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Marine - Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1927
By Lucie Navier
Located in Roma, IT
Marine is a painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1927.
Tempera on paper.
Mint conditions.
Impressionistic work realized with a Realistic technique and representing a natural...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hermosa Beach Coastline - Watercolor On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Hermosa Beach Coastline - Watercolor On Paper
Watercolor painting depicting the Hermosa Beach coastline by California artist F.J. Whitlock (American, B- 1923 ). Vibrant hues of blue...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“After the Hunt”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom left. Circa 1940. ...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
A Cloudy Day, English Impressionist River Landscape with figure and cottage
Located in Woodbury, CT
A Cloudy Day, English Impressionist River Landscape with figure and cottage, circa 1922.
Alexander Fuller Maitland painted coastal subjects and marines. Exhibited thirteen works, in...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woodstock: Field with Trees in Hilly Landscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
William S. Butz
(American, active Woodstock, N.Y., 1911-39)
Field with Trees in Hilly Landscape
Oil on canvasboard, 8 3/4 x 11 inches
Framed: 15 x 17 inches (approx.)
Signed on verso...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Tavern Meeting”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of interior crowded pub scene by the British artist, George Anderson Short. Signed bottom left. Circa...
Category
1940s Academic Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper, Graphite
Fox Terrier - Drawing by Sirio Tofanari - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
A sculptor of animals, Sirio Tofanari (Florence 1886 – Milan 1969) is not inclined to the school discipline, he decides to learn and train as self-taught by travelling around Europe ...
Category
1920s Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
La Rochelle. Sortie du port by Paul Signac - Watercolour on paper
By Paul Signac
Located in London, GB
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La Rochelle. Sortie du port by Paul Signac (...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
New York scene done by John Grabach Artist "Trinity Church - Wall Street"
Located in Rockport, MA
Great Wall Street piece by John R. Grabach (March 2, 1886 – March 17, 1981) with expressive colors and figures.
Grabach was a renowned American painter, best known for his evocative...
Category
1920s Ashcan School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peintures et Dessins. Paintings and drawing - Rare Book by Henry Michaux - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Edition of 920 numbered copies. Copy on velin de rives B.F.K.. including 43 tables with printed tissue guards, in black and white and in colour reproducing the works of Michaux from ...
Category
1940s Modern More Art
Materials
Paper
The Wedding, from: My Life Die Hochzeit: Mein Leben - Russian French Berlin
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
This original etching with drypoint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered 50/110 in pencil from the edition of 11...
Category
1920s Surrealist More Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Mademoiselle Spinelly chez elle - Pochoir by G. Barbier - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Pochoir. This is one of the artworks in the portfolio 'Le Bonheur du Jour', by George Barbier.
Passepartout included : 34 x 49 cm
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Albright Knox Gallery Label Signed Landscape Oil Painting Lake River Nocturnal
Located in Buffalo, NY
A charming painting of a quaint lake at night with the moon reflecting on calm waters.
Bearing an Albright Knox Art Gallery "Art Week" label from 1941 t...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Bullfight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bullfight
Lithograph, 1928
Signed and dated in pencil lower right (see photo)
Numbered lower left (see photo)
Edition: 41 (22/41)
Reference: Davis L37
Printed chine applique on wove ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
“St. Ives, Cornwall, England”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil painting on artist canvas board by the California artist, Fern F. Cunningham. Signed lower right. Titled in pencil on stretcher verso. Condition is very good. Recently professionally cleaned. Circa 1940. The painting is housed in its original period frame. Overall framed measurements are 14.5 by 17.5 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota Florida collector.
Fern Cunningham Stone (1889-1975) She was born in Defiance, Ohio on August 4, 1889. A painter, she specialized in impressionist still life works, landscapes, and seascapes of California. Born Fern F. Smith, she married Napoleon Arthur...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Terrasse
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful lithograph on Chinese paper, signed and dated (1923) on plate on the lower right margin. An intimate artwork representing a woman with her kids singing on a terrace. Excell...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
After Pablo Picasso - The Basket
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
With the printed signature of Picassp and date, as issued
Based on an original composition of 1920, printed in 1946
Picture Dimensions: 21 x 31 cm.
