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Period: 1940s
The Rescue, original cover illustration for Complete Northwest Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover Illustration for Complete Northwest magazine, April 1940
Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy art. Executing a portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of academic training. In Riggs's time, there were teachers who knew how to pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Oil, Board
Watching Over Them, Brown & Bigelow Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Watching Over Them, Brown & Bigelow illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunters
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.50" x 25.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Born in San Francisco, Amos Sewell was a ranking California tennis player in his 20s wh...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$5,000
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
Oil, Board
Nude on Chair
By Max Weber
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.
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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
Gouache, Board
The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
By Byron Browne
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Browne's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and gestural abstrac...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$52,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Masonite, Oil
"“Abbé Doret’s Secret” Original Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Abbé Doret’s Secret” by Manuel Komroff for Cosmopolitan, published February 1942.
The full caption reads: “As the gardener passed he lifted his cap twice ‘Do...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
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...
Category
Academic 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Father Teaching Son to Sail, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Charles Dye
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, ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Young girl Redhead Holding her father's hand Illustration
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. ...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"When Two Tens won't go in a Twenty." Original cover for National Sportsman Mag
By William H. Foster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"When Two Tens won't go in a Twenty." Original cover for National Sportsman magazine, published July 1928.
William Harnden Foster's vibrant painting, “When Two Tens won’t go in a Tw...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Ink, India Ink
Soldiers Attacking Woman and Farm Animals
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1949
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: 18.50" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Paper
Couple at Museum
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Signature: Unsigned
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Soldiers Attacking Woman and Farm Animals
By Robert Douglas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1949
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Dimensions: 18.50" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Story Illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Manuel Avila Camacho, Time magazine cover, - Journalist Portraiture
Located in Miami, FL
Journalist Portraiture. Gouache on board
Signed Lower Right matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches. Archivally Matted Not Framed
He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine a...
Category
Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Father and Son, Women's Day Magazine Cover, January 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Father and Son, Women's Day Magazine Cover, January 1945
The illustrations of Douglas Crockwell were often simply signed “Douglass” to avoid confusion with the signature of Norman Rockwell, particularly since their work was being published on the covers of The Saturday Evening Post during the same period. Necessary too, because Crockwell also worked very realistically, and like Rockwell, was particularly good with children.
Their backgrounds, however, were entirely different. Crockwell was born in Chicago, Ohio, and took his degree in Science at Washington University, followed by study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago and the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. He received his first commission for a cover for The Saturday Evening Post in 1933, and this was followed by many more, as well as work for other periodicals and a long list of national advertisers.
During the ‘thirties, he also completed Post Office murals in Vermont, New York State and Mississippi, and began to work on experimental animated films. The films, and inventing a “pan-stereo” viewing...
Category
Other Art Style 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"The Clever Sister.", Story Illustration for Woman's Home Companion
By Edwin Georgi
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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Graphite
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
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
...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
'Racehorses Turning For Home' circa 1940s Oil on Canvas
Located in Bristol, CT
Classic o/c 'pastel colours' horse-racing c1930s scene
depicting four jockeys turning for home!
Art Sz: 11 1/4"H x 8 1/2"W
Frame Sz: 16"H x 12"W
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Oil
Man Flipping a Coin, Probable Interior Magazine Illustration, 1942
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1942
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 48.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Time magazine cover, April 6, 1946
Located in Miami, FL
This work is meticulously and brilliantly rendered to capture not only the likeness of the sitter but spirit as well. The image is pushed to the forefront of the composition and s...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
Webster Cigars at Florida's Boca Raton Club, Study for Advertisement
By Edwin Georgi
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper laid on Board
Signature: Signed and Dated on the Reverse
Study for advertisement promoting Webster Cigars at Florida's Boca Raton Club, circa...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
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 Postman Always Drinks Twice", Preliminary Study for Life Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Preliminary study for Life magazine, Circa 1941. Features a study of the work titled; "The Postman Always Drinks...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Masonite, 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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christmas Manger Set - A Product Illustration
By George Hinke
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Illustration Board
Signature: Unsigned
This piece was produced as the cover art for the box containing a die-cut color lithograph manger set...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
A Riveting Read
By Victor Kalin
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cashmere Bouquet Soap Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1945
Medium: Oil on Canvas Board
Dimensions: 22.00" x 17.75"
Signature: Unsigned
A sweet WWII-era illustration for a Cashmere Bouquet Soap camp...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Three Amoco Studies
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
Amoco Oil Advertisements
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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
Man on Ladder in Library
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 19.00" x 13.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Left
Advertisement for Gulf Oil, 1944.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
At Home Wedding, Original cover for Star Weekly magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover illustration for Star Weekly magazine, published October 7, 1944.
A young girl gazes up at a woman wearing what is likely a Women's Army Corps (WAC) uniform as they ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Oil, Board
Eavesdropping
By Peter Driben
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940s
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Dimensions: 22.50" x 17.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
"Theresa Thompson"
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...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Standoff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1949
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 27.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post illustration, 1949
Twelve of von Schmidt's paintings hang in the Go...
Category
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
Canvas, Oil
The First American Law School
By Simon Greco
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 12.00" x 16.00"
1948 pattern for Liberty.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
"The children danced around her, chanting"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for "Illegitimate" by Nelia Gardner White for the Ladies' Home Journal, published June 1944, page 25.
The full caption reads: "The children danced around her, cha...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Drunk man at party, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
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...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Going my Way, Movie Poster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil, Pastel, and Ink on Board
Dimensions: 26.50" x 17.00"
Signature: Unsigned
original movie poster art design, for the 1944 film ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Ink, Oil, Board
"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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At Home Wedding
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions; 30.00" x 45.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Look magazine
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Filling the Biggest Lumber Order on Record
By Robert Riggs
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1946
Medium: Oil on Paper
Dimensions: 20.25" x 18.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Exhibitions: September 2007: Society of Illustrators
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"Judge Abbey and the Four Elves" Magazine Story Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original story illustration for “Judge Abbey and the Four Elves” By Cecily Teague Crowe for the Ladies’ Home Journal, published October 1948
The full caption reads: "'You'd think,' ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sainted Sister
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1940
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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
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
Canvas, Oil
Orpheus and Eurydice, Mythological Cubist Oil Painting by Erle Loran
By Erle Loran
Located in Long Island City, NY
Orpheus and Eurydice
Erle Loran, American (1905–1999)
Date: 1949
Oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower left
Size: 24 x 36 inches
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Modern Early Texas Western Wilderness Landscape Scene of Two Men and a Hog
By Otis Dozier
Located in Houston, TX
Modern Western wilderness scene by early Texas artist Otis Dozier. The work features two men kneeling and cleaning a hog set against a desert landscape. Signed and dated in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a wooden frame with a cream matting.
Visible Dimensions Without Frame: H 14 in. x W 19 in.
Artist Biography: Otis Dozier (1904-1987) was raised on a cotton farm between Forney and Mesquite, developing a love for art and nature at a young age. After his family moved into Dallas in 1920, he received his earliest art training from well-known instructor Vivian Aunspaugh. Following his 1925 graduation from Forest High School, Dozier continued his art studies at the Dallas Art Institute with Olin Travis and Tom Stell. Also, during the 1920s, he accompanied his parents and three sisters on at least three automobile trips through the American West, familiarizing himself with the region that he would later depict in his art.
Six of Dozier’s works were included in 1932’s “Exhibition of Young Dallas Painters”; a number of these artists, including Dozier, Jerry Bywaters, John Douglass...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
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