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Period: 1940s
Self Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Germain Chardon “Self Portrait” Painted while she was living in Rhodesia Painter and sculptress Germaine Chardon (Huet) was born in Paris in 1891, the illegitimate daughter of Pau...
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Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer Resort in Michigan -Modernist Mid-Century Saugatuck Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
Summer Resort in Michigan is an exceptional work painted by the Chicago Modernist, William Schwartz. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago shortly ...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Up the Staircase
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left Dimensions: Sight Size 30.50" x 34.75," Framed 36.00" x 39.50"
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boy with Molotov Cocktail, Russia Invades Germany - Like Norman Rockwell
Located in Miami, FL
This work sells itself. Just look at it and an elaborate explanation is not required. There is virtually no one alive who can paint a picture like Crockwell. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Signed lower left Provenance: National Museum of American Illustration , Newport, Rhode Island Crockwell gives us a complex and inventive composition by showing two wonderful portaits in the foreground and beyond a broken wall...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

The Show is On
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Show is On, 1940, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 24 x 20 inches, exhibited: 30th Annual Exhibition of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pitt...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Falstaff Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Oil on Board
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

UNION SQUARE Depression Era Oil Painting WPA Realism American Scene Realism NYC
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...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Prospector firing Rifle ( Happiness is a Warm Gun ) Gay Art
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel Robert Riggs was a gay man. Being gay in American during the 1940's time was something not to flaunt in public. Rigg's had to communicate his underlying feelings in more symbolic ways. Throughout Riggs oeuvre, one sees continuous references to strong hunked out manly men and vulnerable boys. It is a core element of is iconography and is described in a powerful graphic style. In “Prospector firing Rifle” is a Dick Pic. Riggs is clearly making a sexual statement about the moment of climax. The long, straight rifle explodes and is captured at the peak moment of climax. Meanwhile, the bag two bags of gold clearly resemble the other part of the male anatomy. Riggs was a thoughtful and meticulous visual thinker and nothing in any of Riggs’s compositions were haphazardly placed. In tribute to the artist’s suppressed feelings, I have given this work a second title “Happiness is a Warm Gun...
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Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Street Cleaners
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Street Cleaners, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 28 ¾ x 42 inches, Gallery Z...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tribesmen with Headdresses - Gay Artist
Located in Miami, FL
"Riggs openly identified as gay to his friends in the Philadelphia art community, but did not disclose his orientation to his employers." - Woodmere Art Museum Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera

London Round House-Mid-Century Industrial American Scene Oil Painting
By Jack Steele
Located in Marco Island, FL
A mid-century American Realist scene of children playing on the railroad entitled, London Round House. The chaotic scene of children rambunctiously playing is suspected to be set in...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Angelo Pavan, oil on panel "Marina: sailing ship at rest," Italy 1942
Located in Vicenza, VI
Angelo Pavan is a Venetian painter trained at the School of Drawing and Plastics at the Accademia Olimpica in Vicenza. He is known for his landscapes, particularly lagoon views of Ve...
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Italian School 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Awakening
By Bernard Glasgow
Located in Los Angeles, CA
No description provided
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Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Very Large ca. 1940s Painting of a Female Rower Holding Oars by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
Very large ca. 1940s painting of a female rower holding oars by artist Francis Chapin. Image size: 65" x 44". Framed size: 65 1/2" x 44 1/2". Provenance: Estate of the artist....
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique French Bathers at the Stream Figurative Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3601 Family bathers by the stream Set in a vintage wood frame Image size 9.5x7.5"
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Bridal White
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right and Titled on reverse Dimensions: 28.13" x 25.13" (71.45 cm x 63.83 cm) Literature: Temple Bailey, Bridal White, The American Mag...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Francisco Bores, Sans titre
Located in Madrid, ES
FRANCISCO BORES Spanish, 1898 - 1972 SANS TITRE signed and dated "Borès 42" (lower left) oil on panel 13-3/4 x 10-5/8 inches (35 x 27 cm.) framed: 19 x 15-3/4 inches (48 x 40 cm.) BIBLIOGRAPHY: Francisco Bores, Reasoned Catalogue, Volume I - Painting 1917-1944, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, 2003, nº 1942 / 63, reproduced in p. 494 PROVENANCE Carmen Bores Collection, Francisco Bores daughter Private Collection, Madrid Francisco Bores López (Madrid, May 5, 1898 - Paris, May 10, 1972) was a Spanish painter of the so-called New School of Paris. His artistic training originated both in the Cecilio Pla painting academy, where he met Pancho Cossío, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz or Joaquín Peinado, and in the literary gatherings in Madrid related to ultraism. At this time he made engravings and woodcuts for a large number of magazines such as Horizonte, Cruz y Raya, Index, Revista de Occidente. In 1922 he participated in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts. In 1925 he participated in the first exhibition of the Iberian Artists Society. The limited success of this exhibition pushes him to go to Paris. In this city he shared a studio with the Spanish painter Pancho Cossío and also met Picasso and Juan Gris. In 1927 he held his first solo exhibition in Paris. From this moment on, Bores integrates himself into the Parisian artistic environment where he will live practically his entire life. In 1928, his first exhibition in a gallery in the United States, in 1930 he exhibited again, within a group exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In the following years, he continued exhibiting in different galleries in Paris, such as the Georges Petit Gallery, the Bernheim Gallery and the Vavin Raspail Gallery. He also participates in several group exhibitions, highlighting the Exhibition of Contemporary Spanish Art...
Category

