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Period: 1940s
Sitting by the Lake, Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil figurative landscape of two people sitting on a dock by a lake near Medina, Ohio by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Unsigned, but was purchased with a collection of ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting
By Marguerite Rousseau
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Marguerite Rousseau was born in 1888 in Belgium died in 1948.
She is known for her French Impressionist style in her earlier work, she was painting parks, beaches, the woman with an...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depicted in his comedian's costume which he wears while staring in Jea...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon
Located in Soquel, CA
Surrealist Nocturnal Hawaiian Figurative Landscape w. Blue Skirted Woman & Moon by Marguerite Louis Blasingame
Striking mid century modern Hawaiian noct...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
The Steeple Chase figurative
By Benton Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
A vintage, dramatic scene of the rigorous sport of steeplechasing by artist Benton Henderson Clark (American, 1895-1964). Signed and dated lower right "Benton Clark 1945." Presented ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Impressionist European Mother and Children Figurative Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3086 oil on canvas set in a vintage gilt wood frame
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Self Portrait with Orchids', National Association of Women Artists, AWS
By Leonebel Jacobs
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An enigmatic and psychologically penetrating self-portrait in vivid shades of yellow, green and red.
Signed lower right, 'Leonebel Jacobs' (American, 1883-1967) and painted circa 1945.
Writer, sculptor, teacher and portrait painter Leonebel Jacobs first studied under Brush and Charles Hawthorne at the University of Oregon. A well traveled artist, Jacobs lived and painted in China, Hawaii, New York City and Los Angeles. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Arts, the Municipal Art Commission of New York, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Watercolor Club and the Pen & Brush Club.
Jacobs spent her early years in the Foreign Colony in Peking, China as a portrait artist to nobles and visiting foreigners, including Rabindranath Tagore. Notably, Jacobs painted several portraits of the Emperor and Empress after they fled to Tianjin when Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang came to power. Additionally, Jacobs's paintings include Hawaiian notables, former First Ladies Grace Coolidge...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Foam Board
Environs of Rome
Located in Miami, FL
Klett was an in-demand illustrator in the post-war period of the late 1940's and 1950's. and . His work appeared in many of the newsstand magazines at the time.
This work is a pers...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Cubist Crucifixion Scene with Bright Yellow
Located in Houston, TX
Deep tonal cubist style painting of the Crucifixion of Christ. Like traditional Crucifixion imagery, there are two figures on either side ...
Category
Analytic Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sainted Sister
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1940
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1940s Southwestern Figurative Landscape -- Pueblo Village New Mexico
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1940s New Mexico village scene with small figures going about daily life among adobe buildings that are iconic of the Southwest, by William “Will” Frates (American, 1896-1969). Signed "Will FRATES" in the lower right corner. Titled "New Mexico Village" and Will Frates" on verso in pencil. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 29.5"W.
William Frates...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard, Masonite
"The Fantastic Armada, " Story Illustration, Ladies Home Journal
By Rico Tomaso
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 26.00" x 19.50;" Framed 61.60" x 26.00"
"The Fantastic Armada" by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Rico Tomaso for Ladies Home Journal...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Landscape
Located in Pasadena, CA
Impressionist Painting representing a lively scene of a character in a rural landscape in France
The painting is framed
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Racehorses Turning For Home' circa 1940s Oil on Canvas
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic o/c 'pastel colours' horse-racing c1930s scene
depicting four jockeys turning for home!
