All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1950 item #1421145 (stock #JB04204)
A framed PAIR of identically framed color prints, each 11 1/2" by 15 1/4" as framed, the subjects of both the famous bookstalls by the Seine in Paris, Notre Dame cathedral in the distance. Each is pencil numbered at lower left out of editions of 5000, and signed at lower right in pencil, by the noted French 20th century impressionist painter CHARLES BLONDIN (1913-1991)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1950 item #1416281 (stock #JB0750)
Watercolor on paper, 14" square and 3 1/4" frame and mat, unsigned, of flowers in a vase. This is the work of a skilled and likely listed artist but I do not see a hint of a signature. It was purchased near Baton Rouge, Louisiana and the reverse framing paper shows what appears to be a Houston, Texas address. Condition is excellent with no stains or foxing.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1950 item #1416200 (stock #JB05420)
By the well-listed American artist JOSEPH MARGULIES (1896-1984) is this etching and aquatint print officially titled "Forever at Study", featuring two orthodox Jewish men studying the Holy Books. The work measures 10" by 12 1/4" inside the present mat opening and 15 1/4" by 19 1/4" as framed. Margulies was active in the New York City area and on Cape Ann in Massachusetts (Gloucester area)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1160609 (stock #1898)
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VICTOR JOSEPH GATTO: AMERICAN (1893-1965) WORKING THE FARM; Oil on Canvasboard Signed lower right: VJG, with no artistic background or training, started painting at age 45-48. In 1943, he had his first exhibit in NYC and gained instant recognition in the NY art scene as a folk art, naive/primitive painter, His works were exhibited in many major museums, (MOMA,WHITNEY ETC,) and he is listed in numerous art reference books. He painted with vibrant colors, and complex details...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1014619 (stock #8091)
Grocery Still Life

James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)

Oil on canvas, signed, titled and inscribed on the reverse.

Painting size: 16” x 20”
Frame size: 21” x 25”

** Please Note - This painting came directly from the Estate of Mr. O’Brien. For other examples, type “O’Brien” into the search box...

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1950 item #1421949 (stock #JB04711)
A lithograph print of a typical northern New Mexican adobe house of the Santa Fe and Taos region, signed in the plate at lower center with what appears as "J Hill" and dated nearby 48. The black and white image measures 6 1/4" by 9 1/4" inside the mat, 15" by 17 1/2" in simple black wood strip frame. Not examined out of frame but appears very clean and fresh. I have not been able to locate a listed artist by this name that would correspond to this work.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1950 item #1453465 (stock #1650)
A 1940s Henri Matisse lithograph from a rare edition book 10x8” framed in a beautiful olivewood frame measuring 16x12”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1416628 (stock #JB03524)
Fine old painting of a young woman in a most distinctive red-striped dress, signed at lower right by American artist REVINGTON ARTHUR (1908-1986). This painting has composition, a great palette and blond light, and a modernist feel. It stands in contrast to much of his work, which was executed in rather dark colors. The artist was a student of George Luks, Arshile Gorky, and Kimon Nicolaides...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1950 item #746597
John Taylor Arms, American, 1887-1953, "Cavendish Common," Etching, image size 6 3/8 X 14 9/16 inches, printed in 1942 by Charles White in an edition of 150, 2nd state proof, numbered "II", cat: Fletcher-370, pencil signed and dated. This atmospheric etching is a great example of the delicate lines precise detail for which Arms was known. This image won several awards in the early 1940s; the Mrs...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1422661 (stock #JB03611)
Interesting painting of the Southwest, showing Native Americans at a nocturnal religious ceremony or festival such as Penitente, probably in New Mexico, many candles flickering in the scene also populated with processional crosses. The blues of the nocturne dominate the composition, and the yellow crosses and many candles receding into the distance complete this most agreeable painting. The work is signed at bottom right with what appears as "Judith Rossio" or "Romo" or similar...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1416440 (stock #JB02016)
Oil on canvas modernistic still life, 12" by 20" (13" by 21" in a narrow wood frame), signed at lower right "R. FORTIER" and dated there 1948. The work reminds me a little bit of Braque, Picasso or some of the other 20th century giants who painted modern still life. This painting was evidently owned by a heavy smoker or was in a bar or restaurant where smoke was very much a part of the scene, as it is very heavily yellowed and smells of smoke...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #627829 (stock #836)
Auerbach and Maffia
$12,000.00

Joseph Meierhans modernist oil on board, circa 1940's.

