All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Tempera : Pre 1960 item #1347488
A very finely executed Thai painting depicting the JAKATA TALES (former lives of the Lord Buddha). Exquisitely framed with 100% Thai Silk and a Custom Made Gold Leaf Frame with curved corners. Good overall Condition. Size: 46 cm. diameter (18 inches) including frame.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1437715 (stock #569)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
A fine mountainscape oil signed by Burger, Oil on Canvas, 16 x 32"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1422514 (stock #JB04740)
A very pretty impressionist work that appears to show spindly eucalyptus-like trees in a hazy landscape, some small red tile roofs suggesting this could be California or possibly Mediterranean Europe. The piece is signed at lower right "J R HUPPI" or similar. It measures 9" by 12" (canvas laid on board) and 16" by 19" as framed. There is a Salt Lake City framers or gallery stamp on the frame ("Tivoli Gallery"). A light cleaning to remove some yellowed varnish would be beneficial...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1960 item #1459437 (stock #221099)
Original oil painting on canvas of the Capri coastline by Guglielmo Welters (Italy, 1913-2003). Signed l.r. by the artist. One of three Italian seascapes just added to the website.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1421378 (stock #JB04260)
Oil on panel painting of pink desert mountains and flowering dunes in the foreground, 16" by 20" (25" by 29" in wood carved frame), signed in the paint at lower left with a signature that appears as "Bo W(xxxxxxx)". The circa 1960 oil is by an artist who certainly must have been familiar with the palette knife California desert scenes, with rich impasto, of John Hilton (1904-1983). The style and feeling is similar. The painting could benefit from a cleaning, after fifty years...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1960 item #1416118 (stock #JB01106)
This appears to be an image in gouache on top of some kind of waxy scratchboard, measuring 10" by 14" (17" by 20 3/4" as framed), signed at lower left "DE GUST" and dated there "59". I can't find a listing for the artist but he or she painted in a classic style pioneered by the likes of Jean Le Mayeur and others in the history of modern Indonesian art. The painting is in excellent condition, and is ready for the wall in its simple black frame and clean mat.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1960 item #1423083 (stock #JB04224)
A black and white photograph image (not sure if actually an original photo) titled at lower left margin "The Meadow Pool", and pencil signed by the artist in lower right margin, the subject a meadow near mountains, measuring 9" by 11 1/4" and 16 1/4" by 17 3/4" framed. This is an example of the now sought-after mid century photographic work of STEPHEN H. WILLARD (1894-1966). Willard was born in Illinois and was in Southern California at age two...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1442216 (stock #574)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
Artist A. COLBERT “ THE OLD HOMESTEAD” oil on canvas 11 x 12“ The painting a Signed lower left and there’s a small drawing of a Dash hound on the back
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1111086
A Fine Painting by the Listed Monterey, California Artist, Russell Swan (1908-63). Measures about 14 1/4" by 12", overall frame is about 18 3/4" by 16 1/2". Signed lower right, also signed and titled "Monterey Dwelling" on back.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1416077 (stock #JB03272)
Oil on canvas abstract painting in cool modern colors, 15" by 21 1/2", unframed, signed at lower left corner "Zaglool" and dated there "59". This is an impressive composition by an Egyptian artist who lived in Paris in the 1950's, frequenting the art community there and studying with the likes of Fernand Leger and Andre Lhote...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1419371 (stock #JB03104)
Fine old watercolor and ink drawing of a yard shaded by large tree, a quaint storage shed at right, 13 1/2" by 9 1/4" (21" by 16"), an old typed label on the reverse giving the artist name and biography. Swan was a painter and watercolorist of some note. He studied at the Royal Academy schools, and was recipient of the Landseer Scholarship...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1421400 (stock #JB04897)
Oil on board landscape, unsigned, the subject a panorama of red rock cliffs and distant butte, likely in Arizona, or possibly Utah, the scene framed by tree at right. The work has some age, a guess would place this circa 1955 to about 1965. Certainly it is good enough to have been painted by a listed artist. The condition is acceptably good...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1416864 (stock #JB05215)
Watercolor on paper painting of an old wooden church of northern New Mexico, signed at lower right by artist ROSS PAXTON (1931-2003). The painting is very impressionistic. Paxton was born in rural northeast Oregon and went to college in Albuquerque, and later lived in New Jersey, furthering his art career in New York City. After serving in the Army, in the Korean War, Paxton remained in New York for much of his life, an illustrator for AC&R ad agency, and handled major accounts...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1960 item #1415591
