All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1210354 (stock #22B3 438)
Walton Blodgett (American, 1908-1963) - Artist at Work. Pencil on paper. Circa 1930's. Size: 7.5 inches x 10 inches. Unsigned but bearing the embossed stamp of the Walton Blodgett Estate. Walton Blodgett was an American watercolor painter, illustrator and teacher. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he studied at the Grand Central Art School and then with George Luks at the Art Students League in New York. He illustrated for 'Fortune' and other magazines to supplement his income...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #506201 (stock #161)
Original oil titled Holland Church measuring 12 x 16 inches framed in a fine hand made gold leaf frame overall approx. 20 x 24. Provenance: the estate of the artists and Karges gallery estate stamped signed and numbered and titled and labeled on the reverse. A fine painting by this renowned artist.

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Painter, illustrator, printmaker and muralist, Jesse Arms was born in Chicago, IL on May 27, 1883. She began her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago, and continued with J. C...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1266655 (stock #382fs)
By Franz Bergman (Austria 1898-1863), this cold painted Austrian bronze depicts a parakeet or budgie, standing with head slightly turned. The budgie has a green and yellow body and blue tail, with wing feathers in black and white. It measures 7 1/4" long and is just under 3" high. It is in excellent condition with good bright paint, with very minor paint loss on his beak and face...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #894308 (stock #26C10E 3014)
Arthur B. Wilder (American, 1857-1949), oil painting on artist board, circa 1930, 27" x 24", signed lower right. Excellent condition. We believe that the subject of this colorful painting is the porch of Arthur Wilder's Mountain Ave. home in Woodstock, Vermont, with his collie dog, Lady. His grandson, Lyle Pearsons, records Arthur's later years as follows: "During the 1930s he continued painting regularly until his wife died in 1938...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #702639 (stock #274)
A W Best Navajo indian camp near bear mt. Arizona oil on canvas signed lower right measuring 8x10 inches framed in a hand carved 24k gold leaf frame approx. 16 x 18 overall. In excellent condition.

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Arthur William BEST 
1859 - 1935 Arthur William Best was born in Mount Pleasant, Canada on July 17, 1859. He and his brother Harry attended public school in Mount Pleasant and were members of a small band. Arthur played the cornet; Harry, the violin...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #885441 (stock #2241)

Man at the Piano oil on canvas painting

c.1930s

Excellent condition

Framed - 21 1/2" x 12 1/4"

