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Period: 1940s
Margaret Balzer, 1946
Located in Washington, DC
Modern abstract painting by Margaret Balzer Cantieni (1914-2002). Tempera on wood board. Signed in lower right corner "Balzer '46". Painting measures 1 1" x 14" with frame 16 1/2" x 19 1/2".
Margaret Balzer studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with Lyonel Feininger, Josef Albers and William Stanley Hayter...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
20th Century French Forest Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
Landscape of Fontainebleau
Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his free time to visiting museums and...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Cubist Signed Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist still life oil painting by Lionel Gilbert. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Don Quichotte
Located in Genève, GE
Oil on canvas
Category
Italian School 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Modernist 'Composition Biomorphique' Tempera Painting
Located in New York, NY
This strikingly etherial Mid-Century Modernist Vera Idelson 'Composition Biomorphique' Tempera on masonite Painting originates from Israel, created in 1946. A unique and gorgeous pi...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist - Blue Hydrangeas by Honora Berg
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Blue Hydrangeas in Acrylic on Paper
Vining Blue Hydrangeas by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985), 1946. The vertica...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'Still Life with Strings', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Still Life with Strings', ink and pencil on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). This gallery acquired this artwork with two similar works for which this one may...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Large Framed New York City Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract oil painting. Great color. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Large Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage nicely painted abstract expressionist oil painting by Frederick James Gill (1906 - 1974). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Horse Carousel Animal Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Abstract Original Painting - Blue Calligraphy on Crimson Water in Oil and Tempera on Paper
Wonderful Bay Area abstract composition by San Francisco's artist Honora Berg ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Tempera
'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Georges Braque (1882-1963) ...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
'Cubist Still Life', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Cubist Still Life', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Juan Gris (1887-1927) and Georges Braque's ...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Landscape Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage mid century abstract landscape. Oil on board. Framed. Possible illegible signature to lower left.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Unsigned.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nice colors and an early cubist work. Finely framed. Oil on board. Framed. Signed to lower left.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Exhibited Signed Still Life Modern Baguette Bread Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed lower right.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First,” 1948, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14.5 x 12.5 inches, titled in pencil verso; presented in a newer frame...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, perhaps exhibited at Murry's solo exhibition at the Los Angeles's Screen Cartoonists' Gallery, July , 1945, presented in its original frame
Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry studied at the Detroit Academy of Art and worked as an artist for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Murry traveled to the Bahamas, where he was inspired to paint modernist scenes of island life and people. By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Southern California. MacDonald Wright enrolled Murry into the FAP. Murry’s Gauguin-influenced painting Sun Image was exhibited together with other FAP artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1936, and Murry was also included in the FAP exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce Gallery in Santa Barbara, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also showed Murry’s work during the 1930s. Murry created a murals for Los Angeles Water & Power Company, the Boise, Idaho Post Office, and Glendale Junior College. In 1939, Murry's work was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair. He also was included in the All California Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art that same year. He went on to exhibit in Los Angeles at the Foundation of Western Art's Trends in Southern California Art shows in 1940 and 1941, at Raymond and Raymond Gallery in Hollywood and USC’s Elizabeth Holmes...
Category
American Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Carmicael Graphic Oil Painting
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Hope is all we have but if we believe it is enough"
A statement piece and graphic painting full of emotion and color by Jae Carmichel (1925-2005)
Jae Carmichael, painter, sculptor, photographer, writer, and independent filmmaker. She was the founding director of Pasadena's Pacific Asia Museum. She staged more than 200 solo exhibitions in galleries in Los Angeles, Japan, and Europe and has works included in permanent collections of the Oakland Museum of California, the Long Beach Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
She studied art with Francis de Erdely, Millard, Sheets, Phil...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck (1885 - 1947)
Two Seas and a Moon
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1943
Signed u...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leonard Flettrich New Orleans Abstract Expressionist Signed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil and gouache on paper. Signed. Framed. Executed by Leonard Flettrich (American/New Orleans, 1916).
