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Period: 1940s
Medium: Paint
My Room - Drawing - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
My Room is a Drawing on paper realized by an Anonymous artist in the 1948.
Watercolour on paper.
Hand-signed, illegible, dated.
Good conditions. Included a Passepartout: 47 x 59 c...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowering tree at the foot of the Austrian Alps
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
42 x 32 x 2.5 cm
Category
1940s Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist Drawing 1940s w/c
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Non Objective Work on Paper Guggenheim Woman Artist 1940s Drawing w/c
HILLA REBAY (1890 - 1967, GERMAN/AMERICAN)
Abstract
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945. 8x9 inches.
Provenance: Estate of Hilla Rebay; Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY.
In March of 1996, Snyder Fine Art opened its exhibition, Museum of Non-Objective Painting: American Abstract Art. Gary Snyder acquired a large body of works from the Hilla Rebay Estate, many of the works on paper spent decades archivaly stored in flat files with fresh colors and immaculate paper.
BIO
A woman credited largely for the existence of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Hilla Rebay also was an accomplished artist in modernist styles that included collage and biogmorphic-linear oil paintings. She is remembered primarily for being the key person in first exposing the American public to avant-garde art and creating revolutionary museum environments for that art. To remind the public that Rebay was an artist in her own right, curators at the Guggenheim Museum held a retrospective of her work in the spring and summer of 2005.
Hilla Rebay (pronounced reh-bye) was born to minor nobility in Strasbourg, Alsace and had the full name of Baroness Hildegard Anna Augusta Elisabeth Rebay von Ehrenwiesen. Her father, a career army officer from Bavaria, and her mother encouraged her obvious childhood art talent. She studied locally and then enrolled in 1909 at the Academie Julian in Paris.
There she was much influenced by avant-garde movements especially theosophist artists and writers led by Wassily Kandinsky "who helped formulate her lifelong belief in the power of intuition in art-making and other areas of life" (Glueck). In 1910, she spent time in Munich where she was further exposed to modern art, and she returned to Paris in 1913, having exhibited work in Cologne and Munich. In Paris she studied at the Academie Julian.
By 1914, she was exhibiting with the Secession Group in Munich, the Salon des Independants in Paris, and the November Gruppe in Berlin--all rebelling against prevalent realism and traditional teaching methods. In Berlin, she associated with many modernist artists including Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Marc Chagall. In 1917, she med Rudolph Bauer...
Category
1940s Abstract Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
“Nassau Harbor, Bahamas”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor and gouache on archival paper by the American artist, Martin Louis Lindsay. Signed, titled and dated top right. Done in 1944. Condi...
Category
1940s Academic Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Archival Paper
La Traviata - Dancer of the Bohemian Ballet - 3rd Act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Dancer of the Bohemian Ballet - 3rd Act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on ...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Art Deco 1940s High Fashion Illustration Woman with Fan and Screen
Located in Miami, FL
French female illustrator Geneviève Thomas renders a highly stylized fashion illustration set against a seamless red background, The model is wearin...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Calle Juncal, Buenos Aires, Argentina Scenic Street Scene Watercolor
By Joan Padern Faig
Located in Surfside, FL
Padern, born in Colera in 1924, settled in Blanes after the Civil War, a municipality that in 1998 granted the title of adoptive son.
After a trip to South America, he returned to E...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French Illustration Aviation Poster Project Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features a young woman in a bikini swimsuit sitting on a globe. She holds in her hand a toy in the shape of an airplane on the end of a string. In the background on the terrestrial globe, the connections between France and the countries of South America are guessed. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
Category
1940s Post-War Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Delaware Water Gap"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
1940s Abstract Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
French Gouache Drawing Aviation Illustration Poster Project by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features a woman in travel clothes with all her suitcases sitting on a magic carpet. Below the carpet, we guess a plane in the air. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
Category
1940s Post-War Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Spanish and Dutch Soldiers - Original drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Spanish and Dutch Soldiers is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines in well-balanced conditions.
Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
French Aviation Illustration Poster Project Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features an airplane propeller and the earth in the background, with emphasis on France and South American countries. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
Category
1940s Post-War Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Poster Project Aviation Illustration Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
This is an original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France - 20th Century). The poster project features an airplane with a map book in the background, with emphasis on France and South American countries, on the side we see the hands of a man and a woman. The drawing was created for an airline company named STAR. The illustration is signed C. Villars in the bottom left corner.
