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Period: 1940s
Color: Black
Riders of Pigeon Hill
By Jon Corbino
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Self Portrait, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, 14 ¼ x 12 1/4 inches, signed lower left, presented in a newer frame
This work is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of th...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flowers and Arches, 1943, oil on board, initialed and dated lower left, 4 x 7 1/8 inches, presented in an older, but likely not original frame
This work is part of our exhibition A...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First,” 1948, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14.5 x 12.5 inches, titled in pencil verso; presented in a newer frame...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers in vase
Located in Täby, SE
Yelva Petrea Sophie Vermehren, born February 13, 1878 in Helsingborg, died in 1980 102 years old, was a Swedish-Danish painter. She was the daughter of the wholesaler Johan Carl Emil...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Voilier - ship, 1948 - oil on canvas, 51x59 cm., framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil painting on panel representing a boat in the sea. Framed
André Petroff naquit à Saint-Petersbourg en 1894, il étudia avec Bilibine et Roerich. Par la...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Southern Modernist Abstract Musical Oil Painting by Ethel Davis, Alabama 1940
Located in Baltimore, MD
Ethel Rosetta Davis was born in Hardin County, Tennessee in 1897. She studied art in Birmingham, Alabama. Davis married and located to Tuscumbia a...
Category
1940s Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Modernist New York City Geometric Architectural Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jack Levine WW11 Painting
By Jack Levine
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Levine: 1915-2010. Well listed American social realist painter with auction results over $220,000. This fabulous gem was most likely painted between 1942 and 1945 as he was serv...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Oil on Canvas Painting of a Still Life by Abraham Baylinson, Dated 1948
Located in New York, NY
Abraham Baylinson, 1882-1950
Still Life, 1948
Oil on canvas
23 ½ x 33 ½ inches
Signed and dated (lower right): A. Baylinson / 1948
Working in a real...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Judaica Oil Painting "Old Jew" Jewish Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
An oil on board Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait in profile of an old Jew. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Klan Violence
By Joseph Meert
Located in Franklin, MI
A powerful depiction of a KKK member---signed lower right
A reminder of the unfortunate history of behavior that this country has not yet ridden itself of.
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View from the old town over Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
girl reading oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Llimona Benet (1896-1957) - Girl reading - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 116x89 cm.
Frameless.
Rafael Llimona i Benet (1896-1957) was a Spanish pai...
Category
1940s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats and Fishermen
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
65 x 77 x 2.5 cm
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"A Country Road in Sunlight"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Gershon Benjamin (1899 – 1985).
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and urban scene...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Proposal. American Mid Century Industrial
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. Fortune Mag Cover Proposal. American Mid Century Industrial
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
92
Fortune cover proposal, c. 1945
13 X 10 3/4 inches (sight)
Framed...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
The workshop (1946) by Jacques Berger - Oil on wood 53x71 cm
By Jacques Berger
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on wood,
Sold with frame
Total size with frame is 71,5x90,5 cm
Jacques Berger is a Swiss artist born in 1902 and died in 1977
Category
1940s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape Near Aesch in Basel Country
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
55.5 x 48 x 6 cm
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait de Femme ( Self Portrait ? )
By Leonor Fini
Located in Miami, FL
This is a possible self portrait by the famed female surrealist artist. It is also strikingly similar in style with it's exaggerated eyes to her portrait of Jean Genet, ( Leonor F...
Category
1940s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Phoebus
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
By Louis Bosa
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Railroad WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Rural Modern Realism
Large oil on canvas genre painting depicting laborers working on a railroad, with rural landscape in the...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lunch Break” Fletcher Martin, Men Working, Bricklayers, WPA, American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Fletcher Martin
Lunch Break, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 37 3/8 inches
When Fletcher Martin died in 1979, the New York Times entitled his obituary “Artist o...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rhythm in Blues
Located in London, GB
signed ‘Gropper’ (lower right); with the artist's studio stamp (on the verso)
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Symbolic and surreal mid century nocturnal landscape of a lone house on a s...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American School Modern Abstract Expressionist Minimalist NYC Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract drawing. Pencil and graphite on paper, circa 1970. Unsigned. Image size, 31L x 23H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Hospitalities Long Past, 1940s Oil Painting of Store Front
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Hospitalities Long Past, 1941
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
37 x 27 inches
"Looking into store front windows has always i...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940s Modern Reclining Nude Oil Painting on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful reclining nude in modern style, circa 1940. Faint illegible signature lower right edge. Condition: Good: Professionally cleaned; two tears professionally repaired/inpainted...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Signed Vintage Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist abstract expressionist painting. Oil on canvas. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 24L x 36H. Signed.
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Time Remembered" Mid 20th Century NYC Modern American Scene WPA El Railway 1940
Located in New York, NY
"Time Remembered" Mid 20th Century NYC Modern American Scene WPA El Railway 1940
A view of the Third Avenue El (elevated railway) at 28th Street, New York. Signed lower left. Titled verso. c. 1940. oil on board c. 1940, 27.875 h × 21.75 w inches.
BIO
Staats Cotsworth...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Falling Figure
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Print engraving, soft ground and scouper on paper; ed. 45/50
24 x 20 inches; 26.25 x 23 inches framed
Signed and dated lower center, "SW Hayter 47", titled in pencil lower center
Pro...
