Figurative Paintings
Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1920s
Color: Beige
Figures in Rowboat Alongside of Barg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 16.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Interior setting with people standing around.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Carrying Out Winter, Collier's Magazine Cover, March 24, 1923
By E.M. Jackson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Collier's Magazine Cover, March 24, 1923
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Murder Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Waking Up for the Hunt, Elks Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Elks Magazine Cover, November 1927
Provenance: From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Sunset - Venice - Post Impressionist Oil, Cityscape by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful oil on panel by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres depicting a view of lone gondolier rowing his gondola with a backdrop of the city of Venice in ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
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
Henri Pailler - Snow in Triel sur Seine
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Henri PAILLER
(Poitiers 1876 - Triel-sur-Seine 1954)
Snow in Triel sur Seine
Oil on canvas
H. 54 cm; L. 73 cm
Signed lower left
Provenance: Private collection, Vienne
A native of Poitiers in Vienne, Henri Pailler shows serious drawing skills. Noticed by Edmond Petitjean, the young man was sent to Paris to complete his training at the Beaux-Arts under the aegis of the great Léon Bonnat. First of all accustomed to a style and a very academic palette, the young painter quickly branched off from this classical art which he hardly liked. From the beginning of the century he moved towards Impressionism which he deployed within the Crozant school thanks to his meeting with Armand Guillaumin who took him to paint on the motif in 1901. Residing in Poitiers until the At the dawn of the great conflict of 1914, Pailler sent to the Salon many landscapes of the Creuse where the liveliness of colors was more and more felt. It is precisely following the meeting with Dufy and Marquet that a fawn side appears in his compositions, but after a few years he instinctively returns to his love for impressionism by keeping a generous amount of hues on his palette. On his return from the war, Henri Pailler joined Roubaix where he was appointed workshop professor at the School of Industrial Arts. On his retirement he will settle on the banks of the Seine in Triel-sur-Seine, of which he will realize many views with the talent and the colors so appreciated by this painter considered to be one of the greats of Crozant. Throughout his career, Pailler will travel through France and regularly in Périgord, from which he will bring back many works by Bourdeilles mainly but also Brantôme.
From the 1920s, the painter will present views of Triel-sur-Seine in the Yvelines in various salons. This town, whose church with its distinctive silhouette will be the playground for Pailler's easel until his death. Our painting undoubtedly made in the 1920s is a striking winter image...
Category
1920s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman with Two Children in Red - Dutch Style Interior Scene in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman with Two Children in Red - Interior Scene in Oil on Canvas
Lovely interior scene by notable artist Joseph Tomanek (Cech-American, 1889-1974). A woman sits near a window, holding a small child dressed in bright red in her lap. Another child, somewhat older, stands next to her, looking at the young child. Soft lights spills though the window, illuminating the scene in a warm glow. A plant with red flowers sits on the windowsill, and foliage can be seen outside.
Signed "Tomanek" in the lower right corner (note that the shape above the signature is a toy train)
Presented in a carved wood frame with a linen liner.
Frame size: 30.75"H x 26.75"W
Canvas size: 24"H x 20"W
Tomanek, the son of a carpenter, was born in Moravia. His family discouraged his art talent and wanted him to be a shoemaker. He studied in his homeland of Czechoslovakia at the School of Design in Prague. He emigrated to America around the turn of the century and arrived in Chicago in 1910 and worked as an interior decorator. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and studied with Antonin Sterba. He also studied with Albert Krehbiel and K.A. Buehr.
He was a member of the Bohemian Artist Club, Association of Chicago Painters, and Sculptors, and the Chicago Gallery Association. His work is included in the collection of the Vanderpoel Art Association (Chicago). He exhibited from the 1910s-40s, including exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Georgia Museum of Art.
Of the difficulty of posing nudes in Chicago, he said, "In Paris you can rent little gardens studios and pose your models there in privacy. Here, if I work out of doors, I have to pose the girls in bathing suits...
Category
1920s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Easter Baby, Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Study Easter Sunday Baby
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Located in Soquel, CA
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Well executed impressionist painting of a Hungarian countryside courtship vignette by a 19th-20th century Hungarian artist Pal Szlavik. some minor s...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Duclair - La Seine - Post Impressionist Oil, River Landscape by Robert Pinchon
By Robert Antoine Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Fauvist signed oil on canvas riverscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view of the R...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American School Signed Illustration Indian Royalty Elephant Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration painting. Gouache and watercolor on board, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 12L x 11H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
1927 Oil Painting Eiffel Tower Paris American Modernist Wpa Artist Morris Kantor
Located in Surfside, FL
Morris Kantor New York (1896 - 1974)
Paris from the Ile St. Louis, 1927 (view of Eiffel Tower)
Oil painting on canvas
Hand Signed lower left.
Provenance: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ( bears label verso)
Size: 20 3/4"H x 28 1/8"W (sight), 28.75 "H x 36"W (framed)
Morris Kantor (Belarusian: Морыс Кантор) (1896-1974) was a Russian Empire-born American painter based in the New York City area.
