Tri-State Area - Landscape Paintings

Audrey Flack The Nodes of Alvor Portugal, 1982 Watercolor on paper (bears original Louis Meisel Gallery label on the back) Pencil signed and titled by the...

Title: Autumn Forest Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19.5 x 23.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This p...

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1963 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his figures in water landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout. Art measures 18 x 21.75 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.” By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett, were the winners. In his 1924 naturalization application, he indicated that he was sometimes known as “Michael Posner Baxte.” One of the witnesses to his application was Bernard Karfiol, a Jewish American artist. That’s when Michael may...

"Morning Star" 2020 by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with black foil measuring 11" H x 14" W x 1" D. figurative, animals, landscape, aurora borealis

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the Mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wond...

Series: Abstract Oil Enamel Paint on Canvas I consider each colored dot to be like a person. You and me and everyone. Together we all make up that image shown. You will notice that ...

Vintage Swiss impressionist painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Framed. Signed. Image size, 10L x 16H.

This traditional landscape painting by Molly Doe Wensberg features a warm palette, capturing a scene of lush yellow rolling hills and deep green patches of t...

Title: Yellow Sea Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27 x 27 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Robe Series Year: 1974 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 75 x 117 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-199...

"Wood Thrush" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with black metal foil on wood panel measuring 10" x 8" x 1" (2019). The painting features two adult Wood Thrush birds feed...

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1962 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful repre...

"People on the Move 1" by RU8ICON1 is a monochromatic oil painting on canvas, from 2019. It depicts box trucks in motion. The palette is t...

My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...

Title: Prague Town Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 20.75 x 17 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This pain...

"Australian Outback" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with gold foil on wood panel, measuring 8" H x 8" W x 1" D. animals, figura...

Title: Love Tree IV Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 19 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painti...

This traditional landscape painting by Molly Doe Wensberg features a cool palette and a loose, impressionistic style, capturing a forest scene with the white trunks of birch trees at...

Title: Summer Blooming Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23 x 30 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition.This painting is on u...

An exciting watercolor of a New York City street scene done in 1974. The fast brushwork is noted with much attention directed to abstracting the depiction. Freiman's execution of thi...

Female figure, swimmer, bathing, ocean, sunshine, rocks; acrylic ink, flashe and pastel on 300g Arches hot press paper; custom wooden frame, shallow shadow box frame. Deep blue, turq...

Oil on canvas Weir Farm Series: Compline is a recent piece, a work honoring New England. It is a culmination of what I developed and experienced from those decades painting and trek...

A stunning depiction of a lone figure walking down a path. Nemethy uses a bold impressionistic technique with thick use of paint and wonderful impressions. With joyful colors, this p...

Title: Tree Flowers Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 19.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This pa...

This painting depicts an impressionistic scene at the beach with beautiful brushwork and whimsical colors. The work is a following of Whistler, capturing the beach and times of the e...

This painting depicts a whimsical townscape of a Mexican village with a couple playing checkers near the road. The bright colors and quick brush strokes are what makes this painting ...

Sara MacCulloch Beach from water, 2022 oil on canvas 30 x 40 in. (macc093) This original oil painting on canvas by Sara MacCulloch depicts a serene and beautiful coastal beach inlet...

Title: Night 1 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 35 x 35 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting is laid on the matt board and appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 Circa Artist: Lin Hongdan...

Syntax 10 (2023) Acrylic gouache, oil enamel on paper 12x10 inches Signed and dated by the artist on verso Vargas-Suarez Universal (b. 1972) is an artist based between New York Cit...

A charming depiction of the Flatiron in New York City with bustling cars and street lights below. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, pinks, and burnt sienna'...

A wonderful depiction of a day in the life 1930s in New York City. Here people walk across the street as a car waits for them to pass. An impressionistic work, with great use of cont...

Mystery Artist Untitled, c. 20th Century Oil on canvas 22 x 30 in. Framed: 28 3/8 x 36 x 1 in. Signed lower right Provenance: Former Humala Pontas collection

Title: Unrestrained Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19.5 x 23.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This p...

