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Abstract Landscape, Oil on Masonite by Female Artist Miriam Bromberg
By Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract Landscape Miriam Bromberg Date: circa 1960 Oil on Masonite Size: 7.5 x 9.25 in. (19.05 x 23.5 cm) Frame Size: 13 x 15 inches
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1960s Abstract New York - Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

"Colossi of Memnon, Egypt" Rare Orientalist Landscape Painting by F.A. Bridgman
By Frederick Arthur Bridgman
Located in Queens, NY
"Colossi of Memnon, Egypt" Rare Orientalist Landscape Painting by Frederick Arthur Bridgman (American, 1847-1928) A wonderful oil on canvas painting by American orientalist painter Frederick Arthur Bridgman depicting The Colossi of Memnon - two large stone statues...
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19th Century New York - Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

The Night Rambler, Navy blue forest scene, oil and gold leaf painting with fox
By Anastasia Gklava
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Night Rambler" is a beautiful navy blue oil and gold leaf painting of a textured forest scene with an adorable fox hiding in the bottom right side of the painting. The artist us...
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2010s Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Bin Zhu Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Farming Season"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Farming Season Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 32.5 x 16.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition. Year: 2009 Ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Impressionist Crashing Wave Beach Seascape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist seascape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Framed. Measuring: 20.5 by 30.5 inches overall. Handsomely framed in white wood molding. Excell...
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1960s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Cherish, Beautiful oil and gold leaf painting of pink floral cherry blossoms
By Anastasia Gklava
Located in Dallas, TX
"Cherish" is a beautiful oil painting of pink cherry blossoms. The texture and color covers the entire 39x39 inch canvas in a stunning and saturated composition. The artist uses oil ...
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2010s Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

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Gold Leaf

German School Village Landscape Scene
Located in Astoria, NY
German School, Village Landscape Scene, Oil on Canvas, early 19th century, unsigned, ebonized and giltwood frame. Image: 34.25" H x 51" W; frame: 39.75" H x 66.5" W x 2" D. Provenanc...
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Early 19th Century New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Morning Beneath the EL NYC American Scene WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
By Bernard Gussow
Located in New York, NY
"Morning Beneath the EL" NYC American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism Bernard Gussow (1881-1957) "Morning Beneath the EL" 24 1/4 x 30 inches Oil on canvas Signed...
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1930s American Realist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Ft Lauderdale Beach Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist beach scene oil painting by Carl W. Brandien (1886 - 1965). Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 9H by 12L.
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1950s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Place de la Concorde, Pari" Post-Impressionist Street Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Salvadore Demone. Deomne was a Parisian painter known for his vibrant cityscapes that depicted the times of his generation. T...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Beach Scene with Figures and Sailboats" Impressionistic Oil Painting in Holland
Located in New York, NY
A wonderfully rich beach scene done in Zandvoort Holland in the Mid-20th Century depicting figures in the sand. Some figures are by the water with sailboats as kids play in the dista...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

White Forest
Located in New York, NY
Title: White Forest Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 22"" x 18"" Frame: Framing options available! Age: 2000s Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition. Artist: Mingg...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Pheasant in Flight”
Located in Southampton, NY
Large impressive painting of a pheasant in flight by the listed Danish artist, Carl Hoyrup. Signed lower left. Condition is good. Circa 1935. Overall in walnut stained original wo...
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1930s Post-Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lac Trouser, Blue, Abstract, Landscape, painting, Mixed Media, diptych, Pink
By Marie Danielle Leblanc
Located in Riverdale, NY
Lac Trouser is a colorful mixed media painting. It is oil and pigment on Wood Panel with a high gloss finish. This diptych is 20x40. It is filled with beautiful pinks, white and b...
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2010s Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Resin, Varnish, Oil, Wood Panel, Pigment