Born in Minsk on April 15, 1896, Kantor was brought to the United States in 1906 at age 10, in order to join his father who had previously relocated to the states. He made his home in West Nyack, New York for much of his life, and died there in 1974. He produced a prolific and diverse body of work, much of it in the form of paintings, which is distinguished by its stylistic variety over his long career. Perhaps his most widely recognized work is the iconic painting "Baseball At Night", which depicts an early night baseball game played under artificial electric light. Although he is best known for his paintings executed in a realistic manner, over the course of his life he also spent time working in styles such as Cubism and Futurism, and produced a number of abstract or non-figural works. A famous cubist, Futurist, painting of his "Orchestra" brought over 500,000$ at Christie's auction house in 2018
Kantor found employment in the Garment District upon his arrival in New York City, and was not able to begin formal art studies until 1916, when he began courses at the now-defunct Independent School of Art. He studied landscape painting with Homer Boss (1882-1956). In 1928, after returning to New York City from a year in Paris, Kantor developed a style in which he combined Realism with Fantasy, often taking the streets of New York as his subject matter. He did some moody Surrealist Nude paintings and fantasy scenes. In the 1940's he turned towards figural studies. Later in his career, Kantor himself was an instructor at the Cooper Union and also at the Art Students League of New York in the 1940s, and taught many pupils who later became famous artists in their own right, such as Knox Martin, Robert Rauschenberg, Sigmund Abeles and Susan Weil...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Landscape Signed Western Oil on Paper
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed illegibly lower left. Oil on paper. 10 x 8.
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Gypsy Caravan" 1927 F&R by Sir Alfred Munnings
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic colour equestrian print by Sir Alfred J Munnings (1878-1959) pencil signed (LR) titled, Gypsy Caravan published by Frost & Reed
c1927
w/ French mat and ebony/ gilt frame
Chromolithograph
Sir Alfred Munnings...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Saut de la Ravine original watercolor by Louis Claude 1928
By Louis Claude
Located in Paonia, CO
Saut de la Ravine original watercolor by Louis Claude 1928 is a very rare watercolor by Louis Claude created for the publishing house of Sidney Lucas. Mr. Lucas lived in France f...
Category
1920s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Art Deco Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover
By Peter Driben
Located in Miami, FL
Pulp cover or pin-up magazine cover
signed lower left
some foxing throughout
work is framed
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Signed Illustration Indian Royalty Elephant Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration painting. Gouache and watercolor on board, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 12L x 11H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
Lady by the Pond, 1920's Art Nouveau Nude Figurative Landscape
By John Jay Baumgartner
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate and vibrant mid-1920's depiction of a nude woman sitting on the edge of a bathing pool by John Jay Baumgartner (American, 1865-1946). Soft light filters through dense foliag...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
Odalisque à la Plume Rose - Nude Cabaret Dancer with Feathers
By Jacqueline Marval
Located in Miami, FL
Jacqueline Marval was close friends with Kees van Dongen and her work is of the same school as, Matisse and Marie Laurencin. Les Odalisques is quite contemporary looking with it's main figure having joyful life and vitality to her. Some refer to her as a Fauve and some as a post-impressionist. Clearly, she is an overlooked female artist. This work is over...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
At the Beach - Post Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Pierre de Belay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful oil on panel by French post impressionist painter Pierre de Belay. The work depicts families relaxing on the beach at Villerville under a clear bl...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Woman in Snow - Post Impressionist Oil, Figure in Landscape by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Large signed landscape oil on canvas circa 1920 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton, who was known as the painter of colours. The work depicts a woman ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Gibson Girls - Set of Two 1920's Portraits, Vintage Fashion Illustrations
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous pair of two 1920's watercolor portraits of Gibson girls, one in blue and one in pink, by Charles Hollman (Dutch, 1877-1953). Each portrait renders...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
NUDE WITH RED HAIR
Located in Los Angeles, CA
LUCIEN BOULIER
"NUDE WITH RED HAIR"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1930
26 X 20 INCHES
Lucien Boulier
1882-1963
Lucian Boulier was born Verdun...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Ashcan School Junk Collector Cityscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist cityscape painting titled "The Junk Collector" by Clarence E. Van Duzer (1920 - 2009). Oil on board, circa 193...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circus Clown with Dogs, Cover for Country Gentleman, April 1929
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and inscribed LRC
Country Gentleman Cover illustration for April 1 1929. Gift to artist Harold Von Schmidt. Harold Von Schmidt (May 19, 1893 ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study for New Year's Baby (Blowing Bubbles)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
This is a study for the cover illustration of the 1 January 1927 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cream of Wheat Advertisement, Saturday Evening Post, May 5, 1920
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Cream Of Wheat Advertisement Illustration for Saturday Evening Post's May 5th issue, 1920.
