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Medium: Gouache
"Reclining Lady" framed, signed painting of a nude female by artist Joy Laville
By Joy Laville
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Reclining Lady" signed painting of a female nude by artist Joy Laville. Framed with a linen-wrapped mat. Image size: 17 1/2 x 21 inches.
Category
20th Century Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Late 19th Century Original English Landscape of a Cottage in Cambria
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th Century Original English Landscape of a Cottage in Cambria
Wonderful original antique painting of a thatched cottage in Cambria by...
Category
1880s Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache
French Modernist Painting Of Pink And Yellow Flowers In Glass Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003)
signed
original gouache painting on thick paper/ card
unframed
condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...
Category
20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Puppy Dog, Kitten, Mouse Greeting Card painting (Children's room decor)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ferd Sondern (b.1923)
Puppy chasing Kitten chasing Mouse, 1977.
Pencil, gouache and watercolor on illustration board. Complete panel measures 7 x 15 inches.
Signed lower left. Cr...
Category
1970s Realist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor, Illustration Board
1950s "Yellow Cubist Figure" Abstract Figurative Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedmann Opper
Yellow Cubist FIgure
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache
15" x 18", silver wood frame 16"x19"
Unsigned
This striking gouache painting featur...
Category
1950s Cubist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Yves in Tangier. From the Fashion series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Acrylic
View in Summer of Napoli, Italy
Located in Soquel, CA
View in Summer of Napoli, Italy
Well executed pleinair painting of a hill over looking the Bay of Napoli, Italy. done at the turn of the century in ...
Category
1910s Northern Renaissance Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
View of the Gulf of Naples - Paint - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gouache on paper by Neapolitan School, mid-19th century.
Not signed, very good condition.
Includes a coeval wooden frame cm. 35x30.
Category
19th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Duck, Duck!---Geese! - Farm Children looking at Geese
Located in Miami, FL
signed in orange along lower right of image
Illustration for Women's World magazine, published October, 1937
Condition is good. 4.5 inch, unobtrusive vertical crease running from top down into center of image
Maginel Wright Enright Barney was the sister of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the illustrator of several children''s books, including those of L. Frank Baum...
Category
1930s Feminist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite
Vintage Gouache Painting Of Boy With Milk Bottle In Mid-Century School Setting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage Gouache Painting Of Boy With Milk Bottle In Mid-Century School Setting
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Gouache on toned paper, unframed
Size: 11.25 inches (height)...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Couple Sitting Among Lanterns, Cover for Vanity Fair
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel, Gouache, and Black Crayon on Paperboard
Sight Size 22.88" x 17.50", Framed 31.75" x 26.50"
Signature: Signed EVERETT SHINN and Dated
Vanity Fair Cover...
Category
1910s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pastel, Gouache, Board
Brood (Collage Landscape of Chicken Farm and Reclining Female Figure)
Located in Hudson, NY
Brood (Collage Landscape of Chicken Farm and Reclining Female Figure) by Olan Quattro
2024, gouache, paper, and acrylic on wood panel, 18 x 24 inches
Olan Quattro's subtle and sophi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel
Joven con pamela - Año 1895 - Técnica mixta y gouache
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra va firmada por el artista en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1895
Se presenta enmarcada la obra
Medidas acuarela: 42 cm. de altura x 24 cm. de ancho
Medidas acuarela e...
Category
1890s Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Bed, Original Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Wood Panel
By Megan Frazer
Located in Boston, MA
Bed, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting, 2012
18" x 11.25" x 1.625" (HxWxD)
This muted, dream-like surrealist painting by artist Megan Frazer can be compared to both the subject matter and painterly style of the work of Leonara Carrington...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Wood Panel
Original Graphic Hungarian Illustration Art Emma Heinzelmann Children's Book Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Original vintage gouache painting on poster board by Emma Heinzelmann (Hungarian, born 1930). Hungarian Peasant art, children fairytale themes, in psychedelic pop colors of the era. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Dandy in the garden of black roses &Terrifying night of the first transformation
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who primarily utilizes painting as a field of creative possibility exploring themes such as identity, memory, and nature, compulsivel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Original Sports Illustration Featuring Olympic Athletes In Action And GB Swimmer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original Sports Illustration Featuring Olympic Athletes In Action And GB Swimmer
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Felt Pen on board, unframed
Size: 16.25 inches (height) x ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Felt Pen
The Coiffure, Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: Apr 23, 1903
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 22.50" x 15.50"
Category
Early 1900s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Below the Falls (Man Fishing), Original Cover Illustration for Reader's Digest
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for Reader's Digest, published August 1978
"Below the Falls" (Angler's Paradise)
The illustration features a man fishing near a waterfall.
Medium: Gou...
