"New Mexico River Valley, " 1920s Painting, Black, Green & Blue, Attr. Applegate

This classic example of WPA-period mural painting, executed by Verona Burkhardt for the Immigration and Naturalization Center in Los Angeles, depicts five Pueblo Indians in the foreground and a magnificent landscape of canyons and Pueblo dwellings in the background. This served as a study for one of five large canvases she delivered to California in 1941 or 1942, but the building was cordoned off due to America's entrance into World War II. Burkhardt (or Burkhard) was the daughter of two important artists and was introduced to painting and crafts at an early age. In her prime, she won seven U.S. Government mural commissions in national competitions for buildings in Wyoming, Montana, North Carolina, and Washington, D.C. She settled in Grand Junction...

In 1943, when the Second World War still raged a continent away, Eleanor Reed painted this beautiful and haunting view of the New Mexico landscape, featuring a rosy-toned adobe churc...

Full of dramatic, shifting light and deep, atmospheric colors, this landscape painting by Norwood MacGilvary depicts rolling farmland and a winding road, with a dramatic mountainside...

Large and important, this drawing is the final study for "Biscayne Holiday," one of the famed Seminole paintings created by Eugene Savage starting in 1935 during his first visit to F...

Beautiful early 20th century California landscape by Hungarian American painter Geza Kende (1889–1952). Executed in oil on canvas, the painting captures a dramatic mountain landscape beneath a luminous sky filled with soft rolling clouds. The composition centers on a rugged rock formation rising above gently sloping green hills, with distant mountain ranges extending toward the horizon. Kende’s painterly brushwork and subtle color transitions create a strong sense of atmosphere and depth. The sky, rendered with layered whites, blues, and grays, gives the painting a dynamic presence while contrasting beautifully with the warm earth tones of the landscape below. Paintings by Geza Kende reflect the tradition of early 20th century American landscape painting...

Landscape painting, oil on artist board in giltwood frame. Titled oak gulch and dated 1950.

Original mid-century plein air landscape painting by D. Fairweather, dated 1942. Depicting a California scene, this atmospheric work captures the natural light and expressive brushwo...

Grand Canyon watercolor, American school, circa 1930, watercolor on paper, framed under glass with matting, unsigned inscribed on verso "Grand Canyon GW". Paper size 5 1/8"-inches 7...