All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1441705 (stock #390)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,000.00
Winter Snowscape signed lower left corner by Belgian Artist BERTALAN l 20 x 24 Beautiful beautiful scene of a church in winter frame size 27 x 32“
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1940 item #1479882 (stock #3427)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
Russian born sculptor and artist Ruben Kupur, born in modern day Lithuania, amd immigration to American in 1906. These matched pair of work in bronze measuring 19” in height each. Depicting a woman bring sheaves of wheat and a man bringing grapes., both signed KUPUR
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...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1940 item #1459919 (stock #2458)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,200.00
A beautiful Bronze measuring 6 inches wide 7 inches tall 4 inches deep …….John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (March 25, 1867 – March 6, 1941) was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #962966 (stock #2341 *)

Dorothy Van Loan art deco/modernist color lithograph

Titled - Clash.

C. 1939 - 40.

Artist's proof.

Image - 12" x 15"

With frame - 19" x 21".

Very good original condition not examined out of frame.

Dorothy Van Loan, American 20th century

Painter, lithographer

Studied - PM School IA; PAFA, 1927-28 (Cresson scholarship); Phila...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Spanish : Pre 1940 item #680126 (stock #67)
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Oil on Canvas on Board, 13" x 10" unframed Juan Pablo Salinas was born in Madrid in 1871. He studied at the San Fernando School of Fine Art. In 1886 he moved to Rome where his older brother Augustin, also a painter, was there since 1883 on a scholarship awarded to him by the government of Saragossa. The two brothers lived in Augustin's studio at Via Margutta in Rome. At the same street there was Chigi Academy where Juan Pablo took classes...
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 : Mixed Media : Pre 1940 item #1454068 (stock #641)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
A beautiful tempura on silk painting of Mughal warriors hunting measuring 36x23”
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1940 item #1456108
Original woodcut circa 1930's, the subject a man working machinery in an urban setting with high rise buildings, stamped at lower right margin with the estate stamp of American artist IRVING GEORGE LEHMAN (1900-1983). The work is unframed and currently housed in a mat, and is taped at extreme top edge in two places, to that mat. There is a roughly rectangular pressed-in area of the paper at lower left and some wrinkling of the extremely delicate thin paper at bottom...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1940 item #1400117
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$395.00
Todai-ji Temple, Nigatsu-do Hall, Shuni-e. woodcut print signed and seal mark this may be a watercolor but we don't want to unframe it . Framed with linen mounting and glass. sight 14" by 10" frame 20.5" 24.5" Shuni-e, meaning ceremony of the second month, is a series of Buddhist rituals in which priests pray to repent for the sins of the profane world to the goddess Kannon, who is enshrined in Nigatsu-do Hall, a sub complex of Todai-ji Temple in Nara...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1415438 (stock #JB01152)
Oil on canvas still life of a small statuette of a horse and a copper vessel on a small table, 13" by 15" (14" by 16 1/2" as framed), signed at lower right "Virginia Weaver". I do not see a listing for the artist but evidently she was quite talented, as the perspective and flattening of the picture plane shows familiarity with modernist trends of the early 20th century...
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 : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1355391
Albert W. Barker, American, 1874-1947, "Upper Barn, Winter," etching, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches on 14 x 11 1/2 inch watermarked wove type paper. C. 1932. Initialed and dated on stone in the lower right, pencil signed in the lower right. Edition of 55. Catalog: Barker 122. The dark outline of the barn, with its modernistic texture and shadows, contrasts with the luminous winter sky. One of Barker's best prints.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1479767
Walter Tittle 1883-1966 American This is a fine original drypoint etching by American artist Walter Tittle. The title is: Church of the Heavenly Rest, which was built in New York City in 1929. This etching is hand signed in ink and measures 12X10 inches, nicely framed with archival materials. A very rich impression, Tittle at his very best...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1421082 (stock #JB04717)
An old watercolor of a street scene in Alsace (the portion of eastern France that borders Germany), featuring a well for water and a half timbered house wall, along with a pretty window with flowers in pots. The artist, AMELIE FOLEY-RISLER (1870-1947) signed at bottom left and the town is identified there as Niedermorschwihr, Alsace. The unframed watercolor, 14 3/4" by 11", is in excellent condition...
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 : Mixed Media : Pre 1940 item #627830 (stock #837)

Ramstonev modernist abstraction - crayon and pastel on paper - circa 1939.

Dimensions - image - 17" x 22 3/4".

Condition - very good, framed.

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 many drawings and paintings during this time...

