1940s Landscape Paintings

From our collection of original designs. To see more, scroll down to 'More from this seller'. George Horace Davis (1888-1963) Design for publication in The Illustrated London News...

"Money Lender" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Mervin M Jules (1912-1994 "The Money Lender" 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower left F...

Born in Russia, the son of Friede (1878 – 1956) and Benjamin Hoffman (1878 – a. 1942). Benjamin was a dealer in mineral and seltzer water and the family resided on Snediker Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, just down the streetfrom the home where George Gershwin (1898 – 1937) was born. This area of Brooklyn, known as Brownsville, “witnessed the development of one of the largest communities of Eastern European Jewish immigrants during the last decade of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20 th century.” Today, little remains of this once thriving Jewish section of Brooklyn, which today houses many commercial and repair businesses. Hoffman studied at the Art Students League of New York, the National Academy of Design and in the art program at Cooper Union. His work at the National Academy received praise, and in 1921 he was awarded the 2nd prize and an honorable mention from the John Armstrong Chaloner Paris Prize Foundation at the National Academy, which allowed the recipient to study in Paris, France for as long as five years. The following year he was awarded the 1 st prize in the competition (with The Reform Advocate running the headline “Young Jew Wins Art Prize”) as well as the Suydam Bronze Medal for his achievements in the Academy’s Men’s Night Class. In 1923 he was residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, when he was awarded 4th place in the Chaloner competition. Early on, Hoffman exhibited his work throughout the city, including in 1925 with the recently organized Society of Independent Artists. He also received several solo exhibitions during the first part of his career, including one at Ferargil Galleries in 1929. In the spring of 1930 a solo exhibition of his portraits, including paintings and drawings, was held at at Babcock Galleries, where a reviewer noted: “Portraiture is obviously Mr. Hoffman’s specialty… his best work is characterized by a sensitive appreciation of character set down in a vigorous decisive statement. Later that same year, in August, he participated in Babcock’s summer exhibition where reviewer Jerome Klein, writing for The Baltimore Sun, felt Hoffman’s and other artists work was already becoming old fashioned, remarking “…if an effort toward accomplishment is to be made, it must be in the language of today. It is for that reason that such contemporaries as Eugene Higgins and Nathan Hoffman, in this show, seem artists of a bygone era…” The onset of the Great Depression appears to have slowed his success, as was the case for many up-and-coming artists. By 1939 Hoffman had become a gallerist in addition to being a painter, operating the collective exhibition space “Sutton Gallery,” which was originally located at 358 East 57th Street. There Hoffman exhibited his own works as well as those created by other prominent New York artists including David Burliuk (1882 – 1967), Charles C. Curran (1861 – 1942), Louis Eilshemius (1864 – 1941), Ann Goldthwaite (1869 – 1944), Maurice Kish (1895 – 1987), Lawrence Lebduska (1894 – 1966), Bradford Perin and Ellis Wilson...

Harold Fletcher Trew (1896–1973) View of Tarbert, Loch Fyne, Argyll Royal Academy Exhibition, 1949 Oil on canvas Signed lower left and inscribed on the reverse A superb Scottish ha...

L'Orne à la Chaize by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 60 x 73 cm (23 ⁵/₈ x 28 ³/₄ inches) Signed lower left, Paulémile- Pissarro- Titled on the stretcher This work is a...

Oil on masonite. Sign and dated in oil in lower right corner.

FLIGHT American Futurism Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Oil Painting Realism Daniel Celentano (1902-1980) "Flight," 26 x 26 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1940s. Signed lower right. Ori...

VAUTHRIN Ernest Germain Born in 1878 in Rochefort-sur-Mer (Charente-Maritime) 20th Century. French. Landscape painter, marine. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon of the National So...

Francis Gilbert Trott (British, 20th Century) Newlyn Harbour, Cornwall Oil on canvas, signed lower right Circa 1940–1950 A charming and beautifully atmospheric harbour scene by the ...

Francois Gerome French, 1895 La Porte de St. Martin, Paris Oil on canvas 16 by 20 in. W/frame 22 by 26 in. Signed lower left Framed in a period House of Heyden...

Fortune Magazine Cover Published 1941 Illustration Precisionist American Scene Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Military Tent City Fortune Cover published, May 1941 17 1/2 X 15 in...

Marcel Dyf French, 1899-1985 “Place de La Concorde” , 1948 Signed Dyf and dated 1948 Paris (lr) Oil on canvas Canvas: 29 x 39.75 Inches (73.6 x 99 cm) Framed: 35 x 45.25 Inches ...

Signed upper left, 'O. Foss' for Olivier Foss (French, 1920-2002) and painted circa 1945. Born in Hanover, Germany, Olivier Foss first studied art in Berlin and, subsequently, in Pa...

