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Period: Early 20th Century
The Eyes have "It" - Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published February 16, 1929.
Having just inherited a large sum of money from Uncle Ulysses, Lil and Sandy are on their winter vacation in Florid...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Visiting The Family Doctor
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 24.00" x 24.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Advertisement for Cream of Wheat cereal, image of doctor and patient.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Number One Boy, " Saturday Evening Post Story Illustration, May 1922
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration for "The Number One Boy" by John Taintor Foote, appearing in The Saturday Evening Post for May 20th, 1922.
Caption: "It will be hard to m...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boys Dancing
By Edmund Ward
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 Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Slum Boy Ashcan School
Located in Miami, FL
Signed upper right
Private Collection
Luks was famous for painting people from impoverished slum areas.
The work was most likely painted from life and portrays a youth haphazardly dressed. Luks describes the subject in quick rapid-fire brush...
Category
Ashcan School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the Den
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 25.00"
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,900
Woman Seated, Likely Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed on the Back
Woman Seated, Likely Magazine Cover
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Large Modernist Bronze Sculpture Woman with Bull Bernard Reder
By Bernard Reder
Located in Surfside, FL
Cow on a trapeze
Signed and dated 1957 marked 2- II (could be from an edition of 2, please see photos)
The sculpture is included in the book titled Sculptures and Woodcuts of Reder by John Rewald.
Bernard Reder...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Bronze
Enfant dans un berceau
Located in Mc Lean, VA
Signed with initials upper left
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Illustration for 'The Tangle in Bigamies'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1914
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 27.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
lllustration depicting a church scene. Signed lower left. Illustrative notes on back. Canva...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover, Easter Edition
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Mounted to Archival Board
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 17.625” x 14.375;" Framed 23.063” x 20.125"
Custom Gilt Framing: Thanhardt Burger (formerly Newcomb Mac...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Cream of Wheat Ad Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 25.25" x 27.50"
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Bad News, Liberty Magazine Cover, Oct. 2, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published October 2, 1926
Sandy glowers as he sits at the table watching his rival Babe Dolan, the athletic lifeguard, flirt with Lil. Lil is entranced as Babe promises to make her a champion swimmer and the two are oblivious to the arrival of the waiter with the check, which Sandy reluctantly pays with nearly all of the remaining money in his wallet. (Liberty magazine, October 2, 1926, p. 54)
This cover illustration was produced right after Liberty ceased their title contest for readers.
“For the Love o’ Lil: The Picture Story of an American Family”
In 1926, under his long-term contract to produce a cover per week for Liberty magazine, Leslie Thrasher introduced a signature cast of characters that appeared each week, telling a serialized story through his illustrations. Liberty touted its new cover serial as “something no magazine has ever done before…Heretofore, all magazine cover...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Asian Love Story - The Good Earth - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Magazine Story Illustration most likely for Cosmopolitan or Woman's Home Companion.
Caption: "'I will not heed these old ones,' said the maid. 'Let us flee together somewhere and ...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
Woman in Red with Wings
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 30.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Children Book Illustration - Female Illustrator - Turn of the Century
Located in Miami, FL
At a certain size, painting a small painting with precise and meticulous detail becomes an art in itself. So is the case of "Three Children" by English Childen's book illustrator Amy Millicent Sowerby...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Portrait of an Old Man
By George Luks
Located in Miami, FL
Painted from life with bravura brush strokes, Luks captures the essence of the sitter. Work is unframed.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$38,400 Sale Price
20% Off
William Zorach Oil on Canvas Painting Titled "Kiddie Kar", Dated 1920
Located in New York, NY
Kiddie Kar exemplifies the integration of the primitive aesthetic and the depiction of family in William’s work. The primitive aspect of this particular painting is apparent in its d...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother with Child by Candlelight
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Illustration, 1917
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jewish Family Wintery Swiss Town
Located in London, GB
JAKOB STEINHARDT 1887-1968
Zerków, Germany 1887-1968 Nahariya, Israel (German/Israeli)
Title: Jewish Family Wintery Swiss Town, circa 1920/30
Technique: Hand Signed Double-sided ...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
British Soldiers in Combat
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Ink and Gouache
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Probably a magazine cover for a Munsey’s pulp, ca. 1905.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Boy Reading
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At The End of A Perfect Play, Liberty Magazine Cover, August 7, 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published August 7, 1926
Robert (Pop) Morse returns home from his work at the real estate office after the successful sale of a corner lot on Ma...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"A Successful Man" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1919
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"A Successful Man," by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, from book Poems of Optimism (1919).