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1427198
An example of the 1934/35 lithograph "Ruf Des Todes", from the "Death Cycle" series of lithographs by famous German artist KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945). The sheet which measures 19" by 16" was long ago laid down to a board. Evident past attempts to remove an over mat has resulted in skinning of the paper in the lower portion, and residue from the over mat remains at top. There is a line from the old mat all around, with the paper within that line lightly browned...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1940 item #1420826 (stock #JB05050)
A vintage woodcut print in black with touches of yellow and red in the windows of the picturesque seaside structures, unsigned, titled in the image "NOEL", white speckles (sprayed?) indicating snowflakes, 12 1/2" by 9 1/2" framed. The scene resembles Maine villages such as Port Clyde or Castine. Likely a work from that region, circa 1940's, possibly 1930's. I opened up the backing and found no further information.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1422803 (stock #JB04112)
A fine circa 1930's watercolor painting of a sunny lane in Bermuda, a tall lone palm dominating the whitewashed walls and distinctive tiered roofs of Bermuda. Carson was a frequent winter visitor to the island after about 1932, and his contribution to Bermuda art history has been recognized in the Masterworks Bermuda collection. From time to time, oils and watercolors come to the market, but they are scarce...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1940 item #1447112 (stock #2142)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
An incredible intriguing wood sculpture of Temple Guardian measuring 35 inches tall on a wood base measuring 11x10 inches. Circa 1940s
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 #754627
Clifford Lewis, American, 20th Century, Lithograph, "Red Mountain", 1937, edition 3/25, image size: 9 1/2X13 1/4", p/s,D
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. During her time there she was awarded the Charles Toppan Prize (1902) and a Cresson Traveling Scholarship (1903), which enabled he...
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 #1421823 (stock #JB04723)
Original lithograph in colors, on smooth wove paper, "Stars" (French version was known as "Etoiles"), 1938, after a gouache by the well-known important Russian modern artist WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944). This print, signed at lower left in the stone with Kandinsky's "K" monogram, was published by Teriade, Paris, for publication in the French avant-garde magazine Verve. The edition, printed by Mourlot, consisted of approximately 2000 or 2500 impressions. This example is in good condition thou...
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. The work does not appear to be signed but there are two remaining old labels on the frame, one showing that this work, titled "Moment of Solitude", was exhibited in 1938 at the Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the Work of Toledo Artists; and another, from 1940, showing it was exhibite...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1420907 (stock #JB04297)
A watercolor painting of three sprigs of gladioli in a vase, unfinished, dated at lower right 1931 and signed there by listed London-born artist VIOLET CITRON (1901-1995). Citron's biography is sketchy but she apparently spent much of her life in Israel, passing away there in 1995. Landscapes of Holy Land scenes are known, appearing occasionally at auction, usually in Israel (sometimes signed in Hebrew). This work measures 24" by 18" inside the present mat opening and 32" by 25" framed. The ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1490149
Harry Herman Wickey 1892-1968 American This is an original regionalist lithograph by American artist Harry Wickey 1892-1968. This lithograph is hand signed in pencil and editioned as 100 proofs. The iage measures 11 1/2X12 1/8 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet. For the remainder of 1935 and most of 1936, Harry Wickey returned to his family farm near Stryker, Ohio. He became fascinated with the activities of the farm animals he found there and created many drawings, water...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1150703
Albert W. Barker, American, 1874-1947, "Beyond Paul Point," Lithograph, image size 11 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches, 1930, edition of 125, initialed and dated within the plate, pencil signed and editioned.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1418188 (stock #JB03746)
Small oil on canvas laid on board, 9" by 7" framed, unsigned, the view being an extensive hazy landscape with high snowy peaks in the distance, a spindly tree in the middle ground. I have searched without success for a signature. Likely dates before 1940 and more than likely by a listed artist. Light areas in immediate foreground are probably old losses, which have been in turn varnished over.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1940 item #1453041 (stock #1555)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Ada Vorhaus Gabriel (July 28, 1898 – 1975) was an American female Mid-century modern painter and lithographer. She studied at Barnard College, the New York School of Design, with Erich Gletter in Munich, and with Emil Ganso in New York. Her work is featured in the collections of The National Gallery of Art,[1] Yale University Art Gallery,[2] Fogg Museum,[3] and Indianapolis Museum of Art.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1456447
Chinese-inspired lithograph by American artist THOMAS SCOFIELD HANDFORTH (1897-1948), pencil signed by the artist at lower right, where the artist wrote ed. 25 - 9. Handforth was an American artist best known today for his etchings and lithographs, many of which dealt with Asian subject matter. Born in Tacoma, Washington, Handforth studied at the University of Washington, and later at the Art Students League and National Academy in New York. After military service in Europe in World War I, he ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1415513 (stock #JB04048)
A vintage California oil on canvas painting of high mountains and the desert at sunset, probably painted circa 1935 through the early 1940's, 20" by 24" (23" by 27" in likely the original frame), signed at lower right by Los Angeles area artist ESSIE KAILEY (1897-1986). Kailey is not apparently a known artist, and was likely a talented amateur. Only due to the wonders of the internet have I been able to determine her birth and death dates and place of burial in Glendale, California at Forest L...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1422554 (stock #31B4-506)
Armin Landeck (American, 1905-1984) - York Avenue, Tenements. Original signed drypoint etching. Dated: 1938. Small Edition of 100. Signed and dated by the artist in pencil in lower margin. Armin Landeck was a noted American printmaker. Landeck attended Columbia University in New York, where he began printmaking. At the Art Students League, he studied under George Bridgman and later with the English printmaker Stanley William Hayter. During the 1930s, he produced many city views of New York. ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1402305
Edgar Chahine This is an original etching by French artist Edgar Chahine. The title is: "Maree Basse,1930" A great depiction of a day at the beach. The image measures 8 5/8X12 1/2 inches. Pencil signed lower left border.printed on a medium weight wove type paper. Fine use of plate tone in the sky and water.