All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1437784 (stock #303)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,500.00
Bio: Ernesto Alcántara (1933 - 2019) created a vast body of work along many themes: volcanoes, the Sierra Gorda, seascapes, landscapes, nudes, still life works, travel sketches, political satire, fairy tales drawn for his daughter, characters, with Sor Juana, Don Quixote, and Rembrandt being predominant.   His techniques include oil on linen, prepared by him in his studio with rabbit glue, linseed oil, and tempera; engravings on copper or zinc using burin, dry point, etching, or soft ground;...
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 : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1419882 (stock #JB02924)
Watercolor on paper painting of an impressive, jagged high mountain peak above a lake, 5 1/2" by 9 1/2" inside the mat (9 3/4" by 12 3/4" as framed), signed lower right, bearing the artist's label and title "Mt. Rockwell/Glacier National Park" on reverse board. This is a work by the California artist RICHARD LEROY CORBALEY (1882-1960). Corbaley was born in Indiana and according to the biography in Hughes' Dictionary of California Artists, he was in Los Angeles by 1902...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1462507
A small watercolor and ink drawing of the famous old Brulatour courtyard, 520 Royal Street in the New Orleans Vieux Carre (French Quarter), signed at lower right and dated there '51 (and titled/signed/dated again on the reverse backing) by New Orleans artist E. ALVA EDWARDS. Internet research suggests but cannot confirm that this be a work by one EDWIN ALVA EDWARDS JR. (1914-1988) of the Baton Rouge area. The clean piece measures 9 1/2" by 7 1/2" as framed...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1423329 (stock #JB03644)
Oil on board, 21" by 31" (27" by 37" framed), unsigned, the view late autumn or early winter in high western mountains, snow already on the ground and peaks but brown leaves still holding on to a few trees. The work is really very nicely done and I believe it quite likely that the artist is listed, but unfortunately it is just not signed. The painting likely dates to about the 1950's or early 1960's at latest...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #585870 (stock #731)

E.P. Rimmel Grebe, American Modernist - b. 1909, Royersford, Pa. Listed.

Oil on canvas circa 1950.

Measurements - appx. 30" x 36".

Condition - very good and original.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Acrylic : Pre 1960 item #1405121 (stock #6144)
Unsigned acrylic/oil portrait of a woman worker acquired from a Hong Kong auction. I am assuming this was painted while China and Russia were still friends so would date this pre 1960. Good example of Socialist Realism (girl meets tractor) kitsch, W: 35cm/13.8in and H: 45.cm/17.8in.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #635714 (stock #869)

Frederick Gill - American 1906 -1974.

Studied at The Pennsylvania Museum School of Art, The University of Pennsylvania and The Tyler School of Art.

Exhibitions - Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Butler Art Institute and the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

This watercolor [image] measures 17" x 21".

Condition - excellent.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1960 item #1421728 (stock #JB04967)
A rather elegant landscape painting with a modern feeling, the predominating colors subdued yet elegant grays and earth tones, signed rather illegibly with a European hand at lower right corner and dated there 53. The unframed work on canvas measures 23 1/2" by 31 1/2". Signature looks something like "Oltarini" or "Ott....." or "Ult....." but despite years of trying to figure this out I have not succeeded...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1420655 (stock #JB03172)
**One of a number of Venice works in my shop** Watercolor painting of a classic Venetian view including canal gondola and the famous church in the background, 4 1/2" by 7 1/2" (10" by 13 1/4" as framed without glass), signed at lower right corner "G. Romanello". This is a twentieth century work, perhaps from the 1950's, or, possibly, earlier. I do not see a listing for the name...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1436421 (stock #3735)

Abstract figurative oil on canvas by Ruth E...

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 : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1452875 (stock #JB04615)
Fine, good-sized (18 1/2" by 23 1/2", 26" by 31 1/2" framed) watercolor painting of a two-masted sailing craft unfurling sails at the dock, birds circling overhead and two figures in a row boat at left, signed at lower right by noted American illustrator artist CHARLES E. PONT (1898-1971). The work is by the hand of a talented and well-documented artist. The following information was taken from a lengthy online biography...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1437278 (stock #542)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,200.00
“Bonnard’s Bananas” watercolor by Reese Paresce, 21”x15”, framed size 31x25”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1418494 (stock #JB05511)
An impressionistic landscape of the arid American Southwest, possibly California, 20" by 30" (24" by 34" framed), signed at lower right by noted listed artist CHARLES DAMROW (1916-1989). The work features rugged mountains with no figures included. Damrow was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin and headed west at age 13 on his own (the youngest of 15 children). He became infatuated with everything western, in the course of his life painting cowboys, Indians, tipis, bison, bears, horses...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1018702 (stock #2419 *)

Jack Coggins - 1911 - 2006

Artist, Illustrator

Born -London England

Worked New York/PA

Studied - ASL

Grand Central School of Art

Associations -

American Society of Marine Artists

Pastel Society of America

Entitled "Ingots"

Watercolor/Gouache

Image - 19" x 26"

With original frame - 31" x 36"

Excellent original condition

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1417543 (stock #JB05175)
An illustration art-style color drawing (ink and watercolor) of a pipe-smoking uniformed military officer, possibly a general or other top brass, surrounded by cupids playing with military equipment such as mobile guns, a drone bomb, etc., signed with a capital W in a circle at lower right. It has been suggested to me that this could be a British military colonel (I originally thought him American)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1416789 (stock #JB02965)
For the aficionado of equine art, this is a beautifully composed watercolor and ink drawing of polo horses and players, signed at lower right by listed Arizona woman artist ALICE LORD MARSHALL (1895-1993). The work measures 11 1/2" by 15 1/2" inside the mat and 18 1/2" by 23" as framed. I recently acquired this from her grandson, formerly of the Phoenix area, now living in Pacific Palisades, California...