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Portrait of a Lady with Pendant - British Art Deco 30's portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous Art Deco portrait oil painting is by British female artist Elsie March. Elsie was one of 9 siblings, eight of whom became artists. Although Elsie later went on to focus...
Category
Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Neighbor to the Sky, Story Illustration for Redbook Magazine, 1936
By Jerome Rozen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Initialed Lower Right
"Margery's voice held him as no other sound ever had." Story illustration for part one of "Neighbor to the Sky" by Gladys Hast...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Older Man Repairing Clock, Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original magazine cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, published July 18, 1931
The image features a clockmaker repairing a clock.
Artwork Dimensions: 28.25" x 22.25”
M...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for 'Flowers for the President'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 23.50" x 27.25", Framed 29.50" x 33.00"
The present work is a study for Flowers for the President c...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Heavy Going, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published January 19, 1930.
Ma Morse tries to convince Lil to accompany her to the church fair, but Lil doesn’t want to venture out into the sto...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl with Dog - Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
Girl with Dog is an original artwork realized in 1929 by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942).
Original Painting on canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner.
...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint
Woodcarver, Outdoor Life Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Outdoor Life Magazine Cover, August 1933
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
By Mervin Jules
Located in New York, NY
"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion
Mervin Jules (1912 – 1994)
"The Tailor"
9 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches
Oil on masonite, c. 1930s
Signed lower ...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Not signed.
Good conditions
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
Christmas Peek, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 31.00" x 24.25;" Framed 37.00" x 30.00"
Cover of the December 23rd, 1939 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
Literatu...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Cotillion, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed and Dated Lower Left
The Saturday Evening Post cover, May 23, 1936
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Deep Sea Fisherman, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 28.00" x 23.00", Framed 34.00" x 29.00"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, February 2, 1935
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother and Child by Béla Kádár - Work on paper
Located in London, GB
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Mother and Child by BÉLA KÁDÁR (1877-1955)
Gouache on paper
86 x 56.8 cm (33 7/8 x 22 3/8 inches)
Signed lower right Kádár Béla
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by Gábor Einspach on behalf of The First Hungarian Painting Expert's Office.
Provenance
Private collection, Israel
The Hungarian artist Béla Kádár was born in Budapest in 1877 to a working-class Jewish family. Following his father’s death, he was forced to start working from an early age after only six years to primary schooling and was apprenticed as an iron-turner. In 1902, Kádár attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. After leaving the Academy, he worked at a mural painting company. Only when he visited Berlin and Paris and being exposed to the avant-garde art of the time, did Kádár direct his attention to painting once again. In 1910, the artist won the Kohner prize, and the same year he was awarded his first solo exhibition at the Hungarian National Gallery. By 1918, Kádár moved to Western Europe. Today he is one of the most famous members of the early twentieth-century Hungarian avant-garde.
Over the course of his time living in Berlin, Kádár’s style changed. His expressionistic, graphic works were gradually replaced by paintings that were more romantic and delicate in nature. Incorporating and often synthesising stylistic elements of Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, Neo-Primitivism and German Expressionism, Kádár’s decorative and metaphysical subject matter was often based upon traditional Hungarian folklore, and his subject-matter became increasingly narrative. His paintings in this period often feature surrealistic dream-like imagery, reminiscent of compositions by Marc Chagall. Despite his variety of subjects, ranging from abstracted figures and landscapes to interiors and objects, his paintings are typically rendered in a bright, jewel-toned palette and feature a fractured approach to rendering space.
