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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 20th Century
Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
Category

Romantic 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite

In the Den
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 29.00" x 25.00" Signature: Signed Upper Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

City Scene with Faces casein tempera on canvas by Vaclav Vytlacil
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "Vytlacil 32" lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist #1584; Martin Diamond Fine Art Exhibitions: 1990 Graham Gallery, NYC (label verso) About this artist: B...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera, Casein, Canvas

The Young Artist
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"The Young Artist" is an oil on panel painting made in 1926 by Grant Wood. The work is signed lower right, "Grant Wood". The painting size is 11 x 14 x 1 inches. The framed size is 2...
Category

American Realist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Gouache on Board Painting Titled "Barbecue Stand", by Aaron Bohrod, circa 1935
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992 Barbecue Stand, circa 1935 Gouache on board Signed Lower left: “Aaron Bohrod” Inscribed and signed on verso Bohrod-1 Provenance: Private estate, Rhode Island...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Haitian Couple in Bed Simultaneously Adjusting their Radios, Surrealism
Located in Miami, FL
Wilson Bigaud is an idea artist in who showcases visual ideas in many of his paintings. In this work, a married Haitian couple tunes their radios in sync as they lie in bed. Bigaud was greatly interested in radios, which appeared in many of his works. This work rises to the level of Surrealism in that Bigaud is doing more than just depicting a normal bedroom moment. There is something very strange and bizarre in the couple's synchronized actions. Also of note, it looks like the woman is swallowing the edge of the radio. Signed lower right in a handmade and hand-painted frame. Wear to the edges of board, including delamination in the corners, some dents and losses. Frame rubbing with associated wear. Areas of white discoloration to the bed and headboard...
Category

Surrealist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Woman and Tiger
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by artist lower left. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Cover
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Gouache

Detente
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category

Tonalist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Muhammed Ali
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category

Tonalist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Matisse's Three Oranges - Calder's Three Oranges
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is from the Matisse series created by Maurice Sullins in the late 1970s. Sullins' works, set in brilliantly imagined scenes in Tahiti, F...
Category

Folk Art 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Parisian Model
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Parisian Model" is an oil on canvas painting by Max Weber painted in 1908. The work is signed and dated, lower right, "Max Weber Paris 1908". The painting size is 35 1/2 x 19 5/8 inches. The framed size is 43 x 27 x 2 1/4 inches. "Parisian Model" was painted in 1908, when Weber participated in a life class in Matisse's studio in Paris and painted several nudes. Weber was influenced toward a more Cubist styler after seeing Cezanne's work in the 1906-07 Salon in Paris, and he consorted within avant-garde circles in Paris as early as 1905. After returning to the US in 1909, Weber was credited with showing American audiences Cubism based on his firsthand knowledge of the key players and the style. Several drawings of Weber's from this time are in museum collections at The Met, the Smithsonian, and MoMA and show a similar style and stocatto gesture. Parisian paintings by Max Weber are extremely rare as there are hardly any that have sold publicly. Provenance: Estate of the Artist Gerald Peters Gallery...
Category

American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Horse with Swimmers at Beach
By William Theophilus Brown
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by William Theophilus Brown. "Horse with Swimmers at Beach" is a Post-War figurative painting, acrylic on canvas in a palette of greens and purples by American artist Will...
Category

Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Seated Nude
Located in New York, NY
Seated Nude by George Grosz (1893-1959) Oil on canvas 9 ½ x 5 ½ inches unframed (24.13 x 13.97 cm) 15 x 12 inches framed (38.1 x 30.48 cm) Signed on bottom...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Night Journey - Drip Painting like Jackson Pollock
Located in Miami, FL
In Byron Brown's "The Night Journey", 1947, Picasso meets Jackson Pollock. Here Brown strikes a balance between fanciful representation and abstraction. ...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Webster Cigar Advertisement, Sketch Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper laid on Board Signature: Signed and Dated on the Reverse
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Young Girl Red Dress lost in Thought, Mid Century Woman's Magazine Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Lorraine Fox (1922–1976) was an American illustrator and commercial artist who illustrated magazines, book covers, and advertisements. Among the magazines, she illustrated for was Wo...
Category

