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"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
By David Fredenthal
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
"NY Street Signs" Mid-20th Century WPA 1938 Modernist Abstract Realism Pop Art
Stuart Davis
Category
1930s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Pencil
20th century oil painting self portrait male subject glasses pipe signed
By Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Self Portrait" is an original oil painting on masonite board by Francesco Spicuzza. The artist
Category
1940s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid 20th century landscape 1940s oil painting by K. Ploug with forest motive
Located in Ebberup, DK
Danish mid century vintage oil painting from 1941 signed K. Ploug and presented in a classic
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Romantic Paintings
Materials
Paint
"At the Annual Fair", an early 20th Century oil on canvas by Alberto Plá Rubio
Located in Madrid, ES
, marked the guidelines of its production, works of social subjects and marked realism, with great
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daisies in a Jug, Early 20th Century Realist Floral Still-Life by Claude Buck
By Claude Buck
Located in Soquel, CA
Daisies in a Jug, Early 20th Century Realist Floral Still-Life by Claude Buck 1929
Excellent oil
Category
1920s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,600 Sale Price
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Attending the hounds after the shooting, Gilbert Holiday, 20th century, signed
By Gilbert Holiday
Located in GB
fuelled his early love of horses.
Holiday studied at the Royal Academy of Art from 1897 to 1902, where
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Marie-Thérèse Bretagne (19th/early 20th c.), Still Life with Wine and Vessels
Located in New York, NY
, a French painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is noted for her detailed still
Category
Antique 19th Century French Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas
Early 20th Century Social Realism Etching by John Sloan -- Bandits Cave
By John French Sloan
Located in Soquel, CA
Sloan became one of the major early 20th- century figures in New York, pioneering the Social Realist
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
"Senator" William Gropper, Social Realism, WPA Political Art, Caricature
By William Gropper
Located in New York, NY
1912 to 1915. He did fine-art painting on the side until the early 1920s, and had his first solo
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early Evening - Sky Reflected in River, Original oil painting
By Ahzad Bogosian
Located in Chicago, IL
(traveling exhibition: Sikeston, MO; Cape Girardeau, MO; Louisiana, MO)
2002 Art of the 20th Century
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$480 Sale Price
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"Woman Listening" Honore Sharrer, Magical Realism Landscape with Flora
Figure
By Honore Sharrer
Located in New York, NY
remembers the powerful impression made on her by a fifteenth century painting by Hieronymus Bosch, "Christ
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
$8,800 Sale Price
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New Realism Watercolor Portrait of a Young Girl by Siebert
Located in San Francisco, CA
painting’s style is a form of realism that was prevalent in early 20th-century European art, sometimes
Category
1920s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Mothers, Children Oil Painting Frank Kleinholz WPA Era NYC Tenements
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
Diego Rivera, Jorge Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and the early 20th century Paris Modernists
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Oil Painting Family on Fire Escape Frank Kleinholz WPA NYC Tenements
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, and the early 20th century Paris Modernists.
Described by Newsweek as a
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Newton’s Farm" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Hazy Autumn Landscape Painting
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Newcomes, Chapter XI" - Early 20th Century Figurative Watercolor with Piano
By Charles Edmund Brock
Located in Soquel, CA
age of 20. He became very successful, and illustrated books for authors such as Jonathan Swift
Category
1910s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
Aaron Bohrod
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
In a Early Light
By Robert Brackman
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
the realism making every element tangible and remarkable. The oil painting by Robert Brackman (1898
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pair of British Steeplechase Horse Racing Paintings on Board, Framed
Located in Atlanta, GA
equestrian sport. Likely originating from the British school in the late 19th or early 20th century, these
Category
Early 20th Century English Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Refugee from England ( Memories), 20th Century Contemporary Acrylic
By Graham Dean
Located in London, GB
although that space is now altogether less defined. The urban realism of his early days has been replaced
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
NYC Park Scene American Scene Social Realism WPA Woman Artist Ashcan Realism
By Isabel Bishop
Located in New York, NY
painter and printmaker in New York City during the early and middle part of the 20th century. Her subject
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
French Post Impressionist Breton school Oil Painting of Harbour, Douarnenez
By Henry Maurice CAHOURS
Located in ludlow, GB
French Post Impressionist Signed Oil Painting of Breton Fishermen and Boats in the Harbour at
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Oil Painting Heinrich von Zügel "Bull" around 1910
Located in Münster, DE
Heinrich von Zügel
(1850 Murhardt-1941 Munich)
“Bull”
Oil on canvas mounted on painting
Category
Early 20th Century German Belle Époque Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Untitled Mid-Century Painting - Group of Men
Located in Soquel, CA
.
Rodríguez Luna’s artistic evolution mirrored the major artistic and political movements of the 20th century
Category
1960s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Linen
19th Century Cesare Ciani Credited Italian Macchiaiolo Painting
By Cesare Ciani
Located in Roma, IT
); examples of the artist's poetics, which since the early 20th century had focused on rural and popular
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Composition (Abstract Expressionist mid-century gestural action painting)
By Murray Hantman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
of economic instability and dislocation formed Hantman’s early years, making him independent and self
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large
By O. Louis Guglielmi
Located in New York, NY
Figurative Cubist Surrealist Abstraction Mid 20th Century American Modern Large
O. Louis Guglielmi
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The start at Cheltenham, day at the horse races by Terence Gilbert, 20th century
Located in GB
depictions of contemporary life, blending realism with impressionism. His work spans various subjects
Category
Mid-20th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cold Calculator – Midcentury Pop Realism, Vintage Adding Machine, Oil on Linen
Located in Palm Desert, CA
certain 20th century novelist and philosopher.
