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The Antique Store
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original charming 1940's modernist painting depicting an antique store in the countryside. This
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1940s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Oil Painting "Brooklyn" 1940's
Located in Rochester, NY
Mid-Century Modern oil painting, 1940s cityscape, "Bedford at Lafayette, Brooklyn". Oil on masonite
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Oil Painting "Brooklyn" 1940's
Oil Painting "Brooklyn" 1940's
H 25.5 in W 33.5 in D 2 in
Modernist Style Painting by American Artist Raymond O'Neill, 1930's-1940's
Located in San Francisco, CA
Art Deco / Modernist style painting titled "Figures in Meditation" by American artist Raymond
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paint

Oil Painting "Brooklyn" 1940's
Located in Rochester, NY
Mid-Century Modern oil painting, 1940s cityscape, "Bedford at Lafayette, Brooklyn". Oil on masonite
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paint

Oil Painting "Brooklyn" 1940's
Oil Painting "Brooklyn" 1940's
H 25.5 in W 33.5 in D 2 in
1940's French Modernist Figure in Interior Setting, Intriguing Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, unframed. Size: canvas: 24 x 19.75 inches Provenance
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's. image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

1940's French Signed Modernist Oil Painting Nude Figure in Room Interior
By Maurice Delavier
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude in Interior by Maurice Delavier (French mid 20th century) signed and dated 1944 oil on board, unframed board: 18.5 x 14.5 inches inscribed verso provenance: private collection, ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

1940's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Tenement Market
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
The Market, (fauvist painting of NYC scene) 1940's. image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Birth, 1940s Modernist Surrealist Abstract Figural Watercolor Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Birth, semi-abstract, modernist, somewhat surrealist, vintage 1943 painting of a female figure
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1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

1940's American WPA Modernist New York Watercolor Painting 59th st Central Park
By Samuel Grunvald
Located in Surfside, FL
Horse and Buggy 59th st. Manhattan (fauvist painting of NYC outside central park) 1940's. image is
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20th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Landscape Painting
By Frederick Shane
Located in Denver, CO
Bookstore, Victor, Colorado (1942). Some of his most notable paintings of the 1940s depict Colorado
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Rabbi in Jerusalem
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in Surfside, FL
allegorical paintings as well as portraits of Marianne Moore, his father and William Carlos Williams. Romano
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1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Gunnison, Colorado 1940s Modernist Mountain Landscape Painting, Green, Blue, Red
Located in Denver, CO
1940s modernist mountain landscape painting, near Gunnison, Colorado with a white farmhouse and out
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Board, Oil

Stephen Etnier Modernist Painting of a Harpswell, Maine Seascape, Circa 1940s
Located in Peabody, MA
Harpswell, Maine were he built his home and studio in the 1940s and lived until his death. Etnier was a
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paint

Large Modernist Oil Painting 1940s, Judaica Hasidic Shtetl Wagon Driver WPA Era
By Emanuel Glicenstein Romano
Located in Surfside, FL
Florida Holocaust Museum collection. His notable works include his holocaust themed allegorical paintings
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Boris Koblikoff Abstract Gouache Painting 1940's, La Galerie 18 Paris
Located in Rochester, NY
Abstract modernist gouache painting on paper by Boris Koblikoff ( Russian, mid 20th century Paris
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Paint, Paper

Adobe Church, New Mexico, 1940s Modernist Southwestern Landscape Oil Painting
By Paul Kauvar Smith
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage 1930s - 1940s oil painting of an adobe church in New Mexico with a brilliant blue sky and
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Oil Painting the Shop Window NYC 1940s WPA era
By Maurice Becker
Located in Surfside, FL
the Shop Window New York City, 1940s 17.75X25 sight size. Maurice Becker (1889–1975) was a
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Early 20th Century Ashcan School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

1940s Oil Painting Portrait of Two Figures, American Modernist Figurative
By Angelo Di Benedetto
Located in Denver, CO
. Image measures 28 x 38 inches, framed dimensions are 33 ¾ x 39 ¾ inches. Painting is in good condition
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1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Brass Frame for Painting, Drawing or Mirror, 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This French frame in polished brass dates from the 1940s. It will be perfect to include a painting
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Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Metal, Brass

Basic Form Problem (Red-Yellow-Blue). 1940s Modernist Geometric Oil Painting
By Ralph Anderson
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on paper geometric painting in purple, red, and blue by 20th century artist, Ralph Anderson
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
By Theresa Berney Loew
Located in Surfside, FL
Exhibition of Maryland Painters, Sculptors and Print Makers, 1935 with Henry Berge,Bertram S. Berney, Theresa
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Modernist Trees, 1940s Framed Modernist Landscape Watercolor Painting, Red Green
By Richard Sorby
Located in Denver, CO
Modernist painting of trees, interior forest scene by Colorado artist, Richard Sorby (1911-2001
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Archival Paper

1940's French Modernist Signed Oil Pears & Flowers, Monte Carlo show exhibited
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
of old label verso Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Painting: 24 x 20 inches Provenance: private
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pär Lindblad, Sweden, Oil on Canvas, Modernist Landscape, 1940s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Pär Lindblad (1907-1981), Sweden. Oil on canvas. Modernist landscape. Man on a bicycle along the
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Vintage 1940s Swedish Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas

1940s American Modernist Abstracted Industrial Watercolor Ink Charcoal Painting
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
Charles Bunnell original vintage 1941 signed painting from the artist's Black and Blue Series
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1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor

Forest, American Modernist Abstract Landscape Painting by Female Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Forest" is a 29 x 36 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist, female artist Peter
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1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Cityscape
By Esther Rollick
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modernist oil painting by American female artist Esther Rollick.
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