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American School Abstract Expressionist Waterfall Nature-scape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early American modernist abstract landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Early Modernist Abstract Nocturnal Arctic Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract nocturnal winter landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist New England Beach Dune Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Well painted mid 1900's impressionist beach scene painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Forest Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
Landscape of Fontainebleau
Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his f...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Period New York Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive and amazing mid 1900s abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Birch Tree Landscape Framed 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-2899 Antique birch trees landscape,acrylic on artist board displayed in a wood frame.Signed lower left by Mori.Image size 9.5 H x 7.5 W
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Long Island Hamptons Beach Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Post Impressionist Modern Kitchen Seafood Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted French modernist still life. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Flower Still Life Framed Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Abstract Cubist Still Life Large Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted vintage American modernist still life. Cubist composition with great color. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
Cubist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Rare Alaskan Artist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 24H x 30L. Signed.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Abstract Cubist Flower Still Life Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well painted period cubist still life. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Houses Architecture Precisionist NY Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Nautical Cityscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage mid century abstract painting. Feels like an abstract cityscape of New York City. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signe...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American School Modernist Abstract Cityscape Holiday Lights Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Image size, 20H x 30L. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Landscape Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Fauvist Abstract Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted modernist abstract landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monumental Vintage American School Modernist Landscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large and impressive modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Framed Signed Exhibited Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Exhibited at the Butler Art Institute.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Italian Impressionist Venice Trompe L'Oeil Flower Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very well done and interesting vintage Italian impressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed 1956 Antique American School Modernist Abstract Indian Space Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive and large mid century abstract painting. Signed and dated illegibly lower right. Oil on canvas.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Mid Century Framed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist abstract painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a great period modernist silver leaf frame.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Nature Study Virginia Trees Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted abstract landscape by Nancy Weyl. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mosaic II
By Carl Holty
Located in Greenwich, CT
Appropriately called the "Mosaic" period for important historical artist Carl Holty, this is a super example! His color use during this time frame was lively as he always used sky b...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Southern Modernist Abstract Musical Oil Painting by Ethel Davis, Alabama 1940
Located in Baltimore, MD
Ethel Rosetta Davis was born in Hardin County, Tennessee in 1897. She studied art in Birmingham, Alabama. Davis married and located to Tuscumbia a...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Ashcan Street Impressionist Nocturnal Cityscape Burlington Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive and well painted street scene by Mildred Bunting Miller (1892 - 1964). Titled Burlington City. Housed in a great giltwood frame. Has the feel of a Hopper!! Oil ...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlem Renaissance Signed Ellis Original Abstract Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 22L x 30H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Landscape, Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting by Joe Jones
By Joe Jones
Located in Long Island City, NY
A simplified landscape oil painting by Joe Jones. This two-toned piece is nicely framed and signed.
Modern Landscape
Joe Jones, American (1909–1963)
Date: circa 1940
Oil on Canvas, ...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Finely Painted New York City Market Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Step back in time to the bustling streets of 1940s New York City, where artistry and urban vitality converged in a dazzling display of creativity. This exceptional original oil paint...
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rescue abstract figurative oil painting by Maurice Golubov
Located in Hudson, NY
Rescue (c.1945)
Oil on panel
14" x 17"
19 ½" x 22 ¼" x 1 ½" framed
Signed "M. Golubov" lower right, titled "Rescue" verso.
About this artist:
"If you can imagine a point moving, i...
Category
Abstract 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Exhibited Ashcan School Nocturnal New York City Brooklyn Bridge Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist nocturnal view of the Brooklyn Bridge. Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed.
Category
Modern 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstracted pair of oil paintings by Carl Holty
By Carl Holty
Located in Hudson, NY
These artworks by Carl Holty are only sold as a pair. Each painting measures 9" x 11" and framed 18" x 20.25" x 2.5"
The red and gold work is signed "Carl Holty" in the lower right.
About this artists: Carl Holty was awakened to his interest in art as a child through visits to the Layton Art Gallery of Milwaukee, and began painting lessons with Friedrich Wilhelm Heine at a young age. Though born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1900, he was raised in Wisconsin and enrolled at Marquette University. Before long, Holty abandoned his pre-medical studies in order to pursue art. He spent a summer at the School of the Chicago Art Institute in Saugatuck, Michigan, and set off for New York in 1920. He then studied at the National Academy of Design under Francis Coates Jones...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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