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Period: 20th Century
Eilean Donan Castle Scottish Highland Loch Ancient Landscape Oil Painting
Eilean Donan Castle Scottish Highland Loch Ancient Landscape Oil Painting

Eilean Donan Castle Scottish Highland Loch Ancient Landscape Oil Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Scottish Highland Castle Landscape Oil Painting of Eilean Donan Castle Signed by E. Baker (20th century) English Framed: 18 x 23 inches Board: 17 x 21 inches Medium: Oil on board, fr...

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Victorian 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Central Park, Cityscape with Figures by American Impressionist Painter
Central Park, Cityscape with Figures by American Impressionist Painter

Central Park, Cityscape with Figures by American Impressionist Painter

Located in Doylestown, PA

"Central Park" is a figurative cityscape of New York City by American Impressionist painter Henry Ives Cobb Sr. The painting is a 19 x 15 inches, gouache on board, framed, signed and...

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American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board

Lucia Ponga (Venetian painter) - 19th century landscape painting - Venice Signed
Lucia Ponga (Venetian painter) - 19th century landscape painting - Venice Signed

Lucia Ponga (Venetian painter) - 19th century landscape painting - Venice Signed

Located in Varmo, IT

Lucia Ponga degli Ancillo (Venice 1887 - 1966) - Venetian Capriccio with Jetty, Gondola and Staffage Figures. 25 x 35 cm (without frame) - 44.5 x 55 cm (with frame). Oil on panel, ...

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Art Nouveau 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"View of Venice Canal" Orientalist & Impressionist Marine Oil on Canvas Painting
"View of Venice Canal" Orientalist & Impressionist Marine Oil on Canvas Painting

"View of Venice Canal" Orientalist & Impressionist Marine Oil on Canvas Painting

Located in New York, NY

A masterful oil painting depicting a view of a Venice Canal by Grace Paterson. As an Impressionist and orientalist painter, she was known for her detailed works depicting scenes from...

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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1994 Seaside Interior by Harriet Martin
1994 Seaside Interior by Harriet Martin

1994 Seaside Interior by Harriet Martin

Located in New York, NY

Harriet Martin (American, 1949-2018) Untitled, 1994 Oil on canvas 22 x 21 3/4 in. Framed: 22 1/2 x 22 1/2 x 1 1/4 in. Signed and dated lower right Harriet was an artist in her spare...

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Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Farmstead Lane - 1930's Figurative Landscape
Farmstead Lane - 1930's Figurative Landscape

Farmstead Lane - 1930's Figurative Landscape

Located in Soquel, CA

1930's Figurative landscape oil painting of a woman walking down a path through a country farm by S.E George (American, 20th Century). Possibly a Wichita, Kansas artist...

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American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Untitled"
"Untitled"

Jean Calogero"Untitled", Circa 1950

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"Untitled"

By Jean Calogero

Located in Southampton, NY

Oil on canvas painting by the Italian artist, Jean Calogero. Circa 1950. Signed lower left Overall in museum quality gold leaf frame 17.5 by 15.75 inches. Condition: Good. Provenan...

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Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Impressionist Interior of the artists studio
American Impressionist Interior of the artists studio

American Impressionist Interior of the artists studio

By Marion Huse

Located in Woodbury, CT

A printmaker, painter, and commercial artist, Marion Huse created work that ranged from realism to abstraction and included portraits, figure subjects, landscapes, and floral still l...

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American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Covered Bridge, Kingston, NY, 1927” by Walter Koeniger, Snowy Winter Landscape
“Covered Bridge, Kingston, NY, 1927” by Walter Koeniger, Snowy Winter Landscape

“Covered Bridge, Kingston, NY, 1927” by Walter Koeniger, Snowy Winter Landscape

By Walter Koeniger

Located in Yardley, PA

Known for his evocative, snow-covered landscapes, Koeniger brings this subject to life with his bold, confident brushwork and keen eye for natural light. The composition centers arou...

