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Place of Origin: North American
Framed Victorian 19th Century Botanical Drawing, "Gymnostachyum Ceylanicum"
Located in Queens, NY
American Victorian (19th Century) watercolor, ink, and pencil botanical drawing depicting a Gymnostachyum Ceylanicum plant in green tones against a beige background, matted in a beve...
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19th Century Victorian Antique North American Paintings
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Paint
Framed American Victorian 19th Century Botanical Drawing, "Myoporum Parvifolium"
Located in Queens, NY
American Victorian (19th Century) watercolor, ink, and pencil botanical drawing depicting a Myoporum Parvifolium plant in green tones against a beige background, matted in a beveled ...
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19th Century Victorian Antique North American Paintings
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John O
Hara, Deck, 19, Encaustic Painting
By John O
Hara
Located in SAINT LOUIS, MO
The Deck series. Screen-printed maple skate decks. Float-mounted on encaustic painted boards.This open edition set of 3 skate decks features Keith Haring's Untitled 1984 and was designed in 2019 by The Skateroom with the Keith Haring Foundation.
Art Dimensions: 48 x 36 H inches
Framed Dimensions: 49.5 W x 37.5 H x 4.25 D inches
Over a year in the making, Decks is a mixed media series combining O'Hara's favorite medium, encaustic wax, as the backdrop and base for art-edition skate decks. The skate decks, screen-printed with contemporary art by Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, and more, are float mounted onto board. With a nod to pop art and street art, each board is painted to complement the decks that sit atop. In works like Deck 15 and Deck 18, O'Hara float mounts sets of Keith Haring decks...
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21st Century and Contemporary North American Paintings
Materials
Maple, Paint
$7,800 / item
Ed Eller Framed Contemporary American Gray and White Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Ed Eller Contemporary American painting interplay the muted hues and textures of gray, white and hints of black creating a study of abstract forms in a spontaneous manner (Signed Rec...
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20th Century Modern North American Paintings
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Paint
Liaisons ii, Original Painting Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
Liaisons II
Original painting by Lynn Curlee
One of a series of eight paintings based upon 17th century French engravings.
Each painting includes a man, a woman, and a dog.
Mr Cu...
Category
1990s Other North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cornwall Iron Banks Original Oil Painting
Located in Annville, PA
A very interesting and unusual Cornwall Iron Banks Original Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on canvas and comes complete wit...
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1940s Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Surreal Oil Painting by N. Borrell
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Spanish surreal oil painting by N. Borrell . Painting framed measures 27.5" wide, 1.5" deep and 21.5" high.
Category
1960s Folk Art Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Morgan Colt Impressionistic Oil on Panel, Circa 1920s
By Morgan Colt
Located in Peabody, MA
An impressionist painting of a horse race by a founding member of the New Hope Group of painters, Morgan Colt. Colt was a member of the gun m...
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1920s American Craftsman Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Paint
John O
Hara. OK, 3, 2023, Encaustic Painting
By John O
Hara
Located in SAINT LOUIS, MO
Art Dimensions: 68 x 68 H inches and Framed Dimensions: 69 W x 69 H inches.
Maple float frame with gold leaf.
John O’Hara (1963) is an American painter who is well known for his a...
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2010s North American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Lancaster Covered Bridge Original Oil Painting
Located in Annville, PA
A very interesting and unusual Lancaster Covered Bridge Original Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on artist board and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame. The painting is signed on the front by the artist and is dated 1936 on the rear.
Overall frame Size approximately 28″ wide x 2″ deep x 22″ high
J. Earle Pfoutz had a long and distinguished career as a self trained artist. More can be learned about him from reading this article produced by Gary Hawbaker at askART
Earle Pfoutz Born: 1891 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Died: 1957
Known for: Landscape, figure, still life painting
An image of J Earle Pfoutz
Biography from the Archives of askART
J. Earle Pfoutz (John Earle Pfoutz) – (Oct 23, 1891-Nov 9, 1957)
“A seventh generation descendant of a Swiss family which arrived in America early in the 17th Century, J. Earle Pfoutz was born in Lancaster, PA, son of John Bachman and Susan Allison Pfoutz. He painted houses for a living and pictures for a life.
