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Period: 1940s
Middle Eastern Man with Turban and Blue Cloak in Profile against Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait in primary blues and yellow of perhaps a Persian man. He is in profile set against a decorative yellow background with floral elements. The work...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil, Color Pencil
Untitled
By Hans Hofmann
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) was a pre-eminent figure of postwar American art and one of the most important artists (and instructors) of the 20th century. Born in Germany, Hofmann immigr...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$16,600 Sale Price
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Design for Décor, Ballet Set Decoration
By André Derain
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 ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Stonehenge - Mid 20th Century Modern British Landscape Charcoal Drawing
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful charcoal drawing on paper depicting Stonehenge, by modern British artist Vivian Bewick.
Excellent quality study if the mysterious Bronze Age landmark. Inscribed with dat...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Nude - Original Drawing by George-Henri Tribout - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Nude is an original artwork realized by Georges Henri Tribout in about 1940. Ink Drawing.
Good Conditions.
Georges Henri Tribout (1884-1962)
...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Montmartre - China Ink Drawing by A. Hallman - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Montmartre is a beautiful black China ink drawing on ivory-colored paper, made by the Swedish illustrator and reporter Adolf Reinhold Hallman around the 40s. The state of preservatio...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
George Wagner, Impressionist Ink by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - George Wagner (P5.53), Year: 1947, Medium: Ink on Paper, Size: 5.5 x 4.5 in. (13.97 x 11.43 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's portra...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
"portrait d'homme aux longs cils " by Jean Cocteau .certified
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau
original , certified by Madame Annie Guedras .
drawing size : 23.5 x 17.7 cm
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$1,673 Sale Price
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William Sanderson, Fascists
Located in New York, NY
Latvia-born William Sanderson became a contributor to the New Yorker and New Masses magazines during the 1930s. He was drafted into the Army during World Wa...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
India Ink
Reclining Nude — Mid-Century Modernism, Renowned African American Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Blackburn, Untitled (Reclining Nude), brush and ink, c. 1948, unsigned. A fine, spontaneous work, on cream wove paper. Slight toning to the sheet edges; otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 18 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches (476 x 597 mm).
Provenance: Adrienne E. Wheeler Collection, acquired from the artist.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Robert Blackburn (1920 - 2003) participated in the rich mix of art programs and creative groups available in Harlem as he grew up, including Charles Alston's Harlem Arts Workshop, the Harlem YMCA, and later the Harlem Artist's Guild. In 1937 he joined the WPA at the Harlem Community Art Center, the largest New York center for instruction in the arts. There he was exposed to Harlem's most prominent artists, Aaron Douglas, William Henry Johnson...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.40), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 16 x 11 in. (40.64 x 27.94 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's waterc...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The Painter - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1945 ca.
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1945 ca.
Hand signed lower right.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
two drawings colored inks nude
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Pedro Pruna Ocerans (1904-1977) - Two drawings - Ink drawing
Two framed drawings, all of them signed and dated.
Frame measures 23x28 cm.
Pere Pruna Ocerans (Barcelona, 1904-1977) ...
Category
Post-Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$427 Sale Price
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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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$136 Sale Price
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Lovers - Charcoal Drawing - 1950 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Lovers is an original drawing in mixed media on ivory paper realized in 1940 ca. by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
In very good conditions.
The artwork represents embracing...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century: Wartime Figures
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: A Wartime Study of Figures Relaxing in Springtime
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
Unsigned
watercolour, graphite and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet: 12.25 x 9...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.47), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Comprised of various flow...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right.
BIO
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Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Self Portrait with Arms Over Head, vignette on Paul Cadmus on left
Graphite drawing on thin wove paper, c. 1940's
Unsigned
Provenance: Paull Cadmus
Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018)
Condition:
Sheet size: 15 x 10 1/4 inches
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship.
Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, Margaret Hoening (1906–1998) was a painter and an etcher perhaps best known for her
photographs as part of the PaJaMa photography collective. After attending Smith College, she settled in New York, where
she pursued formal artistic training at the Art Students League. There, she met the artist couple Paul Cadmus and Jared
French. In 1937, she married French, fifteen years her junior, who had spent the previous decade with Cadmus. The trio
formed a tight bond, with Cadmus and French continuing their relationship. Together, the three formed PaJaMa (a mashup of their first names, Paul, Jared, and Margaret). Using Hoening’s Leica, they captured themselves, their artist friends,
and members of the gay community posing in artful tableaux on the beaches of Fire Island, Provincetown, and Nantucket
over the following eight years. Those captured by their camera include the photographer George Platt Lynes; Cadmus’s
sister and artist Fidelma; artist Bernard Perlin; and Monroe Wheeler, director of exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,
among others. Though she produced few canvases, Hoening’s paintings demonstrate the influences of French and Cadmus,
particularly with her adoption of the time-intensive, traditional medium of egg tempera that they championed.