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American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yokohama
Yokohama

Yokohama

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Yokohama" 1955, is an oil on canvas by noted Japanese artist Shigehiko Ishikawa, 1909-1994. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size ...

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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Water Lilies, Prague Impressionist Summer Landscape
Water Lilies, Prague Impressionist Summer Landscape

Water Lilies, Prague Impressionist Summer Landscape

Located in Beachwood, OH

Václav Radimský (Czech, 1867-1946) Water Lilies, c. 1910 Oil on board Signed lower left 28 x 39 inches Václav Jan Emanuel Radimský was a Czech impressionist painter who resided in F...

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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Boats Moored in a Tranquil Harbor
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Boats Moored in a Tranquil Harbor

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Boats Moored in a Tranquil Harbor

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Boats Moored in a Tranquil Harbor By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 7.5 x 9.5 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on board,...

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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Carriages at Grands Boulevards" Post-Impressionist Parisian City Street Scene
"Carriages at Grands Boulevards" Post-Impressionist Parisian City Street Scene

"Carriages at Grands Boulevards" Post-Impressionist Parisian City Street Scene

By Te Pencke

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Te Pencke. Pencke was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...

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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Fishing Boats in South of France Harbour
Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Fishing Boats in South of France Harbour

Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Fishing Boats in South of France Harbour

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/School: G. Lefevre, French School (20th Century), signed Title: Fishing Ports Moored In A Southern Port, wonderful blue sea and sky colours with rising mountain beyond and gr...

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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Woman Seated', Post Impressionist Woman Artist, Fauve, Carmel, California, PAFA
'Woman Seated', Post Impressionist Woman Artist, Fauve, Carmel, California, PAFA

'Woman Seated', Post Impressionist Woman Artist, Fauve, Carmel, California, PAFA

By Virginia Sevier Rogers

Located in Santa Cruz, CA

Monogrammed lower left, 'VSR' for Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1916-2015) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado., Virginia Sevi...

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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil Pastel, Pastel

Three Women
Three Women

Three Women

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork "Three Women" is an oil on canvas board by renown Turkish artist Ali Demir, 1931-2015. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the...

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Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman's Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field & Co.
A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman's Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field & Co.

A Stylish, Vintage 1940s Woman's Fashion Design Study, Marshall Field & Co.

Located in Chicago, IL

A stylish, vintage, 1940s fashion study featuring elegant designs for women's evening wear by Lilly Daché, Likely an illustration study for a print advertisement for the famed Chic...

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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Charming Village Scene with Spired Church
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Charming Village Scene with Spired Church

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Charming Village Scene with Spired Church

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Charming Village Scene with Spired Church By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 7.25 x 9.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, u...

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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Jonathan Winters Screenprint Canvas Painting Airplane Hollywood Hang Ups Pop Art
Jonathan Winters Screenprint Canvas Painting Airplane Hollywood Hang Ups Pop Art

Jonathan Winters Screenprint Canvas Painting Airplane Hollywood Hang Ups Pop Art

By Jonathan Winters

Located in Surfside, FL

Overall 21 X 27 image is 17.25 X 23.5 This is a mixed media print on canvas by beloved comedian and artist Jonathan Winters. This one depicts old biplane airplanes and parachutes ...

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Pop Art 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Screen

Mid-20th Century Framed Still Life Oil Painting on Board
Mid-20th Century Framed Still Life Oil Painting on Board

Mid-20th Century Framed Still Life Oil Painting on Board

Located in Roma, IT

Still Life is an original modern artwork realized by an Unknown Artist in the mid-20th Century. A mixed colored oil on board. Hand signed on the lower left margin J. Meamier. Incl...

