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Period: 1940s
Daily Life Scene in a 17th Century Vermeer Style - Dutch Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Pasadena, CA
This tribute painting to Flemish art by an unknown artist portrays figures inside a mansion with a yellow and black checkerboard floor and a stained-glass window with brilliant color...
Category
Flemish School 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Marche Aux Fleurs - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on panel circa 1940 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This stunning and wonderfully coloured work depicts a view of a flowe...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
By Louise Miller Clark
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
The Grand Canyon, vibrant mid-20th century western landscape
By Andreas Roth
Located in Beachwood, OH
Andreas Roth (American, 1871-1949)
Grand Canyon, 1943
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
24 x 34 inches
29.5 x 39 inches, framed
Andreas Roth was a German painter. Son of th...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Deauville" Impressionist French Beach Scene Oil Painting on Canvas with Figures
Located in New York, NY
François Gall was known for his impressionistic scenes of the 20th Centruy, portraying the French Lifestyle of that nostalgic era. Scenes depicting popular locations of the plague in...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Modernist Hawaiian Sunrise Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Original modernist oil painting Hawaiian symbolist sunset by Marguerite Louis Blasingame.
Robert Azensky Fine art is pleased to offer this 1940s modern symbolist oil painting of sun...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'Young Man in a Yellow Brocade Waistcoat', Paris, Munich, Danish Royal Academy
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed lower right, 'DM' for David Monies (Danish, 1812-1894) and dated 1849.
Provenance: By descent in the family of the sitter, Peter Andreas Löser (1834–1857).
Framed in a su...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Canvas, Oil
The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (1946). Having spent several months a year in Provence, the artist created dozens of wo...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market Day in Piazza Grande Locarno Switzerland
Located in London, GB
'Market Day in Piazza Grande, Locarno, Switzerland', oil on board, by unknown artist (1947-48). Locarno is an utterly charming Italian-speaking resort located on the northern shore o...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Impressionist Landscape"Working in the Fields" by Di Martino 1945
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3910B Antique oil landscape people working in a beau colic field .
Set in a 19th C gilt frame
Image size 16x20"
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life with Calla Lily - Oil on canvas by Ugo Celada da Virgilio - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with Calla Lily is an oil painting on masonite realized by Ugo Celada da Virgilio.
Hand-signed on the lower left.
Provenance: Galerie Sigfrid O...
Category
Contemporary 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride, Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape
By Walter Thomas Sacks
Located in Soquel, CA
Stowe Vermont Village Sleigh Ride - Mid Century Winter Figurative Landscape
A bright, crisp morning and a sleigh ride through new snow in Stowe, Vermont...
Category
Post-War 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bell Tower of a Spanish Village oil on canvas painting urbanscape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Bell Tower of a Spanish Village
Artist: Joaquín Asensio Mariné (1890-1961)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25.6 x 21.3 in (65 x 54 cm)
Framed: No
Period: First half of th...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
"6th Avenue El"
12 1/4 x 14 1/4
Oil on canvas board, c. 1940s
Signed lower righ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rabbit Hunters
By Roger Medearis
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited at Medearis' solo show at Kende Galleries, New York, in 1949 (Medearis’ record book, a copy of which is held by Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, indicates this is painting “No. 23” and that is was completed in 1947 and sold via Kende Galleries (at Gimbel Brothers...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Board
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
By Carlos Lopez
Located in New York, NY
Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century
Carlos Lopez (1910-1953)
"Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office
19 ½ x 22 ½ inches
Oil on B...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
"Union Square"
24 x 36 inches
Oil on canvas, c.1940s
S...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida" Beatrix Sherman, American, Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Beatrix Sherman
Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida, 1947
Signed lower right
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches
Beatrix Sherman (1894-1975), who changed her first name from Beatrice by...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Interior
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nude" Marguerite Stuber Pearson, Female Nude, Outdoor Boston School, American
Located in New York, NY
Marguerite Stuber Pearson
Nude, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on artist board
20 x 16 inches
Marguerite Stuber Pearson was an American painter best known for her elegant portra...
