Harry Shokler Landscape Paintings

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

Work on canvas Molded frame in wood and gilded plaster 68 x 59 x 7 cm

Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978) Fall landscape Oil on canvas laid to canvas Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe Canvas: 40" H x 30" W Inches Framed: 48.25 x 38.25 Inches Very large ...

Born in 1916 in Lima, Ohio to a Mennonite family, John Landis Lehman was educated locally. He moved to Chicago in 1942 and enrolled at the Art Institute. By 1954 he had moved to Penn...

Original Southern California Seascape in Oil Paint on Canvas Beautiful seascape that captures the ruggedness and beauty of the Southern California coast by Nadine Pollard (American,...

Bold figurative work by Richard Cronin (American, b. 1952). Two figures stand on a patio, turned away from each other. The figures and scene are rendere...

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...

"History of US Postal Service" American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern Chicago Harold Haydon "History of the U.S. Postal Service" 21 x 25 1/2 inches O...

Step into the tranquil beauty of the American West with “View from the Park,” a stunning original oil on canvas by renowned Colorado modernist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968). Th...

This original oil painting, titled Autumn Harvest by Edward Marecak (1919-1993), was created in 1987. It features a stunning autumnal landscape, with seven women actively engaged in ...

Vintage modernist landscape signed Nannette Rhodes Hayes. Titled on the reverse Berkshire Hills and dated 1961.

In late spring, the high desert floor is still covered with grass and flowering yuccas. Against this colorful backdrop, the artist has captured a burst of sunlight breaking through t...