Any ideas? Cant find much info.

Hello. Just found some canvas paintings and i cant find much about them online...any ideas? They are all in a wood frame, no glass, plain fabric/canvas? On back. I can obviously tell they weren't just printed as i can see/feel the like paint brush strokes if that makes sense?

 

Hello and welcome to the board.

I think all of your paintings date to around the 1970s-90s. Just going on what I can see of the frames.
I think all of them with the exception of maybe the Williams scene(I might be wrong) are factory painted.

The Chinese junk I know for sure is. In the 1980s, my SIL would give home parties where pictures were sold and you got to pick your frame. There were always a lot of Chinese junk ships.

Be sure to check back tomorrow as people come and go at all hours.

 

All of them are factory paintings

 

If you choose Full Image they will appear in your post

 

https://www.instapainting.com/blog/the-secret-lives-of-china-art-factory-workers


It isn't just paintings that are made by these factory villages.

https://www.made-in-china.com/products-search/hot-china-products/Chinese_Arts_Factory.html

 

Ok this will be a dumb question im sure but ....the factory paintings have the like texture to them?

 

No questions are dumb.

I think - that means I could be wrong - factory paintings are done somewhere like China, actually painted with oil or acrylic and signed with fake anglicized names.

Adding: some of them can be quite nice and certainly fill a decorative use for people who don't want to spend the money on something else.

 

I have one of the Chinese junks that I bought at my SIL's party. Nothing spectacular, but fits nicely with other things.
I wanted to support her and it wasn't terribly expensive back in the 1980s.

 

My cousin loved cruises. They often have art auctions where they sell this sort of thing. You get to choose the painting and the frame and you get it when you get off the ship. They bought three or four. As stated, they are great decor items, but not valued as art.