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Period: Early 20th Century
Glorifying The American Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor, Ink and Appliqués on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 16.00" x 12.00", Framed 26.00" x 22.00"
Glorifying The American Girl...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Board
Working Horses At The Trough 1908 Chevaux À L
Abreuvoir French Rural Normandy
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Raimond Louis Lecourt
French ( b.1882 - d.1946 ).
Chevaux À L'Abreuvoir, 1908. (Horses At The Trough).
Oil On Canvas.
Signed & Dated 1908 Lower Left.
Image size 14.2 inches x 17.3 in...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
HENRI MATISSE Planche XLII, 1920 FIRST EDITION
Located in Brooklyn, NY
First Edition. This was published in 1920 by Les Soins de l’Artiste and included in a book titled Cinquante Dessins. The portfolio was edited and printed by Matisse himself. This is...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$888 Sale Price
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Swiss Nocturne Landscape - British artist 20s watercolour landscape Switzerland
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful, atmospheric British 1920’s watercolour landscape painting is by noted artist Albert Goodwin. He was championed by famed art critic John Ruskin who took him on tour in...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Bertram Priestman British Impressionist oil painting punting scene
Located in Harkstead, GB
An idyllic scene of figures punting on an East Anglian river. Dating to 1919, the image has an added poignancy as it is in sharp contrast to the tragedies of the First World War whic...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liebespaar I - Etching and Drypoint by Max Beckmann - 1916
By Max Beckmann
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint. Signed and dated in pencil.
Extremely rare artist's proof, II state on 2 A/C variant, before the editions Marées-Gesellschaft R. Piper & C. Printed in 1919 by ...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Decorative Motifs of Egyptian Renaissance - Chromolithograph -Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative Motifs of the Egyptian Renaissance is a vintage chromolithograph by an anonymous artist.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents Decorative motifs of the Egyptian Renais...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Portrait de Jean Desbordes - Lithograph by Jean Cocteau - 1929
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph on vélin pur fil des Papeteries du Marais, realized by Cocteau in 1929.
Belongs to the suite "25 Dessins d'Un Dormeur", published by H. L. Mermod, Lausanne.
Edition of 2...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Spanish Mission in Florida, " Anthony Thieme, Cape Ann Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
Anthony Thieme (1888 - 1954)
Spanish Mission, Florida
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Signed lower left; titled on the reverse
Anthony Thieme was born in...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$21,600 Sale Price
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Fine 1900’s English Watercolour Painting Lady by Cottage Steps Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cottage Steps
By Gunn Gwennet (British early 1900’s)
signed watercolor painting on paper mounted in a frame.
framed: 21 x 18 inches
Image: 14 x 9.75 inches
provenance: private co...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Sonoma County Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Sonoma County Landscape" 1901, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Elizabeth Hoen, 1868-1955. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 5.75 x 8.65 inches, framed size is 13 x 15.65 inches. Custom framed in a silver decorated frame, with beige matting. It is in good condition, the paper have 3 vertical soft creases that cross the image.
About the artist:
Born in Santa Rosa, California to a pioneering California family, Elizabeth Hoen was known for her watercolor paintings, many of them landscapes, in impressionist style. Her father, Berthold Hoen started a trading post in the Carillo adobe, the first building erected in the Sonoma Valley. He also helped survey and lay out the city of Santa Rosa.
Elizabeth Hoen is not only the first painter to have their work cataloged into the Sonoma County Museum’s collection, but she was also a prolific artist in California in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and maintained a studio during a period when California art was largely dominated by men. She was from an important family in early Sonoma County history. Her father, Berthold Hoen, purchased land from the Carrillo family that would one day be...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
San Marco [Venice].
Located in Plano, TX
William Walcot. R.E., R.I.B.A. San Marco. Etching with drypoint and aquatint. Dickins 66, Harvey-Lee 91. 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 (sheet 9 1/4 x 12 1/8). Venice set, # 2. Edition 415. A rich impression printed on cream wove paper. Fold in the margin, well outside the image; otherwise good condition. Signed in pencil. Housed in a 16 x 20-inch archival mat.
Soon after Walcot's arrival in England, the Fine Art Society sponsored a trip sent to Italy. This scene is one of four small drypoints that resulted from the artist’s stay in Venice.
When he was seventeen, he began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel Metropole...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Austrian Oil Painting of a Dream Wedding by Zatzka
By Hans Zatzka
Located in London, GB
Austrian oil painting of a dream wedding by Zatzka
Austrian, c. 1910
Canvas: Height 54cm, width 79cm
Frame: Height 67cm, width 94cm, depth 6cm
T...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Follower of Paul Edouard Richard Sohn (1834-1912) - Framed Oil, Betende
Located in Corsham, GB
This intimate genre scene depicts a young lady in a flowing red dress standing in a dimly lit interior, her hands clasped in prayer. The composition employs warm, earthy tones and dr...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
L
Abondance Art Nouveau
Located in Berlin, DE
Regule / a metal casting alloy
73 cm
signed
Vincent Désiré Faure de Broussé, "L'Abondance", large Art Nouveau sculpture, reguleVincent Désiré Faure de Broussé, 1834 - Paris - 19...