In 1923 in Berlin, Kádár was invited by Herwath Walden to exhibit at the highly influential Galerie Der Sturm...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Bathing Nudes, 20th Century Signed French Painting, Cubist Inspired
Located in London, GB
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Circa 1930
Image size: 41 x 34 inches (104 x 86 cm)
Framed
Category
Cubist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue Vase with Gladiolas and Samurai Portrait Still Life by Bonnie Beach Ryan
Located in Soquel, CA
Still Life of Gladiolas in a Blue Pot with bird figurine and Samurai portrait by Bonnie Beach Ryan (American, 1901-1940). In 1933, Bonnie Beach Ryan held her first solo show of flower and still life paintings at the Dana Bartlett...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
View of Saint-Médard Church Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
A 'View of Saint-Médard Church, Paris', gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). As viewed from the Rue Mouffetard, the church, which dates from the mid-1400s, continues ...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Cosmopolitan Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed
Woman with suitor/explorers wearing pith helmets
Publication Information: Story Illustration for "A Marriage of Concenience" by Comerset Mau...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amateur Nite - Cowboy Bill's Ramblers, The Saturday Evening Post cover, Jan
By Monte Crews
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left: Monte / Crews
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, January 11th, 1936
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 10, 1934
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 22.70" x 19.70", Framed 29.00" x 22.00"
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 10, 1934
Leyendecker, Joseph Christian:One of the most successful commercial illustrators of his time, best known for his advertisements for the "Arrow Collar Man." He created 321 covers for the Saturday Evening Post.. American painter, illustrator, 1874-1951
Exhibitions:
JC Leyendecker...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Studio Stove, Colorful Cubist Oil painting, Cleveland School female artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clara Deike (American, 1881-1964)
My Studio Stove, 1936
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right, titled verso
23.5 x 19.5 inches
29.75 x 25.5 inches, f...
Category
Cubist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman Carrying Wood, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
By Enrique Brocco
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th century figurative landscape of a woman carrying a basket of wood kindling by a rushing river, high in the Italian hills by Enrique Brocco (Italian, 20th Century...
Category
Naturalistic 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Cute Baby with Rosy Cheeks playing with Toys
Located in Miami, FL
A cute baby playing with toys is captured as he/she responds to someone outside the picture plane. Haddon Sundblom is a masterful artist in the school of An...
Category
Naturalistic 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Bather (Nude Women)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ann Brockman (1895–1943) was an American artist who achieved success as a figurative painter following a successful career as an illustrator. Born in California, she spent her childhood in the American Far West and, upon marrying the artist William C. McNulty, relocated to Manhattan at the age of 18 in 1914. She took classes at the Art Students League where her teachers included two realist artists of the Ashcan School, George Luks and John Sloan. Her career as an illustrator began in 1919 with cover art for four issues of a fiction monthly called Live Stories. She continued providing cover art and illustrations for popular magazines and books until 1930 when she transitioned from illustrator to professional artist. From that year until her death in 1943, she took part regularly in group and solo exhibitions, receiving a growing amount of critical recognition and praise. In 1939 she told an interviewer that making money as an illustrator was so easy that it "almost spoiled [her] chances of ever being an artist."[1] In reviewing a solo exhibition of her work in 1939, the artist and critic A.Z Kruse wrote: "She paints and composes with a thorough understanding of form and without the slightest hesitancy about anatomical structure. Add to this a magnificent sense of proportion, and impeccable feeling for color and an unmistakable knowledge of what it takes to balance the elements of good pictorial composition and you have a typical Ann Brockman canvas."[2]
Early life and training
Brockman was born in Northern California in 1895 and spent much of her youth in nearby Oregon, Washington, and Utah.[1][3] She met the artist William C. McNulty in Seattle where he was employed as an editorial cartoonist. They married in March 1914 and promptly moved to Manhattan where he worked as a freelance illustrator.[4][5] At the time of their marriage, Brockman was 18 years old.[6] Over the next few years, her career generally followed that path that her husband had previously taken. His art training had been at the Art Students League beginning in 1908; she began her training there after moving to New York in 1914.[1] After an early career as an editorial cartoonist, he freelanced as a magazine and book illustrator beginning in 1914; she began her career as a magazine and book illustrator in 1919.[7] He embarked on a teaching career in the early 1930s and not long after, she began giving art instruction.[8][9] While they both adhered to the realist tradition in art, their usual subjects were different. His prominently depicted urban cityscapes in the social realist whereas hers generally focused on rural landscapes. He was best known for his etchings and she for her oils and watercolors.[8][10]
Brockman returned to the Art Students League in 1926 to take individual instruction for a month at a time from George Luks and John Sloan.[1] Despite their help, one critic said McNulty's "sympathetic encouragement and guidance" was more important to her development as a professional artist.[11]
Career in art
