Lot 172 - AMERICAN LANDSCAPE PAINTINGS BY XAVIER J BARILE

A lot of two oil paintings on masonite board and on wood board. The first: Xavier J. Barile, American, 1891 to 1981, oil painting depicting a forest landscape, signed lower right. The second: an American School oil painting depicting a scene in a forest landscape, signed by the artist, lower right. Xavier J. Barile was an American painter, graphic artist, illustrator and art teacher born in Tufo, Italy. He worked in many mediums including oil, casein, watercolor, pen and ink, monotyping and etching creating figurative scenes, cityscapes, landscapes, seascapes and portraits. Always an avid sketcher, Barile also worked as a magazine and newspaper illustrator and cartoonist. As a painter Barile was strongly influenced by American Realism and the Ashcan School, but developed his own distinctive, somewhat more modern style of realism involving subtle contours and distortions of perspective. American Fine Art, Modern Landscape Paintings, and Collectibles. One of a kind artwork.