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Period: 1930s
"3rd Avenue EL" NYC American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"3rd Avenue EL" NYC American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
Bernard Gussow (1881-1957)
3rd Avenue El
28 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Fram...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Pier Fishing" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Summer Pier Fishing" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
"Summer Pier Fishing"
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower r...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Beneath the EL NYC American Scene WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"Morning Beneath the EL" NYC American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
Bernard Gussow (1881-1957)
"Morning Beneath the EL"
24 1/4 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daughters of Spain oil on canvas painting young woman
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: "Daughters of Spain"
Artist: Juan José Barreira Polo (1887-1957)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31.5 x 27.5 in (80 x 70 cm)
Framing: Unframed
Signature: Signed at the lower left corner as "J. Barreira"
Period: Approximately first half of the 20th century
Movement/Style: Realist Costumbrismo, Spanish Academicism
Description of the Artwork
"Daughters of Spain" is a remarkable example of Spanish Costumbrismo, where Juan José Barreira Polo masterfully captures the essence of national identity and tradition. The painting portrays two young Spanish girls in traditional attire, exuding warmth and natural grace.
The older girl, with a gentle smile, wears a richly embroidered blue shawl and has flowers adorning her hair, while delicately holding a copper jug filled with vibrant orange flowers. Beside her, the younger girl, with an innocent and joyful expression, holds a doll dressed in red with floral embellishments, evoking the charm of childhood and cultural heritage.
The well-balanced composition and softly blurred background enhance the presence of the figures. Barreira Polo employs a warm color palette and skillful lighting to create harmony, while his refined brushwork and attention to detail in facial expressions and textiles reflect his academic training. The artwork conveys a profound sense of cultural pride and nostalgia for Spain’s rich traditions.
Artist’s Biography
Juan José Barreira Polo (Valencia, March 31, 1887 – Valencia, January 30, 1957) was a Spanish painter specialized in portraits and costumbrista scenes. Son of the painter Vicente Barreira Meliá, he trained at the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, where he obtained his degree as a drawing professor in 1933.
Throughout his career, he gained recognition for his representations of Spanish traditions and culture, receiving several awards at various exhibitions. In 1925, he won first prize in the Valencia City Council's poster competition. In addition to his pictorial work, he was an editorial board member of the magazine Semana Gráfica, contributing to the artistic and graphic culture of his time. His paintings, known for their exquisite detail and vibrant colors, are part of private collections worldwide and are admired for their ability to capture the spirit of Spanish heritage.
Similar Artists and References
The style of Juan José Barreira Polo is associated with other realist and costumbrista painters, such as:
José Mongrell...
Category
Academic 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's Portrait Dapper Young English Gentleman in University Sports Club Blazer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The University Sports Club Blazer
by Kathleen Emily Temple-Bird (British 1879 - 1962)
signed and dated 1939
oil painting on canvas laid over board, framed
framed: 35 x 30
board: 29.5...
Category
English School 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Solitudine" paesaggio con barche a vela francia del nord cm. 37 x 21
Located in Torino, IT
Lanscape France,Ocean, France , grey, blue, azure, Normandy
Henry Maurice CAHOURS (Paris, 1889 – Vence, 1974)
He was born in Paris but spent his childhood and adolescence in Amiens...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Catalan Landscape with Masia oil on board painting spain spanish eupean art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: Antoni Llobet Aracil (Barcelona, 1910 - 1983)
Title: Catalan Landscape with Masia
Technique: Oil on board
Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in
Support: Board
Framing: Unframed
Period: 19...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Art Deco Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura M. GREENWOOD (1897-1951).
Portrait of Woman in Winter Coat
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24.5 inches.
Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Would beneifit from a cleaning. Origina...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French school Seascape Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Landscape ⭐
Seascape from M Dubois probably born in XIX, was a plein air artist
⭐Structural Analysis :⭐
This composition is a rocky coast line in the west coast of France (Brittany...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Canvas
Spanish postwar children oil on burlap painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Agusti Ferre Pino (1884-1960) - Children - Oil on burlap
Oil measurements 100x97 cm.
Frame measurements 107x104 cm.