Sheet Dimensions: 31 x 41 cm
Prin...
Category
1920s American Modern Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
View of Rome - Original Pen Drawing on Paper by Luigi Montanarini - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
View of Rome is an original drawing in pen realized by Luigi Montanarini in 1947.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right margin.
Passepartout: 48.5 x 65
Good condition excep...
Category
1940s Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Female Figure - Pencil Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1920s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Female Figure is an original modern artwork realized the 1920s by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989).
Original pencil drawing on Ivory paper.
Hand-sig...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Kawase Hasui -- Rain at Yasuniwa (Nagano)
By Kawase Hasui
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Kawase Hasui
Rain at Yasuniwa (Nagano), 1946
woodcut in colours
Signed on the block, sealed, titled and dated in ink
Publisher: Shozaburo Watanabe, with his 6mm seal
The first state
...
Category
1940s Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Beuys' Exhibition - Original Vintage Photo by Ruby Durini - 1084 ca.
By Joseph Beuys
Located in Roma, IT
Beuys' Exhibition is an original b/w photograph representing the indoor of the Marino Gallery (in Mignanelli Square, Rome) where Joseph Beuys' exhibition was held in the Eighty's. Th...
Category
1940s Conceptual Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Porcupine
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Porcupine
Engraving, 1949
Signed and dated lower right (see photo)
Titled and numbered lower left (see photo)
Created while the artist was completing the MFA in Printmaking at the Un...
Category
1940s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Engraving
Notre Dame, Paris, vue de la Seine
Located in New York, NY
Oil on board. Signed in oil, lower left recto, and inscribed "no. 20" in watercolor verso. With the "Douane Centrale" ink stamp verso.
Provenance: Private collection, Chicago.
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dig for Victory over Want - World War II public information poster leaflet
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Realist More Prints
Materials
Lithograph
L'arc-en-ciel - Pochoir by G. Barbier - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
This is one of the artworks in the portfolio 'Le Bonheur du Jour', by George Barbier.
Passepartout included : 34 x 49 cm
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Ca. 1945 Cubist Graphite on Paper Still Life Drawing by Artist Stanley Bielecky
By Stanley Bielecky
Located in Chicago, IL
A ca. 1945, Cubist black & white graphite drawing of fruit by artist Illinois and Michigan artist Stanley Bielecky. Image size: 4" x 5". Archivally matted to: 13 1/4" x 16".
Stanley Bielecky was an Indiana artist who painted the American scene, from the factories and workers around East Chicago to the bucolic settings of Mackinac Island...
Category
1940s American Modern Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Matisse, Série D, var. 2 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Various Studies of Figures on a Boat, Paul Cadmus Sketch on Paper
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Various Studies of Figures on a Boat, Paul Cadmus Sketch on Paper.
Graphite on paper
6 x 8.5 inches
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City...
Category
1940s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Robe Grise
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Robe Grise
Pochoir (silk screen) printed in colors, 1923
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right (see photo)
The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his pochoirs
Condition: Two spots in the upper left corner associated with the printing.