3910C Antique impressionistic winter landscape.Oil on canvas applied to board Displayed in a gilt wood frame, Signed lower left by Johanssen. Image size 17.5 H x 23.5 W

#5-2758a Circa 1940's oil seascape on wood plaque,signed lower right by J.Niannino

Symbolic and surreal landscape with three women in a mystical garden setting walking toward a plaque "The dream and the dreamer are one" by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Unique painting with dream-like quality with three blonde figures looking at a garden folly...

3966 Antique Amsterdam canal scene set in a vintage wood frame Image size 11.5x8.5"

This significant and extremely rare work by the great Italian artist Aldo Natili (Rome, 1913–1975) depicts an urban or suburban scene characterised by dense vegetation. Signed ‘Nati...

John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Woman and Child Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in. John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters. At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions. A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century. John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934). Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.) During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution. John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career. This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...

Ponte Garibaldi is an original oil on canvas realized by the Italian artist Antonio Vangelli (Rome, 1917 – Rome, 2003) in 1941. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower righ...

Post War Bay Area Figurative - Original Watercolor Painting "Weekend at the Beach Vibrant watercolor of family on the beach by Turkish-American artist Ömer Şahingil (Turkish/Americ...

6150 English Country church landscape on canvas

Another delightful large painting by the post impressionist master; Emile Albert Gruppe. The landscape take you down a snow covered road by a cool icy running stream through a New En...

This is a great American landscape painting by the artist, Clyde Singer. Gorgeous tonal shades of green and grey depict a stormy midwestern landscape. Framed 16 x 24 inches Canva...

This artwork "California Landscape" 1947, is a watercolor by noted California artist Werner Philipp, 1897-1982. It is signed and dated at the left side by the artist. The artwork siz...

Antique American impressionist wpa era oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 18 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone.Excellent condition, ready to hang ...

Provenance: Frédérique Tison, Château de Chassy (Burgundy-Franche Comté - France) Bibliography: J. Clair, V. Monnier Balthus, catalogue raisonné of the complete works, Gallimard, Pa...

Merio Ameglio Italian, 1897-1970 Notre Dame, Autonne Oil on Canvas 18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in. Signed lower left & titled on reverse Merio noted impressionist painter p...

Work on canvas Molded plaster frame and gilded wood 56 x 70 x 6 cm

Mid Century Mexican Surrealist Painting - Landscape with Arches, Signed Intriguing mid-century surrealist painting by Mexican artist Jose Arciga (20th Century.) Two flat green arche...

This important and rare landscape painting by the great Roman artist Aldo Natili (Rome, 1913–1975) displays an artistic style akin to the Fauvist movement. The painting depicts a ru...

6141 Oil on canvas of a still life library table setting Set in a gilt frame Image size 29.5x 24" Signed lower right

While most can not even count all 102 stories of the Empire State Building, artist Alice Smith accurately paints each and every story with exacting detail ...

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Signed lower left, 'Byron' for Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999), dated 1947 and titled, 'Aus'. A dramatic, Post-Impressionist view of the Western Australian port of Fremantle wit...

This superb British Post Impressionist 1940’s cityscape oil painting of Bath is by noted Slade School artist Therese Lessore who was the wife of Walter Sickert. Lessore hailed from a...

Provincetown Landscape (Ptown Landscape), 1942, oil on canvas board, signed lower left, 20 x 24 inches, titled and dated verso, labels verso read 1) “Provincetown Landscape / oil painting by Buelah Stevenson / 252 Fulton St. / Brkn / price $ [illegible] /” and 2) “New York Society of Women Artists”, perhaps exhibited: 1) Society of Independent Artists, American Society of Fine Arts, New York, NY, 1942 – 1944 under the title “Landscape", 2) 17th Annual Exhibition of the New York Society of Women Artists, New York, NY, February - March, 1942; and/or 3) Beulah Stevenson Paintings, Fifteen Gallery, New York, NY, April 6 -18, 1942 Provincetown Landscape is a beautiful example of Beulah Stevenson's painting from the 1940s, a time when she honed her mature style which emphasized rhythmic patterns developed in a semi-abstract idiom executed with a bright, saturated palette. Provincetown had long been a source of inspiration for American painters and Stevenson knew it well from her time studying there with Hans Hoffman. In reviewing her solo exhibition of twenty-five works at Fifteen Gallery which included a large section of Provincetown paintings...

Charming and bright mid century California figurative landscape with a female figure walking down a verdant and inviting path by William Hiller (America...

American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, After the Shower (1949), where he depicts a woman walking down the street after a storm with her umbrella in hand. An accompl...

A Native American scene entitled, The Day's Catch, shows a man fishing the river from his canoe with a net. Though mostly tonal, the sky and distant landscape pop with blue blue-gr...

Antique American impressionist wpa era oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 14 by 18 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone.Excellent condition, ready to hang ...

