All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1466516
Oil on canvasboard painting of a home and greenery with a high mountain backdrop, signed at lower left faintly "J. F. Gasser" and inscribed on reverse "Original/by Rev. J. F. Gasser/April 1937/La Crescenta Calif". The work measures 12" by 16" (16" by 19 1/2" framed). The artist does not appear to be listed or known but was talented. An early scene in what is today a highly desirable upscale Los Angeles suburb backing up to the scenic Angeles National Forest.
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 : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1419613 (stock #JB02562)
This is a perhaps circa 1930's or 1940's work in an earlier naive style, with a fisherman, sailing craft, and cabin on the shore. On canvas, simply tacked to the frame on the reverse side, the piece measures 21" by 30 1/2". I imagine this could be called "cabin art". If you're looking for a primitive piece for a country home, or even your urban home, consider this charming work...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1418441 (stock #JB04282)
Oil on canvas painting of a dirt track in an autumn forest, 16" by 24" (25 1/2" by 33 1/4" as framed), signed at lower right by the noted Indiana impressionist, EDWARD SITZMAN (1874-1949). This is a peaceful scene of late autumn. The artist is known for his watercolor and oil paintings of such landscapes, usually lacking figures. Watercolors are more commonly seen, the oils relatively scarce...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : British : Pre 1940 item #1491452 (stock #3728)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
A very fine Early Nineteen Century Venetian Grand Canal View Oil measurements 16” x 20”. The painting is unsigned done in the style of the English artist, Turner.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1400049
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$1,895.00
WPA portrait of a woman by Charles Winegarner. A fantastic oil on canvas of a stoic woman with an almost cubist background. There is an original repair that seems to have been fixed by the artist, the spot is in her hair to the left side. This is a large painting in its original frame . The condition is good though it shows some wear. Overall 42" by 31.5" with a .75" frame
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 : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1417518 (stock #JB01802)
Oil on thin linen canvas or possibly silk, 17" by 21" as simply framed, unsigned, probably circa 1930's to 1950's, the subject red and white roses. This was of course a favorite subject from about the turn of the century well into the twentieth, and today this kind of art is favored by those creating a shabby chic look. The present work has some wrinkling/rippling in the creamy unpainted background, as seen in the photos...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1420775 (stock #JB03445)
Here is a prize for the collector of Californiana----an idealized view of a mission in the golden days of yore, painted around 1935 I would guess. There is a signature at lower right that appears as Y. Arnold or similar. The painting is on a coarse weave canvas, almost like burlap or jute, laid down on an old board, on the back of which is a color print of a landscape. Size is 30" by 24" including the simple narrow wood strip frame...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1482688 (stock #986)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL ARTIST HENRY PEMBER SMITH 1854-1907……) was an American painter, best known for his depictions of country cottages and river scenes around Lyme and East Lyme, Connecticut, and paintings of the sea and shore in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Cape Ann to Maine. Smith was born in Waterford, Connecticut.During the 1880s, he studied the Old Masters in Paris, Brittany, Normandy, Venice and along the English Cornish coast.He was a member of the Artists' Fund Society and the Ame...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1940 item #1416131 (stock #JB0562)
TWO pen and ink drawings, identical size and frames, 9 7/8" by 7 5/8", one titled "Down the Gulch" and the other "Slave Quarters, Glen Haven, Colo.", each signed "A.C." and one dated 1936. I don't know who "A.C." might be/have been, but, if you collect Colorado art, you might like this pair of drawings of a mountain road and a mountain cabin. You might wish to reframe them. If anyone knows who the artist is, please do let me know.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1267480
John Stockton deMartelly, American, 1903-1979, "Give Us This Day". This is a beautiful original lithograph by American Regionalist artist John deMartelly. The image size is 13 1/8 x 13 5/8 inches, 1937, pencil signed. John deMartelly studied at the Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts, as well as in Italy and London...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1441267 (stock #219)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,200.00
Small beautiful masterpiece oil on canvas of the French Normandy Region in Winter,circa 1930s measuring 16”x13” Maggy Monier, 1887-1965 Notable French art-déco painter, Maggy Monier was renowned for her watercolor postcards. She illustrates this edition with six vibrant watercolors on tracing paper, as well as one ornamental, watercolor half-title page. Her imagery and palette echo the orientalist themes present in Baudelaire’s poetry, but she remains in the art-déco style...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1423165 (stock #JB04752)
A nicely painted landscape of willowy pine trees along a large peaceful lake on a fair weather day, 18" by 20" oil on canvas (24 1/4" by 26 3/4" in original silvery frame with Art Deco flavor) by artist JACOB HORAK...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1415660 (stock #JB04009)
Old watercolor and gouache painting of pink roses, unsigned, first half of the 20th century, 15 1/2" by 31 1/2" framed. The long and narrow work is very clean and ready for that special wall. Has a very shabby chic feeling.