Category
Jugendstil Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Other Medium
Fine Antique British Botanical Watercolour Painting White Dimorphotheca Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In A Pink Blouse Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
original watercolour painting on paper
by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
piece of paper is 14 x 10 inches
I...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
"baia della Francia del nord" Olio cm 21 x 15 1910 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Piccola pittura a olio ,luminoso paesaggio della Bretagna francese, molto luminoso,splendida cornice
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Old Soldier
Located in New York, NY
Humphris is a highly acclaimed American sculptor and created a large body of work of Western subject matter, particularly of the American Indian so rare to get a soldier. He did liv...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'71. Lactarius rufus 72. Lactarius volemus 73. Lactarius subdulcis 74. Lactarius camphoratus'
Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph.
From "Atlas des champignons de Franc...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Lanternes du Japon" Olio cm. 46 x 38 1910 ca
Located in Torino, IT
Luminoso quadro con mazzo di fiori arancioni su fondo verde
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Plywood
"Nantucket, Massachusetts" Helen Goodwin, American Impressionism Docks at Harbor
Located in New York, NY
Helen M. Goodwin (1865 - 1955)
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas laid on panel
12 x 16 inches
Signed and titled lower right
Helen M. Goodwin was born in New Castle, Indiana in ...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Landscape - Charcoal Drawing on Paper by R. Santerne-Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is a beautiful original drawing on paper realized by Robert Santerne between the 1930s and 1940s.
Stamped on the rear "Atelier R.Santerne"
Aged conditions with repaired r...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
A ca. 1920s Caricature of Irish Politician Alexander Green
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1920s caricature of Irish politician George Russell by artist Isa M. Macnie. Inscription on drawing reads: "For Richard Madden, George Russell "AE". Image size: 8 7/8" x 6 7/8"...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Put Fighting Blood in Your Business
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster. Put Fighting Blood in Your Business. Here’s his record! Does he get a Job? Arthur Woods, Assistant to the Secretary of...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
$798 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Red Erythrina Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
$383 Sale Price
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"View in Gent" Piet Lippens (Belgian, 1890-1981) circa 1920s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"View in Gent"
Piet Lippens (Belgian, 1890-1981)
Circa 1920s
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
23 3/8 x 19 3/8 (24 x 28 frame) inches
Piet Lippens was a...
Category
Dutch School Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Palace - Drawing by Gabriele Galantara - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Palace is a modern artwork by Gabriele Galantara (1865-1937) in the early 20th century.
Pen on paper.
Good conditions and aged with foxing and cutting.
The work has been reali...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Pen
Quran Teacher With Pupils, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Anton Chotka
By Anton Chotka
Located in Long Island City, NY
Anton Chotka, Austrian (1881 -1955) - Quran Teacher With Pupils, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Cold painted Bronze sculpture, stamped Austria, Size: 4.5 x 8 x 5 in. (11.43 x 20.32 x 1...
Category
Romantic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Champignons, French antique mushroom fungi chromolithograph, 1910
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'176. Boletus piperatus 177. Boletus casteneus 178. Boletus bovinus'
Antique French mushroom / fungi chromolithograph.
From "Atlas des champignons de France, Suisse et Belgique," a...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Arab Man with Three Monkeys, Orientalist Bronze Sculpture by Franz Bergmann
Located in Long Island City, NY
Franz Bergmann, Austrian (1861 -1936) - Arab Man with Three Monkeys, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Bronze sculpture, Austria inscribed on base, Size: 3.5 x 6.5 x 5 in. (8.89 x 16.51 x...
Category
Romantic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris
Located in London, GB
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Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utril...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Set Of Two Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Painting, circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Two very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey,...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Set Of Two Fine Antique British Botannical Watercolour Paintings, circa 1900
s
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A set of two very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection i...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
A Terrier
Located in St. Albans, GB
Simon Ludwig Ditlev Simonsen
Canvas Size: 21 x 16" (52.5 x 40cm)
Outside Frame Size: 31 x 26" (77.5 x 65cm)
1841-1928
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An excellent example of his work in fantastic c...
Category
Dutch School Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Boats on the Leman lake by René Béguin - Oil on canvas 54x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 67x78 cm
René BEGUIN is a Swiss artist born in 1892 and died in 1947. His works have been sold at public auction 12 times, mainly...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
"End of the Day, Gloucester Harbor"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by John Fulton Folinsbee (1892 - 1972).
