Early 20th Century Paintings

Lovely oil on canvas by the French artist, Louis-Auguste-Paul Magne de la Croix (1875-1942) depicting a parade of thoroughbred horses before a race, led by their jockeys with lovely ...

An outstanding painting by British artist Walter Herbert Roe , ca' early 20th century. Masterfully depicting 2 children reading a book and a dog at their attention-as if time stood still...

Early antique 20th century tonalist winter snowy pastel landscape painting by Lori Gergens. Framed and matted. Painting size 9.5" x 20", frame size 18" x 28".

A French early 20th Century Neoclassical Revival stained glass panel depicting a praying angel or cupid. The charming oval shaped hand-painted multi-colored glass panel or window dep...

Set of six Chinese watercolors on paper of song birds in trees executed in a distinctive delicate style with bold colors. Presented in wood...

Antique painting of a steam powered yacht flying a British flag and named "Sapphire" as seen on the Mediterranean sea with Mt.Vesuvius in the background. Executed in gouache by noted Italian marine artist Luca...

Barn in Moonlight by Frederick John Mulhaupt American Oil Canvas Laid on Board “Barn in Moonlight” By FREDERICK JOHN MULHAUPT (1871 – 1938) AMERICAN. Signed / Oil On Canvas laid on...

Nakamura Daizaburo Turtledoves in a Peach Tree Taisho period, circa 1920 Framed painting. Mineral pigments, ink and gofun on silk Signed: Daizaburo Dimensions (framed)...

Oil on canvas painting of a Californian forest scene by Charles Henry Harmon (1859–1936), a master of early American landscape art. This evocative work captures two figures walking ...

Montague Dawson: A Moonlight Scrap. This dramatic watercolour on paper shows a WWI R-class destroyer escorting a battleship through a night-time encounter in choppy seas. The moon ha...

Fruit still life on board signed Timmons. Attributed to William Federick Timmons(1915-1985) . Rich colors of blue, red and pink make up this fruit still life composition. The composition consists of fruit in a pedestal bowl and the detailed drapes in the background. Custom framed. This item can parcel ship for $45. William Frederick Timmins was born May 23, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois. His father, Harry L. Timmins (1887-1963), was a celebrated magazine illustrator and co-owner with Frank H. Young (1888-1964) of a successful Chicago advertising agency called Young & Timmins Advertising Illustration Studios. In 1923 Timmins and Young co-founded the American Academy of Art in Chicago. His father's impressive career brought the family a prosperous and privileged lifestyle, which included pleasure trips to Paris and London. In 1934 he began to commute by Metro North train to New York City, where he studied at the Art Students League on West 57th Street. He also took classes at the National Academy of Design on Fifth Avenue near 89th Street. In 1935 he began to study at the Grand Central School of Art, located on the sky-lit top floor of Grand Central Station Terminal. This was the same station he used for his daily commute. In 1935 he began to sell pen and ink story illustrations as well as painted covers to NYC publishers of pulp magazines. During the second half of the 1930s his work appeared in Western Story, Dime Sports, Clues Detective Stories, Thrilling Western, and All Aces Magazine. He and his wife moved to a home on Spectacle Lane in Wilton, CT. This area of Connecticut had become a popular artist community. He socialized with several artist neighbors, such as Benjamin Kimberly Prins (1902-1980), Tom Lovell (1909-1997), Richard Lyon (1913-2002), Al Parker (1906-1985), Rolf Klep (1904-1981), R. G. Harris (1911-2007). During the 1940s his cover illustrations appeared on pulp magazines, such as The Shadow, Clues Detective Stories, Wild West Weekly, and Astounding Science Fiction. All these were published by Street & Smith. In 1944 the family moved to Darien, CT. At first the artist worked in a rented studio in nearby Norwalk, CT, but after a while he converted a vacant family room into an art studio and worked at home. After the war he drew story illustrations for Family Circle and Liberty Magazine. In 1948 his father, Harry L. Timmins, and his brother, Harry L. Timmins, Jr., moved to California to open a lithography business in Hollywood. During the 1950s he illustrated several books for children that were published by Rand McNally, such as Cowboys, Davy Crockett...

This is a C.M.Hutschenreuther hand painted porcelain small oval plaque. It depicts a portrait of a child Jesus after Heinrich Hoffman’s painting. His ...

Antique Belgian oil on canvas by Impressionist Painter Paul Leduc (1876-1943), "Le Pont Vieux," in Sospel, France. Sospel is a village in France near the "A...