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Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Man & Figure Resting in Parisian Park French Modernist 20th Century Oil Painting
Man & Figure Resting in Parisian Park French Modernist 20th Century Oil Painting

Man & Figure Resting in Parisian Park French Modernist 20th Century Oil Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Man and Figure Resting in Parisian Park French Modernist 20th Century Oil Painting Laure Noetzlin-Azam (French, 1929–2024), pupil of André Lhote Canvas: 6.25 x 8.25 inches Medium: Oi...

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Cubist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Camel Keeper & His Majestic Herd Oil Painting French Orientalist Huge Oil
The Camel Keeper & His Majestic Herd Oil Painting French Orientalist Huge Oil

The Camel Keeper & His Majestic Herd Oil Painting French Orientalist Huge Oil

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Desert Companions Two Camels with their Keeper in the Desert French Orientalist School, late 20th century oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 39 x 32 inches Provenance: private collecti...

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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Post War Bay Area Figurative - Original Watercolor Painting Three Horses Signed
Post War Bay Area Figurative - Original Watercolor Painting Three Horses Signed

Post War Bay Area Figurative - Original Watercolor Painting Three Horses Signed

By Omer Ferdi Sahingil

Located in Soquel, CA

Post War Bay Area Figurative - Original Watercolor Painting Three Horses on a Rolling Hill, Signed Vibrant watercolor of three horses in the Bay Area rolling hills with California P...

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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

At the Beach - Tempera and Watercolor by Aldo Riso - 1970s
At the Beach - Tempera and Watercolor by Aldo Riso - 1970s

At the Beach - Tempera and Watercolor by Aldo Riso - 1970s

By Aldo Riso

Located in Roma, IT

At the beach is an artwork realized by Aldo Riso. Mixed colored tempera and watercolor painting. Titled on lower left. Frame included: 70.5 x 91.5 cm This beautiful mixed media...

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Contemporary 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Watercolor

Kornhamnstorg, Gamla stan, Stockholm, with Riddarholmskyrkan in the background
Kornhamnstorg, Gamla stan, Stockholm, with Riddarholmskyrkan in the background

Kornhamnstorg, Gamla stan, Stockholm, with Riddarholmskyrkan in the background

Located in Stockholm, SE

This atmospheric painting depicts Kornhamnstorg in Gamla stan during the quiet hours of evening. The scene unfolds along the waterfront where the historic square meets the water, wit...

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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Oil Painting of a Tree-Lined River Lake Landscape in the Irish Countryside
Oil Painting of a Tree-Lined River Lake Landscape in the Irish Countryside

Oil Painting of a Tree-Lined River Lake Landscape in the Irish Countryside

By Allan Ardies

Located in Preston, GB

Oil Painting of a Tree-Lined River Lake Landscape in the Irish Countryside by 20th Century Artist, Allan Ardies (1918 - 2014). An impressionist vintage original oil on canvas in good...

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Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Oil Fishermen in Blue Smocks
20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Oil Fishermen in Blue Smocks

20th Century French Post Impressionist Signed Oil Fishermen in Blue Smocks

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Fishermen in Blue Smocks French Post-Impressionist artist, signed 20th century oil on board, framed framed: 14.5 x 15 inches board: 11.5 x 11.5 inches provenance: private collection,...

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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Skating Party" WPA Regionalism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Realism
"Skating Party" WPA Regionalism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Realism

"Skating Party" WPA Regionalism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Realism

By Roger Medearis

Located in New York, NY

"Skating Party" WPA Regionalism American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Realism Roger Medearis (1920 – 2001) "Skating Party" 20 x 24 inches Tempera on board, 1949 Signed Medearis and...

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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Armando Villagran Original Painting
Armando Villagran Original Painting

Armando Villagran Original Painting

By Armando Villagran

Located in San Francisco, CA

Armando Villagran (Mexican, 1945-1995) Untitled (Figure with Animal), 1991 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right Canvas: 55"h x 43.5"w, overall (with frame): 56"h x 44"w Born ...

