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Period: 1940s
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. ...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Grenadier Guards in Kur-Brandenburg in 1700 - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Grenadier Guards is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. The artw...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

German Legion - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
German Legion 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 line...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Kurhessisches Corps - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Kurhessisches Corps is an original drawing in ink and watercolor realized by Herbert Knotel in 1930/40s. Good condition except for being aged. Hand-si...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Landscape - Charcoal and Watercolor By Mino Maccari - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original Charcoal and watercolor realized by Mino Maccari in 1940s. Good condition, hand-signed by the artis. Some sketches of the artist on the back of the paper. ...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Watercolor

Sexy Gag Cartoon E. Simms Campbell first African American Cartoonist - Black Art
Located in Miami, FL
Elmer Simms Campbell was a brilliant illustrator and cartoon artist and was also the first African American cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in major newsstand magazines such a...
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Academic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Board, Casein

Female Figures - Original Drawing - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Female Figures is an original artwork, pastel, gouache on paper. Is not signed and dated but we can attribute the period early 20th Century. Two female figures under an intimate vi...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Paste

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...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

View of Reichenau - Watercolour - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
View of Reichenau is an Original Watercolor realized by an unknown artis in 1945. The beautiful artwork is in good condition included a yellowed cardboard passpartout (30x42 cm). M...
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Contemporary 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

UNTITLED
Located in Portland, ME
Barrer, Gertrude (American, 1921-19920. UNTITLED. Pencil and ink on paper. 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches, 223x298 mm., framed to 16 x 19 inches. Provenance: The Artist; Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY. This work was exbibited at Snyder Fine Art, NY, Works on Paper from the 1940s by Gertrude Barrer...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Pencil

Landscape - Original Ink and Watercolour by Alfred Sobottka - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an Original Watercolour realized by Alfred Sobottka in 1948. Good condition on a cream colored cardboard. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner.
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Dutch and Spanish Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Mid Century Santa Cruz, California Figurative Vintage Boardwalk Scene, 1944
Located in Soquel, CA
A lively and detailed mid-1940's vintage boardwalk scene of Santa Cruz, California by California artist Cassard (20th Century), 1944. This figurative...
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Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Antique Tuscan Terrace Landscape by R T Bickford
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4028 Italian Tuscan landscape watercolor in a period frame Image size 9x14"
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers 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 ...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

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

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Pencil

The Lumber Wharf
Located in New York, NY
Gordon Hope Grant (1875-1962) created the watercolor entitled “The Lumber Wharf” in circa 1947. It is signed in the lower left 1 inch above the paper edge. The watercolor paper size ...
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Naturalistic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

The Lord's Prayer, Illustration for Coronet Magazine, 1945
By Arthur Szyk
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink and Gouache on Stiff Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right "The Lord's Prayer." Illustration published in the January 1946 edition of Coronet magazine, appearing on the in...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Paper, Ink

Portrait - Original pen drawing by Umberto Maria Casotti - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original pen drawing realized by Umberto Maria Casotti in 1947. Good condition on a yellowed cardboard. Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right corner...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

UNTITLED
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

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Pencil, Color Pencil

Train des Equipages Trompettes (French Army) - Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Train des Equipages Trompettes 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 th...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Spanish Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
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 dep...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Figure Study
Located in Lawrence, NY
Signed, E Holty, (Elizabeth Holty, artist's widow) and inscribed, 1142, on verso of mount. Provenance; Private Collection, NY; Gary Snyder Fine Art, NY. ...
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Cubist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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India Ink

Beautiful Woman watercolor painting by Robert Philipp
Located in Surfside, FL
A sensitive portrait beautifully rendered in watercolor and gouache. Mid century. I am guessing from the 1940s it is not dated. Robert Philipp (February 2, 1895 – November 22, 1981) was an American painter influenced by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits of attractive women and Hollywood stars. Noted art critic Henry McBride called Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. He was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League of New York for 33 years. WPA Era. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, and National Academician, Benjamin Franklin Fellow, Royal Society of Arts in London. He was married to model and fellow artist Rochelle ("Shelly") Post, who frequently posed for him until her death in 1971. His compositions and painting style have been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Philip won prizes in most of the important exhibitions of his time, and his paintings are in numerous museums and important private collections. In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer to paint portraits of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie stars. The same year, Walter Wanger, producer of The Long Voyage Home, directed by John Ford and based on plays by Eugene O'Neill, contracted with Reeves Lewenthal, head of the Associated American Artists gallery in Manhattan, to bring nine well-known artists to the set and paint scenes from the movie and portraits of the actors in character. The artists included Robert Philipp, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ernest Fiene, George Schreiber, Luis Quintanilla...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache

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...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal, Ink, Watercolor

During the War - Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
During the War is an original drawing in watercolor realized in 1941 by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988). Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of preservation of the...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

French and Dutch Soldiers - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
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...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

German Legion - Original Drawing By Herbert Knotel - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
German Legion 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 line...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink

Richard De Menocal Vogue Watercolour Of Turban Clad Theatrical Lady
Located in Bristol, CT
Pencil signed w/ artist stamp on verso 539 East 88 St. New York City Lolas Gallery De Menocal (1919-1995) graduated from the school of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. During his ...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Nude 1947 - Original China Ink by Tibor Gertler - 1947
Located in Roma, IT
Nude 1947 is an original China ink realized by Tibor Gertler in 1947. Good conditions, mounted on a white cardboard. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner. Tibor Ger...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink

Richard De Menocal Vogue Watercolour Of Lady Croquet Player Nov 15 1947
Located in Bristol, CT
Pencil signed w/ artist stamp on verso Commissioned for Vogue Magazine Nov 15, 1947 Page 102 539 East 88 St. New York City Lolas Gallery De Menocal (1919-1995) graduated from ...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Pastel Portrait of a Circus Clown
Located in Hallowell, ME
Pastel Portrait of a Circus Clown Samuel Brecher, American, (1897 - 1982) This portrait of a clown is pastel on paper, is fully signed by Samuel Brecher and dated 1943. This pastel painting of a clown measures 21.5 inches tall by 15.5 inches wide. Matted in the frame the pastel portrait measures 33.5 inches tall by 26.5 inches wide. Samuel Brecher was born in Boryslaw, Austria, a town near the Carpathian Mountains...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Composition - Original Ink and Watercolor by Bertrand Mogniat - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original drawing in china ink and watercolor on cardboard realized by Bertrand Mogniat-Duclos in 1940. This Artwork is depicted through strong and confident stroke...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor, Ink, Cardboard

Faces - Woodcut Print by Mino Maccari - 1940/45
Located in Roma, IT
Faces is an original Woodcut Print realized by Mino Maccari in 1940/45. Good condition on a yellowed paper. No signature. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, painter, ...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Woodcut

The Prince's Room
Located in Buffalo, NY
Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children. He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...
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Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Graphite, Pen, Watercolor

Landscape Watercolor of the Acropolis in Greece 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3864 View of the Acropolis landscape watercolor Part of a series of 10 Greek island watercolors on our site
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Village in the Ural Mountains - Mid Century Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed and vibrant mid century mountain village landscape by an unknown artist. Signed ("Dosa" or "Josa") and dated ("47") in the lower ri...
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Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Gouache, Watercolor

Portrait of Antonio Vangelli - Pen Drawing By Antonio Cardile - 1945
Located in Roma, IT
The portrait of Vangelli is an original drawing in pen on paper, realized by Antonio Cardile in 1945, the portrait is Italian painter Vangelli, which is depicted through quick and de...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pen

The Gesture - Original Pencil Drawing - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The gesture is an original drawing in pencil on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous Artist, in 1940s. In very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 27 x 19 cm This artwork is a...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

“Tavern Life”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor with graphite tracings of a lively tavern scene. Signed lower right and dated 1942 by the British artist, George Anderson Short...
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Academic 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Archival Paper, Graphite, Watercolor

Nude of Lying Girl - Original Mixed Media by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude of Lying Girl is an original artwork realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (Hanoi, 1916 – 1988) in 1940s. Good conditions. This painting was made with tempera and watercolor. The w...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media, Watercolor, Tempera

"Sticky Monkey Flower, Big Sur" - Mid Century Botanical Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century ink brush botanical illustration titled "Sticky Monkey Flower, Big Sur" by Margaret Wentworth Millard Owings (American, 1...
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American Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Ink

Abstract Mid 20th Century WPA Non Objective American Modernism New Hope Modern
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 ...
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American Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Gouache, Board