Category
Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Toucan" Edward Zutrau, 1949 Abstracted Bird by Abstract Expressionist Artist
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau
Toucan, 7/29/1949
Dated on verso
Oil on linen
30 x 23 inches
Edward Zutrau (1922–1993) was an American painter whose career spanned from the 1940s through the early 1...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Virgin Mary and Child Jesus oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Virgin Mary and Child Jesus
Artist: Francisco Ribera Gómez (1907-1990)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31.9 x 25.6 inches (unframed)
Date of creation: 1942
Style: Classical Academicism with Renaissance influences
Description of the Artwork
The painting depicts the Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus in a tender and intimate moment. Warm colors, primarily reds, greens, and soft flesh tones, enhance the devotional nature of the scene. The use of golden halos, symbolizing sanctity, along with serene and realistic expressions, directly connects with the Renaissance pictorial tradition.
The style belongs to classical academicism, characterized by a balanced composition, meticulous drawing, and a masterful use of chiaroscuro to give volume and depth to the figures. The detailed rendering of the flesh tones and draperies amplifies the spirituality and solemnity of the piece, evoking the works of great masters such as Raphael and Murillo.
Artist's Biography
Francisco Ribera Gómez (1907-1990) was a prominent 20th-century Spanish painter known for his depictions of religious scenes, female portraits, and costumbrist works. Trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Ribera Gómez received numerous accolades and was regarded as one of the great exponents of Spanish academicism. His work combines a rigorous technical foundation with luminous sensitivity and an idealized sense of beauty.
Influences and Comparisons
Francisco Ribera Gómez's work can be compared to other academic and religious artists who share a similar aesthetic:
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: In the emotional and approachable treatment of religious themes.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau: For the idealization of human figures and technical mastery.
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio): For harmonious composition and the depiction of the Virgin Mary.
Within the Spanish tradition, his style recalls Eduardo Rosales...
Category
Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Arroyo Seco, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southwest Oil Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign a...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris, Hotel des Saint Pères - Oil on Masonite by F. De Pisis - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on Masonite realized by the Artist in 1948.
Includes a coeval wooden frame.
Artist paints the Hotel where he used to live in Paris during those years.
Note, title, date ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock" Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock, "Fischerschoner und Segelboote an einem Dock" by Rudolph Guba (German/American, 1884-1950) Impasto work which depicts several sailing vesse...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Vintage Impressionist Oil Painting "Strolling In The Tuileries Gardens Paris"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3256a Figurative Landscape in the Tuileries gardens in Paris
Image size 7.5x9.5"
Set in a vintage wood and gesso frame
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Travel to the Orient Figurative Nautical Scene 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3494 Oil on canvas figurative traveling to orient.
Set in a silvered wood frame
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The lively square and Piazza Governo, in Bellinzona
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Frame in molding and beige gray wood
50 x 63 x 6 cm
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Surreal Full Moon Hawaii Cliff House Nocturnal Hawaiian 1940s Landscape
Symbolic and surreal mid century nocturnal landscape of a lone house on a s...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Vintage 1940’s Circus Acrobat Oil on Canvas Painting. Unique modern style.
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is a highly stylized circus acrobat scene. Done “en grissille” or shades of grey, it portrays an acrobat on a trapeze high above the crowd, abstractly shown lower right. The stark composition, enhanced by the theatrical lighting...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Arroyo Seco, New Mexico" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Southwest Oil Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
Arroyo Seco, New Mexico
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
28 x 42 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign a...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Opera Garnier Paris - Impressionist Figures in Interior Oil by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in an interior oil on board circa 1940 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. This charming work depicts a grand red room with gold trim filled with balleri...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early Naturalistic Nautical Painting of a Whaling Ship and Crew at Sea
Located in Houston, TX
Early naturalistic nautical painting by Danish painter Niels Peter Bolt. Known for his still life paintings of large floral bouquets, this work is a testament to his artistic range. ...
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Halleluja, A story
Located in Greenwich, CT
Initially read as archaic and simple, Halleluja is a complex celebratory spring painting full of color, imagination, and humor and combines many elements seen throughout her later ca...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marche Aux Fleurs - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on panel circa 1940 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This stunning and wonderfully coloured work depicts a view of a flowe...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Opera Garnier Paris - Impressionist Figures in Interior Oil by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in an interior oil on board circa 1940 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. This charming work depicts a grand red room with gold trim filled with balleri...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Captivating Modern Seated Nude in a Studio Interior by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A captivating, Modern painting of a female nude seated in a quiet studio interior by famed Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A sensitive, skilled portrayal of a female...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
1940 Large Portrait of a Woman, Kae Dorn Cass, by Cleveland School Artist
By Rolf Stoll
Located in Beachwood, OH
Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978)
Kae Dorn Cass, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed upper right
32 x 25 inches
38 x 31 inches, framed
Exhibited:
The 27th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1940
This work won first prize for oil painting- Portrait category
Provenance:
Collection of Kae Dorn Cass's niece
Kae Dorn Cass
Rolf Stoll
Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters.
Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida" Beatrix Sherman, American, Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Beatrix Sherman
Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida, 1947
Signed lower right
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches
Beatrix Sherman (1894-1975), who changed her first name from Beatrice by...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Visiting Day -- Mid Century California Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming and bright mid century California figurative landscape with a female figure walking down a verdant and inviting path by William Hiller (America...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Spanish town street oil on canvas painting Spain urbanscape
By Rafael Fernández de Soto
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael de Soto - Village street - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 41x33 cm.
Without frame.
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
Located in New York, NY
Till the Clouds Roll By 1945 Frank Sinatra Mid Century Modern Hollywood Film WPA
TILL THE COULDS ROLL BY (Film Set), oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches signed “Richard Whorf” lower right and signed and dated on the verso “R. Whorf/ Dec. 21, 1945. Frame by Hendenryk.
ABOUT THE PAINTING
This painting is from the collection of Barbara and Frank Sinatra, dated December 21, 1945 (just nine days after Frank Sinatra’s 30th birthday), and depicts the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Culver City backlot during the filming of Till the Clouds Roll By, the direction of the film having been taking over by Richard Whorf in December 1945. It is not presently clear if Whorf gave the Sinatras this painting as a gift, as the presence of the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries label on the verso indicates the painting may have been sourced there. Frank and Nancy Sinatra acquired a number of works from Dalzell Hatfield Galleries during the 1940’s, or perhaps they framed it for the couple.
Sinatra performed “Old Man River’ in the film. Sinatra and June Allyson are depicted in the center of the painting.
PROVENANCE From the Estate of Mrs. Nancy Sinatra; Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles.
An image of the Dalzell Hatfield label and the back of the original frame (which we replaced with a stunning Heydenrk frame) are attached.
Nancy Sinatra was Fran's first wife. Nancy Rose Barbato was 17 years old when she met Frank Sinatra, an 18-year-old singer from Hoboken, on the Jersey Shore in the summer of 1934. They married in 1939 at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City where Frank gave Nancy a recording of a song dedicated to her titled "Our Love" as a wedding present. The young newlyweds lived and worked in New Jersey, where Frank worked as an unknown singing waiter and master of ceremonies at the Rustic Cabin while Nancy worked as a secretary at the American Type Founders.
His musical career took off after singing with big band leaders Harry James and Tommy Dorsey...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Stopping to water the driven horses Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous European figurative of a simpler time. Horses being watered in the plains by Janos Viski (Hungarian/American 1891-1965), circa 1940. Signed lower ...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
By A. Mathieu
Located in Soquel, CA
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
In the Hudson River School style by A (K) Mathieu (American, 19th-20th C). Harvest time at the Homestead with a hay wago...
Category
Hudson River School 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Stretcher Bars
Art Institute
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original 1942 oil on board painting by American female artist Catherine Koenig depicting the interior of the Buffalo Art Institute which was home to the legendary Charles Burchfie...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Crayon
'Cock Fight in Cuba' original Regionalist painting signed by John Steuart Curry
Located in Milwaukee, WI
John Steuart Curry
"Cockfight in Cuba," 1946
oil on canvas
Image: 38.25 x 46.25 in
Frame: 43.75 x 51.5 in
Signed on reverse with initials JSC on lower right stretcher bar
John Steu...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Toucan" Edward Zutrau, 1949 Abstracted Bird by Abstract Expressionist Artist
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau
Toucan, 7/29/1949
Dated on verso
Oil on linen
30 x 23 inches
Edward Zutrau (1922–1993) was an American painter whose career spanned from the 1940s through the early 1...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
By A. Mathieu
Located in Soquel, CA
Hudson River School Style - The Homestead and Grist Mill 1942
In the Hudson River School style by A (K) Mathieu (American, 19th-20th C). Harvest time at the Homestead with a hay wago...