Category
1970s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Early Signed, two sided figurative painting with portraits by renowned painter
Located in New York, NY
Alfred Jensen
Untitled two sided painting, 1947
2-sided gouache painting on board (one portrait is vertical; the other horizontal)
29 × 23 7/20 inches
Signed and dated in paint on th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
'Cubist Figural', American Modernist Gouache
By Steve Jakobsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Cubist gouache figural of a man wearing a sombrero and boots contrasted against a scumbled and dry-brush background of ochre, deep crimson red and umber.
Signed lower left, "Jakobse...
Category
1940s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
1938 Cuban Illustration Gouache Painting Carteles Magazine Andres Garcia Benitez
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original illustration by Cuban artist Andres Garcia Benitez which was used for the cover of the iconic Carteles magazine in November of 1938.
...
Category
1930s Realist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Tulips. Gouache Painting, Abstract, Figurative, Flowers, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on cardboard painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak.
BOŻENA LESIAK (born in 1952) Studied at the faculty of painting at the Acade...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Gouache
$849 Sale Price
20% Off
Meander (Female Figure in Quilted Dress with Collage Lake Landscape)
Located in Hudson, NY
Meander (Female Figure in Quilted Dress with Collage Lake Landscape) by Olan Quattro
2025, gouache, paper, and acrylic on wood panel, 24 x 18 inches
Olan Quattro's subtle and sophis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Gouache, Wood Panel
Tulips. Gouache Painting, Abstract, Figurative, Flowers, Polish art
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary floral still life figurative gouache on paper painting by Polish artist Bozena Lesiak. Painting is in a small format. Bozena Lesiak's art embodies beauty of nature and i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$283 Sale Price
20% Off
Story Illustration
By Orson Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Sepia Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 25.50" x 16.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration, Two Victorian women, man reading lett...
Category
Early 20th Century Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Emile's Tavern
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Emile's Tavern', gouache on paper (circa 1930s), by Lucien Génin. A tavern in French is called a 'guinguette'. With the rise in living standards from the 1860s along with the develo...
Category
1930s Expressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,596 Sale Price
30% Off
Twas The Night Before Christmas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Board
Sight Size 18.00" x 17.00", Framed 25.00" x 24.00"
"Twas The Night Before Christmas" by Clemen...
Category
1910s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
French Impressionist Rustic Workday at the Water’s Edge Horses & Cart Landscape
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rustic Workday
signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Dated 94'
Size: 9 x 10.75 inches
Gouache painting on cardboard, unframed
Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Mayan, Large 20th Century Watercolor, Cleveland School, Viktor Schreckengost
Located in Beachwood, OH
Viktor Schreckengost (American, 1906-2008)
Mayan
Watercolor heightened with gouache over pencil on paper
Signed lower right
39 x 29 inches
45.5 x 35.5 inches, framed
Registered with The Viktor Schreckengost foundation, stock no. 6891
The son of a commercial potter in Sebring, Ohio, Viktor Schreckengost learned the craft of sculpting in clay from his father. In the mid-1920s, he enrolled at the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art, or CIA) to study cartoon making, but after seeing an exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art he changed his focus to ceramics. Upon graduation in 1929, he studied ceramics in Vienna, Austria, where he began to build a reputation, not only for his art, but also as a jazz saxophonist. A year later, at the age of 25, he became the youngest faculty member at the CIA. In 1931, Schreckengost won the first of several awards for excellence in ceramics at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and his works were shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, and elsewhere.
By the mid-1930s, Schreckengost had begun to pursue his interest in industrial design. For American Limoges...
Category
20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Astronaut - Space Man Mid Century - Howard Hughes
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Zamparelli served as the chief designer for the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes' empire, creating his promotional images and designing many of its products.
In the present...
Category
1960s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache, Illustration Board, Color Pencil
Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet in Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'The Church of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet, Paris', gouache on art paper by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). In Paris' 5th Arrondissement the site in which Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnet is ...
Category
1930s Expressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,287 Sale Price
40% Off
"052 - Plein Air-St Mary's Glacier, CO" (2022) By Judd Mercer, Gouache Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "052 - Plein Air-St Mary's Glacier, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a mountain.
Artist bio/statement
Judd Mercer is a contemporary landscape painter an...
Category
2010s Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Businessman on the Beach, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post, 1960
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published January 23, 1960
A businessman sits on the beach at a resort surrounded by financial newspapers and office communica...
Category
1960s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
1950's Modernist Painting Blonde Lady Holding Sun Flowers In Blue Scenery
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Girl Portrait
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper
size: 26 x 19.75 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance: the artist...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Rabbi Elyah Succot Colorful Jewish Psuedo-Abstraction
Located in New York, NY
Rabbi Elyah Succot
From Zion Comes Forth The Torah, c. late 20th/early 21st century
Gouache and ink on paper
Sight: 10 1/2 x 11 3/4 in.
Framed: 17 1/2 x 18 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.
Signed lo...
Category
20th Century Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Ian and Oliver Hartt, Portraits
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who primarily utilizes painting as a field of creative possibility exploring themes such as identity, memory, and nature, compulsivel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
'In the Shade of La Casa Cordova, Tucson', Meyer Street, Arizona
By Marian Stahl
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marian Stahl' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1960.
