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Period: 1940s
Untitled (original framed watercolor on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original watercolor on paper. Hand signed and dated lower right by Rolph Scarlett. Artwork size 7.5 x 9.5 inches. Frame size 17.5 x 21.5 inches.
Artwork is in excellent conditio...
Category
Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$2,100 Sale Price
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"La iglesia de Belén en 1840" 1a. prueba.
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Lluís Muntané Muns ( Mataró, Barcelona 1899- Barcelona 1987)
Obra: "La iglésia de Belén en 1840" 1a prueba.
Aguafuerte a color.
Firmado y titulado a lápiz, en la parte inferior.
Medi...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Etching
Graphis International Poster, magazine cover design c.1940s
Located in London, GB
Graphis International Poster Design
Gouache
31 x 24 cm
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell
Graphis is a renowned international journal of visual communication and graphic arts...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Graphis International Poster December 1947, magazine cover design by E. Davis
Located in London, GB
E Davis
Graphis International Poster, December 1947
Gouache
30 x 23 cm
Signed to reverse
Provenance: The family of A. E. Halliwell
Graphis is a renowned international journal of vi...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"A Girl with Her Cat, 1947, " EM Watts, oil on canvas, portrait
Located in Wiscasset, ME
"A Girl with Her Cat" was painted by EM Watts in 1947. The portrait is oil on canvas
The painting measures 26 3/4" x 22 3/4" with its frame.
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rajgir-1 & Roadside Tea Stall, Bankura, Pencil on Paper, Set of 2 Works-In Stock
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Rajgir-1 & Roadside Tea Stall, Bankura
Pencil on Paper
7 x 10 inches & 9.3 x 7 inches, 1943
(Set of 2 Works)
(Framed & Delivered)
In this evocative sketch, Atul captures...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Young Religious Man 1947 Palestine, Israeli Judaica Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
From The British mandate Pre State of Israel Palestine Period.
Eliahu Sigad (Eliyahu Sigard), painter, born 1901, Lithuania. Founder of Israeli Painters' Association. Educated in Europe. Prizes in Israel, Exhibitions in Israel and various countries of the world. Died 1975.
Education
Riga, architecture and drawing
Colarossi Academy, Paris, France
1930 Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France
Awards And Prizes
1938 Dizengoff Prize
1945-46, Dizengoff Prize
1945 Ramat Gan...
Category
Fauvist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modernist Judaica Oil Painting Blessing the New Moon, Jewish Prayer
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a modernist Judaic painting of a Jewish scene of the Kiddush Levanah prayer. The monthly hebrew blessing on the new moon. It is not dated but I am estimating it to the 1940s...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Le port de la Chaume. Oil on canvas, 33x41 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Le port de la Chaume. Oil on canvas, 33x41 cm
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,244 Sale Price
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Woman with a Guitar, Cubism
Located in Greenwich, CT
A period work by a Russian artist working in a Cubist approach. The canvas is 24 1/4 x 22 1/4 inches and the above dimension is the framed size. The frame is an older frame, with a flat gold/brown finish.
In Woman with Guitar, Simkhovitch plays on his his early fascination with Cubism and Constructivism (and his background in illustration) expressing and compressing with planes and color the spatiality of a domestic scene. Considered a master draftsman and an adherent of certain classicism, Simkhovitch’s compositions are often built up in a complicated but well-managed counterpoint, at heart, he is a romanticist preferring the dreamy colors of a Russian fairy tale.
Category
Synthetic Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,600 Sale Price
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Royal Richmond Horse Show, c.1940 Underground poster design by A Searle
Located in London, GB
A Searle
Royal Richmond Horse Show
c.1940
26 x 30 cm
Signed to lower right
Provenance: Family of A. E. Halliwell
Little is known about A Searle beyond the fact that he studied under...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
Mid Century Golden Age of Illustration- Narrative Art - Norman Rockwell School
By Alex Ross
Located in Miami, FL
“Graduation Day” is emblematic of mid-century American Illustration.
But the real story of this storytelling work is that it embodies the lost art of portrait painting and graphic design.