Oil on canvas. Ex: Kraft Food Collection / Mort...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Liberty Magazine Cover, July 24, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 20.00" x 16.00;" Framed 26.00" x 22.00"
Liberty Magazine Cover, July 24, 1926
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Prince of Wales on Forest Witch" c1921 by Sir Alfred Munnings (SIGNED)
Located in Bristol, CT
w/ blind stamp lower left: Fine Art Trade Guild
Copyright, The Modern Art Society (England) Ltd and The Field Press Ltd
Entered in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 1921
I...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Couple Dancing, Liberty Magazine Cover, 1925
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Liberty Magazine Cover, April 4, 1925
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
The Boys of Today Are the Men of Tomorrow, Cream of Wheat Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Boys of Today Are the Men of Tomorrow, Cream of Wheat Advertisement, 1926.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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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...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
What Folly to Endure Coarse Pores? Advertisement Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 22.00" x 22.00," Framed: 26.00" x 26.00"
What Folly to Endure Coarse Pores? Advertisement Illustration, circa 1920.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Study for 'Who, Me Work?' Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Center Left
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover 'Who, Me Work?' January 23, 1926
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Hearts and Flowers' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: Framed 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Liberty Magazine Cover, December 11, 1926
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Oil, Canvas
Illustration for 'One Fair Daughter'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed “G.H”
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil on Canvas "Arbeiter in Barmen" 1920's by Lis Bertram-Ehmsen
By Lis Bertram-Ehmsen
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on canvas, around 1920. Mongrammed lower right: LB. Titled on the back: Arbeiter in Barmen. Framed.
Measurements: 12.4 x 13.98 in ( 31.5 x 35.5 cm ). Framed: 17.13 x 18.74 in ( 4...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Italian Renaissance Figurative Oil Painting 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3496 oil on board displayed in a gilt -wood frame, signed by Portidne lower right.
Image size 18 H x 14 W
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Little Indian Sioux" Cream of Wheat Ad, Saturday Evening Post, 1920
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1920
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cream of Wheat advertisement for the Saturday Evening Post, June 5, 1920.
In 1980, Dave Stivers, a new archivist for the Nabisco Brands Company was taking a tour of the Cream of Wheat plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota when he encountered a large room with metal lockers that had not been opened for over 30 years. These lockers contained a treasure trove of 1600 advertising paintings...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Ideal Food for Young and Old, " Cream of Wheat Advertisement, 1922-1923
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Date: Circa 1922
Original Cream Of Wheat illustration. Oil on canvas. Ex: Kraft Food Collection / Morton Grove Ill.. Reference: "The Nabisc...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cadillac Fleetwood Transformable Town Cabriolet
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Catalogue advertisement for Cadillac Motor Car Company, 1927
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink, Board, Pen
Cream of Wheat Family Health Insurance Policy Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1922
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Center
Advertisement for Cream of Wheat cereal. Image of woman seated in chair...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Precinct, Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left
Dimensions: 30.00" x 19.00"
Study for "Find the Woman" (Cosmopolitan Magazine)
Artist biographical not...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Elegant Woman with Fan
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Ink and Gouache on Paper
Signature: Signed Verso
Dimensions: 22.50" x 11.00"
Story illustration, ca. 1929;
Signed verso with 12 Bank Street New York City ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Ink
Go Yankees, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Go Yankees, Liberty magazine cover, August 7, 1926
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kindred of the Dust, Frontier Town Cosmopolitan Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
More than 20 beautifully rendered post-impressionist portraits in character, define Dean Cornwell as one of America's great artists. In his time, he was a famous as Norman Rockwell and was Norman Rockwell's favorite illustrator. "One thing puzzled Dirty Dan extremely. That was the perfectly frank, friendly manner in which his employer and this outcast woman greeted each other, the earnestness with which they conversed, and the effect of the woman's low-spoken words upon the color of Hector McKaye's face."
Morris Weiss collection...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Toilette No. 60.
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in New York, NY
Lithograph printed on tan wove newsprint-type paper. Signed in pencil and in the stone. 15 3/4 x 12 3/4".
Sheet Size: Image Size 8 1/4 x 6 3/4".
Rudolf Bauer (1889-1953) e...
Category
1920s Brücke Figurative Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
'Hands on Hips- One Two Three Four' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Liberty Magazine Cover, December 3, 1927 "One Two- One Two- American Artist Label"
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Callers, Cosmopolitan Magazine Interior Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1925
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 25.5" x 16.5"
Signature: Initialed, Dated and Inscribed Lower Left: DC / 1925 / To Sid Hydemon / 19
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
She Loves Me...She Loves Me Not, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 19, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1926
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
She Loves Me ...She Loves Me Not, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 19, ...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cuba Libre! Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
March 2, 1929 Liberty Magazne Cover
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Louis Sherry Chocolates Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Piece of illustrative and advertising art done for the offices of Louis Sherry Chocolates. Wonderful example of his work.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"His Bodyguard, " Cream of Wheat Advertisement, Saturday Evening Post, 1921
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"His Bodyguard," Cream of Wheat Advertisement, Saturday Evening Post, November 19, 1921
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Something Went Bump in the Night
By William Prince
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1924
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26.60" x 21.50"
Signature: Signed and Dated
The Country Gentleman, October 11, 1924, cover illustra...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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