Entitled "Country Abstraction".

Original handmade frame.

Image measures 22" x 26".

Meierhans, b. - 1890 in Switzerland, emigrated to the United States in 1917, eventually settling in Bucks County. He studied under A.N.Lindenmuth and J. Sloan and was a member of the S.Indp.Artists, ASL, Provincetown A.A. and the American Abstract Artists.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1349386
A Landscape Painting by the listed California Artist, Herbert Sartelle (1885-1955). Measures about 24" by 30", overall frame about 31 3/4" by 37 1/4". Very good work and in its rather fine original frame.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1940 item #1444873 (stock #1779)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
From our African Collection: Ngere Mask (also called Guéré or Wè, and Kran in Liberia), from South West Ivory Coast, Liberia. 7" x 12" h.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #758937 (stock #5727)
A nicely painted and tranquil signed watercolour of a sailboat on a lake with islands and distant mountains c1920s. This 7-1/8" x 4-1/2" sight size picture is in what appears to be the original gilt and painted wood embossed 10-1/4" x 7-1/2" frame with a gold mat. It is signed L. Livingston (unidentified), and it is in excellent original condition with no chips, cracks, fading, tears, staining, foxing, losses, damage or repairs...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1423268 (stock #JB04724)
PAIR of unsigned watercolors from Japan, one featuring a seaside beacon or shrine, the other small boats along a coast, a volcano (possibly Mt. Fuji) in the distance. The works were found intact and identically framed, but in shipping one frame essentially broke apart and may not be serviceable at this point. One painting measures 4 1/4" by 11 1/2", the other slightly smaller at 3 3/4" by 10 3/4" (and that one 9 3/4" by 17 1/2" framed)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1476333
20th Century American School 1900-1999 American Artists This is an original watercolor and gouache painting, artist unknown, most likely American circa 1930. The image of what appears to be a writer or Poet giving a talk in a park setting. The image measures 8 1/4X5 1/4 inches. Nicely framed with archival materials. This work, done on a blue toned paper is in very nice condition, clean and bright.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1437629 (stock #141)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,500.00
"Milwaukee" 1934. Signed by Kineman. Magazine Cover. Framed Water Color on Paper. (10/24/1934)
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1416027 (stock #JB03016)
Oil on canvas painting of trees in a tawny dry landscape, 12" by 20" and 1" wide old wood frame, signed at lower left by artist S. J. TUJAGUE. At first I had difficulty reading the signature but some net research showed this to be by an artist apparently at least originally hailing from Louisiana, there being a number of pieces, some still life works, having been auctioned in New Orleans. A famous restaurant in that city goes by this name...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1464236 (stock #2802)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
Belgian Artist Jean Grothe 1865-1924 painted and exhibited mainly in Germany and in Belgium. He was known as a plein aire master in his time. Although he never studied with the impressionist who thought he was of autocratic persona. This work on panel Measuring 8.5” x 13” this oil was painted in Hessenberg Bavaria, Germany frame size is 14” x 18”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1159035 (stock #2571)
King Art
$50,000.00
Oscar Florianes Bluemner (1867-1938), . The painting is 7 x 10 inches. The medium is watercolor and pencil. Provenance: The Estate of Oscar Bluemner's widow, sold to Virginia collector and then to a collector in New Jersey. Art & Antique Gallery, Inc., Worcester, MA. It may have been a preliminary painting for a larger painting titled: "Play of Barns-Red" exhibited at the Owen Gallery in 2001. (size 28 x 30 inches). I spoke with Mr. Owen about this painting to get details. The two titles are ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1417171 (stock #JB01990)
Original watercolor of a typical scene in the sub-tropical island of Bermuda, 9" by 13 1/2" (18 1/2" by 22" in its gold frame), apparently unsigned, probably executed in the early 20th century. The painting's subject is a pink-walled home at left with two palm trees growing in the yard, a view to the water at right center. The painting is laid down on a board, and the gold overmat is glued down on top of it, so, were there a signature/date, it is hidden by the mat. There is foxing visible pri...