Alex Ross borrows on the classical tradition and flaunts his skills as a narrative painter. In “Graduation Day”, he paints a complex composition involving at least thirteen portraits. The subjects are beautifully rendered and lit. They are set against a dark grey background and jump off the surface at the viewer. The composition is complexly designed. The future graduate in the red jacket engaging with a girl photographer is a compositional device that leads the viewer's eye to the main subject - a father congratulating his son on graduating from medical school. Creating art that relies on facial expressions and body gestures is a talent absent in contemporary art. Why? It’s very hard to do and takes years and training and practice to get it right. Despite Alex Ross's folksy subject matter, this work is a high example of naturalism and representation by an important member of the Golden Age of American Illustration.
Signed lower right
Born in the town of Dunfermline, Scotland, Alexander Sharpe Ross (1908-1990) moved with his family to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1911. After attending Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie Mellon University), Ross moved to New York and joined the Charles E. Cooper Studio, where he worked among such notable illustrators as Ward Brackett, Stevan Dohanos, J. Frederick Smith...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Overflight over the city. 1947, paper, mixed media, 23x20 cm
Adolfs Zardins
(1890 08 II Riga, Latvia – 1967 07 II Jurmala, Latvia), painter.
Only in 1990 his relatives give his arti...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Watercolor
$906 Sale Price
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UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
UN Poster Design American Scene Mid 20th Century Modernism WPA World Peace
Jo Cain (1904 – 2003)
We Are All Members of the Human Race: UN Poster Proposal
21 x...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Egg Tempera, Board
Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA - Spanish artist, cubist art
Located in London, GB
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Jeune Fille à l'Accordéon by ISMAEL DE LA SERNA (1898-1968)
Oil on masonite
88.9 x 115.6 cm (35 x 45 ¹/₂ i...
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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, ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Threshing 1940. Canvas, oil. 54.5x73.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Threshing 1940. Canvas, oil. 54.5x73.5 cm
Artist painted scene of every day life of countryside people in working atmosphere - threshing and haying. There is captured two haystacks, tractor, barn, and people in working process.
Information about artist...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,672 Sale Price
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Two Heads -- 1947
By Byron Browne
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Byron Browne was an important American modernist painter.
Ink, tempera, and crayon on paper
Signed and dated lower right.
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape WPA Mid 20th Century Social Realism Modernism
Henry Schnakenberg (1982 - 1970)
Boys Swimming Industrial Landscape
11 1/2 x 15 1/2 sight
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
14 1/2 x 18 1/2 inches, Framed
Bio
In many cases, American artists visited the Armory Show in New York in 1913, and returned to their studios to react to or against what they saw. However, for Henry Ernest Schnakenberg it was much more life altering. Prior to visiting this important exhibition of American and European modernist art...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Located in New York, NY
"Two Seas and a Moon" Surrealism American Scene WWII Modern WWI Denver WPA Era
Arnold Ronnebeck (1885 - 1947)
Two Seas and a Moon
30 x 22 1/2 inches
Oil on Canvas, c. 1943
Signed u...
Category
Surrealist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
Laszczyn - Building a Stack 2 - Mid 20th Century Oil Painting by H Krajewska
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Helena Malarewicz-Krajewska (born 14 July 1910 in Biecz , died May 7, 1998 in Warsaw) is a Polish painter, active advocate of socialist realism.
Studied between 1928 and 1929 at the...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Mother and Daughter" Expressionist Portrait in Oil on Cardstock
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mother and Daughter" Expressionist Portrait in Oil on Cardstock
Mid Century expressionist portrait by unknown artist Jane W. Grace (American, 20th C...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil
Located in New York, NY
"War Brides, Wash Sq NYC" American Scene WWII Modernism WPA Mid-Century Oil. 30 x 40 inches. Oil on canvas, c. 1942. Signed lower right. Titled on the stretcher. Housed in a sensational Heydenryk frame.
Our gallery, Helicline Fine Art...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Market Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mural Study 1940 American Scene Modern Social Realism Figurative Mid Century
Michael Loew (1907-1985)
Detail for Mural (Social Security Building Washington D.C.)
