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Wonderful Road Runner pillow with a wondrous inner design of the bird and unusual color pallet to the exterior of the pillow. Great square smaller pillow, may work as a kidney pillow...

Vintage Douglas W. Gorsline engraving on paper of a young woman, "Brooklyn Local", circa 1945, edition of 250, signed in pencil and numbered, very good condition. Dimensions: image 6...

This watercolor painting is newly framed and is one of two by the same artist in our gallery. The second one is also signed by the artist and marked Southern California. The conditio...

Solid brass ships engine order telegraph by Bendix of Brooklyn New York. This bridge telegraph has been meticulously polished and lacquered. This one also has brass face plates which...

British Navy ship's crest for HMS Scarborough. This is a heavy brass plaque mounted to a wood backboard. Circa 1945.

Five-armed silver-plated candlestick from around the 1940s. A really nice and unique thing for the home, which creates coziness.

A slat-backed Cuban mahogany sofa with a tight seat and loose back cushions.

Framed yacht painting by noted illustrator Jan Austin Taylor. This gouache shows the boat cruising through calm seas with her captain at the helm. Vessel is flying a...

Sparkman and Stevens original yacht blueprint of the Auxiliary Sloop Venture III. Built at Simms Brothers in Dorchester, Mass in 1949. Designed by Olin Stevens and Aage Nielsen. Very historic blueprint here coming from the masters. Legend reads design "379-C1-24 Arrangement Plan, 34'0" L.W.L. Auxil Sloop for Simms Bros., Scale 3/4 inch = 1 foot". Length overall 51'8", Beam 11'6". Sparkman & Stevens Inc, 11E 44th St., NY, NY, Dec 8, 1947. Detail include owner's stateroom, berths, galley, lockers, seats, sail locker, chart table...

Wine cooler with engraved coats of arms with lion and shield. Two spaces for bottles and ice bin in center. Classis piece of barware. English. Circa 1940.

Rigged ship model of the merchant brig "Volante" of Boston. Solid hull with scribed basswood deck. Details include cabins, wheel, grating, skylight, water casks, lifeboats, etc. Moun...

A sculpture in the form of potted Cattails.

A walnut server with central compartment having a removable glass-bottom serving tray & one adjustable shelf, flanked by two banks of four drawers over one long drawer all with brass...

A very beautiful round Art Deco period wall mirror with pink or rose colored mirrored glass, circa 1940s, USA, as marked on back (please see images...

Large 1940s carved wood folk art rooster from a Southampton, NY estate.

Alice Naylor Portrait of a young girl. (1892-1974) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 12 Frame Size: 24 x 21 Medium: Oil Portrait or Self Portrait? Biography Alice Naylor (1892-1974) A painter who preferred watercolor and acrylics, Alice Naylor studied at the University of New Mexico with Andrew Dasburg and the San Antonio Art Institute with Xavier Gonzales...

Large Asian ceramic dragon table lamp from the 1940s.

Mare and foal subjects painted with a seascape in the background. Artist has signed the painting in the bottom right corner and dated it. Framed in a gold vintage frame. Dimensions...

Pair of 1940s carved soapstone Chinese figures.

Coreen Mary Spellman (1905 - 1978) Dallas Artist Image Size: 20 x 14 Frame Size: 25 x 19 Medium: Oil Bio: Exhibited in the Ninth Annual Student Art show at the State University of Iowa Coreen Spellman Biography Coreen Mary Spellman (1905 - 1978) Coreen Mary Spellman was a fine-art teacher as well as a painter, designer, illustrator, lithographer and muralist. Many of her paintings depicted human-made structures and industrial landscapes in a style combining realism, precisionism and abstraction. Often the central subject such as in "Railroad Signal" was the only suggestion of humanity against a backdrop of stark Texas landscape. Of her painting these isolated subjects she said: "I enjoy taking some rather obscure or unimportant subject or theme and making something fine and important out of it . . . It always gives me great pleasure to discover something which has been passed over as being inadequate material". (Trenton 199) Spellman was born in Forney, Texas in 1905. At an early age she moved to Dallas, Texas and studied under Vivian Aunspaugh before attending the College of Industrial Arts (Texas Woman's University). She received a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University and a Masters Degree from the University of Iowa, Iowa City in 1942. In addition, Spellman received a Carnegie Scholarship for study at Harvard University, followed by studies with Kenneth Hayes Miller, Vaclav Vytlacil, and Charles Wheeler...

This is a genuine hand knotted oriental rug. It is not hand tufted or machine made rug. Our entire inventory is made of either hand knotted or handwoven rugs. Bring life to your hom...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

Antique American impressionist desert beach dune oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1940. Unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 24"L x 16"H.

E. Scholz Texas Artist Image Size: 22 x 30 Frame Size: 29 x 37 Medium: Oil 1948 Texas Regionalism at its finest.

Vintage American school signed original oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 24"L x 18"H.

Antique American modernist oil painting by Jeanette Blair (1922-2016). Oil on board, circa 160. Signed. Displayed in a period modern frame. Image, 16"L x 12"H.

1940s Royal blue glass classical urn with gilt trim.