Art Sz: 11 1/4"H x 8 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 12"W
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Oil
How Sure Can You Be? McCall's Magazine Illustration of Loving Couple
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Sharpe Ross - or Alex Ross. This work is a perfect artistic statement with every formal element in perfect harmony. It's a masterf...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A bunch of flowers in a vase, 1942, oil on canvas
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
A bunch of flowers in a vase
Signed upper left, numbered and dated 1942 on the back
Oil on canvas
35 x 27 cm
In good c...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fuel Oil Delivery
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Afternoon Swim, Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By H. Milton Snyder
Located in Soquel, CA
Afternoon swim, a lovely mid century figurative landscape, by California artist, Henry Milton Snyder (American, 1915-1966). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "H. Milton Snyder" l...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grandmom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Grandmom with grandson and dog
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soldiers Attacking Woman and Farm Animals
By Robert Douglas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1949
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: 18.50" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Christmas Manger Set - A Product Illustration
By George Hinke
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
This piece was produced as the cover art for the box containing a die-cut color lithograph manger set...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Defense on the Sea Begins on the Shore
By Ralph Iligan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"Defense on the sea begins on the shore." Study for a World War II propaganda poster for the "Industr...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Laurel & Hardy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Signature: Unsigned
This Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy illustration was used as a traveling show sign.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood, Panel, Wood Panel
'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not', Girl in a Gingham Dress, 1940's, Folk Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively painted portrait of the artist's daughter, Nancy, aged two and a half, shown wearing a floral-striped, jade green gingham dress.
Signed lower right, 'Martha Tracy Frey' (American, 1915-2010) and painted 1944; additionally inscribed verso 'Picture of Nancy Jane Frey from life-sized photograph when about 2 1/2. Painted by her mother in 1944.' This Kern County...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fetishes, 1940s Abstract Figurative Southwestern Mixed Media Painting, Red Gray
Located in Denver, CO
An original gouache and wax painting by New Mexico modernist, Howard Schleeter (1903-1976) signed and dated lower right from November 18, 1949. Presented in a custom frame created b...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Gouache, Archival Paper
Couple at Museum
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Pirates with Treasure
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine", 1948
Located in Miami, FL
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration
How friendship and love were depicted in post-war America. There was a sense of innoc...
Category
Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Parade Mexicaine by JEAN DUFY - Modern, Animals, Colourful, Fauve, Gouache
By Jean Dufy
Located in London, GB
Parade Mexicaine by Jean Dufy (1888-1964)
Gouache on Ingres paper
45.1 x 55.6 cm (17³/₄ x 21⁷/₈ inches)
Signed Jean Dufy lower centre
Executed circa 1948-1950
Provenance
Galerie Käte Perls, Paris/New York (titled Cirques)
Christie’s New York, 26th February 1990 (titled Le Cirque)
Private collection, Germany
Literature
Jacques Bailly, Jean Dufy Catalogue Raisonné de l’OEuvre, vol.1, Paris 2002, no J.473, p. 261 (illustrated)
Born into a large family in the busy port-city of La Havre in northern France, Jean Dufy was the younger brother of the Fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. In order to please his accountant father, Jean was...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
A Real Happy New Year, Amoco Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Monogram Lower Left
Sight Size 20.00" x 45.00", Framed 26.00" x 51.00"
This piece was used for at least two separate Amoco advertisements. "A Real Happy New...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"There is No Love, " Saturday Evening Post Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
The oil on canvas illustration is bearing a Saturday Evening Post label verso, used to illustrate the short story There Is No Love, in the October 18th, 1941 i...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Giving Thanks for Arriving in America
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life - Oil on Board by G. Canali - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian painter Giuseppe Canali (Pseudonym Enrico Alià) in 1940.
Original oil on board.
Signed and dated on the lower right...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cover illustration for "The Future Mr. Dolan"
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"The ragged edges of Manhattan. . . the rowdy brothels, the dirty hallways, the seething streets of Yorkville -- this was where Mattie Dolan...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Three Angels - Mid Century Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic Hawaiian nocturnal figurative of whispy angel figures with mountains and bridge by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
“The Green Necklace”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas original painting by The Russian/ American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower left and dated 1943. Condition is very good. Framed in custom contemporary gold le...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a Seated Nude Woman" American Impressionist Painting Oil on Panel
Located in New York, NY
A rare and breath taking work, with masterful bursh work and sublime execution of light. We are drawn to the subtle beauty and elegant pose. The tasteful compostion lends an intimate scene into the artists studio where Philip has captured her effortlessly. This piece comes displayed in a wonderful frame and hanging wire on verso.
