All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1940 item #1457485
A color print of the year 1932, issued by Frost and Reed of Bristol and London, titled "Going Out at Epsom", after a painting by the famous English equestrian artist ALFRED JAMES MUNNINGS (1878-1959), measuring 20" by 19 3/4" inside the existing linen mat and 31" by 30 1/2" in the wood framing. The print is NOT pencil signed. Munnings is perhaps the pre-eminent painter of all things horses, at least among 20th century artists...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1457086 (stock #2160)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
Richard Hayley Lever (28 September 1875 – 6 December 1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Lever was born in Bowden, South Australia on 28 September 1875, the son of Albion W. Lever.[2] He excelled in painting classes at Prince Alfred College under James Ashton and on leaving school continued to study under Ashton at his Norwood art school...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1446987 (stock #2109)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
Manfred Schwartz (November 11, 1909 in Łódź, Poland – November 7, 1970 in New York City, United States) was a Polish-born American artist who was educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, the Art Students League of New York, and the National Academy of Design in New York City. He also studied with Charles Hawthorne, John Sloan, and George Bridgman” this work is of the lower east side of Manhattan circa 1940 oil on canvas measuring 16x20”....
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1444489 (stock #1257)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
M. J. Colton ARCHER “Washer Women” Oil 33x27” Beautiful oil on canvas work painted in the 1940s
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1940 item #1418254 (stock #JB01918)
This is a landscape work by highly regarded American artist THOMAS WILLOUGHBY NASON (1889-1971). The print is signed in pencil at lower right and dated there 1937, when the artist was 48 years old, at mid-career. Nason was a Boston-born artist who by the late 1920's had taught himself the fine art of creating prints in the wood engraving process. This process was popular for illustrating books in the 19th century but by the twentieth it had fallen from favor...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1436525 (stock #135)
L'Enfant Gallery
$14,000.00
Oil on Canvas, FS 27” x 23”, SS 20 x 18” Bio: Martha Walter (1875-1976), the American impressionist artist, was a student of William Merritt Chase. Martha was born in 1875 in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended High School in her hometown, later continued her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under William Merritt Chase...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1446360 (stock #116)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
A beautiful Art Deco oil on canvas unsigned work “Ashcan School” circa 1930 24x30 inches, original hand made frame
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1437203 (stock #394)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
Swiss Alps Landscape oil on canvas of Tarasp Castle, measuring 18x26 inches,frame size measures 25x33 inches ………… Otto Altenkirch (2 January 1875, Ziesar – 20 July 1945, Siebenlehn) was a German Impressionist painter and set designer. He was the sixth child born to Johann Christian Friedrich Altenkirch, a Master saddler, and his wife Dorothea Wilhelmine Auguste née Müller.[1] In 1889, after completing primary school in Zeisar, he went to Berlin to serve a four-year apprenticeship ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1940 item #1480459
Reflets des Arts
€1,900.00
Japanese Print Shiro Kasamatsu (1898-1991) – Evening Rain, Shinobazu Pond. Publisher : Watanabe Shozaburo. Size : Oban (10″x15″). Signed. Around 1940-1950. Framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1458543 (stock #2330)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
This early work, done November 1931, while Studying in New York with other ashcan School Artist……. Alfred McNamara was born in Tompkinsville, Staten Island and lived most of his life in Staten Island. He was heavily influenced by John Sloane, Edward Hopper, and others of the Ashcan School in the 1920's and 1930's. During the 1930's, he received his basic art training under Walter Drewes, through a program sponsored by the WPA (Works Projects Administration) at the Brooklyn Museum of Art...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1440795 (stock #191)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
“Karl Marx dinner gets about to devour the world portrait of Mussolini on the right foreground 1933 with the exception of Hitler sealing the doom of Europe”by N. MacLeish (1933). Framed Oil on Canvas. 33 x 35" MacLeish was born on August 29, 1890, in Glencoe Illinois, to wealthy parents and became a painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Pierre Vignal in Paris...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1437637 (stock #143)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