A self-taught artist, described as a primitive, he was distinctive for his vivid imagination and bold color application. He painted hundreds of Lancaster County scenes. Pfoutz traveled through the hills near his home and along the Susquehanna River in search of scenes. He began painting with a brush when he was fourteen, but added a palette knife after suffering an eye injury. He completed eighth grade in the Lancaster Public Schools and there his formal education ended. However, the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvania thought so highly of his work as an artist that officials certified him as an art instructor and he taught for a year in the York (PA) public schools. He also was an art instructor under the program for disabled veterans, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, when he gave private instruction to veterans in their homes.
In 1947, J. Earle Pfoutz finally earned national recognition as an artist. His painting, Opalescent October, was chosen by the Museum of Art of Dayton Ohio, to travel all over the country for a year with its Group Exhibition. Described as a “very colorful, calm scene, iridescent in color, sweeping in design,” the painting started on its journey around the country early in 1948. In an interview with the Sunday News (Lancaster, PA – Nov 2, 1947), Pfoutz stated that he didn’t know whether he was a “primitive” or an “impressionist.” No master taught him, no school channeled his style. “Sometimes I didn’t eat, but I always managed to paint,” he recalled. Many of his hundreds of canvases -most of them not sold, but given away to friends – found their way to other parts of the country. “I never remember the day when I did not love color,” Pfoutz said. “I was about 12 years old when I saw my first palette – a string of different colored paint paddles that graced the stores of that day. As a boy I had two great desires. One was to be able to eat all the strawberry jam I could, and the other to possess a string of those beautiful paint paddles. Well, I’ve got my fill of jelly, but I’ve never yet got my fill of beautiful colors.”
In 1950, Pfoutz’s one man show of paintings made front page headlines in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: “Most of the twenty oil paintings on exhibition are landscapes, although there are several interesting figure studies. Colors again, as in all Pfoutziana are rich and full-bodied, but for the most part not as startlingly as in some of the earlier work. Most of the paintings were done during the past year, and also reveal the painter’s characteristic heavy impasto technique, in which the rich swirls of paint carry their own message. Among the figures, The Banjo Picker, and The Magician, are the most provocative. Both are character studies; the first being of a tramp musician whose drab clothing is set-off by a luminous aqua blue background. Modern in feeling and treatment is The Magician, a clown-faced wizard whose spinning ball in the air suggests the fourth dimension – space. The use of the primary colors in this picture serves to emphasize the theme effectively.
A large colorful landscape, Opalescent October, depicting rolling hills against a late afternoon sky is new to Lancastrians, as it has just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where it hung in the Dayton Art Institute. Another landscape with soft dreamy colors is Fantasie D’Autumne, and one of the loveliest pictures in the show. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is another with eye appeal, and was one of the works which was hung in the Old Customs House in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania Week, and before that in a collection of Pfoutz work in the same place. In deep contrast to the sunny skies and brilliant foliage of many of the pictures, is the somewhat morbid Worry, in which the center of interest is a tremendous rat. This, the painter explains, was symbolic of 1948 in China, which was ‘The Year of The Rat’ in the Chinese calendar. Background material for the picture was furnished to Pfoutz by author Pearl Buck.
Other pictures include Autumn Prelude, Miners Village, painted at Cornwall, PA; Humid Day, Saint Peters Kierch, at Middletown, PA; Lady Pfoutz, inspired by the painter’s wife; Sun Flowers, Sentimental Journey, Gyne, Luzon Woman, Old Bridge, The Cow Path. Lemures, based on Roman mythology, and Ethiopian, painted from an ebony wood carving from Kenya Province, S. Africa.”