A striking watercolor and gouache painting of a black cat lounging amidst lily family garden flowers, 8 1/2" by 13 1/4" (18" by 22" as framed), signed at lower left by the noted New Mexico-associated artist AGNES GABRIELLE TAIT (1894-1981). Cats were a favorite subject of the artist, and collectors seek out those works specifically. Tait was born in New York City, and studied art there and in Europe (especially lithography)...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1342551 (stock #BC021CS)
Original drypoint engraving on copper by Wendell H. Black (American, 1919-1972), first edition printed posthumously by Berkley Chappell. In original unframed condition. Titled and numbered 7/25 in pencil l.l. Also signed "Wendell Black '51 by Elaine" l.r. 12 1/2 by 23 1/2 image alone. Plate 2 in "The Lost Prints of Wendell H. Black" by Henry Sayre.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1437652 (stock #174)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,350.00
"A. Dama" by Altamira Pereira - Burgus. Framed Oil on Paper. 11 x 17". Frame Size 23" x 17.5".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1440514 (stock #755)
L'Enfant Gallery
$10,000.00
Red River is an oil on canvas landscape measures 20 x 24“ Augustus Dunbier was born on a farm between Shelby and Osceola in Polk County, Nebraska and lived most of his life in Omaha, Nebraska where he became well-established as a portrait painter and private teacher. He was one of early Nebraska’s most successful and influential artists. His training was at Germany’s Dusseldorf Academy where he learned to paint in the “dark manner” of the old masters...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1271718 (stock #21619)
Original oil painting on panel by Sam Sargent (American, 1889-1959), signed in red "S. Sargent" l.l. This painting is still in its original frame and is in pristine condition. Dates from the 1945-1955 period. Sam Sargent was born in Newburyport, Massachussets, and studied at the Mass. College of Art in Boston under Joseph DeCamp. He exhibited at the Copley Gallery in Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, and the Currier Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1342575 (stock #BC024CS)
Original deep etching on copper by Wendell H. Black (American, 1919-1972). First edition printed posthumously by Berkley Chappell. In original unframed condition. 17 by 23 3/8 image alone. Titled and numbered 7/25 in pencil l.l. Also signed "Wendell Black '52 by Elaine" l.r. Plate 15 in "The Lost Works of Wendell H. Black" by Henry Sayre.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1960 item #1416059 (stock #JB01490)
For the collector of fine photographs, here is a scarce or rare example of the work of major American photographer IMOGEN CUNNINGHAM (1883-1976). The image is of Anna Freud (1895-1982), the youngest child of famed psychologist Sigmund Freud, taken in 1959. The younger Freud became a specialist in child development and psychoanalysis, and today there is a foundation in London which carries on her work (google "anna freud centre"). The photographer is considered among the most important 20th ce...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1421833 (stock #JB05024)
A **PAIR** of watercolor on paper paintings of tropical South Florida landscapes, each 15 1/4" by 19 1/4" (one unframed, the other measuring 21 1/4" by 25 1/4"), both signed by Wisconsin-born artist RACHEL STEARNS (1895-1979). Stearns spent much of her life in Chicago where she received art education, some with Frederic Grant. Evidently she spent a lot of time in Florida, as a number of watercolor works featuring scenes from that state are known. These watercolors are vintage perhaps 1940's a...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1421730 (stock #JB05340)
A vintage watercolor of a Native American warrior seen in profile as he draws his arrow to hunt prey outside of the picture to the right. The work measures 13 1/2" by 10 1/2" inside the mat and 19 1/4" by 15" framed (no glass). The work is unsigned. There are some old watercolor stains at lower right which seem to blend into the imagery. There is some abrasion showing as whitish area trailing vertically down from mid-arm at right. A restorer could take care of this or purchaser can carefull...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1960 item #1438282 (stock #429)
"Veltliner, Zurich". Photograph by Jost Honk. #2/50. 19 x 23". Frame Size 36 x 32".
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1960 item #1420184 (stock #JB03030)
Indonesian drawing of three seated figures conversing at a marketplace, three white chickens offered up for sale, painted circa late 1950's or early 1960's I believe, apparently unsigned, 12" by 16 1/4" inside the mat, 17" by 21 1/4" as framed. There is an old Rotterdam, Netherlands framer's sticker on the reverse. The art somewhat reminds of the work of the important Dutch/Indonesian master artist Rudolf Bonnet (1895-1978) but I do not believe the work by him. The artist has used watercolor...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #672928 (stock #982 *)