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fare Thee Well! Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published August 4, 1928.
Having left her husband Sandy, Lil returns to the Morse family home with her two-month-old baby. Ma Morse worries abou...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cream of Wheat Advertisement, Saturday Evening Post, May 5, 1920
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original Cream Of Wheat Advertisement Illustration for Saturday Evening Post's May 5th issue, 1920.
Oil on canvas. Ex: Kraft Food Collection / Mort...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman Reading Newspaper to Convalescing Man
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 20.00" x 38.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
"Penthouse," by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by McClelland Barclay. Magazine Story Illustrati...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Paper Laid Down to Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This is an illustration for the book by Samual McChord Crothers, The Children of Dickens, originally published in 1925. Bob Cratchit first appeared in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol as the victimized clerk of cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge. Timothy Cratchit, also known as Tiny Tim...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Portrait of a Woman by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Portrait of a Woman by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Oil on canvas
55 x 46 cm (21 ⁵/₈ x 18 ¹/₈ inches)
Signed lower right, Ludovic Rodo
Executed circa 1906
This work of art is a...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Twentieth century Italian orientalist female portrait figurative painting
Located in Florence, IT
Romualdo Locatelli è conosciuto per i suoi ritratti che riflettono le culture e le tradizioni dei luoghi esotici che ha visitato. Born in Bergamo, Italy, in 1905, he traveled and exp...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady in Distress
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1917
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Hearst's Magazine Story Illustration, 1917
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Ready and Waiting
Located in London, GB
Ink & Watercolour
Image size: 4 x 5 1/2 inches (10 x 14 cm)
Contemporary frame
Provenance
Private family collection
This painting was created in the early 1900's when the Decadent Movement...
Category
Aesthetic Movement Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
The Doctor Calls, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
“The Doctor Calls: Spending the Morning with Lil’s Oldest Friend,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published May 5, 1928
Dr. Howard, the Morse family doctor, is caught in traff...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Woman with Kodak Camera
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of a carefree young woman in striped pinafore, photographing the outdoors with her Kodak Premo camera, circa 1912.
In 1893, at the Chicago World's Fair, George Eastman introduced the "Kodak Girl" as the icon of the new Kodak camera...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Universal Peace, " Cosmopolitan Magazine, August 1911
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
Sight Size 24.00" x 16.50;" Framed 31.75" x 24.75"
"Universal Peace" by Hamilton Holt, August 1911. Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Children at the seaside
Located in Roma, RM
Donato Frisia ( Merate 1883 - 1953 ), Children by the Sea
Oil on canvas pasted on cardboard 35 x 45 cm signed lower right.
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Cavaliers Watching Bathing Nymphs, large oil on canvas painting by Fabretto
By Angelo Urbani del Fabbretto
Located in London, GB
Measuring nearly two metres in height, this fantastic large painting will be an excellent addition to a large, grand interior space. It is the work of the Italian painter Angelo Urba...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Overseas Daily Mail, Signed Original Advertisement Artwork, 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Gouache, signed and dated (19)14 lower right
Image size: 5 ¾ x 6 ½ inches (14.5 x 16.5 centimetres)
Original oak frame
The Daily Mail has long been noted for its foreign reporting a...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Sick Man, Saturday Evening Post Cover Study, 1917
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
March 10, 1917 Preliminary Study for The Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study for Irish Liberty
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Unsigned
The present work is a study for the cover of the March 18, 1922 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Women in Garden
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Arthur Trevor Haddon (1864–1941) was a master of capturing serene and picturesque moments, and his depiction of a young woman tending to a shoreline garden is no...
