All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1960 item #996242 (stock #40F47 254)
Cesare A. Ricciardi (Italian/American, 1892-1973) oil on canvasboard marinescape of a Misty Morning in a New England harbor. Dated 1954. Size: 20 inches x 24 inches. Cesare Ricciardi emigrated from Italy to the United States as a young boy. His art studies began at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, but he eventually enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied with Thomas Anschutz, Cecilia Beaux, Hugh Breckenridge, Robert Henri and Leopold Seiffert...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1960 item #1099771 (stock #6571)
A superbly rendered and atmospheric lifetime woodblock print by the famed Japanese artist Kawase Hasui (1883-1957), titled "Ikegami Honmonji Temple" (Honmonji Temple in Snow). First published in 1931, this is an artist's lifetime strike from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. This print is Oban size (14-1/4" x 9-1/2" image size, 19-3/4" x 14-1/4" frame size). It has the 6 mm. red lifetime seal of the publisher Watanabe Shozaburo (seal used from 1946-57)...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1377720 (stock #39B78-12203)
Alice Haigh Dixon (American, 1876-1956) - View looking toward Big Sur, California. Oil on canvas. Size: 18 inches x 22 inches. Signed in lower right. An attractive scene of flowers along the California coastline by this San Francisco and Healdsburg painter. Offered in a gilded modern plein air frame. Minor paint loss to a small area just left of the signature.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1338510 (stock #40I40-102)
Frederick J. Wilder (American, 1893-1977) - Autumn, Woodstock, Vermont. Oil on linen. Size: 16 inches X 20 inches. Frederick Wilder was born in Woodstock, Vermont, the son of the innkeeper and artist, Arthur B. Wilder, who was the long-time manager of the old Woodstock Inn. Frederick graduated from Harvard College and its graduate architectural school. He is known for his watercolor and oil landscapes, both around the Woodstock area and along the coast of Maine...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1356877 (stock #38B20-386)
Jacob I. Greenleaf (American, 1887-1968) - 'Vermont Hills With Mt. Mansfield in Distance' Oil on linen. Size: 16 inches X 20 inches. Circa 1950s. Signed in lower left and retaining on the reverse the original artist's label with title. Offered in the original stained wood frame. In this painting, Jacob Greenleaf has depicted a farm situated along a country road at the peak of fall foliage season, with the profile of Mount Mansfield visible in the distance...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1338589 (stock #40I40-101)
Frederick J. Wilder (American, 1893-1977) - View From the Orchard, Woodstock, Vermont. Oil on canvas. Size: 16 inches X 20 inches. Frederick Wilder was born in Woodstock, Vermont, the son of the innkeeper and artist, Arthur B. Wilder, who was the long-time manager of the old Woodstock Inn. Frederick graduated from Harvard College and its graduate architectural school. He is known for his watercolor and oil landscapes, both around the Woodstock area and along the coast of Maine...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1365396 (stock #26C10-2656)
Luigi Lucioni - The Enduring Maple. Watercolor on paper. Dated 1954. Original frame with Associated American Artists label. Size: approx. 8" x 7". Signs and dated. Excellent condition.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1007280 (stock #6353)
A George Culley Canada watercolour painting of a boathouse dated 1958. This unframed 15-1/2" x 11-1/4" watercolour on paper is by George S. Culley (Canadian, 1905-?) depicting a boathouse on a river. This painting is in excellent original condition with no foxing, staining, bends, tears, losses, damage or repairs. It is signed G.S. Culley '58 on the lower left. It is not titled, but the scene is from Northern Ontario...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1199941 (stock #40G15-176)
Theodore 'Ted' Kautzky, N.A. (American, 1896-1953) original watercolor painting titled 'Autumn in Vermont.' Circa 1951. Unsigned. Size: 22.25 inches x 29.5 inches. Watercolor on 300lb. D'Arches paper. Condition: very good, with bright, crisp colors; some toning to the very edges of the sheet, which would be hidden if matted (currently framed floating with no mat.) This painting was published as the cover of the November 1951 issue of "Reader's Digest." A copy of this magazine is included ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1950 item #1422764 (stock #40E57-234)