Painting in oil on linen with meticulous attention to
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
20th century portrait oil painting female subject dark background signed
By Francesco Spicuzza
Located in Milwaukee, WI
-fashionable "Munich School" technique, with detailed realism in heavy browns and grayed-out hues. Spicuzza
Category
Early 1900s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
20th century British/English Impressionist of a greenhouse interior with plants
Located in Woodbury, CT
James Parfitt (British, b. mid-20th century)
Greenhouse Interior, ca. 1994
Oil on canvas
In this
Category
1990s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Oil on Board Abstract Impressionist Maritime Scene, René Genis
By René Genis
Located in Berlin, MD
transforming your space. Don’t let this Genis gem slip away—secure it now and own a piece of 20th-century
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
"Women in garden" 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Jacksonville, FL
specialize in American art from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Museums like:
The Metropolitan
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Floral Still Life with Two Apples" Hayley Lever, Modernist Still Life Painting
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Hayley Lever
Floral Still Life with Two Apples
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Capri-Faraglioni - Original Etching by Felice Casorati - Early 20th Century
By Felice Casorati
Located in Roma, IT
) in the early 20th Century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good, except for some folding
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Dance 19th-century Large Antique Nude Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed
Dated
Located in Jacksonville, FL
early 20th-century artworks, including
those from the Barbizon School.
2.Musée des Beaux-Arts de
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Old Mill" Naturalistic Green Toned Pastoral Country Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
since early in the century and it was the birthplace for California Plein-Air School, which was still
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Emilio Magistretti (Italian painter) - late 19th century figure painting - Tiger
By Emilio Magistretti
Located in Varmo, IT
19th century and the early 20th century. His style, while maintaining a strong realistic foundation
Category
Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Luigi Lucioni attr. Traditional American Still Life, 20th century
By Luigi Lucioni
Located in New York, NY
Italian primitives. He responded immediately to the realism of early Renaissance painting, which left a
Category
Early 1900s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting "Landscape by the lake" in a wooden frame, XX century.
Located in Chorzów, PL
within nature. The brushwork and color palette suggest a 19th or early 20th-century influence, balancing
Category
20th Century European Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published
By O. Louis Guglielmi
Located in New York, NY
Red to Black, 1954 Abstract Oil Mid-20th Century Modern Non-Objective. Published. Signed and dated
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gypsy Portrait 19th Century Antique Realistic portrait Oil Painting on Canvas
By Angelo Asti
Located in Jacksonville, FL
himself as a true maestro of portraiture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in the
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Persian Cats with Flowers" Oil Painting Portrait of Two White Cats in a Garden
By Beno Boleradsky
Located in New York, NY
serene and detailed composition. The painting is an oil on canvas and comes housed in a beautiful carved
Category
20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 19th Century French Symbolist Oil Painting Portrait of Mythological Queen
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
, Maillart's work reflects the refined artistry of 19th and early 20th-century French painting.
This
Category
Late 19th Century Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$26,312 Sale Price
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"Mom in Love" 19th Century Academic Realistic French Oil Painting on Canvas
By Emile Munier
Located in Jacksonville, FL
and early 20th centuries. Given Émile Munier's prominence in the late 19th century, there's a
Category
19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
CARTAGENA, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
club that likes to walk around the center dressing as in the early 20th century, very nice people and
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Framed Portrait Painting of a Man with Beard by American Artist Genie Brock
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Vertical portrait painting of a man by American artist Genie Brock. (Oklahoma, circa early 20th
Category
Early 20th Century American American Classical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
1900s French Still Life Painting With Wooden Frame
Located in High Point, NC
This early 20th century French still life painting captures a rustic kitchen scene in rich, earthy
Category
Early 20th Century French Paintings
Materials
Wood
Large Antique English Victorian Figurative Oil Painting Charles Spencelayh
By Charles Spencelayh
Located in London, GB
the social realism often found in Spencelayh’s paintings, capturing the essence of daily Victorian
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leaving the Factory- American Scene Watercolor Painting-WPA Painter
Located in Marco Island, FL
humor and realism. This is an important American Scene painting by a well-established artist of the
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Archival Paper
Abstract Composition Tempera Painting Russian Soviet Avant Garde Ksenia Ender
By Ksenia Ender
Located in Surfside, FL
collaborator at the Decorative Institute. Due to poor health she gave up painting early on and in the 1930s
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
"Ste. Victoire" Colorful Impressionist view of Sainte-Victoire Mountain Painting
By André Roubaud
Located in New York, NY
A strong Post-Impressionist oil on canvas painting by André Roubaud depicting the Sainte-Victoire
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Junkman
s Serenade oil painting by Gregorio Prestopino
By Gregorio Prestopino
Located in Hudson, NY
This work epitomizes Prestopino's interest in social realism which captures a quiet interlude in
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ben Wilson (1913-2001) Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Bradenton, FL
'painter's painter' and his career spanned social realism, surrealism, and later abstraction. This painting
Category
Mid-20th Century American Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Drowned Temple, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Bronle Crosby
Located in Yardley, PA
The finial atop the dome of an early 20th century wooden botanical lath house seen in the
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ramasseurs De Goemon En Bretagne Seaweed Gatherers Brittany Breton Oil Painting
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
of early 20th-century French maritime
art, combining social history with artistic sensitivity, and
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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