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Style: American Modern
A Little Nippy, Framed Oil Painting with Horses, New Mexico Female Artist
By Ila Mae McAfee
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on canvas board painting by Ila Mae McAfee (1987-1995) titled "A Little Nippy" portraying four horses in different color tones. Signed by the artist in the lower left corner and titled verso. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 33 ½ x 27 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches. Image size is 27 ⅞ x 21 ¾ inches.
Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
Provenance: Private Collection, Denver, Colorado
Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist:
As a girl growing up in a ranching community near Gunnison, Colorado, Ila McAfee loved to ride horses
and to make sketches. Riding ten-miles round trip to school and back, she developed empathy for these
magnificent animals, which remained with her and served as the basis for her life in art. Gathering any
scraps of paper that she could find, she drew their forms, and her first full image of a horse was in the
family Bible. As an adult, she declared, “I just imagine them as if their being existed in a mythological
realm.”
McAfee went to Los Angeles and studied at the West Lake School...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Green Boat
Located in Burlingame, CA
Mid century modern masterwork, 'The Green Boat', by celebrated American woman artist, Elaine Badgley Arnoux. Painted in 1958 in the artists's unique style, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town), 1940s WPA Era Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) titled Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape wi...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Drama Teacher" 1938 WPA Mid 20th Century American Theatre Surrealism Modernism
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Drama Teacher" 1938 WPA Mid 20th Century American Theatre Surrealism Modernism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on Canvas. Signed land dated ’38 lower left.
The photograph in the listing depicts the artist's friend who taught drama and about whom the painting is based
Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School.
In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
Category
1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Primus Mixed Media on Panel
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Primus
Artist signed, acrylic and collage on panel, 1993
28x27 with the frame 38x38
Patrick Archer (b. 1926). Archer studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (MFA). 2002
Philip Hulitar Award, Society of 4-Arts, Palm Beach, FL (A national Contemporary Painting competition)
Graduate- Arts & Crafts in Oakland, CA
Undergraduate- Principia in Elsah, IL
Exhibitions:
2002 Merrill Lynch...
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1990s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Panel
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
The size of the canvas 28 3/4 x 43 1/4 inches. The painting comes directly from the artist's estate. It is signed lower right as well as signed, titled and dated verso.
We have available more than two dozen paintings and works on paper from the 1930s - 80s that come directly from the Loew estate.
BIO
Michael Loew (1907 – 1985) was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker, and from 1926-1929, he studied at the Art Students League. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany, and Italy with a group of artists. When he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly, and for the next two years he paid his apartment rent with his paintings. In 1935, he found work with the WPA where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World’s Fair. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. In the mid-30’s he painted in Mexico and the Yucatán documenting the construction of a U.S. Naval airbase on Tinian Island. It was from this airbase that the Enola...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1927 Oil Painting Eiffel Tower Paris American Modernist Wpa Artist Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
Morris Kantor New York (1896 - 1974)
Paris from the Ile St. Louis, 1927 (view of Eiffel Tower)
Oil painting on canvas
Hand Signed lower left.
Provenance: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ( bears label verso)
Size: 20 3/4"H x 28 1/8"W (sight), 28.75 "H x 36"W (framed)
Morris Kantor (Belarusian: Морыс Кантор) (1896-1974) was a Russian Empire-born American painter based in the New York City area.
Born in Minsk on April 15, 1896, Kantor was brought to the United States in 1906 at age 10, in order to join his father who had previously relocated to the states. He made his home in West Nyack, New York for much of his life, and died there in 1974. He produced a prolific and diverse body of work, much of it in the form of paintings, which is distinguished by its stylistic variety over his long career. Perhaps his most widely recognized work is the iconic painting "Baseball At Night", which depicts an early night baseball game played under artificial electric light. Although he is best known for his paintings executed in a realistic manner, over the course of his life he also spent time working in styles such as Cubism and Futurism, and produced a number of abstract or non-figural works. A famous cubist, Futurist, painting of his "Orchestra" brought over 500,000$ at Christie's auction house in 2018
Kantor found employment in the Garment District upon his arrival in New York City, and was not able to begin formal art studies until 1916, when he began courses at the now-defunct Independent School of Art. He studied landscape painting with Homer Boss (1882-1956). In 1928, after returning to New York City from a year in Paris, Kantor developed a style in which he combined Realism with Fantasy, often taking the streets of New York as his subject matter. He did some moody Surrealist Nude paintings and fantasy scenes. In the 1940's he turned towards figural studies. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper Union and also at the Art Students League of New York in the 1940s, and taught many pupils who later became famous artists in their own right, such as Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles and Susan Weil...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers 1932
Located in New York, NY
Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers. Dated and signed "32 Harry Gottlieb" lower right. Sight: 13 1/8" H x 18 1/4" W.
Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, educator, and lithographer, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. He emigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis. From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. After a short stint as an illustrator for the U.S. Navy, Gottlieb moved to New York City; he became a scenic and costume designer for Eugene O"Neill's Provincetown Theater Group. He also studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design.
He was one of America's first Social Realist painters, influenced by that Robert Henri-led movement in New York City where Gottlieb settled in 1918. He was also a pioneer in screen printing, which he learned while working for the WPA. He married Eugenie Gershoy, and the couple joined the artist colony at Woodstock, New York. He lectured widely on art education.
In 1923, Gottlieb settled in Woodstock, New York and in 1931, spent a a year abroad studying under a Guggenheim Fellowship.
In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
What a Life
Located in Los Angeles, CA
What a Life, c. 1930, mixed media on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed lower left; titled on label; exhibited at The San Francisco Art Association Fifty-Second Annual Exhibition at the P...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Midwestern Chicago artist Aaron Bohrod painted in 1931 this modernist industrial cityscape during the WPA of the 20th Century.
Aaron Bohrod (American 1907 – 1992), Industrial Citysc...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Queen of the Night, narrative, partial nude figure, red colors, ethnic fabrics
Located in Brooklyn, NY
ABOUT the artist:
Audrey Frank Anastasi is a prolific feminist artist, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist, educator and arts advocate. Most of Ms. Anastasi's figurative works are painted with her non-dominant left hand. She has created large bodies of works of birds, animals and birch trees.
She has had 20 solo & 200 group shows. Her "ref-u-gee" series will be shown in 2020 at Medgar Evers College in collaboration with the Valentine Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Accompanying the show will be a limited-edition monograph w/ over 180 images and a foreword by Phyllis Braff. Ms. Anastasi's collage series was exhibited at Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn, in May, 2019. In 2018, ten paintings were exhibited in "Painting to Survive," curated by Yale critic Jonathan Weinberg.
Book and catalog publications include "Stations of the Cross", SPQR press, BREUCKELEN magazine, “Audrey Frank Anastasi”, catalog essay Cindy Nemser, and "Collage," essay by Giancarlo T. Roma.
Public art includes a portrait of Jo Davidson...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seymour Remenick Figurative Oil Painting "Folk Singers"
Located in Surfside, FL
Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) American; Philadelphia, PA. Oil on canvas painting Folk Singers and musicians.Seymour Remenick (1923-1999), was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised in ...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meditation
By Karl Gasser
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Meditation" c.2000 is an oil painting on canvas by Italian/American artist Karl Gasser, 1948-2017. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The size...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Two Women, Exterior Figurative Painting, Framed Watercolor Painting
By Lloyd Moylan
Located in Denver, CO
Modernist watercolor on paper painting by Lloyd Mylan of two women sitting amongst an exterior landscape. Painted in colors of pink, orange, blue, and green. Presented in a custom gold frame, outer dimensions measure 24 ¾ x 30 ⅜ x 1 ¾ inches. Image sight size is 13 ⅝ x 19 ½ inches.
Painting is clean and in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report.
Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote.
About the Artist:
Lloyd Moylan studied at the Minneapolis Art Institute, the Art Students League in New York, and the Broadmore Academy in Colorado Springs. Moylan later became the Curator of the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. During his lifetime, Moylan made numerous trips to Arizona and New Mexico where he sketched and painted the Hispanic and Indian population. He specialized in Southwest Indian...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Shattered" WPA Mid 20th Century Modernism American Scene Surrealism Figurative
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Shattered" WPA Mid 20th Century Modernism American Scene Surrealism Figurative
Estate stamp on the stretcher, verso. Provenance: Estate of the artist. 20 x 24 inches.