In 1953, Pfoutz was installed as President of the Lancaster County Art Association. A. Z. Kruse, New York City artist, writer and member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, Manhattan, was the guest speaker. In January of 1953, thirty-five Pfoutz oils were exhibited at the Old Custom House in Philadelphia, PA under the sponsorship of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. Several Lancaster County landscapes and covered bridges were included as well as Katy, a Pennsylvania Dutch scene. Symbolic paintings included End of the Second Day, the artist’s visualization of the second coming of Christ, and Twilight, typifying the grief of mothers of all lands for sons lost in battle.
In June of 1953, a Pfoutz oil made history in Lancaster. From the Lancaster New Era: “For the first in local art history, a painting has been withdrawn from an exhibition because of objections from viewers and hostesses serving at the show. The painting, Jeune Fille, a standing nude done by Pfoutz, was one of the paintings in the annual spring exhibition of the Art Association and had become the center of the controversy. Pfoutz said he took the painting down… ‘graciously but reluctantly.’ ‘From an artistic standpoint, there is nothing offensive about the painting,’ Pfoutz said. ‘This community just wants its nudes with clothes on.’ “It is most brilliant in color, and because it is so brilliant I thought it would make a nice lively spot for the show. This is the first time I’ve had to take a picture off the walls. I substituted a seascape for it.’ Pfoutz said he felt the painting brought a lot of viewers to the show because it was so controversial. It had never been exhibited before. ‘If this had been shown in a metropolitan city,’ he commented, ‘people wouldn’t have given it a second glance. But the viewpoint here is more conservative, even though I don’t think moderns would have minded.’ He said he felt the painting was neither ‘objectionable nor pornographic,’ but had complied with the wishes of fellow members of the Art Association who telephoned him to relay the protests they had received. The art controversy was the first to arise here publicly since the showing of Amish Grandmother, an oil by William Gropper which was part of the Gimbel Pennsylvania exhibit at the Griest Building several years ago. — Numerous viewers of Amish Grandmother, [a painting showing an Amish woman holding a white goose], expressed themselves quite vocally, calling it an affront to the Plain Folk. But it stayed on exhibit throughout the length of the Gimbel show. Pfoutz expressed no rancor, implying that if Gropper could take it so could he.”
After his death, there were several shows of Pfoutz’ work organized by his son J. Earle, Jr. J. Earle, Jr. also saw to it that President Eisenhower would receive an oil called The Cow’s Path. The president first saw the painting in 1950 when, as president of Columbia University, he visited Lancaster to address a student assembly at Franklin and Marshall College. After his address was over, the then Gen. Eisenhower stopped at the Fackenthal Library on the campus to view an exhibition of Pfoutz’s paintings. The Cow’s Path intrigued him. For some time, as his aides fumed to get him back on his time schedule, Eisenhower and Pfoutz talked, as artist to artist. Prior to his death, Pfoutz requested that The Cow’s Path be given to the President if he wanted it. The painting was presented to Ike at the White House in November of 1959. Mrs. Eisenhower owned a Pfoutz painting titled, In the Manor.
Though house painting was his livelihood, he worked for Millersville State Teachers College (now a university) for a time during World War II, and called himself “the Chimney Sweep of MSTC.” During that period he knocked out a dizzying canvas in the surrealist style (he thought it was terrible) and got into the campus newspaper when one of the students spotted it.
Earle Pfoutz was not the humble, downtrodden artist, not the Douanier Rousseau type at all. As he developed his skill and style through the years, he also fashioned a resilient confidence in himself as an artist. Whether he was building his own home (he built two) or painting one for somebody else, he never lost faith in his ultimate recognition—though he was never sure he would live to see it.
Whether he was working as a rigger for a hoisting company, in the Stehli Silk Mill of Lancaster, carving Cloister-style chairs, decorating old chests, cementing bricks from the old Safe...
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1940s Vintage North American Paintings
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Paint
Monica Perez "Boundry" Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas 2021
Located in New York, NY
Monica Perez "Boundry" Original Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 2021. W 40" x H 60"
Monica Perez’s works are expressions of emotion—impulsive, spontaneous ge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
William A. Drake (1891-1979), Oil On Masonite Ship In Harbour
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Oil on masonite depicting a ship along the wharf with a rustic structure and figures on the pier. The ship with grey smoke billowing into the grey and blue sky.
