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This Art Deco secrétaire was produced in Italy in the 1940s. It is completely made of an elegant maple briar, with black lacquered and gold leafed details. In particular, some of t...

American Soldiers Landing Boats with Warships Firing in the Distance Landing party during WWll with Navy ships lay down covering fire in the background, attributed to Linna Annetta F...

Antique American modernist signed abstract tropical oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.

1940s Industrial Aviation Aircraft Genuine Seat Vintage Aviator Aluminum & Leather Airplane Chair Unmarked. Unpolished. 32.25 tall x 17.25 w x 22.5 d Seat 16.75 h Wear consistent wit...

1940s Brunswick Panatrope drum table Sheraton Duncan Phyfe mahogany music radio An extremely rare piece that both fits the aesthetic and musical va...

"Corralled Horse", is an etching on paper by western artist Ethel Magafan (1916-1993) of a single dark horse standing outside in a wooden fenced corral. Presented in a custom frame, outer dimensions measure 19 x 23 inches. Image size is 10 x 14 inches. This is marked as an Artist Proof Piece is in very good condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Estate of Artist, Ethel Magafan Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the Artist: Ethel Magafan Born 1916 Died 1993 The daughter of a Greek immigrant father and a Polish immigrant mother who met and married in Chicago, Ethel Magafan, her identical twin sister Jenne and their elder sister Sophie grew up in Colorado to which their father relocated the family in 1919. They initially lived in Colorado Springs where he worked as a waiter at the Antlers Hotel before moving to Denver in 1930 to be head waiter at the Albany Hotel. Two years later during the Great Depression Ethel and Jenne experienced at sixteen the tragic loss of their father who had encouraged their artistic aspirations. He was proud when Ethel, a student at Morey Junior High School, won top prizes in student poster contests sponsored by the Denver Chamber of Commerce and the Denver Post. At East High School in Denver she and Jenne contributed their art talents to the school’s and by their senior year were co-art editors of the Angelus, the 1933 yearbook. At East they studied art with Helen Perry, herself a student of André Lhote in Paris and the Art Institute of Chicago. Her decision to abandon an arts career to teach high school students served as an important example to Ethel and Jenne, who early on had decided to become artists. In a city-wide Denver competition for high school art students Ethel won an eighteenweek art course in 1932-33 to study at the Kirkland School of Art which artist Vance Kirkland had recently established in the Mile High City. Perry encouraged the Magafan twins’ talent, exposing them to the work of Matisse, Picasso and Cézanne and introducing them to local artists and architects like Frank Mechau and Jacques Benedict whom she invited to speak in her high school art classes. She paid the modest tuition for Ethel and Jenne to study composition, color, mural designing and painting at Mechau’s School of Art in downtown Denver in 1933-34. In the summer of 1934 and for a time in 1936 they apprenticed with him at his studio in Redstone, Colorado. When they returned to Denver in 1934 with no family breadwinner to support them, their mother insisted that they have real jobs so they worked as fashion artists in a Denver department store. When Jenne won the Carter Memorial Art Scholarship ($90.00) two years later, she shared it with Ethel so that both of them could enroll in the Broadmoor Art Academy (now the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center) where they studied with Mechau. When the scholarship money ran out after two months, he hired them as his assistants. Along with Edward (Eduardo) Chavez and Polly Duncan, they helped him with his federal government mural commissions. At the Fine Arts Center Ethel also studied with Boardman Robinson and Peppino Mangravite, who hired her and Jenne in 1939 to assist him in his New York studio with two murals commissioned for the post office in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Like their Denver high school art teacher, Robinson also stressed the need to draw from nature in order to "feel" the mountains, which later become the dominant subject matter of Ethel’s mature work after World War II. Mechau trained her and her sister in the complex process of mural painting while they studied at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, teaching them the compositional techniques of the European Renaissance masters. This also involved library research for historical accuracy, small scale drawing, and Page 2 of 4 the hand-making of paints and other supplies. Ethel recalled that their teacher "was a lovely man but he was a hard worker. He drove us. There was no fooling around." Her apprenticeship with Mechau prepared her to win four national government competitions, beginning at age twenty-two, for large murals in U.S. post offices: Threshing – Auburn, Nebraska (1938), Cotton Pickers – Wynne, Arkansas (1940), Prairie Fire – Madill, Oklahoma (1940), and The Horse Corral – South Denver, Colorado (1942). In preparation for their commissions Ethel and her sister made trips around the country to pending mural locations, driving their beat-up station wagon, dressed in jeans and cowboy boots with art supplies and dogs in tow. She and Jenne combined their talents in the mural, Mountains in Snow, for the Department of Health and Human Services Building in Washington, DC (1942). A year later Ethel