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Period: 1940s
Mid Century Paris Street Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century watercolor painting of late 19th Century Paris street scene circa 1950. Signed lower left "Julius" , attributed to Julius Rosenbaum...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Russell Sambrook Oil on Board Eveready Flashlight Battery Advertisement
Located in San Francisco, CA
Russell Sambrook: 1891-1956. Well listed American illustrator with auction results as high as $23,900. This fantastic illustration is an oil on board. I believe this was used for an ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ponte Garibaldi, Rome - Oil on Canvas by A. Vangelli - 1941
Located in Roma, IT
Ponte Garibaldi is an original oil on canvas realized by the Italian artist Antonio Vangelli (Rome, 1917 – Rome, 2003) in 1941.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower righ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fuel Oil Delivery
By Victor Olson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
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...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
The Beach Modern Impressionist Oil Painting
By Marguerite Rousseau
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Marguerite Rousseau was born in 1888 in Belgium died in 1948.
She is known for her French Impressionist style in her earlier work, she was painting parks, beaches, the woman with an...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Cubist mid century 1950s Portrait of a young girl
By Alain Mettais Cartier
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful French mid-20th-century portrait of a young girl holding her hand up.
The artist was a highly talented painter in the Cubist style. He painted interiors, portraits, and la...
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"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 - work is unframed. - Riggs was a Gay Artist.
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
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...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Masons
Located in New York, NY
This elegant and sophisticated oil painting was realized by an underrecognized (but extraordinary) Flemish painter named F.V. Sliches in 1946. Entitled Les Masons (or the masons), th...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cover illustration for "The Future Mr. Dolan"
By Rudy Nappi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"The ragged edges of Manhattan. . . the rowdy brothels, the dirty hallways, the seething streets of Yorkville -- this was where Mattie Dolan...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of Bert Lahr as Burlesque Clown - The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depicted in his comedian's costume which he wears while staring in Jea...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Tropical Jungle Woman', Polynesian Figural, Pacific Islands, Weimar Republic
By Orla Muff
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Muff' for Orla Muff (Danish, 1903-1984) and painted circa 1940.
Orla Muff received his first formal art instruction at the Copenhagen Technical School from 1917-21, where he studied with the theatrical painter, Carl Lund. He subsequently traveled, studied and painted throughout Europe including in France, Germany, Sweden and Holland.
In the early years of his career, Muff was celebrated as a designer of sophisticated Art Deco sets and costumes for prominent theatrical productions and revues throughout Europe. These included productions for Max Reinhardt...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Environs of Rome
Located in Miami, FL
Klett was an in-demand illustrator in the post-war period of the late 1940's and 1950's. and . His work appeared in many of the newsstand magazines at the time.
This work is a pers...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
"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...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"There is No Love, " Saturday Evening Post Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
The oil on canvas illustration is bearing a Saturday Evening Post label verso, used to illustrate the short story There Is No Love, in the October 18th, 1941 i...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Beer Advertisement
By Gil Elvgren
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This Gil Elvgren gouache painting on board was probably intended to be used as an ad for beer. The husband is returning from work with a bouquet of flowers behind his back, while his wife is waiting at the door with a bottle of beer for her husband. This painting was probably done in the late 1940's. The model in this image has the typical Elvgren look, which is very similar to Elvgren's models that he used for his pin up calendar...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Sitting by the Lake, Mid Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Tranquil figurative landscape of two people sitting on a dock by a lake near Medina, Ohio by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Unsigned, but was purchased with a collection of ...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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, ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Grandmom
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Grandmom with grandson and dog
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Impressionist European Mother and Children Figurative 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
Pirates with Treasure
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Giving Thanks for Arriving in America
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blue Book Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil Painting
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Contact for exact dimensions.
Blue Book Magazine Cover, November 1947
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peter Grubb
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Fetishes, 1940s Abstract Figurative Southwestern Mixed Media Painting, Red Gray
Located in Denver, CO
An original gouache and wax painting by New Mexico modernist, Howard Schleeter (1903-1976) signed and dated lower right from November 18, 1949. Presented in a custom frame created b...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wax, Gouache, Archival Paper
Uncle Sam
By Syd Cockell
Located in Missouri, MO
This is an original oil on velvet painting created c. 1942. Syd Cockell was an accomplished American illustrator during World War II.
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine", 1948
Located in Miami, FL
When the Wood Grows Dry "Good House Keeping Magazine" illustration
How friendship and love were depicted in post-war America. There was a sense of innoc...