Unframed.
Signed lowe...
Category
20th Century American Classical North American Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Vintage Boho Original Oil Painting of Man, Framed
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Add a touch of bohemian charm to your space with this stunning vintage oil painting. Featuring a captivating portrait of a man, this original artwork showcases intricate brushwork an...
Category
Late 20th Century North American Paintings
Materials
Wood, Masonite, Paint
Doug Young Hawaiian Artist Signed Quadriptych Painting Road To Sea, South Kona
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, wonderfully composed, quite large in scope, 4-part (quadriptych) original watercolor painting by Hawaiian artist Doug Young known for his...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paint, Paper
Owl, Original Painting by Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
Owl
Original painting by Lynn Curlee, professional artist and author/illustrator of award winning picture books for children.
Acrylic on stretched canvas. The canvas is stretched a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Stan Natchez (Shoshone/Paiute, b.1954) Navajo with Birds against one dollar bill
By Stan Natchez
Located in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Stan Natchez (Shoshone/Paiute, b.1954)
Navajo with Birds against one dollar bills
Mixed media on canvas
Signed
153cm x 122cm
Provenance:
Property from a Private Collection, Berkshi...
Category
Early 2000s North American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Early Work of Sylvia Hommert LA, Untitled Painting
By Sylvia Hommert 1
Located in New York, NY
Early work of Sylvia Hommert 2002 LA #501 untitled painting. Oil, beeswax, paua shell, and resin on canvas. Signed lower right.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Resin
Butterflies, Original Painting by Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
Butterflies
An original painting by Lynn Curlee, fine artist, and author/illustrator of award winning books for older children.
The painting is acrylic on canvas. It is 48 x 48 x 1...
Category
1970s Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Surrealist Oil on Canvas Painting of Furniture Leg
Located in Round Top, TX
Unique, original oil on canvas painting with surrealist-treatment to room interior. We love the neutral color palette with hint of Yves Klein blue.
32.63ʺW × 1.25ʺD × 47.75ʺH
Creat...
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Late 20th Century Bauhaus North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
John Cuthbert Hare Watercolor Paintings - Cape Cod and Provencetown
Located in Savannah, GA
John Hare
(American, 1908-1978)
A pair of watercolor paintings: "Provencetown Rooftops” and “Afternoon Light - Cape Cod”, circa 1940s.
sight: 8 by 6 ¾ inches
frame: 17 ⅝ by 16 ½ in...
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1940s Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Modernist Stain Painting Signed Gladys Benoit, Ca. 1970s
Located in Peabody, MA
A motion filled stain painting signed Gladys Benoit, ca. 1970s.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Paintings
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Paint
William Alexander Drake, Oil on Board, Country Winter Landscape
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Signed lower left. A fine winter landscape with green fir trees on snowy hills leading to snow covered fields with bands of rust tone trees. Low blue hills complete the distant scene by William Alexander Drake...
Category
20th Century Rustic North American Paintings
Materials
Other
Nori Geffen In The Beginning Signed Modern Mixed-Media Painting Framed 1970s
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A modern mixed-media collage painting on paper titled "In the Beginning" by Detroit artist Nori Geffen. Hand signed bottom right, titled on verso. Circa 1970s. A dramatic and express...
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1970s Vintage North American Paintings
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Paper
Mid-century Native Archer
Eagle Oil Velvet in Carved Frame by Ernesto Sanchez
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This striking mid-century velvet painting depicts a Native American warrior archer and the American Bald Eagle spirit depicted in the Southwest Desert...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Velvet, Wood, Paint
"Portrait of a Man", Oil on Linen, Framed, signed by Roth, Mid-20th Century, USA
Located in San Francisco, CA
This small, expressive portrait uses bold, shadowy brushstrokes to depict a man's face in profile. The moody palette—deep reds, ochres, and dark blues—evokes introspection. The compa...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood
Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Fulton, CA
A figurative oil painting of four female figures at a table. Artist signed but undecipherable. Measures 44 inches wide, 32.5 inches high.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
$1,450
Woolworth An Original Painting by Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
Woolworth. An original painting by Lynn Curlee
This,painting was used as an illustration in skyscraper, an award winning book for children by author/illustrator Lynn Curlee
It ...