Art measures 24 x 20 inches
Frame measures 30 x 26 inches
Robert Philipp was born on February 2, 1895 in New York City. He was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Moses Solomon Philipp showed early talent and grew up in a family atmosphere that fed and cultivated his creativity. At age of 15, he entered the Art Students League for four years and then continued his training at the National Academy of Design. His teachers at the League included George Bridgeman and Frank DuMond, and at the National Academy he studied with Douglas Volk...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Figurative Landscape Horse Drawn Sleigh Ride
By J.A. Waine
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3288 Oil on board set in a gilt wood frame
Image size 19.5x15.5"
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Family of Ducks, Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: Family of Ducks
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Frame Size: 16.5 x 19.5 inches
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Kumulipo, Source of Life - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with figure eminating life force by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gondola In Venice, 1947
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine
Excellent Condition
This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Outside a Deli
By Jack Levine
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jack Levine
American, 1915-2010
The Deli
Oil on board
28 ¼ by 34 in. W/frame 36 ¼ by 42 in.
Signed Lower Right
Born and raised in the south end of Boston, Jack Levine created soc...
Category
Ashcan School 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940 American Modernist Nocturnal Framed Painting Haunted House
Located in Buffalo, NY
A whimsical modernist painting depicting an old home on a dark and stormy night. Unsigned but with an important look and feel created by a talented hand.
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Amphora with Flowers - Original Oil on Canvas by R. Melli - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
A very minimalist and elegant still life from a Master of the so called "Scuola Romana".
It includes a beautiful gilded contemporary wooden frame.
Exhibitions: Roberto Melli...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liliac Nude - Original Tempera on Paper by Maurice Rouzée - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Lilac Nude is an original artwork realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Tempera on paper. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower left margin. Good conditions, except for some smal...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Runner - Original Tempera on Paper by Maurice Rouzée - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The Runner is an original artwork realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Signed by the artist on the upper left margin. Good conditions, except for a sma...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Blue Book Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Contact for exact dimensions.
Blue Book Magazine Cover, November 1947
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Paris, Hotel des Saint Pères - Oil on Masonite by F. De Pisis - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on Masotine realized by the Artist in 1948.
Image dimensions: 65x38 cm.
Artist paints the Hotel where he used to live in Paris during those years.
Note, title, date and ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Woman in Blue Two-Piece Bathing Suit Laying on Beach with Man in Bathing Su
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Torre Annunziata, Italy - Mid Century Marine Seascape with Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous watercolor depiction of the Liberty Class Dry Cargo Ship "Charles Scribner" docked in Torre Annunziata, Italy, with a portrait of a man in pencil in the upper left corner, by Giovanni Gallo...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Look at It! Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Center: Al Moore
The Saturday Evening Post cover, October 10, 1942
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
" D'apres Delacroix" Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"D'apres Delacroix" Impressionist Portrait, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed and dated '47 by the artist on the lower left hand corner
Oil pai...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Interior of Synagogue with Rabbi', Polish Orthodox Judaica
By Mieczyslaw Watorski
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'M. Watorski' for Mieczyslaw Watorski (Polish, 1903 - 1979) and painted circa 1950.
This Polish history and landscape painter is particularly revered for his doc...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Wallpaper Blouse, Saturday Evevning Post Cover, October 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post magazine cover, October 25, 1941
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Mid Century Surrealist Nocturnal Tide Hawaiian Islands God Symbolism Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Surrealist Nocturnal Tide Hawaiian Islands God Symbolism Landscape
Symbolic nocturnal landscape with tide God in foam of wave, in a dream-like surreal landscape, by Margu...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Saratoga Trunk
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
