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 : 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 #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 : 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 : 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 #1427134
Unframed oil, on canvas painting, unsigned, circa 1920's or 1930's, measuring 25" by 32", the subject a rousing toast among a group of men in traditional eastern European or Russian clothing, a lone woman watching warily in the background. The painting is very dirty and as-found with craquelure. Trying to establish authorship, I contacted several prominent auction houses...
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 : Europe : Pre 1940 item #1418453 (stock #JB02194)
Oil on board painting of a farmstead in spring, 17 1/4" by 25", 21" by 28 1/2" framed, signed at lower left by the noted Swedish artist CARL MANSSON (1892-1976). Mansson was a prolific painter of country and farm scenes in southern Sweden. There does not seem to be a lot of biographical information available, but he left behind a body of work focusing on rural scenes of his native land. This example is quite typical of the country paintings, and it displays his evident affection for the land...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1440464 (stock #703)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
A very beautiful and stunning Surrealist Work by the painter Joshua Hilda KATZ, 1938, “Forest Landscape with Figure”. Norm for his dream like tableau the New York Painter was very active in the 1920s and 30s at the height of surrealist Painting. Is it measures 27 x 20“ in its original gold Plein Aire frame
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1440704
A fine print from New Orleans by the noted Louisiana-associated artist LOUIS OSCAR GRIFFITH (1875-1956), featuring a milk cart drawn by a horse, making its deliveries in the French Quarter. Measuring 12 1/2" by 10 1/4" inside the existing mat (19 1/2" by 15 1/4" as framed), the piece is pencil signed by the artist at lower right and numbered at lower left "No. 21" (of an apparent edition of 100). Colors are rich and this is an excellent impression...
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 #366865 (stock #257 *)
Oil 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 many drawings and paintings during this time...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1424184 (stock #JB04875)
THREE unframed/unstretched oil sketches of California landscapes, circa 1930's to 1940's, measurements 11" by 14", 14" by 17", and 18" by 13 1/2", one signed at lower right by listed Southern California artist BERTHA TOWNSEND COLER (1865-1948). Coler was born in Ohio and studied with Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase in New York City...
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 : 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 : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1439009 (stock #924)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,000.00
Daniel Webster Study Drawing by Percy Moran. Pencil Sketch. Frame Size 14 x11". Edward Percy Moran (1862–1935), sometimes known as Percy Moran, was an American artist known for his scenes of American history. He was born in Philadelphia on July 29, 1862, to Edward Moran, a notable artist who emigrated from England to the United States.He studied under his father and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1487299
Harold Kerr Eby 1889-1946 American This is an original etching and aquatint by American artist Kerr Eby. The title is Refugees, a study from his series of WWI images that he created as a War Artist. This pencil signed impression has an image size of 9 15/16X14 7/8 inches. This impression was last sold by Keppel in New York, it came to us in the original frame. A dramatic rich impression printed by the artist himself.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1439010 (stock #261)
Boy in a Slow Suit by Arthur William Henri Tilman. Signed pencil etching. 12 x 9". Frame Size 20 x 16"