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Period: 1940s
Trees in front of the Swiss Mountains
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Geneva countryside
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Good condition
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
Landscape in Provence Watercolor Painting by Francois Pascal
Located in Atlanta, GA
This lovely watercolor painting on Arches paper features a landscape view in Provence. This typical Mediterranean country house in the south of France has a veranda and the Saint Victoire...
Category
Academic 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Girton College, Cambridge, watercolour by Joy Fox
Located in London, GB
Joy Fox (née Hollings)
Girton College
Watercolour
24 x 17 cm
Signed to bottom right.
Little is known about Joy Fox. It seems that she studied at Girton College, Cambridge between 1939 and 1942. This charming watercolour depicting the main gate at the college featured in Douglas de Lacey...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Charles Culver Watercolor Landscape "Red Hills Near Patzcurao" Signed & Dated
Located in Detroit, MI
The idyllic atmosphere of this Mexican scene is located in Mexico, west of Mexico City and south of Guadalajara. “Red Hills Near Patzcuaro” is set in a golden light. and was one of three paintings by the artist while the artist visited Patzcuaro, Mexico. The humans depicted lend an atmosphere to the painting and an indication of location - dressed in native Mexican peasant dress - without being obtrusive and causing the viewer to concentrate on them. The intense red hills of Patzcuaro are the feature in this painting along with the pinon and juniper trees and the Chamisa shrub. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and museum glass.
In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.”
Charles Culver...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Monhegan Path, Summer
Located in Greenwich, CT
Albert Wein had a retrospective and he was called a classical modernist by art critics. He is primarily regarded as one of America's great sculptors but he loved doing drawings, wat...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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
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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...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Pen
Landscape - Original Pencil on Paper by Mino Rosi - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original tempera drawing on paper realized by Mino Rosi (1913-1995), in 1946.
Hand-signed and dated, on the lower left.
Good conditions.
Mino Rosi, painter, engrav...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
French Watercolor - Tropical Village
Located in Houston, TX
Bright and airy watercolor of a figure in a small tropical village by French artist Stephane Magnard, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displaye...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Charles Culver Landscape "Late Afternoon Landscape" Watercolor on Paper
Located in Detroit, MI
“Late Afternoon Landscape” is set in the golden light of evening painted in the mid-west town of Utica, Michigan. It has the atmosphere of when work is done and peace and quiet blanket the countryside. The The farm machinery has ceased its racket as has the family dog wandering about for one last sniff. This piece has been professionally reframed with acid-free matting and conservative glass.
In a 1952 Detroit Free Press article, entitled “Artist Explains His Work,” Culver was asked why he painted the way he did. He stated: “I try to ‘see’ though not too exactly; I try to think though not too ponderously; I feel emotion yet I try not to become overwrought. I interpret rather than describe, and design rather than depict. I work with values, not light and shade; hence, when I am successful, I achieve substance rather than three-dimensional form, and this satisfies me as being wholly sufficient. In my work I wish to be serious without becoming a bore, exuberant without being frivolous, humorous without being silly. I believe that good paintings are conceived, not contrived; and I am interested in art much more than in pictures.”
Charles Culver...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
A 1940s Noire Inspired Street Scene, Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago, Urban Realism
Located in Chicago, IL
A 1940s Noire Inspired City Street Scene, Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago, Urban Realism by Noted Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994).. A boldly executed charcoal study...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
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...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Paris Street Cafes & Figures
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Street Cafe Society
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet:: 9.75 x 12.5...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Vintage French Watercolor Landscape - Moulin de la Galette, Paris
By R. Holstein
Located in Houston, TX
Evocative watercolor landscape painting of the Moulin de la Galette, a landmark windmill in the Montmartre neighborhood on a wintry Paris day, by R. Holstein, 1948. Signed and dated ...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Swiss Mountain by Karl Speglitz - Watercolor 13x17 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Dimension with pass
31.7 x 24 cm
Category
Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century, Four Architectural Landscapes
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris, France: Four Architectural Landscapes
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
unsigned
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Average sheet 9.00 x 12.00 inches (...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Pencil Landscape - The Old Mill
Located in Houston, TX
Delightful drawing of a grand old watermill, 1942. Dated lower left.
Displayed on a white mat with a gold border and fits a standard-size frame. Archival plastic sleeve and Certifi...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper
French Watercolor - Bucolic Church
Located in Houston, TX
Warmly hued watercolor landscape of a old church perched atop a rural hillside by French artist R.D. Flament, 1940. Signed lower left and titled and dated lower right.
