All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #871003 (stock #011)
Stephan Sedlacek, German, 1868-1936. Oil on canvas depicting two women and a man listening to the music of another man in a rococo setting. Signed by the artist. Measures approximately 28" wide x 22" tall without frame.
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 : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #401322 (stock #286 *)

James House - born Benton Harbor, MI. 1902.

Studied - PAFA, Exhibited - PAFA 1939 - 1946

Dallas Mus. Fine Art, WMAA, MOMA, MMA, author of "Fifty Drawings" - 1930.

This exuberant oil on canvas depicts an abstract figure of a bicyclist after a race [see photo of reverse]

In good vintage condition

Measures app. 28" by 42"

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1421067 (stock #JB05315)
A vintage watercolor by an unknown amateur artist, titled at bottom "Santa Barbara Mission", unframed, measuring 14 1/2" by 11 3/4". The work on old paper would appear to date to maybe the 1930's or early 1940's at latest---think the "Route 66" era of travel in the American West (though this site is not on or near Route 66). It was likely created by or for a tourist. Note the Native Americans at center in the reflecting pool or fountain...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Tempera : Pre 1940 item #1416594 (stock #JB0781)
Gouache on paper or paper on board, 6 1/8" by 7 3/8" and 1 3/8" frame, (14" by 15" overall as framed), signed at lower left "Bud" DUNCAN, no date but likely executed circa 1940. This is skillfully executed, in high key colors of pink, yellow, and violet shades. There are some condition issues; a 1" hairline diagonal surface abrasion in sky at center, and several punctures/pressure cracks from the reverse through to the drawing at left and top, and in the busy sage clumps at right ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1455690
Unframed watercolor painting of a tawny Australian landscape, signed at lower right by artist PETER BOUSFIELD and titled there "Murrumbidgee River nr Canberra", measuring 10" by 12". Bousfield is a recognized artist who studied at the Australian Watercolor Institute and Royal Art Society of New South Wales. He studied with Will Ashton...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1420065 (stock #JB02866)
Painting on panel of a young Egyptian youth, 15 3/4" by 12" and not especially complementary, modern day framing, signed at lower right, with reverse original label from Schwartz Freres, of Cairo and Alexandria. The painting is signed at lower right corner, the name appearing as "Thor......". To date I have been unable to decipher the full signature. The work certainly dates to the early years of the century, judging from the label...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1446026 (stock #2024)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,750.00
Cotton Trees 1937 dated Oil on Masonite signed NR Measuring 20x24 inches. Framed in a period natural frame measuring 28x32. Attributed to Nelson Rockefeller
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1940 item #635900 (stock #872)

Harry [Herschel] Levit, American. 1912-1986.

Studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Exhibited at - The Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum, New York, Pennsylvania Academy,and The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Crayon or pastel on paper signed Harry Levit 1933. Paris.

Image - 8 3/4" x 12".

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1420656 (stock #JB04327)
Unframed oil on paper on board painting of a desert Southwest landscape, 8 1/2" by 12", signed at lower right M. Edwards. The painting probably dates to the 1920's or 1930's I would guess. It has accumulated a lot of soiling and varnish has yellowed, so it desperately needs a cleaning. Note the left extreme edge, which must have been behind a frame, to get some idea of the potential after cleaning. There is also a small dig at right edge, and upper right corner of the paper is missing...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1441267 (stock #219)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,200.00
Small beautiful masterpiece oil on canvas of the French Normandy Region in Winter,circa 1930s measuring 16”x13” Maggy Monier, 1887-1965 Notable French art-déco painter, Maggy Monier was renowned for her watercolor postcards. She illustrates this edition with six vibrant watercolors on tracing paper, as well as one ornamental, watercolor half-title page. Her imagery and palette echo the orientalist themes present in Baudelaire’s poetry, but she remains in the art-déco style...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Tempera : Pre 1940 item #1423317 (stock #JB03538)
This decorative, complex gouache drawing appears to be possibly a wallpaper design of the Art Deco period, or, it could just be a drawing in its own right. On the reverse is written the name "T.M. Abell". The eye-teasing geometric design seems to vibrate almost in the way that Op-Art of later decades vibrates and challenges the eye. Colors are greens, oranges and yellows, with white and black lightning-bolt type diagonal borders making for a most dramatic pattern...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Dutch : Pre 1940 item #607087 (stock #47)
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Mother Duck and Ducklings Oil on board 5 3/4" x 12 1/4"w/o frame,14 1/4" x 20 3/4" framed This Dutch, Hague school genre artist has become hudgely popular for painting serene landscapes however was a diverse artist and equally skilled at painting portraits, children, animals and street scenes. His landscapes often included animals with ducks a recurrent theme...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1359946 (stock #22115)
Original oil on board by Albert Pels (American painter and muralist, Cincinnati, New York; 1910-1998). Circa 1936. 19" by 16" painting alone, 26" by 22" in its period frame. Provenance: Art Academy of Cincinnati).
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1440727 (stock #102)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,600.00
Long Island Fishing Shacks by Artist M.S. Forrest. Oil on canvas 24x29".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1449942
A well-executed old watercolor (and a little gouache) painting of roses, glass vases and a Chinese blue-white plate, circa 1930, signed by artist ADELAIDE STRIGNER. Strangely, despite the quality of the work, I have not located a name of a listed known artist that would correspond. The piece measures 11 1/2" by 20" inside the mat and 21 3/4" by 30 1/2" in its period frame, which has some chip losses especially at right. There is an inconsequential old cut in the paper at upper right field...
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. The artist was primarily a watercolorist, but there does not seem to be an available biograph...