Category
Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Saratoga Trunk
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Couple at Museum
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
1940s Southwestern Figurative Landscape -- Pueblo Village New Mexico
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1940s New Mexico village scene with small figures going about daily life among adobe buildings that are iconic of the Southwest, by William “Will” Frates (American, 1896-1969). Signed "Will FRATES" in the lower right corner. Titled "New Mexico Village" and Will Frates" on verso in pencil. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 29.5"W.
William Frates...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard, Masonite
Gondola In Venice, 1947
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Masonite
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Original Use: Interior Illustration for The American Magazine
Excellent Condition
This luminous, expressive oil on masonite wa...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Defense on the Sea Begins on the Shore
By Ralph Iligan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Unsigned
"Defense on the sea begins on the shore." Study for a World War II propaganda poster for the "Industr...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Woman in Blue Two-Piece Bathing Suit Laying on Beach with Man in Bathing Su
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Happy Endings
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Linen
Signature: Signed and Dated
The stretcher is dated 4/23/40 in pencil on the back. Next to this date is what looks like to be an inventory number -8755
Featured...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Adolf Dehn 1940s Kresge's at Christmas Time
Located in San Francisco, CA
Adolf Dehn: 1895-1968. Well listed American artist with a high auction record of $20,000 which was achieved this year. He was born in Minnesota and studied at Minneapolis School of F...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Na Kumuwaiwai Hohonu, Underwater Spirt - Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Na Kumuwaiwai Hohonu, Underwater Spirt - Hawaiian Symbolist Figurative
Hawaiian symbolist nocturnal figurative of glowing whispy figure underwater with mountains and red coral garden by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and her husband Frank Blasingame...
Category
Symbolist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tan Lines, The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 27, 1941
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed lower right: Albert W. / Hampson
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
World War II Naval Engagement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Riveting Read
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Market Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Portrait of a Black Woman, Maxine - Mid-Century WPA
Located in Miami, FL
A charming portrait of a Black woman with stylized hairstyle of the period -
Midtown Galleries label on verso, Unframed Signed and date...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Look at It! Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Center: Al Moore
The Saturday Evening Post cover, October 10, 1942
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
A Woman Among Books with a Man in Fedora Behind Her
By John LaGatta
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
LA NOVA
By Betty Ball
Located in Los Angeles, CA
BETTY BALL
"LA NOVA"
PASTEL, SIGNED
AMERICAN, DATED 1949
18 x 14 Inches
Category
Futurist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Paper
'Self Portrait with Orchids', National Association of Women Artists, AWS
By Leonebel Jacobs
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An enigmatic and psychologically penetrating self-portrait in vivid shades of yellow, green and red.
Signed lower right, 'Leonebel Jacobs' (American, 1883-1967) and painted circa 1945.
Writer, sculptor, teacher and portrait painter Leonebel Jacobs first studied under Brush and Charles Hawthorne at the University of Oregon. A well traveled artist, Jacobs lived and painted in China, Hawaii, New York City and Los Angeles. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Arts, the Municipal Art Commission of New York, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Watercolor Club and the Pen & Brush Club.
Jacobs spent her early years in the Foreign Colony in Peking, China as a portrait artist to nobles and visiting foreigners, including Rabindranath Tagore. Notably, Jacobs painted several portraits of the Emperor and Empress after they fled to Tianjin when Christian General Feng Yu-Hsiang came to power. Additionally, Jacobs's paintings include Hawaiian notables, former First Ladies Grace Coolidge...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Foam Board
French Landscape
Located in Pasadena, CA
Impressionist Painting representing a lively scene of a character in a rural landscape in France
The painting is framed
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paris, Hotel des Saint Pères - Oil on Masonite by F. De Pisis - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Oil painting on Masotine realized by the Artist in 1948.
Image dimensions: 65x38 cm.
Artist paints the Hotel where he used to live in Paris during those years.
Note, title, date and ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Laurel & Hardy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Wood Panel
Signature: Unsigned
This Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy illustration was used as a traveling show sign.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood, Panel, Wood Panel
Farmer Smoking his Pipe
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Farmer Smoking his Pipe
Medium: India and colored inks
"Dorne never got around to producing his volume of instruction for the Famous Artists Schools, but a lot of that ma...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Ink
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
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Still Life - Oil on Board by G. Canali - 1940
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life is an original modern artwork realized by the Italian painter Giuseppe Canali (Pseudonym Enrico Alià) in 1940.
Original oil on board.
Signed and dated on the lower right...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Family of Ducks, Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: Family of Ducks
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Frame Size: 16.5 x 19.5 inches
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Girl in Green
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...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"The Fantastic Armada, " Story Illustration, Ladies Home Journal
By Rico Tomaso
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 26.00" x 19.50;" Framed 61.60" x 26.00"
"The Fantastic Armada" by Dorothy Black and illustrated by Rico Tomaso for Ladies Home Journal...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
