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Period: 1940s
Girl On The Beach 1948 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
By Toni Frissell
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach
1948
Beachwear fashion shoot, 1948
by Toni Frissell
16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available see examples -...
Category
1940s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Archival Pigment
Model In Montego Bay 1946 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
By Toni Frissell
Located in London, GB
Model In Montego Bay
1946
Fashion model bein rowed across Montego Bay, Jamaica, 1946
by Toni Frissell
20 x 20" inches / 51 x 51 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(...
Category
1940s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Archival Pigment
Girl On The Beach 1947 Limited Signature Stamped Edition
By Toni Frissell
Located in London, GB
Girl On The Beach
1947
Beachwear fashion shoot, 1947.
by Toni Frissell
16 x 20" inches / 41 x 51 cm paper size
Archival pigment print
unframed
(framing available see examples -...
Category
1940s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Dinner Jazz 1949
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Dinner Jazz
American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Slim Aarons silver gelatine fibre based print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estat...
Category
1940s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
V&A Museum London 'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton
By Cecil Beaton
Located in London, GB
'HRH Princess Elizabeth' by Cecil Beaton (1904-80)
Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, in a Norman Hartnell gown, Buckingham Palace, Engla...
Category
1940s Modern Nautical 2
Materials
Silver Gelatin
World War II Tank Battle, Electronic Laboratories Advertisement
By Benton Henderson Clark
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
This original illustration by Benton Clark was produced for an Electronic Laboratories advertisement to sell batteries for the operation of Walkie-Talkie radio equipment during World War II. Showing a tank battle...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Confrontation, Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post, 1940
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Paper
Signature: Signed
An illustration depicting a circa late 19th century woman confronting a child, whose holster and gun are lying at his feet.
Featured in ...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Sleigh Ride in Philadelphia
By Simon Greco
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 14.00" x 18.00"
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Gouache, Board
Caricature of the Cast of the Broadway Production of "Another Part of the F
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ink on Illustration Board Caricature of the cast of the Broadway production of `Another Part of the Forest` by Lillian Hellman, including (l to r) Mildred Dunnock, Percy Waram, Leo Genn, Patricia Neal...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
World War II Naval Engagement
By Anton Otto Fischer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soldier Santa
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Soldier Santa
He moved from Chicago to New York in 1893. Known for the richness of his work in pen and ink, he drew, in 1898, fifty illustrations for The Choir Invisible. By 1907,...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cashmere Bouquet Soap Advertisement
By Haddon Hubbard Sundblom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Oil on Canvas Board
Dimensions: 22.00" x 17.75"
Signature: Unsigned
A sweet WWII-era illustration for a Cashmere Bouquet Soap camp...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Board, Canvas, Oil
Girls on a Boardwalk
By Reginald Marsh
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed and dated twice lower right: Reginald Marsh 46 / Reginald Marsh 1946
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Board, Oil
Defense on the Sea Begins on the Shore
By Ralph Iligan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"Defense on the sea begins on the shore." Study for a World War II propaganda poster for the "Industr...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Board, Oil
Woman from Behind
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This painting was reproduced on page 151 of John La Gatta-An Artist's Life by Jill Bossert, Madison ...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Monroe Street Bridge, Saturday Evening Post cover, June 12, 1948
Located in Fort Washington, PA
In this iconic Saturday Evening Post cover, the artist paints himself as the solitary fisherman underneath a Monroe Street Bridge in Spokane, Washington....
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Refugee, " Story Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Whatman Drawing Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Titled and marked "P4447" on Saturday Evening Post label verso.
"The Refugee" by Bud Hutton and illustrated by Robert Fawcett...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
At Home Wedding
By Pruett Alexander Carter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions; 30.00" x 45.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Look magazine
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1945 Broadway Musical, "Up in Central Park"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen & Ink, Pasted on Sheet Music on Board. The illustration is pasted on a sheet music background, blue indicating halftone.
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The piece is on 15.50" x 20.00" illustration board with an image that measures to 12.50" x 11.00."
Includes clipping.
