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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: 1920s
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Ceremonial Dancers oil and tempera painting by Julio De Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
Artwork measures 48" x 30" and framed 56 ¼" x 38 ¼" x 3"
Provenance:
John Heller Gallery, NYC, circa 1975 (label verso)
The artist's daughter
Corbino Galleries, Sarasota, FL (1990)...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Tempera
Sitting by the Lake, Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil figurative landscape of two people sitting on a dock by a lake near Medina, Ohio by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Unsigned, but was purchased with a collection of ...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure before a Church - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figure in landscape oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French Post-Impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The piece depicts a lone figure walking through a wooded area i...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vue Du Vieux Port De Dieppe (France), 1920-30 - oil paint, 98x116 cm., framed
By Leopold Levy
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Henri-Léopold Lévy (23 September 1840, Nancy - 29 December 1904, Paris) was a French painter of Jewish ancestry, known pr...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interior of St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice
Located in Boston, MA
Signed lower right: “Irwin D. Hoffman”.
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Chinese Company playing Droughts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
ERWIN BINDEWALD (1897-1950)
Two men playing draughts, a girl with the red book standing behind them
Signed and dated E. Bindewald d.j., 27
Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 90.5 cm
In black and gilt gesso frame.
Note:
Bindewald was born in Charlottenburg. He moved to Berlin in 1914 where he studied till 1924 at the Berliner Kunst Akademie. Bindewald travelled in Europe, but mainly stayed in Germany and certainly never was in China. This painting was made in Europe, presumably in the China Town of Berlin. Bindewald received several commisions in Germany from factory owners who wanted their factories painted inside, usually with workers, as well as outside. In the present painting the sitter on the right seems to be a man with a Manchurian background, wearing the brown coat reserved for the highest aristocracy in China.
In China the black sleeve-ends completely cover the hands, indicating that the high aristocracy does not have to do any manuel labour. This man clearly is not a factory worker but he possibly is the (co)- owner of the factory in the background and as such might need his hands to do at least some writing. The man on the left in the modern Western suit...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Elegant Woman holding White Roses Flowers , Portrait Champetre French Symbolist
Located in Miami, FL
Masterfully painted portrait with rich paint surface by the famous French Symbolist Signed and dated lower left Provenance: Waterhouse & Dodd, London ...
Category
1920s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Twilight of History, 1940s Original Figurative American Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Twilight of History" is an original oil on board painting by Frederick Shane (1906-1992), created in 1947. This captivating piece depicts a powerful scene reflecting the "twilight" ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract Figurative Painting NY Gallery Label Mystery Painting Colorful 1940
Located in Buffalo, NY
Abstract figurative painting on board. Carl Bredemier label on the reverse. Framed. Oil on board
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Archival Paper
Circus Wagons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing
About the Painting
Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast.
About the Artist
Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Moonlight and Roses
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 33.00" x 37.00", Framed 42.00" x 38.00"
Signature: Signed
Presumably Advertising for Maxwell House Coffee
...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Butterfly Couple, Study for Kuppenheimer Clothing Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A stunning study for a 1920s Kuppenheimer clothing advertisement featuring a fashionably-dressed couple kneeling in an embrace before a pair of ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Ride Him Cowboy' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published August 31, 1929.
Sandy takes Lil and baby Ulysses out for a day on the lake at the crowded Lakeside Bathing Casino. Sandy pulls out a ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Slave Market, Book Illustration for "The Robe" by Lloyd Douglas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for The Robe (People's Book Club) written by Lloyd Douglas, 1942
"Father had bought Demetrius six years ago and presented him to Marcellus on his seventeenth birt...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
Located in New York, NY
Shooting Gallery Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Abstract Realism Modern
*William Kienbusch (1914 – 1980)
Shooting Gallery, Sixth Avenue
Post...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Colorado Hill Town with Storm Clouds, 1940s Modernist Landscape, Lush Green
Located in Denver, CO
This WPA-era signed oil painting by Paul K. Smith captures a stormy summer landscape in Colorado, featuring houses and lush trees under dramatic storm clouds. Painted in rich shades ...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1921
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Colorful Crowd, Yugoslavia" Jacques Martin-Ferrières (1893-1972)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"A Colorful Crowd, Yugoslavia"
Jacques Martin-Ferrières (1893-1972)
Circa 1930s
Oil on panel
17 1/8 x 13 3/4 (frame) inches
A painter remarkable for his highly personal portraits a...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Burlesque Clown Bert Lahr is dipicted in a bowler hat with a wry grin. Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is de...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Icing the Cake, Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite
Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera, Gouache
Love Honor Obey?