Category
Early 2000s North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Great Houdini, Original Painting by Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
The Great Houdini
Original painting by Lynn Curlee, fine artist and author/illustrator of award winning books for older children.
The painting is acrylic on stretched canvas.
It i...
Category
1970s Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Wood
Richard Hirsch Encaustic Painting of Nothing Series, circa 2010 - 2012
By Richard A. Hirsch
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary American ceramic artist Richard Hirsch's encaustic "Paintings of Nothing Series" #14, #16, #22 and #23 are made of ceramic raw materials, dry pigment and wax. Hirsch app...
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21st Century and Contemporary Modern North American Paintings
Materials
Clay, Organic Material
Original Diptych Oil on Board "Upward Dream" Paintings by Wade Koniakowsky
By Wade Koniakowsky
Located in San Diego, CA
Original diptych oil on board "Upward Dream I & II" paintings by Wade Koniakowsky, circa 2015. The paintings are in very good condition with vibrant colors and measures 15"x 30" each...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern North American Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Late 20th Century Original Oil on Canvas Portrait Painting by Ariane Beigneux
Located in Stamford, CT
Ariane Beigneux American artist who was known for her portrait paintings of young children. This painting exemplifies the type of traditional portraits that were her specialty. Arian...
Category
Late 20th Century North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Jean Nerfin Oil on Canvas Cityscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Jean Nerfin Oil on Canvas Canadian, born 1922
Landscape in the Mid-Century Modern Paris School style. Painting in nice original condition! Signed and dated bottom right corner.
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage North American Paintings
Materials
Paint
Original Paul Rusconi Painting of Famous Pop-Culture Skateboarder, Paul Cardiel
By Paul Rusconi
Located in Tustin, CA
Very large, original digital screenprint on Plexiglas with nail polish on C-print, mounted to Sintra board painting of the famous hall of fame skateboard icon, John Joseph Cardiel (b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern North American Paintings
Materials
Plexiglass
$14,900 Sale Price
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Multi-Color Abstract Painting
Located in San Diego, CA
Multi-color, optic abstract acrylic on linen painting, attributed to artist MarCo Bertoli. Unsigned. Undated, circa 1980s. We are showing various images to highlight slight wear or d...
Category
20th Century North American Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Jackie Kennedy Oil Painting by Jay Fleming
By Jay Fleming
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A fun retro oil on canvas by the noted Florida artist Jay Fleming. I believe it is Jackie. Signed lower right. A bright colorful image. Some minor imperfec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Paintings
Vintage Boho Original Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Immerse yourself in the calming hues of this vintage boho abstract oil painting, a stunning original piece that brings a sense of tranquility and artistic sophistication to any space...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Oil on Canvas Cocker Spaniel Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
Oil on Canvas Cocker Spaniel Portrait by Houston artist Martha Goodrum
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Original Cover of Mexican Comic "Sensacional De Maestros"
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this amazing original cover painted in gouache in excellent vintage conditions, circa 1990 issue 129 "Sancho te encontr'e en la movidita Sancho".
About the Sensacional Comics as part of the Mexican culture:
"Sensacional" is the generic name of a handful of Mexican comics published at the end of the 1970s (1979 to be exact) and whose "Boom" remained in force within the Mexican idiosyncrasy for circa 20 years, (all the decade of the 1980s and 1990s) to then go downhill and "evolve", so to speak, until they become sexually explicit...