The White Sloop (Peconic Bay), 1907
By Irving Ramsey Wiles
Located in New York, NY
This painting exemplifies Irving Ramsey Wiles’s mastery of light and his intimate connection to the coastal New York landscape through fluid brushwork and a vibrant, American Impress...
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Early 20th Century New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Stone Wall, Autumn, " George Smillie, Tonalist Fall Landscape View
By George Henry Smillie
Located in New York, NY
George Henry Smillie (1840 - 1921) Stone Wall, Autumn, 1879 Oil on canvas 9 1/2 x 15 inches Signed and dated lower right Provenance: Skinner, Boston, September 19, 2014, Lot 389 The career of George Smillie (1840-1921) followed the arc of nineteenth-century U.S. landscape painting. Trained in the Hudson River School tradition, Smillie successfully adapted to changing U.S. tastes and growing interest in European trends. In the late 1800s, he moved to tonalist paintings full of brushwork and influenced by French Barbizon painting. By the end of his career, he had lightened his palette to produce works similar to those of the U.S. impressionists. Yet in all styles, he was never less than competent, and his tonalist work is among the best produced in the United States. Like many nineteenth-century painters, George Smillie’s artistic training began with the study of printing. His father, James Smillie...
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1870s Tonalist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early Florida Painting "Spanish Garden" St. Augustine by Eric Stry Circa 1950
Located in Rochester, NY
Early Florida painting "Spanish Garden" St. Augustine Florida. Painted by Eric Stry. Oil on canvas board. Original carved frame. Circa 1950. Signed lower left. Titled on the reverse...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Into the Night
By Ralph Albert Blakelock
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower left in arrowhead: RA Blakelock.
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape Morris Shulman Signed Oil Painting
By Morris M. Shulman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1952. Signed. Image size, 21.5"L x 7.5"H. Housed in a period modern frame.
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1950s Abstract New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Italian Impressionist Coastal Seascape Woman Washing Clothes Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early Italian impressionist seaside portrait painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 7.25H by 10.75L.
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Early 1900s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique French Modernist Paris School Signed Street Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French modernist Paris school cityscape street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 27 by 40 inches overall and 26 by 39 painting alone. In excellent...
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1940s Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Antique Important Polish Beach Scene Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique elegant Polish beach scene oil painting by Paul Merwart (1855 - 1902). Finely detailed with great color. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 13L by 16.25H
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1890s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stunning Sunset Beach Scene Dune Seascape Signed and Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American impressionist beach scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 12H by 18L.
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1920s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Guiwen Liang Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Countryside"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Countryside Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 35 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition. Year: 2013 Artist:...
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21st Century and Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"On the Upper Mississippi" Delle Miller, Missouri Regionalist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Delle Miller On the Upper Mississippi, circa 1926 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 26 1/8 x 29 1/8 inches By 1909, Miller was an instructor at the Kansas...
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1920s American Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Linqi Shang Landscape Original Acrylic On Canvas "Forest"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Forest Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 35 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition. Year: 2014 Artist: Linq...
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21st Century and Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Yuehui Zhang Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Towards Where Afar"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Towards Where Afar Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 26 x 34 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition. Year: 2012 Ar...
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21st Century and Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Songjun Hu Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Windblown Trees on Hill"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Windblown Trees on Hill Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 39 x 27.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition. Year: 2...
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21st Century and Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impasse Girardon, Original Folk Art Oil Painting on Board by Michel Delacroix
By Michel Delacroix
Located in Long Island City, NY
A practitioner of the French “Naif” movement, Michel Delacroix’s style is a simplistic and flattened rendition of everyday life, often mixed with a certain collaged aesthetic. This p...
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1990s Folk Art New York - Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Crete I" Oil on Canvas Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
By Gloria Sáez
Located in New York, NY
“Creta I” by Gloria Sáez is a captivating horizontal abstract oil painting on canvas, showcasing a harmonious interplay of warm earth tones and rich, vibrant blues. The textured laye...
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2010s Abstract New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shanwen Mou Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Morning In The Mountains"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Morning In The Mountains Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23 x 19 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Yea...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Speedway, Washington NC
By Edie Nadelhaft
Located in East Quogue, NY
Landscape painting of Speedway gas station sign by Edie Nadelhaft- oil on canvas, 10 x 20 inches An avid motorcyclist, Edie Nadelhaft takes annual weeks-long tours of the country's ...
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2010s Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique SUNSET VIEW OF SAN LAZZARO, VENICE
Located in New York, NY
Up for sale is a wonderful Italian Venetian Sunset painting by Bernhard Stange (1807-1880). Painting for sale depicts SUNSET VIEW OF SAN LAZZARO, VENICE It is absolutely colorful a...
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1870s Academic New York - Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Impressionist Large Framed Waterfall Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist framed landscape oil painting. Framed in a silver impressionist molding. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 20H by 30L inches.
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1920s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Great Valley, Acrylic Painting by Jerry Schurr
By Jerry Schurr
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jerry Schurr, American (1940 - ) Title: Great Valley Year: 1987 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size: 43 in. x 88 in. (109.22 cm ...
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1980s Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