Painter trained at the La Lonja School of Fine Arts. He became kn...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Burlap
1930's French Modernist Portrait of Black Haired Lady with Fringe Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Woman with Black Hair and Fringe styling
by Anton Sailer (French 1903-1987)
Signed & dated 1930
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 23.5 x 18 inches
Canvas: 18.5 x 13.5 inches
...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charming, Colorful 1930s Oil Painting of a Woman in Rowboat by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A charming, colorful 1930s oil painting of a young woman in a rowboat by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). This vibrant harbor scene was most likely paint...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
YVES DIEY The Nude, Oil on canvas, 1930s
By Yves Diey
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Yves Dieÿ (1892-1984), France – The Nude. A striking oil on canvas by the renowned French artist Yves Dieÿ (1892-1984), depicting a sensual and elegant nude. This wo...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape from Nordingrå, 1935 by Ultramarine Johansson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Johansson, also known as "Ultramarin Johansson," was a Swedish artist born in 1863 and known for his distinctive blue-toned paintings. His work often depicted landscapes, seascapes, and cityscapes, capturing the beauty and essence of Sweden's natural landscapes.
We are proud to offer one of his late works from 1935 for sale. This painting depicts a beautiful landscape from Nordingrå, a small village situated on the High coast of Sweden. The beauty of Nordingrå has captured many artists in the 19th-century, inspiring many famous painters, including Helmer Osslund...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cocktail party
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Monumental Art Deco oil painting on canvas by renown Hungarian artist Arpad Bardocz.
In good condition. Signed and dated.
We can arrange shipping worldwide.
We was born in Budape...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Building the Westside Highway" Frida Gugler, 1930s New York City Urban Scene
Located in New York, NY
Frida Gugler
Building the Westside Highway (Near the George Washington Bridge), circa 1935-37
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
20 x 28 inches
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the pain...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
Under the Viaduct
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower left
...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting. New Yorker Mag Cover Proposal WPA Mid Century American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
Perplexed Gentleman
New Yorker cover proposal, c. 1939
13 1/4 X 8 ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Antique American Oil Painting Framed Horse Race Elizabeth Bell Arabian Dappled
Located in Buffalo, NY
Elizabeth Bell’s Dappled Elegance is a masterfully rendered oil painting celebrating the grace and stature of an Arabian or American Saddlebred horse in motion. The artist captures t...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tattoo Parlor Sailor (WPA era woman artist)
By Helen Malta
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Helen Malta (b.1912). Tattoo Parlor, ca. 1935. Oil on canvas, 20 x 33 inches. Signed lower right. Metropolitan Museum of Art reproduction rights stamp on r...
Category
Abstract 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady In Blue Art Deco Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4066 Art Deco Lady in blue pastel painting
Set in a white frame
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Life Magazine Art Deco Showgirls Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. 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 home...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Pekingese Family of Dogs - Oil on Canvas by F.V. Rossi - 1939
By Filiberto Vitaliano Rossi
Located in Roma, IT
Pekingese Family of Dogs is an original artwork realized in 1939 by Filiberto Vitaliano Rossi.
Original oil on canvas.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corner.
Good conditions, except for some micro-holes on the canvas, very thin.
Beautiful artwork representing several Pekingese dogs...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Day at the Beach - Realistic Figurative Illustration in Gouache
Located in Soquel, CA
Day at the Beach - Realistic Figurative Illustration in Gouache
Original figurative illustration of people at the beach by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). Several women are looking at someone's foot, as if there is a splinter being removed. Three of the women are closer, with their heads in the frame. Two of them have are standing with their backs to the viewer. Between the women, the viewer can catch glimpses of other activities on the beach. Possibly a sketch for Good Housekeeping Magazine.
Signed "Charles Ross" in the lower right corner. (Charles Ross Kinghan)
Acquired with other signed estate works by the artist.
Presented in a new cream mat.
Mat size: 16"H x 13"W
Board size: 14"H x 11.75"W
Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984) was born in Anthony, KS on January 18, 1895. A teacher, he moved to Wichita as a teenager and did sign painting for the Western Sign Works. He studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Art in 1916, the American Academy of Art in Chicago, the Audubon School of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a pupil of Carl Scheffler, J. Wellington Reynolds, and H.A. Oberteuffer.