This image was probably later printed in a larger size for ad posters...
Category
1940s Post-War Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Glamorous Palm Beach Portrait with Sun Hat - Mid Century Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
The mid-century glamour portrait of an elegant, long-necked woman in silhouette with a straw sun hat. Signed and dated Grafstrom Palm Beach 1947 - Condition is good with some scatter...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Class Struggle - Fay the Maid Dusts Henry Moore - New Yorker Magazine?
Located in Miami, FL
Mary Petty gained fame as a cover artist for The New Yorker, illustrating a fictional upper-class Manhattan family called the Peabodys. One of the main char...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Geneva's landscape; Villa in front of the Salève by Goetz - Drawing 36x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro - Nude drawing
Located in London, GB
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Moroccan Dancer by Georges Manzana Pissarro (1871-1961)
Watercolour, coloured crayon and pencil
26.3 x 20.2 cm ( ...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
"Study for Ladders" Juanita Guccione, Abstract Surrealism, Female Artist
Located in New York, NY
Juanita Guccione (1904 - 1999)
Study for Ladders, 1948
Gouache on paper
17 x 13 inches
Signed lower left, dated, and inscribed “Study for Oil Painting...
Category
1940s Surrealist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Country villa
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mamelles de Tirésias is an original modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame
Provenance :
- Erté personal collection.
- Serge Leeman collection.
Erté is in charge for the costumes and sets for Les Mamelles de Tirésias. This opera bouffe in two acts by Francis Poulenc based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Trees in front of the Swiss Mountains
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Choriste - 2nd act - Drawing by Erté - 1947
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Les Mamelles de Tirésias - Choriste - 2nd act is a modern artwork realized in 1947 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower mar...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
La Traviata - Rodolphe - 4th act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act - Drawing by Erté - 1948
By Erté
Located in Roma, IT
Traviata - Rodolphe - 2nd act is a modern artwork realized in 1948 century by Erté (Romain de Tirtoff).
Mixed colored gouache on paper.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Titled and numbered "9893" on the back.
Includes frame
Provenance :
- Erté personal collection.
- Serge Leeman collection.
Erté is responsible for the costumes and sets for Les Mamelles de Tirésias. This opera bouffe in two acts by Francis Poulenc based on a play by Guillaume Apollinaire...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
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
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana.
The Catskills became a major resort destination for Jewish New Yorkers in the mid-20th century. Borscht Belt is an informal term for the summer resorts of the Catskill Mountains in Sullivan and Ulster counties in upstate New York which were frequented by Ashkenazi Jews. At its peak of popularity, about 500 resorts operated in the region. Later changes in vacationing patterns have led most of those travelers elsewhere, although there are still bungalow communities and summer camps in the towns of Liberty, Bethel, Monticello and Fallsburg catering to Orthodox Jewish populations. Borscht Belt, The term, which derives from the name of a beet soup popular with people of Eastern European origin, can also refer to the Catskill region itself.
In August, 1969, the Catskills were the site of a music and art festival in the town of Bethel, which had originally been planned for Woodstock, New York. Thirty-three of the best-known musicians of the era appeared during a sometimes rainy weekend in front of nearly half a million concertgoers. The event, featuring liberal drug use and nudity, exemplified the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s.
Select Exhibitions
A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1940's American WPA Modernist New York City Watercolor Painting Tenement Market
Located in Surfside, FL
The Market, (fauvist painting of NYC scene) 1940's.
image is 10X 11.5 inches. Hand signed lower right
Lower East Side Tenements Pushcart Market
Samuel Grunvald was a Hungarian born American WPA artist known for abstract, landscape and seascape paintings.
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
Grunwald exhibited alongside other popular artists such as Paul Klee, Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Charles Burchfield. He also taught and lectured on art and easel painting, Federal Art Project, NYC. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Americana.
Select Exhibitions
A.C.A. Gallery
Associated American Artists Gallery, 1936-1955
American Watercolor Society, 1932-1942
New York Watercolor Club, 1935-1937
Humanist Art...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Bacchus (1943) by Ernst Georg Heussler - Gouache 32x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernst Georg Heusser, Swiss painter with 60 auctions on the country. The oldest in 1991 ans the most recent on 2021
(1903-1982)
The work is on paper and ...