Antique French American modernist horse barn painting. Mixed media painting on paper. Framed. Signed. Measuring 41 by 49 inches overall and 31.5 by 39.5 painting alone. In excellent ...

Charles Harsanyi (American, 1905-1973) The Ferry No 2, 1946 Oil on board 40 x 52 in. Framed: 46 x 58 in. Signed and inscribed verso Exhibited: Grand Central Art Galleries, 1946 Charles E. Harsanyi was born in Tapolcza, Hungary in 1905. He studied at the Royal Academy in Budapest, Hungary with A. Bankhard from 1923 to 1928. Nineteen years later, in 1947, Harsanyi moved to the U. S., settling in Jackson Heights, New York. The painter and drawing specialist became a member of numerous prestigious art clubs including the Salmagundi Club, The Society of Independent Artists and the Allied Artists of America. Harsanyi served as an awards director and chairman of admissions for the Audubon Artists Association during the 1950s. Later in life after living in Stephentown, New York and Cape Coral...

Title: Sunflower Field Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 27 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This pai...

John Hardy, American (1923 - 2014) - Woman on Dock, Year: circa 1974, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 47.75 x 52.75 in. (121.29 x 133.99 cm), Frame Size: 49 x 54...

Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent conditio...

Fisherman on the River Nicolai Cikovsky, Russian-American (1894–1984) Date: 1949 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Size: 24 x 30 in. (60.96 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 35 x 41 i...

This abstracted seascape painting by S. Cora Aldo features a cool, light blue palette with warm sand tones in the foreground of the composition. The painting captures an abstracted v...

Title: New World No. 5 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 31.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 20...

Oil, acrylic, ink and sand on wood panel Purple, blue, aqua, black, teal, indigo, violet, lavender, gray Geometric abstraction

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1962 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his portraits in countryside landscapes with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. Art measures 21.25 x 25.5 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century, it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. For the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher, he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into the imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient's light of science.” By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett...

"The landscape has always been important to me. In my childhood, I spent all summer, every summer, as well as almost every weekend throughout the year, at several different family h...

Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...

Title: Yunnan Scenery Series VI Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 31 x 25 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Yea...

ANASTASIA GKLAVA b. 1966, Greece "Platanus, the Tree of Joy and Healing" is a striking and elegant realist painting showing a majestic Platanus tree with abundant green leaves. The ...

Antique Canadian modernist signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H.

Central Park during winter 1946

"Moose" by Alexis Kandra is an original oil painting with gold, blue and black foil measuring 6" H x 6" W x 1" D. figurative, animals, landscape, moose, trees, blue, gold

Martigues, France Gaeton Dumas, French (1879–1950) Date: 1945 Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, signed, dated and titled on verso Size: 15 x 24 in. (38.1 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 17....

Title: At noon Series VI Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: Th...

Syntax 8 (2023) Acrylic gouache, oil enamel on paper 12x10 inches Signed and dated by the artist on verso Vargas-Suarez Universal (b. 1972) is an artist based between New York City...

Title: Mountain And Cloud Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 201...

Marie Blaszyck (1904–2003) The Depths, 1982 Oil on canvas Artwork: 19 1/3 x 24 in. l 50 x 61 cm Framed: 22 1/2 x 26 3/4 in. l 57 x 68 cm Signed and dated lower right Marie-Madelein...

Very nicely painted California coastal beach scene. Oil on board. Signed verso.

Title: Xuefeng Mountain I Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 15.5 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: Thi...

A stunning depiction of a path leading down to the lake with mountains in the background. Nemethy uses a bold impressionistic technique with thick use of paint and wonderful impressi...

