1930s Figurative Paintings

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: Sight Size 36.00" x 31.00;" Framed 43.00" x 38.00" Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, April 7th, 1934

Date: 1926 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 30.00" Framed Dimensions: 35⅛ x 39⅛ in. Signature: Signed Lower Left Magazine story illustration for "The Dead Ride Hard," for ...

Date: 1935 Medium: Pastel on Board Dimensions: 40.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Framed and comes with Calendar Print Published by Gerlach...

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Vaclav Vytlacil (1892-1984) He was born to Czechoslovakian parents in 1892 in New York City. Living in Chicago as a youth, he took classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, returning to New York when he was 20. From 1913 to 1916, he enjoyed a scholarship from the Art Students League, and worked with John C. Johansen (a portraitist whose expressive style resembled that of John Singer Sargent), and Anders Zorn. He accepted a teaching position at the Minneapolis School of Art in 1916, remaining there until 1921. This enabled him to travel to Europe to study Cézanne’s paintings and works of the Old Masters. He traveled to Paris, Prague, Dresden, Berlin, and Munich seeking the works of Titian, Cranach, Rembrandt, Veronese, and Holbein, which gave him new perspective. Vytlacil studied at the Royal Academy of Art in Munich, settling there in 1921. Fellow students were Ernest Thurn and Worth Ryder, who introduced him to famous abstractionist Hans Hofmann. He worked with Hofmann from about 1922 to 1926, as a student and teaching assistant. During the summer of 1928, after returning to the United States, Vytlacil gave lectures at the University of California, Berkeley, on modern European art. Soon thereafter, he became a member of the Art Students League faculty. After one year, he returned to Europe and successfully persuaded Hofmann to teach at the League as well. He spent about six years in Europe, studying the works of Matisse, Picasso, and Dufy. In 1935, he returned to New York and became a co-founder of the American Abstract Artists group in 1936. He later had teaching posts at Queens College in New York; the College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, California; Black Mountain College in North Carolina; and the Art Students League. His paintings exhibit a clear inclination toward modernism. His still lives and interiors from the 1920s indicate an understanding of the art of Cézanne. In the 1930s, his works displayed two very different kinds of art at the same time. His cityscapes and landscapes combine Cubist-inspired spatial concerns with an expressionistic approach to line and color. Vytlacil also used old wood, metal, cork, and string in constructions, influenced by his friend and former student, Rupert Turnbull. He eventually ceased creating constructions as he considered them too limiting. The spatial challenges of painting were still his preference. During the 1940s and 1950s, his works indicated a sense of spontaneity not felt in his earlier work. He married Elizabeth Foster in Florence, Italy, in 1927 and they lived and worked in Positano, Italy for extended periods of time. Later on, they divided their time between homes in Sparkill, New York and Chilmark, Massachusetts, where Vyt, as he was affectionately called, taught at the Martha's Vineyard Art...

Plump, fleshy, or a voluptuous nude - you describe it as you see it. Signed, titled, and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis". The present work depicts a natur...

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...

New York, published and copyrighted 1939 by Robert B. Strawbridge, Jr. Numbered limited edition 53/ 60 Art Sz: 17 1/2"H x 26"W Frame Sz: 25 1/2"H x 33 1/2" In French matt w/ original pencil remarque to Charles H. Jackson Jr. Very sincerely Paul Brown w/ 16 vignette polo teams (bottom left to right): Wanders/ Ranelagh/ Cooperstown/ Meadow Brook Magpies/ Meadow Brook/ Great Neck/ Argentine/ Midwick/ Orange County/ Sands Point/ Hurricanes/ Santa Paula/ Templeton/ Aurora/ Greentree & Old Westbury Charles Hervey "Pete" Jackson Jr. (1898 - 1978) was an American rancher, investor and polo player. Early life Charles H. Jackson Jr. was born on April 12, 1898, and grew up in Albany, New York. He was the grand-nephew of U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. Ranching Jackson, briefly a banker, was interested in agriculture and became a rancher when he journeyed west and bought the Alisal ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley at auction in 1943. He built it up as a guest ranch, opening to the public in 1946. For a period of time the ranch was known for attracting celebrity visitors; Clark Gable married Lady Sylvia Ashley there in 1949. Under the management of his son it became more popular as a family destination. Equestrian interests Jackson was a co-founder of the Santa Barbara Riding and Hunt Club, in the suburb of Hope Ranch, alongside Amy DuPont, Charles E. Jenkins, Harold S. Chase, Dwight Murphy, C.K.G. Billings, John Mitchell, George Owen Knapp, Peter Cooper...

Date: 1936 Dimensions: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: 25.00" x 20.00" Home Arts Needlecraft Magazine Cover, August 1936.

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...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Illustration for “Blood of my Blood – The Sacrifice”, published in Ladies Home Journal, April 1930, page 4.

Story illustration for Moby Dick by Herman Melville, for the 1931 edition published by The John C. Winston Company. The full caption reads “The three harpoo...

Theater Spain. Paper, mixed media, 9.7x8.3 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives gi...

Baby caring a horse shoe on his shoulders reminiscent of the famous J. C. Leyendecker Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. This is a cover illustration/ painting for Collie...

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

Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 34.00" x 17.00" Signature: Unsigned Date: 1933 Paddy the Next Best Thing, movie poster illustration, c. 1933 This illustration was used on a movie poster for Paddy the Next Best Thing starring Warner Baxter and Janet Gaynor...

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Left Hide Rack

Date: 1932 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 17.00" x 32.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration for Cosmopolitan magazine, 1932 - "It's his word against mine." Twelve of von...

Portrait of Theresa Rogers Housed in a period hand carved wood frame. Some scatter minor paint loss and stretcher marks otherwise presents very well Signature: Signed lower right T...

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published April 25, 1931. Miss Wise tries to keep the children in her classroom focused during the day’s history lesson, but Gwendolyn Smithers ...

Date: 1936 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 33.00" x 28.50" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left "Caught in the Rain." Alternate cover for the August 29, 1936 issue of The Saturda...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left

Signature: Signed & Dated Lower Right lllustration depicting a genre fashion scene of a woman at her toilette, having her hair pomaded.

Date: 1931 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Interior setting with people seated around a table.

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...

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...

Signature: Signed Lower Left: Monte / Crews Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, January 11th, 1936

Watercolour and ink on paper, signed and dated '1939' bottom left and entitled on the reverse Image size: 18 x 9 inches (45.75 x 23 cm) Original frame This is a wonderfully moving w...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Panel Sight Size 30.00" x 21.00;" Framed 36.50" x 27.50" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right: F. E. Schoonover / 31 "I began to notice the mysterio...

Date: 1938 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 37.00" x 29.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Image of man and grandson.

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

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Framed Size 36.00" x 27.00" Motor magazine Cover, October 1931

Medium: Oil Painting Signature: Signed Lower Center

Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...

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...

Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Tempera and Watercolor on Board Contemporary Art Deco style frame; art exhibition entry label from Hudson Valley Art...

Signed lower left: Seymour Ball Inscribed upper left: To Morris E Weiss with best wishes Seymour Ball" Matted not framed

ISTVÁN CSÓK 1865-1961 Pusztaegres 1865-1961 Budapest (Hungarian) Title: Portrait of a Girl Playing Cards, ca. 1930's Technique: Original Signed Oil Painting on Panel size: 60 x 5...

Cherry Dancer Marcel Vertes French, 1895-1961 Beautiful girl juggling cherries is a beautiful and charming idea that is deftly rendered in a quick and loose style. Work is round De...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Illustration for “Measure of Love” by Honore’ Willsie Morrow, Published in Ladies Home Journal...

Date: 1930 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 28.00" x 40.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left Image of men on docks.

Date: 1934 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 22.00" x 23.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Cover of Northwest Farmer Magazine, February 1934.

Medium: Oil on Canvas Siganture: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 31.75" x 24.75;" Framed 36.00" x 28.00"

Original cover for Liberty magazine, published February 7, 1931. It’s wintertime and the streets are filled with muddy slush as the children of the neighborhood, Gwendolyn Smithers and Red Hancock, play outside. Red climbs to the top of a swaying wooden fence and begins to walk across it like a tightrope as he brags to Gwendolyn, “I bet you can’t do this.” Hoping he would slip, Gwendolyn giggles, “Ho-ho! I bet I can do it with my eyes shut.” As his ankles shake on the wobbling fence, Red bravely shouts, “I dare you...

Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Good Housekeeping magazine cover, March 1936

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop

Harry Lemon Parkhurst American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories. The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Ladies Home Journal Story Illustration, April 1931 "The Easter Candle" by Dagvar

Date: 1934 Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 11.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Amazing Stories, Pulp Cover, August 1934 Exhibitions: A...

Signature: light pencil signature lower left in the artwork Front Cover Art Judge Magazine December 1933 In a departure from their typical flapper cov...

work is matted but not framed. Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabr...

Signature: Signed Lower Left Medium: Watercolor on Board Illustration for an unknown advertisement with Snyder and Black agency, with their stamp on verso, circa 1930s.

Signature: Signed and Dated Upper Right [19]37 Story illustration for "She Never Saw the Circus" by Nancy Hale, published in Redbook magazine, December 1937, page 49. The caption re...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Now a 3, General Electric All-Steel Refrigerator ad illustration, 1930 Caption: "Many modern models, unmatched for beauty and con...

Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right Date: 1930s Probable magazine cover, 1930-1935.

Date: 1937 Dimensions: 29.50" x 44.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left 1937 McCalls Magazine A commercial artist with a longtime association with General Electric, Frank C. Bensing di...

Date: May 31, 1934 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 22.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Rotarian Magazine, September 1934.

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

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Maclean's Magazine Cover, September 15th, 1930

Approximate Date: 1939 Medium: Ink on Paper Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 7.50" x 12.50" Leif Erikson The Lucky, Book Illustration, 1939 This...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Study for the November 22, 1930 cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.