He taught at the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was an illustrator for McCalls, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Colliers, and many others, including American Artist magazine.
He was author and illustrator of Rendering Techniques for Commercial Art and Advertising (1956) and of Ted Kautzky...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Cardboard
Arriving at Church in Winter - Figurative Realistic Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Figurative illustration of people arriving at a church by Charles Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). The church is rendered with exquisite detail, typical ...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Gouache
R.B. FELTRAP, Oil on canvas, Nude, 1937
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas signed R.B.FELTRAP, France, 1937. Nude. With frame : 101.5x82.5 cm - 40x32.5 inches ; without frame : 92x73 cm - 36.2x28.75 inches. Format 30F. Signed and dated "R.B.Fe...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tavern on the Green (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Tavern on the Green. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 3/8 x 12 inches. Unsigned. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Ethel ...
Category
Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Trees - Paint by Jean Dreyfus-Stern - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Trees is a modern artwork realized by Jean Dreyfus-Stern in the 1930s.
Oil on Wooden Panel.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mother and Child Bathing - British Slade School 30's Art Deco nude oil painting
Located in London, GB
An intriguing 1930's Art Deco Slade School oil on canvas painting. The work depicts a mother and child bathing, surrounded by other bathers. It possibly has religious overtones. This...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Seymour Fogel (1911-1984)
Mural Study, untitled
11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight)
Tempera on board
Provenance:...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Unemployed" WPA American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern
William Gropper (1898 - 1977)
Unemployed
20 x 16 inches
Oil on canvas, 1937
Signed lower right
Provenance: Estate of the artist
Bio
Throughout his life, William Gropper used his artistic talents to protest social injustice. Born in New York City, he grew up there in poverty and left high school to work as a dishwasher and delivery boy. He eventually began a career in art and was able to study with Robert Henri and George Bellows from 1912 to 1915. He adopted their realistic painting style, and his own work expressed sympathy for common laborers and outrage at society's ills.
In 1919 Gropper established a reputation as a political cartoonist working for the New York Tribune. His blunt, forceful style attracted the attention of other publications, and he provided illustrations and cartoons for a variety of magazines, from the left-wing New Masses to mainstream Vanity Fair. Like many social realist artists of the 1930s, Gropper supported liberal political causes, depicting subjects such as the plight of migrant laborers and striking factory workers.
In his first gallery exhibition in 1936 at ACA Galleries, Gropper's work was so well received by critics, collectors, and artists that the following year he had two one-man exhibitions at ACA Galleries. In 1937, Gropper traveled west on a Guggenheim Fellowship and visited the Dust Bowl and the Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, sketching studies for a series of paintings and a mural he painted for the Department of the Interior. That same year he had paintings purchased by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.
Gropper exhibited at the 1939 New York World's Fair, Whitney Museum of American Art (1924-55), Art Institute of Chicago (1935-49), Carnegie International (1937-50), Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1939-48), and National Academy of Design (1945-48). He was a founder of the Artists Equity Association and member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
From 1940 to 1945 William Gropper was preoccupied with anti-Nazi cartoons...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
"Snowy City Scene"
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower lef...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Snowy City Scene" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
"Snowy City Scene"
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower lef...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Study
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Maquette right panel...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. 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 home...
