987), Lawrence Lebduska (1894 – 1966), Bradford Perin and Ellis Wilson...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
My Only Working Tool
Located in Los Angeles, CA
My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Competition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, December, 1950 (see The Best Amateurs, Art News, volume 49, issue 8, December 6 to 20, 1950, p. 65 – 66), presented in a period frame
Fausto Sansone...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Across the Street
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
Oil on canvas, 16 x 12 inches, Signed lower right
Exhibited:
1) [Solo E...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Painting, Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s American Modernist gouache on archival paper painting, "Artists Sketching (California)," captures a dynamic scene of three artists at work against a majestic mountain backdrop. With expressive brushwork and a rich color palette, the piece embodies Frederick E. Shane’s signature blend of realism and modernist abstraction. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin, this remarkable artwork reflects the era’s Regionalist influence and the artist’s keen eye for capturing creative moments in the natural landscape.
The painting is professionally housed in a custom archival frame, ensuring long-term preservation. Frame dimensions: 25.5 x 37.5 x 1.5 inches. Image size: 20.25 x 29.75 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Frederick Shane
About the Artist: Frederick E. Shane (1906-1992)
A celebrated Missouri Regionalist painter and printmaker, Frederick E. Shane was known for his compelling genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, and portraits in a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, gouache, tempera, and lithography. While fundamentally a realist, Shane often incorporated elements of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, adding depth and emotion to his compositions.
During the summers of 1925-26, Shane studied under Randall Davey at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, an institution founded in 1919 by philanthropists Spencer and Julie Penrose. Shane remained closely connected to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Academy’s successor, throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, participating in Artists West of the Mississippi exhibitions and forming lasting friendships with key figures like Boardman Robinson and Adolph Dehn...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Unloading the Freight" Antique American Impressionist Exhibited Dock Scene
Located in Buffalo, NY
Important and exhibited American impressionist dock scene by Junius Allen (1898 - 1962). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Image size, measuring 25 by 30 inches.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,200 Sale Price
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Up the Kennebec
Located in Wiscasset, ME
John Folinsbee (1892-1972) was born in Buffalo, New York and, after finishing his studies at the Art Students League in 1916, moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania where he joined a renown...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Holland near The Hague”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil painting on artist canvas board painting by the California artist, Fern F. Cunningham. Signed lower right. Titled in pencil on stretcher verso. Circa 1940. Condition is very good. Recently professionally cleaned. The painting is housed in its original period frame. Overall framed measurements are 14.5 by 17.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Fern Cunningham Stone (1889-1975). She was born in Defiance, Ohio on August 4, 1889. A painter, she specialized in impressionist still life works, landscapes, and seascapes of California. Born Fern F. Smith, she married Napoleon Arthur...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,280 Sale Price
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"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,800 Sale Price
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Antique American School Modernist Sunset Beach Dune Signed Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school signed original oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 24"L x 18"H.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
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Vintage Paris Street Scene Signed Framed Impressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage French impressionist Paris street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 20 by 24 inches painting alone. ...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Finely Painted American School Abstract Coastal Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American school abstract landscape painting. Framed in a period modernist wood molding. Oil on board. Image size, 24H by 29L.
Category
Abstract 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,820 Sale Price
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1940s Modernist Mountain Landscape Painting- Gunnison, Western Colorado
Located in Denver, CO
Charming 1940s modernist mountain landscape painting featuring a white farmhouse, outbuildings, and trees set in a verdant meadow near Gunnison, on the western slope of Colorado. Maj...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,000 Sale Price
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Antique French Modernist Paris School Signed Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modernist Paris school cityscape street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 27 by 40 inches overall and 26 by 39 painting alone. In excellent...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Gate Entrance to Rome, Oil Painting in 19th Century Gilt Frame, 1940s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6116 Gate entrance to Rome set in a 19th century gilt frame
Image size 11,5x15.5"
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$475 Sale Price
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Sitting by the Lake, Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil figurative landscape of two people sitting on a dock by a lake near Medina, Ohio by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Unsigned, but was purchased with a collection of ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed 1956 Antique American School Modernist Abstract Indian Space Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive and large mid century abstract painting. Signed and dated illegibly lower right. Oil on canvas.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
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