"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge
Located in New York, NY
"Second Theme" 1949 Abstract Mid 20th Century Geometric Non-Objective Hard Edge Burgoyne A. Diller (American, 1906-1965) "Second Theme" 1949. Pencil and crayon on paper. Signed and dated 'D. 49' (lower right). Image: 9 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York. David K. Anderson Grandchildren's Trust. BURGOYNE DILLER (1906-1965) Recognized as the first American painter to embrace the tenets of Neo-Plasticism, Burgoyne Diller made an important contribution to the development of non-objective art in the United States. Working in a hard-edged geometric style, he produced paintings, drawings, and collages that paved the way for the development of American Minimalism during the 1960s and 70s. Born in New York City in 1906, Diller began painting and drawing as a teenager growing up in Battle Creek, Michigan. Later, while attending Michigan State University in East Lansing on an athletic scholarship, he made weekend visits to the Art Institute of Chicago, where he familiarized himself with Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting. He was especially drawn to the landscapes and still lives of Paul Cézanne, who modeled color to create structure and volume. In 1929, Diller moved to Manhattan and enrolled at the Art Students League, where his teachers included such progressive-minded painters as Jan Matulka, Hans Hofmann, and George Grosz. Hofmann's concept of the "push-pull" effect of form and color exerted a strong influence on his early work, as did his growing familiarity with Analytical and Synthetic Cubism, German Expressionism, and other vanguard European styles. Diller had the opportunity to see some of this work firsthand, but he also kept abreast of developments abroad by reading journals such as Cahiers d'Art. Diller completed his studies at the League in 1933, the year he had his first solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York. It was around this time that his paintings began to show the influence of the reductive, pared-down geometric compositions of the Dutch Constructivist Piet Mondrian and the equally restrained compositions of Kasimir Malevich and El Lissitsky...
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Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Crayon, Pencil

Mountains - Original Drawing by Jean-Raymond Delpech - 1944
Located in Roma, IT
Mountains is an original drawing in watercolor on cardboard realized by Jean-Raymond Delpech (1916-1988) in 1944. Hand-signed and dated on the lower right. The state of preservatio...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

The Arrest of Giorgio Morandi - Drawing by M. Maccari - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
The Arrest of Giorgio Morandi is an original Drawing in watercolor and ink on paper realized by Mino Maccari in 1943. Hand-signed on the lower. Good conditions. On 23 May 1943 th...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

Noble Woman - Drawing by E. Klepper - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Noble Woman is an original drawing on paper realized by Erhard Klepper (1906-1980) in 1948. Mixed media: drawing and watercolor. Hand-written notes on the higher right margin. The a...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Mixed Media

black and white abstract expressionist
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 ...
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Abstract 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Ink, Rag Paper

Portrait - Original Pastel Drawing - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original drawing in Pastel realized by an anonymous artist in the 1940s. Good conditions except for a cutaway on the top-left angle. The artwork is depicted through ...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Study for « Paysage de Fribourg » - 1943 a drawing by Balthus (1908 - 2001)
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance: Frédérique Tison, Château de Chassy (Burgundy-Franche Comté - France) Bibliography: J. Clair, V. Monnier Balthus, catalogue raisonné of the complete works, Gallimard, Pa...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pencil

Jardin du Luxembourg
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sketch drawing on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts for his painting Jardin du Luxembourg from 1948 (SK115 Monografie en Oeurvr...
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Realist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Carbon Pencil

Working Woman - Original Pencil on Paper by Jeanne Daour - 1942
Located in Roma, IT
Working Woman is an original drawing in sanguina on paper realized by Jeanne Daour. The state of preservation is good except for some foxings. Sheet dimension: 22 x 22 cm The artw...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

'Oregon Coast', Art Institute of Chicago, AIC, Works Project Association, WPA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'A. Vincent' for Andrew McDuffie Vincent (American, 1898-1993); inscribed verso with title, 'Oregon Coast' and dated 1945. A vibrant w...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Lioness - Original Pencil Drawing by Willy Lorenz - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Lioness is a beautiful pencil original drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized in 1940s by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, best know as Willi Lorenz. Signed in pencil on lower rig...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Pencil

Lion - Original Charcoal Drawing by Willy Lorenz - 1971
Located in Roma, IT
Lion is a beautiful charcoal original drawing on ivory-colored paper, realized by the German artist Wilhelm Lorenz, best know as Willi Lorenz (German, 1901–1981), in 1971. Signed and...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Charcoal

Farmer - Original Watercolor on Paper by J. Delpech after Millet - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
"Farmer" is an original drawing in mixed media on cardboard, realized by Jean Delpech (1916-1988). The state of preservation of the artwork is very good. Sheet dimension: 17.3 x 17...
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1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Watercolor

'Modernist American Landscape', Merritt College, Oakland, Stanford, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, in gouache, 'Herb Saylor' for Herbert Saylor (American, 1916-1991) and painted circa 1945. Art educator Herbert Saylor first studied art at the Albright Art Scho...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Landscape - Oil Painting by Robert Albert Genicot - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with Houses is an original artwork realize by Robert Albert Genicot (1890-1981) in 1940s. Oil on cardboard. The painting is in very good conditions, signed by the artist ...
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Modern 1940s Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Oil

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