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 #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. nude painters",[2] he was also a landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions. His public art includes murals for the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He created his only mosaic for the chapel ceiling at Normandy ...
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 : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1421915 (stock #JB03880)
Oil on board painting of autumnal trees, (California sycamores?), hazy mountains in the distance, unsigned, circa 1930's or 1940's. The work measures 9" by 12" and 11 5/8" by 14 1/2" in old probably original frame. The lack of a signature frustrates an effort to identify this talented artist, who might well be listed. The ornate frame is in good condition save for a missing chip at upper left. Painting is a bit soiled consistent with its age. There is a vertical line of soiling or foreign m...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1284028 (stock #145)
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"Snowy Range - Wyoming" 14.5" x 19.5" unframed. Frame 17.25" x 22.25". Mr. Pohl along with his wife was the founder of the La Jolla, California Art Center, Ernest Pohl was a businessman who did pastel and oil painting in his leisure time. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, however by 1915 he had settled in San Diego at 4468 Hortensa Street. His works include desert landscapes of Coachella Valley and Borrego Valley. Exhibition venues include the La Jolla Art Association and the University of No...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1423525 (stock #JB03749)
Oil on board painting of whitewashed, red tile roof typical California architecture, a garden in bloom in the brilliant sunshine, painted circa 1940 by an anonymous artist. The impressionist technique is outstanding, and I believe that were this signed, we would see the name of a listed artist. Written in old hand in pencil on the reverse of the board is "Pomona College Claremont". Pomona College, now part of the Claremont Colleges, is today a prestigious and selective liberal arts instituti...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1462035 (stock #1923)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,000.00
Alexandra Kay American Master Artist “Spanish Maiden Oil 46”x30” Kay was a student at the Corcoran School Of Art in the 1930s and exhibited there under Cikovsky
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1454496 (stock #1039)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
Important 1930s Abstract By French Artist Veriez “spray of Flowers” A piece done at the height of the depression measuring 29x34”
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1479761
Yasuo Kuniyoshi 1889-1953 Japanese-American, Arts Students League N.Y. This is a fine original lithograph on Chine applique by American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The title Before the Act, was created and printed in 1932 in an edition of only 40. Pencil signed and dated, printed by Grant Arnold, Woodstock. The image measrues 13 1/4X9 3/4 inches. Very fine condition. This image appears in the Davis catalog as image number 54.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1420272 (stock #JB02951)
Gouache on paper drawing of Wise Men on camels in a nocturne landscape, the bright star announcing the birth of Jesus, titled at bottom "Behold There Came Wise Men", 15" by 18 3/4" (22 1/4" by 28 1/2"as framed, without glass), apparently unsigned, but by a little-known California artist, Frederick Millson. This is an accomplished illustration drawing by a talented yet elusive artist about which there seems to be little known. It would make for an unusual Christmas gift. This and two other wo...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1470179
Stow Wengenroth 1906-1978 American This is a fine early lithograph by American artist Stow Wengenroth. The title is: Three Trees, Eastport Maine, it was created and printed in 1932 in an edition of only 50. This pencil signed lithograph has an image size of 8 3/16X12 3/4 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.
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 : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1454362 (stock #601)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
A. Armstrong American Artist, this work done near 14th street and. Constitution Avenue in Washington DC, watercolor signed and dated lower rates 1934 this is a beautiful work measuring 9 x 11“
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1359152 (stock #22105)
Original watercolor by Bertram Goodman (American, 1904-1988), circa 1940. Offered in a period frame. Signed l.r. 17" by 12" painting alone, 29" by 23" in frame. Bertram Goodman was a WPA artist and muralist. His works are held in the Brooklyn Museum and the Allbright-Knox Art Gallery.