Category
Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
Paris la Bourse
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Paris, la Bourse', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). Created at the beginning of the 19th century by Napoleon, la Bourse, or the Stock Exchange, was intended to assert and encourage France’s prosperity in industry and trade. In 1826 the Stock Exchange was installed in the palace that the architect Brongniart had begun in 1808. Surrounded by a large peristyle of Corinthian columns, the rectangular structure reflects the official neo-classicism of the Empire Period. The artist, Génin, depicts a typically lively 1930s day in front of the building with cars of the period zooming by pedestrians on the walkway and others on the stairs leading to the entrance. He has an extremely charming, almost childlike style particularly the way he renders the people and the vehicles. The building, on the other hand, is accurate in its detail and more seriously presented. Our gallery has held and has sold over a dozen of Genin's paintings but this one stands out for its pure stylish appeal and ability to captivate while inducing a smile in the viewer. The artwork is in good overall condition - there are some minor blemishes not on the artwork itself but on the edges of the mount to which it is attached. The frame is in fair condition showing some nicks and scratches. Please enjoy the many photos accompanying the listing. Upon request a video can be provided. Signed by the artist in the lower right hand.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Nude at the Window Overlooking Sacré-Coeur
Located in London, GB
'Nude at the Window Overlooking Sacré-Coeur', oil on paper mounted on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). Although later in Latapie's career he embraced cubism and abstraction, t...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Portrait of Marelen Dietrich
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the B...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sailboats, Brittany" , France Oil cm. 65 x 54 1930
Located in Torino, IT
Sailboats, Ocean, France , grey, blue, azure,landscape France
Henry Maurice CAHOURS (Paris, 1889 – Vence, 1974)
He was born in Paris but spent his childhood and adolescence in Amie...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Young Woman Wearing a Copper Scarf', Paris, Salon d'Automne, Brittany, Skagen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'W. Schwartz' for Walter Erwin Otto Schwartz (Danish, 1889-1958), dated 1935 and inscribed 'Skagen' lower right.
A substantial, psychologically penetrating portrait of a young woman with braids, shown dressed in a charcoal wool coat and wearing a copper-colored neck-scarf. The self-possessed sitter stands and meets the viewers gaze directly, proving herself an unusually confident subject for this noted Danish Modernist.
Nephew of the Danish academic artist, Frans Schwartz, Walter Schwartz grew up surrounded by the painters who frequented the Danish art colony on the picturesque island of Skagen. Walter first studied formally (1904-8) with Michael Ancher...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman by the Window with Embroidery Frame
By Franz Ludwig Kiederich
Located in London, GB
'Woman by the Window with Embroidery Frame', oil on canvas, by Franz Ludwig Kiederich (circa 1930s). A delightful depiction of a woman, comfortable...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
Under the Viaduct American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
Under the Viaduct
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower left
...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Energy Manifestation #4" Kimon Nicolaides, 1933 Dynamic Cubist Composition
Located in New York, NY
Kimon Nicolaides
Energy Manifestation #4, 1933
signed and dated lower left
oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
Kimon Nicolaїdes (10 June 1891 – 18 July 1938), was an American artist, educ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman, Yellow Shawl and Fan
Located in Greenwich, CT
An impressive and masterful depiction of a young woman with a fan. An American artist who studied and traveled in Europe and painted this painting before his return. It has its original frame which is magnificent. The frame has been regilded in th past 10 years. Vinton was abroad in the 1880s. The sitter gazes coyly over her fan in a gesture that ladies and gentleman of fin-de-siècle Europe would have understood to mean “wait for me,” and perhaps indicating her interest in a potential suitor. Vinton embarked on several trips to Europe—to Spain in 1882 with William Merritt Chase and Robert Blum, and to several different countries in 1888 following his marriage—which provided inspiration for a renewed style and subject matter. While in Spain with Chase and Blum, the three artists visited Madrid and Toledo; there, Vinton studied the masterfully tenebrous portraits of Velázquez, an influence that can be seen in Portrait with Yellow Shawl...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Folk Art Figurative Oil Painting " Tony"s Fruit Market" 1930
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3787 Antique folk art oil painting
Image size 17x23.5"
Folk art wood frame
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Man in Armchair, Mid Century Short Story Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
Excellent figurative oil painting of a man seated in an armchair with papers strewn about the interior space by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 18...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mural Study, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbara WPA American
Joseph Edward Knowles (1907-1980)
"Study for Industry Mural, Veterans Memorial Building, Santa Barbar...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Summer Day WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Ashcan Early 20th Century
By Leon Kroll
Located in New York, NY
A Summer Day WPA American Scene Social Realism Modern Ashcan Early 20th Century
Leon Kroll (1884-1974)
"A Summer Day"
14 x 17 inches (image...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French 20th century Impressionist harbor, with fishing boats at sea, landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
French 20th-century Impressionist harbor, with fishing boats at sea, with landscape beyond.