Victor Max Ninon (Vittorio Accornero de Testa, Italian, 1896-1982)
Biography
Vittorio Accornero de Testa was born in Casale Monferrato in 1896. He completed his first studies at the "Leardi" institute, but was forced to interrupt them due to the war events of the First World War . At 19 he was second lieutenant of the Alpine troops and in 1916 he took one of the first pilot's licenses. During the war he knows the bitterness of shooting down in air combat (for which he is decorated), but also the good fortune to stay alive, albeit with a disability. His art blossomed in the postwar period, first signing his works simply Ninon and then, probably at the suggestion of a French publisher, under the pseudonym of "Victor Max Ninon" (Victor and Max indicate strength and masculinity, Ninon boyhood) .In 1919 and 1924 he made illustrations for theGiornalino della Domenica , also together with his first wife Edina Altara , for Ardita and La Lettura . In 1923 he won the cover competition organized by the magazine El Hogar of Buenos Aires and in 1925 with his pochoirs he imposed himself in Paris at the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts , obtaining a gold medal. In the same year he made two covers for the US magazine The Smart Set . In the 1920s he made numerous series of art deco style postcards for the Milanese publishing house Degami . On June 4, 1929, aGenoa embarks on the Conte Grande together with his wife Edina Altara , for New York . The two stayed in the American metropolis for a few months: in this period Accornero worked on the creation of theatrical sets and created some covers for Country Life magazine . Accornero gets awards and prizes, but the great economic crisis of the time and the nostalgia for Italy convince the two to return to their homeland, where they resume their activity as illustrators.
In 1934 Accornero moved to Milan, separated amicably from his wife and continued to dedicate himself to the illustration of children's books, abandoning the pseudonym Victor Max Ninon. It illustrates about 60 books, from the fables of Andersen , Perrault and Grimm , to the tales of Poe , as well as the famous Pinocchio and Cuore published by Mondadori, Mursia, Hoepli, Martello. Several books illustrated by Accornero have been published in French, Spanish, German and English. In addition to the periodicals already mentioned, he collaborates on the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Boys , Mondadori, and with the Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration , Fantasies of Italy , The Woman , Cordelia , For You Lady , Grace , Metropolis , La Domenica del Corriere , The Corriere dei Piccoli .
In 1936 enters the world of cinema, creating sets and costumes for Wedding Vagabonde of Guido Brignone and The White Squadron of Augustus Genina . From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese theaters Manzoni, Lirico and Olympia. Stages Marcello di Giordano, Nina pazza d'amore by Paisiello, I cantori di Nurimberga by Wagner, La Bohème by Puccini and other works. For this activity he is also cited in the Theater encyclopedia.
In the 1940s and 1950s he wrote and illustrated six books for children for Mondadori: Tomaso (1944), Giacomino (1949), Tomaso Cacciatore (1950), Zio Stefano (1950), In Campagna che delizia! (1953), Tomaso, dear Tomaso (1955). His illustrations of Perrault's Tales published in those years by Hoepli are famous.
His art in the fifties evolves towards hyperrealism . There are many personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including those at the Gallerie Gussoni (1959) and Bolzani (1963 and 1966) in Milan and Walcheturm (1962) in Zurich. Eminent critics praise his work, from Orio Vergani to Enrico Piceni, from Reto Roedel to De Chirico himself. On the Domenica del Corriere , the journalist, writer and painter Dino...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
The Maltese Falcon - Vintage Photograph - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Humphrey Bogart, Ward Bond, Mary Astor and Barton MacLane in a scene from the movie The Maltese Falcon, a 1941 noir movie directed by Jo...
Category
1940s Black and White Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chez Le Patissier - Original Etching by J.E. Laboureur - 1924
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed. Signed and titled on plate.
Very good conditions.
This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under existing legislation, any artwork in Italy created over 50 years ago by an a...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Rain, Beartrack Cove, Glacier Bay National Monument, Alaska
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the mount beneath the image. Printed in 1950 in an edition of 100 numbered copies and 5 presentation copies; this print is fr...
Category
1940s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Two Figures on a Boat, Sketch on Paper by Paul Cadmus
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Two Figures on a Boat, Sketch on Paper by Paul Cadmus.
Graphite on paper
5.75 x 6.25 inches (14.6 x 15.9 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Remembered for his m...
Category
1940s Contemporary Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Marina in Burrasca - Original Etching by Carlo Carrà - 1924
By Carlo Carrà
Located in Roma, IT
Marina in Burrasca is a splendid etching realized by Carlo Carrà (1881- 1966) in 1924.