One of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique oil on canvas, English beach scene, with sand dunes and people walking
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well-painted English early 20th-century beach scene landscape
Daniel Sherrin 1868-1940 signed L. Richards This is a framed original oil painting on canvas by the late British painter Daniel Sherrin who painted under the pseudonym of L Richards.
It is signed and was painted circa 1910 and is in excellent condition.
BIOGRAPHY Daniel Sherrin (1868-1940) Daniel Sherrin was the son of John Sherrin...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Return of the Prodigal Son
Located in PARIS, FR
The Return of the Prodigal Son
or The Reconciliation
by Constantin MEUNIER (1831-1905)
A rare bronze group with a nuanced dark brown patina
signed on the back "C. Meunier"
cast by "...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Original Vintage Poster by Leonetto Cappiello - Les Parfums de J. Daver Paris
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This poster was created to advertise Les Parfums de J. Daver, Paris, a French perfume house active in the early 20th century. J. Daver was known for producing elegant fragrances duri...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
DIE TRAUME BESCHAUTE (OBSERVED IN A DREAM)
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Published anonymously c. 1920, Vienna, in an edition of 100, after the original watercolor and pencil on paper, titled in the plate at the top: “DIE TRAUM/BESCHAUTE” and signed and d...
Category
Vienna Secession Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper
Vintage French Impressionist Oil Painting Man Fishing Into The Sea On A Grey Day
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
Size: painting: 11.5 x 19.5 ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Larionov stencil from 1916: Cricket costume for the ballet "Natural History"
Located in PARIS, FR
Beautiful Larionov stencil from 1916: Cricket costume for the ballet "Natural History
Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov was a Russian avant-garde painter who worked with radical exhibito...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Stencil
Odalisque - Woman in a Harem - French 1900 Orientalist art portrait oil painting
By Lucien Laurent Gsell
Located in Hagley, England
This charming ex Christie's Victorian Orientalist oil painting is by noted French exhibited artist Lucien Laurent Gsell. The painting dates to around 1900 and portrays a beautiful yo...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Three Light LILY Table Lamp 1900s
Located in Miami, FL
Three Light LILY Table Lamp, 1900s
Favrile glass, patinated bronze, two shades
engraved L.C.T. F
Avrile base impressed TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK319
13 in
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Geneva Lake with
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Dimensions with frame : 56 x 64.5 x 2.5 cm
This captivating work depicts a peaceful lakeside landscape, Geneva lake, skilfully captured by a soft, nuanced palette. The...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
B.P Gast - 1903 Oil, The Village Church
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil painting, depicting a rural scene with a church and figures nearby. Signed and dated to the lower left-hand corner. Presented in a gilt-effect slip and in an ornate, g...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
The Fountain, Milan, Ohio Park Summer Landscape w/ Peacock
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1965)
The Fountain, Milan, Ohio, 1915
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lower right
18 x 22 inches
23.5 x 28 inches, framed
A graduate of the Clevelan...
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
1930
s French Impressionist Oil Painting Stone Path To Quaint French Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Countryside Landscape
by Edmond Quinton (French 1892-1969) *see notes below
signed lower front corner
oil painting on board/ panel, unframed
size: 9.5 x 13 inches
condition: o...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Fine Antique British Botanical Painting Red Amaryllis Flower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very fine original antique English botanical watercolour paintings depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, Eng...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
$383 Sale Price
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La Chalandiere a Briere - Impressionist River Landscape Oil by Pierre Montezin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on canvas riverscape by sought after French impressionist painter Pierre Eugene Montezin. The work depicts a view of a river in autumn. The trees that line the ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Swedish West Coast Sunset, c. 1920
Located in Stockholm, SE
Axel Natanael Hilleström Johnsson (1874–1959)
West Coast Sunset, c. 1920
water color on paper
signed
executed around 1920
image size c. 26 × 47.5 cm
framed 37 × 59 cm
The ...
Category
Romantic Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lady by a Lake with Swans and Cherubs, Early 20th Century Oil Painting
By Joseph Vital Lacaze
Located in St. Albans, GB
Joseph Vital Lacaze
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size: 35 x 58" (89 x 146cm)
Outside Frame Size: 39 x 59" (90 x 148cm)
Signed on the reverse side of the canvas and on the frame
1874 - 194...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Vue de Village dans l
Oise
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor on wove paper. Signed by the artist in pencil lower left.
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Watercolor
Port of Le Havre
Sainte-Adrese- Post Impressionist Seascape Oil - Othon Friesz
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas seascape by French post impressionist painter Achille-Emile Othon Friesz. The piece depicts a view of Le Havre, a port city in Normandy, France, locate...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daniel Garber Original Drawing, from Artist
s Estate
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958)
Balderstons, c. Early 20th Century
Pencil on paper
7 x 9 in.