American 1940’s WPA Surrealist Style Landscape French Female Artist Cecile Belle
Located in Atlanta, GA
An American circa 1940’s WPA / surrealist style landscape painting by French American female artist
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Mid-20th Century American Industrial Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Paint

Original Arthur Smith Modernist Erotic Painting
By Arthur Smith
Located in Larchmont, NY
for his paintings of sporting scenes, particularly boxing. Born in New York City, Smith painted for
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20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Victor, Colorado, 1940s Modernist Mountain Landscape with Town, Mining Town
By Martyl Suzanne Schweig Langsdorf
Located in Denver, CO
Robinson in 1940 and 1941, which was shortly before this painting was completed. According to the artist
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting, Figure
Located in Cirencester, GB
regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Other

Vintage Modernist Architectural Oil Painting - Joseph Sutter Southern California
Located in Baltimore, MD
Like it’s listed companion piece, this is a late Art Deco/Moderne architectural painting with
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1940s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large Abstract Modernist Painting - Zoute, 1949
By Zoute' (Leon Salter)
Located in Rochester, NY
Large American abstract modernist impressionist oil painting on masonite board in the great
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Wood, Masonite, Paint

Colorado Hill Town with Storm Clouds, 1940s Modernist Landscape, Green Blue
By Paul Kauver Smith
Located in Denver, CO
WPA era signed framed modernist oil painting of houses and trees in summer with a stormy cloud in
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large Tel Aviv Orchestra Israeli Bezalel School Modernist Painting Moshe Matus
By Moshe Matus (Matusovsky)
Located in Surfside, FL
) 1908, Warsaw, Russian Poland - November 23, 1958 Toronto, Canada. was a Polish Israeli modernist
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

American Modernist Snowscene
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern 1940s American oil painting depicting a rural landscape in winter. This work comes housed
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Abstract Figures
Located in Cirencester, GB
regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Other

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting, Three Figures
Located in Cirencester, GB
regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Other

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting - Three Figures
Located in Cirencester, GB
regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Other

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting, Mother & Child
Located in Cirencester, GB
regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Other

American Woman Artist Modernist Large Oil Painting Cubist Influenced Landscape
By Lena Gurr
Located in Surfside, FL
is not dated. Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American woman artist who made paintings, prints, and
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Windmill on the Plains, 1940s Watercolor and Ink Mixed Media Modernist Painting
By Jenne Magafan
Located in Denver, CO
'Windmill on the Plains' is watercolor and ink on paper painting by Jenne Magafan. Depicting a
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1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Chicago Jewish Modernist Mixed Media Surrealist Painting WPA Artist Mosaic Tiles
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
. A WPA muralist, illustrator and modernist painter especially known for paintings with Jewish themes
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board

Vintage American Pennsylvania Farm Landscape; Signed Oil on Canvas, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
modernist leaning style with a colorful palette typical of the 1940’s. Her use of pinks and yellows along
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman, Large Modernist Oil Painting
By Benjamin Kopman
Located in Surfside, FL
had solo exhibitions in the late 1930s and 1940s. His paintings and prints are distinctive for their
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Clown, Modernist Oil Painting on Board WPA Artist
By Maurice Kish
Located in Surfside, FL
painting of a big jolly wedding guest, looking invitingly over her shoulder; a big fiddler on a small roof
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Early 20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Harvest, Abstract and Contemporary Wildlife Painting by Female Modernist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Harvest" is a 30 x 25 inches, oil on canvas painting by American modernist and surrealist, female
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1950s American Modern Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Colorado Mountain Summer Landscape, 1930s Framed Modernist Oil Painting
By Arnold Blanch
Located in Denver, CO
Vintage Modernist WPA era painting by Arnold Blanch (1896-1968) of a Colorado Landscape, likely
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seated Man Portrait, Large Modernist Oil Painting WPA Artist
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Surfside, FL
Vision, A Central Theme in New York in the 1940's",Paintings exhibited are "Landscape and Trees", "Flower
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Yesterday's, Surrealist Horse Rider, Architectural Ruins Modernist Oil Painting
By Samuel Brecher
Located in Surfside, FL
known New York City galleries in the 1940’s and 1950’s including the Kraushaar Gallery, the ACA Gallery
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Carving William Pellicone
Located in Surfside, FL
early work was influenced by the Social Realist movement of the 1930s and 1940s, with his paintings
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Modernist Mexican Artist "Porters Garden" Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
By Ernesto Linares
Located in Surfside, FL
1940s, Ernesto, now in his twenties and using the name Linares for his art, is living and painting year
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting, through the Colourful Archway
Located in Cirencester, GB
regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Other

20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting, Vibrant Flowers in Vase
Located in Cirencester, GB
regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be
Category

Mid-20th Century Paintings

Materials

Other

Large Colorful Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Modernist Beach Landscape
By Ralph Rosenborg
Located in Surfside, FL
Arts 1940[32] Willard married Dan Rhodes Johnson in the early 1940s thus becoming Marian Willard
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Jute

Circus Universal, Large Modernist Oil Painting with Clown Harlequin
By Stella Drabkin
Located in Surfside, FL
, ethnic neighborhoods. In 1933, shortly after Drabkin’s arrival in Philadelphia, she entered a painting
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Modernist Judaica Oil Painting Blessing the New Moon, Jewish Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a modernist Judaic painting of a Jewish scene of the Kiddush Levanah prayer. The monthly
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Burlap, Oil

1945 Abstract Landscape with Waterfall Watercolor Painting, Modernist Landscape
By Eve Drewelowe
Located in Denver, CO
Watercolor on paper painting by Eve (Van Ek) Drewelowe titled "The Champagne Cascades, Crescendos
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1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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