1910s Paintings and Screens

This work is a glorious nod to buddhist temples circle windows, with beautiful Japanese garden scape seen outside. Golden leaf on the border of a frame is an expression of light goin...

Henry Randolph Martz was an American artist active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While detailed information about his life and career is somewhat scarce compared to more...

An impressionist painting of a trees in snow on a wooden board in period carved gilded frame. It is signed on the bottom right hand corner S Kitayama and dated 1912. Further inscription in Kanji on the back of the frame. Frame measures 17 x 20 1/2 inches Painting measures 9 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches Frame is original to the painting and of the period. The painter is most likely Seitaro Kitayama (Japanese, 1888-1945), an important figure in late Meiji period credited with being the father of Japanese animation before Walt Disney started his company. The painting style is impressionism which was keenly followed by a new generation of Japanese artists who either traveled to Europe for training or received Western publications on artists and gallery shows at home. Kitayama, Seitaro was born on March 3, 1888 in Wakayama, and died on February 13, 1945. In 1911, Kitayama became an apprentice to Tojiro Oshita and, while studying painting, also helped out with editing the art magazine Mizue. He soon moved to Tokyo and established the Western Art Guild of Japan and published Contemporary Western Art. He later joined the Fusain Art Group as a manager where he would support young western-style artists such as Ryusei Kishida and Sohachi Kimura by providing art supplies, in addition to holding exhibitions and publishing catalogues. On the other hand, he entered the Nikkatsu Mukojima Studio in 1916, proposed the inclusion of illustrations in intertitles, and made this his work. It was there that one of the first Japanese animations...

- Stunning Victorian oil painting of a clock maker - Wonderful antique work of art, delightful scene - Horologist show tending lovingly to the cl...

Monumental Indonesian Painting, almost certainly from a major temple. This is a kind of piece I have never seen before in person or in books, so I a...

Saegusa Soko (1886-1947) Loquat and Sparrows Early Taisho period, circa 1910-1915 Hanging scroll painting. Mineral pigments, ink and gofun on silk Signed: Soko Sealed: Soko Dimensio...

Beautiful wedding portrait of a young bride, hand painted gouache in a red cinnabar painted frame. Korean early 20th century. Note the Korean hairstyle and the lightened face of th...

Japanese Screen: Blue Mountain Landscape Two-panel screen with artist signature and seal. One of a pair with S1499A (sold separately).

Japanese Screen: Blue Mountain Landscape Two panel screen, one of a pair with S1499B (sold separately)