The Italian Seaside at Night, Oil on Canvas Painting, Nicola Ascione (1870-1957)

An early 20th Century Oil on canvas by Gustave Wiegand (1870-1957). The painting depicting assorted vibrant flowers in a yellow vase. Original frame. ...

Vintage (20th Century) painting capturing four figures gathering on the riverbank while buildings with classical architecture loom just across the river, surrounded by a thin brown b...

Vintage (20th century) painting capturing four figures gathering on the riverbank while buildings with classical architecture loom just across the river, surrounded by a thin brown b...

1861-1944 Nicolas Briganti oil on canvas. European Scene Active in New Bedford, Massachusetts between 1893 and 1897, Nicholas Briganti painted l...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a house atop a natural stone archway, through which shepards with a horse, dog and flock, and the sea, are v...

Vintage (20th Century) oil painting of a house atop a natural stone archway, through which shepards with a horse, dog and flock, and the sea, a...

This beautiful oil on canvas brings the sea to any living area! Hailing from England, this painting depicts a village on the seaside cliffs, complete with homes residences, a small o...

Vintage Venetian-Style (20th Century) painting of a bustling Italian canal at dusk, depicting several boats under passage in the foreground, and crowds of ...

Italian painting from the second half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, first canvas, depicting figures in the night with boats of good pictorial quality. Very pleasant pai...

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...