In the 1940s, the Frenches’ social circle continued to expand. They befriended the British author E.M. Forster, who stayed
with them on his first trip to New York in 1947, spending a few days with them in Provincetown, and visiting them again
in 1949. When Cadmus began a relationship with the young artist George Tooker in 1944, the trio became a foursome,
with Tooker regularly vacationing with the group and appearing in PaJaMa’s photographs...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Vintage French Landscape - Peacock Pond
Located in Houston, TX
Pencil drawing of splendid peacocks resting peacefully beside a glistening pond and willow tree. Signed and dated 1942 lower right.
Displayed on a white mat with a gold border and ...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
An Late 1930s Fashion Study Featuring a Women’s Hat & Coat, Marshall Field & Co.
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring a woman in a hat and coat from Marshall & Co. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art In...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
'The Holy Grail', Last Supper, Egyptian Iconography, Seattle Art Museum, Surreal
By Leo Kenney
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower center, 'Leo Kenney' (American, 1925-2001) and dated 1947.
A seminal figure in the second generation of Northwest School artists, Leo Kenney was, like many of his conte...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
A 1940s Fashion Study for Women's Hats
Located in Chicago, IL
An early 1940s fashion study featuring women's hats in pink tobes. Provenance: Cornelia Steckl-Jurin, Founder of the Fashion Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P5.9), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Set on a small wooden tabl...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
The Models
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early original drawing by Hans Burkhardt.
Hans Burkhardt
1904 - 1994
Hans Burkhardt was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1904, emigrating to New York in 1924.
Upon his arrival to ...
Category
Cubist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
$1,723 Sale Price
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Nude with Headdress and Drape
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude with Headdress and Drape
Charcoal and colored pencil on paper, c. 1940
Signed by the artist in pencil lower left (see photo)
Painter, lithographer and woodblock printer, born at...
Category
English School 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
"Radio City Rockette"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a Radio City Music Hall Rockette done in the late 1940's or early 1950's. Ruth Adele Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New Eng...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$275 Sale Price
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Matador
By Julian Levi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Born in New York, Julian Levi spent his early years in Philadelphia. He began his art studies art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Arthur B. Carles, Daniel Garber, and Henry McCarter. On graduation, Levi was awarded a scholarship which he used to travel to Italy and Paris. During his stay in Europe, which lasted five years, from 1920 to 1925, Levi was influenced by Cubism. He was especially drawn to the art of Juan Gris, adopting the gentle color harmonies and precise linear treatments of forms found in Gris's works. In 1924, Levi participated in an important show of Philadelphia modern artists which included works by Charles Demuth, Hugh Breckinridge, Franklin Watkins...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Two Figures on a Boat, Sketch on Paper by Paul Cadmus
By Paul Cadmus
Located in New York, NY
Two Figures on a Boat, Sketch on Paper by Paul Cadmus.
Graphite on paper
5.75 x 6.25 inches (14.6 x 15.9 cm)
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
Remembered for his m...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Mid Century Country House Landscape
By Rene Weaver
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid watercolor of a country house and grove of trees in a rural landscape of rolling green hills, with farm animals in the distance, by California artist Rene Weaver (American, 189...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life with Teapot, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Still Life with Teapot (P6.43), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 16 x 12 in. (40.64 x 30.48 cm), Description: Arranged ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Paradise Lost Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This collection of drawings is part of our exhibition Charles Goeller: A Wistful Loneliness.
1. Paradise Lost (But His Doom)
Crayon on paper, 17 ½ x 12 ½ inches (image), 22 x 15 inc...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
"Lounging Nude" 1940's Charcoal Nude Drawing Bay Area Artist
Located in Arp, TX
John Bowers
Lounging Nude
1940s
Charcoal on Paper
25"x19", unframed
Came from a portfolio from the estate of John Bowers
John Henry Bowers
September 9, 1921 - January 30, 2017
Joh...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$525 Sale Price
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Into the Woods - China Ink and Watercolor by G. Kayser - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Into the Woods is an original modern artwork realized by the French artist Gabrielle Kayser in 1948.