executed her own mural, Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814, for the Recorder of Deeds Building, also in Washington, DC. Her first mural commission, Indian Dance, done in 1937 under the Treasury Department Art Project for the Senate Chamber in the United States Capitol, has since disappeared. Ethel and her sister lived and worked in Colorado Springs until 1941 when their residence became determined by the wartime military postings of Jenne’s husband, Edward Chavez. They moved briefly to Los Angeles (1941-42) and then to Cheyenne, Wyoming, while he was stationed at Fort Warren, and then back to Los Angeles for two years in 1943. While in California, Ethel and Jenne executed a floral mural for the Sun Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel and also painted scenes of the ocean which they exhibited at the Raymond and Raymond Galleries in Beverly Hills. While in Los Angeles they met novelist Irving Stone, author of Lust for Life, who told them about Woodstock, as did artists Arnold Blanch and Doris Lee (both of whom previously taught at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center school. In summer of 1945 Ethel, her sister and brother-in-law drove their station wagon across the country to Woodstock which became their permanent home. A year later Ethel married artist and musician, Bruce Currie, whom she met in Woodstock. In 1948 with the help of the GI Bill they purchased an old barn there that also housed their individual studios located at opposite ends of the house. The spatial arrangement mirrors the advice she gave her daughter, Jenne, also an artist: "Make sure you end up with a man who respects your work…The worst thing for an artist is to be in competition with her husband." In 1951 Ethel won a Fulbright Scholarship to Greece where she and her husband spent 1951-52. In addition to extensively traveling, sketching and painting the local landscape, she reconnected with her late father’s family in the area of Messinia on the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece. At the same time, her sister Jenne accompanied Chavez on his Fulbright Scholarship to Italy where they spent a productive year painting and visiting museums. Shortly after returning home, Jenne’s career was cut tragically short when she died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age thirty-six. It deeply affected Ethel whose own work took on a somber quality for several years conveyed by a darkish palette, as seen in her tempera painting, Aftermath (circa 1952). In the 1940s Ethel and her sister successfully made the important transition from government patronage to careers as independent artists. Ethel became distinguished for her modernist landscapes. Even though Ethel became a permanent Woodstock resident after World War II, from her childhood in Colorado she retained her love of the Rocky Mountains, her "earliest source of my lifelong passion for mountain landscape." She and her husband began returning to Colorado for annual summer camping trips on which they later were joined by their daughter, Jenne. Ethel did many sketches and drawings of places she found which had special meaning for her. They enabled her to recall their vital qualities which she later painted in her Woodstock studio, conveying her feeling about places remembered. She also produced a number of watercolors and prints of the Colorado landscape that constituted a departure from the American Scene style of her earlier paintings. Her postwar creative output collectively belongs to the category of landscape abstractionists as described by author Sheldon Cheney, although to a greater or lesser degree her work references Colorado’s mountainous terrain. She introduced a palette of stronger pastels in her paintings such as two temperas, Evening Mountains from the 1950s and Springtime in the Mountains from the early 1960s. In 1968 she was elected an Academician by the National Academy of Design in New York. Two years later, based on results of her many summer trips to Colorado, the U.S. Department of the Interior invited her to make on-the-spot sketches of the western United States, helping to document the water resources development and conservation efforts by the Department of the Interior. Her sketches were exhibited at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and then sent on a national tour by the Smithsonian Institution. Similarly, her previous work as a muralist earned her a final commission at age sixty-three for a 12 by 20 foot Civil War image, Grant in the Wilderness, installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitors Center at the Fredericksburg National Military Park in Virginia. In the 1970s, too, she taught as Artist-in-Residence at Syracuse University and at the University of Georgia in Athens. Her many awards include, among others, the Stacey Scholarship (1947); Tiffany Fellowship (1949); Fulbright Grant (1951-52, in Greece with her husband); Tiffany Fellowship (1949); Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize, National Academy of Design (1955); Medal of Honor, Audubon, Artists (1962); Henry Ward Granger Fund Purchase Award, National Academy of Design (1964); Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1970); Silver Medal, Audubon Artists (1983); Champion International Corporation Award, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, Connecticut (1984); John Taylor Award, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, New York (1985); Harrison Cady...

Beautiful women's Art Deco filigree bracelet in 14k white gold. This bracelet features round brilliant cut diamonds and marquise emeralds. The...

Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

Introducing a provocative mid-century Roman sculpture from the 1940s - a daring representation of a stone penis encased in a cube of protective glass. This intriguing artwork challen...

Hand Knotted in wool, this 12x14 European rug with a mediterranean warmth in its beige and red colorway in the medallions and the field, has been inspired by the old world Spanish...

Introducing the timeless elegance of the HANS BERGSTRÖM ceiling lamp model 60, a masterpiece crafted for Ateljé Lyktan in the 1940s. This iconic piece embodies mid-century sophistica...

Monumental antique American modernist abstract cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found. Very impressive painting in person here.

Extremely rare "Kesäsohva" by Aino Aalto, a Finnish Modern gem from the 1940s, meticulously crafted and produced by Artek in Finland. Carved from fine pine, this sofa was tastefully re-upholstered in the 1980s by Artek, retaining its ageless charm. With minor signs of wear, both the upholstery and pine remain in good condition. Aino Aalto was a key figure in the emergence of what is now known as Finnish Functionalism...

Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Pair Of Large Antique Italian Globes Large pair of terrestrial and celestial globes from Italy 1940s. The globes are in good conditio...

A modernist Silver Condiment Set comprising a Salt shaker, a Pepper Shaker, a Mustard Pot & a spoon. The mustard pot has a blue glass bowl and a silver spoon. Each item's exterior ha...

Antique American modernist still life oil painting by William Sanderson (1905 - 1990). Oil on board. Framed. Signed.

Art Deco table lamp. It consists of a marble base, a glass lampshade in the shape of a ball and a figure of a running dog (greyhound). Bulb type B22 - smaller size. One piece include...

Four baroque natural, uncultured river pearls -gleaming and iridescent- together resemble with stunning accuracy an iris flower; a design further emphasized by the central .10 carat ...

Vintage Arthur Umanoff Grenada dining set - this set has been powder coated white and the seat cushions have been completely reupholstered with ...

A unique, humorous and colorful landscape painting by Harold Haydon depicting the artist painting alongside cows. The painting dates from 1941. Harold Emerson Haydon was born in Fo...

Grande anello con acquamarina (35 ct.), taglio smeraldo, di colore azzurro intenso. Raffinata montatura in oro rosa 18 carati, in stile art decò. Prodotto artigi...

This very nice and unusual pair of side tables is made of silvered metal with Carrara marble tops. This is a French work in the style of Maison Jansen. Circa 1940

JO NAPOT KIVANOK! Here I am offering a beautiful Hungarian hand-embroidered wedding skirt from the early 1950s. This original piece features a full, pleated skirt that is open at th...

Unique scalloped metal and mirror cocktail table from the 1940's in pristine condition.

Bold and beautiful, this rug will instantly uplift any room it's introduced to. Contrasting colours have been used in the construction of this stunning area rug. Deep Red, Brown and ...

An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in an evening gown. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Archivally matted to 12" x 16". "Black velvet gown trimmed in net and red poppies. Carson Pirie Scott."

Handsome Art Deco chest of drawers. Original painted finish and golden elm top. Detailed with brass pulls, decorative centerpiece and uniquely shaped legs.

Patinated bronze lantern with 3 candelabra lights and hand blown glass shade. Dimensions 17" Diameter 45" Hight\, the lantern body is only 21" Hight.

Carafe in Limoges porcelain hand painted with floral motifs, made in the 1940s Ø cm 9 h cm 30 There Limoges porcelain it dates back to the 1660s-70s, when in a French town near...

Stunning oil painting "Ballerina" executed by Fried Pal in the 1940s,this painting is exemplary of the pictorial style of the author,whose portraiture combines a soft naturakistic re...

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...

5-2646 Scandinavian figurative landscape ,oil on artist board Displayed in a gilt wood frame Image size 19,5x15.5 overall 23.5x 19.5

"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Oil on canvas board 1930s Elegant mid century landscape depicting a lake and hillside in summer by well known and collected California artist ...

Superb set of six Art Deco wrought iron dining chairs golden powder coated finish by rene prou in the 1940s style. The set contains 4 highbacked chairs...

1940' alvar aalto design 111 shelf. This is made in Hedemora for export to abroad aalto furnitures during WW2.

Hand-knotted in wool, this 11x19 vintage Spanish rug in gold features geometric patterns in green and orange that draw on Art Nouveau sensibilities. On the Design: Admirers of the...

Vicenç Ferrer Torradellas (1927) - Ibiza Market - Oil on canvas Oil measures 46x55 cm. Frameless. Reus 1927. He studied at the School of Work. He dedicated himself to easel painting...

