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Period: 1940s
“Floating Forms”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid century modern gouache on paper by the well known Canadian/American artist, Rolph Scarlett. Signed and dated in blue pen lower left, 1947. Condition: Good. Framed in thin black matte painted frame with acid free white mat. Not examined out of frame. Overall framed 14.25 by 17 inches.
ROLPH SCARLETT (1889-1984)
Rolph Scarlett was born 1889 in Guelph, Ontario. His long life as an artist began in his teens as a jewelry designer and fabricator. At the age of fourteen he began to design jewelry professionally, a craft which he continued off and on for the rest of his life.
His desire to learn more about art took him to New York in 1908, when American artists were just beginning to experience strong influences from major modern European artists of the day such as Cezanne and Picasso.
Throughout his long career he produced, oil paintings, many works on paper, unique sculptured jewelry, modernist style industrial and furniture designs. Currently there are over 800 of his designs at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Design Collection.
In 1928 he moved to Hollywood, California where he became a very successful stage and set designer. In the mid-1930s he met the director of the Museum of Non-objective Art in New York ( Hilla Rebay). He became her close associate and advisor in organizing and running the museum. He was Chief lecturer at the museum (1939 -1946) teaching the new modernism and abstraction to the new generation of artists in the New York art community. Hilla Rebay would introduce him as “Rolph Scarlett, my great find”. So considerable was her enthusiasm for Scarlett, that she and Solomon Guggenheim bought over sixty of his paintings and monotypes for the museum. After Kandinsky and Bauer, there was more of Scarlett’s work in the collection than any other artists.
He participated in many of the museum exhibitions and galleries and was regularly exhibiting his work in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Art Museum, the Art Institute in Chicago, the Modern Age Gallery in N.Y., the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He studied for a time at the Art Student League with William Merrit...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled. Still Life.
Located in New York, NY
This gouache painting by Werner Drewes was created in 1942. Signed with a pen in the lower right. Cypher and date are just under the signature. Painted to the papers edge - the pap...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Chorus Girl"
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper of a chorus or show girl by Ruth Adele Mysel. Mysel grew up in Boston and attended the New England School of Art. She was both a artist and sculptor as well as ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$275 Sale Price
35% Off
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Landscape near Mt. Desert Island)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Condition: Excellent
...
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American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Watercolor, 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Cond...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
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
Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Art Deco Polo Players Study by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1944 (Polo Players)
Pencil on paper
15 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1944
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
'St Mark's Square, Venice', Paris, Post-Impressionist, Charlottenborg Palace
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and titled, 'Venedig' (Venice).
Precocious as a child, Victor Isbrand painted professionally from a young age...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Cardboard
Central Park Zoo with Sea Lions and Animals
Located in Miami, FL
A charming and stylized depiction of a day at the Central Park Zoo. with World War Two uniformed visitors front and center. Sea lions put on a show in front of a packed audience. The...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing
By Jean Xceron
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Work on Paper Mid-Century Modernism Greek American Gouache Drawing.
A modernist artist who emigrated to America from Greece in 1904, when he was fourteen years old, Jean Xceron is described as having a reputation as an artist that has mysteriously fallen into obscurity---especially since he was reportedly quite prominent during his lifetime. However, a partial explanation of that omission is the fact that many of his papers and early records have been lost. He was a painter of biomorphic abstractions and did collages, which were influenced by Dadaism.
Xceron was active in New York City when modernism was gaining influence. Of him during this period, it was written that his artistic role was "a vital link between what is commonly termed as the first-generation (the Stieglitz group, the Synchromists, etc.) and second-generation, the American Abstract Artists, the Transcendental Painting...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Thee Graces Preparatory Drawing by Wheeler Williams, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled (Study of Three Graces), 1947
Pencil on paper
9 1/4 x 12 1/4 in.
