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 : 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 : 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 : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1416853 (stock #JB02286)
Pencil on watermarked paper drawing of a tall female nude, 16" by 11 1/4" inside the mat, 23 1/4" by 18 3/4" framed, signed at lower right by the artist and dated there 1933. DAME ETHEL WALKER (1861-1951) is a modern British artist of significance, known for an impressionistic and poetic style with subject matter ranging from portraits and studies of the female figure to seascapes, landscapes, still life florals, and decorative compositions featuring mythological and allegorical material...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1419980 (stock #JB02944)
Something of a mystery, this is a very interesting soft pencil drawing of a young woman, 13 1/4" by 9 1/4" (19" by 15" framed), signed indecipherably at lower right and dated there 1931. Try as I might, I have absolutely come to a dead end when it comes to figuring out this signature. Adjacent to that signature an inscription reads "Baroness Leonnie Perraja"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1422726 (stock #JB04108)
A fine oil on wood panel painting of a swirling, flouncing traditional Spanish dancer, signed at upper right with the typical signature, then titled on reverse "Sevillanas" and also "Henka" (the name of the dancer?), and signed there again by the noted American artist HELEN SAWYER (1900-1999). The work measures 13 3/4" by 10 1/4" (19" by 15" framed). The panel at extreme upper left bears a rubber stamp of a gallery or art supply outfit in Paris...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1422804 (stock #JB03613)
Early California watercolor painting, circa 1920's or 1930's I would guess, possibly earlier, titled at lower left Cathedral Peak/Emerald Bay, signed at lower right "A.L.M.". This is a view of Lake Tahoe and the grand scenery at the south end of that famous mountain lake. The painting measures 11 1/2" by 8 1/2" inside the mat, and 16 1/4" by 14 1/4" as simply framed...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1017089
Paul Herrmann, German, 1864-1940, etching, "On the Lake," image size 15 1/8 x 11 inches, pencil signed and numbered 119/120
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1415784 (stock #JB04396)
A rare, early (1934) watercolor from an artist of the so-called "Lost Colony" of Saint Augustine, Florida artists, ROBERT HAMILTON, featuring one of the classic old buildings of the town dating to the end of the 18th century, the "Old Fatio House", (known today as the "Ximenez-Fatio House"), painted in an impressionist hand. Hamilton signed the work and lower right and dated it there. Measurements are 9" by 13 1/4" inside the mat, 14 1/2" by 18 3/4" as framed...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1940 item #1416049 (stock #JB0310)
Beautifully executed drawing in soft pencil, 8 1/2" by 11 1/2" sheet, 6 1/2" by 9 1/2" inside the rectangular border drawn by the artist, and 10 1/4" by 13 5/8" as framed, signed at lower right "Davis F. Schwartz", showing a copse of trees in a hilly landscape. This drawing, which reminds of works by Ralph Holmes or Maynard Dixon, is nicely framed in a 1930's or 1940's frame. Schwartz (1879-1969) has a sizable listing in Hughes' "Artists in California 1786-1940"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : British : Pre 1940 item #1419380 (stock #JB02047)
Oil on canvas, 12" by 18" (15" by 21" as framed), the subject a subtly rendered impressionist scene of large trees by a wide river, with just scant human activity present in the form of a few figures in a tiny boat in the middle distance, and a structure on the far shore. Executed in a silvery, cool palette of grays, tans and greens, this is a typical work of the well listed Scottish artist ROBERT RUSSELL MACNEE (1880-1952)...
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...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1374757 (stock #Kas11)
Original etching with aquatint by Luigi Kasimir (Austria-Hungary, 1881-1962) depicting the harbor in Bremen, Germany, circa 1930-1940. Signed by the artist (not an estate signature). A rare original etching by an important artist. One of a number of works by this artist currently available.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1461403 (stock #2598)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
Russian born artist who worked for the WPA, and in 1939 was commissioned for a mural for the department of Justice in Washington DC. His work and papers are at Yale University and some of his works are in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This work is graphite on paper, in a silver deco frame that measures 18x29 inches…....
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1940 item #1434284
A circa 1930 colorful, beautiful, accomplished woodblock print of a Christmas cactus, by Austrian-born artist HUGO NOSKE (1886-1960). Noske was born in Vienna and was a very talented artist, perhaps best known today for the technically accomplished, wonderful woodblock prints of floral subjects, often specifically cacti or Christmas cacti, on tissue-like Japan paper. This is one of those prints. Measurements are 12" by 13 1/8"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1420718 (stock #JB05596)
A finely painted work titled at lower right "Culebra Range, Colo.", signed at lower left by artist CARROLL COLBY CHILD (1868-1932). The Culebra Range is in extreme southern Colorado, very near the New Mexico border and not far from Taos. It is noted for Culebra Peak, the southernmost of the so-called "Fourteeners" (Rocky Mountain peaks of at least 14,000 feet summit elevation)...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1940 item #1396850
Adolphe M.T. Beaufrere 1876-1960 This is an original drypoint etching by French artist Adolphe Beaufrere (1876-1960) The title of this etching is "Cottages by the Stream", it was created and printed circa 1930. It is editioned as 19/60. The image measures 8 1/2X8 3/4 inches. Hand signed in pencil in the lower margin.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1940 item #1424107 (stock #JB05332)
A large oil on canvas (26 1/2" by 38 1/2", and 32 1/2" by 44 1/4" framed) painting of a forest of evergreen and birch near a picturesque winding creek, likely in eastern Europe, signed at lower left somewhat indecipherably (probably a listed artist). The name may be Lithuanian or other Baltic state. The work is beautifully painted but has darkened with surface soiling and old varnish. There appear to be a few areas which were the subject of test cleanings (by tree at right and at upper left s...