Category
Hudson River School 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board, Stretcher Bars
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Frederick Buchholz (1901-1983)
WW2 Aircraft Factory
18 x 24 inches
Oil ...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Sketch n. 13 - Original Painting by Giovanni Brancaccio - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Sketch n. 13 is an original modern artwork realized by Giovanni Brancaccio in 1948.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Good conditions.
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Artists Sketching, California, 1940s Large Modernist Gouache Painting, Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
This original 1940s American Modernist gouache painting, "Artists Sketching (California)," captures a dynamic scene of three artists at work against a majestic mountain backdrop. With expressive brushwork and a rich color palette, the piece embodies Frederick E. Shane’s signature blend of realism and modernist abstraction. Signed, titled, and dated by the artist in the lower margin, this remarkable artwork reflects the era’s Regionalist influence and the artist’s keen eye for capturing creative moments in the natural landscape.
The painting is professionally housed in a custom archival frame, ensuring long-term preservation. Frame dimensions: 25.5 x 37.5 x 1.5 inches. Image size: 20.25 x 29.75 inches.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist, Frederick Shane
About the Artist: Frederick E. Shane (1906-1992)
A celebrated Missouri Regionalist painter and printmaker, Frederick E. Shane was known for his compelling genre scenes, landscapes, seascapes, and portraits in a variety of media, including oil, watercolor, gouache, tempera, and lithography. While fundamentally a realist, Shane often incorporated elements of abstraction, expressionism, and surrealism, adding depth and emotion to his compositions.
During the summers of 1925-26, Shane studied under Randall Davey at the Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, an institution founded in 1919 by philanthropists Spencer and Julie Penrose. Shane remained closely connected to the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Academy’s successor, throughout the 1940s and early 1950s, participating in Artists West of the Mississippi exhibitions and forming lasting friendships with key figures like Boardman Robinson and Adolph Dehn...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Antique American Modernist Cubist Ballet Dancers Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely executed modernist ballet scene. Pastel and gouache on paper. Handsomely framed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American WPA Jewish New York Modernist Madonna Mother and Child painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943.
Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a m...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Makaula" the Seer - Mid Century Modern Surrealist Hawaiian Visionary Art
Located in Soquel, CA
Symbolic and surreal landscape with a Makaula or seer and a woman seeking to know her future by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her h...
Category
Futurist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Hortense (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative Art
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Hortense (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Framed in a light gold...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Intermission (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative
By Pal Fried
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976)
Title: "Intermission (Ballerina)"
*Signed by Fried lower left
Circa: 1940
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Framing: Recently framed in a gold Louis XV style frame
Framed size: 39" x 33"
Canvas size: 30" x 24"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Port Orange, FL; acquired from Herbert Arnot Gallery, New York, NY in the early 1970's. Titled by Fried on verso. Herbert Arnot Gallery's dealer reference number, "D1942E", and artist's copyright stamp in center on verso.
Biography:
Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
'Europa and the Bull', Greek Mythology, NYMOMA, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, PAFA
By Giglio Raphael Dante
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Dante' for Giglio Raphael Dante (American, born 1916), titled verso and painted circa 1940.
Raphael Dante first studied at the Academy of Rome prior to moving to...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Paper
"Woodstock in Winter" Cecil Chichester. Modernist Snowy Winter Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Cecil Chichester
Woodstock in Winter, circa 1947
Signed lower left
Oil on artist's board
12 x 16 inches
Provenance
Private Collection, Rhinebeck, New...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Abstract Expressionist Vintage Framed New York School Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 18L x 24H.
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Giant Sadistic Laughing Devil with Hellfire and Tiny Humans
Located in Miami, FL
A sadistic laughing Devil grinning a big smile is pictured hovering over a Hellfire. He is reveling while witnessing tiny ant-like sinners engage in eternal torture, torment, and co...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Antique European Mother and Children Family Oil Painting 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3086 oil on canvas set in a vintage gilt wood frame
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting.
Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Glasco Landscape" Albert Heckman, circa 1940 New York Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman
Glasco Landscape, circa 1940
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 39 1/2 inches
Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New York City to try his hand at the art world in 1915 after graduating from high school and landing a job at the Meadville Post Office. In 1917, at the age of 24, Heckman enrolled part-time in Teachers' College, Columbia University's Fine Arts Department to begin his formal art education. He worked as a freelance ceramic and textile designer and occasionally as a lecturer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the early 1920s, at the age of almost 30, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia Teachers College. He was especially impacted by his instructor at Columbia, Arthur Wesley Dow.