Interesting and unusual set of 4 Art Deco wrought iron and marble candleholders with a pair of decorative iron rings to reconfigure as desired. May be transformed and made into one l...

Seated nude study of a woman looking towards the viewer. The work is signed by the artist and dated. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the en...

Pepper Brown (1926-1999) Alpine Artist Image Size: 9 x 13 Frame Size: 16 x 20 Medium: Ink Drawing Dated 1942 "Cheyenne Wyoming Frontier Days" Harry Hart W...

Pepper Brown (1926-1999) Alpine Artist Image Size: 9.5 x 9.25 Frame Size: 15.5 x 19 Medium: Ink Drawing Dated 1942 "Boots Mansfield Calf Roping" Tie- Dow...

Charles Harvi Altheide (1874 - 1951) San Antonio Artist Texas, Kansas, Missouri Image Size: 11 x 15 Frame Size: 23.5 x 27.5 Medium: Oil Dated 1941 "Bluebonnets San Antonio Texas 19...

This exceptional example of Allto's slat bench/ table by Artek dates to circa 1948 and was sold at Chicago's landmark modern design store Baldwin Kingrey...

Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 29.5 x 33 Medium: oil 1946 "Home Corral" California Olaf Wieghorst Without a doubt one of if not the most colorful Wieghorst paintings ever done. Signed lower left. Titled on verso. Dated on verso. In very nice condition. Has been professionally cleaned. Has very fine craquelure in the tree branches and a small spot below the horse that is really only visible if you are extremely close to the painting or with magnification. One of his finest paintings. Also please view my other Wieghorst from the same estate. I have included close up photos as well as photos taken in natural light, spot light and fluorescent lighting. Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) California, New York, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 Frame Size: 29.5 x 33 Medium: oil "Home Corral" Dated 1946 Biography Olaf Wieghorst (1899 - 1988) Born in Viborg, Denmark, Olaf Wieghorst was a child acrobatic performer from the age of nine when he began appearances at Tivoli Theater in Copenhagen and later toured Europe. He also learned horseback riding working on a stock farm, and horses became a major focus of his admiration and later his painting. In 1918, he arrived in the United States, having worked as a cabin boy on a steamer. He served in the 5th U.S. Cavalry on the Mexican border in the days of Pancho Villa. He later recalled a favorite horse from that period and said that riding through El Paso in 1921, the horse fell on his ankle and broke it. The outfit was heading to Douglas, Arizona, and not wanting to be left behind with his injury, he stayed on the horse which carried him all the way through the New Mexico desert on one of the hottest days of the year. The horse died during the night, having expended all his energy on saving Wieghorst. He later wrote that when the Cavalry discarded the use of horses, "they took the soul out of that great branch of the service" ("Widening Horizons"). He wandered extensively through the West sometimes on horseback, finding work in Arizona and New Mexico as a cowboy. Then he went to New York and served as a mounted policeman until 1944, spending most of his time on a horse named Rhombo patrolling the Central Park bridle paths and saving many people injury from runaway horses. He began painting in his spare time, and he was successful enough that his work was represented by the Grand Central Art Galleries of the Biltmore Hotel. In 1944, he settled in El Cajon, California. His paintings include cowboys, horses, and Indians in landscape, but there is little if any collectible art of his done during his early days in the West. His primary output came after his return to California when he began painting cowboys and horses extensively. He did numerous horse portraits, spending time on ranches studying their unique personalities. He painted celebrity horses including Roy Rogers' Trigger, Gene Autry's Champion and Tom Morgan's stallion. He was a large, powerful, handsome, and very personable man. Source: Kathleen Wade Olaf Carl Wieghorst (1899-1988) He arrived in the U.S. in 1918, joining the U.S. Cavalry, & patrolled the Mexico border in New Mexico & Arizona . When he mustered out of the army, he drifted, ending up as a wrangler on the Cunningham Ranch near Alma, New Mexico. By the mid-twenties, Wieghorst was in New York City, working as a mounted policeman - his relationships with the many horses that were a part of his life became the common denominator of his paintings. Living in California by the end of WWII, he began a career that spiraled to success, in part due to his engaging personality. His paintings have appeared in numerous solo & retrospective exhibitions including the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City (1974), The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona (1981), & the San Diego Historical Society, California (2002). His work was the subject of the 1970 biography, "Olaf Wieghorst" by William Reed...

Everett Spruce (1908 - 2002) Austin Artist Image Size: 18 x 15 Frame Size: 28 x 25 Medium: Oil on paper / Mixed Exhibited at a University of Texas Faculty art show in 1947 Unsigned Biography Everett Spruce (1908 - 2002) The following, submitted by a researcher of the Ashworth Collection of Native American and Western Art, is from the artist's obituary in the Fort Smith, Arkansas "Times Record" newspaper, October 20, 2002. Everett F. Spruce, well-known artist, teacher, professor emeritus, died Friday, Oct. 18, 2002, at age 94. Everett Spruce was born on a farm in Conway to William E. and Fannie McCarty Spruce. He came to Dallas, at age 17, on a scholarship to study at the Dallas Art Institute, under Olin Travis and Thomas M. Stell Jr. In 1931, he became gallery assistant at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and in 1934 married Alice V. Kramer, a fellow art student. He was one of the "Dallas Nine" group of Southwest artists...