Feminist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Robin Hood
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Initialed Lower Left Cover Illustration for American Boy Magazine, May 1934. Includes copy of the magazine.
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Young Woman
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Sergei Besedin was born in the village of Ruska near the Ukrainian city of Lozovaya. He was born into a working class family who were staunch communists. Besedin, shortly after the R...
Category

Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sports Portrait of Athletic Partially Nude Boy with Rapid Brushstrokes
Located in Miami, FL
Figuration and abstraction meet in this energized quick portrait of an athletic boy with headband and resting on a bench, Most likely done for a magazine like Sports Illustrated - Si...
Category

Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Masonite, Mixed Media

Company K - Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Book cover for "Company K" by William March. Subject matter features three army soldiers in monochrome ...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Gaukler Familie mit Instrumenten (Family of Jesters with Instruments)
Located in Washington, DC
German Modernist
Category

Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mask
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Mask" is a Post-War painting, acrylic, earth, and oil on canvas by Bay Area Figurative artist Nathan Oliveira. The artwork is signed and dated in the ...
Category

Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

New Years Baby, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1932 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 18.00" x 20.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right A New Year's themed cover painting by Leslie Thrasher for the January 9, 1932 edition of L...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

“Golden to the Winds” by Achmed Abdullah, Good Housekeeping
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Upper Left "Dan Content 29" Story Illustration, Good Housekeeping Magazine, September 1929, pg 32-33 Biography: Daniel Content was born of Dutch parents and grew up in New York City. He attended New Eutriek High School in Brooklyn, NY. He studied under Dean Cornwell at the Pratt Institute as well as attending the Art Students League. Mr. Content worked as a freelance artist for about thirty years. He illustrated for such magazines as Colliers, Cosmopolitan, Readers Digest, and McCall's. In 1928 he illustrated the Windermere Series printing of Robin Hood. During World War II he traveled with the USO to Burma and India entertaining the service men with personal sketches. In the late 1950s he was an Art Director for Benton & Bowles in NYC. He also taught at the workshop School of Advertising Art. Mr. Content continued his sculpting and painting long after retirement. Some of his work can be found at Society of Illustrators in their permanent Museum. Exhibited: Masters of the Golden Age: Harvey Dunn and His Students South Dakota Art...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Four Men Conversing, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, September 24, 1927
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1931 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, October 17, 1931
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'East, West, Hame's Best' Liberty Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1929 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Liberty Magazine Cover, March 16, 1929
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Queen's Grace
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Center
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Milton Avery #6"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985) An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benjamin sustained an active career for over seven decades. D...
Category

Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel

"Chisholm Trail"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Charles Hargens (1893 - 1997) Carversville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania artist and illustrator Charles was born in Hot Springs, South Dakota. As a young boy he loved to draw cowboys, Indians and ranch buildings. By age ten, he was “a commercial success” selling drawings of neighbors’ barns and houses for $25. When he grew older, his parents consented to enroll him at the Pennsylvania Academy (1913-20) where he studied with Daniel Garber, Hugh Breckenridge, Henry McCarter, and William Merritt Chase. At Garber’s invitation, Hargens occasionally came to visit his Lumberville studio to paint with him. A lifelong friendship resulted. In 1915, the Pennsylvania Academy awarded Hargens its Cresson Traveling Scholarship and he went to Paris to study at the Academie Julian and the Academie Colarossi. Hargens was a fellow of the Pennsylvania Academy and a member of the Society of Illustrators, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Philadelphia Sketch Club. He exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago (1923 awards) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1915 prize, 1917 prize, 1918 award). By the early 1920s, he began to produce illustrations for book jackets, books, magazines and advertisements. His career took off and soon his illustrations of cowboys, Indians, Western life, Revolutionary War action and boy scout themes appeared in, or adorned the covers of The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, Liberty, McCall’s, Boy’s Life and Gentlemen’s Quarterly. His work also appeared on billboards and advertisements for Stetson hats and Coca-cola. It was conditioned by Hargens that all of his original art was returned to him after being published. His entire body work remained in his studio until his death in 1997; this is largely the reason his paintings have not yet commanded the high prices of his contemporary Saturday Evening Post illustrators (i.e. Rockwell, Leyendecker and N.C. Wyeth). At first he and his wife worked from their studio in Philadelphia. In 1940, they purchased a property at the intersection of Aquetong and Sawmill roads in Carversville. They commuted to Philadelphia regularly and stayed in South Dakota every summer. Eventually, he set up a studio next to his Carversville home. After moving to Carversville, Hargens began a lifelong friendship with George Sotter. Hargens’ Carversville home was the subject of many of George Sotter’s paintings long before and during the time Hargens lived there. Hargens also studied with Henry Rand...
Category