Modernist Still Life by Raymond Feuillate (1901-1971), Paris Modernist. (1932). Grapes and Apples on a Napkin.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1940 item #1342349
This color aquatint etching by the French Expressionist Georges Rouault measures 12 1/8 x 8 3/8 inches, plate signed, from the "Circus of the Shooting Stars" series, a group of eight color aquatints created in 1930, on Rives BFK laid type paper, initialed and dated in the plate, lower right, edition of 270, cat: Wofsy-212.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1115824
A Fine Mountain Landscape Painting, probably from the 1930's or earlier. Measures about 24" by 16", in its frame of about 26 1/2" by 18 1/2". Signed lower right by the artist, it looks like "Chas Lowe". Great look.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1437642 (stock #594)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
"The Scavenger" by Rita Welpe Barnett. 1930s. Oil on Canvas. 34 x 26". Frame Size 42.5 x 34".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1423345 (stock #JB03589)
Oil on canvas laid on board painting of a man and two female companions, relaxing in a sun dappled forest in summer, the gentleman playing a guitar, the women in feminine dress with bonnets and hats. The work, (24" by 30", and mid 20th century frame 4" on a side), has for years defied my efforts to identify the artist, as the signature at lower right is very difficult indeed. It appears to begin with a "B", and I have tried combinations such as "Brettschneider" to no avail...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1437926 (stock #461)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Driftwood Gaitherers 1940s Semi-Nude Figures 60x40 oil on canvas framed 62x42 inch by the American Artist Neidlinger….
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1437112 (stock #827)
L'Enfant Gallery
$9,500.00
Boris Pagtoukhoff , a Ukrainian born artist who studied with A.A. Murashko,this work is a Still Life with Fruit dated 1927 , Oil on Canvas,35 x 42"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1473924 (stock #3063)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,600.00
AMERICAN MASTER ARTIST NORMAN MACLEISH 1890-1975 “MAINE COAST” 1932 oil on canvas , measuring 30” x 36”, in its original 1930s frameNorman MacLeish was born on August 29, 1890, in Glencoe Illinois, to wealthy parents and became a painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and with Pierre Vignal in Paris...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1450911 (stock #1606)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,500.00
Artist Sakari Suzuki landscape dated 1940 Modernist style work measuring 24x30 inches, frame size 32x38” (10 October 1899 – January 1995) was an American artist born in Japan. Suzuki was born in Iwate, Japan. He moved to San Francisco in 1918 to join his father. Sukuzi attended California School of Fine Arts[1] there in 1924...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1940 item #1444467 (stock #1248)
Germany 1930s period Lithograph “Modernist Workers” 27x39” Greater German Reich[h] from 1943 to 1945, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country which they transformed into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1453747 (stock #1674)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,400.00
American Modernism Landscape 1937 Connecticut Artist Oil 22x26” In it’s original frame made by the artist. Unsigned oil on artist board.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1481741 (stock #3491)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,000.00
This drawing was done for a study in the 1930s….Graphite on paperLeon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974)[1] was an American painter and lithographer. A figurative artist described by Life magazine as "the dean of U.S...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #613399 (stock #816)
Abstract pencil/charcoal on paper - estate stamped 'Ramstonev'. This work was done during the late 1930's as part of the 'Cooperative' project in the New Hope, Pa. modern art community. Charles Ramsey, Louis Stone and Charles Evans worked collectively on drawings and paintings during this time. While all three were accomplished artists they decided to suppress their individual egos and create works in keeping with the leftist philosophies proposed by many of the intellectuals of the time and the...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1940 item #981222
Stated "One of twenty" prints by illustrator and children's book publisher. Helena Chase Johnson. The print is also marked "For Norman" along with her signature. An interesting note -- Chase owned The Little Hotel by the Sea (located at the Grande Colonial Hotel in La Jolla, Calif.) The hotel boasted of having a beautiful six-passenger mahogany elevator, making it "The Littlest Hotel in the World with an Elevator."