Bright and beautifully painted spring scene, depicting river flowing through trees with a farm in the background. A windmill can be seen in the background. By early American artist A...

A watercolor finished print, depicting a galloping horses with jokeys. Frederic Remington. Solid cherry wood frame, polished and beeswaxed. United States circa 1900.

Beautifully painted in a quiet palette of blue, gray and warm skin tones, this portrait of a college student with blonde hair and fair complexion was made by Ernst Söderberg in 1920....

Flowers artwork, Art Déco, oil painting, floral vase painting which represents white and red Dahlias. It also has a golden frame realised in the 1900s. The oil on canvas paintin...

Heron & Plovers Ink and silver leaf on paper Maekawa Bunrei (1837-1917) A pair of low six-panel Japanese screens by Maekawa Bunrei, a later master of the Kyoto based Shijo school of painting. On the right screen a solitary white heron stands motionless in a stream. On the left screen plovers play along a shoreline. The elegant forms are executed employing fluid, minimalistic ink brushstrokes. The soft brushstrokes and the sharp light of the silver leaf lend the scenes a sense of translucence. The sophisticated composition superbly exploits the long, horizontal pictorial surface of the pair of folding screens...

You will not be disappointed in this wonderfully hand painted piece by the world reknown William Morley. Retaining its original Gilded Age frame and in very nice condition. A waterco...

The painter Emil Fiala (8.9.1896 Prossnitz - Mähren Czech Republic - Dec. 1960 Vienna) studied at the Viennese Academy by Franz Rumpler, August Eisenmenger, Julius Schmid, Christian ...

This exquisite and large still life oil-on-canvas painting portrays an abundant range of food items carefully arranged on a table against a dark backdrop. At the center, a large fish...

painted most likely between 1900 and 1925, a large horizontal work depicting a bend in a river with trees and a cloud filled sky, by Georges Dannet 1859-1936, retaining an early 20th...

E. C. Ulnitz: well listed Danish artist. Flower painting. Oil on canvas. Signed: E. C. Ulnitz 1927. Measures : 26 cm. x 20 cm. The frame measures 5.5 cm. In perfect condition.

A melancholy painting of boats on a port. Oil on wood panel, signed and framed. Norway c. early 1900s.

The category Antique Paintings, Portraits Of A Girl features an Oil Painting On Canvas From The Early 1900s. It is a portrait of a young woman dressed in peasant clothing and holdin...

(no image) With beautiful oxblood color lacquer frame with 19th century bronze mounts.

Unsigned oil on linen painting in distressed guilt frame. An Flemish oil painting of a horse and dogs in a romantic cottage landscape.

Hungarian Artist (1894-1960) "Reclining Nude", circa 1920s Measures: 19.5" H x 23.5" W, overall size is 28" x 32.5" Oil on canvas, inscribed lower right "Somody baratomnak szere...

Frederic Montenard (FRENCH , 1849-1926) "Fishing Boats in a Harbor" Fishing boats docked at port in Mediterranean town. Oil on Canvas, sign...

[Authentic work] ◆ Kodo Umemura ◆ Diagram of Kiyoshi Miyama ◆ Master: Yoshifumi Kikuchi ◆ Co-box ◆ Handpainted ◆ Paper ◆ Hanging scroll ◆ Kodo Umemura Born in Osaka in 1898 He grad...

One of the great masterworks of Herbert von Reyl-Hanish and clearly inspired by Renaissance portraits which show a dignified personage with an idyllic landscape behind, this portrait of a young, blond youth in traditional lederhosen is striking and powerful. The intense, open gaze of the young man, and his fresh, ruddy countenance, contrast dramatically with the jagged peaks and cool colors of the sky and mountains behind him. Reyl-Hanisch is sometimes described as a Magic Realist...

A large antique reproduction oil painting after Eugéne Delacroix. Apty titled "The Barque of Dante (French: La Barque de Dante)" features an antiqued canvas. Frame: 166 cm (65.35...

Original oil on canvas painting of goats on a riverbank by an Italian mountain village. Signed C. B. M. Condition: A few minor peelings. Slight bulging in corners. Will benefit from ...

This a charming late 19th or early 20th century plein aire paiting by the Italian artist Attilio Simonetti (1843-1925). The painting is inscribed al dorso "San Benedetto Del Tronto S...

Wonderful impressionist painting. Full of light, color, and movement. "The Flamenco Dancer by J. Charles Arter ( American 1860-1923). Oil on canvas. Signed upper left. Circa 1900. Un...

