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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Artist: Nahum Tschacbasov
Artist: Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, Easter Edition
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Mounted to Archival Board Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 17.625” x 14.375;" Framed 23.063” x 20.125" Custom Gilt Framing: Thanhardt Burger (formerly Newcomb Mac...
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

The Candidate, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1917
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Oil on Canvas Saturday Evening Post Cover, September 18, 1920 - Leyendecker addressed the theme of American patriotism in several ways. His famous Fourth of July covers asserted the import of American independence through stock characters: George Washington, Uncle Sam, the Statue of Liberty, colonial Freedom Fighters, and modern-day soldiers. In addition, his World War I and World War II covers depicted soldiers proudly defending their country. Leyendecker also profiled U.S. presidents and historical figures - George Washington, Robert E. Lee, William Howard Taft...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lucky Bag Girl
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Hand Painted Fine Print Signature: Signed Lower Left
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint

Policeman and School Children, SEP Cover, Oct. 3, 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration: Saturday Evening Post, October 3, 1931
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Mortmain" by Arthur Train, Book Illustration, 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Yard Work, Saturday Evening Post Cover, Nov. 6, 1937
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration: Saturday Evening Post, November 6, 1937
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study for 'Trimming the Pie'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned Medium: Oil and Charcoal on Canvas This piece is a preparatory study for J.C. Leyendecker’s final painting, Trimming the Pie (19...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Canvas, Oil

The Story Teller, The Saturday Evening Post Cover Study, December 1, 1934
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Study for the Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 1, 1934
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned 'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Doctor Looking into Childs Mouth, Study for SEP Cover, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Study for the November 22, 1930 cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sick Man, Saturday Evening Post Cover Study, 1917
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas March 10, 1917 Preliminary Study for The Saturday Evening Post Cover
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Thanksgiving, The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 12, 1910
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Panel Signature: Signed Lower Right The Saturday Evening Post cover, November 12, 1910
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Panel

“Post Nuclear Twins”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1974. Titled and signed verso. Condition is very good. Presently unframed. Pr...
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1970s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Woman with Large Bird”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil, acrylic and drip painting on linen canvas by the well know Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed upper right and dated 1970. Signed and dated verso as well. Condit...
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1970s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

“Children in the Park”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite encaustic painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated top right, 1952. In good to very good condition. Provenance: Est...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

“Woman with Red Bow”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1957. Condition is good. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Biography : Russia...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Surreal Family”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed and dated top right, 1942. Condition: Good. Old relined canvas.. Provenance: Estate of The artis...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Portrait of Esther”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting of the artist’s wife in a red chair by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top left and dated 1960. Condition is good. Unframed. Provenance...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Portrait of Susan”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1966. Titled verso. Condition is good. Unframed. Provenance: Sarasota, Flor...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

"Blue Harlequin"
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on thick artist board by Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed upper right and dated 1948. Provenance: Woodstock, New York estate. Housed in a custom sil...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Woman with Bird, " Nahum Tschacbasov, figurative, modern, 1956
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Baku, Russia in 1899, prolific avant-garde artist and painter Nahum Tschacbasov studied in Paris with Leopold Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fe...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Untitled"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right and dated 1946. In good condition. The painting is framed in a contemporary...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

The Soldiers' Charge, Carter's Monthly Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1898 Medium: Ink and Gouache on Paper Affixed to Board Dimensions: 16.50" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Carter's Monthly, March 1898, cover illustration. Decades lat...
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1890s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache, Board

"The General"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Done with a thick impasto paint the artist portrays the powerful yet colorful nature of the general...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"The Bride"
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is one of the last paintings done by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Acrylic on canvas; signed lower right and dated, 1980. Ti...
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1980s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Premonition"
Located in Southampton, NY
Acrylic on black paper showing the death of an individual, most likely the artist himself. The lead figure top right is his wife Irene. This is one of the artist's last paintings as ...
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1980s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic, Paper

Study for 'Flowers for the President'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 23.50" x 27.25", Framed 29.50" x 33.00" The present work is a study for Flowers for the President c...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Study for 'Christmas Peek, ' Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas Laid Down on Board Study for the December 23rd, 1939 issue The Saturday Evening Post.
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board, Pencil