20th-century French impressionist harbor scene.
The...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
William Gropper WPA Artist Watercolor in Grisaille, circa 1932- “Uprooted”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This original watercolor by Depression Era New York artist William Gropper
relates to two of Gropper's most important Depression Era prints: “Refugees” and “Uprooted.”
Signed lower r...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Edinburgh Town circa 1930
By Charles Eddowes Turner
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Famous Edinburgh scene with the foggy Castle on the Mount from the North Bridge, and a bustling city scene below. Impressionist style, dating to mid 1920s/1930s, presenting a glimps...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Croele Woman
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard Dumoulin (1898 - 1973)
Creole woman
1938
Oil on canvas
89 x 74 cm
(97 x 85 cm with frame)
35.04 x 29.13 in
(38.19 x 33.46 in with frame)
Signed and dated top right
Online ca...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Barbizon School Landscape, Forest at Mont-de-l'Enclus
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of a forest by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is signed bottom left and is also titled and dated to the back of...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) The House of the artist, Oil on canvas, signed
Located in Paris, FR
Maurice Asselin (1882-1947)
The House of the painter, Neuilly
signed lower left
oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm
Framed : 63 x 54 cm
The subject of this painting is fairly easy to identi...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The People
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The People, 1938, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 36 x 48 inches, label verso reads “348 / 89 / Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA / _____ The People / _______ Arnold Blanch ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“High Society”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a lavish interior dinner party scene by Venancio Zolla. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Bibliography printed label on frame verso. O...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Young Woman - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas mounted on board, realized by Francesco Settimj in 1930s.
Good condition.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude Woman - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
He was born in Mila...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Riverscape Impressionist Oil Painting by George Thompson Pritchard, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
Untitled Riverscape, an original oil on canvas by George Thompson Pritchard, is a piece for the true collector. An impressively calming nature of this plein-air painting draws you in...
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine 1930's French Impressionist Signed Oil Le Pont Neuf River Seine Paris
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Pont Neuf, Paris
by Edouard Henri Leon (French 1873-1968)
signed lower front corner
inscribed and titled verso
oil on canvas in wooden surround slip frame
wooden frame: 18.5 x 25....
Category
Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Industry and Commerce
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Industry and Commerce, 1936, tempera on panel, 16 ½ x 39 ½ inches, signed verso “John Ballator, Portland Ore.” provenance includes: J.C. Penney Company, represented by Russell Tether Fine Arts Assoc.; presented in a newer wood frame
About the Painting
Industry and Commerce is a prime example of WPA Era muralism. Like a Mediaeval alter, this mural study is filled with icons, but the images of saints and martyrs are replaced with symbols of America's gospel of prosperity through capitalism. Industry and Commerce has a strong narrative quality with vignettes filling the entire surface. Extraction, logistics, design, power generation, and manufacturing for printing, chemicals, automobiles and metal products are all represented. To eliminate any doubt about the mural's themes, Ballator letters a description into the bottom of the study. Ballator also presents an idealized version of industrial cooperation, as his workers, lab-coated technicians and tie-wearing managers work harmoniously toward a common goal in the tidy and neatly designed environments. Although far from the reality of most industrial spaces, Ballator's study reflects the idealized and morale boosting tone that many mural projects adopted during the Great Depression.
About the Artist
John R Ballator achieved success as a muralist, lithographer, and teacher during the Great Depression. Born in Oregon, he studied at the Portland Museum Art School, the University of Oregon and at Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Fine Art. In 1936, Ballator was commissioned to paint a mural panel for the new Department of Justice Building in Washington DC, an important project that spanned five years with several dozen artists contributing a total of sixty-eight designs. Ballator completed murals for the St. Johns Post Office and Franklin High School, both in Portland, Oregon. He also contributed to the 1938 murals at Nathan Hale School in New Haven, Connecticut. During the late 1930s, Ballator taught art for several years at Washburn College in Topeka, Kanas, where he completed a mural for the Menninger Arts & Craft Shop before accepting a professorship at Hollins College...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century
Located in New York, NY
Coney Island Fire Eaters American Scene Modernism WPA Social Realism Mid-Century
Frederick "Fritz" Frey Rockwell (1917-1977)
Coney Island Fire Eaters
25 x 30 inches
Oil on Canvas
Si...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
Chess Players WPA Depression Era Mid-20th Century American Scene Realism Modern. Signed upper right and verso 8 x 10 inches oil on board.