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Love Honor Obey?
Lon Megargee
ca. 1940
Oil on Board
Size: 19.75 x 26.75 inches
Frame: 26.75 x 33.75 inches
signed lower right
Painting is framed
Creator...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Expressionist 1940s Self Portrait Oil Painting by Cornelis Ruhtenberg – Blues, G
By Cornelis Ruhtenberg
Located in Denver, CO
This captivating expressionist self-portrait by Cornelis Ruhtenberg (1923–2008) captures the artist in a contemplative interior scene. Painted in 1949, the oil on board artwork featu...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Theresa Thompson"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sand Pit Hungarian American Painting Workers Horses European Modernism 1928 WPA
Located in New York, NY
Sand Pit Hungarian American Oil Painting Workers Horses European Modernism 1928 WPA
The board measure 10 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches. The work was painted in Hunga...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Little Girl Running from Waves, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published July 23, 1921.
Despite her mentor’s advice, Stilwell Weber married in 1908, and her daughter Jane was b...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Panel
Golden Cycle Mill Colorado WPA Mining Watercolor, 1940s Grayscale Artwork
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1940s grayscale watercolor painting by American artist Charles Ragland Bunnell, capturing a semi-abstracted view of the Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Painted in subtle shades of black and gray, this unique WPA-era landscape combines industrial subject matter with expressive, modernist style. A striking piece of American regionalist art from the mid-20th century.
The work is presented in a custom black frame.
Framed dimensions: 18" H x 19 ½" W x 1 ⅜" D
Sight size: 8 ⅛" H x 9 ⅝" W
The Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company, depicted in this piece, was a major part of Colorado's mining boom in the early 20th century. Located in Colorado City (now part of Old Colorado City), the mill played a significant role in the region’s gold production and industrial development.
About the Artist: Charles Ragland Bunnell (1897–1968)
Charles Bunnell was a pivotal figure in Colorado’s 20th-century art scene. He worked across multiple styles—from representational landscapes to fully abstract compositions—and was one of the few artists in Colorado to successfully embrace the evolving trends of Modernism, Surrealism, and Abstraction after WWII.
Bunnell studied under notable artists at the Broadmoor Art Academy, including Ernest Lawson and Birger Sandzén. His early works, including regional landscapes and mining scenes like this one, showcase a mix of American Scene painting and semi-abstract structure. He later became known for his bold experimentation with color, form, and geometry, producing both expressive oils and ink-watercolor series such as Black and Blue.
He participated in multiple New Deal art...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Spanish Tavern
Located in Miami, FL
There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. He was Normal Rockwell's ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Détente, 1924-25 - Oil paint, 69x80 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right.
Jean Bouchaud (1891 in Saint Herblain near Nantes – 1977 in Nantes) was a French painter. He was fascinated by travel since his childhood seeing s...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Cirque
Located in New York, NY
Le Cirque is a rare and most sought after image by the artist of the circus by collectors of Bombois.
This painting shows the circus ring where the performers would perform, the audience of spectators, the ring master & the clown holding a bomb behind his back. It is a painting of GREAT detail.
Bombois was a self taught artist and a strongman with the circus.
Painting is in a 23 K. hand carved frame, linen mat & 23 K. gold leaf bevel & hand painted 23K. name plate.
The painting & frame are in pristine condition.
Photo certificate of Perls Gallery...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Embracing Couple on Sailboat , Art Deco Style Romantic
Located in Miami, FL
Love at sea. A nautical romance is captured as a handsome couple embrace.
The big splash of water at the peak moment of drama symbolizes passion and defines Falter's creativity in communicating
a romantic narrative. This is a companion piece to a romance story.
Most likely done on assignment for a major newsstand magazine.
Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Magazine Illustration circa 1940 Oil on board Signed lower right h: 28.5 x w: 30 in / h: 72.4 x w: 76.2 cm Morris Weiss collection...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed
Bio
In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Baker, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Framed Dimensions: 32.00" x 28.00"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, March 16, 1940
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"A Girl with Her Cat, 1947, " EM Watts, oil on canvas, portrait
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"A Girl with Her Cat" was painted by EM Watts in 1947. The portrait is oil on canvas
The painting measures 26 3/4" x 22 3/4" with its frame.