In the course of her career as illustrator, Brockman would sometimes paint portraits of celebrities before drawing them, as for example in 1923 when she painted the French actress Andrée Lafayette who had traveled to New York to play title role in a film called Trilby.[12] She would also sometimes accept commissions to make portrait paintings and in 1929 painted two Scottish terriers on one such commission.[13] During this time, she also produced landscapes. In 1924 she displayed a New England village street scene painting in the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings in the J. Wanamaker Gallery of Modern Decorative Art.[14] Available sources show no further exhibitions until in 1930 a critic for the Boston Globe described one of her portraits as "well done" in a review of a Rockport Art Association exhibition held that summer.[15]
Between 1931 and her death in 1943, Brockman participated in over thirty group exhibitions and five solos.[note 1] Her paintings appeared in shows of the artists' associations to which she belonged, including the Rockport Art Association, Salons of America, Society of Independent Artists, and National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors.[17][19]Between 1932 and 1935, her paintings appeared frequently in New York's Macbeth Gallery.[20][23][25][27] She won an award for a painting she showed at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1940.[41] In 1942, the Whitney Museum bought one of the paintings she showed in its Biennial of that year.[10] Critical praise for her work steadily increased during the decade that ended with her untimely death in 1943. In 1932, her painting called "The Camera Man" was called "a clever piece of illustration."[21] Three years later, a painting called "Small Town" gave a critic "the impression of freshness, honesty, and skill".[29] In 1938, a critic described her "Folly Cove" as "masterful" and said "Pigeon Hill Picnic" was "sustained by excellence of execution".[48] At that time, Howard Devree of the New York Times saw "evidence of gathering powers" in her work and wrote "she imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Three years later, a Times critic reported Brockman had "set herself a new high" in the watercolors she presented,[52] and another critic said the gallery where she was showing had not "for some time" shown "so outstanding a solo exhibitor as Ann Brockman."[2] Shortly before her death, a critic for Art News maintained that she was "one of America's most talented women painters".[46]
After she had died, a critic said Brockman's paintings "displayed real power", adding that she was "highly rated among the nation's professional artists" and was known to give "aid and encouragement, always with a smile," both artists and to her students.[10] in reviewing the memorial exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries held in 1945, reviewers wrote about the strength and vibrancy of her personality, the quality of her painting ("every bit as good, possibly better than people had thought"),[53] called her "one of the best of our twentieth century women painters", and credited "her sense of the vividness of life" as a contributor to "the unusual breadth that is so characteristic of her work.[11] One noted that her work was "widely recognized throughout the country" and could be found in the collections of prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.[54] Writing in the Times, Devree wrote, "even those who had followed the steady growth of this artist for more than a decade, each successive show being at once an evidence of new achievement and an augury of still better work to come, may well be surprised at the combined impact of the selected paintings in the present showing,"[55] and writing in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, A.Z Kruse said she had made "extraorginary accomplishments", painted with "inordinate distinction" showing a "lyrical majesty," and possessed "a keen esthetic sense which did not deviate from truth."[54]
Artistic style
(1) Ann Brockman, undated drawing, black chalk on paper, 18 x 22 inches
(2) Ann Brockman, High School Picnic, about 1935, oil on canvas, 34 1/4 x 44 1/4 inches
(3) Ann Brockman, untitled landscape, about 1943, watercolor and pencil on paper, 15 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches
(4) Ann Brockman, North Coast, undated watercolor, 21 1/2 x 30 inches
(5) Ann Brockman, On the Beach, 1942, watercolor on paper, 16 1/2 x 20 inches
(6) Ann Brockman, Lot's Wife, 1942, oil on canvas, 46 x 35 inches
(7) Ann Brockman, New York Harbor, 1934, watercolor on paper, 13 1/2 x 19 1/4 inches
(8) Ann Brockman, Youth, 1942, oil on board, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Brockman was a figurative painter whose main subjects were rural landscapes and small-town and coastal scenes. She worked in oils and watercolors, becoming better known for the latter late in her career. Most of her paintings were relatively small. Although she made figure pieces infrequently, the nudes and circus and Biblical scenes she painted were seen to be among her best works. In 1938, Howard Devree wrote: "Her gray-day marines and coast scenes are familiar to gallery goers and are favorites with her fellow artists. Her figure pieces have attained a sculptural quality without losing warmth or taking on stiffness. One spirited circus incident of equestriennes about to enter the big tent compares not unfavorably with many of the similar pictures by a long line of painters who have been fascinated by the theme. She imparts a dramatic feeling to landscape. She even manages this time to do trees touched by Autumn tints without calendar effect, which is no small praise."[51] Similarly, a critic for Art Digest wrote that year: "Fluently and virilely painted, [her] canvases suggest a close affinity between nature and humans. The artist takes her subjects out in the open where they may picnic or bathe with space and air about them. A fast tempo is felt in the compositions of restless horses and nimble entertainers busily alert for the coming performance. Miss Brockman is also interested in portraying frightened groups of people, hurrying to safety or standing half-clad in the lowering storm light."[56]
Her palette ranged from vivid colors in bright sunlight to somber ones in the overcast skies of stormy weather. Of the former, one critic spoke of the rich colors and "sun-drenched rocks" of her coastal scenes and another of her "summery landscapes of coves and picnics."[11][50] Of the latter, Howard Devree said she "painted so many moody Maine coast vignettes of lowering skies and uneasy seas that artists have been heard to refer to an effect as 'an Ann Brockman day'".[57]
Brockman's handling of Biblical subjects can be seen in the oil called "Lot's Wife", shown above, Image No. 6. Her watercolor called "On the Beach" and her oil portrait called "Youth" may both indicate the "sculptural quality" that Devree said was typical of her figure pieces (Image No. 8, above).
