Joseph Margulies

Men Playing Cards, Painting by Joseph Margulies

circa 1960

The Poker Game by Israel Rubinstein, Israeli (1944) Date: 1980 Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 250 Image Size: 27 x 38 inches S...

Jonah Kinigstein is an artist living in Brooklyn. He works in the scorched earth tradition of such 18th- and 19th-century cartoonists as James Gillray, George Cruikshank, and Joseph Keppler, and embraces their somewhat rococo pen and ink technique as well as their penchant to exaggerate the grotesque. In the 1990s, he used to paste...

Artist: Ben Benn, Russian/American (1884 - 1983) Title: People in the Woods Year: 1917 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 31 x 22 in. (78.74 x 55.88 cm) Frame Size: 39 x 30 i...

Artist: Robert Philipp, American (1895 - 1981) Title: Sailor and Reading Woman Year: circa 1950 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. and verso Size: 22 in. x 18 in. (55.88 cm x 45.72 c...

An intimate genre scene by George Weissbort (1928-2013) depicting two ladies engrossed in a game of cards. Well presented in a painted wooden frame. Signed to the lower right and dat...

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 27.75 x 33.75 inches Framed size: 35.5 x 41.5 inches Signed lower right

This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed verso a) “Army Poker / Mervin Honig / 421 W 42 St. N.Y.C.,” b) “Mervin Honig / US Army Air Force – Seymour Johnson Field – Goldsboro, NC / Circa 1943,” and c) “(This painting was done before men was (sic) shipped off to the Mariana Islands (Saipan) The Second World War.” Note: four pencil sketches for this work included Mervin Honig was a New York-based painter and illustrator who is best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life and sports themes. Honig was raised in Brooklyn and recalled almost never being without a paintbox in hand from the time he started elementary school. Honig had a deep reverence for the Old Master painters, Vermeer and Bellini, as well as the Americans Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. He initially studied art from 1939 through 1941 with Francis Criss. At the outbreak of World War II, Honig worked as a mechanic for Republic Aviation, but in August 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and was stationed at Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the war, Honig began to exhibit nationally, including as part of the Portrait of America exhibitions which originated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveled around the country, as well as at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He painted Army Poker in 1943 while stationed at Johnson Field. In this work, Honig draws inspiration from Paul Cezanne's The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art), with a similar placement of the four figures, but Cezanne's table is replaced with an Army cot, the pipe rack with a soldier's mess kit and the drapery in the right background with a heap of discarded uniforms. Unlike the vibrancy of Cezanne's composition, the limited palette of Honig's work suggests the drabness and monotony of stateside Army life. After being discharged from military service, Honig furthered his studies with Amadee Ozenfant in 1946 and Hans Hoffman from 1947 through 1950. Additional exhibitions included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Provincetown Art Association, and the National Academies Galleries of the Allied Artists Association. He was represented by the venerable Frank Rehn...

“Card Players” is an original, hand-signed mid-century lithograph by renowned American artist Kenneth Miller Adams (1897–1966). Created circa 1959 and numbered 16/100, this expressive figurative print captures an intimate moment: a group of men gathered around a card game, their gestures and body language conveying the intensity of the scene. Adams’ strong draftsmanship and sense of composition shine through, making this a compelling example of American Regionalism and mid-century social realism. Professionally framed in a sleek black archival frame, the artwork remains in excellent, clean vintage condition. Framed Dimensions: 25 ⅝ x 31 ¼ x 1 ⅛ inches Image (Sight) Size: 18 ½ x 24 ¼ inches Edition: 16 of 100 Provenance: Private Collection, Denver, Colorado A detailed condition report is available upon request. Expedited and international shipping available. About the Artist: Kenneth Miller Adams (1897–1966) Born in Kansas, Kenneth Adams began his art training in Topeka and continued at the Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. After World War I, he studied in Europe before settling in Taos, New Mexico in 1924—becoming the youngest and final member of the Taos Society...