Great size and attractive custom made white painted wrought iron pedestals with Greek logo and acanthus leaves decoration.

This very nice and elegant neoclassical style coffee table is made of a hoop brass base with a green marble on top. This is a French work by famous designer Maison Jansen. Circa 1940

This vintage style diamond ring is gorgeously designed and handcrafted with a dazzling 1.89 carat old cut diamond center and spring green calibre cut emerald accents! Highlights: -...

Rare Lalique Crystal Vase, San Diego Model, made in the 1940s Ø cm 22 Ø cm 16 h cm 16 I Lalique crystals born from the idea of René Lalique, a French jeweler and glassmaker. D...

Circa 1940s. Hollywood regency. Stiffel brass and enamel lamp. Works perfectly. Very heavy. Brass finial. Shade not original can be included. Sha...

Set of two beautiful art deco bedside tables. Produced in Czechoslovakia in 1940s. The tables are square, made of beautiful walnut wood with amazing patters. The tables are in origin...

Hand-knotted in luxurious wool, this 9x12 antique Persian Tabriz rug features a rich design combination of floral patterns, medallions and open field style, which is almost unusual f...

Lampada da tavolo degli anni 40 in stile art deco. Base circolare in legno di rovere e paralume in vetro a coste color bianco. Base in legno restaurata. Revisionata da elettricista è...

A crisp, saturated purple overdye on a palmette patterned carpet with additional palmetes in the bord. Pile flat to uniformly distressed, medium weave, cotton foundation. Overdye dom...

A Cubist black & white graphite drawing of fruit by artist Illinois and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky.

This magnificent vintage cocktail ring is crafted in solid 14k rose gold and features a gorgeous natural amethyst stone neatly prong set at its center. This large oval amethyst displays the most gorgeous and mesmerizing medium to dark purple color with amazing amount of shine due to its brilliant cutting style, bringing a truly rich and super desirable look to this ring. It is further accented with 10 round brilliant cut rubies that are neatly bezel set along either side, adding wonderful contrast with their beautiful and well matched pinkish-red color. The wide ring has elegant ribbed sides with a nice high polished finish throughout. A bold and absolutely remarkable ring that is guaranteed to impress! Enjoy :) --Stone(s):-- (1) Natural Genuine Amethyst - Oval Brilliant Cut - Prong Set - Transparent Medium to Dark Purple Color - 16.4x21.8x11.1mm / 21.50ct (approx.) (10) Natural Genuine Rubies - Round Brilliant Cut - Bezel Set - Pinkish-Red Color - 0.50ctw (approx.) Total Carat Weight: 22.0 (approx.) Material: Solid 14k Rose Gold Weight: 15.57 Grams Ring Size: 6.0 (We can custom size this ring - please let us know prior to purchase for sizing inquiries.) Ring Width: 21.8mm (0.86") (at the amethyst - north to south), 21.4mm (0.84") (east to west - ruby to ruby), 2.8mm (bottom of the shank) Ring Height: 11.8mm rise off the finger Condition: Vintage retro statement ring...

A pair of modernist Silver Condiment sets comprising a Salt shaker, a Pepper Shaker, a Mustard Pot & a spoon. The mustard pot has a blue glass bowl and a silver spoon. Each item's ex...

Glazed round table designed by famous architects Kropacek & Kozelka in 1944. Czechoslovakia. It can be used as a coffee or side table. Solid oak. In excellent condition, fully renova...

Large rare vase executed in handpainted terracotta. Decorated in earthy glazes with floral impressions and a large peacock. It measures 20 cm and has a diameter of 23 cm. Signed L. H...

1940s Woodard Orleans pattern bounce rocker chair. Original verdigris powder coated finish. Seat without cushions, 12.5" H. Chair is stamped Woodard on...

Baron Michael D`Aguilar was born on May 15, 1922 in London to Spanish parents. He was brother of the artist Paul D`Aguilar. He spent much of his early life in Spain. He studied at...

This very nice and rare pair of three tiers consoles or side tables is made of mahogany and brass. The tables are composed of 3 mahogany shelves that are worked all around and of 4 s...

This very nice pair of cobra candlesticks is made of a finely chiseled bronze. This is a French work. Circa 1940

A French 1940s Neoclassical style floor lamp in a polished nickel finish ready to illuminate your space with style and grace. It features a footed triangular base that not only provi...

20th century Original painted heavy cast iron door stop full body cow doorstop.This is a three dimensional cow door stop.