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1419414 (stock #JB02318)
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop) this is a sketch in soft pencil on paper, the drawing and frame 10 3/4" by 22", signed at lower right, and dated there '65, by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod. Hughes exhibited widely (even at the Paris Salons) and was a memb...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1432624
A pencil drawing of a young girl at the coast (sailing craft visible in the left background), 14 1/2" by 11 3/4" in thin strip frame), signed at lower right by the noted California impressionist painter JOE DUNCAN GLEASON (1881-1959). The sketch may be a study for a painting. Gleason is known for his landscapes, marine scenes, especially those with sailing ships large and small, and portraits. Born in Watsonville near Monterey, CA and raised in Los Angeles, he received extensive art education...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1417467 (stock #JB04319)
ONE OF TWO DRAWINGS BY THE ARTIST IN MY SHOP---A pencil drawing of the Hell Gate railroad bridge in New York City, (so identified after research conducted on the internet), 8 7/8" by 6 3/4" (14 1/2" by 11 1/2" framed, no glass, loose in black metal frame), signed with initials "JRM" at lower left and dated there 1943. On the reverse a previous owner wrote "JOHN RICHARD MOORE 1925-2009 University High Sch arts class Co Founder Panavision Co.". This early work would date to the artist's teens. Moo...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Marker : Pre 1940 item #1453787 (stock #1682)
Hey beautiful done drawing of a young boy done in 1940 work signed Gottlieb 20x14”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : East European : Pre 1940 item #1418960 (stock #JB02984)
Oil on canvas painting of autumnal trees with a few houses in the composition at center, 12" by 16" (20 1/2" by 24 1/2" in newer frame), signed at lower right in red and dated 1933 or 1939 by Hungarian artist JANOS LASZLO ALDOR (1895-1944). As the images of the reverse labels show, the artist was apparently misidentified by previous owners, including the Brand Library in Glendale, California. Aldor painted landscapes of his native land, as well as often elegant portraits and nudes. At auction...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1490162
Howard Cook 1901-1980 American This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Howard Cook. The title is: Rosanna, it was created and printed in 1939 in an edition of 250. This image was sold by Associated American Artists in New York. The image measures 11 3/4X8 3/4 inches. Beauful condition, matted not framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1416853 (stock #JB02286)
Pencil on watermarked paper drawing of a tall female nude, 16" by 11 1/4" inside the mat, 23 1/4" by 18 3/4" framed, signed at lower right by the artist and dated there 1933. DAME ETHEL WALKER (1861-1951) is a modern British artist of significance, known for an impressionistic and poetic style with subject matter ranging from portraits and studies of the female figure to seascapes, landscapes, still life florals, and decorative compositions featuring mythological and allegorical material. She ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1416903 (stock #JB01047)
Decorative etching on paper in brownish inks showing ancient houses in a continental European village, 6 3/4" by 8 5/8" (15 1/2" by 16" as framed), signed in pencil in lower margin by the noted English modern art figure FRANK BRANGWYN (1867-1956). Brangwyn was a unique figure in British art, not easily categorized stylistically, but today his contribution to that art is unquestioned. Born in Belgium, he was in London by an early age, where he largely taught himself to draw. During the 1880's he ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1420631 (stock #JB02329)
**ONE OF FIVE WORKS I AM OFFERING BY THE ARTIS, this is an etching on paper print, 8 1/2" by 10 1/2" inside the mat (14 1/4" by 16 1/4" as framed), signed in pencil at lower left by noted western American artist GEORGE ELBERT BURR (1859-1939). At lower right is written the title of the work, "Whirlwinds Dead Mountains--Mojave Desert". Burr's etchings and watercolors of the Great Southwest, especially Arizona and Colorado, are eagerly sought after by collectors. This example, of dust devils in an...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1434281
A group of three etchings of New York City subject matter, each pencil signed and titled by the artist LEON LOUIS DOLICE (1892-1960). The three titles are "Fish Market", "Metropolitan Tower", and "NJ Waterfront". "Metropolitan Tower" is the largest, the printed area measuring 10 1/4" by 7 1/4"; the other two are 7 1/2" by 6" (printed area). Interestingly the prints are all printed off-center or otherwise at irregular angles on the sheets. The artist, LEON DOLICE (1892-1960) was a prolific wor...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1396850
Adolphe M.T. Beaufrere 1876-1960 This is an original drypoint etching by French artist Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960) The title of this etching is "Cottages by the Stream", it was created and printed circa 1930. It is editioned as 19/60. The image measures 8 1/2X8 3/4 inches. Hand signed in pencil in the lower margin.