A beautiful Gilbert Rohde design by Herman Miller. This vanity mirror appears in the 1940 Herman Miller catalogue as part of the No. 3770 bedro...

A beautiful and large example of Oceanic art, this delightful woven mask would have been used on the gable of a middle Sepik meeting house. The wildly expressive form is accentuated ...

Naturalistic portrait of a horse in colored pencil on paper. The drawing is framed in a wooden frame with a cream trim. The work is signed and dated by the artist in the bottom right corner. Dimensions Without Frame: H 13.5 in. x W 10.5 in. Artist Biography: William Robert Stevenson was born in 20 May 1925 in Eugene, Oregon. His family moved to Minneapolis, MN but he promptly returned to Oregon and Washington during the Great Depression to work in the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Hoping to study Art, his future was sidetracked when he was drafted into the United States Army at age 17 years old in early 1942. Being a strong swimmer, and having worked at stables as a child, he initially served in the last US Cavalry Corps, and also as a Swimming Instructor for the United States Army. Upon the abolition of the Cavalry Corps, he was trained as a Gunnar and Tank Commander for the M-4 Sherman Tank under General Patton...

1940s carved wood plaque of a ladies profile.

A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early etching, aquatint and engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper. Colors are strong with crisp, ...

A very good impression of this lithograph, from an edition of 250. Signed in pencil by Covarrubias. Published by Associated American Artists, New York.

Antique American oil painting of panoramic mountain range by George Browne (1918 - 1958). Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 1...

Alexander Calder Untitled ‘Liz Nelson’, 1968 is a unique original pen and ink drawing on folio with a red banner that reads 'NOBILIS' is init...

A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early lithograph. The deluxe edition of only 10 impressions hand-signed by Dubuffet. Signed and numbered 10/10 in pencil. ...

A whimsical fish sits placidly in the center of Pablo Picasso ceramic Service Poisson Plate R (“Fish” Service Plate), 1947 A.R. 21. A sweeping light blue back and a peach colored belly make up the body of the fish. Light blue fins crown the back of the fish and a delicate tail parts off the back. Dashes of yellow encircle the rim of the creamy colored bowl, brightening the entire work and creating a dreamy abstracted pattern around the fish. The colors emit a tropical sensation, reminding the viewer of the warmth of the sun and the salty taste of the ocean air. Picasso, who often riffs on ancient Greek...

1940s carved wood European solider.

Pablo Picasso Ceramic Femmes Fleurs (Women Pitcher), 1948 A.R. 50 is an elegant turned pitcher highlights the graceful form of the female nude. C...

Street photography was Art's true passion. He never went anywhere without his camera so he could capture moments like this one - a priest on a Chicago street "observing" one of his parishioners. Art saw humor in everyday life catching moments that the casual observer probably would have missed. Art Shay Observant Father, 1949 vintage silver gelatin print...

Antique Cartier Picture frame box with velvet lining. Covered in signature red leather grain textile with gold embosssed edge and a silk satin lining embossed "Cartier". This box was...

Picasso Quatre Poissons Polychromes (Four Polychrome Fishes), 1947 is a wondrous mixture of color and charm. In the center of the dish are three fish, e...

1940s Hand wrought etched mirror

1940s marble urn table lamp.

Pair of Hollywood Regency style plaster on wood wall candle sconces from the 1940's. Fully formed, dimensional motifs of fruit and flowers hang from ribbon bow motifs. Plaster molded...

Naturalistic watercolor European landscape painting. The work is signed, titled, and dated by the artist. The watercolor painting is mounted to a brown matte but is not framed. Dimen...

This is easily one of the most incredible jardinieres I have come across, between its impressive size, weight and appearance there is nothing like it! A cerused oak serpentine shape...

Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing. Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...

Outstanding pencil on paper Abstract drawing. Marcel Dumont was a Liège artist who painted in oils and gouache, also produced collages and was an illustrator and engraver, doing so in a number of different styles. Early on in his career, he tended to produce paintings displaying a poetic realism but this changed over time until, in 1957, he was employing geometric abstraction and later still, the influence of pop art could be discerned. His geometric style has strong linear structure which occasionally veers to expressionism and the effect of this is an interesting sense of detachment that the viewer of the work can feel and one engages with the subject on a different level than one would normally expect. A critic wrote of him," Sometimes expressionist, sometimes linear, the abstraction forms itself willingly, in Marcel Dumont's world, to leave the rectangular structure to connect to carefully prepared tones. He retains also, in his abundant output, a few poetic pop-art collages together with a number of drawings and engravings illustrating Stefan Zweig...

A finely made Art Deco Carlton Ware pottery Rouge Royal Pagoda pattern oval sweet meat dish dating between 1935 and 1955. The dish stands on a na...

An original french impressionist plein air painting depicting the Caldwell Woods Nature Preserve in Chicago, IL. Louis Phillipe Kamm traveled to the US, visiting major cities, and p...