Beautiful mid century figurative landscape of a contemplative woman in Cotswold village, England by David L. Ghilchik (b. 1892 Romania; d. 1972 London), c.1945. Signed lower right ...

Francois Gerome French, 1895 La Porte de St.Denis, Paris Oil on canvas 16 by 20 in. W/frame 22 by 26 in. Signed lower right Framed in a period House of Heydenr...

This artwork is an oil painting on canvas created by "Shapovalov." It is inspired by a work by Arkady Plastov, capturing the style and essence of the original piece. The scene depic...

Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985). An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...

Date: 1942 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 18.50" x 15.70" Signature: Signed Image of woman holding pie and a man calling out to farmhands. An early 20th-century illustrator work...

Signed lower right and dated 1948 David Burliuk’s vibrant depiction of a Ukrainian countryside captures a moment of quiet resilience and rural harmony. A woman, adorned in a red ker...

5151 Antique Austrian large scale landscape oil painting signed, framed Image size 35.5x23.5"

Merio Ameglio Italian, 1897-1970 Parisian Street Scene Oil on Canvas 18 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 26 by 29 ½ in. Signed lower left Merio noted impr...

"Sleepy Hollow" Marin California Overlooking San Francisco Bay Davis F Schwartz Rare and significant work; beautifully rendered landscape of Sleepy Hollow near San Rafael, Marin County, California by Davis Francis Schwartz...

3910B Antique oil landscape people working in a beau colic field . Set in a 19th C gilt frame Image size 16x20"

Charming painting of a Mediterranean town, two men untangle a fishnet while beach goers frolic on the shore, circa 1940. Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of art on paper displaye...

A beautiful and evocative oil painting on walnut panel by the great Italian artist Ardengo Soffici. With his usual inspired touch, he depicts a glimpse of a village with a large tree...

43 x 37.5 is the FRAMED SIZE. , 36 x 30 is the live size. Post-impressionist pointillist bush strokes describe this image of Americana. The location looks like New England. Signed ...

Jacques Martin-Ferrières (French, 1893-1972) La grille d'entrée principale de l'Artaudière, 1945 Oil on canvas Canvas: 36.25 x 28.75 inches (92.1 x 73.0 cm) Framed Dimensions 41.5 X ...

Vintage French modernist South France landscape oil painting from the cirlce of Andre LHote. Apparently unsigned. Very finely painted. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Measu...

This oil on canvas is signed “Metzinger” in the lower right corner. It was created between 1947 and 1950 Provenance: Tajan, Paris, Tableaux et sculptures des XIX et XX eme siecles, ...

5-3744A. Oil on canvas of a tranquil landscape with an abandoned cabin Framed in a wood frame Image size 19.5x11.5" Initialed lower left A.M

Mediterranean Fishing Boats Beach Catalonia Coastal Impressionist Oil Artist: J. Sureda Lloveras Title: Fishermen Boats on Mediterranean Beach Medium: Oil on panel Period: circa 1945 Movement: Spanish Impressionist School Support: Panel Signature: Signed lower left Condition: Very good condition Framed: No Dimensions: Height: 33 cm (13 in) Width: 41 cm (16.15 in) Origin: Catalonia, Spain Charming Mediterranean coastal scene depicting traditional fishing boats resting on a sunlit Catalonian beach, painted by J. Sureda Lloveras around 1945. The composition captures the quiet poetry of working maritime life along the Spanish coast, with anchored boats, suspended fishing nets and luminous white seaside architecture dissolving into a warm atmospheric horizon. The brushwork is spontaneous yet controlled, combining structural drawing with fresh plein-air sensitivity typical of mid-century Mediterranean impressionist painting. Scenes like this evoke the authentic coastal identity collectors associate with Sitges, Costa Brava and the wider Catalan shoreline during the golden era of Spanish figurative landscape painting. The painting balances decorative harmony with documentary charm, making it equally suitable for collectors of Spanish impressionism and for interiors seeking refined coastal European atmosphere. Small-scale original Mediterranean harbor paintings with strong light and architectural presence are particularly desirable in today’s international interior design market, especially in the United States. A refined and highly displayable example of postwar Catalan coastal painting. This work belongs to the tradition of Mediterranean plein-air painting developed across Catalonia and the Spanish Levante during the first half of the 20th century. Comparable stylistic affinities may be found in the coastal works of: Joaquín Sorolla Eliseu Meifrèn Santiago Rusiñol Hermen Anglada-Camarasa (coastal palette phase) and European maritime painters such as Eugène Boudin Raoul Dufy (coastal compositions) These references position the painting within a broader international impressionist coastal landscape tradition appreciated by collectors worldwide. Mediterranean painting Spanish coastal painting Fishing boats painting...

Mediterranean Harbor Scene with Fishing Boats and Bathers, Costa Brava Artist: Nicolau Raurich i Petre (1871-1945) Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions: 14 x 23 cm (5.5 x 9.1 in) Signatu...