All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Asia : Pre 1980 item #1417507 (stock #JB01618)
Oil on canvas, 27 1/2" by 22 1/2" (36" by 30" as framed), the subject a young man wearing a colorful bandana, intently working on some objects in his hands, a traditional ethnic mask in the upper right background. The painting is signed in red at lower right "S. C. YUAN", (1911-1974), who was an important Chinese-American artist from the Monterey, California area, however, this is definitely NOT a work of that well-known artist (I showed images to several auction houses and a gallery or two)...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1980 item #1420887 (stock #JB04902)
An original black ink drawing of a Native American Indian stalking a herd of bison. He hides behind a bush, his bow resting behind him, his fringed arrow quiver at the ready. The drawing is nearly square, at 9 1/2" by 9 1/4" (14 1/4" by 14 1/4" in black simple framing). There is a Reno, Nevada framer's label remaining on the backing, but no other information. I have been unable to match the name to a listed artist. Allow for reflections in a few images.
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1419219 (stock #JB02418)
Black ink, red watercolor and white gouache drawing, unsigned, 22 1/2" by 15", unsigned, the figure playing a mandolin or lute, wearing poofy medieval-style pantaloons, and sporting a Dali-esque moustache. The drawing definitely has some age, maybe circa mid century. The camera somewhat overstates the color difference between top (more brownish) and bottom (less browned) half; I can't explain the variation...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1416833 (stock #JB05535)
Original lithograph print, 1979, featuring, as the AskArt listing so aptly describes, "joyful scenes that depict the plague of childhood in a childlike way...". The artist was born in La Paz, Bolivia, and was in Europe while very young, receiving art instruction. She trained in printmaking under Johnny Friedlaender. By the mid 1960's she had already received recognition for her work, and in 1979 the UNICEF organization utilized her imagery in a poster...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1440801 (stock #195)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
Portrait of a Little Girl by Maybel K Hat (1941). Signed upper left corner. Framed Oil on Canvas, 42 x 35.5".
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1980 item #1453448 (stock #3242)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
Carl J. Pugliese was born in New York City in 1918. From a very early age he had a great interest in United States military history and weapons. He studied art at the School of Visual Arts, New York City specializing in military and historical illustration. The four years he served in the United States Army increased his interest in the study of weapons of the past...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1980 item #1431283
A fine black and white original photograph, 10 1/4" by 13 1/2" (16" by 20" in metal frame), signed in the mount in pencil by the noted American photographer HENRY E. GILPIN (1922-2011). The work, commonly referred to as "Mount McKinley, Northeast Corner of Wonder Lake, 4:30 AM", is one of the photographer's most popular and best-known images, after "Highway 1, California". The original negative dates to 1978, though this could have been printed later...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1442046 (stock #430)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
Outsider arts Philadelphia Artist Julian Crump, biblical quote Mixmedia 22 x 29“...........Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1980 item #1418958 (stock #JB02568)
This is an original ink wash on paper drawing, 12" by 17 1/2" (17 3/4" by 23" as framed shadow-box style behind Plexiglas), the image featuring a voluptuous nude woman and a bull that looks positively Chagall-like, signed at lower left corner by the highly important American twentieth century sculptor artist, REUBEN NAKIAN (1897-1986)...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1980 item #1437633 (stock #153)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
"The Graduate" by Ernie Barnes. Framed signed print. 18 x 22". Frame Size 22 x 26.5". Ernest Eugene Barnes Jr. (July 15, 1938 – April 27, 2009) was an American artist, well known for his unique style of elongated characters and movement. He was also a professional football player, actor and author. rnes credits his college art instructor Ed Wilson for laying the foundation for his development as an artist.[17] Wilson was a sculptor who instructed Barnes to paint from his own life experiences...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1418764 (stock #JB04103)
Oil on tin sheet painting of a man in cowboy hat, titled on reverse backing "The Old Hat", 16" by 12" (22 1/2" by 18 3/4" framed), signed at lower right and again on the backing, by the well known artist of the American Southwest, RAMON KELLEY (born 1939). This is a sensitively painted work of a subject obviously very familiar to the artist. Kelley studied on a scholarship at the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver, where he counted the artist Charlie Dye among his instructors...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1980 item #1423096 (stock #JB04944)
A brown ink drawing of two standing men in conversation, signed at lower right in Hebrew script. A Hebrew reader tells me the signature could read "Yashkovsky" or "Shaikovsky" or similar. The work measures 8" by 6" (15 1/4" by 13" framed). The drawing was likely executed circa 1960's to 1980. A simple work which demonstrates the skill of the draftsman.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1459240 (stock #04290)
These famous Lithograph each title were published on Saturday Evening Post illustration.
Painted by Norman Rockwell. We are proudly presenting first time.