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 : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1419236 (stock #JB02662)
Etching of a Chicago landmark, the Museum of Science and Industry, signed in the plate at lower left and dated there 1931 by the listed English-born artist who worked in a number of geographical areas of the United States, LEON PESCHERET (1892-1971). States in which the artist worked include Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Wisconsin (where he lived for quite some time), Illinois, and notably, Arizona and the Southwest...
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 : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1422575 (stock #JB04348)
Oil on canvas still life of flowers in a glass vase, painted in an impressionist hand, 24" by 20" (unframed), signed at lower right corner by artist "L. C. King" and dated there 1939. These flowers could be dahlias. The artist does not appear to be listed but he/she was talented...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1444696
A lovely ink and watercolor drawing, 10" by 13" (22" by 28" framed), featuring two elegantly dressed early 20th century women strolling in a park-like setting, as a gentleman on horseback passes by headed in the other direction. The work is signed at lower left by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878-1952), one of four sons of famous French impressionist artist Camille Pissarro. "Rodo" as he was often called throughout his life, was born in Paris and early on received training from his father. By 1894...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1456912
Unframed 1959 lithograph print 'Card Players', numbered in pencil lower left 100/100, and pencil signed lower right. The print is now in a protective sleeve with clear plastic sheet (through which a few photos were taken---allow for reflections). The sheet size is 20" by 26". The print is reverse-taped at top edge, in three places, as shown, and is NOT laid down. Condition is very clean overall; there are some black printing ink smudges apparently as issued, at right near signature and lower...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1940 item #1420874
A vintage pastel drawing of wood and thatch traditional homes on stilts in a shallow estuary at sunset, 11 3/4" by 17 3/4" (18 1/2" by 24" framed), signed at lower left "Lohmann" and dated there 1939. On the reverse is an old framer's label from Manila, the Philippines, and written in handwriting on the backing is "Zamboanga, P.I.". I believe Zamboanga is in Mindanao Island in the southern part of the country. This old work, pre-dating the war years, is by an accomplished artist, but I am not ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1448586
Yasuo Kuniyoshi 1893-1953 Japanese /American This is an original lithograph by Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi. It is titled The Cyclist. It was created and printed in 1939 and originally sold through Associated American Artists in New York. The image measures 12 1/2X8 3/4 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper. This lithograph is clearly signed in pencil lower right by the artist. One of his images from his circus series.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1417465 (stock #JB01775)
Original simply framed pencil signed lithograph black/white print on thin tissue-like paper, 7 3/4" by 11" inside the mat, sheet 12 1/2" by 19 1/2", as framed circa 1925, titled "Nelle-la-Vallee, la route", by the famous and important French modern artist MAURICE de VLAMINCK (1876-1958). Vlaminck is known as a Fauvist and later simply as an expressionist. At auctions, Vlaminck's works in oil bring from the low hundreds of thousands of dollars to the low millions. He was a formidable presence ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1940 item #1402312
Isaac Friedlander Open Isaac Friedlander configuration options 1890-1968 Latvian-American This is an original pencil signed wood engraving by Latvian American artist Isac Friedlander. This image is titled Self Portrait, New York and dated 1935. The image measures 10 3/4X8 3/4 inches. Isac Friedlander (1890-1968) was born in Latvia. In 1912 he went to Italy where he met and worked with Russian artist Maxim Gorky. During this period he also received his only art training, studying etching, ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1940 item #1422831 (stock #JB04132)
A fine woodcut print on Japan type thin, delicate paper, 8 1/2" by 6 1/2" inside the mat, no frame, signed in pencil at lower right and dated there 1931, a monogram in the printed image at lower left, adn inscribed "To Hal" at lower left, by the well listed artist IGNATZ SAHULA-DYCKE (1900-1982). The dramatic subject is mysterious and difficult to describe: a woman, perhaps somewhat sinister or even possibly Death, comforts a young girl, as a younger boy looks on from the right lower corner. ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1485032
Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969 British This is a fine expressive drypoint etching by British artist Sir William Russell Flint. The title is: Clatter and Whirl, Granada, it was created and printed in 1931 in an edition of 75. This image is hand signed, with sepia ink, numbered as XV and inscribed as using An antique laid type sheet from 1744, "D.R." The image measures 8 1/4X13 7/8 inches, printed with a brown toned ink, a very rich impression.