Original watercolored and china ink on paper.
Hand-signed and dated by the ar...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
"Untitled" Hans Hofmann, circa 1943 Navy Blue Olive Green Early Abstract Work
By Hans Hofmann
Located in New York, NY
Hans Hofmann
Untitled, circa 1943
Signed lower right
Oil and watercolor on paper
22 1/4 x 30 3/4 inches
The only artist of the New York school to participate directly in European m...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Watercolor
Geneva countryside
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Good condition
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$256 Sale Price
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Original Mid-Century Red Farmhouse Watercolor Landscape Painting
By Thelma Fike Rodehorst
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Mid-Century Red Farmhouse Watercolor Landscape Painting
Beautiful mid-century 1940's watercolor of a bucolic farmhouse scene - sunset, undul...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper
beggars spanish modernism colored pencils
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ricard Opisso - Beggars - Colored pencils
Measurements drawing 21x31cm.
Frame measures 39x48 cm.
Damaged paper at bottom.
Anti-reflective glass.
Son of Alfredo Opisso y Viñas, journalist, historian and critic, and of Antonia Sala y Gil, his sister Regina Opisso, was also a writer. He comes from an enlightened family full of artists. His paternal grandfather was Josep Opisso y Roig, journalist and director of the Diari de Tarragona, father of the also writers Antonia Opisso y Viña and Antoni Opisso y Viña. His maternal great-grandfather was the painter Pere Pau Montaña, his maternal grandfather the fabulist Felipe Jacinto Sala and his maternal uncle, the painter Emilio Sala y Francés. His nephew was Arturo Llorens y Opisso, a writer better known under his pseudonym Arturo Llopis.
Although he was born in Tarragona, his family moved to Barcelona when Opisso was only two years old. In modernist Barcelona at the end of the 19th century, Opisso worked as an assistant to Antonio Gaudí in the works of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona since 1892. He was linked to the group Els Quatre Gats, along with Ramón Casas...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
$2,377 Sale Price
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"Nasturtiums" Chiura Obata, Japanese American, Red and Blue Delicate Flowers
By Chiura Obata
Located in New York, NY
Chiura Obata
Nasturtiums, circa 1940
Signed and stamped lower left
Watercolor on paper
15 x 9 5/8 inches
Born in the Okayama prefecture of Japan, Chiura Obata was adopted by his uncle, an artist. As a child he was trained in ink painting, and at 14 he was apprenticed to the painter Murata Tanryo in Tokyo. He also studied with Kogyo Terasaki and Goho Hasimoto.
In 1903, Obata moved to San Francisco and began working as an illustrator for The New World and The Japanese American, two of the city's Japanese newspapers. He also did work as a commercial designer. Obata helped establish the East West Art Society in San Francisco in 1921, which sought to promote cross-cultural understanding through art. This goal was reflected in his embrace of the Nihonga style, which fused traditional Japanese sumi-e ink painting with the conventions of western naturalism.
He spent much of the 1920s painting landscapes throughout California, and among his favorite subjects were mountain landscapes. In 1927, he visited Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada, creating over a hundred paintings and sketches of the high country. Obata stayed in the USA until the death of his father in 1928.
Between 1928 and 1932, he worked in Tokyo as a painter and transformed his California landscape watercolors...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Swiss Valley
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$256 Sale Price
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1940s Charcoal and Pencil Portrait of a Man
Located in Arp, TX
Artist Unknown
"Tie and Glasses"
c. 1940s
Charcoal and pencil on paper
13.5"x17" site 19"x23" rustic wood frame
Unsigned
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Young Love: Walking to School, Four Seasons Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustrated for the 1949 Four Seasons Calendar, published by Brown and Bigelow.
A young girl holds a freshly-picked bouquet of flowers as she strolls alongside a boy who carries he...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Paper
Al Hirschfeld "Beat the Band" New York Times Broadway Theatre Illustration 1940s
Located in New York, NY
Al Hirschfeld (1903-2003)
"Beat the Band"
22 x 26 1/2 inches
ink on board
published in The New York Times, October 11, 1942
The unframed work comes directly from the Al Hirschfeld F...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Jugglers and Horse Giocolieri e Cavallo
Located in London, GB
MARINO MARINI 1901-1980
Pistoia, Italy 1901-1980 Viareggio, Italy (Italian)
Title: Jugglers and Horse Giocolieri e Cavallo, 1943
Technique: Double-sided Hand Signed and Dated Pencil, Watercolour and Gouache on Thin Card
Paper size: 49 x 34.5 cm. / 19.3 x 13.6 in.