Category
1990s Folk Art North American Paintings
Materials
Paper
William Fred Arrowood Expressionist Abstract Acrylic on Canvas Diptych Paintings
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of striking pink expressionistic diptych paintings by William Fred Arrowood. Pink base color with abstract rectangular small boxes of primary color, yellow, blue, white, black,...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist North American Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting
Located in Annville, PA
A very interesting and unusual Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on artist and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame. The Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting is signed on the front by the artist and appears to be dated 1948 on the rear. Known for his unusual subjects Pfoutz outdid himself with this effort, capturing the essence of a Lancaster County farm but with the startling twist of portraying a large turkey vulture in the foreground. Definitely unique.
Overall frame Size approximately 33″ wide x 3″ deep x 26″ high
J. Earle Pfoutz had a long and distinguished career as a self trained artist. More can be learned about him from reading this article produced by Gary Hawbaker at askART
Earle Pfoutz Born: 1891 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Died: 1957
Known for: Landscape, figure, still life painting
An image of J Earle Pfoutz
Biography from the Archives of askART
J. Earle Pfoutz (John Earle Pfoutz) – (Oct 23, 1891-Nov 9, 1957)
“A seventh generation descendant of a Swiss family which arrived in America early in the 17th Century, J. Earle Pfoutz was born in Lancaster, PA, son of John Bachman and Susan Allison Pfoutz. He painted houses for a living and pictures for a life.
A self-taught artist, described as a primitive, he was distinctive for his vivid imagination and bold color application. He painted hundreds of Lancaster County scenes. Pfoutz traveled through the hills near his home and along the Susquehanna River in search of scenes. He began painting with a brush when he was fourteen, but added a palette knife after suffering an eye injury. He completed eighth grade in the Lancaster Public Schools and there his formal education ended. However, the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvania thought so highly of his work as an artist that officials certified him as an art instructor and he taught for a year in the York (PA) public schools. He also was an art instructor under the program for disabled veterans, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, when he gave private instruction to veterans in their homes.
In 1947, J. Earle Pfoutz finally earned national recognition as an artist. His painting, Opalescent October, was chosen by the Museum of Art of Dayton Ohio, to travel all over the country for a year with its Group Exhibition. Described as a “very colorful, calm scene, iridescent in color, sweeping in design,” the painting started on its journey around the country early in 1948. In an interview with the Sunday News (Lancaster, PA – Nov 2, 1947), Pfoutz stated that he didn’t know whether he was a “primitive” or an “impressionist.” No master taught him, no school channeled his style. “Sometimes I didn’t eat, but I always managed to paint,” he recalled. Many of his hundreds of canvases -most of them not sold, but given away to friends – found their way to other parts of the country. “I never remember the day when I did not love color,” Pfoutz said. “I was about 12 years old when I saw my first palette – a string of different colored paint paddles that graced the stores of that day. As a boy I had two great desires. One was to be able to eat all the strawberry jam I could, and the other to possess a string of those beautiful paint paddles. Well, I’ve got my fill of jelly, but I’ve never yet got my fill of beautiful colors.”
In 1950, Pfoutz’s one man show of paintings made front page headlines in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: “Most of the twenty oil paintings on exhibition are landscapes, although there are several interesting figure studies. Colors again, as in all Pfoutziana are rich and full-bodied, but for the most part not as startlingly as in some of the earlier work. Most of the paintings were done during the past year, and also reveal the painter’s characteristic heavy impasto technique, in which the rich swirls of paint carry their own message. Among the figures, The Banjo Picker, and The Magician, are the most provocative. Both are character studies; the first being of a tramp musician whose drab clothing is set-off by a luminous aqua blue background. Modern in feeling and treatment is The Magician, a clown-faced wizard whose spinning ball in the air suggests the fourth dimension – space. The use of the primary colors in this picture serves to emphasize the theme effectively.