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Engraving
High Rolls, New Mexico, 1940s Southwestern Landscape, Desert Church with Trees
By Andreas Storrs Andersen
Located in Denver, CO
"High Rolls, New Mexico", is a oil on canvas by Andreas Storrs Andersen (1908-1974) of a wooden church along a dirt road in the mountains with clouds in the background. Painted in a ...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
The little tree
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a woman with a green headscarf
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Gray wooden frame
56 x 48 x 5.5 cm
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boats in Burano, Canale Di Pizzo
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Beige wooden frame
62.5 x 72 x 4.5 cm
Category
1940s Italian School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night on the porch
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Draft horses
By Henry Meylan
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Brown and gold wooden frame
58 x 66 x 5 cm
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Frank Judge Oil on Board Painting Titled "Miss St. Louis", circa 1940
Located in New York, NY
A bright portrait of a woman in pageant dress before a St. Louis skyline and riverboat.
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage Mid Century Fauvist American Modernist Amusement Park Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
A Painting depicting an amusement park exploding in vibrant colors. The painting is signed "William Wright" lower right. Oil on Canvas. 20 x 24. Nicely framed.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Eagle Fortune Magazine Cover Illustration ( alternate )
Located in Miami, FL
Alternate cover for Fortune Magazine February, 1940. Gouache on board. 350x285 mm; 13 3/4x11 1/4. Signed "A. Petrucelli" in lower left image. Tipped t...
Category
1940s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage American School Handsome Young Male Model Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist portrait painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Signed . Framed. Image size, 26L x 32H.
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
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Father, Daughter and Horse by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
60 x 73 cm (23 ⅝ x 28 ¾ inches)
Signed a...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (1946). Having spent several months a year in Provence, the artist created dozens of wo...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chicken and Ducks, German Realist Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Hans-Ulrich Muhlhausen (Born in 1915-1987)
Title: Chickens and Ducks
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: Framed 11” x 9”, Unframed 9” x 7”
Description
A small oil painting of ...
Category
1940s Realist Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town), 1940s WPA Era Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on board painting by George Vander Sluis (1915-1984) titled Storm Over Victor (Colorado Mountain Town) from 1946. WPA Era Mountain Landscape wi...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
A Game of Cards by Orovida Pissarro (1893-1968)
Oil on canvas
59 x 72 cm (23 ¹/₄ x 28 ³/₈ inches)
Signed and titled upper right Orovida 1949
Artist biography
Orovida Camille Pissarr...
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Composition to machines and tools
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
41 x 50.5 x 6 cm
Category
1940s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lively seaside by Ellis Holy-Björset - Watercolor
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Original silver wooden frame with glass window
52 x 66,5 x 1,5 cm
Category
1940s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Antique American School New York City Cubist Abstract Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist cubist abstract painting. Watercolor gouache and pastel on board. Unsigned. Framed. Image size, 11"L x 11"H.
Category
1940s Cubist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marine venus
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Molding frame in plaster and gilded wood
68 x 60 x 8 cm
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The lady with the cameo
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
48.5 x 39.5 x 4.5 cm
Category
1940s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA - Spanish artist, cubist art
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 5% IMPORT DUTY ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA (1898-1968)
Oil on masonite
88.9 x 115.6 cm (35 x 45 ¹/₂ i...
Category
1940s Cubist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
1940s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
'View of Paris', Post Impressionist Oil, French Artist, École des Beaux-Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'O. Foss' for Olivier Foss (French, 1920-2002) and painted circa 1945.
Born in Hanover, Germany, Olivier Foss first studied art in Ber...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
Located in New York, NY
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
TILL THE COULDS ROLL BY (Film Set), oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches signed “Richard Whorf” lower right and signed and dated on the verso “R. Whorf/ Dec. 21, 1945. Frame by Hendenryk.
ABOUT THE PAINTING
This painting is from the collection of Barbara and Frank Sinatra, dated December 21, 1945 (just nine days after Frank Sinatra’s 30th birthday), and depicts the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Culver City backlot during the filming of Till the Clouds Roll By, the direction of the film having been taking over by Richard Whorf in December 1945. It is not presently clear if Whorf gave the Sinatras this painting as a gift, as the presence of the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries label on the verso indicates the painting may have been sourced there. Frank and Nancy Sinatra acquired a number of works from Dalzell Hatfield Galleries during the 1940’s, or perhaps they framed it for the couple.
Sinatra performed “Old Man River’ in the film. Sinatra and June Allyson are depicted in the center of the painting.
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
An image of the Dalzell Hatfield label and the back of the original frame (which we replaced with a stunning Heydenrk frame) are attached.
Nancy Sinatra was Fran's first wife. Nancy Rose Barbato was 17 years old when she met Frank Sinatra, an 18-year-old singer from Hoboken, on the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1934. They married in 1939 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City where Frank gave Nancy a recording of a song dedicated to her titled "Our Love" as a wedding present. The young newlyweds lived and worked in New Jersey, where Frank worked as an unknown singing waiter and master of ceremonies at the Rustic Cabin while Nancy worked as a secretary at the American Type Founders.
His musical career took off after singing with big band leaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey...
Category
1940s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nature Morte by Paulémile Pissarro - Still life, oil on canvas
Located in London, GB
Nature Morte by Paulémile Pissarro (1884 - 1972)
Oil on canvas
54.3 x 65.2 cm (21 ³/₈ x 25 ⁵/₈ inches)
Signed lower left, Paulémile Pissarro; signed, titled and dated on the reverse
...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nude Girl, Polynesian Girl Tahiti, Annabella
Located in Miami, FL
In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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