Additional information: This pencil, watercolour and gouache work is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "Locarno 1943 Marino" in the lower left image.
It is also signed in ink "Marino" in the lower right image.
The drawing was created in Locarno in 1943.
Furthermore, there is a sketch of Horse...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century City Architectural Winter Scene
By Henri Miloch
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...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Charcoal
View from Docks, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - View from Docks (P2.50), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 7 x 9.5 in. (17.78 x 24.13 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
WPA 1940s Framed Figurative Village Landscape with Figures, Houses & Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative watercolor painting, titled The Way War First Comes (1940), was created by noted American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968) during the Depression era. The pie...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled Abstraction
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled Abstraction
Graphite on paper, c. 1946
Signed with the estate stamp verso
Provenance: estate of the Artist
Inherited by his neighbor/caregiver
Conditio...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
"Cubist Nude in Studio" 1940s Charcoal Drawing Bay Area Artist
Located in Arp, TX
John Bowers
Cubist Nude in Studio
1940s
Charcoal on Paper
19"x 24.75", unframed
Signed on left side in charcoal
Came from a portfolio from the estate of John Bowers
John Henry Bowe...
Category
Cubist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
$525 Sale Price
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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
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Forest
Located in Riga, LV
Karlis Miesnieks (1887.31.I – 1977.25.X)
Studied in the studio of J. Madernieks (1910), in Petersburg society of Imperial art promotion school (1911) and he graduated class of theat...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Etching
Rockport, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Rockport (P6.39), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 16 x 11 in. (40.64 x 27.94 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's unique...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Graphite on Paper Mural Study of a Rail Yard by Rudolph Weisenborn, ca. 1940
Located in Chicago, IL
A graphite on paper, untitled mural study, Cubist scene of a rail yard by important Chicago Modernist artist Rudolph Weisenborn, ca. 1940. Artwork size: 11 3/4" x 9 3/4". Archivally matted to 16" x 18". Provenance: Estate of the artist.
Rudolph Weisenborn was born in Strassburg, Germany in 1881, but was orphaned at the age of nine. He was taken-in by Mid-Western farmer Thomas Westaby and spent his early years in Wisconsin, Iowa and North Dakota. Weisenborn first attended the University of North Dakota in 1898, then the Students School of Art in Denver. Various accounts have him working out west as a gold miner and cowboy.
Around 1912, he settled in Chicago and worked as a window designer for Marshall Field’s. Weisenborn is best known as the founder of the Chicago No-Jury Society of Artists. The group was founded because many artists could not get their work accepted into the mainstream Art Institute shows. Weisenborn is quoted as saying that he harbored feelings of disdain for any jury and that his own paintings were frequently rejected by conservative jurors. He was also involved and helped found other radical artist’s groups such as the Salon des Refuses, Cor Ardens and Neo-Arlimusic. In 1936, he helped found the New York-based American Abstract Artist’s Group. He created the only abstract mural for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago and also worked for the Federal Arts Project in the Easel Division. His WPA murals can be found in Crane Technical High School and Nettlehorst Elementary School in Chicago, IL. In 1945, Chicago businessman Herman Spertus...
Category
Cubist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Geneva's landscape; Villa in front of the Salève by Goetz - Drawing 36x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
WPA Mural Study Mid-Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study Mid-Century Modern American Scene Social Realism Workers
Anton Refregier (1905-1979)
Mural Study, Untitled
7 ¾ x 22 inches (sight)
Gouache, pencil, and charcoal on board, c. 1940s
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of Seymour Fogel, noted verso
Thomas McCormick Gallery...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache, Board, Pencil
Double Sided Art Deco Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Study of Three Graces), 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.46), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Complemented by the deep ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
ORIGINAL INK LOUIS VALTAT UNIQUE PIECE
By Louis Valtat
Located in Tel Aviv - Jaffa, IL
ORIGINAL INK ON PAPER
SIGNED WITH THE ESTATE INITIALS STAMP
Unique piece
Category
French School 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Italy Goes to War
By Arthur Dove
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Provenance
An American Place, New York;
World House Galleries, New York, 1953;
Private collection, New York;
Betty Krulik Fine Art, 2007;
Avery Galleries until present
Exhibitions
An American Place, New York, Exhibition of New Arthur G. Dove Paintings...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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