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Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding
Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding

Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

FREE DELIVERY to certain areas along the Mid-Atlantic corridor between NJ and VA -- contact me to ask if your area qualifies. Ellen Powell Tiberino, matriarch of the Tiberino artist dynasty that includes her artist-husband Joseph and three artist-children (Raphael, Gabriel, and Ellen), often looked to Black women and girls as subjects, in the contexts of motherhood, pregnancy, and childhood, as well as subjects drawn from her neighborhood communities. Her work is expressionistic and passionate with dramatic gestures and dark colorism in her figures, but it is also intimate and highly personal. At this point in her career, Tiberino had been struggling with cancer, and as a result, her palette became brighter and more colorful than her former dark palette. "Three Sisters" includes Ellen Powell Tiberino’s self-portrait in the front of the composition, nursing an infant. Tiberino’s two sisters, Joyce and Anne, sit behind her. Tiberino likely paints from memory or imagination here, since her four children were well beyond nursing age when she created this painting. "Three Sisters" is likely among the last large-scale canvases Tiberino completed, opting to work on a smaller scale and while seated as her illness progressed. Tiberino ultimately lost her battle in 1992. "Three Sisters" comes from a private Main Line, PA collection, acquired directly from the artist immediately upon its completion. Framed in original wood strip frame. It is in excellent condition. Tiberino graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1959, where she was awarded a prestigious Cresson scholarship to study in Europe. After returning to the US, she lived and worked in New York until she married fellow artist (Joseph) and returned to her hometown of Philadelphia where she continued to create oil paintings, oil pastels drawings, sculptures, murals, and mosaics. In Philadelphia, she was part of social and professional circles that included Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, Walter Edmonds, Charles Pridgen, Leroy Johnson, John Simpson, James Dupree...

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Abstract 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Young Girl Walking Thru a Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting 1920's
Young Girl Walking Thru a Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting 1920's

Young Girl Walking Thru a Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting 1920's

Located in Douglas Manor, NY

6008 Winter Snow,a 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting the isolation and beauty of your girl walking thru a fresh fallen snow.Displayed in a gilt wood frame.Artist unknown

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20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Jockeys at the Rail
Jockeys at the Rail

Jockeys at the Rail

Located in San Francisco, CA

There’s an instant in a competitive horse race—whether it’s at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, Santa Anita Park, Saratoga or Belmont—of the utmost ferocity. That’s when the riders are jamm...

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Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Apples and Green Vase, Cleveland School
Still Life with Apples and Green Vase, Cleveland School

Still Life with Apples and Green Vase, Cleveland School

By Adam Lehr

Located in Beachwood, OH

Adam Lehr (American, 1853-1924) Still Life with Apples and Green Vase, 1902 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right 12 x 18 inches 15 x 21 inches, framed Known primarily as a sti...

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20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Jeanne Donnadieu "Portrait of Henriette Bépoix" French Oil on Canvas, ca.1885
Jeanne Donnadieu "Portrait of Henriette Bépoix" French Oil on Canvas, ca.1885

Jeanne Donnadieu "Portrait of Henriette Bépoix" French Oil on Canvas, ca.1885

Located in Gavere, BE

Jeanne Donnadieu (French, 1864–1941) Portrait of Mlle Henriette Bépoix Oil on canvas Canvas: 51 × 61 cm A historically documented Belle Époque portrait by French painter Jeanne Lou...

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French School 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Ibiza Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean european art
Ibiza Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean european art

Ibiza Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean european art

By Ignacio Gil Sala

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Title: Ibiza Artist: Ignacio Gil Sala (Barcelona, 1913 – 2003) Date: 1950s Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 54 x 73 cm (21.26 x 28.74 in) Support: Unframed canvas Signature: Sign...

