"Pipe Fitters", 1951 Paean to the Working Man by Gere, Wisconsin Painter

Beautifully conceived, dramatically set and very finely painted, this gouache and ink painting by Willis R. Lohse is a paean to the hard work and nobility of the black farmer in America, hat in hand as he marvels at the beauty of the day. Full of lovely colors -- lemon yellow, cerulean and fresh green -- Lohse captures a lovely moment where the farmer pauses to look upward, amidst sprays of birch trees and expanses of rolling fields. Lohse was a German-American artist who is best known for his illustrations for fiction and fantasy books published between the 1920s and 1950s, including "The Boy Who Found the King," "Raff, the Jungle Bird...

Filled with Sturm und Drang and packed with allegory and higher meaning, this remarkable Art Deco painting by Eugene Savage celebrates and interprets B...

One of the most striking and vivid Art Deco paintings we have ever offered, this dramatization of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was made by Eugene Savage, probably in the 1930s at the h...

Bold and intense, this portrait -- or perhaps self-portrait -- of a young man with pale skin, dark, flowing hair and a direct stare was painted by T. Cohen in the first decades of th...

This handsome and affectionate portrait of a young man, his tousled blonde hair glinting in the light, was painted by the subject's father, the Swedish artist Ture Lennart Nyblom. The artist's brushstrokes are loose and confident, and he beautifully captures the ruddy complexion, blue jacket and white collar of his subject, Staffan. The youth's appearance suggests that he sat for his portrait in his school uniform...

Although Walker Evans is world-renowned for his Depression-era photographs of ordinary men and women across America, many of them taken while serving as “information specialist” in t...

Vintage european oil on canvas board portrait of working man with landscape background. Signed Klimek lower right corner. Red bandana and hat this bearded man looks ready for the o...

Oil, very beautiful light painting. Original work, signed Oller. The man with the beard and the pipe. A beautiful painting that delights us.

Man resting, sitting, smoking his pipe in front of the fireplace". Oil on panel. French school. Antoine RICHARD, born in Châlon sur Saone, was a pupil of P.Cogniet and made his debu...

An arresting image of a bearded wise man with a rich and perhaps exotic story! An original signed oil on wood panel. Painted in the moody style of a Northern European portrait with exceptional technical articulation and expression. There is a clarity and realism about this piece. The man depicted appear to be in a contemplative mood, He wears a large brimmed hat...

Oil on canvas of a model and painter by Labasque, painted in 1945. Painting is 21.5 x 18.5 . Great old gallery labels on back.

The painting depicts a man sitting in a theatre, watching a horror drama. The artist has incorporated several skulls depicting the atmosphere of the play. The author of the work is J...