Original art...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled (Boat Repair)
Located in Dallas, TX
Francis Chapin was one of the most celebrated painters in Chicago during his lifetime. When he was a young art student, Valley House founder, Donald Vogel, painted with "Chape" on th...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
St John’s College Cambridge Wren Bridge Ludwig Lund Watercolour Painting
Located in London, GB
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Ludwig Lund (1908-2003)
St John’s College Wren Bridge
Watercolour
26 x 21 cm
Born in Odense, Denmark, he showed an early aptitude for painting and drawing, being encouraged from a young age by his aunt, an artist. He moved with his family to the United States in 1920. Stationed in the UK during the Second World War, he was official army illustrator for the 2nd Air Division...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Ecole de Paris, Mid 20th Century, Three Paris Scenes Eiffel Tower & Parks
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Collection of Three Paintings of Paris Scenes
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
the Eiffel Tower painting is signed front lower right and also inscribed to the back, the Versailles painting...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Mid 20th Century, Ludlow Castle and Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
England, Shropshire - Ludlow Castle, The Town and Dinham Bridge
by Leonard Machin Rowe (1880-1968)
signed front lower right and left, signed again and inscribed to the back
watercol...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Original Ink and Watercolour by Alfred Sobottka - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original Watercolour realized by Alfred Sobottka in 1948.
Good condition on a cream colored cardboard.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner.
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
German Expressionist Watercolor Painting Jerusalem Landscape Bezalel Israeli Art
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a great Judaica Israel landscape. The Old City of Jerusalem during the British Mandate in Palestine.
24.5 x 31 image 16 x 22.5
Isidor Ascheim (איזידור אשהיים; 1891-1968) was a German-born Israeli painter and printmaker.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin (present-day Poland) in 1891. He was raised in an Orthodox, Judaic, Jewish family and served during World War I. In 1919-23, Ascheim studied under the German Expressionist Otto Mueller in Breslau and was influenced by Erich Heckel of the Die Brücke (The Bridge) group. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1940 and settled in Jerusalem. He was married to the Israeli painter Margot Lange-Ascheim.
He taught at the Bezalel School of Art (amongst his students were David Palombo, David Rakia, Aharon Bezalel, Kopel Gurwin and more) and served as its director for several years. He also taught at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv along with Moshe Mokadi. Marcel Janco and Aaron Giladi. Ascheim's art is based on a direct impression of nature, life and the human form. His oeuvre represents a continuous connection with nature and the human figure, usually executed with a dark palette, the legacy of his German Expressionist roots. He was a contemporary of Jacob Steinhardt, Mordecai Ardon, Josef Budko and Hermann Struck.
Awards and recognition
In 1953, Ascheim was a co-recipient of the Dizengoff Prize for Painting.
In 1955, he received the Jerusalem Prize for Art.
In 1956, he participated in the Venice Biennale, Italy
Selected collections
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
References
Isidor Aschheim: Drawings & Prints [Izidor Ashhaim: rishumim ve-hedpesim] . Jerusalem: Israel Museum, 1966.
Talpir, Gabriel. "100 Artists in Israel". Tel-Aviv: Gazith Art Publishing, 1971.
Isidor Ascheim was born in Margonin, Germany (in what is now Poland) in 1891. His father was a prosperous merchant. In spite of his family’s devoutness, Ascheim had both religious training at home and an education in a German school. In 1903 the family moved to Breslau, where he studied in the gymnasium. When War War I broke out, he was drafted into the German army. In 1918, when the war ended, he began studying art in Breslau, and then in Cracow. In 1939 he made Aliyah to the Land of Israel under the auspices of the Aliyah Bet program. He was caught by the British government and sent to the Atlit detention camp for about seven months. After he was released he settled in Jerusalem and found employment as a lecturer at the “New Bezalel.” In 1946 he married the painter Margot Lange Ascheim. From 1960-1961 he served as director of the “New Bezalel.”
Most of Ascheim’s work was in the field of prints. In the 1920s he also produced engravings. Later he specialized in stone printing (lithography), including Biblical subjects, landscapes, and expressionist subjects. In addition, he painted.
Education
1919-1923 Art Academy, Breslau, Germany, (now Wroclaw, Poland) with Otto Mueller, an important expressionist painter.
Art studies, Professor Pautsch, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland
Teaching
1943 Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, was director for some time.
1961-1960 Director, New Bezalel, Jerusalem
Collective Annual Exhibition by Palestinian Artists Art Gallery of the ''Habima'' Building, Tel Aviv1944
Artists: Hermann Struck,Moshe Ziffer...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
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...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Landscape with Trees - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with Trees is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in 1935 in Marac. Pencil Drawing, hand signed on the lower margin left and dated "Marac 1935" on the lef...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Color Pencil
Architectural Illustration of Cape Cod Style Barn House with Dormers in Gouache
Located in Soquel, CA
Architectural Illustration of Cape Cod Style Barn House with Dormers in Gouache
Detailed, idyllic illustration of a two story suburban house by F. Knowles (20th Century). A house wi...
Category
Photorealist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Pastel, Color Pencil
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/...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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 ...
