Pennsylvania - Wall Decorations

An untitled oil painting depicting a rural road surrounded by trees. - Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated 1940. - Unframed.

This important, beautifully rendered drawing of a reclining male nude figure was made by Edward Wolfe, who was born in South Africa but spent much of his career in Great Britain in the company of Duncan Grant and other celebrated gay artists. A year after arriving in England in 1916, Roger Fry invited Wolfe to join the Omega Workshops, where he painted and designed furniture with strong colors influenced by the Fauvist movement. Wolfe connected to Grant and the Bloomsbury Group...

This rare and remarkable tile produced at the close of World War II in Delft, depicting the Nazi dragon being slayed by the Dutch people, is a superb example of Art Deco cloisonné...

The large Chinese watercolor on European paper depicts a starboard view of a two-master sailing ship with one man sailing the vessel while two passengers can clearly be seen inside t...

A fine Mid-Century Modern sculpture. Depicting the outlines of a rotund female nude in a rectangular bronze plaque or tableau on a handcarved wooden mount. Signed Fane (LR) in the cast, likely Lawrence Fane (1933 - 2008). Lawrence Fane studied under George Demetrios...

Bold and striking, this remarkable polished aluminum rondel with matte-finish enamel painted decoration depicts two towering giraffes, flanked by Primitive symbols. The symbols incor...

JEAN BAIN French, 1883-1963 Evening Landscape Oil on panel signed J. Bain lower right housed in a lovely early custom frame 12 3/8" H x 18" W x 1" D [frame] 9 7/8" H x 14 15/16"...

Vividly painted in a palette of white, brilliant blue and ruddy skin tones, this portrait of a bearded Greek youth with ruddy complexion and green eyes was...

Large-Scale Ornithological Engraving by Madame Knip (Plate 2 from Les Pigeons, c. 1809–1811) A stunning and historically significant large-format color engraving of the Nicobar Pige...

GEORGE DREW American, 1875-1968
 Evening Landscape Oil on panel
 signed lower left 10” H x 14” W x 7/8” D [frame]
 7” H x 11” W [panel]

 Essay A very finely painted and brillia...

Beautifully sculpted and expertly cast and patinated by the famed Gorham Company in 1930, this large panel was awarded to the winner of the Commercial Vehicle Inter-Fleet Contest in ...

A view from a balcony by Lambro Ahlas. Charcoal pencil on paper. Matted in a black matte under glass in a thin gilt frame. Ahlas was a California-born artist of Greek ancestry....

This early and ambitious watercolor painting by John B. Lear shows the growing scale and detail of his best work, here incorporating three nude and semi-nude male figures in a surrea...

Lawrence Chvotzkin (American, 20th Century) Original Painting on Canvas

Johnny Friedlaender abstract exhibition poster announcing his works at the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal, December 6 through December 3...

Beautifully expressed in tones of blue, gray, green and gold, this fabulous Mid Century enamel panel shows an egret along the edge of a stream, with saplings in black and slate exten...

Trish DeMasi Moderno wall installation, Architettura, 2021 Mixed glazed stoneware Measures: 4 x 40 x 60 in (6 panels 4 x 20 x 20 in each) Moderno collection. An exploration in ...

A pair of European School oil on canvas paintings. The antique portraits depict a distinguished gentleman and lady and are housed in oval gilt frames.

Louis Guarnaccia (b. 1958), “Easy Street Boat Basin,” Nantucket. A fine realist work in oil on linen. Charming red boat scene on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts. Signed on lo...

Painted in brilliant shades of fuscia, persimmon, olive green and aquamarine, this original gouache painting was painted to advertise the Ladies Home Journal in a Horn and Hardart...

AUGUST SCHAEFFER VON WIENWALD Austria, 1833-1916 Walking in the Forest at Evening (1874) Oil on artist card signed lower left "Aug. Schaeffer 1874." reverse with label for "Maler...

Half portrait of distinguished lady with upswept hair wearing a black dress with white lace collar and gold and pearl earrings and brooch. Signed and dated "Paris... '84". Unframed. ...

This depiction of two Native American men in full headdresses, dancing in the company of three women, arm in arm, is evidence of Western Europe's fascination with American Indian cul...

17th-century Black and White Engravings of Architectural Fountains for Formal Gardens, Georg Andreas Bockler, Set of Six, Circa 1664 The framed ...