24 x 24 inches ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Junior Red Cross, Poster Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Approximate Date: 1943
Dimensions: 35.00 x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
American Junior Red Cross, Poster Illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl in Nature - Mid 20th Century Oil by Michael D'Aguilar
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Baron Michael D`Aguilar was born on May 15, 1922 in London to Spanish parents. He was brother of the artist Paul D`Aguilar. He spent much of his early life in Spain. He studied at...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Three Hebrew Lads Going into the Furnace"
By Paul Shimon
Located in Astoria, NY
Paul Shimon (American, 1919-2011), "The Three Hebrew Lads Going into the Furnace", Gouache on Paper, 1948, depicting a scene from the Book of Daniel, signed and dated lower right, ti...
Category
Post-War 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Swinging Harmony" A Black Dancers" Couple by Edgar O'Kiechle - Oil Painting
Located in Pasadena, CA
"Swinging Harmony," is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar O'Kiechle. It transports viewers into a lively dance scene featuring a couple of black dancers swinging at the heart of the...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Le Coucher - Post Impressionist Nude in Interior Oil Painting by Pierre de Belay
By Pierre de Belay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated nude figure in interior oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Pierre De Belay. This work depicts a painting of Pierre De Belay's wife - Helene. Here she...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Runner - Original Tempera on Paper by Maurice Rouzée - 1940s
Located in Roma, IT
The Runner is an original artwork realized by Maurice Rouzée in the 1940s. Signed by the artist on the upper left margin. Good conditions, except for a sma...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
BALTASAR LOBO 1946 Seated Female Nude Abstract Figure Gouache & Ink on Paper
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
BALTASAR LOBO
Abstract Seated Nude Female Figure
1946
Gouache & Ink on Paper
Provenance: Ivan Boesky Collection, La Jolla, California
Signed & Dated "Lobo '46 Bruxelles"
Baltasar...
Category
Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Vert", Albert Bertalan, Original Oil, Green, Figurative
Located in Dallas, TX
"Femme Rousse Sur Fond Vert" is an original oil on canvas impressionistic portrait of a woman by Albert Bertalan. A red-headed lady in a purple and white striped collared coat sits in front of a green background daydreaming about something personal. The painting is framed with an ornate gold frame.
From the late 19th century until World War Two, Paris was the center of the art world. Artists and intellectuals from around the globe descended on Paris, drawn by the atmosphere of creative freedom established by the French Impressionists. Because of the Impressionists’ innovations the direction of art had changed forever, the times were ripe for another Renaissance. The School of Paris, as this broad-based group of artists are referred to embodied the spirit of modernism.
Albert Bertalan was born on September 21, 1899 in Jaszbereny, Hungary. He is known for painting compositions of figures in unique environments, including women by the sea, among other similar subject matters. He studied at the Nagybanyai Art School under some of the most important Hungarian artists, including Ivànyi Grünwald...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Paper
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
Paper, Pastel
$650 Sale Price
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Blond Pin up with Perfect Smile Tennis Racket - Women Illustrators
Located in Miami, FL
Julia (Elsie Julia Miller) Schleicher (Canadian/American, 1916-1988)
she was an important female illustrator
Woman Tennis Player
Pastel and gouache on boa...
Category
Romantic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Gouache
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Champion Fertilizer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dimensions: 26.00" x 26.00"
Fertilizer advertisement, image of a man, girl, boy and dog.
This illustration was also a...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man Leading Horse
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Gouache
Dimensions: 23.50" x 35.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Story illustration, older man leading horse, concerned kids. "Don't sell him, Uncle Pete' Ba...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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
"Return of General Kosciuszko" - Philadelphia Blended Whisky Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 40.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Image of colonists with ships in background.
Frank J. Reilly (1906-1967) was noted as "the number 1 art teacher in America." Reilly is noted for developing a means of organizing the palette. His value studies and chroma organization are still taught as the primary methods of oil paint organization. Reilly studied with Frank DuMond at the Art Students League of New York. He taught at the Grand Central School of Art, The Art Students League of New York and other art schools as well as establishing his own art school. Reilly was the main influence on George Passantino. He is credited with the mosaic mural in The Bronx High School of Science's front lobby. Reilly's influence continues today through the teaching and art of Michael Aviano and Jack Faragasso as well as their students Jon deMartin...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a fisherman, Volendam
Located in BLARICUM, NL
WILLEM VAN DE BERG
Den Haag 1886-1970 Amsterdam
Portrait of a fisherman, Volendam
1940
Oil on canvas
70 x 55 cm.