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Twentieth century Italian orientalist female portrait figurative painting
Located in Florence, IT
Romualdo Locatelli è conosciuto per i suoi ritratti che riflettono le culture e le tradizioni dei luoghi esotici che ha visitato. Born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1905, he traveled and exp...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Le Rouge Cloitre sous la neige" oil painting on canvas by Louis Clesse 20Th c.
By Louis Clesse
Located in Gavere, BE
"Le Rouge Cloitre sous la neige" oil painting on canvas by Louis Clesse 20Th c.
Wonderfull oil on canvas by Louis Clesse , Belgian School (1889 -1961 ).
Clesse was a Belgian figurat...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Jeune femme aux fleurs" 20th Century oil on canvas by Jean-Gabriel Domergue
Located in Madrid, ES
JEAN GABRIEL DOMERGUE
French, 1889 – 1962
"JEUNE FEMME AUX FLEURS"
Signed & dated "Jean-Gabriel Domergue ´28 " (lower right)
With the Atelier stamp on the stretcher and canvas on the reverse
Oil on canvas
32 X 25-3/4 inches (81 x 65 cm.)
framed: 39-1/2 X 33-1/4 inches (100 X 84 cm.)
PROVENANCE
Private Collection, Madrid
Note:
We are grateful to Mr. Noé Willer for confirming the authenticity of this work which is recorded in the archives of the Artist.
Painter born in Bordeaux, in 1889 and died in Paris in 1962.
He began painting his mother's portraits very soon.
He studied at the National Superior School of Fine Arts. The artist considered his teacher and inspiring Degas.
Between 1904 and 1907 he joined Fauvism. In 1905 he participated in the "Autumn Hall" and in the "Hall of Independents". In 1907 he presented his 1st individual exhibition at the Vollard Gallery. He specialized in female portraits of Parisian ladies, creating a unique, sophisticated and elegant female portrait prototype that characterized him forever.
He played an essential role in the evolution of women's fashion of his time. He designed numerous dresses, hats and accessories for famous designers such as Paul Poiret and Henry Marque
It goes down in history as the architect of a new type of woman, thin, with an elegant air, always with style, with unusual elongated necks, with impressive slanted eyes, that seem to look at the world in amazement, perhaps because they express a feeling of freedom towards Society and its norms. With these paintings of women, he showed the world the true French, elegant, beautiful and with a gooseneck.
In 1914 he won the Rome Prize.
Many celebrities of the time posed for the artist, Josephine Baker, Brigitte Bardot, etc. But although he painted numerous nude actresses...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gossips
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fantastic magazine cartoon illustration by American Artist, Leo Nowak (1907-2001).
Ink, gouache and crayon in illustration paper, image measures 7.5 x 9.5 i...
Category
1940s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Ink, Gouache
Bauernkinder
By Vilma Eckl
Located in Wien, 9
The extensive work of Vilma Eckl covers a period of more than seventy years. Her incomparable artistic talent and her essential contribution to the history of art can be seen in her ...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Café scene
Located in London, GB
Provenance:
Private collection, Orlando, Florida
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966)
Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property.
Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations.
Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
Category
1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting - Poster project for French mode
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Francisque POULBOT
(Saint-Denis, 1879 - Paris, 1946)
Poster project for the Bal de la Mode - February 25, 1922
Charcoal and oil on canvas
H. 99 cm; W. 91 cm
Signed lower right
In th...
Category
1920s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edith Desternes, The Church Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Auvers-sur-Oise, 1920s
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Edith Desternes (1901-2000), France, 1920s. The Church Notre-Dame de l'Assomption in Auvers-sur-Oise. This church has been painted in ...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Dorothy Thompson (The Wild Rose) - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a beautiful blue-eyed girl in a pink dress holding flowers in her hand. It's based on Renaissance portraits where the subject is pushed to the foreground and i...
Category
1920s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930s Large Framed Seascape Oil Painting 'Waterways' Lysekil, Sweden Landscape
By Carl Lindin
Located in Denver, CO
"Waterways" is a stunning original oil painting by Carl Lindin (1869-1942), a Swedish-American artist known for his beautiful landscapes. This 1920s-1930s signed framed oil painting ...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child, Student of Robert Henri
Located in Miami, FL
Rendered with an alla prima paint application and quick gestural brushstrokes, "Tender Family Portrait - Mother and Child" reflects Margery Ryerson's deep knowledge of academic training. Reyerson studied with Robert Henri at The Art Students League. This painting is aesthetically pleasing and communicates a sense of maternal tenderness from a female artist. Margery Ryerson did a book on her former teacher. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Signed. Lower Left
Margery Austen Ryerson (September 15, 1886 - 1989) was an American artist, painter, etcher, lithographer and watercolorist.Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Biography
Ryerson earned her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in English from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, after attending private schools in Morristown. She went on to study under Charles Hawthorne at the Cape Cod School of Art in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and with Robert Henri at the Art Students League in New York.