CULLEN YATES American, 1866-1945 "Midsummer" Oil on canvas Signed lower right "Cullen Yates" exhibition label retained noting its title and "no. 6702 Item # 406KKL02P A bold an...

Much like Salvador Dali, who continued to create his mysterious and puzzling landscapes long after Surrealism had lost its popularity, John Lear drew and painted in the same manner f...

Superb in conception and execution, this pair of terra cotta plaques, depicting the pairing of a harp and guitar in the manner of Gris or Braque, is...

Gorgeously cast in bronze, given a pale gold patina, and set in a walnut plaque, this quintessential Art Deco bas relief presents a delicious conceit: Its classical figure is holding...

Chinese Export Botanical Paintings on Pith Paper Guangdong Province, A Set of Twelve, Circa 1850 This complete and beautifully preserved set of twelve botanical still lifes is a su...

Impressionist large Provincetown Massachusetts - A sunny and prideful morning walk in Provincetown. Birds soaring over the hill, with sail boats drifting in the wind below. Centering...

In an era when Reginald Marsh, Paul Cadmus and many other painters loved to capture the joy and energy of crowded beach scenes in America, John Winters created this lovely genre scene of a male bather in his one-piece swim suit reposing on the sand (probably the Lincoln Park beach in Chicago...

A fine drawing in ink and watercolor on paper of the modernist dancer Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz. Walkowitz (1878-1965) had an intimate artistic relationship with Duncan...

Peter Max Original Karma 50/100 dated 1971. Paper Size is 30 x 22" and image size is 29 x21" tall. Nice condition with no fading or damage.

FRANÇOIS LOUIS FRITZ DE NIEDERHÄUSERN Switzerland, 1828-1888 A Rustic Chalet in the Swiss Mountains Oil on canvas Signed lower right "F de Niederhausern" 18 1/4" H x 23 1/2" W [fr...

Original 1958 French movie poster by Rene Peron for the film Maxime directed by Henri Verneuil strarring Michèle Morgan and Charles Boyer. Large scale s...

A very fine example of Art Deco printmaking at its most stylized and lovely, "Archer" is a unique airbrush print -- what the artist sometimes called a "aquatone" -- made by Louis Kabrin, a Cincinnati...

Clinton Kuopus, Born 1942 in Detroit Michigan. Screen print with hand color. From an edition of 5. Printed/ Published by Stewart & Stewart. Beauti...

Ink and Acrylic painting By Virginia Dutton, Titled Torso, Signed & Dated Dutton, 2015. Large Ink and acrylic painting on canvas and signed 'Dutton' and dated on the right side...

This very large and energetic sketch, depicting several nude figures stepping forward through a circular opening, was painted by Raoul Pene du Bois, probably as a preparatory piece f...

Demonstrating his mastery of allegorical subjects and the nude figure, this large octagonal sculptural bronze panel, featuring a nude male figure reaching out to constrain the rising...

Masterfully painted in tones of green and coral, this scene of an exotic knight fighting a fearsome dragon is full of energy. The dragon's snout and cresting suggests the influence ...

A vintage wall sculpture created by a Philadelphia artist in 1950s. It features copper panel construction with a silver lacquer finish. Very goo...

Large Hand Painted Art Plate "Birds", 1990 Contemporary Art Piece in the style of Jeff Koons ( Banality Series ) "so bad it is so good" Artist and Description is listed on the back...

A very interesting and unusual Lancaster 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. Overall frame Size approximately 42″ 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...

Stunning and exotic, this pair of Art Deco masks, framed in deep shadow boxes, are beautifully sculpted and painted, each with gilded South Asian headdresses...

A very nice "Art Deco" aerial view of Lincoln Nebraska / Capital Building Art Print Signed in pencil in the lower right corner. Overall size 20 1/...

Green burst on grey background - Oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated '63 - Also known as NH Tony Stubbing - Unframed.  

A wonderful Barbizon influenced landscape painting by Johan Nicolaus Lokhorst, who generally went by Jan van Lokhorst and signed much of his work as s...

Jean Chaleye (French, b. 1878 - d. 1960) "Framed flowers" - Oil on board, signed lower right. Featuring a bouquet of red and pink flowers inside a painted...

1972 Cheetah Lithograph Art by Richard Evans Younger in Velvet Chrome Frame. Item featured is artist signed and dated to bottom corner, large imp...