A large colorful landscape, Opalescent October, depicting rolling hills against a late afternoon sky is new to Lancastrians, as it has just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where it hung in the Dayton Art Institute. Another landscape with soft dreamy colors is Fantasie D’Autumne, and one of the loveliest pictures in the show. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is another with eye appeal, and was one of the works which was hung in the Old Customs House in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania Week, and before that in a collection of Pfoutz work in the same place. In deep contrast to the sunny skies and brilliant foliage of many of the pictures, is the somewhat morbid Worry, in which the center of interest is a tremendous rat. This, the painter explains, was symbolic of 1948 in China, which was ‘The Year of The Rat’ in the Chinese calendar. Background material for the picture was furnished to Pfoutz by author Pearl Buck.
Other pictures include Autumn Prelude, Miners Village, painted at Cornwall, PA; Humid Day, Saint Peters Kierch, at Middletown, PA; Lady Pfoutz, inspired by the painter’s wife; Sun Flowers, Sentimental Journey, Gyne, Luzon Woman, Old Bridge, The Cow Path. Lemures, based on Roman mythology, and Ethiopian, painted from an ebony wood carving from Kenya Province, S. Africa.”
In 1953, Pfoutz was installed as President of the Lancaster County Art Association. A. Z. Kruse, New York City artist, writer and member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, Manhattan, was the guest speaker. In January of 1953, thirty-five Pfoutz oils were exhibited at the Old Custom House in Philadelphia, PA under the sponsorship of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. Several Lancaster County landscapes and covered bridges were included as well as Katy, a Pennsylvania Dutch scene. Symbolic paintings included End of the Second Day, the artist’s visualization of the second coming of Christ, and Twilight, typifying the grief of mothers of all lands for sons lost in battle.
In June of 1953, a Pfoutz oil made history in Lancaster. From the Lancaster New Era: “For the first in local art history, a painting has been withdrawn from an exhibition because of objections from viewers and hostesses serving at the show. The painting, Jeune Fille, a standing nude done by Pfoutz, was one of the paintings in the annual spring exhibition of the Art Association and had become the center of the controversy. Pfoutz said he took the painting down… ‘graciously but reluctantly.’ ‘From an artistic standpoint, there is nothing offensive about the painting,’ Pfoutz said. ‘This community just wants its nudes with clothes on.’ “It is most brilliant in color, and because it is so brilliant I thought it would make a nice lively spot for the show. This is the first time I’ve had to take a picture off the walls. I substituted a seascape for it.’ Pfoutz said he felt the painting brought a lot of viewers to the show because it was so controversial. It had never been exhibited before. ‘If this had been shown in a metropolitan city,’ he commented, ‘people wouldn’t have given it a second glance. But the viewpoint here is more conservative, even though I don’t think moderns would have minded.’ He said he felt the painting was neither ‘objectionable nor pornographic,’ but had complied with the wishes of fellow members of the Art Association who telephoned him to relay the protests they had received. The art controversy was the first to arise here publicly since the showing of Amish Grandmother, an oil by William Gropper which was part of the Gimbel Pennsylvania exhibit at the Griest Building several years ago. — Numerous viewers of Amish Grandmother, [a painting showing an Amish woman holding a white goose], expressed themselves quite vocally, calling it an affront to the Plain Folk. But it stayed on exhibit throughout the length of the Gimbel show. Pfoutz expressed no rancor, implying that if Gropper could take it so could he.”
After his death, there were several shows of Pfoutz’ work organized by his son J. Earle, Jr. J. Earle, Jr. also saw to it that President Eisenhower would receive an oil called The Cow’s Path. The president first saw the painting in 1950 when, as president of Columbia University, he visited Lancaster to address a student assembly at Franklin and Marshall College. After his address was over, the then Gen. Eisenhower stopped at the Fackenthal Library on the campus to view an exhibition of Pfoutz’s paintings. The Cow’s Path intrigued him. For some time, as his aides fumed to get him back on his time schedule, Eisenhower and Pfoutz talked, as artist to artist. Prior to his death, Pfoutz requested that The Cow’s Path be given to the President if he wanted it. The painting was presented to Ike at the White House in November of 1959. Mrs. Eisenhower owned a Pfoutz painting titled, In the Manor.
