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Period: 1930s
Strictly Business
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left
Image of men on docks.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
American Realist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lief Erikson The Lucky, Book Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
Home Arts Needlecraft
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1936
Dimensions: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: 25.00" x 20.00"
Home Arts Needlecraft Magazine Cover, August 1936.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Cherry Dancer
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Whale Hunting
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amazing Stories, Book Cover
By Leo Morey
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1934
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 16.00" x 11.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Amazing Stories, Pulp Cover, August 1934
Exhibitions: A...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Glamorous Performer in Art Deco Black Evening Dress, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
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...
Category
Art Deco 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Gouache
Peggy O'Neil, Redbook Magazine Interior Illustration, 1932
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration for “Women America Remembers: Peggy O’Neil” by Arthur D. Howden Smith for The Red Book Magazine, published March 1930, illustrated pages 20-21.
This painting by Mead Schaeffer depicts a romantic encounter between Peggy O'Neil and her first husband, John Timberlake. The accompanying caption reads: "It was inevitable that Peggy should fall in love—and she did, with John Timberlake, who had little besides his face to recommend him." It was created in 1930 for the third installment of The Red Book Magazine’s “Women America Remembers” series, which features stories of women famous for “personality, beauty, wit or audacity, or because of the tragedy left in their train.”
Margaret ("Peggy") O'Neil Eaton remains a figure of historical intrigue, primarily for her central role in the "Petticoat Affair," a significant political scandal during Andrew Jackson's presidency. The circumstances surrounding Peggy’s marriage to John Eaton, occurring shortly after the death of her first husband, John Timberlake, and her family’s background as tavern-keepers, coupled with her perceived impudent personality, subjected her to intense social scrutiny in Washington D.C. Upon John Eaton's appointment as Secretary of War, Peggy faced social ostracism led by Floride Calhoun, wife of Vice President John Calhoun...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Teacher’s Picture, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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 ...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Now a 3, General Electric All-Steel Refrigerator Ad Illustration
By Saul Tepper
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Call of the Heart
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Drying Nets - Mont Saint Pierre
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Framed Dimensions: 25" X 29 1/4"
Drying Nets - Mont Saint Pierre is an antique 1930s signed oil on canvas painting by the important American artist and illustrator John Clymer, signed lower right and titled on the back stretcher bar in the artist's hand. The work is a fine American impressionist painting with dazzling impasto work, particularly on the nets being hoisted and the frothing sea. Showing a rugged scene of two fishermen on the coast of the St Lawrence river in New Brunswick Canada, this appears to date to the 1930s when the artist resided in Connecticut. The painting is housed in a fabulous and original-to-the-painting American Arts & Crafts aesthetic Plein Air carved gold frame.
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John Clymer, renowned for his historic and artistic contribution in documenting the American Frontier, was born in Ellensburg, Washington in 1907. Clymer was fascinated by art at an early age, and began taking art correspondence courses in art during high school. At the age of sixteen, he sold two drawings to the Colt Firearms...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'I Dare You' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snow Day Skating
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1938
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Calendar painting, image of young ice skater with his dog.
Exhibited: The Triumph o...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Dead Ride Hard'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration: “The Dead Ride Hard”, McCall’s Magazine, ca. 1930;
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Tight Squeeze, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published August 29, 1931.
Lil and Sandy have been enjoying their summer weekends together as they begin to search for a new vacation home. Howe...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Caught in the Rain" Alternative Version of the Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Capper's Farmer, 1935
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Siganture: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 31.75" x 24.75;" Framed 36.00" x 28.00"
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cappers Farmer Magazine Cover, July 1918
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 12.00" x 10.00", Framed 20.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
June 1933 Cappers Farmer Magazine Cover.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Confrontation, 1934
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed, Dated, and Dedicated Lower Left
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Hunter
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Family Breakfast, 1935
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Initialed Lower Right
Sight Size 30.00" x 40.00;" Framed 40.50" x 50.50"
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'You Moron', Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published May 23, 1931.
Lil and Sandy have their friends Mr. and Mrs. Saunders Shanks over to their house for a game of cards. After settling do...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Tense Moment, A.B Kimball General Merchandise Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
A.B Kimball General Merchandise Calendar Illustration, January 1931
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Maclean's Magazine Cover, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Maclean's Magazine Cover, September 15th, 1930
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dancing Girls
Located in Sheffield, MA
Bencion (Benn) Rabinowitch
Poland 1905 - Paris 1989
Dancing Girls
Oil on Board
14 ½ in. by 21 in. W/frame 21 ½ in. by 28 in.
He came from a rabbinic family, his father was an ar...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Motor Magazine Cover - April 1932
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The First Shave
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1934
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 22.00" x 23.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cover of Northwest Farmer Magazine, February 1934.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Advertisement for Duncan Fyfe in Country Life, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Advertisement for Duncan Fyfe.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Children Playing Indians, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Contact exact dimensions.
Liberty Magazine Cover, April 12, 1930
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resolved, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published January 9, 1932.
