19th Century American School

'The SS. San Jose', American Merchant Marine, United Fruit Company Freighter

1916

Signed lower left 'Moessel' for Julius Moessel (American, 1872-1960) and dated 1943; additionally titled verso, 'In the Artist's Garden'. A substantial, mid-century horticultural oi...

Signed lower right, 'Charles Damrow' for Charles Damrow (American, 1916-1989) and painted circa 1940; additionally signed verso on stretcher, 'Chas. Damrow'. An idyllic, South-weste...

Signed lower left, 'Jonathan Scott' (British, 1914-1995) and titled verso. Provenance: Nancy Moure, Glendale, California Jonathan Scott studied first at the Heatherly School in Lond...

A substantial and atmospheric winter landscape showing a view of fields and farm buildings draped in snow. Signed with initials lower right, 'V.G.K.' for Victor Georg Kuhnel, (Danis...

A view of a landscape with a young woman shown seated and bathing her bare foot in a pool of water with white doves flying in a clouded, blue sky. Signed verso 'Nura' for Nura Wood...

A bold and animated seascape showing a view of a sailing boat in waves off the California coast. Signed center right, 'Canete' and painted circa 2000. This Carmel artist studied wi...

Poker Players NYC Mid 20th Century Modern WPA American Scene Social Realism Philip Reisman (1904-1992) Poker Players 12 x 16 oil on board Signed and dated 1949 lower right BIO Phi...

Street Scene WPA American Scene Mid-20th Century Modern Coin Tower California SF Victor Arnautofff (1896 – 1979) City Street 12 x 14 inches Oil on board, c. 1930s Signed lower left BIO Born in the Ukraine of Russia, Victor Arnautoff became one of the most influential muralists in San Francisco in the 1930s and worked for the Federal Arts Project, WPA, in the expressive, social protest...

Kevin Weckbach's (US based) "Light Rain" is an original, hand made oil painting that depicts a busy city sidewalk where passerby walk along the city avenue lined with towering buildings of a bustling neon metropolis. Artist Statement: "Subject matter to me is a vehicle for me to explore how I observe life. My urban influences are an assembly of varied fabrics stitched together to form a tapestry. It is not to resemble a literal story of what it is; moreover, it is a quilt that explains my visual expression. What I find particularly interesting in human intervention in nature is how we are still intertwined with it. Roads, buildings, and farmlands bend with the natural curves of mountains, hills, and streams. City nights are lit up like lightning bugs...

This work was painted in 1958 ( per the label from Illustration House. It was published in 1959. This is very common in the publishing world where a world of art is commissioned t...

Matthew Paoletti's "U.P." is an original, handmade oil painting. Education:​ The Art Institute of Chicago. American Academy of Art Chicago ​ Leo Burnett Co. 1990-97 Illustrator/art ...

This painting is a 20th century realist landscape depiction of a shipyard by Robert Lavin. The piece is executed in oil on board and measures 10" x 24". Robert Lavin was born in New York City. His education included Townsend Harris, a prep school in New York followed by college at City College of New York. He also attended the National Academy of Art, where he studied as a painter. Studying the social realists of the 1930’s, Lavin, a former Marine pilot, portrayed steelworkers, roughnecks and trainmen. Lavin often painted his “proletarian ballets”- as one critic called them – to illustrate magazine advertisements. The Smithsonian Institution and other museums collected Lavin’s original paintings, which portrayed the laboring subjects with dignity and integrity. Lavin also illustrated stock certificates and books. Paper Money magazine praised him as “one of the greatest vignette artists of the 20th century.” In addition to this, Lavin was for a number of years an Associate Professor of Art at City College of New York, a position he left in the mid ‘60’s in order to devote himself full time to his painting. His commissions took him around the world, from the North Sea to the coast of Africa, from the slopes of Alaska to the Sea of Japan. As part of a series for Gulf Oil, he painted the royal family of England for the opening of a new refinery in Wales. Another portrait of one of the early Americanastronauts, appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. Other major commissions during these years included Readers Digest books...