Edward Rittenberg "Monet s Flower Garden" 30x24 Textural Vibrant Floral Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Monet's Flower Garden" is a 30x24 acrylic painting on canvas by artist Edward Rittenberg. Featured is a blooming garden full of flowers layered over an expressive blue background. E...
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2010s American Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique Black American Modernist New York Street Scene Framed HUGE Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and large early American modernist oil painting by Nicholas Davis (Born 1937). Oil on canvas. Framed. Important provenance. Measuring 52 by 32 inches. Artist bio: Nicholas Davis (Amer. B. 1937) Nicholas Davis was born in New York City in 1937. He studied at the Arts Students League, and in Mexico City. He was included in the 1969 Exhibition of 100 Afro-American Artists at the Philadelphia Civic Center Museum. That exhibition included the works of Henry Ossawa Turner, Romare Bearden, Hale Woodruff, Edward Bannister...
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1970s Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
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1950s Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Paris School Early 1900 s French Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist portrait oil painting of two young girls. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 10L x 18H.
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1920s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"After Poussin: Madonna of the Steps" abstract, figurative painting, warm tones
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A famous French Neoclassical painting by Nicholas Poussin, copied by Darius Yektai on four panels of linen. "Madonna of the Steps" was la...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Epoxy Resin

Adirondack Stream by Hudson River artist Joseph Antonio Hekking (1830-1903)
By Joseph Antonio Hekking
Located in New York, NY
Painted by Hudson River School artist Joseph Antonio Hekking (1830-1903), "Adirondack Stream in Fall" is oil on board and measures 8.5 x 6.5 inches. The painting is signed at the low...
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19th Century Hudson River School New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Antique American Modernist Cityscape Ashcan School 59th Street Bridge Painting
By Robert Hallowell
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American ashcan school New York City oil painting by Robert Hallowell (1886 - 1939). Oil on board, circa 1929. Signed. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 30"L x 25"H.
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1920s Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