Unsigned

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1090485 (stock #424)
August Ludecke-Cleve (1868-1957): A beautiful antique German impressionist Landscape of cows in a meadow with a view through the trees. Bold brush work and bright colors. This is a very good and large example of this artists work. Measuring approx. 32 x 43 inches in excellent condition. Provenance: Stanford Museum Sale. Artist Biography: August Ludecke-Cleve first studied at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf then at the Munich Academy...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1305096 (stock #720)
Original oil on canvas c.1932 "Portrait Schooner Danmark" By Christian Pedersen (1870-1950) renowned marine artist. The Danish Navy Schooner Danmark was visiting NY Worlds Fair in 1939. At the outbreak of World War II she was ordered to remain in US waters to avoid capture by the Germans. Loaned by Denmark she was used to train more than 5,000 US navy sailors. Returning to the US she was given a place of honor leading the NY 1964 Worlds Fair parade of tall ships. Canvas size 25"W x 17.5"H...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1086723
Theodore "Ted" Kautzky (Hungarian/American, 1896-1953) original watercolor painting of New York City skyscrapers. Dated 1935. Size: 30 inches x 22 inches. Signed lower right "Theo Kautzky 1935." Excellent condition. Ted Kautzky was an architect, watercolorist, teacher and author of books on painting techniques. Trained as an architect at the Royal University in Hungary, he emigrated to New York in 1923, where he was employed as an architect for the New York City Parks Department. Later, h...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1191917 (stock #26C10 2477)
Eric Sloane (American, 1905-1985) - oil on canvas board landscape painting of a lone skier on a high peak in winter amidst the clouds. Circa 1930s. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Eric Sloane is considered to be one of the great American masters of landscape painting in the 20th century. He is best known as a painter of barns and as an author of books portraying early American life. In this dramatic work, a single, insignificant skier makes his way down through the cloud shrouded peaks of an A...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1296585 (stock #691)
Oil painting landscape with a creek. Signed lower right "Frederick Wagner" (1864-1940), a renowned American Impressionist who studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1879 to 1884. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy, the Carnegie, and the Corcoran, as well as the National Academy of Design. Image, 6"H x 8"L. Framed in period frame overall size 10" x 12". Written provenance directly from the artist accompanies this painting.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1162042 (stock #22B3 409)
Anthony Thieme (American, 1888-1954) painting titled, Spring in Connecticut. Oil on canvas. Circa 1930s. Canvas size: 30 inches x 36 inches. Signed in lower right, A. Thieme and titled on the reverse. Condition is excellent, having been professionally cleaned. Offered in what is probably the original gilt frame. Anthony Thieme is known for his genre and landscape paintings of Rockport, Massachusetts. Born in the Hague, Thieme studied art in Holland, Germany and Italy. In 1917, he emigra...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1210353 (stock #22B3 437)
Walton Blodgett (American, 1908-1963) - Train Station. Pencil on paper. Circa 1930's. Size: 7 inches x 9 inches. Unsigned but bearing the embossed stamp of the artist's estate. Walton Blodgett was an American watercolor painter, illustrator and teacher. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, he studied at the Grand Central Art School and then with George Luks at the Art Students League in New York. He illustrated for 'Fortune' and other magazines to supplement his income. In the mid 1930's, he relocated ...
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #505875 (stock #160)
William Adam Carmel California hidden garden oil painting on canvas board framed in an original arts and crafts period frame. Signed lower right in excellent condition measuring approx. 12 x 16 inches a fine example of this sought after artists work.

Biography

William ADAM 1846 - 1931 William Constable Adam (1846-1931) was born in Tweedmouth, England on August 29, 1846. He studied under Delecluse in Paris, Brydall and Greenlees in Glasgow, and in Buenos Aires before immigrating to ...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1268464 (stock #652)
Connecticut landscape by Henry Hammond Ahl, signed lower right. Born in East Hartford, Connecticut, Henry Ahl was a portraitist, muralist and landscape painter whose work reflected his exposure to the Tonalist style of the Barbizon painters. He studied at the Royal Academy of Munich with Alexander Wagner and Franz Von Stuck, and in Paris with Jean Leon Gerome. He exhibited with the Munich Royal Academy. Image 25"L x 30"W. Displayed in original 24k Taos giltwood frame.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1132808 (stock #40G15 163)
Theodore 'Ted' Kautzky, N.A. (Hungarian/American, 1896-1953) original painting titled 'The Gnarled Oak.' Circa 1930s. Watercolor painting on 300lb. D'Arches paper. Size: 15 inches x 20 inches. Signed in lower right. Condition: very good with some minor foxing in the sky. This is the original painting that was published in Ted Kautzky's book, "Painting Trees and Landscapes in Watercolor" and illustrated on pages 86/87. A copy of this book is included with the sale of this original painting.
All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Pre 1940 item #1052806 (stock #283)
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Ida Sedgwick Proper (1873 - 1957)

Rare original oil on canvas by signed lower right measuring 20 x 24 inches in good all original condition. Provenance: The Grandson of the artist.

Biography

Born in Bonaparte, Iowa, into a Baptist minister family, she attended Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas. Then at the Art Student's League in New York, she trained with William Merritt Chase, John Twachtmann, and Frank DuMond. In 1897, she began art studies in Munich and exhibited in European...

All Items : Archives : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1413920 (stock #11AC42-246)
William Lester Stevens (American, 1888-1969) - Coastal landscape, probably of the Massachusetts shore. Oil on artist board. Circa 1920s-30s. Size: 16 inches x 19.25 inches. Signed W LESTER STEVENS in lower right. William Lester Stevens was a Rockport, Massachusetts artist and a founding member of the Rockport Art Association. This post-Impressionist painting utilizes a thick impasto to its surface treatment. Stevens studied at Boston's Museum of Fine Art School under Edmund Tarbell and Frank Ben...