Signed and dated: lower left ‘Willem van den Berg...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum - Figurative landscape painting
By Ludwig Blum
Located in London, GB
Jerusalem by Ludwig Blum
Oil on canvas
25.6 x 32 inches / 65 x 81cm
Signed
Painted circa 1940
Category
Naturalistic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Consolation, Collier's magazine illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Signed upper left
Category
Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Pencil
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...
Category
Pre-Raphaelite 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media, Tempera
Portrait of Bert Lahr - Circus Performer - Modernism
By Walt Kuhn
Located in Miami, FL
A recent Kuhn Circus Performer sold for $312,000 at Bonhams, NY
Bert Lahr shined in the role of The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of OZ. Here he is depict...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yosuke Matsoke, Time magazine cover illustration , July 7, 1941
Located in Miami, FL
Ernest Hamlin Baker is one of America's greatest artist that no one has ever heard of. Take a look at his full body of work. If you haven't noticed, Ernest Hamlin Baker is an excepti...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Dusk in the Garden - Greenwich Village - Moody Monochromatic - Whitney Museum
Located in Miami, FL
The setting reminds us of a Rear Window by Alfred Hickcock but Evergood did it 8 years before.
It's most likely Greenwich Village since Evergood lived there.
This is a very big and heavy to lift painting
Signed lower left
Framed 56 x 51 in a period very heavy rustic wood frame.
Exhibited Center Gallery, Bucknell University, PA, among others venus.
gallery label remnants on verso - The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Whitney Museum of American Art Annual 1949 - Label
Provenance: Naomi and Walter Rosenblum
Best Viewed with a top gallery light...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birds by Jankel Adler - Abstract painting
By Jankel Adler
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...
Category
Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dusk
By Hope Shipee Bunin
Located in Milford, NH
A fine figural oil painting of a mother and three children with worried looks on their faces as military planes fly overhead by American artist Hope Shipee Bunin (1908-1970). Bunin w...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Lucy, You Are a Lonely Woman." Story Illustration for Women's Home Compan
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 28.00" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"Lucy, you are a lonely woman." Story illustration for "The Enchanted Circle," published ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ruckus, Story Illustration
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 34.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Ruckus, Story Illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ancient Revel oil painting by Wesley Lea
By Wesley Lea
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and titled verso on stretcher "Lea Ancient Revel". Subtitled verso on label in artist's hand: "An attempt to marry ancient mineral matter with people".
Exhibited at the 194...
Category
Abstract 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saratoga Trunk
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Group of Figures
Located in London, GB
Signed with initials
Tempera on hand-made paper laid on panel
6 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Panel
Frank Judge Oil on Board Painting Titled "Miss St. Louis", circa 1940
Located in New York, NY
A bright portrait of a woman in pageant dress before a St. Louis skyline and riverboat.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Study for 'Happy Landing' Amoco Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil and Pencil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
During his over four decades as the preeminent illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post, Joseph Christian Leyendecker's clever illustrations were eagerly anticipated by enthusiastic readership across the country, and none more so than his holiday designs. One of Leyendecker's most celebrated creations was his groundbreaking idea of the New Year's Baby. Originally portrayed as a fleshy sweet-faced child complete with tiny angel wings, the New Year's Baby gradually morphed into a worldly tot acutely aware of the social and political issues facing the nation at the time. In fact, Leyendecker's final Post cover illustration was the 1943 New Year's Baby.
Following the success of these Post covers, the artist was hired to create advertisements for the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Throughout the 1940s and through the final years of his life, Leyendecker produced ads incorporating his famed New Year's Baby into AMOCO advertisements, as in the present work, Happy Landing...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
Recruits, Original Christmas cover for Judge magazine, WWI Soldier Santa
By Orson Lowell
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...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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