EXHIBITED American Impressionist OLD LYME Connecticut Triple Falls Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Carl Lawless (1894-1963) Circa 1915-1920 Signed lower left Oil on Canvas 17x17 inches image size 21x21 inches with frame Good Condition A beautiful American Impressionist Painting b...
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1910s American Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Rainy Day" Emile Gruppe, Cape Ann, Rockport, Gloucester, Impressionist
By Emile Gruppe
Located in New York, NY
Emile Gruppe Rainy Day Signed lower left Oil on canvas 16 x 16 inches Emile Gruppe was an unusually prolific artist. He was at his easel almost every day and created thousands of pa...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Walking the Dogs, Post-Impressionist Oil Painting by Louis Eilshemius
By Louis Eilshemius
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Eilshemius', American (1864 -1941), early works were influenced by the Barbizon School and Corot among others. This oil on canvas painting from 1890-1910 is from the era when h...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Montmartre Street Scene, Paris, France" Thomas Pradzynski, Architecture
By Thomas Pradzynski
Located in New York, NY
Thomas Pradzynski (1951 - 2007) Montmartre Street Scene, Paris, France Oil on canvas 16 x 32 inches Signed lower right At the age of 26 Thomas Prad...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape at Twilight by American Artist George Renouard Dated 1916
By George Renouard
Located in Rochester, NY
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 an...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"California Mountains, " Orrin White, Impressionism, Southwest Desert Landscape
By Orrin A. White
Located in New York, NY
Orrin White California Mountain Landscape Signed lower right Oil on board 8 x 10 inches A nationally known landscape painter, who spent the prime of his career in California, Orrin White was born in Hanover, Illinois. He was artistically inclined at an early age but did not pursue an art career until he was in his thirties. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Notre Dame University...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Ships at Sunset" Hendricks Hallett, Fiery Sunset, Sailing Ships, Marine Scene
Located in New York, NY
Hendricks Hallett Ships at Sunset Signed lower left Oil on canvas 22 x 27 inches Hallett, originally from Massachusetts, pursued his studies in Antwerp and Paris. He is primarily r...
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1880s Academic New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American School Modernist Landscape Signed Western Oil on Paper
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed illegibly lower left. Oil on paper. 10 x 8.
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1920s Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist American Landscape Painting 1950 Mountain Shadow Rare Framed Tranquil
By Francis Kelly
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful modernist landscape painting. Francis Kelly was born in 1927 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his early education in Chicago and California. He served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1948 when he entered the Art Center School, Los Angeles. During 1951 in 1952 he lived in Paris, attending the Academie de la Grande, Chaumiere. In 1953 he went to the University of Hawaii, Honolulu, and then to the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was graphic laboratory assistant to John Paul Jones. Awarded a Fulbright Grant in 1955 he came to the Graphic Department of the Central School, London. The St. George's Gallery first introduced his etchings in Britain. In 1958 Kelly was awarded the Stacy Grant for painting. His work has been shown at Royal Academy Exhibitions and he has traveled extensively. In 1966 he was appointed Art organizer for the U.S. Embassy "Festival of Arts in Humanities". His paintings were shown in the exhibition "Five American Artists in Britain". During 1976 he acted in a similar capacity on behalf of Windsor & Newton Ltd., who sponsored an exhibition of American artists commemorating the U.S. Bicentennial. He appeared in the film Science in Art. Kelly has studied painting conservation at the Courtald Institute. In 1967 he was sent to the Italian Art and Archives Rescue Fund to Florence to restore flood damaged paintings. In 1971 his book, Art Restoration, was published by David and Charles and in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill. His second book, The Studio and The Artist was published in 1975. Kelly's work has been shown at 24 museums in Great Britain and numerous galleries. Acquisitions have been made by many public and private collections, universities and educational services. During more than 40 years in Britain he has found a growing affinity with the countryside, observing less the well-known landmarks but rather more the timeless rural lanes and by-ways as yet still unspoiled by building and industry. A member of the group in Brighton preserving Brighton's West Pier, he has produced a series of works recording the ravages of time on this finest of Victorian structures.
