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Period: 1940s
Femme Affranchie A' Quatorze Heures Chante Midi
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on plate.
Edition of 450 prints, belonging to the suite “Miserere”, considered as the most important religious graphic work of XX century. The single prints, realized with a s...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Etching
Portrait of Harriet Toby, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
Located in Dallas, TX
Donald Vogel’s paintings reflect his interest in seeking beauty in life and in sharing pleasure with his viewers. Vogel entreats us to "rejoice and celebrate each new day, knowing it...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, 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
Oil, Canvas
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
Board, Canvas, Oil
The Baker, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Framed Dimensions: 32.00" x 28.00"
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post Magazine, March 16, 1940
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Quiet Afternoon in Cotswold Village - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By David L. Ghilchik
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century figurative landscape of a contemplative woman in Cotswold village, England by David L. Ghilchik (b. 1892 Romania; d. 1972 London), c.1945. Signed lower right "Ghilchik." Presented in rustic wood frame. Image measures: 14.5"H x 17.5"W. With frame, measures: 21"H x 25"W x 2"D.
David Louis Ghilchik was a painter, and cartoonist for Punch Magazine and the Daily Sketch. He was the son of Abraham Josef Ghilchik, who traded in lace and linen, and his wife Sali. The family settled in Salford in 1920, where David enrolled at the Manchester School of Art and studied under Adolphe Valette...
Category
Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
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
Trio
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original mixed media painting by American artist Leonard Nelson.
"Trio" is an original mixed media work, signed and dated 1942, ...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
World War II Tank Battle, Electronic Laboratories Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00"
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
This original illustration by Benton Clark was produced for an Electronic Laboratories advertisement to sell batteries for the operation of Walkie-Talkie radio equipment during World War II. Showing a tank battle...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Oil, Canvas
Landing at Normandy Beach, Electronic Laboratories Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.50" x 34.50"
Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right
This original illustration by Benton Clark was produced for an Electronic Labora...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
Pencil, Oil, Canvas
Falstaff Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Medium: Oil on Board
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"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
Oil, Canvas
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
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
Board, Oil
Scoop Boat, Saturday Evening Post Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1944
Medium: Oil
Dimensions: 19.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Dated 1944 but published in the Saturday Evening Post dated 8-18 1945, vol 2118 issue 7, page 24, fo...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rendez-Vous
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian artist Miette Braive(1916-2000), was classically trained in Belgium, before moving to Paris to pursue her art career as first a student and then a contemporary of the French ...
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
(Untitled)
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.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Cubist Figural', American Modernist Gouache
By Steve Jakobsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Cubist gouache figural of a man wearing a sombrero and boots contrasted against a scumbled and dry-brush background of ochre, deep crimson red and umber.
Signed lower left, "Jakobse...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Board
"The General"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Done with a thick impasto paint the artist portrays the powerful yet colorful nature of the general...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Jury
By Mervin Jules
Located in Concord, MA
MERVIN JULES (1912-1994)
The Jury, c.1940’s
Oil on board
14 x 15 1/8 inches
Signed at lower left: JULES
PROVENANCE
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
EXHIBITED
Cahoon Museum...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 30, 1941
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
(Untitled)
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
Colonists and Ships
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
Oil, Canvas
"There's Two Kinds of Heroes" Story Illustration, Saturday Evening Post
By Peter Helck
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Paper
Dimensions: 19.50" x 21.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"There's Two Kinds of Heroes," by Maurice Beam and illustrated by Peter Helck for the Saturday Eve...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper
Mid Century Study of Temptation of St. Anthony
By Piero Tamo
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling oil painting of Temptation of St. Anthony by Piero Tamo (Swiss, 1899-1966). Tamo was a poet and a painter who worked in the realist style and ...
Category
Impressionist 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
Oil, Paper
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
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
Board, Ink, Pastel, Oil
Parachuter with Abraham Lincoln and George Washington
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 40.00" x 36.50"
This image was used in magazine advertisements and promotional calendars.
Exhibited: 22nd Avvual Exhibition of Advertisi...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Cargo Transfer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Board, Oil
Icing the Cake, Cover of The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite
Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera, Gouache
Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys
Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
Category
American Realist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
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...
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
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 & Calendar Illustration
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
Board, Gouache
Art Deco Glamour illustration, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
Caption: "He proposed this morning right
after the alarm clock went off."
From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Signed lower center
unframed
Category
Art Deco 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Formal Affair
By Tom Lovell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: July 1942
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 36.00" x 26.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Cosmopolitan magazine.
Tom Lovell’s illustrations range from adventur...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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
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
The Heart Remembers
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 50.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soldier and Hunter
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
Board, Oil
Missed Again
By William H. Foster
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1940
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 26.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Conductor
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
American artist Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he became a National Academy artist and a member ...
Category
Cubist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
The Rescue
Located in Fort Washington, PA
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
Oil, Canvas
'Europa and the Bull', Greek Mythology, NYMOMA, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, PAFA
By Giglio Raphael Dante
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Dante' for Giglio Raphael Dante (American, born 1916), titled verso and painted circa 1940.
Raphael Dante first studied at the Academy of Rome prior to moving to...
Category
Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Paper
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
Board, Oil
Friday Night or The Band, Maxwell Coffee Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1949
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Advertisement for Maxwell House Coffee, "The Quartet, The Dog...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Soldier Trying to Reassemble, Outdoor Life Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 27.00" x 21.20"
Signature: Signed Center Right
Outdoor Life Magazine Cover, February 1943
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Girl with Butterfly"
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on masonite painting done in 1945 by Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right and dated lower right, 1945. In original wood and gilt frame 37.5 by 31.5 inc...
Category
American Modern 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Fishmonger, Mid-Century 1940's New York Impasto Figurative Cityscape
By Dorothy Rossen Greenberg
Located in Soquel, CA
A vivid mid-century impasto figurative cityscape oil painting of New York during the 1940s by Dorothy Rossen Greenberg (American, 1915-2005). A Fishmonger plies his trade amidst a harbor side street scene, amongst the hustle and bustle of the city.
Signed lower right corner "D. Rossen."
Unframed.
Canvas size: 21.5"H x 17"W.
In 1947, Rossen was awarded first prize in sculpture at the Village Art Center, New York City. Winner of the Chi Omega...
Category
American Impressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Afternoon Rest
By Cillespi
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Just discovered within an exceptional private west coast collection, the signature and inscription on this incredible small oil on paper, is at the moment, undecypherable, we are res...
Category
Expressionist 1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Red Cross At Work
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This piece is framed.
Approximate Date: 1943
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Size: 25.00" x 37.00"
Advertisement for Maxwell House Coff...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