Category
1940s Fauvist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil Pastel
Geneva countryside
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Good condition
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Les Regiments Croates en Illyrie - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Regiments Croates en Illyrie is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depict...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner - Religious scene, work on paper
Located in London, GB
Lifting the Torah by Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966)
Watercolour on paper
67 x 56 cm (26 ³/₈ x 22 inches)
Signed upper right, LM
Executed in 1943
Category
1940s Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
'Transcendentalist Figural Oil', Paris, Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Geneva
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Marguerite Bordet' (French, 1909-2014) and painted circa 1940. Additionally signed, verso, titled, 'La Vanite' and inscribed with artist's Paris address in the 16th arrondissement.
From an early age, Marguerite Bordet avidly pursued both drawing and painting. In the late 1930's and early '40s, she attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris where she studied with the sculptor, Antoniucci Volti (Italian, 1915-1989). After several years, and feeling increasingly disconnected with the academic atmosphere of the Salon, she left to develop her independent artistic style.
Bordet's first public exhibition took place at the Galerie Claude (1947) and, for the next forty years, she continued to exhibit widely with success, both throughout France and internationally, including in Cairo (1955), Geneva (1960) and the United States (1966). A 1962 exhibition of her work showed a thematic rejection of the Academy's influence and the artist's shift to a more personal and spiritually driven style.
Bordet continued to take frequent study trips to Italy, especially to Florence, where she was inspired by the Renaissance Masters. She also visited England (1975-76) where the works of J.M.W.Turner and John Martin at the Tate Museum had a pronounced impact on her development.
In an interview with Hervé Serane, Marguerite Bordet described her artistic process in these words:
"I start my painting with spots. Sometimes I cover it completely and everything is dark. But then it's stronger than me, I can't bear that there isn't an opening. Immediately, I place a Light. I need the shadow to bring out the Light. So I start with the shadow to create this Light. I cannot define why I need this Light so much. It's stronger than me. It's something that dominates me without my being able to explain it intellectually. It is for me an absolute necessity to seek the Light in the darkness.. You have to open like you open a window. You have to reveal. I remove the stains that obscure my painting to find the luminous background of the canvas.... I only paint with transparent colors and I apply several layers of glaze to preserve this light."
Partial Exhibition Record:
1947 Paris, Galerie Claude
1951 Paris, Galerie Breteau - Cairo, Galerie Adam - Alexandria, l'Atelier
1954 Paris, Galerie Simone Bdinier
1955 Cairo, l'Atelier
1959 Paris, Galerie A. Weil
1960 Geneva, Galerie Motte
1962 Paris, Marignan Gallery
1964 Paris, Ror Volmar Gallery
1966 San Rafael (U.SA) International Museum
1966 Cagnes-sur-Mer, Castle Gallery...
Category
1940s Symbolist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Swiss Valley
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
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
1940s American Realist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dancing Hassid
By Marcel Janco
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
Original mixed media on paper
Combining pastel, watercolor and pencil
Hand signed and dated lower right
Unique piece
Category
1940s Dada Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Pencil
'Man With Sailboat On Pier At Cedar Lake #756' original watercolor
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Art: 10-3/4"x 8-1/4"
Frame: 17-3/4"x15-3/8"
Watercolor, stamped signature
Born in 1908, Sylvia Spicuzza was the daughter of noted painter Francesco Spicuzza. Sylvia devoted herself to teaching art to the students of Lake Bluff...
Category
1940s Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Breaking Up of the Penelope
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Breaking Up of the Penelope
watercolor on artists watercolor board, 1942
Signed and dated by the artist lower right (see photo)
Exhibitions:
Cleveland, OH, The Cleveland Museum of Art, May 3 - June 11, 1944: "The 26th Annual Ehibition of Works by Artists and Craftsmen of the Western Reserve," , (label on verso)
Youngstown OH, The Butler Insititue of American Art, 1943: "1943 New Year Show," , (label on verso)
"Ed Dobrotka was one of comic-book illustrator Joe Shuster's early assistants. In the studio, he worked on the 'Superman' series, inking the pencils of artists including Shuster, John Sikela, Leo Nowak and Wayne Boring.
Dobrotka did do some pencilling of his own, however he returned to inking exclusively in 1945. In the following years, he worked with Sikela on the 'Superboy' series until the 1950s. He has also work on the solo 'Lois Lane...