Hand-signed, titled and qualified as an artist proof (Prova d'artista) on the lower margin by ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Still-Life Painting of a Ceramic Elephant and a Red Pillow by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
An amusing, ca. 1940, oil on board, still-life painting of a ceramic elephant and a red pillow by Francis Chapin. Painting is in a dark wood frame. Image size: 8 1/2" x 10 1/2". ...
Category
1940s American Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Floating Forms”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern gouache on paper by the well known Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed and dated in blue pen lower left, 1947. Condition: Good. Framed in thin black matte painted frame with acid free white mat. Not examined out of frame. Overall framed 14.25 by 17 inches.
ROLPH SCARLETT (1889-1984)
Rolph Scarlett was born 1889 in Guelph, Ontario. His long life as an artist began in his teens as a jewelry designer and fabricator. At the age of fourteen he began to design jewelry professionally, a craft which he continued off and on for the rest of his life.
His desire to learn more about art took him to New York in 1908, when American artists were just beginning to experience strong influences from major modern European artists of the day such as Cezanne and Picasso.
Throughout his long career he produced, oil paintings, many works on paper, unique sculptured jewelry, modernist style industrial and furniture designs. Currently there are over 800 of his designs at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Design Collection.
In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, California where he became a very successful stage and set designer. In the mid-1930s he met the director of the Museum of Non-objective Art in New York ( Hilla Rebay). He became her close associate and advisor in organizing and running the museum. He was Chief lecturer at the museum (1939 -1946) teaching the new modernism and abstraction to the new generation of artists in the New York art community. Hilla Rebay would introduce him as “Rolph Scarlett, my great find”. So considerable was her enthusiasm for Scarlett, that she and Solomon Guggenheim bought over sixty of his paintings and monotypes for the museum. After Kandinsky and Bauer, there was more of Scarlett’s work in the collection than any other artists.
He participated in many of the museum exhibitions and galleries and was regularly exhibiting his work in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Museum, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Modern Age Gallery in N.Y., the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He studied for a time at the Art Student League with William Merrit...
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Figure in Interior - Original Pencil Drawing by Jeanne Daour - 1940
By Jeanne Daour
Located in Roma, IT
Figure in Interior is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Jeanne Daour in 1940, Hand-signed and dated on the left inside of drawing.
The state of preservation is good...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Coquette
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Coquette
Pochoir (silk screen) printed in colors, c. 1923-1925
Signed by the artist in pencil lower right; numbered in ink on the image, (see photo)
Edition: 250 (100/250) in pencil in image (see photo)
Image size: 10-1/2 x 12-3/4"
The artist won a gold medal in Paris in 1925 for his porchoirs
Victor Max Ninon (Vittorio Accornero de Testa, Italian, 1896-1982)
Biography
Vittorio Accornero de Testa was born in Casale Monferrato in 1896. He completed his first studies at the "Leardi" institute, but was forced to interrupt them due to the war events of the First World War . At 19 he was second lieutenant of the Alpine troops and in 1916 he took one of the first pilot's licenses. During the war he knows the bitterness of shooting down in air combat (for which he is decorated), but also the good fortune to stay alive, albeit with a disability. His art blossomed in the postwar period, first signing his works simply Ninon and then, probably at the suggestion of a French publisher, under the pseudonym of "Victor Max Ninon" (Victor and Max indicate strength and masculinity, Ninon boyhood) .In 1919 and 1924 he made illustrations for theGiornalino della Domenica , also together with his first wife Edina Altara , for Ardita and La Lettura . In 1923 he won the cover competition organized by the magazine El Hogar of Buenos Aires and in 1925 with his pochoirs he imposed himself in Paris at the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts , obtaining a gold medal. In the same year he made two covers for the US magazine The Smart Set . In the 1920s he made numerous series of art deco style postcards for the Milanese publishing house Degami . On June 4, 1929, aGenoa embarks on the Conte Grande together with his wife Edina Altara , for New York . The two stayed in the American metropolis for a few months: in this period Accornero worked on the creation of theatrical sets and created some covers for Country Life magazine . Accornero gets awards and prizes, but the great economic crisis of the time and the nostalgia for Italy convince the two to return to their homeland, where they resume their activity as illustrators.