Lovely pastoral oil paintings. They will want you to visit France.

This is an original Scandinavian 1922 oil on plate still life painting of a bouquet of yellow flowers. The bouquet is loose and asymmetrical and the flowers at different height, givi...

English Victorian style full lengths portrait of a gentleman (possibly Toscanini) with a mustache wearing a long black coat & hat holding a cane (signed: LUCIA TARDITI 1913 ROMA VII)...

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 with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame with later touch ups. The Cornwall Iron Banks Original 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 workings of one of the largest iron ore mines in the eastern United States, located in Cornwall PA. This mine and others in the area that came before it, played a crucial role in the development of the United States of America from the Revolutionary War, through the industrial revolution up until the 1970’s when the mine was flooded during Hurricane Agnes and closed operations. Overall frame Size approximately 26″ wide x 2″ deep x 30″ 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...

As found in France, an impressive oil on canvas painting of a French landscape scene, signed, circa 1920's-1930's. A very lifelike rendering of a French village. This oil painting fe...

Oil painting "Ein Regentag", Rudolf Quittner (1872-1910), ca. 1904, signed signed bottom right "Rud. Quittner" Lit: Katalog der XXXII. Jahresausstellung in Wien Künstlerhaus, Wien...

Helen Hyde (American, 1868-1919) Watercolor on paper depicting a girl reading by candlelight, circa 1900. sight: 8 ½ by 7 ¼ inches frame: 11 ¾ by 10 ½ inches

Original gouache & ink masterwork on paper. The artist captures the magnificence of the era with precise architectural perspective. Cerulean, ochre, & shell white celebrate the nosta...

The intricacy of this late 19th century Roman Style fresco painting has been preserved for over 100 years. It depicts wild animals and a male figure decoratively painted among scroll...

Impressionist landscape by George Renouard. Beautiful blues and mauves. Oil on academy board. Unsigned. Dated on back Oct 18 '16. George Renouard, was born in Rochester, New York a...

Hinoki (Japanese red pine) and other deciduous trees in mineral pigments on mulberry paper. Signature reads: Yosui.

A charming pair of English School, oil on board full length dog portraits by J Tonry Both portraits signed and dated 1923, housed in their original period glazed gilt frames. Each...

A lovely pair of early 20th century still life oil paintings depicting a gorgeous studied composition of flower arrangements, trailing foliate, birds and butterflies mid flight, in b...

Georges Sauveur Maury (French 1872-1972), early 20th century, oil on canvas Impressionist chariot racing scene depicting figures chariot racing in the coloseum, signed at lower right...

This magnificent depiction of Zeus presiding over the gods of Olympus was painted by François-Louis Schmied, one of France's two leading artists specializing in high-end book design ...

Intriguing set of five Chinese watercolor paintings on silk depicting men occupied in their trades, executed in a soft delicate technique and presented under glass in four wood frame...

Porcelain plaque painted with Mary Magdalene by K.P.M. German, circa 1900 Measures: Frame: Height 32.5cm, width 26.5cm, depth 3cm Plaque: Height 25.5cm, width 19cm, depth 0.5cm ...

Japanese two panel screen: Moon rising through bamboo on silver leaf, Meiji period painting (1868 - 1912) of the moon rising on the horizon with a garden stone in the foreground. Lic...

Full of tenderness in a moment of rejection and shame, this major Art Deco painting, masterfully executed, depicts Jophiel expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. The two nud...

Norwegian Modernist Masterpiece by Ragnar Kraugerud (1909–1987), c. 1930s This exceptional museum-quality painting by celebrated Norwegian artist Ragnar Kraugerud showcases his dist...

Stunning period Cubist oil painting on canvas with strong Futurist undertones, carries Cyrillic script as part of the composition. Visceral quality to the brushwork and application o...

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER IN FRONT OF THE TEMPLE OF NEPTUNE IN PAESTUM Friedrich Perlberg 1900 Watercolor on Paper, signed lower right: F. Perlberg and inscribed lower left: Neptunes Temp...

This richly detailed painting of a Greek goddess in Classical robes, standing atop a flight of steps with two heavily veiled attendants below, was made by François-Louis Schmied, one...

This large oil on canvas painting by American painter William Henry Drake (1856-1926) features a flock of sheep in a landscape following their shepherd dog. The animals are very much...

W Ramsey watercolor depicting a Shepard hearing up his flock. Incased in a gilded frame. Dimensions: Height 21 Inches Width 27 Inches Depth 1.5 Inches.