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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 Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
"The Opera Singer" Expressionist Oil Portrait on Panel by Maurice Saint-Lou
Located in Pasadena, CA
Expressionism, a revolutionary art movement of the early 20th century, aimed to elicit emotional responses, often exposing the harshest and most tumultuous aspects of the human condi...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Young Boy
Located in Pasadena, CA
The aesthetics of the human figure in art offer a captivating perspective for artists and enthusiasts, a delicate balance between simplicity and subtlety. In this oil painting, a you...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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 Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"Bearsville NY" Landscape Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene
Georgina Klitgaard (1893 - 1976)
Bearsville NY
26 1/4 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas
Singed lower right, t...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Located in New York, NY
"Parade" Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern American Scene WPA Regionalism
Gerrit Van Sinclair (1890 – 1955)
Parade
20 x 15 inches
Oil on board, c. 1940s
Signed lower right
Fram...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Men Working Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
Men Working: WPA Mural Study
17 ½ x 10 ½ inches
Oil on ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Egg Tempera
"Ocean Parkway Beach, October 2" Nathan Hoffman, Brooklyn, Impressionist
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman
Ocean Parkway Beach, October 2, 1941
Signed, titled, dated on the reverse
Oil on artists board
9 3/4 x 14 inches
Born in Russia, the son...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Central Park, Sherry Netherland Hotel, Plaza Hotel" Nathan Hoffman, New York
Located in New York, NY
Nathan Hoffman
Central Park, Sherry Netherland Hotel, and Plaza Hotel, 1970
Signed, dated, titled on the reverse
Oil on artists board
10 x 16 inches
B...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Lady Sewing in an Interior - Scottish 40s Pointilliste oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Scottish 1940's portrait oil painting is by noted artist Murray Urquhart. He has been described by one of his sons as obsessed with painting, to the exclusion of most oth...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Queen , 1947, by French Transgender Artist JM Poulain
Located in Paris, FR
By French famous Transgender artist, Michel Marie Poulain (Born Paris December 5, 1906. Died 1991) this rare oil on canvas it represents the Queen and he...
Category
Feminist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jean-René Chatelain, Carnation Vase, Oil on Canvas
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas dating from 1946 by Jean-René Chatelain. Beautiful canvas of a neo-realism soothed. Measurements : with frame: 81x72x7.5 cm - 31.9x28.3x3 inches, without frame: 68x58 c...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adolph Kronengold (1900-1986) - Alaska Landscape Oil on Board, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Adolph Kronengold was born in New Orleans in 1900. He studied locally at Tulane, before moving on to New York and Philadelphia. There he studied at the Art Students League and the P...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Alpine Landscape - 20th Century Impressionist Snowy Winter Canadian Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1940's impressionist oil on canvas laid on board depicting a snow covered Alpine Landscape by Canadian RA artist Adolphus George Broomfield.
This excellent quality and c...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Voilier - ship, 1948 - oil on canvas, 51x59 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil painting on panel representing a boat in the sea. Framed
André Petroff naquit à Saint-Petersbourg en 1894, il étudia avec Bilibine et Roerich. Par la...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
WPA "New Americana" Exceptional Antique 1941 WPA Exhibited Carnegie Painting
Located in Exton, PA
Monumental, important WPA painting by Percy Albee. The painting is oil canvass measuring 36" x 48". Titled verso "New Americana", this WPA painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Inst...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Don Quichotte
Located in Genève, GE
Oil on canvas
Category
Italian School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Makaula" the Seer - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with a Makaula or seer and a woman seeking to know her future by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her h...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art - The Dream & the Dreamers
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with three women in a mystical garden setting walking toward a plaque "The dream and the dreamer are one" by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 190...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Large vintage interior oil painting of a chair and vignette, French interior art
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large vintage interior oil painting of a vignette and chair by French artist Marie Berton-Maire, signed in the lower right and most likely in its original frame. This is a wonderfu...
Category
French School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Point Lobos Cove, Carmel California by Adelaide Bartleme
Located in Soquel, CA
Point Lobos Cove, Carmel California by Adelaide Bartleme
Point Lobos Cove circa 1940s by Carmel artist Adelaide Bartleme, (American, 1881-1973). The niece of a well known New York ar...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Garden's coffee by Paul Chevallier - oil on wood 45x64 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood sold with frame
Total size with frame 80x62 cm
Paul Chevallier is a French artist from the 19th to 20th century
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
1945 Provincetown Commercial Street Oil Painting - All original signed SWEETMAN
Located in Exton, PA
Impressionist oil panting on board showing Commercial Street in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The painting is oil on artist board measuring 16 x 20 inches. Contained within the origin...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Entombment of Christ
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Paris, France”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on board painting of a vintage Paris street scene. Signed by the artist lower left. Artist copyright verso. Condition is very good. Circa 1940. Overall framed measuremen...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Lady Arranging Flowers - British 1940's art oil painting
By Sir Gerald Festus Kelly
Located in London, GB
This superb British portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of Festus Kelly. Painted circa 1940 it is a half length portrait of an elegant lady in a light blue dress, pearls an...
Category
Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Port
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
59 x 50 x 5.5 cm
Category
French School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Four Generations, Landscape and Figures by Female American Realist Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Four Generations" is a 30 x 40 inches landscape with figures and animals, painted by female, American Realist painter, Molly Luce. The painting is signed Molly Luce in the lower lef...
