1930s Figurative Paintings

A complex composition of interlocking pyramids defines Cornwell not only as a great storyteller but a master of painting fundamentals and design. There exists no living artist today who can paint and draw on a level as Dean Cornwell. Published in Cosmopolitan magazine: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway Reproduced in Dean Cornwell, Dean of Illustrators (Broder) The work is rendered in the painterly style of a school of impressionism. Dean Cornwell was Normam Rockwell's favorite Illustrator. He was a student of Harvey Dunn, he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt...

Interior with Man at Table American Modernism WPA Social Realism Modern Painting Philip Evergood (1901 - 1973) Untitled (Interior with Man at ...

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...

Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a ca...

Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a ca...

An original oil on canvas by WPA era artist Cleo Sara Thornberg whose work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery, The MOMA, and The National Gallery. This utterl...

Artist: Jacques Lipchitz (1891-1973, French) Title: Prometheus & the Vulture Medium: Gouache & Pencil on Paper Movement: Modern, Cubist Year of Work: Circa 1938 Signature: Top Left ...

Watercolor on paper painting of Cameron's Cove outside of Colorado Springs, Colorado by Charles Ragland Bunnell from the 1930s. Scenic mountain landsc...

Oil on canvas by Albert Rigaux, ( Schaerbeek 1897-1981 Brussels ) Signed lower left: Alb. Rigaux. Titled by hand verso. Provenance: estate of the artist Measurements: 19.69 x 15.75...

From the circus. Cardboard, mixed media, 9.4x8 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relative...

Pastel on board - Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938 - Reproduced version looks better because the Saturday Evening Post Art Director retouched the plates before printing and strengthened the colors to give it more newsstand appeal - From Wiki : as an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P...

A girl and her dog This was possibly used as an advertisement. It is in a great illustrator style. 22 x 18. framed. 19.5 x 15.5 canvas. Lawrence Wilbur (1897 - 1960) was active/l...

This work is an exceptional example of Kádár's mature Cubist style. It's effortlessly designed around a complex composition of nude men and women tending to horses in a surreal landscape with Greek columns, friezes and marshmello clouds set against a rich blue saturated sky. Kádár was a Hungarian painter influenced by Der Blaue Reiter...

Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing. Study to Scale Mural Sketch for “Evolution of Textile Production” East. All,...

Depression era account of working men and women. Philip Howard Francis Dixon Evergood (born Howard Blashki; 1901–1973) was a Jewish American painter, etcher, lithographer, sculptor...

'Woman by the Window with Embroidery Frame', oil on canvas, by Franz Ludwig Kiederich (circa 1930s). A delightful depiction of a woman, comfortable...

Beautiful ca. 1935 painting by American artist, Frank Stanley Herring (1894-1966). Watercolor on heavy rag handmade paper measures 14.5 x 19 inches, 23 x 28 inches in original vintag...

French 20th-century Impressionist harbor, with fishing boats at sea, with landscape beyond. 20th-century French impressionist harbor scene. The artist has achieved a very decorati...

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...

The beauty of curvature. Paper, mixed media 16x12 cm watercolor and pen on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his rel...

Madame in the blossom garden is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1931. Original tempera on paper. Very good conditions. Colorful composition representing a f...

At night. Paper, mixed media, 14.5x8 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter. Only in 1990 his relatives give his...

Oil on panel by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting a man in a small boat on the river, with trees and reeds on the bank in the foreground. Signed lower left and dated...

ISSACHAR RYBACK 1897-1935 Yelizavetgrad 1897-1935 Paris (Ukrainian /Russian /French) Title: The Organ Grinder with a Parrot, 1932 Technique: Signed Oi...

This early work by American artist Sylvia Spicuzza is an excellent example of Regionalism: in the foreground, a farmer in blue stands before a herd of cattle. Beyond the fence of the...

The old sinner and the female figure. Paper, mixed media, 13x15.5 cm watercolor, ink on paper. Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurm...

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...

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...

Beautifully detailed oil on heavy card stock painting of an orientalist scene with camels resting and two figures taking the shade under a tree with several large impressive building...

Here for your consideration is a oil on academy board painting by the American artist, Alvin Raffel. Signed and titled verso. Circa 1930's. Condition is good. Small puncture in the ...

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...

Woman in pink is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative work of a female figure...

Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and dated, '1936'. A delicately modeled, gouache and watercolor study of a young woman with copper hair. Sarah Villarette Hoover Hobson studied...

Stage - Opera view. 1935-37s, paper, ink, watercolor, 35,3x24 cm Women in evening dresses on the stage, mixed media on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jur...

Portrait of a girl is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s. Original oil on plywood. Beautiful and representative work of a female fi...

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...

Lady in red and lady in brown. 1935. Paper, watercolor, 35x25 cm Sitting women in summer dresses, mixed media on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, ...

A vintage watercolor capturing a daily scene in the Spanish colonial town of Taxco, Mexico by Theodore Ernest Langguth (German-American, 1861-1952). Titled, dated and signed lower ma...

Outstanding painting by the italian artist Donato Frisia, dated 1930. Signed lower left in red. A sensual nude of woman reclined on a sofa is depicted with, at the same time, appeal...

Women sitting on the railings. 1935. Paper, watercolor, 35.3x25 cm Sitting women in summer dresses, watercolor on paper Adolfs Zardins (1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala,...

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 Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932 Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left

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...

Young Blonde Girl is an original painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1930s. Original oil painting on cardboard. Hand-signed by the artist on the lo...

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

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

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, August 26th 1939

Frederick William Becker (1888-1974) American Artist Well represented and listed. Oil on board, signed lower left c. 1930s 8.5” x 11.5”,...

Annunciation is an original oil on canvas realized by Carlo Socrate in 1936. Published exhibition catalogue of Palazzo Venezia Preparatory sketch for the decoration of the chapel o...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left January 27, 1934 Liberty Magazine Cover

Peacocks is a painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1930s. Original tempera painting and pastels on cardboard. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower right corner in red paintin...

WALTER QUIRT Strong Man, c. 1939-40 Oil on masonite 2 1/16 x 2 1/8 inches Signed at lower right: QUIRT Titled verso Oxidized metal frame (possibly silver) ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Action Adventure East of Suez, Far East Adventure Stories Cover Illustration, March 20, 1931

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left Story illustration for “The Stars Look Down” by A.J. Cronin, illustrated by Cornwell and W. Smithson Broadhead...

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...

Herbe was a Dutch painter from the early 20th century. He painted landscapes and seascapes mostly in oils. His work was exhibited in London during the 1930s-50s with Mitchell’s the i...

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