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. MacLeish was a member of the Chicago Society of Artists and exhibited at several venues...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1289657 (stock #687)
Everett Lloyd Bryant landscape oil painting on canvas signed lower right. Measuring 28"L x 36"W. Everett Lloyd Bryant studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Thomas Anschutz, William Merritt Chase, and Hugh Breckenridge. A member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, Philadelphia Watercolor Club, and California Watercolor Society, Bryant exhibited at the Salons of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1895), the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1904-24), Art Insti...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1077490
Jerome Myers, 1867-1940, American, Figures in a Park at Night, etching, image size 6 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, numbered 5/50, pencil signed.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Russian : Pre 1940 item #1420345 (stock #JB03032)
Old Russian painting of a night winter landscape with figures, oil on canvas, 12 1/2" by 18" as framed, signed with Cyrillic letters "P O" or "L O" at lower right. To date I have been unable to match the letters to any particular artist (nor could the Christie's Russian art specialist, when she saw it). The painting is extremely soiled and the canvas very uneven (could be described as sunken in, and the ripples "hardened" over time). Cleaned up and restored to a flat surface, this would be qu...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1419044 (stock #JB01819)
Etching in dark brownish-black ink, 14 3/8" by 10 1/2" inside the mat (19 3/4" by 15 1/2" as framed), the print numbered at lower left 37/100, while additionally signed and dated there as well in the plate, while titled in the plate "Notre Dame #2" at lower right. This is likely by an artist considered Canadian, CAROLINE HELENA WILKINSON ARMINGTON (1875-1939) rather than by American CAROLINE ARMINGTON (1898-1986), though records for the two seem to be hopelessly entangled. The former was born...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1458458
John Stockton deMartelly 1903-1979 American This is an original lithograph by American artist John S. deMartelly. The image, Old Moon was created and printed in 1938 and sold by Associated American Artists in New York. The image measures 10 1/8X13 3/4 inches. One of his best regionalist images. Much in the style of Thomas Hart Benton of whom the artist knew and worked with while at the Kansas City Art Institiute in the 1930's and early 40's. This lithograph is framed with the AAA label ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1491382
James Edmund Allen 1894-1964 American This is an original pencil signed etching by American artist James Allen. The title is: The Builders, it was created and printed in 1932 in an edition of 100. The image measures 9 3/4X11 3/4 inches. Very fine condition apart from a couple of old glue spots on the back of the sheet, This etching looks great... The image appears in the Reese book, "American Prize Prints". This etching is in the Ryan catalog as image number 62. One of Allen's most imp...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1470174
Stow Wengenroth 1906-1978 American This is a fine dramatic study of old ships in the harbor by American artist Stow Wengenroth.. This image is from Boothbay Maine. It was created and printed in 1937 in an edition of 65. This lithograph is hand signed in pencil and has an image size of 8 7/8X15 3/4 inches. It appears in the Stuckey catalog as image number 71. A striking image, one Wengenroth's best..
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1427856
Signed and numbered 25/35, this unframed limited edition lithograph by Spratling titled TIERRA CALIENTE was produced in 1931 from his original drawing for his book LITTLE MEXICO. The lithograph measures 16" X 11.5". The landscape image is about 8.5" X 8". This is one of 7 lithographs we purchased from Weyhe Gallery in NY in 1995. The gallery had a long time relationship with Spratling dating back to his very early days in Taxco. The lithograph is in beautiful condition. Several museums have Spra...