Charming and winning, this unique terracotta plaque, sculpted and fired by Bela Janowsky, depicts a lovely girl with long hair and a beret. Janowsky is known for his large bas relief sculpture, "The Last of the Mohicans...

This vivid and large portrait of a young, sunburned Greek man, painted in a palette of deep blue, red and ruddy skin tones, was painted by Julius Bloch in 1961. The artist spent hi...

An early and important painting by renowned Grand Rapids artist Armand Merizon, this work depicts a ghostly figure -- reputedly the son of a dear family friend -- in the midst of the...

Madame Pauline Knipp Engraving of A Pigeon, From Les pigeons par Madame Knip, ne´e Pauline de Courcelles ; le texte par C.J. Themminck, Paris 1809-1811. A remarkable large engraving of a pigeon- A Columba Coronata (Colombi-Galline Goura). The print floats within a gilt frame and white matte and with UV Tru-view Clear UV Glass. We have 14 different examples from this volume. Ask for details. Dimensions: Framed: 28 3/4 inches 21 3/4 inches wide x 1 1/4 inches; Sight: 20 3/4 inches high x 13 1/4 inches Pauline Knip née Pauline Rifer de Courcelles (26 July 1781 – 18 April...

Madam Knipp engraving of pigeon, From Les pigeons par Madame Knip, ne´e Pauline de Courcelles ; le texte par C.J. Themminck, Paris France, 1809-1811. A remarkable large engraving of a pigeon- The Colombe Ramier or Columba Cenea or Wood Pigeon floating within a gilt frame and white matte and with UV Tru-view Clear UV Glass. From a large collection of framed...

Unsigned Original oil on canvas painting after Norman Mills Price. Canvas is a bit loose. Frame appears to be original. Canvas and Frame show age. See image of illustration of the same image signed in corner by Norman Mills Price "Norman Mills Price never fully received the popular recognition that his work deserved. Because he was so intently interested in historical subjects, he restricted his work to these almost exclusively. The dedication and artistry he brought to his work, however, was especially appreciated and respected by a select group – his fellow-illustrators. His painstaking research into every detail made each picture an authentic documentary, but the detail was never allowed to detract from the dramatic concept of the illustration itself. Although Price made effective use of tone and color, his pen-and-ink drawings were especially effective, exhibiting a full range of values and textural effects." "Price was born in Canada, studied art there and in London and Paris. By 1912, he had established himself in New York and had begun to work for American publications. Some of his most successful illustrations were done for a long series of historical novels by Robert W. Chambers for Liberty magazine. He was a charter member of the Society of Illustrators at the time of his death." "Illustrator, Norman Mills Price was born in Brampton, Ontario (1877) and began his studies at the Ontario School of Art. Around 1901 he spent time in London, studying at the Goldsmith's Institute; Westminster School of Art; and with Cruikshank. While in London, he was the founder of Carlton Studios. He later went on to Paris, studying at the Academie Julian, with J.P. Laurens and R.E. Miller. He did freelance work in Paris until an assignment in Belgium for Century brought him to the attention of other American publishers. In 1911, he had a studio in New York City, and worked for such publication as Harper's, Cosmopolitan, and Liberty. He illustrated the novels: "The Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (1905), The Rogue's Moon (1929), Leif Erikson...

This lovely, high style Art Deco painting depicts a pale female figure in blond ringlets, an elaborate mid-19th century dress and a straw hat dangling from her arm, holding a lovely bouquet with lilies of the valley and roses. Approaching her from the left is an exotic turbaned figure holding a tray laden with more flowers. The entire scene is painted in pale violet and yellow...

One of a series of Art Deco paintings made by Eugene Savage in the 1930s to visualize and dramatize great works of Classical music, this painting celebrates "Afternoon of a Faun" by Claude Debussy, which later inspired the great ballet by Serge Diaghilev for the Ballet Russes. Savage, who became celebrated for his ambitious allegorical murals across America, packs the panting with a vividly-hued landscape populated by a series of mythological figures, including a drunken faun...

Vintage Thick Paint on Cavas Painting "Cabin in the Woods" w/ Nice Vintage Original Frame signed LA deQuintal, 1961 "ready to hang" "expressive and mysterious..........." Overall...

Large 48" Curtis Jere MCM Corkscrew Bottle Opener Pop Wall Art Sculpture. Item features a large oversized form, original signature and 1979 date, steel me...