During the years 1920 through 1940 Ryerson taught in New York settlement houses. There she got the privilege to paint and draw the children in their care. The subjects of these paintings were often the children of the underclass and immigrants. Her artistic technique and subjects gained universal recognition and appealed to many people. Miss Ryerson is most known for her portraits...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Harlequin. 1923, oil on canvas, 40x53 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Harlequin. 1923, oil on canvas, 40x53 cm
Jekabs Bine (1895 11 04 Riga – 1955 24 10 Riga) painter, glass artist, teacher and writer of art critics.
His ar...
Category
1920s Surrealist 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...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"High School Dance" WPA Mid-20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"High School Dance" WPA Mid-20th Century Modern American Scene Social Realism
Heusing (20th Century)
"High School Dance"
27 x 32 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated '47 Lower Righ...
Category
1940s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
By Louise Miller Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck (1885 - 1947)
Two Seas and a Moon
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1943
Signed u...
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21
Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
Category
1940s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Paper
The Race Is One, Top-Notch Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration for Top-Notch Magazine, August 15, 1921
Forsythe was a major influence on many great artists and had many important friends. He was Rockwell's studiomate and mentor and actually helped Rockwell to get his first cover at The Saturday Evening Post.
Forsythe was also friends with Teddy Roosevelt, who was the first President to drive a car. "The Race is On" 1921 depicts Teddy Roosevelt racing a cowpoke on horseback.
This is a phenomenal painting in many respects - historical, western, presidential, car. Roosevelt is a major collector's market. The car is a Red Model T Roadster as well. It also contains great action and drama - and beautifully rendered, as good if not better than any WR Leigh...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Exquisite Perdita, Cosmopolitan Interior Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
LITERATURE:
C.D.B. Bryan, Mort Walker and the Art of Illustration, Architectural Digest, July 1988, p. 64, illustrated.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peeling Apples, Thanksgiving Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1925
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Middle Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1925
Literature:
The Saturday Evening Post, November 28, 1925, cover illustra...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-Portrait of Ernest Vauthrin
By Ernest Vauthrin
Located in Pasadena, CA
VAUTHRIN Ernest Germain
Born in 1878 in Rochefort-sur-Mer (Charente-Maritime)
20th Century. French.
Landscape painter, marine.
He exhibited in Paris at the Salon of the National So...
Category
1940s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Devil - Battle of Good and Evil - Nude woman Like Hieronymus Bosch
Located in Miami, FL
Will good ultimately triumph over evil?
Or is it a perpetual tug of war?
WPA Artist Leonard Lopez paints a complex figural work addressing the theme of "the fight between good and evil. It's reminiscent of the medieval paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, where demons evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man.
In this painting, a closeup of a young female’s erotic buttock fills the horizontal space.
Engulfing the sexy nude body is a dense array of Lilliputian-like figures.
The top third of the composition is crammed with floating, sexy, nude female bodies.
The bottom part of the painting features a cross-section of people engaged in their diverse jobs.
Mounted on the nude cheek, Artist Leo Lopez paints a victorious Red Devil with a trident.
He’s holding a wealthy man in a tuxedo upside down. The supernatural powers of the Devil's red forked tail extend beyond its normal length and, like a tentacle from a sea monster, entangles many of the characters that represent society.
To the extreme center right Lopez paints a Winged Venus dressed...
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1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Profil de Danseuse”
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Southampton, NY
Outstanding original oil on canvas painting of a young ballerina in profile. The artist is German born artist, Dietz Edzard. Signed lower left by the artist. Titled and dated verso...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"He Had Found His Quarry–Now the Question Was–What To Do" Western Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
“The Gun-Runners” by Edwin Cole, published in The Youth’s Companion, May 6, 1926, pg. 343. Western illustration
Literature: Schoonover, Smith & Dean 1450
Artwork Dimensions: 17.5...
Category
1920s 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.
Today, a number of figural artists — such as Sedrick Huckaby, Daisy Patton and Eileen Cooper — are making art that uses the human body as its subject.
Because figurative art represents subjects from the real world, natural colors are common in these paintings. A piece of figurative art can be an exciting starting point for setting a tone and creating a color palette in a room.
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