After graduating, he was hired by the Teachers' College as a Fine Arts instructor. He stayed with Columbia Teachers' College until 1929, when he left to attend the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in Leipzig, Germany. Isami Doi (1903-1965), who was born in Hawaii, was arguably his most impressive student at Columbia. Doi is now regarded as one of the most prominent artists hailing from Hawaii. Heckman became an active member and officer of the Keramic Society and Design Guild of New York in the 1920s as part of his early commercial art career. The Society's mission was to share knowledge and showcase textile and ceramic design exhibits.
In 1922, Heckman married Florence Hardman, a concert violinist. Mrs. Heckman's concert schedule during the 1920s kept Albert and Florence Heckman apart for a significant portion of the time, but they spent what little time they had together designing and building their Woodstock, New York, summer house and grounds. A small house and an acre of surrounding land on Overlook Mountain, just behind the village of Woodstock, were purchased by Albert and Florence Heckman at the time of their marriage. Their Woodstock home, with its connections, friendships, and memories, became a central part of their lives over the years, even though they had an apartment in New York City.
Heckman's main artistic focus shifted to the house on Overlook Mountain and the nearby towns and villages, Kingston, Eddyville, and Glasco. After returning from the Leipzig Institute of Graphic Arts in 1930, Mr. Heckman joined Hunter College as an assistant professor of art. He worked there for almost thirty years, retiring in 1956. Throughout his tenure at Hunter, Mr. Heckman and his spouse spent the summers at their Woodstock residence and the winters in New York City. They were regular and well-known guests at the opera and art galleries in New York. Following his retirement in 1956, the Heckmans settled in Woodstock permanently, with occasional trips to Florida or Europe during the fall and winter. Mr. Heckman's close friends and artistic career were always connected to Woodstock or New York City. He joined the Woodstock art group early on and was greatly influenced by artists like Paul and Caroline Rohland, Emil Ganso, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Andre Ruellan, and her husband, Jack...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
"New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 upper left. The colors of the painting are extraordinarily vibrant. The white gold frame, signed Richard Tobey...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Rocky Cove, Mid-20th Century Landscape/Seascape by Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl Frederick Gaertner (American, 1898-1952)
Rocky Cove, 1947
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
24 x 30 inches
31 x 37 inches, framed
Carl Gaer...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Oversized Interior Scene Oil Painting The Dapper Frenchman 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5140 Oversized Antique French oil painting depicting a Frenchman in an interior scene
Framed
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A 1940s Painting of a Seated Female Nude in Summer Landscape, Ox-Bow School
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful 1940s painting of a seated female nude in a summer landscape by renowned Chicago artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted at the Oxbow School in Saugatuck, Michig...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Horse Drawn Sleigh Ride
By J.A. Waine
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3288 Oil on board set in a gilt wood frame
Image size 19.5x15.5"
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Nuturing
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 Belgian symbolist's.
"The Nurturing", oil on canvas, dated 1947, is Van Caulert's depiction of the nurturing of post war Europe, as the shrouded woman offers an apple to an androgynous figure.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rue de Paris
Located in Madrid, ES
EMILIO GRAU SALA
Spanish, 1911 - 1975
RUE DE PARIS
signed "Grau Sala" (lower right)
oil on canvas
24 x 19-3/4 inches (61 x 50 cm.)
framed: 29-3/8 x 25-1/4 inches (74.5 x 64 cm.)
PRO...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Love: Walking to School, Four Seasons Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustrated for the 1949 Four Seasons Calendar, published by Brown and Bigelow.
A young girl holds a freshly-picked bouquet of flowers as she strolls alongside a boy who carries he...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
1940's San Ynez Valley Indian Trail Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant mid century California landscape of the beautiful San Ynez Valley Indian Trail with Native American children walking towards the sunset by H. Hansen (American, 20th Century), 1944. The small figures walk through a majestic, sprawling landscape full of plants, rocks, and tall trees flanking this gorgeous trail that leads towards an epic mountain range in the distance.
Signed and dated "H. Hansen 1944" lower left corner.
Label on verso with title and "Rubicon Lodge" (an old California...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Horse and Carriage Danish Winter Landscape Oil Painting circa 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3910C Antique impressionistic winter landscape.Oil on canvas applied to board
Displayed in a gilt wood frame,
Signed lower left by Johanssen.
Image size 17.5 H x 23.5 W
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