Study for 'Happy Landing' Amoco Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever illustrations were eagerly anticipated by enthusiastic readership across the country, and none more so than his holiday designs. One of Leyendecker's most celebrated creations was his groundbreaking idea of the New Year's Baby. Originally portrayed as a fleshy sweet-faced child complete with tiny angel wings, the New Year's Baby gradually morphed into a worldly tot acutely aware of the social and political issues facing the nation at the time. In fact, Leyendecker's final Post cover illustration was the 1943 New Year's Baby. Following the success of these Post covers, the artist was hired to create advertisements for the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Throughout the 1940s and through the final years of his life, Leyendecker produced ads incorporating his famed New Year's Baby into AMOCO advertisements, as in the present work, Happy Landing...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pencil, Oil, Canvas

The Courtship, Success Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 22.00" x 15.50", Framed 31.00" x 24.00" Success Magazine Cover, The Success Company, Ne...
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Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Kuppenheimer Good Clothes
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00" Signature: Unsigned Literature: The Saturday Evening Post, June 14, 1923, illustrated as Kuppenheimer Clothing Company advertisementLaurence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler, J.C. Leyendecker: American Imagist, New York, 2008, p. 91, illustrated in color p. 92 Notes: The Kuppenheimer Clothing Company used this painting as an advertisment for its men's clothing. The advertisement printed...
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 10, 1934
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 22.70" x 19.70", Framed 29.00" x 22.00" Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 10, 1934 Leyendecker, Joseph Christian:One of the most successful commercial illustrators of his time, best known for his advertisements for the "Arrow Collar Man." He created 321 covers for the Saturday Evening Post.. American painter, illustrator, 1874-1951 Exhibitions: JC Leyendecker...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tipping The Porter, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 30.00" x 24.12", Framed 39.00" x 34.00" Saturday Evening Post Cover, December 18, 1937 Exhibitions: It's a Man's Worl...
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1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Study for World War I Soldier Collier's Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Study for the July 7, 1917 cover of Collier's National Weekly (the title story was "Why I'd Let My Boy Go To War").
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Water Wings, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1922
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 24.00" x 19.00", Framed 32.50" x 27.00" Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, August 26, 1922. Exhibitions: JC Leyendecker...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Christmas Peek, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 31.00" x 24.25;" Framed 37.00" x 30.00" Cover of the December 23rd, 1939 issue of The Saturday Evening Post. Literatu...
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1930s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harlequin Grinning and Brandishing his Batte
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Pencil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Carter's Monthly, February 1898, cover illustration. Newly Framed.
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1890s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board, Pencil

A Spread for Bread, Karo Corn Syrup Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 18.00" x 13.50", Framed 25.50" x 20.50" This illustration was used as a Karo Corn Syrup advertisement.
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cream of Wheat Ad Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 25.25" x 27.50"
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Easter, Saturday Evening Post Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 24.75" x 18.63", Framed 34.00" x 18.50" Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 23, 1918 Exhibited: Christie's New York, I...
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1910s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Girl with Butterfly"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting done in 1945 by Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right and dated lower right, 1945. In original wood and gilt frame 37.5 by 31.5 inc...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Family Life"
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a important, rare social realism oil painting by the WPA (Works Project Adminstration) artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Oil on canvas; signed and dated lowe...
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1930s Post-War Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Kuppenheimer Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A Kuppenheimer ad study and was published in Step By Step Graphics, January/February 1987 in the article “Learning From Masters of the Past” by Walt and Roger Reed Medium: Oil on Ca...
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1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Woman with Braids
Located in Southampton, NY
Signed and dated lower right 1935 Unframed
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1930s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Mystic Woman"
Located in Southampton, NY
This is a oil on masonite painting by Nahum Tschacbasov done in 1946. Signed lower left and housed in a hand carved wood frame circa 1920. Overall size with frame is 40 x 33 inches.
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Unframed Signed and dated lower left 1946
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

“Profiles”
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting by Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top right and dated 1952. Condition is good. Presently unframed. Provenance: Estate of the artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Biograph...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Masonite

The Sleuth By Joseph Christian Leyendecker
Located in New Orleans, LA
Joseph Christian Leyendecker 1874-1951 | American The Sleuth Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 2, 1906 Signed "JCLeyendecker" (lower left) Oil on canvas A debonair sleuth peers t...
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Early 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring- Apollo and Animals
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, March 30, 1929
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1920s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Woman with Orange Necklace”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on hardboard (a type of masonite) painting by the Russian American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed, dated 1946 along with a dedication to his wife on their 17th wedding anniversary. Condition is very good. The back of the painting has a sketch as well by Nahum Tschacbasov. Framed in a semi-antique ornate gold frame...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

