All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1138533 (stock #2627)

William Barnett [1918 - 1992 Phila,Pa]

Modernist oil on canvas depicting farm workers in field

1940's

20" x 34"

Very good condition

Unframed

William Barnett -

Schools * Philadelphia Museum School, Teacher * Pratt Institute of Art, Student

Some Exhibitions * Brooklyn Museum * Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC * Guggenheim Museum * Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts * Philadelphia Sketch Club

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1416206 (stock #JB0424)
Oil on canvas nocturne style painting of a wave, 24" by 30" (28" by 34" as framed) by listed California artist ERNEST BROWNING SMITH (1866-1951). Smith is a familiar artist on the plein air scene and I believe his works are presently underrated in the marketplace. The artist had a trademark style; often the scenes in my experience are simplified, devoid of figures, and in a limited color palette. This nocturne is executed in shades of blue...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1416068 (stock #JB05151)
(ONE OF SEVERAL BY MERRIAM IN MY SHOP) An oil on canvas, 30" by 40", unframed), the subject a Southern California desert mountain wash and canyon, a cluster of desert palms grouped towards the center of the composition, the painting unsigned by undoubtedly by the talented California painter JAMES MERRIAM (1880-1951). This brushstrokes, size and subject matter of this particular example is very typical of the artist's work; I will stand by its being "a Merriam"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1950 item #1446683 (stock #936)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
Beautiful oil Capriccio Scene measuring 46x36” by French artist Almon circa 1900
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1950 item #1478528 (stock #3393)
As is still a custom, the United States Senate Pages pose for a photo on the lawn of the Capitol building. This one is for 1946. Measuring framed 19” x 26”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1950 item #1440718 (stock #156)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,200.00
Still Life with Flowerrs in an Art Deco Vase by Belgian landscape artist Prosper De Troyer. Oil on canvas framed 27x24 Painter, draftsman. He was fourteen when his mother died, and goes to work as apprentice to the sculptor Van Biesbrouck in Ghent and to painter De Pauw. He follows lessons at the Sint-Lucas Academy in Oostakker and then at the Academie voor Schone Kunsten in Mechelen, where he was a classmate of Rik Wouters...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1094886 (stock #2550)

Eleanor Reed, b...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Italian : Pre 1950 item #1378875 (stock #22404)
Large original fresco on board by Mario Toppi (Italy, United States, 1899-1976). This work retains its original Italian frame. It is signed M. Toppi l.r. and also on the verso. Mario Toppi is a well listed artist. 32" by 43".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1950 item #1482971
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All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1950 item #1422593 (stock #JB03736)
Tinted photo of the famous, accessible Mendenhall Glacier outside Juneau, Alaska, titled in the image at lower left "Where Ice and Flowers Meet"/Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska/(copyright symbol) 1933 Ordway". The image measures 8 1/2" by 13 1/2", and frame is an inch wide on a side. On reverse is an old sticker from Ordway's Photo Shop, Juneau, Alaska. This came home in the luggage of a tourist, likely around 1950 (found in Connecticut)...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1950 item #1220537 (stock #2844)

Unique photographic abstraction by California artist and lithographer, Victor von Pribosic [1909 - 1959]

Created in the 1940's, this image measures app. 13 1/2" x 16 1/2".

Condition - excellent.

Matted and shrink wrapped.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1950 item #1423326 (stock #JB03548)
Found in Florida, a PAIR of watercolor on paper paintings, each signed "H. Crouse 50", one featuring a young dark-haired woman dancing animatedly in flamenco style dress, the other featuring a young man with sombrero and traditional shoulder cloth and sandals. The works measure 14 3/4" by 10 3/4" inside the existing mats, and 22" by 18" in thin gold strip framing. The subjects might be Mexican, or Central American, or Cuban...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1416055 (stock #JB01435)
This is a beautiful, elegant, understated winter landscape oil painting on panel, signed at lower right by noted Avon, Connecticut impressionist painter CONSTANT RAPHAEL FURRICK (1888-1966), measuring 11 1/2" by 15 1/2" (19" by 23" as framed). Strangely, considering the quality of the work, there seems to be little information available on the artist. He was I believe born in Poland. Furrick's work is scarce, with few auction records...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1950 item #1449689 (stock #1356)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
Beautiful framed painting, oil on canvas, measuring 12x18” by Sofia Vanya Khrustalyova, circa 1947.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1950 item #517311 (stock #529 *)
John Daniel Hagenhofer, b. Boston, 1913. Studied - AIC, Chicago Acad. FA., WPA artist. Ink and watercolor illustration with descriptive note from the artist. In very good condition with the original frame. Image measures app. 6"x7".
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1950 item #1427012 (stock #JB04508)
PAIR of etchings of dogs, one a Fox Terrier, the other a Scottish Terrier, each signed at lower right in pencil by the renowned twentieth century German dog and cat and other animal artist, KURT MEYER-EBERHARDT (1895-1977). The artist was born in Leipzig and died in Munich. In the late 1920's he was studying with Thedor Hagen and Lyonel Feininger, and could have ascended to the highest levels of the art world. He however chose to pursue his love of depicting domestic and other animals...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1950 item #1420253 (stock #JB03052)
Carroll Thayer Berry is a familiar name in artistic circles in the state of Maine, as he was an artist, illustrator and photographer there for many decades. Born in New Gloucester, he grew up in Portland and there became enamored of the sea and seagoing. After study at the University of Michigan (naval architecture) he worked for engineering firms in New York and Portland, then still as a young man worked on murals in administrative buildings in the Panama Canal Zone...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1950 item #1420423 (stock #JB04310)
A circa 1950 artistic black and white photo of the docks at Monterey, California, pencil signed on the mount as "Edna S Deuren" or similar. The gentlemen standing at left with fedoras and cap are looking down on the small fishing craft at a time when Monterey's fishing industry was in high gear. Measurements are 9 1/4" by 7 1/4" (photo itself) and 20 1/2" by 17" as framed. Condition is very good.