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1945 Broadway Musical...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Ink, Paper, Board, Pen
Trying To Make Baby Smile, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Jack Welch
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left by Artist
Born in small town Texas, Welch first learned his trade through the W. L. Evans correspondence course in cartooning, which led him to a short-lived stint at Southern Methodist University illustrating yearbooks. This work launched him as a newspaper artist, and eventually earning a position as an advertising agency sketch man...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Caricature of Arthur Godfrey as a Talent Fisherman for CBS
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Ink on Illustration Board of Arthur Godfrey as a Talent Fisherman for CBS, with a net of performers slung over...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
Sugarfoot
By Harold von Schmidt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated '1941' Upper Right
This illustration was published for the interior story "Sugarfoot" by Clarence Budington Kelland in the Saturday Evening Post, February 7th, 1942.
Signed and dated '1941' upper right
Harold von Schmidt grew up in the West a generation after Remington...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady and The Mirror
By Peter Driben
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Color Pencil on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A pin-up study.
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Color Pencil, Paper
Mining for Ore, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1947
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Contact for exact dimensions.
Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 22, 1947
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
A Woman Among Books with a Man in Fedora Behind Her
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Broadway Production of "Strange Bedfellows"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for 1948 Broadway production `Strange Bedfellows` with Ruth Amos, Nydia We...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Pen, Ink
Keeping Appointments with Convoys, Pennsylvania Railroad, 1943
By John Ford Clymer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper Laid Down on Board
Signature: Signed "J. Clymer" Lower Left
This illustration was used in a 1943 advertisement for the Pennsylvania Railroad...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper, Board
Moonlight and Roses
By Haddon Hubbard Sundblom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 33.00" x 37.00", Framed 42.00" x 38.00"
Signature: Signed
Presumably Advertising for Maxwell House Coffee
...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl Playing Golf
By Peter Driben
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink with White Gouache
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A pin-up study
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Gouache, Pen, Ink
1945 Broadway Show, "State of the Union"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board and Cardstock
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) for the 1945 Broadway show...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
American Red Cross At Work
By Wilson Mortimer Jr.
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This piece is framed.
Approximate Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Size: 25.00" x 37.00"
Advertisement for Maxwell House Coff...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Under the Pine Tree
By Harold von Schmidt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Two men conversing with a stern look on their faces, while a woman is sitting against the pine tree.
Signed Lower Right
"I guessed this town wasn't goi...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Nautical 2
Materials
Paint
Pirates with Treasure
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Arthur Margetson in "The Play's the Thing" & Molly Picon in "For Heaven's S
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Right and Upper Left
Each illustration is on 8.50" x 11.00" cardstock.
Drawings by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Arthur M...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
General Douglas MacArthur
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
In the Timken War Bond campaign, JC Leyendecker completed more than a dozen paintings that were rep...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Love After Sunset, American Magazine, August 1942
By Harry Anderson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration for Love After Sunset, featured in American Magazine, August 1942
'She was trying to forget his lips and to tell him what she had wanted'
Con...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Board, Oil
New Year's Baby Hitching to War
By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Saturday Evening Post unpublished cover, 1943
The story behind the New Year's Baby Hitching to War is a fascinating one: The...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Mystery of Edwin Drood"
By Everett Shinn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
An illustration from Charles Dickens' "The Mystery of Erwin Drood".
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Board, Watercolor
Broadway Comedy, "Wonderful Journey, " 1946
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board, blue pencil for halftone, glued on overlay of head on central figure.
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This illustration is on 15.00" x 10.00...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
Soldiers Attacking Woman and Farm Animals
By Robert Douglas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1949
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: 18.50" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
"Mid-Summer Oasis - The Broadway Theatre"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Approximate Date: circa 1946
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) `Mid-Summer Oasis - The Broadway Theatre...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Pen, Ink
Brenda Forbes in "Three to Make Ready"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Brenda Forbes in her four roles for Broadway`s 1946 revue `Three to Make Ready`, starring Ray Bolger...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
Caricatures of Charles Waldron and Edwin Jerome
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board and Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Right (On Left)
Sizes: 1.00" x 7.00"; 6.00" x 8.00"
Caricatures by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Charles Waldron and Edwin Jerome, the two actors who played Senator Ellsworth Langdon in `Deep are the Roots`. The Broadway production, co-starring Gordon Heath as a returning veteran and Jacqueline Andre as his mother, was directed by Elia Kazan, designed by Howard Bay and Emeline Roche, ran at the Fulton Theatre 9...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
1941 Broadway Thriller, "Angel Street"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Illustration Board. Medium includes blue indicating halftone, pasteup of left-hand figures by GW.
