1940s Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

Bernard Gussow 1881 -1957 Bernard Gussow was active/lived in New York, New Jersey / Russian Federation. Bernard Gussow is known for genre, landscape, figure, interior paintings. Ber...

A striking Art Deco watercolor created after an original design by René Vincent (1879-1936), this lively golfing scene beautifully captures the wit, movement, and graphic sophisticat...

An Intimate, 1940s Modern Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A finely drawn, introspective portrait in pastel and charcoal o...

A Timely and Prescient, 1940s WWII Era Political Cartoon / Illustration Ink Drawing by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Titled "USA No Admittance". A p...

A Charming, 1940s American Scene study of a Man Seated at a Table by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A delightful sketch ("Dinner at the Windermere Hot...

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...

Artist Unknown "Tie and Glasses" c. 1940s Charcoal and pencil on paper 13.5"x17" site 19"x23" rustic wood frame Unsigned

Mary Martin "South Pacific" Broadway Musical Theatre Caricature Tony Award Sam Norkin (1917-2011) Marty Martin in "South Pacific," 1949 Sight: 11 x 8 3/4 inches Ink and gouache on ...

China ink drawing realized by Mino Maccari in the mid-20th Century. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition except for some halos in the top and bottom corners.

Love hurts. A young, attractive woman is captured in a moment of peak drama. She is leaning on her bed in her room, crying, her face grim with despair. A tear drop is seen below he...

Eduard Houbolt (Hof van Delft, 1885 – The Hague, 1954) Iris Numerata Signed, dated and inscribed “Eduard Houbolt / fecit. ad vivum / 10. Juni. 1947 / IRIS N...

Sleeping Girl is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century. The artwork represents a p...

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...

Sleeping Woman is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in the half of the 20th Century. Good conditions but top left of sheet missing. Hand-s...

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...

Charcoal drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1946 ca. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.

Caption: "He proposed this morning right after the alarm clock went off." From the Estate of Charles Martignette Signed lower center unframed

French female illustrator Geneviève Thomas renders a highly stylized fashion illustration set against a seamless red background, The model is wearin...

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

By Gustav Likan 7" x 7" Ink on Paper 1944 Framed Size: 16" x 15.5" This intimate piece depict a mother nursing her infant. This piece is part of Likan's portrayals of his wife Barb...

Gloom is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by Simon Goldberg (1913-1985). Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right. The state of preservation is very good. aSheet dim...

Nice charcoal and ink drawing on paper representing the famous italian painter Ottone Rosai smoking a cigarette. Signed in pencil lower right. Good conditions.

By Gustav Likan A depiction of a mother putting her child to bed in a cradle, dated 1944. 6" x 5" Pencil on Paper Framed Size: 13.75" x 12.75" From Likan's collection of depictions ...

Animalier and female illustrator of the Golden Age, Gladys Emerson Cook, draws a tension-filled picture of two Scottish Terriers fighting over a stick. With a few lines, the artist ...

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...

Robert Philipp, 'Self-Portrait with Black Hat', ink and color pastel, c. 1945. Signed in ink, lower right. A fine, spontaneous drawing, on heavy, buff wove paper; the artist's tack holes in the top and bottom left sheet corners, minor rippling in the bottom sheet edge; otherwise in good condition. Image size 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches; sheet size 19 1/4 x 12 3/4 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Provenance: Art Students League, from the artist’s personal portfolio. ABOUT THE ARTIST Robert Philipp (1895–1981) was a celebrated American Post-Impressionist painter known for his nudes, still lifes, and portraits. Noted art critic Henry McBride named Philipp one of America's top six painters of his generation. Philipp was an instructor of painting at the Art Students League, New York, for 33 years. Philipp was Secretary of the National Academy of Design, a National Academician, and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow at the Royal Society of Arts in London. His composition and painting style has been compared to the art of Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir. In 1940, Philipp was invited to Los Angeles by Hollywood producer 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...

Lord Lithgow, Time magazine cover, March 16, 1942 matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Not framed. Pencil on paper

Medium: Pastel on Board Dimensions: 26.50" x 18.50" Signature: Signed Middle Right Date: 1949

"Old Cronies" Original Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Watercolor Bold portrait piece by Byron Randall (American, 1918-1999). The composition focuses on a man and woman standing clo...

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 ...

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...

Raúl Anguiano belongs to the “Third Generation” of post-revolutionary painters, with Juan O’Gorman, Jorge González Camarena, José Chávez Morado, Alfredo Zalce...

Post-War Airline Illustration by C. Villars (France, 20th Century) — Gouache on Arches Velin Paper. This rare, original post-war gouache illustration was hand-painted by French artis...

Original Post-War Airline Illustration by C. Villars (France, 20th Century) — Gouache on Arches Velin Paper. This rare, original Post-war illustration drawing was hand-painted with g...

This is a rare, original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velin paper by French artist C. Villars (France, 20th Century). The poster project feature...

This is a rare original Post-war illustration drawing, hand-painted with gouache on Arches Velum paper by French artist C. Villars (France, 20th Century). The modernist composition s...

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...

Amalia Polleri, 'Untitled (Sleeping Children)', Conté crayon on cream wove drawing paper, signed and dated '43 in ink beneath the image, lower right; with 1/4 margins all around. Arc...

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...

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...

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...

A Stunning, 1940s Finely Rendered Modern Charcoal Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwork size: 15 x 11 inches, unfram...

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...

A Quirky, Humorous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cartoon Illustration Ink Drawing Depicting a Women's Committee Meeting by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Artwor...

Portraits is a drawing in pencil and pastels on paper realized in about 1940 0 by an Anonymous french Artist . Sheet dimentrion:28 x 25 cm The state of preservation is very good . ...

Vintage impressionist portrait pastel drawing. Pastel on paper. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a painted wood molding. Excellent condition, ready ...

Ink and Watercolor drawing realized by Mino Maccari in 1945 ca. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition.

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...

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 strong lines in well-balanced conditions. Herbert Knotel was a german artist, son and pupil of the famous uniformologist and military historian Richard Knotel. He served as officer under Marshal Hindenburg in the Prussian Army...

Regiment Provisoire Croate 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 depicted thr...

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...

Woman Knitting is a drawing realized in 1948 by Michel Anty. Pencil on paper. Hand-signed and dated. The state of preservation is good with slight foxing. The artwork is represen...

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 ...

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...

Portrait is a black and white charcoal drawing realized by Serge Fontinsky (1887-1971) in 1943. Hand-signed and dated on the lower margin. The sheet is glued on passepartout (light...

A man's profile is an artwork realized by Serge Fotinsky in 1947 ca. China ink drawing. Pad signature of the artist right left. 27 x 20 cm. Good co...

Mercurius Bringing Day Irene Rice Pereira, American (1902-1971) 1940 Pastel on rice paper, signed, titled and dated in pastel 38.5 x 24.5 in. (97.79 x 62.23 cm)

Sketch is a Pen and Pencil Drawing realized by Mino Maccari (1924-1989) in 1945. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good condition on a little yellowed paper. Mino Maccari (Siena, ...

Self Portrait sketching with Vignette in Profile Graphite on thin wove paper, c. 1940's Unsigned Condition: Small nicks in the right margin, not affecting the image Sheet size: 14 1/2 x 10 inches Provenance: Paul Cadmus Jon F. Anderson (1937-2018) 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...

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...