Framed: 12 x 4 x 1/2 in.
Titled and initialed lower right: Balderstons, D.G.
Proven...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Mary and Maude Platt, 1912
Located in New York, NY
Listing includes framing with UV plexiglas, free shipping and a 14 day return policy.
Lora Webb Nichols
Mary and Maude Platt, 1912
15 x 15 inch gelatin silver print
Image Size: 10.75 x 11 inches
frame size 18 x 18 x 2 inches
Edition of 15
Lora Webb Nichols was born in 1883 and grew up in the small mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. At the age of 16 Lora received her first camera and from that moment and for the next few decades she produced work that is both stunning in its singular voice and revealing in the world it opens up for us.
At first Nichols photographed her family, friends, and the landscape around Encampment, but when the town experienced a copper mining boom Nichols expanded her scope to become a photographer for hire shooting portraits and industrial photographs. When the boom collapsed, Nichols took the risk of opening her own business in Encampment - The Rocky Mountain Studio - which opened in 1925. The studio ran for ten years, accumulating 24,000 negatives that illustrate the lives and environment of the people living in and around the town while creating a distinctive and surprising body of work. If one was to attempt an analogy – Nichols’ pictures fit somewhere between Lartigue and Lange - joyful and generous while objectively intimate. In particular what seems to distinguish Nichols’ work is the way she sees the world from a female perspective. As Vince Aletti...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Lovely Discussion - Woodcut by Mathilde Hérouard - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Mathilde Hérouard in the 1920s.
Mounted on paper.
Signed in the plate.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut
$284 Sale Price
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Landscape, canvas/cardboard/oil, 39x50 cm, 1929
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape, canvas/cardboard/oil, 39x50 cm, 1929
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Hungerford Bridge, London
By Kerr Eby
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Kerr Eby 'Hungerford Bridge, London', etching and sandpaper ground, 1929, edition 90, Giardina 144. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Ed 90' in pencil. Signed again in the bottom right sheet corner. A fine, atmospheric impression, with delicate plate tone, on cream wove paper; the full sheet with margins (1 1/2 to 1 5/8 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Hungerford Foot Bridge spans the River Thames in London, between Westminster Bridge and Waterloo Bridge. Eby visited Great Britain and France during 1924 and 1925.
Impressions of this work are in the permanent collection of the following institutions: American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Arizona State University, Boston Public Library, Davison Art Center (Wesleyan University), Herbert F, Johnson Museum of Art, Huntington Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art (Dartmouth College), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of American Art, New York Public Library, Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kerr Eby was born in 1890 in Tokyo, Japan, the son of Methodist missionaries from Canada. The family returned to Vancouver when Eby was only three, and he grew up studying art encouraged by his parents as his mother was from a family of prominent artists. By age twelve, he had lived in Vancouver, Kingston, Toronto and Bracebridge where he found work as a ‘printer’s devil’ on the local Bracebridge newspaper.
After graduating from high school in 1907, Eby moved to New York City to study art, first at the Pratt Institute, and later at the Art Students League. He enrolled in art classes at Pratt Institute while working for a lithographic firm earning $4.00 a week. His pay barely covered his room and drawing supplies. Within a year, starving and feeling defeated, he returned to Canada and was employed by a surveying party in Northern Ontario. Eby gradually regained his dream of becoming an artist, and in his spare time, he began to draw the surrounding wilderness landscapes. By fall he had returned to New York to attend night classes at the Art Students League while working for another lithographic firm. He spent several more summers surveying in Northern Ontario before he was able to make a living as an illustrator. During this period he formed several friendships with influential artists including John Henry Twachtman and Childe Hassam and joined a summer artists' colony founded by them at Cos Cob, Connecticut. He supported himself by working as a magazine illustrator and at the American Lithographic Company. Through diligent study and practice, Eby refined both his drawing and printmaking techniques.
In 1917, when the United States entered World War I, Eby joined the U.S. Army. Failing to obtain a commission as an artist, he was assigned first to ambulance duty and later as a sergeant in the 40th Engineers in France. He spent most of WWI on the front line as a camouflager of the field artillery ‘big guns”. On his time off duty, he would sketch everything he witnessed, from the explosive big guns and men in action to the dead soldiers in the field. He sent the drawings home each week, and upon his return from the war, they became the basis for his first successful group of etchings. He continued creating his war-related prints throughout the 1920s and '30s as his work became widely exhibited Frederick Keppel, the renowned print dealer and a relative of Eby, became the exclusive agent for many of his print editions.
With another global conflict beginning in the mid-1930s, Eby wanted to show the world the true face of war...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
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