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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Subway Construction
Subway Construction

Subway Construction

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This painting is part of our exhibition American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Subway Construction, c. 1928, oil on board, 19 x 15 ¾ inches, signed upper left, artist and title verso; exhibited: 1) 12th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, The Waldorf Astoria, New York NY, from March 9 to April 1, 1928, no. 864 (original price $250) (see Death Prevailing Theme of Artists in Weird Exhibits, The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), March 8, 1928); 2) Boston Tercentenary Exhibition Fine Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Horticultural Hall, Boston MA, July, 1930, no. 108 (honorable mention - noted verso); 3) 38th Annual Exhibition of American Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, June, 1931 (see Alexander, Mary, The Week in Art Circles, The Cincinnati Enquirer, June 7, 1931); and 4) National Art Week Exhibition [Group Show], Montross Gallery, New York, New York, December, 1940 (see Devree, Howard, Brief Comment on Some Recently Opened Exhibitions in the Galleries, The New York Times, December 1, 1940) About the Painting Ernest Stock’s Subway Construction depicts the excavation of New York’s 8th Avenue line, which was the first completed section of the city-operated Independent Subway System (IND). The groundbreaking ceremony was in 1925, but the line did not open until 1932, placing Stock’s painting in the middle of the construction effort. The 8th Avenue line was primarily constructed using the “cut and cover” method in which the streets above the line were dug up, infrastructure was built from the surface level down, the resulting holes were filled, and the streets reconstructed. While many artists of the 1920s were fascinated with the upward thrust of New York’s exploding skyline as architects and developers sought to erect ever higher buildings, Stock turned his attention to the engineering marvels which were taking place below ground. In Subway Construction, Stock depicts workers removing the earth beneath the street and building scaffolding and other support structures to allow concrete to be poured. Light and shadow fall across the x-shaped grid pattern formed by the wooden beams and planks. It is no surprise that critics reviewing the painting commented on Stock’s use of an “interesting pattern” to form a painting that is “clever and well designed.” About the Artist Ernest Richard Stock was an award-winning painter, print maker, muralist, and commercial artist. He was born in Bristol, England and was educated at the prestigious Bristol Grammar School. During World War I, Stock joined the British Royal Air Flying Corps in Canada and served in France as a pilot where he was wounded. After the war, he immigrated to the United States and joined the firm of Mack, Jenny, and Tyler, where he further honed his architectural and decorative painting skills. During the 1920s, Stock often traveled back and forth between the US and Europe. He was twice married, including to the American author, Katherine Anne Porter. Starting in the mid-1920s, Stock began to exhibit his artwork professionally, including at London’s Beaux Arts Gallery, the Society of Independent Artists, the Salons of America, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Whitney Studio and various locations in the Northeast. Critics often praised the strong design sensibility in Stock’s paintings. Stock was a commercial illustrator for a handful of published books and during World War II, he worked in the Stratford Connecticut...

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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Blacksmiths Forge Traditional English Rural Life Portrait Oil Painting
The Blacksmiths Forge Traditional English Rural Life Portrait Oil Painting

The Blacksmiths Forge Traditional English Rural Life Portrait Oil Painting

By John Edwards 2

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Blacksmith by John Edwards (England, 1940 - 2020) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 23.5 inches canvas : 23 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: very...

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Victorian 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

People of the Village
People of the Village

People of the Village

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "People of the Village" c.1980, is an oil painting on canvas by Hungarian artist Anton Kowalski, b.1926. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 21 x 24 inches, framed size is 26.5 x 30.5 inches. Framed in original dark wood and green frame, with fabric liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: The artist was born in Sopron in Hungary in 1926. He was a student of the Academy of Budapest and during the uprising in 1956 against Communism he escaped from Hungary to Vienna where he now lives and works. He has become internationally known for his (typically East European style) “Naive” paintings depicting Village life in the four seasons in glorious color. Children especially like his works as each one tells a story. He has exhibited in many Galleries throughout Europe, particularly in Munich, Vienna, Tokyo, and Harrods in London. His work has been on permanent exhibition at the Stewart Gallery...