Signature: Signed Upper Right
This piece is on 10.00" x 14.5...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Illustration Board, Ink, Pen
"Lucy, You Are a Lonely Woman." Story Illustration for Women's Home Compan
By Walter Martin Baumhofer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"Lucy, you are a lonely woman." Story illustration for "The Enchanted Circle," published ...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Master of the House
By William M. Reusswig
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Chef in the kitchen cooking.
William Reusswig was a fine illustrator, and married to an equally fine one, Martha Sawyers. They traveled the world together and, in collaboration, wrote and illustrated two books about the Far East, published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1961 and 1964. They worked out of a New York apartment with two studios, where each could pursue their individual assignments.
William was born in Somerville, New Jersey; he studied at Amherst College and the Art Students League in New York. He was only twenty-three when he made his first illustrations for Collier’s, and then illustrated for most national fiction magazines, including Cosmopolitan, True, Redbook, The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s, The Country Gentleman...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Colonists and Ships
By Frank J. Reilly
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Image of colonists with ships in background.
Frank J. Reilly (1906-1967) was noted as "the number 1 art teacher in America." Reilly is noted for developing a means of organizing the palette. His value studies and chroma organization are still taught as the primary methods of oil paint organization. Reilly studied with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League of New York. He taught at the Grand Central School of Art, The Art Students League of New York and other art schools as well as establishing his own art school. Reilly was the main influence on George Passantino. He is credited with the mosaic mural in The Bronx High School of Science's front lobby. Reilly's influence continues today through the teaching and art of Michael Aviano and Jack Faragasso as well as their students Jon deMartin...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Walking the Tightrope, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This work was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 11, 1949
The Post described the cover as follows: "Having found the setting he wanted for his circus-theme cover painting - on the Brotherton farm near Westport, Connecticut- Stevan Dohanos began rigging up a beam for the farm boy...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for 'Grandma's Doll Collection'
By Norman Rockwell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Inscribed: "My best wishes to/my friend Judy Bedell/sincerely/Norman Rockwell
Included with the painting, the dress that the model wore for this pai...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flat and Chat, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By George Hughes
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
The Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover, May 21, 1949.
The irritated tire-changer? Why, that's artist George Hughes himself. The...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The First Flag Raising
By Frank Schoonover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Du Pont Safety Calendar, 1941, June
# 2270 in the Catalogue Raisonné, 2009
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"There's Two Kinds of Heroes" Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 19.50" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"There's Two Kinds of Heroes," by Maurice Beam and illustrated by Peter Helck for the Saturday Eve...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Tan Lines, The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 27, 1941
By Albert Hampson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right: Albert W. / Hampson
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1943 Broadway production of "The Voice of the Turtle"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004), for the long running 1943 Broadway production of `The Voice of the Turtle`, starring Peggy...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Pen, Ink
Landing at Normandy Beach, Electronic Laboratories Advertisement
By Benton Henderson Clark
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.50" x 34.50"
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
This original illustration by Benton Clark was produced for an Electronic Labora...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Winter's Tale, Cover for The American Weekly
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The American Weekly, published November 27, 1949. Depicting a scene from “The Winter's Tale,” this illustration is from Pogany’s “Beauties of Shakespe...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Nautical 2
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
The 1947 Broadway Production of Terence Rattigan's "The Winslow Boy"
By George Wachsteter
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Cardstock
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of the supporting players in 1947 Broadway production of Terence Rattigan`s `The Winslow Boy` at the Empire Theatre. The engaging drama, based on a true incident in Edwardian-era England, was directed by Glen Byam Shaw, starred Frank Allenby & Madge Compton (not shown) and ran 10/29/47 - 05/01/48, for 214 performances. The four depicted are Michael Kingsley, George Benson...
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Ink, Paper, Pen
After Church, Post Cover
By Stevan Dohanos
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower left by Artist
The Saturday Evening Post cover, April 16, 1949
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil
Woman in Blue Two-Piece Bathing Suit Laying on Beach with Man in Bathing Su
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Nautical 2
Materials
Oil, Canvas