An example of Brockman's bright palette in a typical summer theme is the oil painting called "High School Picnic" shown above, Image No. 2. Next to it is a painting, an untitled landscape of about 1943 whose medium, watercolor on paper, shows off the sunny palette she often used (Image No. 3).
Among the darkest of her works was an untitled 1942 drawing she made in black chalk (shown above, Image No. 1). In a book called Drawings by American Artists (1947), the artist and art editor Norman Kent noted that this study influenced her painting through its use of "forms" that were "elastic" and suggested "color". He said its "massing of dark and light" created "a definite mood" that was "impressionistic" and had "the strength of a man's work".[58] Brockman's undated watercolor called "North Coast" (shown above, Image No. 4) is an example of the paintings to which Kent referred.
Illustrator
(9) Ann Brockman, cover, March 12, 1917, Every Week magazine
(10) Illustration of an article, "The Taking of a Salient" by Henry Russell...
Category
American Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shore Leave, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Center
August 8, 1931 Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painting Early 20th Century Landscape Garden and Characters
By Jeanne Lourier-Dreyfus
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LOURIER-DREYFUS Jeanne (1873-1955)
Gardeners at Saint Cloud's Park
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame by Gault : (Paris Fbg St Honoré)
Dim canvas : 81 X 100 cm
Dim frame : 109 x 129 cm
LOURIER-DREYFUS Jeanne (1873-1955)
French School 20th century
Post-impressionist
Disciple of Pierre Eugène Montézin, Jeanne Lourier was a pupil of workshop who assimilated the features and environment of the Master.
Her artistic education also passed by the workshop of Jules Adler...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Great-Aunt Lavinia, Original Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Great-Aunt Lavinia” by Joseph C. Lincoln for Good Housekeeping magazine, published July 1936, pages 26-27.
The full caption reads: “The Judge read the lette...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cart and barrel in the barn
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Beige wooden frame
80 x 69 x 5 cm
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cosmopolitan Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Initialed and Dated Lower Right of Right Canvas
Woman with suitor/explorers wearing pith helmets
Pub...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover, March 28, 1936
By Ellen Pyle
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1936
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 28.00" x 22.00", Framed 34.00" x 28.00"
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Equestrian feeding a horse. Original holiday cover for The Sportsman magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original holiday cover for The Sportsman magazine, published December 1934. The image features an equestrian feeding a horse.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Story of Shipwreck, Rotarian Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: May 31, 1934
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of Rotarian Magazine, September 1934.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Men
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Image of two men, one seated and one standing. From the book Head Tide by Joseph C. Lincoln
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Relativity, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 17, 1931.
As Lil’s Aunt Ruby, a “social gadabout” and “blithe widow of many years’ standing” arrives at the Jenkins family home for a visit, Sandy tries to hide his irritation once he sees the massive amount of luggage she had in tow. Aunt Ruby shows off an enormous new diamond ring and coyly announces she is to be married that fall and that her new fiance would be arriving shortly. As Lil scrambles up some hors d’oeuvres and cocktails, Sandy hears a car pull up to the house and is shocked to discover that Aunt Ruby’s future husband is none other than Sandy’s boss! (Liberty magazine, October 17, 1931, p. 37)
“For the Love o’ Lil: The Picture Story of an American Family”
In 1926, under his long-term contract to produce a cover per week for Liberty magazine, Leslie Thrasher introduced a signature cast of characters that appeared each week, telling a serialized story through his illustrations. Liberty touted its new cover serial as “something no magazine has ever done before…Heretofore, all magazine cover...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Old Salts, Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1, 1932
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 30.00" x 22.00", Framed 38.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1, 1932.