All of these each offset lithograph which were kept last 32 years in our stored box...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Canadian : Pre 1980 item #1418189 (stock #JB01835)
Oil on canvas, 24" by 30" (30" by 36" as framed), the subject a peaceful northeastern cove, which we learn from a penned notation on the reverse is, in fact, Canada, in the province of Nova Scotia. Viewers online have confirmed to me that this is definitely Peggy's Cove on the Atlantic coast...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1438293 (stock #570)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,400.00
Holidays at Home, Betha Lenard, Pila. Water color. 12 x 20".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1454384 (stock #612)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,900.00
A beautiful Oil Mountain Scene by American Artist Henry Lewis
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1416910 (stock #JB03087)
This is a beautifully executed white pigment on eucalyptus bark painting by ANDREW MUNAKALI (KUNWINJKU), an aboriginal painter from Arnhem Land in northern Australia. The piece measures 12" by 18" (31 cm. by 43 cm.) The Oenpelli label on the reverse says "Depicting: A Possum --- djebbuh. Gunbalanya Council Inc. Code No. TT232 By Andrew Munakali of Liverpool River." Judging from another sticker, the piece was sold in Sydney at some point after its creation, at an "aboriginal curios" shop,...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1418255 (stock #JB01899)
After a watercolor drawing by the iconic, famous French modern artist PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906) is this print best described as a pochoir, titled "La Cruche Verte", ("The Green Jug"), numbered at lower left 128/225. The print is affixed to a board on which the numeration is written in pencil. In a window in the mat below (and, not attached to that board---taped to the mat on the underside) is the title, description of the media used in the original drawing, measurements of that original, date o...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Asia : Japanese : Pre 1980 item #1422228 (stock #JB05628)
An oil on canvas painting of the symmetrical snow-capped cone of Mt. Fujiyama in Japan, hardy palms in the foreground, signed at lower right by Japanese artist "T. Arashi" (signed in English and Japanese characters), no date, circa 1980. The artist was very talented and has created a beautiful and arresting composition. The mystical, famous mountain stands in all its glory above the surrounding landscape. Condition is excellent. I have not been able to locate information on the artist. Meas...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1419985 (stock #JB02420)
Dramatic linocut print, the sheet 13" by 20", unframed, numbered at lower left 6/12 and pencil signed at lower right and dated there 1971, the "HB" blind stamp adjacent, by the important and still highly underrated Swiss-California modernist HANS GUSTAV BURKHARDT (1904-1994). The subject is somewhat uncertain; perhaps a look at a catalogue raisonne of the artist's graphic works would provide the title, but skulls and other references to death seem to predominate, and the ink is black. At lower l...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1462309 (stock #2742)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
The Lucien Crump Art Gallery and Education Center closed its doors for the final time Friday after 40 years of serving Philadelphia as the first to feature works by African-American artists. The gallery’s namesake, who had a long career as an artist and educator, passed away at age 71 in 2006. In the last days of the gallery’s opening, an announcement of the change caused neighbors and art lovers alike to pause and share their memories. “Since people have seen the closing sign in the windo...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1417462 (stock #JB01447)
For the collector of contemporary art, this is an unusual mixed media work signed at lower right by MARGARET HEHMAN (known since 1985 as Margaret Hehman-Smith). The work (11 3/4" by 16 3/8", 20 1/2" by 25 1/4" as framed behind glass) is executed with ochre chalky paint over a thin highly polished aluminum sheet. The artist has a website, which shows that she grew up in Pennsylvania, and studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in the mid 1970s, with some study in Europe as well. Her w...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Asia : Japanese : Pre 1980 item #1427292
A very nicely painted work, oil on canvasboard, 16" by 20" (20 1/2" by 24 1/2" in white and yellow frame), titled on a label "Tea Ceremony", the artist name given there as Mario Munoz, and signed M. Munoz at lower right corner. We see a young woman in traditional kimono and hair treatment, seated on the floor next to a low table set with tea service, two shallow bowls with food, and a vase at rear with yellow flowers, perhaps chrysanthemums. Her kimono and the vase are very beautifully handle...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1980 item #1419254 (stock #JB04277)
A rare opportunity to acquire an original drawing by a very highly esteemed twentieth century California artist, the works of whom have exceeded $50,000 at auction. This drawing is signed at lower left by the sought-after ROGER KUNTZ (1926-1975). The subject is clearly "Museum (XXX) Art" and I believe it likely to be a study for the Laguna Art Museum on Pacific Coast Highway in Laguna Beach, California. The work itself measures 15 1/2" by 20 1/2". (It is currently framed as found, in inexpen...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1418038 (stock #JB03852)