Inscribed verso, 'Meyer St, Tucson AZ' with artist address.
A finely drawn, mid-century view of ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Portrait Study of Three Navajo and Kumeyaay Figures
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed paper,
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Jeremy Abbott and Oliver Hartt, Portraits
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who primarily utilizes painting as a field of creative possibility exploring themes such as identity, memory, and nature, compulsivel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Set Ian, Jeremy Abbott, Adam and Oliver Hartt. Portraits
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught Brazilian artist who primarily utilizes painting as a field of creative possibility exploring themes such as identity, memory, and nature, compulsivel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor, Gouache
Jerusalem Old City Landscape, Expressionist Judaica Israeli Painting
By Andre Elbaz
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting the artist uses gestural brushstrokes, which causes distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect. Andre Elbaz uses as his subject figures walking in old city Jerusalem.
André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker.
Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition.
His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum.
In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967". Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
St. Peter's Square Vatican View Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
This captivating gouache on paper painting, dating from the early 19th century, offers a beautifully detailed view of St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, making it a likely relic of ...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Two Studio Models
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of Cali...
Category
1970s Realist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
Standing Nude Man, Mid-Century Figural Expressionist Painting, New York Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996)
Standing Man, 1955
India ink and gouache on textured paper
10 x 8 inches
16.75 x 13.5 inches, framed
Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Okl...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Gouache
Eye of the Desert, Figural Abstract collage, Surrealist Black & Brown painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Eye of the Desert, 1965
Collage, graphite and gouache on paper
Signed and dated lower right
16 x 12 inches
25 x 21 inches, framed
A mid-century figural abstract painting.
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
Category
1960s American Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Haitian Scene #7 Signed Mid Century modern painting, Associated American Artists
By Adolf Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene #7, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn'...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache
"089 - Plein Air-Four Mile Park, CO" (2022) By Judd Mercer, Gouache Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "089 - Plein Air-Four Mile Park, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a colorful landscape with trees overhanging a river.
Artist bio/statement
Judd Mercer ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
French Aviation Illustration Poster Study Gouache Drawing by C. Villars
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original Post-War Airline Illustration by C. Villars (France, 20th Century) — Gouache on Arches Velin Paper.
This rare, original Post-war illustration drawing was hand-painted with g...
Category
1940s Post-War Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Gouache Painting of Navajo Weavers in Canyon de Chelly Arizona
by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed pape...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Coed Tourists in Italy, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, August 2, 1958
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Editorial text on page 3 of the Post with this featured illustration:
"Artist Alajalov, reaching for a dictionary which once helped him through a tour of Italy’s hill towns...
Category
1950s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Hyperrealist Countryside Landscape Gouache Painting by Harry Bennett
By Harry Bennett
Located in Atlanta, GA
American artist Harry Bennett designed this stunning gouache painting on cardboard. This early hyperrealist design features a church or school in the middle of nowhere in the country...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Last Light
Located in Denver, CO
Devin Michael Robert's "Last Light" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a rendering of a landscape.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
"097 - Plein Air-Lakewood, CO" (2022) By Judd Mercer, Gouache Painting
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "097 - Plein Air-Lakewood, CO" is a gouache painting depicting a mountainous landscape with a few snow covered mountains in the background.
Artist bio/stat...
Category
2010s Impressionist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
The Eagle Ladies V #1
By June Glasson
Located in Bozeman, MT
June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, and designer. She live in Laramie, WY. Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, Nature Morte Gallery in B...
Category
2010s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Wood Panel
Mid-Century Americana "Good House Keeping Magazine", 1948
Located in Miami, FL
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration
Surreal depiction of a young mid-century girls social life Good House Keeping Magazi...
Category
1940s Academic Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Below Deck
By Tom Lovell
Located in Miami, FL
Charles Martignette
Heritage Auctions, This is a Wonderfully rendered work with high level of detail and color saturation. Norman Rockwellesqu...
Category
1950s Realist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Hillside and Stream, early 20th century modernist Cleveland School painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
Hillside and Stream, 1916
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated lower right
22 x 18 inches
25.5 x 21.5 inches, framed
A graduate of the Cleveland Schoo...
Category
1910s American Modern Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Look at It! Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Center: Al Moore
The Saturday Evening Post cover, October 10, 1942
Category
1940s Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Life Magazine Satirical Society Cartoon Illustration
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Society Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1940s. Gouache on heavy illustration paper, image measures 17 x 14 inches; 23 x 20 inches in matting. Signed lower left. Very good condition but matting panel should be replaced. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral...
Category
1940s Realist Gouache Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Gouache figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Gouache figurative paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, orange, pink and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Howard Tangye, Kerry Smith, Judd Mercer, and Bernard Labbe. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Modern, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Gouache figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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