Max Kuehne (1880 - 1968) Train Station, circa 1910 Watercolor on paper 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches Signed lower right Provenance: Private Collection, Illinois Max Kuehne was born in Halle, Germany on November 7, 1880. During his adolescence the family immigrated to America and settled in Flushing, New York. As a young man, Max was active in rowing events, bicycle racing, swimming and sailing. After experimenting with various occupations, Kuehne decided to study art, which led him to William Merritt Chase's famous school in New York; he was trained by Chase himself, then by Kenneth Hayes Miller. Chase was at the peak of his career, and his portraits were especially in demand. Kuehne would have profited from Chase's invaluable lessons in technique, as well as his inspirational personality. Miller, only four years older than Kuehne, was another of the many artists to benefit from Chase's teachings. Even though Miller still would have been under the spell of Chase upon Kuehne's arrival, he was already experimenting with an aestheticism that went beyond Chase's realism and virtuosity of the brush. Later Miller developed a style dependent upon volumetric figures that recall Italian Renaissance prototypes. Kuehne moved from Miller to Robert Henri in 1909. Rockwell Kent, who also studied under Chase, Miller, and Henri, expressed what he felt were their respective contributions: "As Chase had taught us to use our eyes, and Henri to enlist our hearts, Miller called on us to use our heads." (Rockwell Kent, It's Me O Lord: The Autobiography of Rockwell Kent. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1955, p. 83). Henri prompted Kuehne to search out the unvarnished realities of urban living; a notable portion of Henri's stylistic formula was incorporated into his work. Having received such a thorough foundation in art, Kuehne spent a year in Europe's major art museums to study techniques of the old masters. His son Richard named Ernest Lawson as one of Max Kuehne's European traveling companions. In 1911 Kuehne moved to New York where he maintained a studio and painted everyday scenes around him, using the rather Manet-like, dark palette of Henri. A trip to Gloucester during the following summer engendered a brighter palette. In the words of Gallatin (1924, p. 60), during that summer Kuehne "executed some of his most successful pictures, paintings full of sunlight . . . revealing the fact that he was becoming a colorist of considerable distinction." Kuehne was away in England the year of the Armory Show (1913), where he worked on powerful, painterly seascapes on the rocky shores of Cornwall. Possibly inspired by Henri - who had discovered Madrid in 1900 then took classes there in 1906, 1908 and 1912 - Kuehne visited Spain in 1914; in all, he would spend three years there, maintaining a studio in Granada. He developed his own impressionism and a greater simplicity while in Spain, under the influence of the brilliant Mediterranean light. George Bellows convinced Kuehne to spend the summer of 1919 in Rockport, Maine (near Camden). The influence of Bellows was more than casual; he would have intensified Kuehne's commitment to paint life "in the raw" around him. After another brief trip to Spain in 1920, Kuehne went to the other Rockport (Cape Ann, Massachusetts) where he was accepted as a member of the vigorous art colony, spearheaded by Aldro T. Hibbard. Rockport's picturesque ambiance fulfilled the needs of an artist-sailor: as a writer in the Gloucester Daily Times explained, "Max Kuehne came to Rockport to paint, but he stayed to sail." The 1920s was a boom decade for Cape Ann, as it was for the rest of the nation. Kuehne's studio in Rockport was formerly occupied by Jonas Lie. Kuehne spent the summer of 1923 in Paris, where in July, André Breton started a brawl as the curtain went up on a play by his rival Tristan Tzara; the event signified the demise of the Dada movement. Kuehne could not relate to this avant-garde art but was apparently influenced by more traditional painters — the Fauves, Nabis, and painters such as Bonnard. Gallatin perceived a looser handling and more brilliant color in the pictures Kuehne brought back to the States in the fall. In 1926, Kuehne won the First Honorable Mention at the Carnegie Institute, and he re-exhibited there, for example, in 1937 (Before the Wind). Besides painting, Kuehne did sculpture, decorative screens, and furniture work with carved and gilded molding. In addition, he designed and carved his own frames, and John Taylor Adams encouraged Kuehne to execute etchings. Through his talents in all these media he was able to survive the Depression, and during the 1940s and 1950s these activities almost eclipsed his easel painting. In later years, Kuehne's landscapes and still-lifes show the influence of Cézanne and Bonnard, and his style changed radically. Max Kuehne died in 1968. He exhibited his work at the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, and in various New York City galleries. Kuehne's works are in the following public collections: the Detroit Institute of Arts (Marine Headland), the Whitney Museum (Diamond Hill...