BIO
The son of a men's haberdasher, Mervin ...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Faces We Wore" WPA Family American Scene Figurative Abstract Woman Artist
Located in New York, NY
"The Faces We Wore" WPA Family American Scene Figurative Abstract Woman Artist
Juanita Guccione (1904 - 1999)
The Faces We Wore
20 x 16 inches
Oil on...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le hameau en ete - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel landscape circa 1930 by French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. This stunning work depicts a view of a French hamlet in summer - the buildings in the ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Seymour Fogel (1911-1984)
Mural Study, untitled
11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight)
Tempera on board
Provenance:...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
'Study of a Young Woman Seated', Large Expressionist Figural Oil, Female, Deco
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial, American School figural oil of a young woman with dark hair shown seated, wearing a simple white cotton shift and gazing to the viewer's left.
A dramatically composed...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for the Mural "Westward Movement"
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Study for the Mural "Westward Movement"
Graphite, watercolor, gouache and paint on paper, 1936
Signed in pencil lower center (see photo)
A study leading up to his mural Justice of th...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Western Landscape by New England Impressionist painter
Located in Doylestown, PA
This Western Landscape by New England Impressionist painter Richard Edward Miller is a 12.5 x 23.5 inches, oil on board painting from 1931. A plein-air and impressionist painter as ...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
San Francisco Cable Car WPA Artist Adolf Dehn Modernist Art Gouache Oil Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
ADOLF ARTHUR DEHN (American, 1895-1969)
San Francisco Bay Area street scene, with Trolley, Streetcar, Cable Car with bay and Alcatraz Island in background.
Hand signed LRC.
Sight 19" x 15", overall 23" x 19".
Adolf Dehn (November 22, 1895 – May 19, 1968) was an American artist known mainly as a lithographer. Throughout his artistic career, he participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature. A two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he was known for both his technical skills and his high-spirited, droll depictions of human foibles.
Adolph Dehn was born in 1895 in Waterville, Minnesota. He began creating artwork at the age of six, and by the time of his death had created nearly 650 images.
Dehn went to the Minneapolis School of Art (known today as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), where he met and became a close friend of Wanda Gag. In 1917 he and Gág were two of only a dozen students in the country to earn a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. He was drafted to serve in World War I in 1918, but declared himself a conscientious objector and spent four months in a guardhouse detention camp in Spartanburg, SC and then worked for eight months as a painting teacher at an arm rehabilitation hospital in Asheville, NC. Later, Dehn returned to the Art Students League for another year of study and created his first lithograph, The Harvest.
In 1921 Dehn's lithographs were featured in his first exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York City. From 1920 to 1921 in Manhattan, he was connected to New York's politically left-leaning activists. In 1921, he went to Europe. In Paris and Vienna he belonged to a group of expatriate intellectuals and artists, including Andrée Ruellan, Gertrude Stein, and ee cummings...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil
Canterbury Bells Floral Still Life, Female Cubist Artist, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1965)
Canterbury Bells, c. 1932
Oil on canvas
26 x 24 inches
31.25 x 29.5 inches, framed
Exhibited: The Women's Art Club of Cleveland, 1932
A graduate of...
Category
Cubist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pavillon de Cirque
By Celso Lagar
Located in Madrid, ES
CELSO LAGAR
Spanish, 1891 - 1966
PAVILLON DE CIRQUE
signed "Lagar" (lower right)
oil on canvas
15 x 18 inches (38 x 46 cm.)
framed: 21-1/2 x 24-1/2 inches (54 x 62 cm.)
NOTE:
THIS W...
Category
Fauvist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Ships - Painting by Bruno Croatto - 1938
Located in Roma, IT
Ships is an original painting realized by Bruno Croatto in 1938.
Signed and datet by the Artist at bottom left.
Includes a wooden frame.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