Though house painting was his livelihood, he worked for Millersville State Teachers College (now a university) for a time during World War II, and called himself “the Chimney Sweep of MSTC.” During that period he knocked out a dizzying canvas in the surrealist style (he thought it was terrible) and got into the campus newspaper when one of the students spotted it.
Earle Pfoutz was not the humble, downtrodden artist, not the Douanier Rousseau type at all. As he developed his skill and style through the years, he also fashioned a resilient confidence in himself as an artist. Whether he was building his own home (he built two) or painting one for somebody else, he never lost faith in his ultimate recognition—though he was never sure he would live to see it.
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Quartier Latin Square, Paris, 1936
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René Alvarado
Nationality: American Citizen Of Mexican Descent
Education
1992-94 San Antonio College
1991-92 San Antonio Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2019 René Alvarado “Tribal Narratives” René Alvarado Fine Arts Gallery, San Angelo, Texas
2019 Anarte Gallery & Studio “Social Observation” San Antonio, TX
2018 Flores De Cristal, René Alvarado Fine Arts Gallery, San Angelo, Texas
2017 Instituto Allende, San Miguel De Allende , Guanajuato , Mexico
2016 Gallery Shoal Creek “René Alvarado” Austin, TX
2015 Jorge Mendez Gallery “Journey Of The Subconscious”. PalmSprings,CA
2013 Georgetown Art Center “René Alvarado” Georgetown, TX
2012 Gallery Shoal Creek “Metaphorically Speaking” Austin, TX
2011 Ellen Noel Art Museum "From The Pueblo To West Texas: René Alvarado" Odessa, TX
2011 Maestros Tejanos 2011 - René Alvarado: Memories From El Manantial, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2010 Museum Of The Southwest "René Alvarado, The Madonna As Muse"Midland, TX
2009-10 The Madonna As Muse: The Paintings Of René Alvarado, Art Museum Of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2009 The Paintings Of René Alvarado, Wichita Falls Museum Of Art At Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
2008 Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2008 The Madonna As Muse: The Paintings Of René Alvarado, Jim Edwards, Curator, San Angelo Museum Of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
2007 René Alvarado, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2007 René Alvarado: Ode, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Transiciones, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2004 From El Manantial [An Exhibition Of Work By René Alvarado], Organized By Insituto De Mexico En San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas (Catalogue And Film)
2004 Loteria I, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2003 De Madonnas De Lloranas, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2003 Annual Studio Exhibition, Rene Alvarado Studio, San Angelo, Texas
2002 Faces, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2001 Gecko Gallery, San Angelo, Texas
2001 Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2001 Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas
2000 Evelyn Siegel Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
2000 Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas
2000 Celebramos Las Bellas Artes, Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2000 René Alvarado, GTE Corporate Headquarters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1999 Galeria Ortiz, San Antonio, Texas
1999 George & Company, Boerne, Texas
Group Exhibitions
2019 Mykonos Biennale, Mykonos, Greece
2019 European Ambassador Residence, Washington D.C.
2019 Chimaya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Raw 1899 Gallery “First.Love.Abstracted” San Angelo, TX
2017 Dan Pfeiffer Gallery Gallery One Year Anniversary Fredericksburg, TX
2017 Latin X: Artistas De Tejas (Louise Hopkins Underwood Center For The Arts) LHUCA Lubbock, TX
2016 Chimaya Gallery “A Retrospective Of Gender: Female/Male Portraits, Nudes & Pinups” Los Angeles, CA
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration Of Valley House Artists, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 Dallas Art Fair (Valley House Gallery), Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2009 Thank You Fort Worth: An Appreciation From Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2007 CADD Contemporary Art Dealers Of Dallas Inaugural Art Fair (Valley House Gallery), Three Three Three First Avenue...
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Early 2000s North American Paintings
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$2,880 Sale Price
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Located in Clifton Springs, NY
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern North American Paintings
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"LIAISONS I" Original Painting Lynn Curlee
By Lynn Curlee
Located in New York, NY
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Located in Clifton Springs, NY
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