Category
American Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Listed Female Vintage Impressionist Oil Painting Gloucester Sayward Street
Located in Buffalo, NY
Listed vintage oil painting of rolling waves in Gloucester, MA. This work was created by listed female artist Regina Gates.
Regina Martin Gates was born in 1896 in Watervliet, Alban...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Emile Albert Gruppe Important Fall Landscape 40x30
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (1896-1978)
Fall landscape
Oil on canvas laid to canvas
Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe
Canvas: 40" H x 30" W Inches
Framed: 48.25 x 38.25 Inches
Very large ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Oil Painting of Cheerful Yellow Roses by Nell Walker Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
1940's Original Oil Painting of Cheerful Yellow Roses by Nell Walker Warner
Antony Anderson, art critic of the Los Angeles Times, stated Nell Walker Shostrum Warner (American, 1891-...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
A Redheads Dream - Figurative Nude With Butterflies and Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
A Redheads Dream - Figurative Nude With Butterflies and Flowers
Original figurative nude painting of a redhead woman surrounded by butterflies and magenta flowers, by possibly an u...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Castellanas Mallorca Majorca oil painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Josep Castellanas Garrich (Barcelona, 1896 - Majorca, 1980)
Born in Barcelona in 1896, and in 1919 he moved to Mallorca following in the footsteps of Santiago Rusiñol, with whom he h...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'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 Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Emile Albert Gruppe 'Mass 1896-1978' “Covered Bridge” Snow Painting
Located in Dallas, TX
Another delightful large painting by the post impressionist master; Emile Albert Gruppe. The landscape take you down a snow covered road by a cool icy running stream through a New En...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Nursing Mother" Ink Sketch
Located in Austin, TX
By Gustav Likan
7" x 7" Ink on Paper
1944
Framed Size: 16" x 15.5"
This intimate piece depict a mother nursing her infant. This piece is part of Likan's portrayals of his wife Barb...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Ink, Archival Paper
Francisco Bores, Sans titre
Located in Madrid, ES
FRANCISCO BORES
Spanish, 1898 - 1972
SANS TITRE
signed and dated "Borès 42" (lower left)
oil on panel
13-3/4 x 10-5/8 inches (35 x 27 cm.)
framed: 19 x 15-3/4 inches (48 x 40 cm.)
B...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Napali - Landscape Painting - Oil On Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
A turquoise sea sets off this tropical landscape of earthy colors of ocher and olive green. Pastel peach flowers accent an otherwise subtle color palette.
'Napali' - Landscape Pain...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monte Savello, Roma
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
65 x 75.5 x 4 cm
Category
Italian School 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape. 1942, cardboard, oil, 50x69.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Landscape. 1942., cardboard, oil, 50x69.5 cm
Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V)
Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15).
He was called into the army in 1916 and ...
Category
Realist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
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 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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Leo B Blake New England Winter Stream Oil Painting
By Leo Blake
Located in Dallas, TX
Winter Stream, New England, Impressionist Leo B. Blake. This winter snow river and birch tree landscape scene is reminiscent of Gruppe’s Vermont or New Hampshire pieces. The white sn...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Lighthouse View Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist coastal view with a lighthouse. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Walk in Lavaux, Canton of Vaud
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman in profile oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Angulo Garcia (1905-1985) - Woman in profile - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Category
Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marcel Dyf “Place De la Concorde”
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Dallas, TX
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
“Place de La Concorde” , 1948
Signed Dyf and dated 1948 Paris (lr)
Oil on canvas
Canvas: 29 x 39.75 Inches (73.6 x 99 cm)
Framed: 35 x 45.25 Inches
...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Emile Albert Gruppe Grey Day Gloucester
Located in Dallas, TX
GRUPPE Emile Albert, (American, 1896-1978)
Title: “Gray Day, Gloucester”
Oil on Canvas
Painting: 20' x 24 Inches
Signed lower right: Emile A Gruppe
Framed: 24.5 x 28.75 Inches (N...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Emile Albert Gruppe Rockport Massachusetts Ex-Christies
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) Motif #1, Rockport, Massachusetts. A cold , rainy and gray morning or evening in Rockport gethhing the nets in order to start the day of fishing an...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Emile Albert Gruppe Birtches Along The Road
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe Birches Along The Road
Signed:. l.r. Emile A. Gruppe; also signed and titled on stretcher
Oil On Canvas
Dimensions: 30 by 25 inches
Framed 34.5 by 29.5 inches
An...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Paint
Blue Lake
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s.
Blue Lake, c. 1940s, oil on masonite, signed lower right, 20 x 36 inches, label and inscriptio...
Category
American Modern 1940s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Stockholm Archipelago Landscape 1940 Oil Painting Renowned Impressionist Artist
Located in Stockholm, SE
Signed lower right “Iv. Constantin Svartlöga 1940” for Ivan Constantin Sannesjö Johansson, also known as Iwan Constantin, (1887 - 1946) - was a Swedish painter and graphic artist. Sp...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Cardboard
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Vibrant Taos New Mexico Desert Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully vibrant Taos, New Mexico landscape painting by unknown artist , Circa 1940. Unsigned. Unframed. Image size: 6"H x 8"W.
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Gouache
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 Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
'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 Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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