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Chicago Modernist Gouache Painting Shabbat Hebrew Calligraphy WPA Artist Judaica
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
A Judaica painting with Hebrew Calligraphy by noted Chicago Modernist. Alexander Raymond Katz (his
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Surrealist Architectural Landscape "Fall for it" 1970s Chicago Modernist
By William Schwedler
Located in Surfside, FL
This serigraph has never been framed.
Chicago born Modernist. Showed at Andrew Crispo Gallery and
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
'Lakeshore Drive, Chicago', Modernist Cityscape, Woman Artist, Crocker Museum
By Muriel Backman
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A mid-century, Modernist view of Chicago, seen in the evening with the lights of numerous buildings
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Chicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
Reclining Nude.Early modernist line drawing, by American artist William S. Schwartz, c. 1940
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
William S. SchwartzChicago Modernist Line Drawing Reclining Nude WPA Artist. Exhibited Work, c. 1930
H 14.25 in W 16.25 in D 0.1 in
Automobile Bronze Sculpture Car, John Kearney Auto Toy Art Chicago Modernist
By John Kearney
Located in Surfside, FL
house physician for the Metropolitan Opera.
Kearney was represented in Chicago, New York, the Berta
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
H 6.5 in W 9.5 in D 6 in
Portrait of an Old Man with Cane, Important Chicago Modernist WPA Artist
By William S. Schwartz
Located in Surfside, FL
who lived and worked in Chicago.
Schwartz was born in Smorgon in Belarus, then in the Russian Empire
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Alkyd, Board
Chicago Scene Modernist Architectural Lithograph, Nevada Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Jim McCormick was born in Chicago in 1936. He attended the University of Tulsa where he received a
Category
1980s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Unicorn" Chicago Jewish Modernist
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Abstract Signed Cubist Bronze Sculpture "Cats" Chicago Bauhaus Woman Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
student at the New Bauhaus School of Design in Chicago. Greene-Mercier worked in a variety of media, but
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Travertine, Bronze
"Aviary at the Chicago Zoo"
Located in Austin, TX
.
Gustav Likan
Modernist scene of the Aviary in the Chicago Zoo.
Acrylic on canvas, 50" x 40"
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Sunny Afternoon', Chicago Impressionist, Paris, Grande Chaumiére, Woman Artist
By Pauline Palmer
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Association and the Chicago Association of Painters and Sculptors.
Considered by the Modernists of her day to
Category
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
H 19.75 in W 23.75 in D 0.13 in
William Jacobs "Chicago Skyline IV", original pastel on paper
By William Jacobs
Located in Glenview, IL
painted for the Chicago Public Schools. An Expressionist by temperment and a Modernist by conviction
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
H 5 in W 7 in D 0.01 in
Modernist Face
By Itzhak Sankowsky
Located in Los Angeles, CA
ITZHAK SANKOWSKY
"MODERNIST FACE"
WOOD, SIGNED
ROMANIAN-AMERICAN, C.1940
24.5 INCHES
Itzhak
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Modernist Collage
By Reginald Wilson
Located in Surfside, FL
painter
Studied: Chicago; Cleveland, OH; ASL, 1929 (he was friends with Arnold Blanch, who introduced him
Category
20th Century Modern Mixed Media
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
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Chicago International Art Exposition poster (Hand Signed by Ed Ruscha)
By Ed Ruscha
Located in New York, NY
Ed Ruscha
Chicago International Art Exposition (Hand Signed by Ed Ruscha), 1983
Offset Lithograph
Category
1980s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
'California Landscape', Royal Danish Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, LACMA
By Ejnar Hansen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Pasadena in 1924. An ardent proponent of modernist color theory, Hansen became an influential teacher at
Category
1930s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
'The Artist's Garden', Munich Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, PAFA, Corcoran
By Julius Moessel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American Modernist, muralist and graphic artist first studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Art under
Category
1940s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 30 in W 26 in D 0.75 in
'Oregon Coast', Art Institute of Chicago, AIC, Works Project Association, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
with title, 'Oregon Coast' and dated 1945.