In 1934 Accornero moved to Milan, separated amicably from his wife and continued to dedicate himself to the illustration of children's books, abandoning the pseudonym Victor Max Ninon. It illustrates about 60 books, from the fables of Andersen , Perrault and Grimm , to the tales of Poe , as well as the famous Pinocchio and Cuore published by Mondadori, Mursia, Hoepli, Martello. Several books illustrated by Accornero have been published in French, Spanish, German and English. In addition to the periodicals already mentioned, he collaborates on the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Boys , Mondadori, and with the Italian magazines Lidel , Il Secolo XX, The Italian Illustration , Fantasies of Italy , The Woman , Cordelia , For You Lady , Grace , Metropolis , La Domenica del Corriere , The Corriere dei Piccoli .
In 1936 enters the world of cinema, creating sets and costumes for Wedding Vagabonde of Guido Brignone and The White Squadron of Augustus Genina . From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese theaters Manzoni, Lirico and Olympia. Stages Marcello di Giordano, Nina pazza d'amore by Paisiello, I cantori di Nurimberga by Wagner, La Bohème by Puccini and other works. For this activity he is also cited in the Theater encyclopedia.
In the 1940s and 1950s he wrote and illustrated six books for children for Mondadori: Tomaso (1944), Giacomino (1949), Tomaso Cacciatore (1950), Zio Stefano (1950), In Campagna che delizia! (1953), Tomaso, dear Tomaso (1955). His illustrations of Perrault's Tales published in those years by Hoepli are famous.
His art in the fifties evolves towards hyperrealism . There are many personal exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including those at the Gallerie Gussoni (1959) and Bolzani (1963 and 1966) in Milan and Walcheturm (1962) in Zurich. Eminent critics praise his work, from Orio Vergani to Enrico Piceni, from Reto Roedel to De Chirico himself. On the Domenica del Corriere , the journalist, writer and painter Dino Buzzati...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Stencil
Female semi-nude on bedding, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Female semi-nude on bedding, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artwork is presented in archival rag mat and arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Klimt’s mastery of depth is most evident in the gentleness of his linework. Without the aid of shadow or the subtlety of values, the gestures of line allow the viewer a sense of a three-dimensional person or object. The meticulous lithographic process used to create Klimt’s Handzeichnungen portfolio ensures exceptionally crisp markings bearing a strong resemblance to the original sketches. This series showcases the quintessence behind Klimt’s signature visual style. This artwork arrives accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Century Guild has curated collections of Gustav Klimt’s printed...
Category
1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"Le Jardin à Vaux" circa 1920s Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Le Jardin à Vaux"
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Pastel on paper, circa 1920s
Stamp of studio on reverse: INV Nbr. 823
9 1/2 x 12 (17 1/2 x 14 framed) inches
Raymond Thibes...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
Piero Sansalvadore Chithurst Bridge Sussex oil painting mid century modern art
Located in London, GB
Piero Sansalvadore (1892-1955)
Chithurst Bridge Sussex
Signed Sansalvadore. Titled to verso.
Oil on wood panel
21.5 x 28cm (8.5 x 11 in)
Provenance: Stacy-Marks Gallery, Eastbourne,...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Landscape', Kansas City Art Institute, New York, Art Students League, WPA, WWAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, outside of design, 'Guy Maccoy' (American, 1904-1981), dated 1942 and titled, lower left, 'Gray Landscape'. Additionally stamped, verso,...