Oil on masonite panel painting of the desert, 12" by 9", signed in capital letters at lower left by listed southwestern artist BILL SHADDIX (1931-). The presence of the iconic saguaro cactus places the scene as east of the Colorado River, therefore in Arizona. Shaddix was born in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl, and emigrated to California by the early 1940's with his family. A deputy sheriff in Orange County by 1956, he began to paint, and eventually turned full time to his fine art. He sett...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1457158 (stock #2378)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Robert Morey know as the designer of the Seal of the United States Marshall service was not only a painter but a personal friend of President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy. This work is a impressionist style of a corner of his studio.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1415597 (stock #JB04071)
From the hand of pioneering modernist painter and printmaker GEORGE CONSTANT (1892-1978), a large (28" by 19 1/2" inside the mat, 36" by 27" framed) watercolor painting of white, pink and purple lilacs in a vase, signed at lower right by the artist. This is a striking work with a pronounced modern approach to still life. The background is essentially featureless, the vase outlines very simple, and then there is the beautiful curve at bottom, more suggestive of an artist palette than a table to...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Stone : Pre 1980 item #1486165 (stock #3636)
German composer Felix Mendelssohn 1809 - 1847 known for many songs including “The Wedding March”. The bust in white Carrara marble measuring 15” x 9” x 6” Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy[n 1] (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works in...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1422221 (stock #JB05390)
An unusual, elegant "embossed relief" print on heavy grayish-tan earth-tone hand-made paper that appears almost like tooled leather, or parchment, featuring in the design organic forms such as leaves, signed at lower right in Chinese characters and in Roman letters by the artist, HA BICK CHUEN (1925-2009) (also known as XIA BIQUAN). The work, dated 1975 adjacent to the signature, is numbered at lower left 26/50. It measures 28" by 23 3/4" (31 1/4" by 26 1/2" in hardrock maple box style frame w...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1366733 (stock #3042)
This note concerns Poem 70-38, a rarely seen Big Red. NOTE: Daniel Tretiak created the term Big Reds for Haku Maki's large works centered on large kanji in red, usually on a black background and often done in broad strokes. Large ones in blue or yellow or green came to be termed Big Blues, Big Yellows, Big Greens, and so forth.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1418133 (stock #JB04259)
ONE OF TWO OF THIS SAME PRINT IN MY SHOP, lithograph print in elegant gray and white on black paper, 27" by 22", (and 33 1/2" by 27" in silvery modern frame), pencil signed at lower right, and numbered 5/100 at lower left. The title is "Daphne and Apollo", the imagery consisting of idealized male and female figures with leafy trees in the background, creating a most interesting and modern composition that looks almost like a "solarized" photo. Considering the complexity of this image, it is no w...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1140614
In 1976 Haku Maki did three pairs of prints in which the black and white were reversed. One set is shown here. The cement blocks were used to print the white on black, then cleaned to do black on white. These were done in such themes as Mind Wind and Cloud. These are strong sweeping images in rather large prints. The two Wind images here are typical of the type. They are all about 15" x 20" and in editions of 150.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1980 item #1421943 (stock #JB05066)
A wild crayon and pencil on paper drawing of bizarre abstracted forms that might be described as "organic", the drawing tacked at four corners to a larger board that is itself painted decoratively. The work, 22" by 18" framed, is signed with initials at lower right that could be "BK" and the date is "02". This was found in Southern California. The artist worked a lot of hours to produce this. Both drawing and gold frame are in very good condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1980 item #1416035 (stock #JB04764)
A striking mid century aquatint etching in colors by the noted European artist and print maker JOHNNY FRIEDLAENDER (1912-1992). The unframed print, 8 1/2" by 5 1/2" inside the present mat opening (sheet 13 1/2" by 9 1/2") is signed at lower right margin with the artist's distinctive signature and numbered 41/55 at lower left. Friedlaender was a pioneer in the aquatint process, having taught such artists as Rodo Boulanger. Born in Prussian Silesia before World War I, he showed early talent, ex...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1422825 (stock #JB03987)
After the great world-renowned master MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985), this is the 1972 Galerie Maeght lithograph poster "Artist as Phoenix", issued in an edition of 5000. The print has fresh bright colors, although it is evenly rumpled from age (no creases, just not a flat surface). It can be shipped rolled in a tube (for lower cost shipping than indicated) or with green metal mid-century spring-clip style poster frame (the present shipping quote). Chagall's imagery drawing upon his youth in Jewish ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1454401 (stock #632)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,500.00
American Painter CLYFFORD STROHL Maine Landscape 24x30” Mr STROHL born New York,1893, was a passion, a painter who worked in the Lake George area immigrating from Germany. We decided to go to Maine in the 1920s and paint their he died in 1964 Born in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1893, a d was a pupil of Jules Dieudonne, and of Orlando G. Wells. He was also a student of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine arts. He was a friend of fellow painter Marsden Hartley, who introduced him to Dunca...