Sandy and Lil are excited to welcome the new year in 1932 and leave the past year of job losses, stock market crashes...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover Illustration for ''Motor'' Magazine, February 1931 Depicting a Duryea Automobile Driving by a Blacksmith Shop
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Liberty Magazine Cover, May 5, 1934
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right on Canvas and Back Stretcher
Liberty Magazine Cover, May 5, 1934
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Unhappy Model, Needlecraft Home Arts Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1936
Dimensions: 25.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
The Unhappy Model, Needlecraft Home Arts magazine cover, October 1936
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Scarlet Cockerel interior book illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
Doctor Looking into Childs Mouth, Study for SEP Cover, 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Study for the November 22, 1930 cover illustration of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover, March 1936
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Good Housekeeping magazine cover, March 1936
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Fisherman’s Luck, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published March 8, 1930.
Gwendolyn teases little Ulysses for having a bald head after she had taken scissors to it on Valentine’s Day. Lil had frantically taken Ulysses to the barber in an attempt to salvage the remains of his hair, but there wasn’t much left and now his head “felt like a sprouting cactus.” Gwen points to the aquarium on the table and ties a piece of cord to a ruler, attaches a safety pin, and dangles the line above the surface trying to catch a goldfish. “Gwen stood there, stubbornly waiting for the possible turn in her fisherman’s luck!” (Liberty magazine, March 8, 1930, p. 57)
“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
'Water Babies' Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published July 12, 1930.
Lil and Sandy’s neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Smithers, take their daughter Gwen and little Ulysses to the beach. The childre...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Measure of Love, Ladies Home Journal Illustration
By Henry Soulen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration for “Measure of Love” by Honore’ Willsie Morrow, Published in Ladies Home Journal...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hit and Run, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published February 7, 1931
As Jerry the iceman drives his big truck up the hill, splashing through the slushy puddles, bystanders continue to sh...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Smoke Shop
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Professor Zobo, The Tattooed Man, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published May 30, 1931.
The circus train arrived overnight and set up their great white tent, causing great excitement and anticipation to every...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Homecoming, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1936
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 18.00"
Cover for Liberty magazine, 11/20/1937. Restored and authenticated by artist.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Motor Magazine Cover, September 1930
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1930
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
MOTOR Magazine, The Automotive Business Paper
September, 19...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Natural Chilean Nitrate of Soda
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1938
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Dimensions: 27.00" x 25.00"
Calendar Illustration
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paddy the Next Best Thing, Movie Poster Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blood of my Blood – The Sacrifice
By Henry Soulen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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.
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Hero of the Hour
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1930s
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 11.50" x 8.50"
Medium: Oil on Board
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Final Edition" Virginia Berresford, Precisionist Cemetery, Social Realism
By Virginia Berresford
Located in New York, NY
Virginia Berresford
Final Edition, 1937
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
17 x 25 inches
Provenance
Montross Gallery, New York
D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York
Private Collect...
Category
American Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Arrival - New York - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Henri Le Sidaner
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed divisionist landscape oil on panel by French post impressionist painter Henri le Sidaner. This stunning piece depicts high rise buildings of New York at nighttime. Lights illuminate the windows in an otherwise dark scene. A steam boat sails along the river.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 24.5"x20"
Unframed: 16"x11.5"
Provenance:
Louis Le Sidaner collection
Etienne Le Sidaner collection
Private collection, France
Exhibitions :
Paris, Musée Galliera, "Rétrospective Henri Le Sidaner", April 1948
Brussels, Galerie de l'Art Belge, "Rétrospective Henri Le Sidaner", April-May 1951
Literature:
This work is accompanied by a photo certificate of authenticity from Yann Farinaux Le Sidaner
This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement to the catalogue raisonne currently under preparation by Yann Farinaux Le Sidaner
This work is the only recorded painting...
Category
Pointillist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Standing Figure, Modern Gouache Painting by Benjamin G. Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
A shy and dirty man stands alone in a muted landscape, his hand timidly resting on his collarbone. His clothes are disheveled, a dark pair of overalls slouching across his too-narrow...
Category
Cubist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sore Throat, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 22, 1930
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Restaurant Scene, Modern Oil Painting on Canvas by Charles Alston
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by African American artist, Charles Alston. Completed sometime in the 1930s, "Restaurant Scene" focuses on a crowded ...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carlotta
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Literature
Dorival, Bernard & Rouault, Isabelle, Rouault, L’Oeuvre peint(Monaco, 1988), vol. 2, p. 150, no. 1864 (illus.)
Executed in 1937, Carlotta belongs to a group of portraits...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tuscan Landscape - Original Oil Paint by Ottone Rosai - 1933
By Ottone Rosai
Located in Roma, IT
Tuscan Landscape is an original, outstanding painting realized by the italian artist Ottone Rosai in 1933.
Oil on cardboard.
It depicts the Tuscan Countryside, one of the favourite...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Sculptural Figure Painting by Benjamin Benno 1938
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil painting on canvas by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 64 x 46 inches, signed and dated lower right and verso. Provenance: O'Hara Gallery, NYC. By th...
Category
Modern 1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