Category
Italian School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Vacation, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for Liberty magazine, published February 2, 1929.
Lil and Sandy stop by New York city on their way to Florida. Elegantly dressed and driving a fancy car, the couple a...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Olympiad Discus Thrower
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 13.00" x 10.00", Framed 21.00" x 18.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Windy Day
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 22.50" x 16.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
From an Important California Collection.
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
The Informal Gathering
By César Pattein
Located in Naples, Florida
A son of a farmer, Cesar Pattein (1850-1931) was born in Steenvoorde, France. Following the example of his artistic brothers, he studied engraving from ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1925 Cream of Wheat Ad
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1925
Medium: Gouache on Board
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
The Soapbox Wreck, The Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 35.75" x 28.00", Framed 43.50" x 35.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This work was illustrated on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
R.F.D. Delivery
By Donald Hutchison
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 29.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Organ Grinder, Collier's Magazine, April 25th, 1905
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
Illustration for "Da Strit Pianna" by Wallace Irwin, Collier's Magazine April 25th, 1905
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“Ye Lorde of Misrule” Triptych for the story “Perdita’s Christmas”
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “Perdita’s Christmas” by Richard Le Gallienne for The Saturday Evening Post, published December 7, 1901, page 4.
The narrater centers the story around Perdit...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor, Gouache
Mother Goose Gems Book - Three Dutch Children - Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Sarah Noble Ives, artist (1864-1944). Original drawing of three Dutch children, with an ink inscription reading: “Full Page / 6 Buff / Three children sliding on the ice / upon a summer’s day” above image. Ink, watercolor, and gouache on linen/board. Illustration for Mother Goose...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Board
Bretonne sous un Arbre by LUDOVIC RODO PISSARRO - Post Impressionist painting
Located in London, GB
Bretonne sous un Arbre by LUDOVIC-RODO PISSARRO (1878 - 1952)
Oil on board
33 x 41 cm (13 x 16 ⅛ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Ludovic Rodo 1903
Provenance
Private Collecti...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Woman lost in Thought
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated 1924 upper right
Simplified forms, geometricized volumes and restricted color palette characterizes this work.
Zabriskie Gallery Label on verso
Original period frame
Kenneth Hayes Miller taught at the Art Students League from 1911 until 1951. Some of his students were: Reginald Marsh, George Bellows, George Tooker, Rockwell Kent, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Patrick Henry Bruce
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"I claim this place of honor" Illustration for "The Black Hunter"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for “The Black Hunter” by James Oliver Curwood for Cosmopolitan, published November 1925, pages 84-85.
Set against the backdrop of 1754 Quebec, amidst the escalat...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The King & The Beggar Maid, early 20th Century Arts & Crafts MARJORIE MCGILL
Located in Blackwater, GB
The King & The Beggar Maid, early 20th Century
by MARJORIE MCGILL (BRITISH, 1908-1996)
Large early 20th Century English Arts & Crafts School scene of the King & The Beggar, oil on...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,579 Sale Price
20% Off
Santa in the Wind
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00;" Framed 36.00" x 31.00"
Collier's Magazine Cover,Christmas Edition, December 24th 1921
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Defender of Her Homeland, World War I Calendar Illustration
By F.R. Harper
Located in Fort Washington, PA
F.R. Harper's striking painting captures the spirit of French resilience in the wake of World War I. A resolute young woman stands amidst the ruins of a ravaged village against the b...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Choosing the Love Nest, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
“Choosing the Love Nest: Lil and Sandy Find a Cozy Spot for Their Bungalow of Dreams,” original cover for Liberty magazine, published June 18, 1927
Lil and Sa...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed
Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, October 22, 1921
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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