BIO
Leon Bibel continued painting through 1941 and resumed work in both painting and especially wood sculpture by 1960. He worked until his very last day in 1995. His last series of large wood sculptures were modeled on spice boxes, which were miniature buildings...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nude by the Mirror" Mid-Century Modern Expressionist and Cubist Figure
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
Byron Browne (1907 - 1961)
Nude by a Mirror, 1958
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20
Born in Yonkers,...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Horse Traners
Located in Los Angeles, CA
UMBERTO ROMANO
"HORSE TRAINERS"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1952
23.74 X 35.75 INCHES
Born: 1905 - Naples, Italy
Died: 1984 - New York C...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1950s "At the Table" Mid Century Figurative Gouache & Oil Pastel
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"At the Table"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
24"x18" unframed
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper, Gouache
City Park, Denver, Colorado, Large Semi Abstract Colorful Oil Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Large format oil painting on canvas of City Park in Denver, Colorado by 20th century Denver modernist, Edward Marecak. Semi-abstract park scene with various types of trees, figures, ...
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20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
Located in New York, NY
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
TILL THE COULDS ROLL BY (Film Set), oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches signed “Richard Whorf” lower right and signed and dated on the verso “R. Whorf/ Dec. 21, 1945. Frame by Hendenryk.
ABOUT THE PAINTING
This painting is from the collection of Barbara and Frank Sinatra, dated December 21, 1945 (just nine days after Frank Sinatra’s 30th birthday), and depicts the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Culver City backlot during the filming of Till the Clouds Roll By, the direction of the film having been taking over by Richard Whorf in December 1945. It is not presently clear if Whorf gave the Sinatras this painting as a gift, as the presence of the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries label on the verso indicates the painting may have been sourced there. Frank and Nancy Sinatra acquired a number of works from Dalzell Hatfield Galleries during the 1940’s, or perhaps they framed it for the couple.
Sinatra performed “Old Man River’ in the film. Sinatra and June Allyson are depicted in the center of the painting.
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
An image of the Dalzell Hatfield label and the back of the original frame (which we replaced with a stunning Heydenrk frame) are attached.
Nancy Sinatra was Fran's first wife. Nancy Rose Barbato was 17 years old when she met Frank Sinatra, an 18-year-old singer from Hoboken, on the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1934. They married in 1939 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City where Frank gave Nancy a recording of a song dedicated to her titled "Our Love" as a wedding present. The young newlyweds lived and worked in New Jersey, where Frank worked as an unknown singing waiter and master of ceremonies at the Rustic Cabin while Nancy worked as a secretary at the American Type Founders.
His musical career took off after singing with big band leaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Doctor's Office', WPA, San Francisco, Chouinard, SFMA, Oakland Museum, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Justin Murray' (American, 1912-1987), titled, verso, 'The Doctor's Office' and painted circa 1945.
Framed dimensions: 9¼ x 1½ x 21 inches.
Born in Minneapolis, ...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Orange Nude Lounging" Mid Century Figurative Painting Pratt Graphic Arts
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Orange Nude Lounging"
c.1950s
Oil pastel and gouache paint on paper
23" x 20" framed black gallery wood frame float mount
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2008) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper, Gouache
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
"New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 upper left. The colors of the painting are extraordinarily vibrant. The white gold frame, signed Richard Tobey...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1950s "Figure in Shadow" Figurative Gouache Painting America Modernist
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Figure in Shadow"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Donald Stacy (1925-2011) New Jersey
Studied: Newark School of Fine Art
The Art Students League
Pratt Graphic Arts Center
University of Paris 1953-54
University of Aix-en-Provence 1954-55
Faculty: Art Department of the New School
Museum of Modern Art
School of Visual Arts
Stacy Studio Workshop
Exhibitions: Grand Central Moderns
George Wittenborn
The New School
Print Exhibitions, Chicago
University of Oklahoma
Honolulu Museum
Monclair Museum
Wisconsin State College
Louisiana Art...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Riders Through the Canyon, Mid-Century Western Landscape
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Riders Through the Canyon, c. 1941
Oil on board
Signed lower right
24 x 32.25 inches
"Also, on this second trip the significant colors of the Southwest became apparent - the prep...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting.
Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
By Leon Bibel
Located in New York, NY
"Audience" Mid 20th Century American Figurative Theatre Performance Contemporary
Leon Bibel (1912 - 1995) "The Audience," 52 ½ x 41 ¼ inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1963. Signed lower right. Framed.
BIO
Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School.
In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Eve" American Modern MidCentury Figurative Gouache & Oil Pastel
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Eve"
c.1950s
Gouache and oil pastel on paper
14x17" black wood frame 14.75"x17.75"
Unsigned, Eve written in paint along right margin
Came from artist's estate
Donald S...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Oil Pastel
Native American Figures at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico Southwestern Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Original 20th century oil painting by Wolfgang Pogzeba (1936-1982) with Native American figures standing in bright blankets with adobe buildings in th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1950s "Nude in Park" Mid Century Figurative Painting MOMA Artist
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Nude in Park"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18'" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
Introducing a stunning black and white p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Budding Artist urban narrative muted blue colors subway scene
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on linen mounted on board signed and dated on reverse.
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil, Linen
Modernist Reclining Female Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Modernist reclining female nude figurative painting by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). This vivid late 20th-century figural piece featur...
Category
20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Masonite
Halleluja, A story
Located in Greenwich, CT
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1960s "Hanging on a Bar" Gouache and Pastel Mid Century Female Nude Painting
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Hanging on a Bar
1960's
Gouache and Oil Pastel on Paper
17.75"x17"
Gloria (Fischer) Dudfield
July 12, 1922 – May 27, 2015
Came from a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper, Gouache
1950s "Sleeping with Fruit" Mid Century Figurative Painting University of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Sleeping with Fruit"
c.1950s
Gouache paint on paper
24" x 18'" unframed
Unsigned
Came from artist's estate
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expec...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Gold Coast, Mid-Century Pastel Pink & Green Painting of Ovoid, Miami
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
The Gold Coast, 1979
Collage and acrylic on scintilla
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 30 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a...
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
1950s "Black Floor" Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Movement Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Black Floor
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18" Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann.
San Francisco Abstract Expression
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency.
Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Chimeras, mid-century figural abstract blue acrylic painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Chimeras, 1974
Acrylic and pastel on textured paper
Mid-century figural abstract blue acrylic painting
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that w...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic
Air Chamber, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Collage, Anatomy & Ovoids
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Air Chamber, 1965
Collage, graphite and gouache on paper
Signed and dated upper left
30 x 22 inches
Provenance: Descended through the family.
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Dichotomy, mid-century figural abstract green oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Dichotomy, 1962
Oil on paper
Signed and dated upper left
20 x 25 inches
Mid-century figural abstract green painting of woman swimming ...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pink Triangle" "Pink Triangle" 1950s Bay Area Figurative Movement Female Artist
Located in Arp, TX
Frann Spencer Reynolds (1926-2008)
"Pink Triangle"
c 1950s
Oil on canvas
24"x32" float mount white distressed wood frame 26"x34.25"
Signed on reverse
Go...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950s "Slit" Mid Century Painting Bay Area Artist
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper
Slit
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18", Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Golfer Swinging, Vintage 7 Up Ad "Get Real Action" in Green and Yellow - Golf
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
This strobe-like dynamic composition with bright and bold colors reflects the energetic taste of the 7 Up brand. It lies somewhere between abstraction and figuration. Peaks' use of b...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Early 20th Century Vibrant Modernist Painting, Still Life, Crane Fountain
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Sommer (American, 1867-1949)
The Crane Fountain, ca. 1914-15
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
26 x 20 inches
32 1/2 x 26 1/4 inches, as framed
William So...
Category
1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"NYC Subway" American Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Realism Cityscape Transit
Located in New York, NY
"NYC Subway" American Modernism Scene WPA Mid-Century Realism Cityscape Transit. 26 x 28 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1940s. Signed lower left. Hand carved frame.
Max Arthur Cohn (1903 – 1988) Born in London, England, Cohn became an artist primarily known for scenes of New York City, rural views, and abstract figural compositions. His style has ranged from realism in the 1920s to 1940s to abstraction from the 1950s to 1990s, with some reintroduction in the later years of realism and re-working of earlier subject matter. His primary studio...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Entertainment, 20th century American family scene watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
The Entertainment, c. 1955
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
20 x 30 inches
Exhibited: 1955 May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art
"The first district schools were log houses...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Pair of Modern Impressionist Landscape Oil Paintings Framed Female artist NY
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Pair of Modernist Landscapes by listed female artist Margaret Munro Stratton McLennan.
Margaret was a painter working in the early 20th Century in the Syracuse area. These charmi...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Original Antique American Landscape Fishing Delaware River Oil Painting Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
A lovely scene adeptly painted by listed American artist and illustrator Jan Nosek (1876 - 1966) who was active in the late 19th and early 20th Century. This scene created in the ea...
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1910s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
1950s "Shapes with Figure" Mid Century Cubist Nude Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper
Shapes with Figure
c. 1950's
Gouache on paper
15" x 18", Unframed
From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann.
San Francisco Abstract Expression
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency.
Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Illustrated Man
By Paton Miller
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A mixed media painting showing a seated man with tattoos. In “Illustrated Man” we see a single figure, covered in tattoos; portraits, designs, and patterns coat the man's skin from torso to fingertips. His face remains pure, unscathed from any ink marks; clear-headed and gazing forward. Behind him, Miller presents an obscure tapestry of civilization, an empire of sandy structures under a lapis lazuli night sky. Winding roads lead to city walls, while shadows and foundation-lines melt into creatures; a toothy alligator appears out of a stone façade...
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2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel, Pins
Geese
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Gregory Sumida. “Geese” is a landscape painting, watercolor on paper in an earth-tone palette by American artist Gregory Sumida. The artwork is signed in the lower left...
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Late 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Edgar Yeager Figurative Interior Scene
By Edgar Yaeger
Located in Detroit, MI
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Yaeger was an American Modernist painter from Detroit, Michigan, who is credited with being one of the first painters in this style. The portrait “Untitled” easil...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modern Dance Female Dancer in Red Dress Jazz - oil paint on board circa 1950s
By Raimondo Puccinelli
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Signed lower right
Raimondo (Raymond) Puccinelli (American, 1904-1986).
Puccinelli began art training at age 15 at the California School of Fine Art (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and the Schaeffer School of Design. While in Italy in 1927, he studied ancient Italian sculpture (Romanesque, Gothic, and late Renaissance) which affected his future work. After a year of studying in France and Italy with various craftsmen, he returned to San Francisco to assist in the studio of J. Vieira and study under Benny Bufano...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Mid Century "Driver with Hard Hat" Gouache and Oil Pastel Figurative 1960s SF
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield
Driver with Hard Hat
1960s
Gouache and Oil Pastel on Paper
27"x36" unframed $700
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expec...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Paper, Gouache
Torso No. 5, Mid-Century Figural Abstract Acrylic Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Torso No. 5, 1967
Acrylic on paper
Signed and dated upper right
25 x 20 inches
A mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clarence Hol...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Black Dog, 1960s Framed Modernist Oil Painting, Pet Portrait, Black White
Located in Denver, CO
Black Dog, vintage 1961 original modernist painting of a dog in black, gray and white by Colorado Springs Broadmoor Academy artist, Charles Bunnell (1897-1968. Painted in oil on canvas paper, signed and dated by the artist lower right. Presented in a contemporary custom wood frame with all archival materials, outer dimensions measure 24 ½ x 28 ¼ x 1 ¾ inches. Image size is 20 x 16 inches.
Provenance: Estate of Charles Ragland Bunnell
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About the Artist:
Charles Bunnell developed a love for art as a child in Kansas City, Missouri. Around 1915, Bunnell moved with his family to Colorado Springs, Colorado.
He served in World War I and later used his GI Training to study at the Broadmoor Art Academy (later renamed the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) during 1922 and 1923. In 1922, he married fellow student, Laura Palmer...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
flowers from evergood, bright figure domestic setting predominantly red painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on wood by Stephen Basso
Narrative work, woman in chair in interior setting
Category
2010s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Medieval Heads, mid-century figural surrealist acrylic painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Cicada, c. 1960s
Watercolor on scintilla
30 x 20 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that wa...
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1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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