Exhibitions: Christi...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Mill
Located in London, GB
'The Mill', oil on paper mounted on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). A colourful wintery scene, the bare trees are like wireless telephone poles along ...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Oil
20th Century Oil on Canvas Signed Mattia Traverso Italian Painting Genre Scene
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Oil on canvas, first canvas, painting depicting a courtyard scene with horses returning from the hunt, of excellent pictoria...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sledding, Capper's Farmer Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1933
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 20.13"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Capper's Farmer Magazine Cover, February 1933
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"In Congress, July 4, 1776"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed "J.F. Kernan" Lower Right
Cover illustration for Capper's Farmer magazine, July 1932
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Smart Woman"
By Glen Cravath
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26.00" x 26.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Image for 1930's movie poster advertising the movie "Smart Woman."
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Town Landscape with Figures - British 1930's Post Impressionist oil painting art
Located in London, GB
This interesting British 1930's Post Impressionist town landscape oil painting is by noted Liverpool born artist Edwin Glasgow. Painted in 1936 and signed lower left, the painting wa...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trial
Located in Genève, GE
Work on paper
Golden wooden frame with glass pane
47.7 x 35.5 x 1.5 cm
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache
Head Tide, Good Housekeeping, Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
A close friend of Norman Rockwell, Mead Schaeffer focused his early career on illustrations for classic, historical, and adventure novels, including Moby Dick, The Count of Monte Christo, and King Arthur and His Knights. The featured lot, a masterpiece of political intrigue, was published as a story illustration for Joseph C...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rank and File, Redbook Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1933
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 36.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
1933 Interior Redbook Magazine, November 1933
A large signed and dated oil on canvas by no...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edouard Dumoulin (1898 - 1973) - The Damned
Located in PARIS, FR
Edouard Dumoulin (1898 - 1973)
The Damned
Oil on canvas
130 x 81 cm (132 x 83 cm with frame)
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Roberta' Movie Art Poster, 1935
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Signed 'Jacob Rosenberg'
This piece was commissioned for the movie "Roberta" (1935), directed by William A. Seiter. Painting is by Jacob Rosenb...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
NYC 1939 World's Fair Mural Study American Scene WPA Modern Mid 20th Century
Eugene Savage (1883 – 1978)
1939 World’s Fair Mural Study
45 x 30 inches
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower right
The painting is part of a 1,000 piece collection of art and objects from the 1939 World’s Fair. The collection as a whole is available.
Savage created the mural for the facade of the Communications Building. An image of the completed mural, along with a published postcard, is part of the listing. Note the center top female figure, she resembles the figure in the offered painting.
BIO
Eugene Francis Savage was born in Covington, Indiana 1883. He underwent various forms of art training in the early years. He was a pupil of The Corcoran Gallery and The Art Institute of Chicago, and was later awarded a fellowship to study in Rome at The American Academy.
While under the spell of that ancient city the young artist began to render historic figures that were suitable for the classic style needed for mural painting in the traditional manor. During this period he was able to study and observe Roman and Greek sculpture, although much of the academic training was accomplished by using plaster casts along with the incorporation of live models. This method survived and was used efficiently throughout Europe and the United States.
After leaving the Academy, Savage was commissioned to paint numerous murals throughout the United States and Europe. This artist received acclaim for the works he produced while under commissions from various sources. This young master was a contemporary of Mexican muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) and Diego Rivera (1886-1957). In this period he was to show the influence of his contemporaries in formulating a modern style. Savage also played a vital role in the WPA Federal Art program, and he was a member of The Mural Art Guild..
Savage was elected an associate member of The National Academy of Design in 1924 and a full member in 1926. From 1947, he held a professorship at Yale University where he taught mural painting, and some of his students went on to significant positions.
By this time the artist had painted large-scale murals at Columbia, Yale University, Buffalo N.Y., Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Indiana, along with other commissioned works. He also achieved recognition for a series of murals commissioned by the Matson Shipping Line and completed around 1940. For this commission, Savage made many exacting studies of customs and folkways of the Hawaiian natives. However, the award-winning murals were not installed as planned but were put in storage during the war years when the ships were used for troop transportation and were in danger of attack.