“Nude in Interior”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a busy interior scene by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov’. Signed lower right and dated 1948. Condition is good. The artwork is housed in its original wormy chesnut frame. House of Heydenryk frame. Overall framed measurements are 17 by 14.75 inches. Provenance: A Long Island, New York estate. Nahum Tschacbasov Biography : Russian-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his cubo-surrealistic works which feature a strong psychological element. Some of his work bears a resemblance to work of another Russian-American artist--David Burliuk. He was somewhat of a late starter, moving to Paris in 1932 to study under Adolph Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fernand Leger. He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1934. He then returned to the US where he joined Rothko and Gottlieb at the Galery Seccession. He was one of the co-founders of The Ten, a group of social conscious abstract painters which included Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and Ilya Bolotowsky, among others. In 1944, he began to work at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17, a center for surrealistic ideas. Between 1936 and 1943, he had five one-man exhibitions at the ACA Galleries and participated in five group shows. He also exhibited at the Whitney, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Knox Albright Museum, the Chicago Institute of Fine Art and Corcoran, among others. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Met, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum and the Jewish Museum. Tschacbasov has been the subject of two recent retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY and Arthur Kalaher...
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1940s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

“Abstract in Purple & Red”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original monotype on heavy archival paper by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Image size is 16 by 12. Sheet size is 21.25 by 15.5 inches A monotype is a one of a kin...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Archival Paper, Monotype

“Woman and Birds”
Located in Southampton, NY
Mid-century oil on masonite modern painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed top left and dated 1949. Titled verso. Condition is good. Provenanc...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

New Year's Baby Hitching to War
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left The Saturday Evening Post unpublished cover, 1943 The story behind the New Year's Baby Hitching to War is a fascinating one: The...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Happy Landing, Amoco Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Sight Size 20.75" x 40.00", Framed 30.75" x 50.00" During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever illustrations were eagerly anticipated by enthusiastic readership across the country, and none more so than his holiday designs. One of Leyendecker's most celebrated creations was his groundbreaking idea of the New Year's Baby. Originally portrayed as a fleshy sweet-faced child complete with tiny angel wings, the New Year's Baby gradually morphed into a worldly tot acutely aware of the social and political issues facing the nation at the time. In fact, Leyendecker's final Post cover illustration was the 1943 New Year's Baby. Following the success of these Post covers, the artist was hired to create advertisements for the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Throughout the 1940s and through the final years of his life, Leyendecker produced ads incorporating his famed New Year's Baby into AMOCO advertisements, as in the present work, Happy Landing...
Category

1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Croix de Guerre, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00;" Framed 36.00" x 29.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Saturday Evening Post Cover, June 29, 1918 Exhibitions: It's a Man's World,...
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1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Which One? Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00", Framed 30.00" x 27.00" Cover of Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 31, 1908. Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC The National Arts Club NYC Jan 6- 19 2013 Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014 Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most famous and prolific illustrators of his time and painted one less cover for The Saturday Evening Post than Norman Rockwell. He was the creator of the cherubic New Year’s Baby and the handsome Arrow Shirt Man who set the style for men’s fashion for decades. In addition to his beautiful men, women and children, Leyendecker’s covers and advertisements depicted subjects ranging from sports to war to politics. This 1908 Post cover shows a young newsboy holding pictures of William Howard Taft...
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Early 1900s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figurative Paintings for Sale

Figurative art, as opposed to abstract art, retains features from the observable world in its representational depictions of subject matter. Most commonly, figurative paintings reference and explore the human body, but they can also include landscapes, architecture, plants and animals — all portrayed with realism.

While the oldest figurative art dates back tens of thousands of years to cave wall paintings, figurative works made from observation became especially prominent in the early Renaissance. Artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and other Renaissance masters created naturalistic representations of their subjects.

Pablo Picasso is lauded for laying the foundation for modern figurative art in the 1920s. Although abstracted, this work held a strong connection to representing people and other subjects. Other famous figurative artists include Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud. Figurative art in the 20th century would span such diverse genres as Expressionism, Pop art and Surrealism.

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