Fauvist 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Untitled (original framed watercolor on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Initialed lower right by Rolph Scarlett. Artwork size 7.75 x 8.75 inches. Frame size 17.5 x 21.5 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certifi...
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Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Riders of Pigeon Hill
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Riders of Pigeon Hill, c. 1940s, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 24 x 36 inches, label verso with title, artist’s name and address; same information inscribed verso; ex-collection...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cubist Crucifixion Scene with Bright Yellow
Located in Houston, TX
Deep tonal cubist style painting of the Crucifixion of Christ. Like traditional Crucifixion imagery, there are two figures on either side ...
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Analytic Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Amoco Gas Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Amoco Gas Advertisement
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Suzanna and the Elders
Located in Miami, FL
A modern interpretation of the biblical story Suzanna and the Elders. Signed lower right Ink and wash on paper The Downtown Gallery Felix Landau Gallery Ernest Brown & Phillips, Ltd...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Vintage French Parisian Can Can Dancer 1945
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5042 French Can Can dancer Oil on artist board Framed Signed on Jean Galmett
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Red-haired Woman
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Louis BERTHOMME SAINT-ANDRE, France, 1940s. Young Red-haired Woman. with frame: 74x63 cm - 29.1x24.8 inches ; without frame: 61x50 cm - 24x19.7 inches. Format 12F. ...
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Neo-Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Rushelle in the Garden"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

“Bruyères en fleurs” 1949, 20th Century oil on canvas by William Didier-Pouget
By William Didier-Pouget
Located in Madrid, ES
WILLIAM DIDIER - POUGET French, 1864 - 1959 BRUYÈRES EN FLEURS signed and dated “Didier-Pouget / 1949” (lower right) inscribed, located and signed ““Le Malin dans la vallée du Lot.”...
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Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On Their Way- PA Railroad Advertisement
By Herbert Bohnert
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 36.00" x 48.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Image of soldiers on a troop train.
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Friday Night or The Band, Maxwell Coffee Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1949 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Advertisement for Maxwell House Coffee, "The Quartet, The Dog...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Au Cafe
By Elizabeth Ronget
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frame size 42 x 52.5 inches ELISABETH RONGET "AU CAFE” OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1940 Elisabeth Ronget 1886-1962 Elisabeth Boehm Ronget was born in 1896 in Conitz, Polan...
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Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers
Located in New York, NY
"Pay Day" American Scene Social Realism WPA Era Mid 20th Century Modern Workers Don Freeman (1908-1978) Pay Day 20 x 30 inches Oil on board, c. 1940s Signed lower right BIO Illustr...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of Harriet Toby, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Art Deco Glamour illustration, Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
Caption: "He proposed this morning right after the alarm clock went off." From the Estate of Charles Martignette Signed lower center unframed
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Americana New England Lighthouse Sailboats , Sunday at the Beach, Summer Fun
By Sean O'Shean
Located in Miami, FL
43 x 37.5 is the FRAMED SIZE. , 36 x 30 is the live size. Post-impressionist pointillist bush strokes describe this image of Americana. The location looks like New England. Signed ...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Spanish School (XX) Fishermen's Beach oil on board painting seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Signed J. Sureda Lloveras - Fishermen's beach - Oil on board Oil measures 33x41 cm. Frameless. Signed J. Sureda Lloveras.
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Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Art Journalism - War Lessons, Illustration for Collier's, Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Marta Sawyers. Illustrator Journalist. She was sent to war-ravaged countries to “Paint the Story”. What's unique here? This represents the work an Artist Journalist/War Correspondent...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Pastel

Tan Lines, The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 27, 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right: Albert W. / Hampson
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dramatic Storm over Sandhamn, Sweden, 1943
Located in Stockholm, SE
This striking seascape, painted in 1943 by Jacob Löfgren, most likely depicts a view from Sandhamn, a location he frequently captured in his works. Four years earlier, he created ano...
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Symbolist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Banyoles Spain oil on canvas painting landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984) - Banyoles - Oil on canvas Oil measures 46x65 cm. Frameless. Jordi Freixas Cortés (1917-1984) Jordi Freixas Cortés is a Catalan painter with a colo...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Apples and Skull, Figurative Oil Painting by Ohio Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000) Still Life with Apples, 1940 Oil on canvas Signed and dated upper right 18 x 24 inches Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of national artistic success that was nearly unprecedented among Cleveland School artists of his day, with representation by major New York dealers...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Old World
By Russell Cowles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Paula"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

