Featured Thrift store art....

Ok. Thank you. I appreciate the explanation. Happy to learn something

 

The classic ‘staged’ approach. Yes,I see it now ..

 

Besides the two small prints shown on other threads, this is the only art I have picked up of late. Medium sized late 19th to early 20th century oil painting. Unsigned so think really just decorative. Surely European in origin. Frame is at least as good or better than the painting. Bought for $20.00.

 

I like it. Has a good overall look and the frame compliments the painting well. Nice buy

 

Lovely frame. There's a lot of that image floating around the internet.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/174349520865

https://live.dumoart.com/online-auc...ol-oil-on-canvas-sailboat-h-14-5-w-20-5774438

Ah...

This explains it:

https://www.ocalagazette.com/edward-hopper-painting-now-on-display-at-the-appleton/

Debora

 

Ok. Interesting. Thanks Debora. Also I have always really liked that Nighthawks painting. It’s way cool..

 

Never would have guessed Hopper.

 

I saw two today that I wouldn't have minded grabbing, if I had a place to hang them. One was an oil pastel and charcoal of a snow scene at twilight. Really pretty colors and misidentified as a print. No siggie. $40. The other was acrylic or oil of a birch forest in the Spring. $25 with part of the frame missing. If either had been big enough it would be over my fireplace.

 

The oil pastel and charcoal sounds interesting.

 

Not sure how interesting per se, but it took real skill. It may have been a study for an oil.

 

A little learning is a dangerous thing. It's actually a copy Hooper made of an Edward Moran painting entitled 'Marine.' 1886. Reproduced in Art Interchange magazine. Must have been popular in its days.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/edward-hopper-got-his-start-making-copies-1911482

Debora

 

I would have picked it up too. That's a great frame and even though the image is a copy, it's nicely done.

 

Agree.

Debora

 

Interesting further information on Hopper's copies: "All of these works had been reproduced in the early 1890s in the periodical Art Interchange, aimed at amateur and student painters: the magazine contained collectible plates and instructions on how to reproduce the paintings..." So an authorized copy which explains why others are to be found. And makes this example even more interesting.

https://www.finestresullarte.info/e...re-copies-from-magazines-for-amateur-painters

Debora

 

Just this one of late to show besides the surreal painting in the other thread. Looks like an Italian tourist watercolor. Signed, Gio. Is this Florence? Medium sized and picked for $6.00.

 

Does look like it's meant to be Florence.

Debora