Signed lower right: Wheeler Williams, 1947
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors from Yale University in 1919 and earned a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard in 1922. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago with sculptor Albin Polasek...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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
"The Embrace" Original Surreal Watercolor & Ink Drawing by Walter Schnackenberg
Located in Chicago, IL
Walter Schnackenberg’s style changed several times during his long and successful career. Having studied in Munich, the artist traveled often to Paris where he fell under the spell o...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Paper
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
Canal, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Canal (P2.51), Year: 1947, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 13 x 12 in. (33.02 x 30.48 cm), Description: Viewed through the shimmer...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Stairway to the Sea, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Stairway to the Sea (85), Year: 1949, Medium: Watercolor, Size: 15 in. x 18 in. (38.1 cm x 45.72 cm), Description: Leading down to the ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flushing Armory, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flushing Armory (P6.6), Year: 1949, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 15 x 19.5 in. (38.1 x 49.53 cm), Description: Looking up throu...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Flowers, Impressionist Watercolor by Eve Nethercott
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eve Nethercott, American (1925 - 2015) - Flowers (P6.50), Year: 1948, Medium: Watercolor on Paper, Size: 22 x 15 in. (55.88 x 38.1 cm), Description: Eve Nethercott's colorful...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Nero's Temple On The Nile
By Willy Pogany
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Sight Size 20.50" x 27.00;" Framed 30.25" x 35.00"
Framed and matted under glass in antique gold painted art deco...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro - Charcoal drawing
Located in London, GB
Le Pont du Vey by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Charcoal on paper
24.5 x 31.5 cm (9 ⁵/₈ x 12 ³/₈ inches)
Signed with Estate stamp lower centre and upper right
Executed circa 1940s
...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Sailboats at Dock Watercolor by Carl Broemel Original Arts and Crafts Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Original watercolor of sailboats at dock by well listed artist Carl Broemel. This work is stunning with wonderful colors and movement. This piece is also housed in the original hand carved arts and crafts frame.
Carl William Broemel...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Reading by the Fire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image of a woman seated in front of the warm glow of a fire with a book beside her.
Date: 1940
Medium: Pastel
Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Louis XIV Period Gentleman, Drawing by Vivian Rydgren
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Vivian Rydgren
Title: Portrait of a Gentleman
Year: 1948
Medium: Color pencil and pastel on paper, signed and dated l.r.
Paper Size: 23 x 15.5 inches
Framed: 37.5 x 29.5 inches
Category
Romantic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Color Pencil
West Gouldsboro (Looking Across Mt. Desert Narrows)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
West Gouldsboro (Looking Across Mt. Desert Narrows)
Watercolor on paper, c. 1945-1955
Unsigned
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Condition: Excellent
Image/Sheet size: 9 7/8 x 12 1/2 inches
Regarding the Maine subject matter of her watercolors, we know that Allen taught art in West Gouldsboro, ME, located near Arcadia National Forest. This watercolor was most probably done in that vicinity.
A local Maine newsletter mentions “the artist Greta Allen’s house” as artist residing in West Gouldsboro, Maine in a house formerly owned by James Hill. West Gouldsboro is located just east of the Mt. Desert Narrows, across Frenchman Bay from Mt. Desert Island and Arcadia National Park.
Please see attached images for detailed information about the artist's life and time in Maine.
Greta Allen, who is sometimes listed under her married name Dietz, was born in Boston in 1881. At the Massachusetts Normal Art School she took elementary lessons from Joseph R. DeCamp, then Frank Benson was her teacher at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Although her work seems to be only in private collections today, Allen exhibited at the Boston Art Club, at the Copley Society...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
By Greta Allen
Located in Fairlawn, OH
untitled (Maine Autumn Landscape across the narrows from Mt. Desert)
Watercolor, 1945-1955
Signed by the artist lower left in pencil (see photo)
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Cond...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
black and white abstract expressionist
By Michael Loew
Located in Greenwich, CT
This sensitively rendered though powerful ink on paper was created in 1946 shortly after Loew returned from active duty where he served at the US Naval airbase on Tinian Island, the ...
Category
Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Rag Paper
Study for 'Willie Gillis USO'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942
Medium: Charcoal, Pencil and Collage on Paper
Dimensions: 33.00" x 26.25"
Signature: Inscribed and Signed
In 1941, Norman Rockwell created his first cover image of Willie...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pencil
Horses Leaving the Barn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses Leaving the Barn
Watercolor on paper, 1940
Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 14 1/2 x 21”
Frame: 25” x 31”
Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label)
Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst
Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist.
Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist.
Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement.
Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon.
Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Watercolor Painting American Modern Painting Bridge Harbor Female Artist 1950
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Untitled (Bridge Tower), c. 1960s–70s
Acrylic on paper, floated in a mat
Framed dimensions: 30 in. H × 24 in. W
Contemporary walnut or black wood frame with white archiv...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Acrylic
UNTITLED
By Richard Filipowski
Located in Portland, ME
Filipowski, Richard (American, born Poland, 1923-2008). UNTITLED. Graphite and colored pencils on illustration board, 1947. Signed and dated, lower right. 19 1/2 x14 1/2 inches. 495x368 mm. Framed to 26 x 22 inches. Provenance: Private Collection, Illinois; Gary Snyder...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil, Color Pencil
In the Bar - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1945
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
In the Bar is a China Ink Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in the 1945 ca.
Hand-signed on the lower margin.
Good conditions with some folding.
Mino Maccari (Siena, 19...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Watercolor Painting American Modern Impressionist Landscape Framed 1940 colorful
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Lakeside Picnic, c. 1940s–50s
Watercolor on paper
Framed dimensions: 30 in. H × 24 in. W
Presented in a contemporary gold frame with archival mat
Brimming with light an...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Art Lovers and Art Critics Analyzing Obscene Painting. Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
Cartoonist Richard Taylor was trained in academic art. He frequently comments on abstract art which was the new and radical thing at the time. "Curtis sees so much more in these thi...
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Academic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Board
Butch Taking A Bath, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, Dog Painting
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of a shaggy black and white dog taking a bath
Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, May 11, 1946
The Post editors described: "Artist Albe...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Couple - Original Mixed Media - 1940 ca
Located in Roma, IT
Couple is an original drawing in mixed media realized in 1940 ca. by an unknown artist of the 20 Century.
Very good conditions.
The artwork represents a hugging lover expressed th...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Portrait of Man - Drawing in China Ink by Umberto Casotti - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Man is an original drawing in Cina ink realized by Umberto Casotti in 1947.
signed on lower .
sheet dimension: 30 x 22 cm.
The state of preservation is good except for...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
1940s American Modernist Abstract Industrial Watercolor Ink Charcoal Painting
Located in Denver, CO
This original vintage painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897-1968), titled Quitting Time from Bunnell's Black and Blue Series from 1941, exemplifies his unique Abstract Structure ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor
Two Preparatory Drawings by Wheeler Williams
Located in New York, NY
Wheeler Williams (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled Study, 1931
Pencil on paper
8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.
Each signed: Wheeler Williams, 1931
A native of Chicago, Wheeler Williams is known for his allegorical, narrative work including "Tablets to Pioneers" on the Michigan Avenue bridge in Chicago, and "Settlers of the Seaboard" in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia.
He graduated with honors...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Henri Matisse Drawing Masque D'eskimo Crayon
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse Drawing Of An Eskimo COA By George Matisse.
Pencil on paper, 1949,
Unsigned.
Sheet size: 11.75 Inches x 9.2 Inches
Framed in Museu...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Stipple Drawing in Black and White of the First Lady of Haiti - African American
Located in Miami, FL
1942 Calendar illustration featuring the First Lady of Haiti (Madame Elie Lescot]) rendered in a precise stipple effect and celebrating African-American women which was titled "Twelve American Women." It was executed during the hight of World War II. Lois Mailou Jones...
Category
Academic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Butch at Fire Hydrant, "Wet Paint" - Original Promotional Illustration of a Dog
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A shaggy black and white dog sits in front of a fire hydrant
Promotional illustration used on items like playing cards and calendars.
In the published images, the sign on the fir...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Original 1944 Pencil Drawing From Hi, Guy! The Cinderella Horse By Paul Brown 28
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 11"H x 8 3/8"W
1944
Provenance stamp on verso: The Estate of Paul Desmond Brown
*Book sold separately*
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
"House with balcony", Fernand Léger (1881-1955)
Located in Paris, FR
Fernand Léger (1881–1955) was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, and a major figure in modern art. Born in Normandy, he began his career influenced by Impressionism before tu...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Watercolor
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) wa...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
The Shipwreck of Attualismo - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1940s
By Mino Maccari
Located in Roma, IT
Chia ink and watercolor drawing on paper realized by Maccari in 1940s.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
It depicts Giovanni Gentile in the middle of the sea, while his philosophi...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
View of the Canals of Venice - Drawing by Alcione Gubellini - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Alcione Gubellini in the mid-20th century.
