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

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Canvas, Oil

“Profil de Danseuse”
Located in Southampton, NY
Outstanding original oil on canvas painting of a young ballerina in profile. The artist is German born artist, Dietz Edzard. Signed lower left by the artist. Titled and dated verso...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Self-Portrait of Ernest Vauthrin
By Ernest Vauthrin
Located in Pasadena, CA
VAUTHRIN Ernest Germain Born in 1878 in Rochefort-sur-Mer (Charente-Maritime) 20th Century. French. Landscape painter, marine. He exhibited in Paris at the Salon of the National So...
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Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Moonlight and Roses
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 33.00" x 37.00", Framed 42.00" x 38.00" Signature: Signed Presumably Advertising for Maxwell House Coffee ...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Still Life" 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist Antoni Clavé
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONI CLAVÉ Spanish, 1913 - 2005 STILL LIFE signed "Clavé" lower right also inscribed "Ce tableau a ete peint par moi vers 1946, Clavé" on the reverse oil on ...
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Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

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

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Canvas, Oil

"He bent down and kissed her" Magazine WWII Era Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for “Hero Come Home” by Ruth Burr Sanborn for The Saturday Evening Post, published September 12, 1942, page 24. This sentimental illustration, accompany...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

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

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

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Canvas, Oil

Pre-Raphaelite Style Painting of Mothers and Babies in WWII
Located in Miami, FL
Babies are falling from the sky and not bombs. British female artist and illustrator Noel Laura Nisbet makes a passionate twist to the reality of En...
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Pre-Raphaelite 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media, Tempera

Bathers at the Quarry 1940s American Modernist Oil Painting WPA era
By Theresa Berney Loew
Located in Surfside, FL
Swimmers and sun tanners at the local watering hole. Her birth name was Theresa Berney. At the time of her passing she was known as Theresa Loew. Birth place: Baltimore artist, blo...
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American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

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

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Oil, Canvas

Portrait of A Woman with Red Bow, 1940
Located in Stockholm, SE
Eric Johansson's "Woman with Red Bow" (1940) We are delighted to present for sale the evocative portrait “Woman with Red Bow” by the distinguished artist Eric Johansson, painted in ...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Love Honor Obey?
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Love Honor Obey? Lon Megargee ca. 1940 Oil on Board Size: 19.75 x 26.75 inches Frame: 26.75 x 33.75 inches signed lower right Painting is framed Creator...
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American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

The Steeple Chase figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
A vintage, dramatic scene of the rigorous sport of steeplechasing by artist Benton Henderson Clark (American, 1895-1964). Signed and dated lower right "Benton Clark 1945." Presented ...
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Abstract Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

"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

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Canvas, Oil

Two Maidens by a Stream after Narcissus Diaz de La Pena Barbizon - Original Oil
Located in Soquel, CA
Two Maidens by a Stream after Narcissus Diaz de La Pena Original l Oil on Linen Idyllic painting of two girls walking along a path towards a stream in the Barbizon style of Narcisse ...
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Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

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

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Oil

Life Magazine Satirical Society Cartoon Illustration
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Society Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1940s. Gouache on heavy illustration paper, image measures 17 x 14 inches; 23 x 20 inches in matting. Signed lower left. Very good condition but matting panel should be replaced. Unframed. Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques. He found that talent in Barbara Shermund. For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice. Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence. “Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League. In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.” “While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund. And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral...
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Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

French Impressionist 20th century Fete or Carnival scene
Located in Woodbury, CT
This charming carnival scene by Charles Leroux, a 20th-century French painter, offers a beautiful glimpse into the joy and spirit of French cultural life. The painting, with its live...
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Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

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

Embracing Couple on Sailboat , Art Deco Style Romantic
Located in Miami, FL
Love at sea. A nautical romance is captured as a handsome couple embrace. The big splash of water at the peak moment of drama symbolizes passion and defines Falter's creativity in communicating a romantic narrative. This is a companion piece to a romance story. Most likely done on assignment for a major newsstand magazine. Hand-signed by artist, sticker label, Magazine Illustration circa 1940 Oil on board Signed lower right h: 28.5 x w: 30 in / h: 72.4 x w: 76.2 cm Morris Weiss collection...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Father Teaching Son to Sail, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 32.00" x 26.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, ...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

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

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Oil

Restoration Day on December 31, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 46 x 38 x 3 cm
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Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

American oil painting, Still life of Sea Shells Late 20th Century
Located in Woodbury, CT
American Still life of Sea Shells A totally unique scene of seashells and objects painted Late 20th Century by an American Painter. Original driftwood influenced frame and in com...
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Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
Located in Miami, FL
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

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Tempera

Girl Helping Admiring Boy with his Math Homework
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor Painting Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evenign Post, May 25th, 1940
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Ex Voto Holy Tribute for the Healing of a Son, 1940s Ink & Paint Metall Retablo
Located in Denver, CO
This authentic Mexican ex-voto is a heartfelt tribute of gratitude, painted in oil on tin with ink circa 1940 by an anonymous Mexican artist. It is beautifully framed in a hand-carve...
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Folk Art 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Metal

Flower Garden, Cape Cod, Mid-Century Cleveland School Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl Frederick Gaertner (American, 1898-1952) Flower Garden, Cape Cod, c. 1940s Gouache on illustration board 17.5 x 29 inches 27 x 39 inches, as framed Carl Gaertner was one of the greatest painters to emerge from the Cleveland School...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