Category
1940s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paint, Paper
Avro Lancaster Bombers in Factory original 1942 silver gelatin press photograph
Located in London, GB
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Category
1940s Realist Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
The Golden Gate
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Golden Gate
Lithograph on wove paper watermarked GC, 1940
Signed in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Publisher: Associated American Artists
Edition: 189, unnumbered
The image depicts The Golden Gate Bridge which connects San Francisco and Marin County, California
References And Exhibitions:
Illustrated: Adams, The Sensuous Life of Adolf Dehn, Fig. 13.17, page 324
Reference: L & O 325
AAA Index 391
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood.
After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet).
Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason.
Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag.
The Years in Europe: 1922-1929
In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work.
Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.”
A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer...
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1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Graphite on paper, c. 1946
Signed with the estate stamp verso
Provenance: estate of the Artist
Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver
Conditio...
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1940s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Antique Sunset Sailboat Framed Seascape Signed Silver Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American school sunset sailboat seascape. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's Americana WPA Modernist Watercolor Painting Catskill Mountains Bungalow
Located in Surfside, FL
Bungalow (fauvist painting of New York scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Country Scene
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Arrived in the USA from Hungary in 1921 and settled in New York City where he studied at the Art Students League. Grunvald worked for the Federal Art Project, taught at Colony House in NYC. Member: Art Guild, Watercolor Society, New York Watercolor Club. exhibited at Montross Gallery, NYC, World House Galleries, NYC, Leonard Hutton Gallery, NYC, Associated American Artists Gallery and the A.C.A. Gallery. Gunvald's work spanned many modern American movements from the WPA to Abstract Expressionist painting. He was a member of the American Watercolor Society and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. He exhibited with both of these organizations and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He was involved the the WPA being a Federal Arts Project artist. A number of prominent Jewish artists participated in this New Deal program among them Ben Shahn, Joseph Solman, William Gropper, Philip Guston Adolph Gottlieb, Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Ben Shahn, the Soyers (Isaac, Moses, and Raphael), and many others
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A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
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1940s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Thee Graces Preparatory Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Study of Three Graces), 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Piero Sansalvadore Queens’ College Cambridge oil painting River Cam Mathematical
Located in London, GB
Piero Sansalvadore (1892-1955)
Queens’ College Cambridge
Signed Sansalvadore. Titled to verso.
Oil on wood panel
21.5 x 28cm (8.5 x 11 in)
Provenance: Stacy-Marks Gallery, Eastbourn...
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Plage Normande (Normandy Beach)
Located in Chicago, IL
Studio stamp of Gromaire, lower center
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Notes:
A typical Normandy beach scene, perhaps near Deauville or Trouville.
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1920s Expressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Animated landscape att. to Alexandre Blanchet - Oil on canvas 23x32 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wood frame
28,5 x 38 x 3 cm
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Abode of Snow, from Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
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1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Puigdengolas. Pine tree. COSTA DE MALLORCA, 1942. Original Painting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
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The Marqués de Lozoya said of Puigdengolas that ...
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Nude
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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Renowned for his technical prowess and artistic innovation,...
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1920s American Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
TAOS INDIAN JESTERS
By Gene Kloss
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GENE KLOSS (1903 – 1996)
TAOS INDIAN JESTERS, 1944
Etching and aquatint, Signed and titled in pencil. Edition 30. Image 11” x 13 7/8”, sheet 13 ¼ x 16 ½”. In very good condition sa...
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1940s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Banner Peak, Thousand Island Lake, Central Sierra
By Ansel Adams
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin photograph, printed in the late 1920s on Kodak Vitava Athena paper, is signed in pencil beneath the image with a typeset title centered in the lower margi...
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1920s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Matisse, Série E, var. 13 (Duthuit 9), Dessins, Thèmes et variations (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin pur fil paper. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Henri Matisse, Dessins, Thèmes et Variations, 19...
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1940s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph