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Period: 1940s
“City Snow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache city snowscape attributed to the hand of Hans Peter Nelson. Signed lower left ”H. Nelson”. Condition is excellent. Circa 1940. Under glass. The art...
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Ashcan School 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper

1940s WPA Era American Modern Colorado Mountain Landscape Watercolor Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This original watercolor painting by American artist Edgar Britton captures the serene beauty of a Colorado mountain landscape. Created in 1946, this piece showcases soft, airy tones...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Veillee Sepulchrale; Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Veillee Sepulchrale Verso: Study of two figures in a landscape Pen and ink on rose colored Canson watermark paper, 1944 Signed in ink with the artist's initials lower center (see photo) Dated 1944 lower center; Titled in ink upper left corner (see photo) Provenance: Swann Galleries, 2010, realized $900. John Popplestone (1928-2013), Akron, OH collector, noted psychologist and author Berman brothers (painters) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search This article is about the painters. For the American songwriters/producers, see Berman Brothers (producers). Eugene Berman in Italy in the 1960s Eugène Berman (Russian: Евгений Густавович Берман; 4 November 1899, Saint Petersburg, Russia – 14 December 1972, Rome) and his brother Leonid Berman...
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Surrealist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Pen

Snowy roofs
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard Brown wooden frame with glass pane 40 x 46.5 x 1.5 cm This work depicts a snowy village with remarkable precision, capturing the essence of a serene winter. The roo...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Legend meets the Second World War: allegory of St George slaying the Dragon
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick Allegory of St George slaying the Dragon Gouache 22 x 13 cm Signed to reverse along with the Golden Hinde, probably for publication in Swillbin or similar. This goua...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil, Gouache

Second World War Swillbin painting, British Matilda Tank
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick British Matilda Tank Gouache 6 x 9 cm Signed to the reverse. This striking miniature gouache depicts a British Matilda tank rolling through the bleak no man's land...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Second World War Swillbin painting, German Pz.Kw.Mark III
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick German Pz.Kw.Mark III Gouache 6 x 9 cm Signed to the reverse. This striking miniature gouache depicts a German Panzerkampfwagen III, commonly known as the Panzer I...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Second World War Swillbin painting, British Valentine Tank II
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick British Valentine Tank Gouache 6 x 9 cm Signed to the reverse. This striking miniature gouache depicts a British Valentine tank rolling through the desolate no ma...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Second World War Swillbin painting, Soviet T-34/76
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick Soviet T-34/76 Gouache 6 x 9 cm Signed to the reverse. This striking miniature gouache depicts a Soviet T-34/76 powering through a mountainous snowscape. The T-34/...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

Second World War Swillbin painting, British Valentine Tank
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick British Valentine Tank Gouache 6 x 9 cm Signed to the reverse. This striking miniature gouache depicts a British Valentine tank rolling through the no man's land ...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache

British Light Tanks, c.1940, original painting by Vivian Bewick
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick British light tanks Gouache 17 x 25 cm This striking gouache depicts two British light tanks in formation. Bewick captures the details of these vehicles seemingly w...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Pencil

Second World War painting, Anti-Aircraft Battery
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick Anti-aircraft battery Gouache 28 x 20 cm Signed and dated in bottom left hand corner. This striking gouache depicts an anti-aircraft battery in action: shots are be...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Pencil

Second World War painting, Anti-Tank Gun in Action
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick Anti-tank gun in action Gouache 24 x 32 cm Signed and dated to lower right. This striking gouache depicts, according to the artist, 'an anti-tank gun, with Australi...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Pencil

Second World War drawing, searchlight battery
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick Searchlight Battery Pencil and gouache 22 x 13 cm Signed and dated to lower left. This striking multimedia composition depicts two operators working as part of a se...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Pencil

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: City Winter Scene by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) watercolour and gouache painting with charcoal on artist's paper, unframed Sheet: 9.75 x 13.5 inches Intriguing painting by the...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Charcoal, Watercolor

The Tuilerie, study
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Brown wooden frame with glass pane 62.6 x 67.7 x 1.5 cm
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Crayon

Blitz Site with St Paul's Cathedral, drawing by Hubert Finney
Located in London, GB
Hubert Finney (1905 – 1991) Blitz Site with St Paul's Cathedral Charcoal, coloured pencil and pastel 35 x 52 cm A reclusive figure whose work has remained largely unseen, Finney stu...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Charcoal, Color Pencil, Pastel

Soldiers Waiting, charcoal drawing by Hubert Finney
Located in London, GB
Hubert Finney (1905 – 1991) Soldiers Waiting Charcoal 37 x 55 cm A reclusive figure whose work has remained largely unseen, Finney studied under Eric Gill before winning a scholarsh...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Charcoal, Color Pencil

Snow in Forest, Mid-Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Snow in the Forest, 1945 Watercolor on paper Signed and dated lower right 19 x 23.75 inches 24 x 29 inches, framed Clarence Holbrook C...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Church of Saint-Etienne-Du-Mont, Paris
Located in Genève, GE
Work on watercolor paper Gray wooden frame with glass pane 94 x 73 x 3 cm
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

The Arve from Vessy, Switzerland
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper Brown wooden frame with glass pane 56 x 70 x 1.6 cm
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Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pencil

Jean LE MAYEUR DE MEPRES (1880-1958), women in Bali
Located in Paris, FR
The work is typical of Le Mayeur de Merpres, a Belgian painter, who represented many scenes of everyday life in Bali in the 30s-40s, married to an Indonesian woman Ni Pollok. Le May...
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper

Design for Décor, Ballet Set Decoration
Located in Greenwich, CT
In addition to his very well-respected career as a major Fauve and Post -Impressionist, André Derain’s skill as a ballet set decorator also emerged, beginning in 1919 and continuing ...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

'Rainy Day, Pool and Billiards', Laguna Beach Art Association, Solvang, Moure
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marshall Thomas' for Marshall F. Thomas, (American, 1916-2011), and painted circa 1945. An elegantly composed and atmospheric view of a California Main Street sh...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
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 ...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

View of the Lake Blick über den See - Landscape Lake Germany
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 44" [1944] in the lower right image. It is also hand titled in pencil “Blick über den See”, verso. Provena...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Provencal Plane Trees in Winter
Located in London, GB
'Provencal Plane Trees in Winter', gouache on art paper, by Max Escalon de Fonton (1946). The plane trees found in Provence in the South of France are a hybrid of the Asian and Ameri...
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Gouache

'Fremantle Harbor, Perth', Western Australia, Post Impressionist, SFAA, MoMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Byron' for Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999), dated 1947 and titled, 'Aus'. A dramatic, Post-Impressionist view of the Western Australian port of Fremantle wit...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Pastel

Indian Riders on a Cliff, Western, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Indian Riders on Cliff, c. 1940 Watercolor and graphite on board Signed lower right, verso 22 x 30 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Graphite

Riders Near Entrance to Zion Canyon, Utah, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Riders Near Entrance to Zion Canyon, Utah, c. 1940 Watercolor and gouache on paper Signed lower right 14 x 19 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer, and Frederick Gottwald. He also attended Keller's Berlin Heights summer school from 1909. After graduating in 1910, Wilcox traveled and studied in Europe, sometimes dropping by Académie Colarossi in the evening to sketch the model or the other students at their easels, where he was influenced by French impressionism. Wilcox was influenced by Keller's innovative watercolor techniques, and from 1910 to 1916 they experimented together with impressionism and post-impressionism. Wilcox soon developed his own signature style in the American Scene or Regionalist tradition of the early 20th century. He joined the Cleveland School of Art faculty in 1913. Among his students were Lawrence Edwin Blazey, Carl Gaertner, Paul Travis, and Charles E. Burchfield. Around this time Wilcox became associated with Cowan Pottery. In 1916 Wilcox married fellow artist Florence Bard, and they spent most of their honeymoon painting in Berlin Heights with Keller. They had one daughter, Mary. In 1918 he joined the Cleveland Society of Artists, a conservative counter to the Bohemian Kokoon Arts Club, and would later serve as its president. He also began teaching night school at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute at this time, and taught briefly at Baldwin-Wallace College. Wilcox wrote and illustrated Ohio Indian Trails in 1933, which was favorably reviewed by the New York Times in 1934. This book was edited and reprinted in 1970 by William A. McGill. McGill also edited and reprinted Wilcox' Canals of the Old Northwest in 1969. Wilcox also wrote, illustrated, and published Weather Wisdom in 1949, a limited edition (50 copies) of twenty-four serigraphs (silk screen prints) accompanied by commentary "based upon familiar weather observations commonly made by people living in the country." Wilcox displayed over 250 works at Cleveland's annual May Show. He received numerous awards, including the Penton Medal for as The Omnibus, Paris (1920), Fish Tug on Lake Erie (1921), Blacksmith Shop (1922), and The Gravel Pit (1922). Other paintings include The Trailing Fog (1929), Under the Big Top (1930), and Ohio Landscape...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Gouache

Gilbert's Camp, Western Painting, Mid 20th Century, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Gilbert's Camp, c. 1941 Watercolor on Whatman board Signed lower right 22 x 30 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Oxen and Mule Drawn Wagon on the Trail, Mid 20th Century, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964) Oxen and Mule Drawn Wagon on the Trail, 1949 Oil on board Signed and dated lower right 22 x 30 inches Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a master of watercolor. Wilcox is described as the "Dean of Cleveland School painters," though some sources give this appellation to Henry Keller or Frederick Gottwald. Wilcox was born on October 3, 1887 to Frank Nelson Wilcox, Sr. and Jessie Fremont Snow Wilcox at 61 Linwood Street in Cleveland, Ohio. His father, a prominent lawyer, died at home in 1904 shortly before Wilcox' 17th birthday. His brother, lawyer and publisher Owen N. Wilcox, was president of the Gates Legal Publishing Company or The Gates Press. His sister Ruth Wilcox was a respected librarian. In 1906 Wilcox enrolled from the Cleveland School of Art under the tutelage of Henry Keller, Louis Rorimer...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Oil

untitled (Mt. Desert Narrows)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Mt. Desert Narrows) Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Condition: Excellent Image/sheet size: 11 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches Regarding the ...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles
Located in London, GB
'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert) Watercolor, 1945-1955 Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist Cond...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Blizzard in Woods
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Blizzard in Woods Graphite on paper, c. 1945-1963 Unsigned Provenance: Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York Annotated with notes for completing the drawing. Deutsch Gallery has handled Bur...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Graphite

French Polished Brass Frame for Painting, Drawing or Mirror, 1940s
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely 1940s French polished brass frame is perfect for paintings, drawings, lithographs, mirrors, or any creative decoration. The frame has a large proportion and can be hung i...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Brass

Untitled (Industrial Street)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Industrial Street), c. 1940s, watercolor on paper mounted on illustration board, estate stamp verso (signed by Peter Corbridge, the artist’s son); 14 x 21 inches; unframed Edgar Corbridge was a Massachusetts-based precisionist painter who mainly worked in watercolor. In 1916, three years after immigrating from England, Corbridge completed a course of study in sign painting at the Fall River, Massachusetts Technical High School and obtained an apprenticeship with the Armour Sign Shop. Throughout his career, Corbridge was mainly self-taught as a fine artist. In 1918, Corbridge received his first recognition as an artist for his entry in a Fall River Women’s Club poster competition. During much of his professional life, Corbridge worked as a self-employed window trimmer and operator of the Corbridge Display Service, supplemented by income from the occasional sale of his paintings. Corbridge gleaned the subjects for his works in and around his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as Provincetown. In the 1940s, Corbridge began to exhibit frequently, including at the annual exhibitions at the Jordan Marsh Company...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Board, Watercolor

Industrial Bridge Construction Seascape Pastel Painting by Thomas S. Halliday
Located in Atlanta, GA
Pastel and ink painting on Vellum paper by Thomas Symington Halliday (1902 - 1998), titled Bridge Construction, and signed bottom left corner: T.S. Halliday. This interesting industr...
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Academic 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Pastel, Ink

Vaulted Bridge in French Landscape Oil on Wood Painting by Vincent Mazzocchini
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vincent Mazzocchini (France, 20th Century) created this unique French landscape oil on pressed wood board painting. This delightful composition is on rather unusual media. The lands...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Wood, Masonite, Oil

“Strolling along the Seine, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
The artwork is double matted with an antique style contemporary gold leaf gallery frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 24 by 31 inches. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector. Guy de Neyrac was born in France in 1900 and is widely known for his impressionistic watercolor and pen drawings of Paris...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Waterscape, Impressionist Watercolor on Paper by Chaim Gross
Located in Long Island City, NY
Waterscape Chaim Gross, Austrian (1901–1991) Date: 1948 Watercolor on Paper, signed and dated in pen lower right Size: 15 x 23 in. (38.1 x 58.42 cm)
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

59th Street Bridge, Pennsylvania Impressionist Watercolor Cityscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
"59th Street Bridge" is a 22" x 30" watercolor on paper cityscape of the Brooklyn Bridge and city skyline, painted by Pennsylvania Impressionist and...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

View of the Fjord Blick auf die Förde - Landscape Fjord Germany
Located in London, GB
This watercolour is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Heckel 42" [1942] in the lower right image. It is also hand titled in pencil “Blick auf die Förde” in the lower ri...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Watercolor Called "A Värmland Landscape, 1941" Racksta Group Artist Ture Ander
Located in Stockholm, SE
"A Värmland Landscape" is a watercolor painting by Ture Ander, an artist who was a member of the Racken Group. This artwork, incorrectly titled "Vår i Värml...
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Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

German Street Scene
Located in Austin, TX
German street scene by Gustav Likan in a sepia-esque tone. 5" x 8" Watercolor on Paper Framed Size: 15" x 17.75"
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

The Port Of Terragon. Watercolor. Circa 1940-1950.
Located in Firenze, IT
The port of Terragon. Watercolor on paper. Circa 1940-1950. Painted on rough watercolor paper, Canson & Montgolfier, old French paper manufacturer. The chromatic range is played in ...
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Neo-Constructivist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert) Watercolor, 1945-1955 Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo) Provenance: Estate of the artist Cond...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Good Health Week" WPA American Scene Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism Jo Cain (1904 – 2003) Good Health Week 10 ½ x 15 1/2 inches Oil on pape...
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American Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Street Life New York - Haunting Faces Windows Expressionism Mid-Century
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century artist Lawrence Kupferman paints a madly eerie New York street scene. An exaggerated upward view of two 19th-century walk-ups is split by a forced perspective of a downwa...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Pen

Abandoned Wharf
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This drawing is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness. Crayon on paper, 20 x 12 (image), 22 x 14 inches (sheet), Signed lower right, Matted, but not framed Ex...
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American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Crayon

Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Place du Tertre and Sacre Coeur, the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris by Henri Miloch (1898-1979) signed lower right watercolour and gouache painting on ar...
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Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Gouache, Watercolor

1949 Mid Century Finnish Abstract Impressionist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful watercolor landscape of Finland countryside in Winter during WWII by O. Mokolio (indistinct) (American, 19/20th Century), 1949. Signed and dated lower right corner. Conditi...
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Abstract Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Canvas, Oil

West Gouldsboro (Looking Across Mt. Desert Narrows)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
West Gouldsboro (Looking Across Mt. Desert Narrows) Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Condition: Excellent Image/Sheet size: 9 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity. A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house” as artist residing in West Gouldsboro, Maine in a house formerly owned by James Hill. West Gouldsboro is located just east of the Mt. Desert Narrows, across Frenchman Bay from Mt. Desert Island and Arcadia National Park. Please see attached images for detailed information about the artist's life and time in Maine. Greta Allen, who is sometimes listed under her married name Dietz, was born in Boston in 1881. At the Massachusetts Normal Art School she took elementary lessons from Joseph R. DeCamp, then Frank Benson was her teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Although her work seems to be only in private collections today, Allen exhibited at the Boston Art Club, at the Copley Society...
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American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Expressionist Watercolor Landscape Painting Jewish Modernist
By Jennings Tofel
Located in Surfside, FL
signed and bears the artist's studio label verso. Genre: Impressionist Subject: Landscape Medium: watercolor Surface: paper Country: United States Dimensions: 11.5 X15.5 Jennings (...
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Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

'Early Queenstown', New Zealand Plein Air, Queen Elizabeth II Collection
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'D. Badcock' for Douglas Badcock (New Zealander, 1922-2009) and painted circa 1948. Preferring to paint en plein-air, Douglas earned a reputation as one of New Ze...
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Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Horses Leaving the Barn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses Leaving the Barn Watercolor on paper, 1940 Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image: 14 1/2 x 21” Frame: 25” x 31” Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label) Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist. Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist. Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement. Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon. Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville. 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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