Antique oil Amsterdam Leidseplein City Scape 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5187 Oil on canvas of Leidseplein in Amsterdam Image size 20x16"
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Destiny's Path, Hawaii - Surreal Mid Century Hawaiian Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Destiny's Path, Hawaii - Surreal Mid Century Hawaiian Figurative Abstract Symbolistic and romantic 1940s surreal figurative of pastel orange figure...
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Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Manning de Villenueve Lee Early 20th Century India
Located in San Francisco, CA
Manning de Villenueve Lee:1894-1980. Well listed American painter and illustrator with Auction records up to $22,500. This spectacular painting is one of our favorites. Probably pain...
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American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

A Real Happy New Year, Amoco Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Monogram Lower Left Sight Size 20.00" x 45.00", Framed 26.00" x 51.00" This piece was used for at least two separate Amoco advertisements. "A Real Happy New...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Recruits, Original Christmas cover for Judge magazine, WWI Soldier Santa
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Christmas cover for Judge magazine, published December 22, 1917. Santa is dressed as a World War I soldier with a sack of toys holding a drum and toy soldiers. Orson Byro...
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Other Art Style 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy - Comedians Traveling Road Sign
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy illustration was used as a traveling show sign for the comedy duo. Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Signature: Unsigned
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Wood, Oil, Panel, Wood Panel

"The Clever Sister.", Story Illustration for Woman's Home Companion
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: December, 1946 Medium: Gouache and Graphite on Board Dimensions: 17.50" x 26.75" Signature: Unsigned "The Clever Sister." Illustration for the first part of the story of the s...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Board, Graphite

The Villa
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Original frame 63 x 55 x 5 cm The city - View of Geneva This work of art depicts an urban landscape at the edge of a natural area. Dominated by shades of green and gra...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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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

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Canvas, Oil

Walking the Tightrope, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left This work was featured on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 11, 1949 The Post described the cover as follows: "Having found the setting he wanted for his circus-theme cover painting - on the Brotherton farm near Westport, Connecticut- Stevan Dohanos began rigging up a beam for the farm boy...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, 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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Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil, Paper

Nude Girl, Polynesian Girl Tahiti, Annabella
Located in Miami, FL
In some instances, a painting will look significantly much better in person than it does digitize. This is one instance. In-person, this painting will knock your socks off. It is...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, 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

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Tempera

The Artists Studio
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a wonderful oil on heavy jute canvas, "The Artists Studio." The painting depicts an artist preparing his canvases for painting. "The Artist...
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Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Formal Portrait of a Chinese Man in Traditional Dress
Located in Miami, FL
Dressed in traditional clothing, a handsome Chinese man is depicted as he sits resolutely with one hand on his leg and the other holding a baton. Female Artist Joyce Ballantyne...
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Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled oil painting of children playing by Eugenie Schein
Located in Hudson, NY
Eugenie Schein was both a dancer and an artist. Her artwork subjects revolved primarily around dancers and dancing, though she also captured everyday scenes in New York. Both Midto...
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Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, 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

Grocery Line, Saturday Evening Post Cover, 1948
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November 13, 1948 The Post described, “Artist Stevan Dohanos felt like a baseball coach who had everything he needed excep...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper

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

"She struggled to free herself" Magazine Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for part four of “Black Jack” by Robert E. Pinkerton, published in The Saturday Evening Post, December 11, 1943, page 32. This compelling illustration, ...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Birds by Jankel Adler - Abstract painting
Located in London, GB
Birds by Jankel Adler (1895-1949) Oil and ciment on canvas 61.4 x 46.4 cm (24¹/₈ x 18¹/₄ inches) Signed lower right, Adler Executed in 1948 Provenance Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich, 1959 Gimpel Fils Gallery, London Denham Gallery, UK Exhibitions John Denham Gallery, Jankel Adler, June 9th - June 23rd 1996 Jankel Adler was born in Lodz, Poland and lived a life of wandering. In 1912 he moved to Belgrade where he began training as an engraver with his uncle and then went to Germany in 1914 where he lived for a time with his sister in Barmen. There he studied at the college of arts and crafts with Professor Gustav Wiethücher. Between 1918 and 1921 he moved between Lodz and Germany until in 1922, he settled in Düsseldorf where he became a teacher at the Academy of Arts, and became acquainted with Paul Klee, who influenced his work. A painting by Adler received a gold medal at the exhibition “German art Düsseldorf” in 1928. In 1933, with the rise of Hitler’s Nazi regime, he left Germany for Paris. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, he volunteered for the Polish army...
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Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Americana, Horse Drawn Sled Christmas Celebration with Barking Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Good wholesome mid-century Americana is on full display in the joyous illustration that depicts a red horsedrawn sled of merrymaking folks being rreated at an inn. Signed lower left ...
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American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor, Board

La Nobildonna - Il Guanto Rosso (Noblewoman - The Red Glove) - Oil on Canvas
Located in Roma, IT
Signed lower left: FANTUZZI. Archived in the General Catalogue of Eliano Fantuzzi, No. A-6, order number 15/76741. Very good conditions. This artwork is shipped from Italy. Under ex...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"My Darling Bride"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1994 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 22.00" x 18.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Book Cover Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover illustrator...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Future President, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1948 Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Size: 20" x 16", Framed: 26" x 22" Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, September 25 1...
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American School Sporting Scene Duck Hunt Oil Painting 1946
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6014 Antique sporting scene Duck hunt painting Set in a 19th century solid oak frame Signed Rocco Lotto 46
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1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Nude on Chair
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy impasto pained in alla prima ( Wet-on-wet ) technique. Layer of damar varnish. Frame burn, On Masonite. Unframed Signature: Signed Max Weber upper left.
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Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Drunk man at party, Golden Age of Hollywood
Located in Miami, FL
During the Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabry, Work is Framed i...
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Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

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