Lily Michael, American 20th century.

Textured painting on masonite, abstract figures.

21 1/2" x 39".

Condition - very good and original, minor flake on edge. Original frame.

Lily Michael received her art training at the School of Painting and Sculpture at Columbia University. She was a member of the American Abstract Artists Association, and the Tirca Karlis Gallery in Provincetown, MA. She was also a member of Gallery '256,' a nationally known association of...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1424865 (stock #JB03479)
Watercolor on paper painting of a scene in old historical Saint Augustine, Florida, 4 5/8" by 6 1/2" (9 1/2" by 11 1/2" framed) titled on reverse in another hand "Fatio House", and signed at lower left corner by the listed American artist ROY C. CLARK (1889-1956). Clark was born in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, and died in Washington, D.C. Evidently he traveled widely, having studied with W. L. Judson in California, Irving Wiles, Thomas Fogarty and Kenneth Hayes Miller in New York, ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1478757 (stock #3403)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,500.00
Rosenfeld 1906-1983,was a Baltimore, Maryland Born Artist who was a featured artist of Duncan Phillips of the Phillips Collection in Washington DC,The Baltimore Museum of Art,The San Diego Museum, etc . The Museum has shown his work including in exhibitions and was also a person friend in the circle of painters of Duncan Phillips The museum still has an extensive collection of his work. Rosenfeld was a member of the New York Arts Student League and traveled to France and Italy showing his ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1437907 (stock #403)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
Abstract Landscape by Sam Pratt, oil on board,5.5”x7.5”, framed size 7.5x9.5 inches
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Tempera : Pre 1960 item #1423605 (stock #JB03750)
Oil on paper painting, 5 1/2" by 3 3/4" (12 1/2" by 9 3/4" framed), signed at lower right by the noted Alaska artist JEANNE LAURENCE. Jeanne Laurence (1887-1980) was the wife of the famous Alaskan artist Sydney Laurence, and the author of the book "My Life with Sydney Laurence". Jeanne was a talented artist in her own right, her reputation overshadowed by her husband's wide renown in Alaska and beyond. Often she painted, in gouache, Alaskan wildflowers, but landscapes in oil are known, and th...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1440388 (stock #719)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,600.00
Unsigned oil on canvas work depicting a 17th rigged sailing ship done in the 1940s
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1423793 (stock #JB04314)
Etching of children in a landscape, 8 1/4" by 10 3/4" inside the present mat (the full sheet 14 1/2" by 17"), not signed but printed information on mat provides artist name, a possible title "Hagyateki Anyaga" and possible edition ("5/50"). The artist is ISTVAN SZONYI (1894-1960). A student of Karoly Ferenczy at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1913, he had early exposure to the art colony at Nagybanya and its prominent and gifted figures, including greats such as Vilmos Aba Novak. Szonyi had his ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1481918 (stock #3511)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,000.00
A late 1940s or early 1950s oil on canvas work, measuring 20” x 27” depicting Lake Tanganyika, painted in plein aire.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Tempera : Pre 1960 item #1420337 (stock #JB03100)
NOT a print, this is an original drawing of Humpty Dumpty in ink and gouache. The work measures 10 1/4" by 7 1/2" and 17 1/4" by 15 1/4" as framed. The character of Humpty Dumpty dates to the 19th century , and the "anthropomorphic egg" character has become one of the most beloved and famous in all of nursery rhymedom. The piece was likely dated in the mid 20th century. It would make a wonderful addition to a child's room. Condition is excellent.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1420713 (stock #JB04787)
Oil on Masonite painting of a shady corridor or breezeway in an old traditional colonial era building, signed at lower left in the paint by listed Mexican artist EDUARDO VILLANUEVA. On the reverse is written "combento de Huejotzingo/Eduardo Villanueva/Pueblo 30 de agosto de 1957/Barrio del artista Estado (?)/Mexico". This would appear to be the convento de Huejotzingo, a colonial building in a small town northwest of Puebla. The Franciscan convento is fully named Convento de San Miguel Arcang...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1415429 (stock #JB01503)
Gouache and watercolor on paper ink signed landscape showing the famous old California Mojave Desert ghost down of Calico, 15 1/4" by 19 1/4" (24" by 28" in simple blond wood frame without glass), by California artist ANNA WILSON. This is an impressionistic work showing the small and insignificant hand of man in a grand wild desert landscape. There is a listing for an Anna Wilson in California but I do not believe that this is by the same artist. Condition is excellent despite the fact that t...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1420458 (stock #JB03326)
Oil on canvas painting executed in an impressionist style showing small rowboats on a lake in a park, 8" by 10" and 14" by 16" as framed, signed at lower right by listed artist LOUISE RICHARDSON DODD. The artist is listed in the Davenport art dictionary but I have found no other information on her. I would lean towards her being an east coast artist. This is a lovely scene, perhaps of a lake one would find in a large park. The painting probably dates to the mid 20th century, perhaps around 1...