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1950s American Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Signed Framed Australian Impressionist Victoria Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist landscape of Australia by Sir Erik Langker (1898 - 1982). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
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1950s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1893 American Tonalist Impressionist Moonlit Landscape
By Charles Morris Young
Located in New York, NY
Early American Impressionist Moonlit landscape with river by Charles Morris Young (1869-1964). Oil on canvas, dated 1894. Signed lower right. Disp...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist NYC Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract expressionist oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas.
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1960s Abstract New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"View of New York Harbor, Staten Island Ferry, " Gustave Wolff, Impressionism
By Gustave Wolff
Located in New York, NY
Gustav (Gustave) Wolff (1863 - 1935) View of New York Harbor from the Staten Island Ferry Oil on canvas 16 x 12 inches Signed lower right In the Autumn of 1913, the German Associati...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionistic Oil on Canvas Painting of European Street Scene by L.I. Bernard
Located in Plainview, NY
A Large impressionistic oil on canvas painting by artist L.I Bernard ( British, b 1890 - Death Unknown ). The beautiful painting , most likely showing the streets of London features...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Building the Allegheny Railroad, Pennsylvania" Alfred Wall, Scalp Level School
Located in New York, NY
Alfred S. Wall (American, 1825-1896) Untitled (Building the Railroad), 1859 Oil on canvas 14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches Signed and dated lower left For Christmas, 2008, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured Alfred Wall's painting, Old Saw Mill from the collection of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, PA. It was painted in 1851 in the town of Lilly, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny Mountains. The newspaper description stated that "though the saw mill is long gone, it still conveys all the warmth and coziness of this time of year. The article, written by Patricia Lowry, continued: At first glance, Alfred S. Wall's painting of a saw mill in snowy woods triggers nostalgia for the coziness of a log cabin, the smell of a wood-burning fire and the warming of chilled hands and feet beside it. But as sentimental as it seems on the surface, Mr. Wall's painting has a deeper and unexpected context. This is more than a painting about sled-riding children and early industry planted in the middle of virgin forest. Intended or not, this is a painting about conquering the great divide of the Allegheny Mountains. For the third consecutive year, the Post-Gazette features a winter-scene painting on the cover of the Christmas Day newspaper. This year's painting, Old Saw Mill, was selected by co-publisher and editor-in-chief John Robinson Block and executive editor David Shribman during a visit to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg. Mr. Wall, listed as a portrait painter in the 1850 census, was about 26 when he painted Old Saw Mill in 1851. The self-taught artist was born in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, to William and Lucy Wall, who'd emigrated from England around 1820. An artistic sensibility ran in the family: William was a sculptor who carved ornate tombstones here; Alfred's children, A. Bryan and Bessie, were landscape painters, as was Alfred's older brother, William Coventry Wall. For more than a century the Walls formed a prominent art dynasty in Pittsburgh, and Alfred, eventually a partner in the city's most prestigious art gallery, was well known as a painter, dealer and restorer. In Old Saw Mill, two wood cutters, each holding an axe, meet outside the mill; one points in the direction of the forest. On the other side of the stream, one child pulls another down the hillside on a sled. Just behind the hill's slope, the roof of a building appears, perhaps the home of the sawyer. The luminous, late afternoon light comes from the northwest, casting lengthening shadows on the snow under a darkening sky. The saw mill in "Old Saw Mill" likely would have been impossible to track down had Mr. Wall, presumably, not written on the back of the painting: "old saw mill near Jct. 4, Portage RR, Pa." "There was no Junction 4," said Mike Garcia, park ranger at the Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, about 90 miles east of Pittsburgh near Gallitzen, Cambria County. "But there was an Inclined Plane No. 4 at Lilly, and there was a saw mill there." In fact, there were at least six saw mills at Lilly over the years, said longtime resident Jim Salony, president of the Lilly-Washington Historical Society. But when he saw an image of the painting, Mr. Salony had no trouble coming up with a location. While there are no known photographs of the saw mill, he believes it stood near the intersection of Portage and Washington streets, next to Bear Rock Run. Mr. Salony, retired academic dean at Mount Aloysius College, didn't know exactly when the mill was torn down, but it's been gone since at least the late 1800s. He was pleased to learn of the painting, even though