Stokesay Castle by John Taylor Arms (American, 1887-1953), original etching on wove paper, pencil signed in lower margin, edition of 365. From his English Series #9; ref. Fletcher 369; miniature series #30. Dated 1942. Plate size: 2 1/4 in. x 2 15/16/in. Excellent condition and offered in the original gilded frame, with original description affixed to the reverse of frame. John Taylor Arms was born in Washington, D.C. in 1887; he became one of America's best known printmakers, and his etching...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Metal : Pre 1950 item #1433053
Modernist in design this handwrought copper and brass ashtray signed Hector Aguilar measures 5 inches across and 1 1/4 inch high. This ash tray is in excellent condition with beautiful original patina. Signed HA TAXCO MEXICO TALLER BORDA.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Metal : Pre 1950 item #1423385 (stock #40H18-423)
A vintage Hubley #275 cast iron doorstop of a German Shepherd sitting. Size: 9.5 in. ht. x 6.5 in. wide x 2.5 in. deep. 1st half 20th century. Impressed on reverse '275'.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Metal : Pre 1950 item #1433041
Hector Aguilar designed and signed this early set of 3 handwrought copper and brass ashtrays in Taxco, Mexico in the early 1940's. Each measures 4 1/2 inches across and is 1 inch high. All 3 ashtrays are in excellent condition with no dents or dings. All have original unpolished patina. Each piece signed on the underside HA TAXCO MEXICO.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1360979 (stock #640fs)
Beautifully sculpted from one piece of wood, this horse and rider sail effortlessly over a fence. The sculpture measures 16" high, approximately 19" from end of board to tip of horses nose, and the wood base is 13 1/4" x 4 1/4". The two back legs are one piece, just to support the body of the horse and rider. Every bit of the surface is slightly textured, like the hammer marks on silver, and gives the piece a lovely sheen and patina. The wood is dark and heavy, likely high quality mahogany, ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1022515 (stock #339)
An original oil depicting a Brigantine Ship sailing ship off the coast with other vessels and a lighthouse. Oil in board signed lower left in an original arts and crafts era frame. Measuring approx. 10 x 16 inches in excellent condition. A fine example of this artists work. Biography C. Myron Clark (1858-1925) was a painter of mountain landscapes in oil and watercolor, as well as ships (USS Constitution, 1906; Frigate in Tow). He worked mostly in Massachusetts, though his oil landscape of ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #1206684 (stock #39B20 345)
Jacob I. Greenleaf (American, 1887-1968) - Vermont Village in Autumn, oil on canvas, c.1940s. Canvas size: 22 inches x 28 inches. Very good condition with some minor discoloration to the older varnish in the sky. Signed in the lower right and retaining the artist's original fragmented, partial label on the reverse. A native of Estonia, Jacob Greenleaf emigrated to the United States, where he settled in Rockport, Massachusetts. He is best known for his paintings of New England landscapes and ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #656884 (stock #40E29 31)
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978), oil on canvas board, signed lower right. Titled and dated in Gruppe's hand on the verso,"Mount Mansfield, Vermont, 1947." A vibrant spring scene with traces of lingering winter snow. Excellent condition. Size: 12 inches x 16 inches.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1950 item #745895 (stock #38B20 317)
"Deserted Station" watercolor painting by Frederick Clay Bartlett, Jr. (American, 1907-1955). Signed lower right and dated Sept. 1942. Clay Bartlett was a Vermont artist with a residence in Manchester, VT. He was a member of the Southern Vermont Artists from 1934-1951. This painting depicts an abandoned railway station with its shutters closed and with a stationary train on the adjacent tracks. Size: 13" x 19" (sight). Excellent condition.