A vibrant watercolor landscape by this American Modernist
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Metallic Water, coveted 1960s Op Art painting shown at Art Institute of Chicago
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz
Metallic Water, 1964
Painting with Liquitex. (1964 Art Institute of Chicago
Category
1960s Op Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Modernist Nude — Atelier 17
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Russell T. Limbach, 'Untitled (Modernist Nude)', etching and aquatint, no known edition, c. 1930
Category
1930s American Modern Nude Prints
Materials
Etching
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
Trompe L'Oeil "Old Town Chicago" Signed Van Zandt Street Scene Modern Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist street scene painting. OIl on board. Framed. Signed "Van Zandt 50
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
H 23 in W 19 in D 2 in
Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen), 1948, mixed media on paperboard mounted into a three
Category
1940s Cubist Mixed Media
Materials
Board
Modernist Landscape 'Portugal' Watercolor Painting
By Maurice Freed
Located in Surfside, FL
‑three, his talents were recognized when he was invited to Chicago to become Art Director of Esquire
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Modernist Geometric Abstract Painting
By Gregg Robinson
Located in Surfside, FL
satisfying. Obviously, the modernist ideal of efficiency in form and function requires that method of
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Modernist Landscape with Fishing Boat
By Maurice Freed
Located in Surfside, FL
, at the age of twenty‑three, his talents were recognized when he was invited to Chicago to become Art
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Gloucester' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League, in New York, with Max Weber, Kenneth
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
'Expansion' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
throughout the United States, the UK, and Europe, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque
Category
1970s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
'Diptych' — Modernist Abstraction, Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Europe, including The Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), British Museum
Category
1960s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Brutalist Bronze Abstract Modernist Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Monument with Standing Beast (1960, James R. Thompson Center, Chicago). The idiom was considerably boosted
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze, Copper
Mixed Media Sculptural Painting "Juggler" Modernist
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Large Modernist Carved Wood Judaica Sculpture
By Chaïm Goldberg
Located in Surfside, FL
the Spertus Judaica Museum in Chicago.
Chaim Goldberg (1917-2004) was a Polish-Jewish artist best
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Modernist Encaustic Painting Portrait Boston Expressionist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at the Pucker-Safrai Gallery
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
Modernist Nude Portrait by Henri Burkhard
By Henri Burkhard
Located in Larchmont, NY
frequently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1926-36; the Corcoran Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago
Category
1930s Fauvist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
'Birds in Flight', Modernist Equestrian Gouache
By Eduard Buk Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
additionally designed and painted murals in Chicago for the Temple Building and a marble mosaics mural for the
Category
1940s Art Deco Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Gouache, Illustration Board
"Mums" William S. Schwartz, Yellow Flowers, Cubist, Modern Still Life
By William S. Schwartz
Located in New York, NY
singing. His circle of artist friends included important Chicago modernists Aaron Bohrod, Malvin and Ivan
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
History Farm, California Modernist OIl Painting
By Wade Hoefer
Located in Surfside, FL
, Chicago, IL
Dyersbyrg Corporation, New York, NY
Category
1980s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Serpentine with Orchids Modernist Silkscreen Signed Screenprint
By Michael Mazur
Located in Surfside, FL
raisonne of Mazur's prints in 2000.
Mazur's work is owned by museums including the Chicago Art Institute
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Modernist Orchestra Musical Gouache Painting Boston Expressionist
By David Aronson
Located in Surfside, FL
traveling retrospective exhibition and many one-man shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Boston at
Category
20th Century Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Large Modernist Abstract Painting (1of 2 available)
By Gregg Robinson
Located in Surfside, FL
satisfying. Obviously, the modernist ideal of efficiency in form and function requires that method of
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Biblical Prophet Etching American Modernist WPA Artist
By Ben-Zion Weinman
Located in Surfside, FL
, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
'Meeting Hall, Rockport' — Mid-Century Modernist Watercolor
By Nathaniel Dirk
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League, in New York, with Max Weber, Kenneth Hayes Miller, and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Modernist Rabbi at Study Judaica Oil Painting
By Ben-Zion
Located in Surfside, FL
, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rare Early Nude Drawing American Modernist Sculptor
By Chaim Gross
Located in Surfside, FL
Chicago; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
Category
20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Pencil
Modernist Rabbi Judaica Painting on Gold Background
By Harry Sternberg
Located in Surfside, FL
are in post offices in Chicago, Chester and Sellersville, Pennsylvania.
Sternberg came to national
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Train Silkscreen Hand Signed Belgian Modernist Folon
By Jean Michel Folon
Located in Surfside, FL
Brussels and at Castello Sforzesco of Milan.
1972 Expose to Arts Club of Chicago.
1973 Illustrate the
Category
20th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Mixed Media Modernist Sculptural Judaica Painting SHABBAT CANDLES
By Alexander Raymond Katz
Located in Surfside, FL
Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
'Torero' — rare, early modernist engraving – Atelier 17
By Stanley William Hayter
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
The Art Institute of Chicago, Bibliothèque nationale de France (Paris), British Museum, Centre
Category
1930s Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Engraving
Modernist Sculpture Figural Portrait Bust Brutalist Wire Work
By Irving George Lehman
Located in Surfside, FL
Whitney, National Academy, PAFA, Brooklyn Museum, Chicago Art Institute, and others.
This work contains
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
H 22 in W 15 in D 10 in
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, England;
1961: Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery, New York, NY;
1960, 63: Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery, New York, NY;
1960, 63: Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London, England;
1961: Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery, New York, NY;
1960, 63: Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery, New York, NY;
1960, 63: Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery, New York, NY;
1960, 63: Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Surrealist Figurative Aquatint Etching California Modernist Sculptor Artist
By Jack Zajac
Located in Surfside, FL
Gallery, New York, NY;
1960, 63: Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, IL;
1960: Roland, Browse and Delbanco
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
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