Hand signed.
Includes a wooden frame cm. 53x47.
Very good condition.
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Moby Dick 4 original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's masterpiece
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Dancer in White
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Category
American Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Watercolor Painting American Modern Painting Gloucester Harbor Female Artist
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Gloucester Harbor, c. 1950s
Watercolor and ink on paper
Framed dimensions: 34 in. H × 30 in. W
Contemporary black frame with white archival mat
In Gloucester Harbor, Dorothy Rivo captures the gritty beauty of a working port with expressive brushwork and tonal depth. The scene unfolds in loose washes of ochre, rust, and charcoal, where weathered boats float before a jagged row of fishing sheds and coastal structures rendered in gestural lines.
Rather than striving for topographic precision, Rivo offers a painterly impression of the harbor—moody, atmospheric, and undeniably alive. The smudged foreground, dripping masts, and clouded sky convey both movement and memory, as if the harbor were emerging from a dream or dissolving into one.
Executed in watercolor and ink, this piece shows Rivo's command of mixed media and her deft ability to balance structure with spontaneity. It is a standout example of mid-century American waterfront painting...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Harbor Scene - Golden Gate Bridge, Mid-Century Illustration, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Original mid-century illustration for the children's book "Good Work" by John G. McCullough, Young Scott Books, N.Y. It depicts a busy harbor filled with commercial and leisure traffic. Notice all the charming little people, busy at work - dotting the docks and boats. Ipcar masterfully designed the work so that your eye effortlessly travels from more prominent foreground elements to more minor elements in the distance. But her color scheme limited only to two colors sets "Harbor Scene" apart from the humdrum and elevates it to a sophisticated children's book illustration. The suspension bridge in the back of the composition is modeled after the Golden Gate. The illustration bears the hallmarks of modernism with its flat shapes and quick painterly style. "Harbor Scene" represents the artist's early style. By the '60s and '70s, her work began to take on a new direction with intricate patterns and depicting animals.
Signed lower right with the artist's label on verso. Dahlov Ipcar...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
The Blitz: A Civil Defence Firefighter before St Paul's Cathedral, London 1940
Located in London, GB
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The Blitz: A Civil Defence Firefighter In Action before St Paul's Cathedral with Search Lights...
Category
Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Art Deco Glamour illustration, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Caption: "He proposed this morning right
after the alarm clock went off."
From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Signed lower center
unframed
Category
Art Deco 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Landscape in Provence Watercolor Painting by Francois Pascal, circa 1940
Located in Atlanta, GA
Step into the serene charm of southern France with this captivating watercolor landscape artwork by François Pascal (France, 19th century–1948). Expertly painted on paper, this work ...
Category
Academic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Children Snow Sledding in Central Park - New Yorker Cover Study
Located in Miami, FL
Hungarian/American artist/illustrator depicts a charming scene of sledding in the snow in Central Park. The work is abstract in its design as it's functional in its narrative - Unpublished New Yorker...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Man With Beret And Lying Man - 1940s - Paul-Franz Namur - Drawing - Modern
Located in Roma, IT
Man With Beret And Lying Man is an original artwork realized by Paul-Franz Namur in the first half of the XX century. Pencil on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil by the artist on the low...
Category
Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Watercolor Painting American Modern Cubist Landscape Boats Mountains Blue White
Located in Buffalo, NY
Dorothy Rivo
Untitled (Boats and Peaks)
Acrylic on panel
Framed dimensions: 22 in. H × 28 in. W
Contemporary black frame
In Untitled (Boats and Peaks), Dorothy Rivo renders a mariti...
Category
American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
"He bent down and kissed her" Magazine WWII Era Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for “Hero Come Home” by Ruth Burr Sanborn for The Saturday Evening Post, published September 12, 1942, page 24.
This sentimental illustration, accompany...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pleasant Thoughts for the Morning
Located in London, GB
FERNAND LÉGER 1881-1955
Argentan 1881-1955 Paris, Gif-sur-Yvette (French)
Title: Pleasant Thoughts for the Morning Bonne Pensée du Matin, from: Les Illuminations, 1948
Technique:...
Category
1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Row of Plane Trees In Winter - Maussane-les-Alpilles', Provence, watercolour and pencil on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1946). A line of Plane trees greets visitors to almost every vi...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
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