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Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

WATTS TOWER
WATTS TOWER

WATTS TOWER

By Gloria Stuart

Located in Santa Monica, CA

GLORIA STUART (1910 – 2010) WATTS TOWERS, 1971 Oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24” x 50 ½”. Gloria Stuart, an Academy Award nominated actress was also a painter, illustrator and printmaker. She most recently portrayed Rose in the blockbuster film “Titanic”. She was a Santa Monica native. In 2013 The Los Angeles Museum of Art, LACMA exhibited a nearly identical painting looking from the south, the same size and frame. Last 5 photos show the example at LACMA. One shows theirs in a distant room with a major Thomas Hart Benton painting in the foreground A VERY IMPORTANT MULTI-LEVELED DOCUMENT OF LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD CULTURAL HSTORYi The following is from her obituary in the Los Angeles Times upon her death in September 2010 at the age of 100 Gloria Stuart, a 1930s Hollywood leading lady who earned an Academy Award nomination for her first significant role in nearly 60 years — as Old Rose, the centenarian survivor of the Titanic in James Cameron’s 1997 Oscar-winning film — has died. She was 100. .......She devoted much of her time to designing and printing artists’ books (handmade, letter-press printed books in limited editions, with her own artwork and writing). Her work is in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and other museums. Stuart, a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild who later became an accomplished painter and fine printer, died Sunday night at her West Los Angeles home, said her daughter, writer Sylvia Thompson. Stuart had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago. “She also was a breast cancer survivor,” Thompson said, “but she just paid no attention to illness. She was a very strong woman and had other fish to fry.” In July the actress was honored at an “Academy Centennial Celebration With Gloria Stuart” at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. “She was a charming and beautiful leading lady in the ‘30s, and I never understood why her career didn’t go further at that time,” film historian and critic Leonard Maltin, who interviewed Stuart on stage at the event, told The Times on Monday. As for Stuart’s high-profile comeback in “Titanic”: “She was thrilled by the attention that that performance brought her and really wanted to win that Oscar. I thought she hit just the right notes in that performance. She was wry and engaging.” As a glamorous blond actress under contract to Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox in the 1930s, Stuart appeared opposite Claude Rains in James Whale’s “The Invisible Man” and with Warner Baxter in John Ford’s “The Prisoner of Shark Island.” She also appeared with Eddie Cantor in “Roman Scandals,” with Dick Powell in Busby Berkeley’s “Gold Diggers of 1935” and with James Cagney in “Here Comes the Navy.” And she played romantic leads in two Shirley Temple movies, “Poor Little Rich Girl” and “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” But mostly she played what Stuart later dismissed as “stupid parts with nothing to do” — “girl reporter, girl detective, girl nurse” — and “it became increasingly evident to me I wasn’t going to get to be a big star like Katharine Hepburn and Loretta Young.” After making 42 feature films between 1932 and 1939, Stuart’s latest studio contract, with 20th Century Fox, was not renewed. She appeared in only four films in the 1940s and retired from the screen in 1946. By 1974, “the blond lovely of the talkies” had become an entry in one of Richard Lamparski’s “Whatever Happened to” books. Writer-director Cameron’s $200-million “Titanic” changed that. Stuart played Rose Calvert, the 100-year-old Titanic survivor who shows up after modern-day treasure hunters searching through the wreckage of the sunken ship find a charcoal drawing of her wearing a priceless blue diamond necklace. Stuart’s performance as Old Rose frames the 1997 romantic- drama that starred Leonardo DiCaprio as lower-class artist Jack Dawson...

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American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

1960's French Impressionist Signed Dated Oil Book Sellers River Seine Paris
1960's French Impressionist Signed Dated Oil Book Sellers River Seine Paris

1960's French Impressionist Signed Dated Oil Book Sellers River Seine Paris

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Booksellers, Paris French artist, circa 1962 signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 21 x 25.75 inches provenance: private collection condition: a few scuffs and knocks but in ove...

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Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil