1940s Modernist Painting
4
to
166
1,315
166
1,471
1,104
297
212
170
133
121
96
68
57
41
19
8
8
7
4
3
2
2
1
1
91
70
56
45
45
Sort By
The Antique Store
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original charming 1940's modernist painting depicting an antique store in the countryside.
This
Category
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
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
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
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 23 in W 22.88 in D 1.25 in
Oil Painting "Brooklyn" 1940's
Located in Rochester, NY
Mid-Century Modern oil painting, 1940s cityscape, "Bedford at Lafayette, Brooklyn". Oil on masonite
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
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
Category
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
Category
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, ...
Category
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
Category
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
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
H 27.5 in W 23.25 in D 1.25 in
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
Category
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
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Frederick ShaneArtists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Landscape Painting, 1949
H 25.5 in W 37.5 in D 1.5 in
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
Category
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
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Muriel SwansonGunnison, Colorado 1940s Modernist Mountain Landscape Painting, Green, Blue, Red, 1947
H 18.75 in W 22.75 in D 1.75 in
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
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
H 21 in W 38.5 in D 1.75 in
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
Category
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
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
H 24.75 in W 19.75 in D 0.07 in
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
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 22 in W 26 in D 1.5 in
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
Category
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
Category
1940s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 33.75 in W 39.75 in D 3.25 in
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
Category
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
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 28.25 in W 22.5 in D 1.25 in
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
H 32.25 in W 27.75 in D 0.75 in
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
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 30 in W 37 in D 1.5 in
Modernist Cityscape
By Esther Rollick
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modernist oil painting by American female artist Esther Rollick.
Category
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
Category
Mid-20th Century American Industrial Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
H 33.75 in W 38.75 in D 2 in
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
Category
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
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
H 31.5 in W 37.5 in D 1.75 in
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
H 24.5 in W 20.5 in D 1.25 in
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Free Shipping
H 30 in W 25 in D 1 in
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
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 24.5 in W 32.25 in D 1.5 in
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
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
Category
1940s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
H 43.75 in W 33.75 in D 0.5 in
- 1
- ...
Get Updated with New Arrivals
Save "1940 S Modernist Painting", and we’ll notify you when there are new listings in this category.
1940s Modernist Painting For Sale on 1stDibs
Find the exact 1940s modernist painting you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. In our selection of items, you can find Modern examples as well as a Abstract version. Finding the perfect 1940s modernist painting may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 20th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 20th Century. When looking for the right 1940s modernist painting for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of brown, gray, black and orange. Creating a 1940s modernist painting has been a part of the legacy of many artists, but those crafted by Emanuel Glicenstein Romano, Saul Lishinsky, Charles Ragland Bunnell, Samuel Grunvald and Helen Sewell Rennie are consistently popular. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in paint, oil paint and fabric can add an especially memorable touch.
How Much is a 1940s Modernist Painting?
The average selling price for a 1940s modernist painting we offer is $1,400, while they’re typically $153 on the low end and $66,000 for the highest priced.
More Ways To Browse
Metal Mirror Rectangular Wall
Cassetta Frame
Frank Lloyd Wright Ceramic
Antique Shops Nyc
Kahlil Gibran
Texas Windmill
Vintage Hall Tree With Bench
Frank Lloyd Wright Letter
Neon Bauhaus
William Linton
David Olson
4 Painted Italian Benches
Used Concrete Crushers
Art By L Biro
7 Deadly Sins
Jack Kay
Lexington Bob
Reiss Studio