Category
1940s American Realist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French Watercolour Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century Roses
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
White Roses in a Glass Stem Vase
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower left
watercolour painting on artist's paper, unframed
sheet: 13.5 x 9.75 inches
Very pretty still life pa...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Le Croates en Allemagne - Grenadier 1813 - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croates en Allemagne is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through s...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures Houses Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
Depression era watercolor painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) titled "The Way War First Comes" from 1940 of an outdoor village scene. Presented in a custom black frame wi...
Category
1940s American Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Gentleman's Library - Fine Still Life Painting with Books & Map of Lincolnshire
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very interesting signed and dated 1942 watercolour still life depicting the corner of a gentleman's library with books, antique map of Lincolnshire and an early wine bottle.
Very...
Category
1940s Realist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA
Located in New York, NY
NYC Watercolor Drawing American Modern 20th Century Modernism Mid-Century WPA.
David Fredenthal (1914-1958) "View of New York from New Jersey,"7 x 10 inches. Watercolor on Paper, c. 1948. Signed lower right.
David Fredenthal (1914 - 1958) was one ot America's most respected watercolor artists. He was famous for his bold, intensely vigorous and complex paintings and drawings that expressed his deep feeling for excitement with life and living. He was a draftsman with seemingly a special gift for catching anything, physically and emotionally on the spot, and he never went anywhere without three or four loaded pens and a sketchbook in his pocket.
As part of the WPA project he executed a number of murals including the Sports Pavilion on the Heinz Building of the New York World's Fair 1939. Some of his fresco and mural techniques were inspired by his friendship with Diego Rivera who had admired and encouraged him in the early 1930's.
After he won a traveling scholarship to Europe from The Museum of Modern Art at age 19, he was the recipient of two Guggenheim grants in Painting. He had his first solo exhibition at the Downtown Gallery in New York in 1937 at age 23, and many others after that including the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1947.
Because of Fredenthal's prodigious drawing gifts, he was chosen by Erskine Caldwell to illustrate his novel "Tobacco Road...
Category
1940s American Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Windmill on the Plains, 1940s Watercolor and Ink Mixed Media Modernist Painting
Located in Denver, CO
'Windmill on the Plains' is watercolor and ink on paper painting by Jenne Magafan. Depicting a large windmill on a 1940s Colorado farm scene with sheds and a fencing in the backgroun...
Category
1940s American Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Pair of Interior Scenes of a Victorian Home - Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately pair of watercolors by David Mode Payne (American, 1907-1985). The scene depicted is an interior of an opulent room, with finely crafted furni...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
Small decorative sailboat
Located in Genève, GE
Work on watercolor paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
48 x 57 x 2.7 cm
Category
1940s Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
CENTERPORT SERIES #23
By Arthur Dove
Located in Portland, ME
Dove, Arthur (American, 1880-1946).
CENTERPORT SERIES #23.
Watercolor on paper, 1940.
Signed "Dove," at the lower center.
Labels identifying the work on the backing paper of the ...
Category
1940s Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Figure - Original drawing by Pierre Charles Danobis - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Figure is an original drawing in pen, tempera and watercolor realized by Pierre Charles Danobis in 1943.
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a wel...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera, Pen
Les Croates (French Army in 1812-13)- Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Croates is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines ...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
1940s American Modernist Abstracted Industrial Watercolor Ink Charcoal Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Charles Bunnell original vintage 1941 signed painting from the artist's Black and Blue Series, Abstract Structure style. Watercolor, Ink and Charcoal on paper in colors of black, wh...
Category
1940s American Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Le Croates - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croates is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines i...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
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
Category
1940s Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Regiment Prov. Croate (French Army) - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Regiment Prov. Croate is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through str...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Le Croates en Allemagne - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croates is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines i...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Le Croates en Allemagne (French Army)-Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croates en Allemagne is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through s...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
La Torre D'Avorio - China Ink Drawing by Luigi Bartolini - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
La Torre D'Avorio is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Luigi Bartolini (1892-1963) in the 1940s.
Ink drawing on paper.
Hand-signed and titled on the lower margin.
...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern
By Louis Stone
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern.mixed media. 21 x 16 (sight). Housed in a hand carved frame.
Louis King Stone ...
Category
1940s American Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Regiment Prov. Croate (French Army) - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Regiment Prov. Croate is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through str...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Le Croates en Allemagne - 1813 - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Le Croates is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artwork is depicted through strong lines i...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Legion Hanovrienne - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Legion Hanovrienne is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s.
Good condition except for being aged.
The artw...
Category
1940s Modern Paint Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
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