However the mural images were reproduced and distributed by the shipping company including nine of the mural scenes that were made into lithographed menu covers in 1948. The American Institute of Graphic Arts awarded certificates of excellence for their graphic production, and the Smithsonian Institute exhibited the works in 1949. Today Savages' Hawaiian Art production is held in high regard by collectors of Hawaiian nostalgia.
In later years the artist focused his attention on a theme that dealt with the customs and tribal traditions of the Seminole Indians of Florida. He produced many variations of this theme throughout his lifetime, and the pictures were usually modest scale easel paintings, precise and carefully delineated. Many of these pictures incorporate Surrealistic elements and show some minor stylistic influences of the painters Kay Sage...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Religious Painting Saint Roch with Dog, 1930
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Great Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a religious subject Saint Roch with dog and stick of good pictor...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Turf and Sport Digest
By Randall Shaull
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover for Turf and Sport Digest, probably late 1930s
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Potted Flowers
Located in London, GB
'Potted Flowers', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1933). Potted red geraniums symbolise happiness, good health, good wishes, and friendship. They are ...
Category
Expressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boys Around a Campfire, Post Cover
By Eugene Iverd
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 33.00" x 25.00", Framed 40.00" x 32.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, February 21, 1931
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Balinese Pottery Market
Located in London, GB
'Balinese Pottery Market', oil on canvas, by Régine van den Broek d'Obrenan (1931). The artist visited Bali in 1931 (among other islands) with her new husband, Charles. The naive pai...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Female Portrait - Painting on Canvas by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1931
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait is an original artwork realized in 1931 by Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 - Gargnano, 1942).
Original Painting on canvas.
Hand-signed on the lower right corner. ...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
A Young Girl Reading a Book, Pointillist Artist
Located in Stockholm, SE
"A Young Girl Reading a Book" is a captivating portrait by Swedish artist Gustaf Arnolds.
Arnolds was a prolific painter whose roots began in Vingåker and later in Ronneby from his teenage years.
His educational journey in art took him through prestigious institutions such as Althins målarskola and the Tallbergska grafikskolan in Stockholm,
followed by a significant period at the Konstakademien, Stockholm, between 1904 and 1909. His talent and dedication were recognized early on, earning him a scholarship to Paris, a city that would deeply influence his artistic direction.
This particular work, likely painted shortly after his return to Sweden, reveals a profound influence from his time in Paris. It portrays a young girl absorbed in reading a book, a simple yet profound subject that Arnolds imbues with a sense of tranquility and introspection. The background hints at a serene landscape, dotted with quaint houses, a nod to the everyday beauty surrounding us. What sets this piece apart is Arnolds’ technique, reminiscent of pointillism but distinguished by longer, more expressive brush strokes that add a vibrant texture and depth to the canvas. This method showcases Arnolds' unique adaptation of the techniques he encountered during his Parisian studies, particularly during his interactions with Nils Dardel...
Category
Pointillist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Still life - Oil Painting by Valentino Ghiglia - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life is an original modern artwork realized by Valentino Ghiglia in the mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored oil on board.
Hand signed on the back.
Includes frame.
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
"Nude, " Arnold Blanch, Woodstock School, WPA, Figurative
Located in New York, NY
Arnold Blanch
Nude
Signed lower right
Oil on board
20 x 16 inches
Provenance:
G. David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh
Private Collection, New York
Bo...
Category
Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Seated Nude - Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Seated Nude is an artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli, in 1930s.
Oil on canvas, 108 x 75 cm.
Provenance: Galleria Pesaro, Milan.
Good conditions!
The nudes and portraits w...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family - Oil Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Family is a modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in the mid-20th Century.
Includes frame: 136 x 4 x 136 cm
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas.
Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887 – Gargnano, 1942)
He was born in Milan on June 1, 1887 to Giovanni Feltrinelli, the nephew of Giacomo, who was the founder of the Feltrinelli partnership. Feltrinelli was not only a prominent figure in the Italian economic and financial field, but he was also a painter, who was characterized as a strong, impetuous hot colorist, and preferred still lifes, portraits and landscapes. He started his career in 1930 at La Permanente (Milan), where he exhibited a portrait and a still life that won him the Fornara award.
That same year, Feltrinelli exhibited his work at the Venice Biennial and at the Pesaro Gallery in Milan. Together with other prominent avant-garde artists, he participated in various foreign exhibitions on modern Italian painting...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil
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