American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"An Afternoon Along the Seine, Paris" Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Scene
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon along the Seine in Paris by Mario Passoni, on a spring day with the busy activities of people wa...
Category

American Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ritratto di Camillo Mastrocinque
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...
Category

Post-War 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Red & White Food Stores Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Initialed Lower Left
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Crossed Wires
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right American Magazine story interior illustration
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Untitled
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed "A.O.F 19" Lower Left "Man & Woman in Disagreement" Long affiliated with The Saturday Evening Post (nearly 50 years), he did dozens of covers and much story art, most notably the long-running Tug-Boat Annie and with maritime painting, Fischer was more versatile than depicting the sail and dreadnaughts when given a chance. Still, he's best known for painting the sea, her beauty and her dangers (whether hurricanes or U-Boats). It's no surprise that his oils graced such titles as The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales, Treasure Island, The Mutineers, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

The Savior, Paperback Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1952 Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 23.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left This is the paperback cover for A Bullet For My Love by Octav...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Things in My House” Little Golden Book, Children's Book CoverIllustration Art
Located in Miami, FL
Joe Kaufman, writer, illustrator. Recipient Art Directors Club medal, 1948, New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book award, 1973, Gold award, Silver award Art Directors C...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Figures in Rowboat Alongside of Barg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated Lower Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ballentine Beer Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category

Post-Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Western Scene
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 29.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Two Women"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category

American Modern 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Insurance Salesman
By Arthur Herschel Lidov
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 15.00" x 15.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Figures (Head and Torso), figural, painterly, colorful
Located in New York, NY
Oil Painting by Luis Frangella done in 1984. This painting is on a 24x34" canvas, of a figure cut off at the knees and a reclining head. Defined with pa...
Category

Neo-Expressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Battle of the Wilderness
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Dimensions: 27.00" x 12.75" Signature: Unsigned Written by Price on the mount below the image: Like endless lines of phantoms, men, horses, guns, wagons, continued to pass through the smoking forest. A striking and emotional night scene at the Battle of the Wilderness...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category

American Realist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Do Bee Book of Manners
Located in Miami, FL
Grosset & Dunlap, Illustration, Art Seiden was a top children's book illustrator in the 1950' - 1060's Work comes in two parts that are butted together by the artist
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Ink

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.
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20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Board, 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

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Redhead in Profile
Located in Miami, FL
Beautifully rendered in Krolls signature academic style. Unframed - Signed lower right, unframed
Category

Academic 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood

(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1921 Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right Dimensions: 26.00" x 40.00" Illustration for American magazine.
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lighthouse Keeper, Brant Point
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left ‘Stevan Dohanos’ Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Laid Down on Masonite The present work was published as the cover illustration of the June 26th, 1954...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Paper, Mixed Media, Board

"Tackett and the Indian" Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Acrylic on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 31.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right "Tackett and the Indian" Book Cover, by Lyn Nofziger
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Dawn, Dawn, Dawn, Ticonderoga pencil advertisement
By Harvey Dunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Twice and Dated Lower Left: Harvey / Dunn 1932 Harvey Dunn's Dawn, Dawn, Dawn is a truly exceptional illustration that captures a key moment of American History. In the present work, Dunn skillfully depicts colonial soldiers...
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hearth And Home Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shore Leave, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Center August 8, 1931 Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hobo & Three Clowns at Poker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 24.00" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Hobo & 3 clowns at poker
Category

20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Monastery
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Vladimir Skryabin was an innovative painter who lived in Leningrad/St. Petersburg during the 20th century. He was classically trained as a painter and graphic artists and his painti...
Category

Impressionist 20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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