that knowledge came too late for inclusion in a new book about Lilly, The Spirit of a Community, for which he served as primary author and editor. It runs to more than 700 pages. For a little town -- population 869 last year -- Lilly has a lot of history. Nestled in a bowl on the western slope of the Allegheny Mountains about 3 miles south of Cresson, Lilly was first settled in 1806 by Joseph Meyer and his family, who named their 332-acre land patent Dundee. Although the Meyers had left by 1811, other settlers followed, but the community didn't flourish until the 1830s, when the Allegheny Portage Railroad began its 23-year-run through the town. For 200 years the Alleghenies had stood as an impediment to trade and travel between Pittsburgh and the east. A canal from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh would change that and compete with New York's Erie Canal. But a portage railroad would have to be built, on which teams of horses would lead the canal boats over the mountains. Engineer Sylvester Welch began his surveying from the small settlement at Lilly. The railroad would require 10 inclined planes, some quite steep, between Hollidaysburg and Johnstown. To build it, trees had to be cut along a 120-foot-wide right-of-way for 36 miles, along which track and engine houses had to be built. William Brown, who owned the saw mill on Bear Rock Run, built at least one of the engine houses at Inclined Plane No. 4; an 1834 contract also included fencing the dwelling lots at the head and foot of the plane. Lilly is located at what was the foot of Inclined Plane No. 4., giving the community one of its early informal names, Foot of Four. Named in 1883 for Richard Lilly, who'd completed the grist mill there, Lilly had another early name: Hemlock, so dubbed by a Portage Railroad traveler who smelled the bark stripped from the trees at the saw mill. Because there isn't another Allegheny Portage Railroad location like it, where a cut in the mountains opens into a bowl, Mr. Salony thinks it was Lilly that Charles Dickens wrote about following his trip from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh on the Pennsylvania Canal in late March 1842, describing what he saw after emerging from "the bottom of the cut": "It was very pretty while traveling, to look down into a valley full of light and softness, catching glimpses through the tree-tops of scattered cabins; children running to the doors; dogs bursting out to bark, who we could see without hearing; terrified pigs scampering homeward; families sitting out in their rude gardens; cows gazing upward with a stupid indifference; men in their shirt-sleeves looking on at their unfinished houses, planning out to-morrow's work; and we riding onward, high above them, like a whirlwind." To get to Lilly, Mr. Wall may have taken the Pennsylvania Canal from his home in Allegheny City, now the North Side. He'd married young, at 21, to Sarah Carr in 1846, the same year he began his career as an artist. By 1880 they were living in a brick townhouse at 104 (later 814) Arch St., now demolished. Across the river in Pittsburgh he shared a studio at 67 Fourth Ave. with his brother William; they later moved to Burke's Building, today the city's oldest office building at 209-211 Fourth. But often they worked outdoors, sometimes as part of the colony of artists that grew up around painter George Hetzel beginning in the late 1860s at Scalp Level...
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1850s Hudson River School New York - Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Gloucester Harbor at Sunset, " John Hare, Cape Ann, New England Watercolor View
Located in New York, NY
John Hare Gloucester Harbor at Sunset, Massachusetts Signed lower right Watercolor on paper 16 x 12 inches John Cuthbert Hare, 1908-1978, was a watercolorist who painted boats, seascapes and harbor scenes. He was primarily associated New England, especially Cape Cod, Massachusetts where he spent his summers from 1938 to 1965. However, he was in Florida where he was a member of the St. Augustine Art Association, and other locations on the East Coast. It is likely Hare was born in New York City. He first studied commercial art in Brooklyn at the Pratt Institute and also studied at the Art Students League in Manhattan. He worked for Hearst newspapers corporation, and in 1933 married. In the next few years, he and his wife traveled extensively, camping and painting and exhibiting his work in galleries. In 1935, they visited St. Augustine and an exhibition of his watercolors was held there in the old bank...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Antique Signed Architectural Landscape Carthage Tunisia Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 13L x 9.5H.
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1930s Impressionist New York - Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century
By Agnes Hart
Located in New York, NY
"Union Square" NYC American Scene Social Realism Modernism WPA Mid-20th Century Agnes Hart (American, 1912-1979) "Union Square, New York City" Sight: 14 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches Gouache...
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1940s American Modern New York - Landscape Paintings

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Gouache, Board

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