Category
Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache
'Oregon Coast', Art Institute of Chicago, AIC, Works Project Association, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'A. Vincent' for Andrew McDuffie Vincent (American, 1898-1993); inscribed verso with title, 'Oregon Coast' and dated 1945.
A vibrant w...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fishing Boats at Shore, 1940's Seascape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century small-scale watercolor landscape of fishermen with their boats on the shore by unknown artist. Signed lower left corner illegibly. Circa 1940's. Unframed. Image...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, 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 (...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Early Snow on a Dutch Barn Roof', Rural landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed on old frame backing, 'La Vere Hutchings' (American, 1918-1998) and titled 'Early Snow'.
LaVere Hutchings had a degree in art and during WWII ...
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1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Mid Century Modern East Bay Abstracted Industrial Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic abstracted geometric landscape drawing of the industrial East Bay California landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999), circa 1940. From collectio...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Butler Art Institute Winter Dog Barn Scene Watercolor Circa 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original watercolor by Ohio artist Joseph Koch who was affectionately known as Koco during his long life of almost 105 years.
This beautiful watercolor painting titled "Winter's ...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape With Armenians - Watercolor Drawing by Henry Ottmann - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape With Armenians is a Watercolor realized by Henry Ottmann in 1946.
Good condition on a yellowed paper.
Hand signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner.
Incl...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Architecture - Original Pen on Paper signed Parroni - 1946
Located in Roma, IT
Architecturel is an original drawing in pen artwork on brownish paper signed "Parroni" in 1946.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right.
Appplied on a P...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
Landscape - China ink Drawing by Renzo Vespignani - 1949
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in China ink on paper realized in 1949 by Renzo Vespignani.
Hand-signed on the lower left and date.
Applied on a Passepartout: 21 x 15.5 cm.
Very...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
1940s Modernist Trees Watercolor Painting, Framed Vertical Earth Tone Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating Modernist watercolor painting of a serene forest scene by Richard Sorby (1911-2001) beautifully captures the essence of nature through a minimalist and expressive lens. Painted in the 1940s, the piece features stylized trees in bold, dark hues of green, blue, and black, complemented by earthy tones of brown, orange, and white. The watercolor on paper is signed by the artist in the lower right corner and beautifully framed with archival materials. The outer dimensions of the piece measure 26 ½ x 18 ½ x 1 inches, with the image size itself being 22 ¾ x 14 ¾ inches.
About the Artist:
Richard Sorby, a Colorado-based artist, was renowned for his distinctive modernist style, blending abstraction with representational themes. Sorby earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Colorado State College of Education (now the University of Northern Colorado) in 1937 and went on to study under influential mentors, including Vance Kirkland and William Joseph Eastman...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Landscape - Charcoal and Watercolor By Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original Charcoal and watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s.
Good condition, hand-signed by the artis.
Some sketches of the artist on the back of the paper.
...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Watercolor
"New York City Skyline View from the East River, " Lionel Reiss, Jewish Artist
By Lionel Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
New York City Skyline View from the East River
Watercolor on paper
13 x 19 inches
Signed lower left
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
American Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape - Original Watercolor on Paper by Jean Delpech - 1946
By Jean Delpech
Located in Roma, IT
"Les Lignes Austères" is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988).
The state of preservation of the artwork is very g...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"S.S. Blackman at Dock"
By Joseph DiGemma
Located in Southampton, NY
Exhibited original watercolor on paper painting by American artist, Joseph DiGemma. Signed lower right and dated 1949. Overall framed and matted (white) in natural maple frame 26 by 32 inches. Exhibition label verso: "Shared Aesthetic, Artists of Long Island North Fork, 2009". From the estate of Countess Consuelo Crespi.
Joseph Paul DiGemma was born in New York City and studied at the Pratt Institute and the Arts Students League. His engravings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Astor-Lenox Collection. Several of his wartime paintings...
Category
American Realist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
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 Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pen
The Boat in the Dock - Original Watercolor - 1945 ca
Located in Roma, IT
The boat in the dock is an original drawing in watercolor on paper realized by an anonymous artist in 1945 ca.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents a beautiful sea in the perspe...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Rustic Farmhouse Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful rustic landscape of a farmhouse by Los Angeles artist Barbara Bisno (American, b-1925) with rolling hills and sheets on the line, 1948. Signed and dated "Bisno" right edge....
Category
Impressionist 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Boats - Original Pencil on Paper - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Paris is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the XX century.
The State of preservation is very good.
Sheet dime...
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
During the War - Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
During the War is an original drawing in watercolor realized in 1941 by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988).
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of preservation of the...
Category
Modern 1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Villa Medici / Rome - Ink Drawing by Beppe Guzzi - 1949
By Beppe Guzzi
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful Ink drawing by Beppe Guzzi, representing the famous Villa Medici in Rome.
Good conditions.
Category
1940s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