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...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mongols
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel There is from frame burn and scattered surface abrasions but they are minor. Additionally, there are a 3 or 4 very fine hair line scratches not visible unless you look very closely. The work is varnished and has a reflective quality to it that makes it hard to photograph. In person the viewing experience is much better. You can see more detail in the shadow areas. The colors are rich, deep and saturated. Riggs was very particular in researching the tribal costumes...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Tempera

Mongols
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1940s Modern Reclining Nude Oil Painting on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful reclining nude in modern style, circa 1940. Faint illegible signature lower right edge. Condition: Good: Professionally cleaned; two tears professionally repaired/inpainted...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Castelli Romani - Painting by Luigi Campanelli - 1943
Located in Roma, IT
Castelli Romani is an original painting on canvas realized by Luigi Campanelli (1943). Hand-signed, dated and numbered on the back: L. Campanelli 1982...
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Contemporary 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Paint, Canvas

1940s Ex Voto; Holy Tribute for the Return of Good Health, Retablo Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ex Voto; Holy Tribute for the Return of Good Health. Oil on tin with ink, February 9, 1944, anonymous Mexican artist with a contemporary custom frame hand-carved by artisan Michael B...
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Folk Art 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
Located in Miami, FL
Burlesque Clown Bert Lahr is dipicted in a bowler hat with a wry grin. Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is de...
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American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Cluster of Houses near Woodstock" Albert Heckman, American Modernist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Albert Heckman Cluster of Houses near Woodstock Signed lower right Oil on canvas 10 x 14 inches Albert Heckman was born in Meadville, Western Pennsylvania, 1893. He went to New Yor...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Funfair
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Icing the Cake, Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Tempera, Gouache

Cargo Transfer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Natale in Sicilia
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Beige wooden frame 50 x 53 x 3.5 cm
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Italian School 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Same Old Story (Brooklyn Dodgers & St. Louis Cardinals Illustration)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bill Crawford (1913-1982). Original illustration artwork depicting teams as they advance to the World Series. Depicted are representations of the St. Louis Cardinals and The Brooklyn...
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Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Gouache, Pencil

Dennis Ainsley French Market
Located in San Francisco, CA
Dennis Ainsley: 1880-1952. He was born in Illinois but spent a lot of time painting in France. This fabulous oil on canvas measures 36 inches wide by 24 inches high.. The beautiful f...
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Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Art Deco Glamorous woman in Purple Evening Dress - Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
Framed Size 28.5 x 21 Jaro Fabry was a brilliant illustrator with a defined style of his own. There is not a brushstroke out of place in his works that appear loosely rendered. He is best known for his depiction of Golden Age of Hollywood...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Polish French Fauvist Judaica Oil Painting Rabbi at Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Impressionist Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Panel Frederick Serger (given name Frederick Bedrick Sinaberger) was born in 1889 to a family of Jewish manufacturers in the village of Ivancice near Brno Moravia, a province of Czechoslovakia. Showing artistic talent at a young age, he attended art schools in Brno, Vienna, and Munich. During World War I, Serger joined the Austrian Army...
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Fauvist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Modernist Portrait" Mid-20th Century Spanish Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the 1940's by Spanish painter Julio Moises. Mostly known for his abstract figures on canvas, this piece is a w...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Girl in Pareu"
By RAD Miller
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Robert Alexander Darrah “R.A.D.” Miller (1905 - 1966) Robert Alexander Darrah Miller, called “RAD” by his friends, was born in Philadelphia. He enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1923 to 1927 under the tutelage of Daniel Garber. In 1928, Miller moved to Bucks County where he would meet and marry Celia Belden Marshall, daughter of Dr. George M. Marshall, who at that time owned the Phillips Mill property. Nearly a year later, in 1929, a committee headed by artist, William Lathrop, negotiated to purchase the Mill property from Dr. Marshall for the purpose of holding art exhibitions. Thus, the Phillips Mill Art Association was formed. RAD Miller was a regular exhibitor at the Phillips Mill with the traditional New Hope Impressionists. Many of the original founders of the New Hope Art Colony, set in their ways, frowned upon the concept of modernist painting. A decision was made by the Association to not include the growing group of modernist painters in the area to exhibit with them at Phillips Mill. Although clearly not a traditional impressionist, Miller was not being excluded with the others, largely because his father-in-law formerly owned the mill and was one of the Association’s board of directors. RAD was sympathetic to his fellow modernists. In 1933, he was one of the original members of the Independents, a group formed for modernist artists who chose to embark on a more non-traditional creative path. They would exhibit in tandem with the Impressionists but at different locations. Around the time of his arrival to New Hope in 1928, Miller struck up a friendship with Thomas Hart Benton, and in 1932 he worked under Benton on a mural project. RAD’s paintings...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

World War II Naval Engagement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique French Female Figurative Oil Painting " Farm Girl Gathering Fruit" 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3893 French Impressionist oil on artist board set in a gilt wood frame Image size 14.25x14.25"
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1940s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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